Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I decided to a reading today with the Visconti-Sforza deck in keeping with yesterday’s Sola Busca reading. This deck is one of the oldest complete decks around and I’m related to the people who commissioned its creation. Bianca Maria Visconti,…
A First Look At The Sola Busca Tarot
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love old Tarot decks. Sola Busca is reportedly one of the oldest and the first to include the Minor Arcana cards using more than just symbols. I also have the Visconti-Sforza deck which at least has a small handbook available…
Allowing A Greater Awareness Of Self
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Using my Haindl Tarot deck, I drew the 2 of Wands as significator with the 8 of Cups, The Hierophant, and the 3 of Swords as the cards of influence for today’s tarot reading. Fire, Water, and Air are present…
Witch Notes ~ The WTF Edition
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Sometimes a witch’s mind wanders to all sorts of things when she should be doing something constructive like watering the garden. So a while back I came up with Witch Notes. In other words, it’s a place to gripe about…
Letter From Bernie
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. This is an email I received from Bernie Sanders today. Someone on Twitter also received it and quoted a paragraph mentioning the Democratic establishment. Someone asked this person to publish the whole letter. So here it is: Janet – Thanks so…
Witch Hunt?
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. With our so-called president invoking the term witch hunt to describe all the investigations concerning him, I thought I’d discuss what a witch hunt really is. My ancestor, King James V of Scotland, a great-uncle, was convinced that Lady Janet Douglas…
Protection Rune Magick
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Someone I know is in need of a protection bindrune to carry so I set the altar to reflect some Sunday energy along with some Crone influence for hidden awareness and truth and created a bindrune. Instead of selecting runes…
Tempering Our Priorities
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Temperance, the Son of Wands, 5 of Cups, Daughter of Wands, and the Mother of Pentacles comprise today’s tarot reading from the Wild Unknown Tarot. There is one card from the Major Arcana, one from the suit of Cups, and…
Micromanaging The Impossible
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. We all know people guilty of micromanaging others. They can’t seem to step back and let others do their jobs without endless interference. And it never fails that these same people are completely unqualified to supervise anyone. They undermine those…
A Serene Approach
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. We begin in ruin and end in catalytic change, with a serene Goddess in the middle of it all, prescient given the numerology of 1 or new beginnings and the development of the self. We come full circle with the number…
Emerging From The Inner Chrysalis Of Self
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Whenever I get a numerology of thirteen in a tarot reading I consider it a Master Witch number. Not that numerologists would necessarily agree, but I’m a witch who was born on the 13th and it figures prominently in my…
I Love Dogs, But…
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I was a dog owner all of my life until a few years ago. Part of my childhood was spent in Alaska where we raised sled dogs and I was devoted to them. I’ve also had an assortment of other…
A New Moon For Transformation And Healing
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Today is the New Moon. During this powerful Crone phase, along with divinations, witches work magick that is transformational in nature. With the Moon in Leo, I plan to perform a healing ritual this evening. Divination is also wonderful to…
The Inner Mastery of Self
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. We all seek the inner mastery of Self, even if we don’t realize we’re doing so. However, when it’s a focused experience the benefits of that level of self-discipline are maximal. Using the Wild Unknown Tarot deck I drew The…
Letting Go Of Craziness
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Sometimes it takes an incredible focus to keep from being distracted by crazy people. You know the type. They lie, spin, insult, and blame everyone else to give themselves the illusion of control. They make fools of themselves as they attempt to hang…