Fall Holidays
ROSH HASHANAH, JUDAISM Rosh Hashanah is a time for celebration and reflection in the Jewish faith as it marks the Jewish New Year. This holiday is celebrated on 1 Tishri of the Jewish …
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The Lovers – The Tarot: Major Arcana
In the next installment of our series on the tarot major arcana, we’re going to go over the history and symbolism behind the card everyone hopes to see in a reading – The …
The Hierophant – The Tarot: Major Arcana
In our next post, we’re going to go over the history of the Hierophant, the tarot’s embodiment of religious authority figures. The earliest depictions of the Hierophant refer to him as the “Pope”. …
The Emperor – The Tarot: Major Arcana
In the last post we talked about the Empress being the tarot’s embodiment of the mother archetype. In this article we’re going to talk about the father – The Emperor. Like the Empress, …
The Empress – The Tarot: Major Arcana
After meeting the Magician and the High Priestess, counterparts that symbolize masculine and feminine principles respectively, we come to the symbolic merging of the two – The Empress. As the third card in …
The High Priestess – The Tarot: Major Arcana
After encountering the Magician and learning his masculine principle of acting on one’s spiritual beliefs, we meet his counterpart, the High Priestess, who in many ways represents the feminine principle of receptivity to …
Celtic Goddesses
Cerridwen Cerridwen’s name translates to “fair and loved”, “crooked woman”, and “fortress of wisdom”. In the most famous legend about her, she and her husband Tegid the Bald had two children – their …
The Magician – The Tarot: Major Arcana
As we mentioned in the previous post on the Fool, the tarot has origins as a playing card deck and in that iteration the first numbered card in the deck is the Magician …
The Fool – The Tarot: Major Arcana
Learning the tarot can seem like a daunting task. It may be hard as a beginner to know what kind of deck to learn with, or how different portrayals of the same card …
The Seven Chakras
The chakras are energy centers in our bodies. We find these wheels of light described in the ancient teachings of Yoga from India. Yoga is the spiritual path of working with our physical …
Winter Holidays
As the days shorten and night falls earlier in the northern hemisphere, our thoughts turn toward the upcoming holidays. Whether that means Solstice or any of the many holidays celebrated by the world’s …
Stones for Birthdays and Zodiac Signs
Since ancient times, people have felt that the energy of stones can be associated with times of birth. The most common ways we can match our birthdates with our stone friends is according …
