KEYWORDS: Expansion, cycles, travel. The Universe represents the final stage of the descent of spirit into matter. Here we emerge on the planet in our present form, to deal with the joys and struggles of living in a material world. For the last card of the Major Arcana, I chose the Native American image of […]
KEYWORDS: Change, birth, regeneration. This is the final burning of karma preceding the rebirth process. The transformation is now almost complete, and something new emerges from the ashes of the old. To represent this Scorpio-ruled trump, I chose the Egyptian image of the Phoenix. This legendary bird self-immolates yearly and is reborn from its own […]
KEYWORDS: Auspicious turn of events. With the next revolution of the Wheel, we spin off into yet another level of our evolutionary process. The Wheel of Life illustrates the constancy of nature’s everexpanding cyclical changes; light to dark, ebb to flow, life to death to life. The planet Jupiter rules this card; in earlier decks, […]
KEYWORDS: Karma, timing, balance, equality, justice. This card of Justice appears following the lunar and solar images to ensure balance between these energies before they manifest into form. To illustrate the concept of Justice, I chose the Egyptian Goddess Maat. As law giver and dispenser of justice, this Goddess weighs each soul against a feather. […]
KEYWORDS: Self-expression, joy, well-being. The Sun represents the radiant globe that illuminates our solar system, as well as the solar, masculine or yang archetype. For the image of the Sun, I chose Amaterasu, the Japanese Sun Goddess. “Of all the religions currently practiced by significant numbers of people, the only one whose chief deity is […]
KEYWORDS: Catharsis, reflection. The Moon card is symbolic of both the lunar heavenly body and the female, or yin, archetype. For the Piscean-ruled Moon card, I chose an eclectic series of images. The astrological sign Pisces, the final sign of the zodiac, embodies traits of all the other signs, as well as embracing a universality […]
KEYWORDS: Inspiration, renewal, soul retrieval. The Awakening represents the stage in our evolution when we begin to remember a pre-existent higher level of consciousness. We remember our own divine essence. For this Plutonic card of Awakening, I use the Anatolian (Turkish) image of Hecate, and the Greek image of Pandora. Hecate is known as the […]
KEYWORDS: Inner journey, immersion, incubation. After evolving to the point where souls were preparing to incarnate into denser forms, beings required a gestation period to prepare for the trials of their earth walk. This is the initiation period between death and life represented by the Hanged Man in traditional decks. The process of birth was […]
KEYWORDS: Blockage, negativity, limited thinking, frustration. The card of Limitation represents the point in time when beings no longer enjoyed the easy flow between levels of consciousness, from spirit to matter. Because they ceased seeing all as divine, they weakened their own link to the Goddess, becoming stuck in a material existence. In other words, […]
KEYWORDS: Sudden change, shock. A major revolution in the evolution of human consciousness occurred when the warriors raised their hands against the agrarian peace-keepers. This revolution unleashed the violent aggressive energies of the previous card, the Amazon. The peace-keepers became entangled in the fight and thus ceased to be peace-keepers. For this Mars-ruled trump XII, […]
