Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free tarot spread generator using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread. This article tells you how to use the spread. You can visit Sarah’s website here. –efc
By Sarah Taylor
It has been a week short of five months since my first tarot article was published here on Planet Waves, when Eric took what I still think to be a generous leap of faith in someone he had never met, and who hadn’t written much since leaving the world of advertising in 2005.
Some weeks I absolutely know what it is that I am going to write, the cards (often quite literally) jumping out of the deck at me. Others require my own leap of faith and a dose of the advice I all-too-easily dish out to others about trusting the process and not getting waylaid by the mind’s incursions on the quiet voice of intuition.
As it happens, this week has offered me up the chance to take a look back and pick some of my favourite articles: given that Mercury retrograde is an appropriate time for retrospection, I thought I’d listen to the inner promptings of my intuition… that and the fact that no matter what card my son or I pulled today, it was one I had already written about.
So here are the five that stand out for me, each for a different reason:
Humanity’s relationship to symbols — The first article in this series, the final draft took about fifteen rewrites, four of them discarding an entire draft and starting again from scratch. For good reason. During the process, I realised that it was the first time that I was articulating a philosophy of tarot that I had almost entirely taken for granted up until then. It was a phenomenal and humbling encounter with not only tarot, but with my own belief systems.
Symbolic Alchemy – A view of The Lovers and Art — This article was suggested by a reader, and I loved the — albeit brief — foray it took into alchemy.