It can be a little intimidating, to lay this card out for someone in a spread — the image is so bleak: a figure face-down on the ground in a pool of blood, pierced by those ten sharp swords. Are they dead, dying, done for? Actually, no. As hard as the Ten of Swords is to deal with, I actually feel almost a sense of relief when it comes up, because it means that as soon as the hardest part is finally faced, then it can be truly done. 

It's always darkest right before dawn, and this card illustrates that moment perfectly. When you've finally surrendered to the blackness, lain down your arms, and admitted defeat — then, and only then, can you begin to rise. You have to hit absolute rock bottom before you can start moving back up. 

The rains came to the Hill Country with the 4th of July — raining out celebrations, and washing entire RV parks away… I woke up to rain on that “Independence Day”, feeling like the sky was crying. Rain is usually a major blessing here in Texas, where the droughts can be long and punishing — but then I read about catastrophic floods not far from here, in Kerrville. 

Coming out of the watery morass of Cancer Season into the blaze of Leo’s razzle dazzle (SHOW TIME BABY!) can throw us for a loop, emotionally and energetically. 

This new moon is giving us the opportunity to dry out the mud from last month, and begin to sweep away wherever we may have gotten mired in over-giving, codependency, and feeling other people’s stuff for them.

The Tower is necessary and forceful change — and for those of us who tend to be resistant to things shifting (even when they desperately need to), this kind of upheaval can feel totally brutal. 

It can take a looooong time before the dust settles, and we’re able to see that the Tower finally falling was the only way that anything was ever going to change in the first place. 

Your Saturn Return is a cosmic coming-of-age. Learn what it really means, when it hits, and how tarot + astrology can help you move through it wisely.

Mercury Retrograde gets a bad rap — but it’s not here to ruin your life. Let’s explore what it’s really about, and how tarot + astrology can help.

We have arrived at the Vernal Equinox, still point of the year — the time of equal light, equal dark. This signifies a REBIRTH, the beginning of Aries season and our astrological new year!