This is the King of Pentacles from the forthcoming Tarot of the Hidden Realm.   Unedited text King of Pentacles   Pushing back the curtain of holly, enjoying the vibrant play of red and green, angles and curves, you take in a long, slow breath of the crisp air. You fancy you see a few diamond-like twinkles floating through the sky. Looking up, you feel a few shocks of sensation on your face, an icy cold pricking that somehow burns. The wood is silent but with each step you take, the sense of the sound of joy grows, although you don’t hear anything save the leaves rustling in the slightest of breezes, birds calling, animals scurrying. The holly falls down

Last week we looked at a spread to help with individual relationships HERE Today we'll look at using tarot for general holiday advice. Using the Legacy of the Divine Tarot by Ciro Marchetti (see more HERE) I pulled three cards asking tarot for general advice we can all use this season. The Sun, the only Major in the spread, tells us that this bit is the most important. Because in nearly all the end of the year holidays there is an emphasis on the return of the light, this card is appropriate. Simply this: remember the reason you are celebrating. Keep that at the center of your focus and you're off to a good start. The next two are Swords and also very appropriate to the

I am writing this just a few days before the supposed Mayan Apocalypse on Friday, December 21, 2012. The belief that the "end times" are here is nothing new. This LINK will take you to a page that lists over 200 dates where experts and religious leaders said the end of the world was coming. They all have one thing in common: none of them have worked out as their promoters stated. And I will hereby fearlessly predict that the so-called Mayan Apocalypse will also turn out to be a dud. Some Mayans in Guatemala are denouncing the way the government is turning this into a "folklore for profit" giant party, with an expected 90,000 money-bringing suckers believers coming for the show. NASA has

Ever since I was young I've had a "thing" about religion and spirituality. Although I often found myself disagreeing with various religious beliefs, or with ideas being presented as supposedly representative of various religions, I still had respect for the underlying concepts. Sometimes, I found that people would create religions not to help others, but to help themselves—generally to power, money, and/or sex. I didn't like what they were doing. I felt they were harming others by mocking religions or spiritual paths. I still feel this way. And that brings me to Xmas. When I was old enough to understand that Xmas was an abbreviation for Christmas, I felt there was something wrong