The Tarot of Sam

Friday, January 31, 2025:

Thursday, January 30, 2025: Today I pulled the 10 of Pentacles. For me this card is about cycles of life. The 10 reflects the Major Arcana card The Wheel. The Wheel is the 10 and it is all about cycles, how everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. I am invoking Ancestral Love. The wheel keeps on turning.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Ten of Pentacles is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony Ancestral Love is from the The Sacred Medicine Oracle , by Asha Frost

Wednesday, January 29, 2025: Today I pulled the 6 of Wands. I read that card as valor. It's what these times call for.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Six of Wands is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Peaceful Warrior is from the The Sacred Medicine Oracle , by Asha Frost

Tuesday, January 28, 2025: Today I pulled Temperance. For me this card calls for living with principle, intention and integrity. This makes me think of The Four Agreements is a self-help book by Don Miguel Ruiz that is based on ancient Toltec wisdom. Be impeccable with your word: Your words can create or destroy, so use them wisely. Don't take anything personally: Life's traumas are often caused by taking things personally. Don't make assumptions: Negative minds lead to negative assumptions, which can lead to blaming and resentment. Always do your best: Doing your best means giving it your all, and it changes from day to day. I am invoking Walk In A Good Way. -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. Temperance is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony Walk In A Good Way is from the The Sacred Medicine Oracle , by Asha Frost

Monday, January 27, 2025: Today I pulled The Empress. This is The Mother, it's a reminder that we all need nurturing, through good times and not so good. The Mother can't protect us from bad times but she reminds us good or bad, life goes on. Life is to be lived. And, we need to take care of ourselves and those we love and who love us.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Empress is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Mother is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

Sunday, January 26, 2024: Today I pulled the Five of Wands. For me this card is about chaos energy. Indeed, there is a lot of energy here, but this energy lacks direction. Still, it's energy and energy can get sh*t done! Step away from the chaos, apply balance to the energy through directed intention. I am invoking the Soil and Stars oracle card to bring balance to the situation.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Five of Wands is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony Soil and Stars is from the The Sacred Medicine Oracle , by Asha Frost

Saturday, January 25, 2024, Today I pulled the Eight of Swords. I am invoking the Seer. When you can't find the answer without, look within.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Eight of Swords is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony Seer is from the The Sacred Medicine Oracle , by Asha Frost

January 24, 2024: Today I pulled The Two of Cups. For me this card is about companionship. For me this is the root of all relationships from nesting partners to friends to family. Is this a person who you enjoy spending time with. Also, for me, all the Twos are about choices, this and/or that. Making choices can be challenging. I am invoking The High Priestess. Let The High Priestess be your guide and reveal your path.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Two of Cups is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The High Priestess is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

Thursday, January 23, 2025 — Love to me is undefinable except to say love is love. Once we define love we limit it. To say something is love is to say something else is not love. That puts us in the business of defining and judging other people's feelings. Feelings are mutable, variable and liable to change. Change from one person to another, from one time to another. Love is a shape shifter. Yet, undefinable it still is real. This Eight of Cups is about changing feelings. I am invoking the "Beyond The Mind, The Heart Beats" Oracle Card. Love is... -- As always when I speak of life, love and Tarot I speak only for myself. The 8 of Cups is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony. The “Beyond The Mind, The Heart Beats” oracle card is from The Sacred Rebels Oracle , by Anna Fairchild, Artwork by Autumn Skye.

Tuesday, January 21, 2025: Today I pulled Temperance. For me this card is a reminder to be balanced in all things. It's easy to get fixated on things and even to become addictive/compulsive about behaviors. Temperance comes just before the Devil in the Major Arcana and it provides an opportunity to avoid the traps laid by shame and instability and to moderate our approach to life. I am invoking The Elder Swan oracle card. This card calls to us to embrace our beauty and grace and to see that we have nothing to be ashamed of. We're beautiful just as we are.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. Temperance is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Elder Swan is from the Animal Elders Oracle Deck by Asha Frost.

Monday, January 20, 2025: Today I pulled the Ten of Pentacles and I am invoking The Wheel. The cycles of life. What goes around comes around.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Ten of Pentacles is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Wheel is from is from The Light Seer’s Tarot , by Chris Anne.

Sunday, January 19, 2025: Today I pulled Death. Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. Death walks at the left hand of Life. Life feeds on death and in turn everything that lives dies. This transformation is life, we are born, live, reproduce and die in a constant state of transformation. I am invoking transformation.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. Death is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony Transformation is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

Saturday, January 18, 2025: Today I pulled the 7 of Cups. This is a card of choices and lovely possibilities. I an invoking the “Dream a Beautiful Dream” oracle card. The first step to changing the world is to dream it. -- As always when I speak of life, love and Tarot I speak only for myself. The 7 of Cups is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony. The “Dream a Beautiful Dream” oracle card is from The Sacred Rebels Oracle , by Anna Fairchild, Artwork by Autumn Skye.

Friday, January 16, 2024: Today I pulled the Four of Cups. To me this is a card of melancholy. Melancholy makes me think of the Peggy Lee song, Is That All There Is . What's causing this melancholy? Life is good, you're comfortable, you have friends, you're loved. But, there's something. Perhaps you're thinking of somebody who's gone, an untimely ending of, or the changing of a relationship, situation or job? Maybe you're thinking of a situation you desire but didn't get? It's good now. But, what if? You don't ever know the potholes on a road you didn't travel. That's okay and it's okay to be melancholy. I am invoking the Sun reversed. For me the Sun reversed is a card of being stuck. So, okay, let that melancholy be a place you're spending a limited time in, not a place you're living. That's where you were. This is where you are. Turn that Sun card around and live! Be here now. -- As always when I speak of life, love and ...

Thursday, January 16, 2025: Today I pulled The Empress. I am invoking The Mother. I am tired today and it's nice to lean on that.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Empress is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Mother is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025: Yesterday I pulled The World, today I pulled The Ace of Wands. I see my daily readings, like time itself, as being like frames of a movie film, in sequence telling a bigger story. I am finding the arc of my readings to be encouraging in these dark times. Today I pulled The Ace of Wands. This is in the element of Fire and it involves something new and unexpected. I am invoking the Magician, as above so below, may this energy flow in the direction of empowering change and social justice. -- As always when I speak of life, love and Tarot I speak only for myself. The Ace of Wands is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Teacher  is from The Next World Tarot , by Cristy C. Road

Monday, January 13, 2025: Today I pulled the Nine of Wands. I am invoking the Queen of Wands. The Nine of Wands for me is about feeling alone against long odds. Given the amount of lies the incoming authoritarian administration and their propaganda outlets told to gain power it's hard not to give up under this onslaught. This card also calls for perseverance, tenacity, grit and fortitude. I am invoking The Queen of Wands. This Queen doesn't run with the wolves, they are the wolf. Embracing and nourishing mental, emotional and physical well-being is part of her strength.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Nine of Wands is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Queen of Wands is from the True Heart Intuitive Tarot by Rachel True.

Sunday, January 12, 2025 — Today I pulled The Four of Cups. Wherever you go, there you are. We are born alone and we die alone. I believe relationships are vital. I believe community is vital. But, we need to have a relationship with ourselves. I believe we need to be our own primary partners. We need both community and solitude. The Four of Cups, for me, is about how we need both. We need our village and we need to have times when we are The Hermit. I am invoking Inward.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Four of Cups is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony Inward is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

January 11, 2025 — Today I pulled the Ace of Pentacles. Typically I read this as expect some news in the realm of Earth. This could mean money or other good news. I am invoking the Magician. The Magician teaches us "As Above So Below." What we put into motion in magical space influences our physical world outcomes.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Ace of Pentacles is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Magician is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

  Friday, January 10, 2025: Today I pulled the Two of Pentacles. I see the twos as decision points and this two is not an exception. It's an interesting card, in the realm of Earth where normally things are heavy and move with intention and slowly. Yet, it's represented by a juggler juggling two objects in the air, very light and airy. I see it as the universe saying a decision is out there but this is not the time to make one. Perhaps the best answer is both! I am invoking The High Priestess as the voice of the Universe.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The 2 of Pentacles is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The High Priestess is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

Thursday, January 9, 2025: The Sun is a card that signifies, to me, that The Fool is completing their journey. All of the Major Arcana is leading up to this. The final act of Judgement and Rebirth, the final purging of that which needs to be discarded is about to happen and The Fool is about to emerge no longer a fool. This is cause for celebration. I am invoking Inspiration! -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Sun is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony “Inspiration” is from the Liminal Spirits Oracle Deck , by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Wednesday, January 8, 2024: Today I pulled the Ten of Pentacles. This card, in this deck, to me is all about the slow unstoppable change of time, the child, parent, crone cycle that is a basic fact of life. This wheel has been turning for eons, we are all just a part of this cycle of life. I am invoking The Wheel.

 Tuesday, January 7, 2024: Today I pulled the Three of Pentacles. This card for me is about accomplishment. Like all the threes for me this is a reflection the Mother. The nurturing Mother is there with pride and celebration when its child accomplishes something and there with solace when the news is not so good.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The 3 of Pentacles is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Mother is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

Monday, January 6, 2025: Five years after the insurrection. Today I pulled the 7 of Pentacles. This card, the Chariot in the realm of Earth, is a call to wait and see growth as evolutionary not revolutionary. I am invoking The Hanging One, to be paitient and be prepared to see things from different perspectives.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The 7 of Pentacles is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Hanging One is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

Sunday, January 6, 2025: Today I pulled The Devil. Again, the cards are calling for transformation. The Devil is a card of willful subjugation. The submissive has the freedom to walk away. But, the submissive stays. What is it that binds the submissive? Is it unhealed trauma? Is it shame? I am invoking the Eight of Serpents. Eight is the Strength card in the major arcana. This eight is in the element of Air, in the mind. It calls the reader to find that strength inside themselves, to find the Strength to change their their internal serpents, their way of thinking, and change their life.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Devil is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony The Eight of Serpents is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

Saturday, January 4, 2025: Today I pulled the Ace of Swords. I interpret this as look for something new and exciting. In the realm of air it could be a new idea, opportunity or vision. I am invoking the "Big Bold Vision" oracle card. -- As always when I speak of life, love and Tarot I speak only for myself. The Ace of Swords is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony. The “Big Bold Vision” oracle card is from The Sacred Rebels Oracle , by Anna Fairchild, Artwork by Autumn Skye.

Today I pulled Judgement again. It's definitely a recurring theme. I wonder what the universe is trying to tell me? In this season of change, accountability, re-creation and emergence. This is what is calling to me.  -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. Judgement is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony Emergence is from The Spark Tarot by Karen Hess.

 January 2, 2025: Today I pulled the Queen of Swords. This Queen is often called "The Mask Cutter." She has hyperfocus and she can fixate on a task or project and see it to execution. With this talent she can cut through the haze and get to the point with people. This is a double edged sword because she can be abrupt and lack empathy sometimes. I am invoking "Bring It Into Form". -- As always when I speak of life, love and Tarot I speak only for myself. The Queen of Swords is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony. The “Bring It Into Form” oracle card is from The Sacred Rebels Oracle , by Anna Fairchild, Artwork by Autumn Skye.

January 1, 2025: Typically we look at Judgement as a sorting hat. But, it also can be seen as a cleansing and re-creation process. In this context it can be cast as Rebirth. That's the way I am looking at it here. January first is a day of resolutions in our culture, making changes, evolution and recreation as a better version of ourselves. Today I pulled Judgement. I am invoking Rebirth. -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. Judgement is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony Rebirth is from the Druid Craft Tarot Deck , by Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm, Illustrated by Will Worthington.

Card of the year: 2025 — The Four of Pentacles can be interpreted as having possessive behaviors rooted in fear. There's a need to be present, vulnerable and less controlling and let love freely flow in relationships and life. -- As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself. The Four of Pentacles is from The Modern Love Tarot , by Ethony