Temperance is traditionally a call to balance, moderation, patience, and a seeking of harmony. It can also be about finding middle ground and the centre space in between the pendulum swing, as well as the tempering between two differing subjects. Read on for more significations including Astrological, numerological, as a reversal, and in a career, love, and general reading:
Read MoreWorking with Astrological magic is a way to invoke the Planetary energy for a talisman; as Planetary remediation if we have afflicted Planets in our Natal Chart; or as a way to connect with the energy of a Planet and align with its associated meanings...
Read MoreDeath is the 13th Major Arcana card in the Tarot, fittingly as the number 13 is also often considered unlucky in the West. However, often feared, like all the Tarot cards, the Death card is symbolic. It represents natural endings, cycles of life, death, and rebirth, transformations and transmutations, change, and the growing pains often associated with it.
Read MoreSolar Arc Directions are a predictive timing technique where an Astrology Chart, usually the Natal Chart, is progressed forward by one degree for every year of life to symbolise how it has developed. Important contact points to Natal Placements and changes of Signs/Houses can reflect important transitions or moments in a person’s life.
Read MoreLearn all about what The Hanged Man Tarot card means in an upright and reversed position, to a general, career, and love reading, including its Astrological and Numerological correspondences! This is a card of the liminal, of the pregnant pause in-between moments, a pre-contraction before the expansion...
Read MoreWhile this 2500+ year practice can bring immense benefits to the understanding of ourselves and place in the world, it is also a hefty topic to get into! Although this can be overwhelming in the beginning, I think getting clear on a couple of things initially can help.
Read MoreThe Justice card represents things coming into balance and sorting themselves out, of being rectified and re-ordered, of things harmonising. It can more literally represent legal proceedings as well as simply people receiving what they deserve, or their just desserts! For better or worse, it is a rectification of things going to plan and following the natural order. Read on for more:
Read MoreThe Fixed Stars in Astrology are stars that are so far away from Earth that they don't appear to move much over time (as opposed to what the ancients referred to as the “wandering stars” which are the Planets that move in orbit). They can add a fascinating layer of interpretation to your practice! Read on to learn a bit about them:
Read MoreMajor Arcana card number ten of the Tarot is the Wheel of Fortune, following on from The Hermit, and preceding Justice. As you might imagine, this is a card about change, the wheel keeps on turning! It represents the notion that what goes up must come down and vice versa ad infinitum. Generally, this is considered a positive card to receive although it may not exclusively be the case.
Read MoreMajor Arcana Tarot Card number eight is the Strength card, succeeding The Chariot, and preceding The Hermit. As the name suggests, this card is about strength, but not just any kind of strength. This is not brute force or will, this is the strength in vulnerability, in opening up, in risking getting hurt, and taking our inner wildness. This Tarot card represents true strength.
Read MoreHorary Astrology is one of the four main branches of Astrology (along with Mundane, Electional, and Natal Astrology), and is the more divinatory of the lot. It consists of casting a Chart for the moment a question is asked and understood by the Astrologer, and interpreting it for an answer. It is a very old form of Astrology and can be used by experienced Astrologers for uncanny results and detail! Generally it seems that answering a question using a Horary Chart works using the premise of the Hermetic maxim: as above so below.
Read MoreWhen working with the Tarot and building your relationship with the archetypes, a really nice way to connect deeper and use as an anchor point for further introspection is calculating your Tarot birth card! This is done in a similar way to figuring out your numerological life path number, but in a way that brings about two Major Arcana cards for you to use as guidance.
Read MoreThe Hermit is the 9th (IX) Major Arcana card symbolising introspection, inner wisdom, the sageness that comes from experience and internal contemplation, and an invitation to seek out this wise guidance within ourselves.
Read MoreElectional Astrology is the process of “electing” an auspicious Astrology Chart based on your intentions for the best time to do something for the most favourable outcome. It can become quite complex but there are a few basic simple steps we can take to elect auspicious moments to begin everything from a haircut and first date, to getting married and launching a business. Read on for how:
Read MoreYour Sun Sign, AKA your star sign, is likely the first piece of Astrological knowledge you come by. Most people, whether or not they are into Astrology, generally know if they are a so-called Gemini, Leo, or Scorpio. These are easy to calculate because the Zodiac Sign the Sun is in changes regularly and consistently roughly every 30 days, returning at more or less the same time every year.
Read MoreIn the fourth Major Arcana Tarot Card, we encounter The Emperor, counterpart to The Empress. Here we meet our self sovereignty and sense of agency, our independence and ability to lead. It is a strong card of taking ownership of ones life and situation, handling the reigns with confidence.
Read on to find out more meanings of The Emperor and what it can signify if it shows up for you as a reversal, and in a general, career, or love reading:
Read MoreInterpreting the Planetary aspects in Astrology is a fundamental process in the analysis of a Natal Chart, which is the degree of distance the Planets or placements are to each other, the way in which they influence one another. The 5 major Ptolemaic aspects are the conjunction, sextile, square, trine, and opposition. Read on for how to interpret them:
Read MoreLearn all about the meaning of the Empress Tarot card upright and reversed, in a general, career, and love reading, and the invitations this lusciously fertile card can have for us when it comes up...
Read MoreYour Moon Sign in Astrology represents a fundamental part of your cosmic blueprint, a part of your so-called “Big 3” (along with your Sun and Rising Sign). Where it was in the sky on the day and location you were born, as well as exact birth time, is significant in determining your inner world, emotional needs, body, nurturance, and maternal figure.
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