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tuesday, seven september: the chariot

September 7, 2021

"The Chariot is your confidence, your will, and your inner warrior ... Build a relationship with this part of yourself." What is frustrating me right now,...

monday, six september: the sun

September 6, 2021

The Sun: "Vitality and health abound, while you feel assurance and clarity in all that you do." I would not go quite so far as that, but I do feel better...

friday, twenty-seven august: four of wands

August 27, 2021

“Completion, celebration … your labors have been steady and strong, and the harvest will be plentiful.” It’s cheating, this was yesterday’s card, today’s is...

tuesday, twenty-four august: the hierophant

August 24, 2021

The Hierophant: “You’ve come as far as you can on your own … open your heart and your teacher will soon appear.” So my mom calls, and we talk a little–she...

monday, twenty-three july: the high priestess

August 24, 2021

I was trying to remember this weekend all of the different times this apartment has taken on water. Regularly through the pump drain in the basement floor,...

friday, twenty august: temperance

August 20, 2021

No time to write this morning, I'm getting ready for today's adventure, our final expedition of summer break. I'm attempting to take a nine-year-old to...

thursday, nineteen august: five of pentacles

August 19, 2021

So yesterday, Wednesday afternoon, my mother called. She doesn't lead with "hello" or anything normal. Instead, "Noelle is going to have a memorial for...

wednesday, eighteen august: strength

August 18, 2021

I am definitely in the "what day is it" stage of summer, also known as the part where I've a little bit given up and am just riding it out to the end. It's...

tuesday, seventeen august: six of pentacles

August 17, 2021

For vacation, I downloaded a set of books that I wasn’t sure I was going to like. There’s this romance author, Sarina Bowen, whose books I often like, even...

monday, sixteen august: five of pentacles

August 16, 2021

The first card I drew today looked very sad--it's a drooping rose dropping petals--and I thought, no, don't want that. So I put it back and drew another, the...

saturday, seven august: strength

Today's card: Strength, described as "focus, compassion, self-control" and "mastery of emotions." Well played, tarot deck, well played. There's a sort of...

friday, six august: the hierophant

Continuing what still feels like a statistically-improbable run of major arcana cards, today’s card is The Hierophant. One way to read it: the picture is a...

tuesday, five august: the fool

The picture on the card today is a baby bird perched on a budding branch. The Fool is about beginning, launching out into the world with naive optimism and...

wednesday, four august: eight of pentacles

For Christmas, my mom bought my dad a book about Mob history. He's been reading it a little bit at a time, a chapter here and there. Most recently he read a...

tuesday, three august: son of pentacles

Another very brief one today--my sleep is still sort of off, my shoulder is still sort of strained, and I have to pack up stuff for yet another overnight...

monday, two august: the magician

The Magician again: action action action, bodies in motion, etc. I don’t know if it suits my day, in which I’m taking Dec for a swimming day with...

sunday, one august: ten of swords

(Today’s card is very gloomy and no match for my mood, so I’m ignoring it. Instead, Sunday rambling.) Now that I am forty-five years old and thus An Old...

saturday, thirty-one july: father of pentacles

I told Declan about the squirrels eating the mushrooms yesterday and his first reaction was to wonder if the squirrels were okay, since some mushrooms are...

friday, thirty july: six of pentacles

Twice so far this morning, I’ve seen squirrels in the yard with what seemed like big chunks of food. One ran past the window with something in his mouth that...

thursday, twenty-nine july: father of cups

In other news, I slept really well last night, and I feel like a person again, so that’s good. Today’s card doesn’t feel particularly useful as a writing...

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