Time to step back and let everyone take care of themselves for a while it's telling you, isn't it ? We are not here to fix the world. But how we love to think we are ! Diana, thank you! I've quoted two lines from your post, but the whole was so helpful, thank you! I'm really interested in sleep - s...

7. Yuletide, Kwanzaa: - Dec 26th
This card shows us how to express nurturance, to attend to our families and to express the protective energy within us towards others.

4 of Swords

6. Festival of Life, Christmas: - Dec 25th
This card shows us how to connect directly with Spirit.

The Magician

I am SO sorry. Things have been too busy... too emotionally strange... too disorientating. Now is not the time for me to be reading Tarot, or to respond with any degree of sense to the wonderful responses - beyond to say 'Thank You'. I will come back once the silly-season is over and give this amazi...

4. Hopi Time of Renewal This card indicates the best way for us to seek purification and renewal, and to build tolerance for others. High Priestess IMG_0096 (1).jpg Yet another major, and such a significant card.... too significant actually for me to be able to say much at the moment. My birth mothe...

The sword blade is faceted, the metal reflective. [~meandering thoughts... I know nothing of the discipline of philosophy, but I love speculation...] ... In the search for understanding, questions address facets of a dilemma - rarely give complete 'answers' but aspects which combined will pose a pos...

3. The Time of Beth - December 22nd This card points to the inner blocks and resistance that is holding us back from following our dreams. The Moon IMG_0095.jpg I'm starting to wish that I had used a more traditional deck, something with more substance. I think it was Crowley who said that the Moon ...

Thank you archimedes!
I've never really got into the astrological correspondences, so your account of the associated mythology is fascinating. This is a whole new area for me to explore - thank you so much!

Oh Diana, thank you! That's such an inadequate response from me but I'm feeling a tad disorientated... feeling that I need to pause and allow what's been said to date to sink in before moving on to the next day and card. I hope that I can say more in proper response in later days or with time for re...

And this disconnection from my own "dreams" is probably the biggest thing that holds me back. Like the woman sitting here in the theater, I tend to watch others achieving their goals, living their dreams, but can scarcely see myself doing that. This is what happens when you are raised &qu...

Yule - Winter Solstice - December 21st This card shows how best to connect to the light within and without - it symbolises the birth of the sun. The Lovers IMG_0094.jpg Hmmm… the trouble with using decks other than TdM or RWS, or sometimes Thoth, is that for majors my mind will always ‘see’ the impr...

Diana I don't have the words at the moment beyond THANK YOU!
This alchemy demands time, energy and focus, all of which are in short supply at the moment. Your words are working away beneath the everyday, and I will soon come back to comment properly. In the meantime THANK YOU!

This is also quite useful -
https://mysticalbreath.com/kabbalah-beth-tarot/

Hadn't heard the Hudes being mentioned for donkey's years! A trip down memory lane. Yes :D I think it was published nearly 20 years ago. If I recall right, Diana you didn't object too strongly to this RWS-inspired deck? I don't possess many decks - never caught the collecting bug. But when I was lo...

I dreamt - I'm in the company of another woman. We're walking side by side down very wide steps, formed from a cliff face, that have been worn smooth by the action of the sea. The steps are wet and smooth so should be slippery, and there's nothing to stop us tumbling over the sides, yet I'm comforta...

1. Mother of Dreams This card reminds us to look for a particular message in our dreams tonight. The ancients believed that our dreams on this night foretold some of the important events in the coming year. It's my intention to come back tomorrow to post reflections on the card arising from any drea...

hoping to slip in under the wire...
To be honest I was bit unsure about some of the positions in the spread, and I'm still not entirely sure what they mean, but I'll just wing it.
The Solstice in the UK is on the 22nd this year, so I'll be a day late.
I'm using the Hudes Tarot.

Hello Everyone, I’m sorry - I launched into posting, thrilled to find Diana here - without first introducing myself. I’m Eve, Aoife from AT - not that I was a prolific poster, so I doubt anyone will remember me. On joining AT I chose the title ‘novice crone’. Well, my novitiate has long concluded, a...

Diana! Such a joy to find you again! Oh how I've missed your wisdom and inspiration! Where do you seek solace ? Would this not be more of the realm of the Queen of Cups ? Or perhaps the Ace ? So sorry, I'm so out of practice at organising my thoughts, finding the words and putting them in the right ...

I heartily recommend Anni of The Greystone Path
https://www.youtube.com/user/MIRTHandREVERENCE/videos

4 of Deniers.... boundaries... what are your limits... what binds you? Leading to question what would happen / who would you be if you broke free? At a local lake the pen has recently died. The rangers have introduced a young female but the cob keeps driving her away. The five yearlings stay close t...