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The Moon: Where Should We Move?
One young woman I know who has been living in Austin, Texas, decided to do just that and asked me to help her figure out where she should move using her birth chart and astrocartography. Here’s her simplified map (I’m only using the birth planet lines, and not using paran lines yet—that’s for another post):…...
AstroCartoGraphy: Plan the Perfect Birthday Trip
An interesting request arrived in my email a couple of days ago. An astrology client was trying to plan her birthday, which will be at the end of September, so she requested a Solar Return chart. I have a very cool program that can print out a report for your solar return, so I sent…...
Making AstroCartoGraphy Personal: How Strong are Your ‘Lines’
If you own an iPhone, and you are interested in astrology, there’s no better learning app than AstroGold, and almost every astrologer I know has it installed on their phone and uses it to do quick birth charts. However, AstroGold just added an AstroCartoGraphy feature. It’s not free, but it’s terrific. I’ll begin this little…...
Musings on the Tarot: The Wandering Star Tarot
It is a fact universally acknowledged that a small town anywhere is in want of a cool, sandalwood-scented book and herb store which also carries tarot and oracle cards. At least, that’s what I’ve discovered during my extensive travels. The tiny northern California town of Arcata was no exception, so this May when I found…...
Musings on Tarot: The Monstarot
When you play with the Tarot A LOT people tend to bring you Tarot things. Last week my friend Jan brought me a failed birthday gift—a tarot deck she tried to give to her niece. For whatever reason the thirteen year old pre-teen just was not interested, so Jan took back the deck and got…...
Musings on Tarot: The Intuitive Tarot
Most people take the tarot way too seriously. They make a big ceremony of taking their tarot cards out of their hand-carved wooden box, waving sage and crystals over them, chanting. You know what I mean. Maybe you do this too. I’m not saying it’s wrong, but I have had some of my favorite tarot…...
Musings on Tarot: Touchstone Tarot
When I began to teach beginning Tarot classes, I would send a list of about ten acceptable Tarot decks. Little by little, class by class, I found issues with certain cards and eliminated their respective decks from my list. I love tarot decks and there are thousands to choose from now. Most people like to…...
Review of The Bohemian Gothic Tarot Deck
I hope the beginning of your new year was peaceful and exciting—a difficult feat to accomplish simultaneously but a rewarding goal for 2024. At the end of 2023 I gushed about my favorite Tarot company Baba Studios, and how I pre-ordered one of their last new Tarot projects, the release of the deluxe edition of The…...
The New Year Tarot Spread
I love the idea of a really comprehensive New Year tarot layout, one that would act almost as a template for the next yearly cycle. I started searching my notes for a good one when this spread popped into my mailbox from Biddy Tarot. This twelve-card New Year tarot spread is close to perfect, acknowledging…...
Astrocartography: Every Place is Good for Something
Why is everyone talking about astrocartography? A little info about the astrocartography experience. Many years ago when I decided to get serious about my astrology reading practice, I got a PC and started searching for programs. At that time I could not find any good Mac-based programs but I did find lots of astrology…...
