The Sufi Tarot

“Sabr or Temperance in traditional tarot is a card about balance, patience, and a form of acceptance that connects us to our angelic nature. It points to the benefits of creating equilibrium—not just between the inner and the outer, the Baatin and the Zahir, but also between emotion and logic, the spiritual and the physical, […]

Ship of Fools

“The last and highest trump of the Ship of Fools Tarot shows a fool burdened with the weight of a great circle or disk, which encloses a landscape of mountains, waters, and houses (21-1). This disk is the world itself, rendering the fool a version of Atlas, the mythological Titan who holds up the heavens…The […]

Ship of Fools Tarot

“Therefore an original treatment of Temperance (14-1), a standing fool who pours the contents of one jug of liquid into another, has been created from diverse elements of the Narrenschiff. The pitchers overflow, watering a flower growing between the fool’s feet. Temperance, as portrayed in the tarot, is properly female, and she does not spill […]

Shining Tribe Tarot

0 The Fool The Fool is the eternal child within all of us, the perfect child, innocent and pure of belief. Older Tarot decks showed a beggar bitten by a dog or cat. The Rider Fool, a beautiful youth, danced on a cliff edge, as if about to step off. In Shining Woman Tarot the […]

XIV Temperance, Star Spinner Tarot, Trungles, Chronicle Books, 2020. From STAR SPINNER TAROT, ©2020 Trungles. Used with Permission from Chronicle Books, LLC. Visit www.ChronicleBooks.com

Temperance indicates self-discipline and strength of character. As death suggests an ever-changing world. Temperance represents the certainty that the most essential parts of us will remain. Despite the challenges and pain that often accompany change and growth, you may find that your strong personal and interpersonal foundations help keep you grounded. (42)

XI Justice, Star Spinner Tarot, Trungles, Chronicle Books, 2020. From STAR SPINNER TAROT, ©2020 Trungles. Used with Permission from Chronicle Books, LLC. Visit www.ChronicleBooks.com

Justice reminds us to actively course-correct those instances of institutional bias. It is not simple a matter of what is fair. Justice interrogates which lenses are corrupted by structures that value a concentration of power. Regardless of whether or not it benefits you personally, value and pursue what is right instead of, or perhaps despite, […]

Star Spinner Tarot

0 the fool The Fool indicates one who is ready to take the first steps in a new direction and explore previously untapped potential. There is a deep naivety about the Fool, representing one who lives in the moment and looks ahead only to positive possibilities. The impetus to move forward is only done on […]