Cards and Quotes: The Fool

Cards and Quotes! Long time no post!

Today's Cards and Quotes features THE FOOL from the Osho Zen Tarot (published by St. Martin's Press. Illustrations by Ma Deva Padma).

"Walk on air against your better judgement."
~ SEAMUS HEANEY _Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1995_

Cards and Quotes: The Gryphon

Today's Cards and Quotes features THE GRYPHON from Madame Endora's Fortune Cards (Monolith Graphics; featuring art by Christine Filipak).

"It's all about as curious as it can be," said the Gryphon.
(Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

Cards and Quotes: The Star

Today's Cards and Quotes is one from the past that I thought worth sharing again.

It features THE STAR from the Celestial Tarot by Kay Steventon and Brian Clark (U.S. Games Systems, Inc.) The Star often represents hope, renewal, inspiration, and spiritual guidance. On the Celestial Tarot card we see Hebe -- goddess of youth and daughter of Zeus and Hera -- pouring the invigorating waters of life over mankind.

"Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
Pamela Vaull Starr (1909-1993) / Poet, Artist, Writer

Cards and Quotes: Page of Cups

Today's Cards and Quotes features the PAGE OF CUPS from Twilight Realm: A Tarot of Faery by Beth Wilder (Schiffer Publishing).

"For my part, I know nothing with any certainty,  but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
~ Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Dutch painter

Cards and Quotes: Victory & Success

Today's Cards and Quotes features Victory & Success (6 of Spirit) from the Psychic Tarot Oracle deck by John Holland  (Hay House).

"What is success?  I think it is a mixture of having a flair for  the thing that you are doing;  knowing that it is not enough,  that you have got to have hard work  and a certain sense of purpose."
~ Margaret Thatcher
born 13 October 1925
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979–1990

Cards and Quotes: Ray

Today's Cards and Quotes features the Ray from Stephen D. Farmer's Messages From Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards (Hay House).

"As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows,  you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you."

Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969)
Martial Artist and Founder of the
Japanese Martial Art of Aikido  

And just for fun, below are some pictures I took of rays at Sea World in San Diego, California.

Cards and Quotes: 6 of Hearts

 
For today's Cards and Quotes I am using a deck of playing cards called The Doomed Queens, created by Kris Waldherr and published by U.S. Games Systems. In this deck, the Six of Hearts features Mary Stuart, aka Mary, Queen of Scots.

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few,
to be needed and wanted by those we love,
is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
~ Mary Stuart (Scottish Queen, 1542-1587)

Cards and Quotes: 5 of Fire

Today's Cards and Quotes features the FIVE OF FIRE from the Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell Colbert (Llewellyn Worldwide). I have chosen to share the quotation that Joanna herself uses in her discussion of this card in her book Journey through the Gaian Tarot (Llewellyn).

"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us

so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid,

or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.

We always have the choice."

~ Dalai Lama

Cards and Quotes: 6 of Pentacles

Today's Cards and Quotes features the SIX OF PENTACLES from the Ghosts and Spirits Tarot  by Lisa Hunt (U.S. Games Systems, Inc.)

Ghosts & Spirits Tarot

"All my experience of the world teaches me  that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,  the safe and just side of a question  is the generous and merciful side."
Anna Jameson (1794-1860)
British Writer

Cards and Quotes: 8 of Pentacles

Oops, time got away from me! I hope you don't mind revisiting a Cards and Quotes post from last November...

... the EIGHT OF PENTACLES from the Crystal Visions Tarot by Jennifer Galasso (U.S. Games Systems, Inc.)

The Eight of Pentacles is often considered to refer to an apprentice, someone who is working to hone a skill, hoping to become an expert. On the Crystal Visions card we see a woman at her spinning wheel, paying close attention to what she is doing. The quotation I have chosen to go with this card is under the image of the card.

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with

ardor and attended to with diligence."

- Abigail Adams (1744-1818)

Wife of U.S. president John Adams

Cards and Quotes: Brigid

Today's Cards and Quotes features BRIGID from Oracle of the Dragonfae by Lucy Cavendish (Blue Angel Gallery).

Oracle of the Dragonfae by Lucy Cavendish

"It is in our faults and failings,
not in our virtues,  that we touch each other, and find sympathy.  It is in our follies that we are one."
Jerome K Jerome (1859–1927)
English writer and humorist

Cards and Quotes: 3 of Cups

Today's Cards and Quotes features the THREE OF CAULDRONS from Tarot of the Old Path by Sylvia Gainsford (AGMuller).

Tarot of the Old Path

  “Life is a festival only to the wise.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist

Cards and Quotes: CAT

Today's Cards and Quotes features CAT from The Magical Menagerie divination cards by Mike Leslie, with illustrations by Eric Hotz (Llewellyn Publications).

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."
~ Jules Verne (1828-1905)
French author who pioneered the science fiction genre

Cards and Quotes: Justice

Today's Cards and Quotes features JUSTICE from The Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg by Yury Shakov (U.S. Games Systems, Inc.)

Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author
1918-2008

Cards and Quotes: 9 of Cups

Today's Cards and Quotes features the NINE OF SHAPESHIFTERS (9 of Cups) from the Animal Wise Tarot by Ted Andrews (Dragonhawk Publishing):

Animal Wise Tarot

"With a butterfly kiss and a ladybug hug,
Sleep tight little one like a bug in a rug."
~Author Unknown

Cards and Quotes: The Empress

Today's Cards and Quotes features THE EMPRESS from the Elemental Tarot by Marco Turini (Lo Scarabeo).

The Elemental Tarot by Marco Turini (Lo Scarabeo)

"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth.The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Swiss Psychologist

Cards and Quotes: 8 of Wands

Today's Cards and Quotes features the EIGHT OF WANDS from the Sharman-Caselli Tarot by Juliet Sharman-Burke, illustrated by Giovanni Caselli (St. Martin's Griffin).

Sharman-Caselli Tarot

"Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."
Jules Renard
French Dramatist
1864-1910

Cards and Quotes: 10 of Cups

Today's Cards and Quotes features the TEN OF CUPS (Day of the Dead) from the Ghosts and Spirits Tarot by Lisa Hunt (U.S. Games Systems, Inc.)

Ghosts and Spirits Tarot by Lisa Hunt (U.S. Games Systems, Inc.)

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American Poet

Cards and Quotes: 8 of Swords

Today's Cards and Quotes features the EIGHT OF SWORDS from the Crystal Visions Tarot by Jennifer Galasso (U.S. Games Systems, Inc.)

Crystal Visions Tarot

 "Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. 

No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them."

~ Edward R. Murrow

American Journalist

Cards and Quotes: Movement

Today's Cards and Quotes features Movement from The Enchanted Map Oracle Cards by Colette Baron-Reid (Hay House).

"Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."
~ John Steinbeck