Theurgy, Tarot and Astrology

For those who follow me on Instagram, you know I’m fond of the daily Tarot pull: a carefully curated photo accompanied by short, character-counted thoughts. I often write what comes to mind, not because Tarot doesn’t warrant thoughtful communion with the card’s significations, but that the prompted nature of instant reaction is a kind of ritual practice in itself: don’t think, just feel. What does the card “say” in that moment?

Though seemingly hurried, the above-described approach is not without deliberation. Often, contemplation follows the instinctual reaction. The card pulled — its image and significations — become a seed that germinates as the day unfolds. Other times, a few words and themes unexpectedly cropping up in my thumb-based free writing become a trove of deeper treasures waiting to be discovered.

Such was a recent pull of the High Priestess, which, if you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know I wrote about last year within a more typical take on its Tarot significations. Intuition and a diatribe against the myriad ways we’ve become dissociated from it had been my focus then. Does that still hold? Of course! But Tarot is a living, dynamic oracular medium and, instead, when I pulled this very same card under a much different sky, it sparked new thoughts just crying out for exploration.