Blog
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Temperance, Tarot and the Longing for Wholeness
A restless night, St Jerome and a chapter of Agrippa brought a familiar Tarot card into fresh focus. A personal reflection on Temperance, spiritual gifts and the longing for wholeness.
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The Miracle I No Longer Need to Explain
In 1990, I asked Jesus for healing and received an immediate answer to prayer. Thirty-six years later, Nimmy’s final hours taught me something very different about faith, grace and letting go of the need to explain everything.
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Ceremonial Magic and Christianity: How Magic Led Me Back to the Rosary
Ceremonial magic taught me that spirituality needed to become a daily practice. Following that insight eventually led me somewhere unexpected: back to Christianity, Mary and the Rosary.
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When Tarot Gets Comically Literal
Sometimes Tarot is comically literal. The 2, 6 and 4 of Pentacles perfectly captured an awkward encounter that left me questioning where—and how—I belong.
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A Magic Bike Named Hope: Movement as Magical Practice
Advanced hip arthritis took away much of my mobility and one of my greatest joys: exercise. Then an affordable charity-shop bike gave me hope—and a new understanding of movement as magical practice.
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What I’d Do Differently If I Started Learning Tarot Today
If I started learning Tarot today, I wouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel. I’d study the tradition behind the cards, learn Tarot’s symbolic grammar and use the Western Mystery Tradition as a map without surrendering my discernment.
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I Prayed to Physis. Then I Saw Her Face.
What happens when embodiment stops being a spiritual concept and becomes painfully real? A prayer to Physis led me into an unexpected encounter with fear, mortality and the God I instinctively called upon when everything else fell away.
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The Alex Reads Tarot Controversy Took Me Back to 2017
The Alex Reads Tarot controversy brought back memories of Doreen Virtue’s conversion and my own role in the outrage that followed. Looking back nearly a decade later, I reflect on what Henry Cornelius Agrippa taught me about dialectics, discernment and the search for the Good.
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Hekate Alexikakos
Yesterday I prayed to Hekate Alexikakos, the Averter of Evil. I didn’t expect the answer to come through a barking dog, an owl feather, and a change of heart. This personal essay explores suffering, faith, grace and the many ways the Divine meets us when we keep walking.
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When the Gates Are Barred: How to Move Forward in Life
After a difficult medical diagnosis, four Tarot cards led me to reflect on vocation, grief, spiritual loneliness and the unexpected possibility that the way forward begins with sisterhood.