For the overview of the journey, start HERE. At the end of this row we reach the end of this journey and so we would expect great rewards. We are not disappointed. What we experience is Judgement, which we know has little to do with being judged. Rather, it has everything to do with being able to hear and respond to the voice of Spirit with faith and certainty. After gaining experience with feeling your own inner compass and recognizing communication from the external Divine, you can apply those skills to your everyday life. Then you get your reward: The World. A laurel wreath of achievement and a sense of how you fit perfectly in the universal flow of life. Comfortable, confident,

To see an overview of the journey, start HERE. Today we look at the final challenge...the Moon. The Moon is a tricky card, full of unknowns. In this case, it is about how to travel your path when all around you is dark and uncertain. In some ways it is easier than you'd thing...but also more challenging, as it does require faith, faith in your personal spiritual compass. The Moon reflects light, so it is not surprising that the two flanking cards are about light. Instead of shaping the problem, they hold the answer. The Star, which represents guidance, can be thought of as your personal North Star, the thing outside of yourself by which you navigate. I see this as the external

For an overview of and foundation for this series, see HERE The final row represents the quest for spiritual awareness that begins with a decent into darkness and ends with the return of the light. Or what I call The Descent into Darkness and Utter Destruction. We begin this row, as with all the others, with a description of the basic issue. After feeling all satisfied with ourselves because of our courageous ego death and serene state of Temperance, we begin with the Devil and the Tower. Again, these are opposite sides of the same issue and that issue is being trapped. The Devil is how we trap ourselves with behaviors and beliefs that may have started out okay but have become

For an overview of and foundation for this series, see HERE The second row has asked us to take a closer look at our beliefs and how we live them, in good times and bad. We come to terms with the idea that being good, sometimes, is its own…or only…reward. If we have done this, we have experienced Death, particularly the death of the ego. Once the ego lets go of its demands that “if we are good people, then only good things should happen to us,” we become Temperance. Temperance is a pretty cool card. She is perfect balance and grace under pressure. She is always exactly who she is regardless of whether she is spinning on a Wheel or hanging upside down (as in the Hanged Man). In