Nodal messages
and a new workshop on the tarot and the twelve houses
Happy New Moon in Pisces! I’m deep in the weeds of research for an essay on Aleister Crowley, Valentin Tomberg, and the tarot as a contemplative path. I can’t wait to share it with you this spring.
In the meantime, I’ve got details for everyone on an upcoming workshop on the tarot and the twelve houses of the natal chart. For paid subscribers, I’m sharing thoughts on the nodal times of the last few weeks, as Mercury stations direct on top of the North Node at the end of this one.
If you’d like a tarot guide for the Pisces New Moon and the next two weeks, comment with your rising and specific question below. Sending love!
Upcoming Workshop
What: Have you wondered what it means to have your luminaries in a “bad” house? Or why some astrologers call the twelfth “the house of hidden enemies and curses” while others insist upon its spiritual nature and behind-the-scenes work? What does it mean that you’re a Gemini Rising with all of those intense swords cards—the Eight, the Nine, and the Ten, lords of Interference, Cruelty, and Ruin, respectively—crowding your First House of the embodied self? Why is the Ninth House the “House of God” and also the house of publishing, foreign travel, and academia? Why are people with their natal Suns in your Tenth House so annoying aspirational? How does the tarot map onto the astrological houses, and vice versa, and how does learning to read the relationships between the cards and the “most grounded” aspect of the horoscope help us to deepen our relationship to transformation within and throughout daily life? Can we get more “free” by attending to the details of esoteric “place?”
Join me to explore and answer these questions and more during a six-week workshop on the twelve houses of the natal chart and the tarot cards that belong in and rule over each. “In Its Right Place:” The Tarot and the Twelve Houses of Your Natal Chart will explore the planetary, archetypal, esoteric, and practical dimensions of the twelve houses of the horoscope. We’ll pay particular attention to the tarot and its myths as a way into the traditional and personal associations of each house.
When: The course will begin on Wednesday, April 29 and run through Wednesday, June 3, featuring ninety-minute lectures on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm EST and ninety-minute “querent sessions” on Saturday mornings, when students can ask questions about their own charts and pursue individual lines of inquiry or interest.
A Discord server will be hosted for the class community as we record daily tarot draws, chart explorations, and the intersection of esoteric, literary, and cultural attentions!
Registration: Registration is limited to 14 participants to ensure the class remains an intimate affair where you learn astrology and tarot, in-depth, as it applies to mundane transits and to your own chart and life.
Cost is $300 per participant, although I am always happy to offer payment plans and lower registration fees as need and desire arise!
These Nodal Times
I found myself offering this perspective to students as I closed out the recent workshop series on the major arcana of the tarot. I’m sharing it here in case its useful as you navigate the strange quality of time around the Equinox:
Astrology can be so useful when it leads us into an understanding of the season we find ourselves in and the weather we’re contending with. It doesn’t let us off the hook when it comes to personal responsibility; it doesn’t do much if you’re using it to incite fear in yourself or others. But it can offer the ability to lift your gaze, to see a little farther, to live the questions of “who am I?” and “what am I here to do?” with a grander sense of love, connection, and freedom.
