http://www.rowandell.com/blog the weblog of Maria Rowan Tarot Arts Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:13:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Remember a few weeks ago, when I posted about The Tower and catching all the new hip trendy viruses out there ? And then fell off the face of the blogosphere ? That silence was another virus. So while I have a long list of interesting Tarot topics for writing, ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=16 Setting a time frame for a card reading is incredibly important, especially if you read for yourself.  Time gives us a sense of scale. Let's take The Tower for instance. In it's very simplest interpretation The Tower is Catastrophe with a Capital C. The Tower can signify escaping from your vehicle ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=15 As a teen I hated July. I used to write about hating July, late at night on a beat up old typewriter because without air conditioning I treasured the hours after midnight as the only cool ones. July, I wrote, is when all our losses return to ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=14 My New Year's Day post was shaping up to be about the challenges of year long readings. After a few paragraphs, I took a deep breath. While everything I had written was true - and I'll happily share it with you some other time - writing about the mechanics of ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=13 In some systems of Tarot reading, the Major Arcana follows an order from 1-21 with the 0 thrown in for good measure somewhere. If a card of lower number appears after a card of higher number, then there's been a regression on the journey to enlightenment. I'm never sure what to ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=11 I just discovered that if I'm at a loss for what to do for a belated post, I can always draw a card. Today's card for me - the 3 of Wands Reversed. Ain't it the truth ? Wands are desires and passions, ambitions and actions. 3 s are dynamic. The 3 ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=12 I'm having a 5 of Wands kind of week. In some traditions 5 is a number of unity or even eros. It other traditions 5 is a number of strength and in some interpretations this became force, victory or battle. I think of the 5s as the struggling with others ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=10 I tend to read from Tarot decks based on the old Renaissance style decks with no scenarios depicted on the Minor Arcana. I see the Four of Coins and it's four coins and a number four. Fours represent foundations and stability and coins represent labor, fruits of labor and sometimes ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=9 On Wednesday, we'll have a daylong visit from one of my 5-year-old daughter's favorite friends. Just last Spring, we attended a birthday party at her house and the little girls all came in costume. Some were the standard fare these days, puffy with a Disney label. Others were homemade concoctions ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=5 Tarot cards are like potato chips or my mother's buttermilk biscuits. I can't have just one. When I practise daily, I always lay out two cards. I like the tension. I like the dialogue. Two always gives me something to ponder. While one sometimes leaves me with a feeling of - ... http://www.rowandell.com/blog/?p=4