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Category: Tarot

Starting a new book

Two oracle cards, a snake and a rose garden

You know the old adage that you need to get your characters in trouble as fast as possible, in a book? Since I identify with my characters, it often feels as if I’m getting in trouble as fast as I can. Luckily writing a book is good trouble to be in.

Yesterday I sat down with a dear friend who is vastly knowledgeable in cosmologies and got a brain dump, and the Garden of Eden (as seen through a gnostic lens) came up. Emphasis on snake.

This is the reading from two of my favorite decks this morning. (The decks are Laura Tempest Zakroff’s Liminal Spirits Oracle and the Secret Dakini Oracle.)

Trouble is brewing…

Tower time

Tower Tarot card

I suspect most of you know where we are.

The Tower card I show is from my Morgan-Greer Tarot deck. I love this deck because the illustrations are like in a children’s book, an old one about the realms of Faerie. At the same time, the deck hews pretty close to Rider-Waite. I have several other oracle decks, but I mostly work with the plain-vanilla Tarot. This deck also has a personal connection—the mother of a friend of mine knew the deck artist.

A reading

Three Tarot cards

You see here, from my point of view, a Tarot reading from my housemate’s Gateway to the Divine deck.

It’s about a relationship. The cards advise to work on it more, but it might not resolve as I’d like.