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31
Jan
chariot tarot card with a white horse facing the viewer, mane blowing in the wind with a radiating sun, a black crescent moon on its forehead and a pentacle pendant around its neck

Card of the Day: VII The Chariot

The 22 cards of the Major Arcana are often divided into three rows of seven (plus The Fool as the
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30
Jan
a tarot card with 4 black pentacles held in tension by colored strings against a ground of thin diagonal black lines

Card of the Day: Four of Pentacles

Fours in the pip (numbered) cards of the tarot are about stability and structure. The Emperor is the fourth card
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29
Jan
a tarot card of a monarch butterfly in a chrysalis hanging from a sword with 7 swords surrounding it against a ground of horizontal black lines

Card of the Day: Eight of Swords

Mary K. Greer calls this the “Houdini card.” I love that. What looks to be an impossible situation...somehow he
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28
Jan
a tarot card of a white swan with outstretched wing over a faceted goblet against a starry black background with mother of cups in script at the bottom

Card of the Day: Mother of Cups

I drew this card in my personal reading this morning. Interesting how that keeps happening. It’s like I get
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27
Jan
a tarot card of a black swan with a red bill against a background of falling rain, a black goblet hovers at the top center and the words Father of Cups are in script at the bottom

Card of the Day: Father of Cups

My teacher gave a poignant and pointed talk yesterday about loving your enemies. He quoted at length from a speech
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31
Dec
3 birds on a branch above 3 black goblets against an orange-to-yellow ombre ground with a white sun

2020: It’s here!

Happy New Year, I hope however you marked this turning of the decade was meaningful, or fun—or both! New
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30
Nov
And the winner is...

And the winner is...

Happy December, I hope wherever you are is cozy and warm as we move into winter. Here in Phoenicia, we’
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06
Nov
Hello from Phoenicia, NY

Hello from Phoenicia, NY

I’m writing to let you know what I’ve been up to, and to invite you to be a
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07
Sep
a figure stands in the opening of a wall of a ruined building amidst fall leaves with a blue sky and mountain in the distance

The Ruins Project: Finding Common Ground

Originally published on medium.com October 26, 2017. Indra’s Net is a Mahayana Buddhist metaphor used to describe the
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