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Monday, December 19, 2022

CARD OF THE WEEK: December 19-23, 2022

The World

Oak, Ash & Thorn Tarot

by Stephanie Burrows with art by Adam Oehlers

December 19-23, 2022: I thought the word "tender" before drawing this sweet image from Oak, Ash & Thorn Tarot. For this transitional time in which we will pass Winter Solstice 2022, let us think on the idea of tender regard and care for ourselves, our loved ones, our communities, our world.

The World card represents the reaching of a long-desired goal, the culmination of a process, the drawing together of every disparate and essential element that makes a self or situation. Can we imagine how this might be done with utmost gentleness, especially gentleness towards oneself?

We're also wrapping up the year, speeding towards the end of 2022, the latest of few years of disruptions, life-changing challenges, loss, violence of unimaginable proportions. How can we resolve to seed tenderness into 2023, water it, and watch it grow?

As this week unfolds, this is our meditation.

Wishing you a warm and blessed Winter Solstice!

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

CARD OF THE DAY: December 21, 2021 (Solstice)

The Sun

from Neo Tarot

by Jerico Mandybur with art by Daiana Ruiz

December 21, 2021: As the world struggles with the rise of another COVID-19 variant--Omicron--I send my best wishes to you for a healthy and lovely Solstice, and I hope you are doing everything in your power to keep yourself and your loved ones safe now and in the New Year.

Please forgive my absence yesterday, which went without a Card of the Day. I know some of you have been inspired by my daily draws and readings to consult your own decks--or buy your first one--and I hope you went ahead and found a card that spoke good and useful things to you.

Today's card is not a random draw but a deliberate pick--The Sun, for Solstice, naturally--from Jerico Mandybur's Neo Tarot deck.

I felt joy at rising early to find the moon visible from my bedroom window and, at the other end of the apartment, a bright planet--Venus, I assume--visible from my kitchen window. Our New York City skies have not always been clear enough to reveal these dear beings. They make me happy, and I always greet them with gratitude.

Daiana Ruiz's art for the Neo Sun expresses vitality. It's so easy to get frightened and discouraged by what is happening, but this image affirms and celebrates life and bids us stay in the fight against selfishness, despair, and cynicism. It asks us to find and securely align with a source of revitalizing energy and lock into that.

I also love the star at the Third Eye of Ruiz's sun. That's a reminder to activate higher vision, gain a more powerful knowledge of matters. Find your sun and be a sun.