The Chariot
… control of the Ego over destination … command of spirit over outcome …
In the Rider-Waite deck a sovereign lord is pulled in a chariot by a pair of black and white sphinxes. A mighty city rises up behind them. The sphinx, in mythology, was a creature with the head of a […]
For a fabulous evening of poetry, join The NuPoet Collective along with the Old Town Poets on Thursday, July 27th, from 7 - 9PM at the Michigan Women’s Historical Center (by beautiful Cooley Gardens) at 213 W. Main St. in Lansing. (If you are headed south on Capitol Ave., you will run right into it.) […]
The Lovers
… the friendship of the sea and the earth …
I find the Lovers utterly fascinating, not because of the potential the card could have but the dullness, uniformity, reiteration most decks ascribe to it. There seem to be only two different motifs that are ever used. The first, such as […]
The Hierophant
… keeper of our sacred knowledge … go-between to the gods …
If the High Priestess was at one time La Papesse, the Female Pope, then the Hierophant is simply the male side of that equation, Le Pape. And as the head of the papal state, he represents our metaphysical discourse, our religious […]
The Monolators recently played in my old town of Las Vegas at the Divebar. It was part of their West Coast tour promoting their new CD, Our Tears Have Wings. Someone told me that tracks from their last album, Rejection Set Me Free, received radio play on KCRW’s Weekend Becomes Eclectic, KXLU, and […]