The choice for poverty meets much resistance. Clare blesses Agnes and encourages her in her Second Letter by saying that what she holds, she may continue to hold: “What you hold, may you continue to hold.” This is the subject of the question for today.

“(11) (…)What you hold, may you continue to hold,
what you do, may you keep doing and not
stop,

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It is 'black monday', the courses are lower than ever all over the world. I've pulled a card about the credit crisis. I just said the word and pulled my card. I've drawn Joan of Arc, Queen of Swords from the Tarot of Saints. She was a young girl, who was dressed in white armour inpired the French troops, led them to get their dauphin to the throne ( Read more... )

I have pulled card 8 of the Pumpkin Spread. These are the positions.

1. Cutting out and removing the lid: What you need to temporary lift to enable you to see yourself clearer?
2. Scooping out the pumpkin: What you need to work hard on or work through?
3. The seeds you reveal: How you can grow? Your potential?
4. The flesh you remove: The obstacles ( Read more... )

I am doing a Pumpkin Spread These are the positions.

1. Cutting out and removing the lid: What you need to temporary lift to enable you to see yourself clearer?
2. Scooping out the pumpkin: What you need to work hard on or work through?
3. The seeds you reveal: How you can grow? Your potential?
4. The flesh you remove: The obstacles in the way to ( Read more... )

I am starting a Pumkin Spread in honor of the season. It comes from Aeclectic Tarot . The following are the questions and the layout.

1. Cutting out and removing the lid: What you need to temporary lift to enable you to see yourself clearer?
2. Scooping out the pumpkin: What you need to work hard on or work through?
3. The seeds you reveal: How you ( Read more... )

Today I’ve read the card for position three from the spread “Harvest Home” for Lammas by Christine Jette from her book Tarot for all Seasons. The position is about work and is called: "Career: Attitudes about Work". The question is: "Are you are following your heart’s desire, or just surviving?" The card that I have pulled is Queen of Swords. ( Read more... )

                                         
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This is my last entry in the series of The Twelve Days of Christmas. I must give my undivided attention now to a course in the Inner Child Cards I teach for therapists this winter. I’ve worked on this course mainly in busses and trains. Now it’s time to look and see what I have thought up and I must write it all down.

So, this is the last spread, ( Read more... )

Tonight I have pulled a card that sums up my day. My card was Queen of Swords from the New Palladini Tarot (this evening I taught the Court Cards in a class, and just now I pulled one, funny is that). We see a brave woman there, decisive, in a fighting attitude and a bit rigid.


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I do a two-card reading today, because I use it in one of my classes. The subject of my reading is my blog. I am blogging now for more than three months. Time for evaluation. My question is: “How to proceed (go forward) with my blog?”.

The spread I use is derived from the first two cards of the Celtic Cross, but renamed, and thus the positions are ( Read more... )