Tarot is a Gift to Astrology: We Start This Sunday

Restoring the image to the abstract. Join me March 1st to find your own symbolic fluency.

Hello Loves,

There are moments on my astrology path where I suddenly think I’m a crazy person, that the astro world is a cult, and I ask myself, “How did I even get here?”

My latest reckoning began with a Neil deGrasse Tyson rabbit hole. I went in trying to sharpen my astronomy skills and came out wondering: “What’s the point of astrology? What’s the point of any of this?”

I’m not the first to point out that science can be its own religion—and it can be a real bummer.

This isn’t anti-science rhetoric; it’s simply a plea for meaning. One can easily go mad seeing connections in everything, yet I choose to believe in a world infused with significance.

As I sat down to prepare notes for my upcoming course, Astrology for Tarot Readers, the same question kept resurfacing: “Why any of this?”

After a long internal debate, I landed somewhere steady. Astrology is scaffolding. It’s the structure upon which we hang our stories. It’s more than that, of course. But as a tool for meaning-making, it’s extr…