When I first thought about writing about yoga on this blog, I didn’t plan for it to be a regular thing, per se. I figured maybe once or twice a year I would write an article about how yoga was affecting my spiritual practice, but that would pretty much be it. It turns out I have a lot more to say, so this will be the second in a monthly series of yoga posts. YAY!!
Case kind of disappears down a Qaballistic rabbit hole at the beginning of this lesson, which is a shame because the Hermit is an interesting card. I’ll give a quick summary of his rambling before we get into the meat of the lesson.
We’re at A Full Moon Rising in Dayton Ohio! Hee!!
Now we’re getting to the good stuff: the study of the actual Tarot cards! We begin with the Fool. If you’re going to do the coloring exercises, this is the week to make sure you’ve at least colored this card. If you balk because the last time you did a coloring sheet was in nursery school, let me tell you that it’s a great way to study the Tarot. You really do get forced to notice the detail while you color in the card. It’s also strangely soothing, maybe because it’s such a vivid reminder of childhood.
Yeah, I know it’s not Tuesday, but I was stuck in the doctor’s office all day yesterday. I haven’t quite got the hang of scheduled publishing here on WordPress, so I hope you’ll let me hand my homework in a bit late!
This week’s lesson is on the symbolism of numbers. Numbers are important in magick, as well as any other discipline. Think of duality, triple goddess aspects, the eight slices the wheel of the year divides into. A basic working knowledge of numerology makes learning tarot much easier, since a lot of the time the number of the card is a hint as to the larger meaning behind it.
Consider this my heartfelt apology for neglecting you! I tend to hibernate in the winter, and my health issues tend to act up when it’s cold outside. But I have big plans for bringing this back and hope you’ll indulge me by reading me again.
In addition to the mythology posts, there are a few other things I’d like to share! I’m currently going through Paul Foster Case’s Tarot Revelations course (thanks for the tip, Issac Bonewits, wherever you are!) and at the end of each week I’ll be posting what I’ve learned. If you’re interested in following along, the link will take you to the kindle version of the course. Sadly, it appears the physical book version is out of print, but you never know what you might find in second hand bookshops (support your local booksellers!!).
I’d also like to do more media reviews. I just re-read the Mists of Avalon for the I can’t remember how manyth time so that might be coming soon. I’ve got a post about American Gods about half written (it was completely written, but I got a harsh reminder of what happens when you rely on WordPress’s autosave function). Witches seem to be big in the culture of pop recently, so we can have some fun with that.
I’ll be doing more posts about things that are important to my spiritual practice in general, so you’ll be seeing some yoga, some herbalism info, and a teeny bit of astrology. I just want to make things more personal and eclectic, more in the vein of the Yemaya post that you guys seem to like so much.
I know this sounds ambitious for someone who hasn’t written anything in months, but I hope you’ll bear with me. It’ll be fun, I promise!
I am the wife of the laird of Balnainn
The faeries have stolen me over again…
I promised this part of this blog was going to be about modern mythology, or at least how mythology is viewed by modern people. Outlander is a show based on a series of books by Diana Gabaldon about a woman, Claire, who travels back in time from post WWII to the mid 18th century. It’s been billed around the interwebs as a kind of Game of Thrones for chicks (more on THAT in a minute), but once you scrape off a bit of the prestige cable drama schmutz there’s a lot going on here.
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