Last fall I did something that pushed me outside of my comfort zone – I signed up for an online course called Tarot for the Wild Soul taught by Lindsay Mack. I discovered Lindsay’s tarot work through her podcast of the same name, and her approach to exploring the archetypes of the tarot, particularly around… Read More On the Care and Feeding of a Wild Soul
The fifth stage of the alchemical process is Putrefactio. It signifies the end of the blackening process where the imperfections of the material are removed by fire. The crow and the skull are symbols of death, but similar to the death card in a tarot deck, in alchemy these are primarily interpreted as symbols of… Read More Putrefactio: The Crow and Skull
I have started making a small deck of cards – one for each of the (more or less – depending on the source) twelve stages of the alchemical process. I started at the finish for some reason – with the last stage: Projectio. Projection is the moment when the base metal, after the long and… Read More Projectio: The Phoenix