I started my Temperance year* today. It is a “highly creative year.” A “year of assimilation, integration and stability; a year of desiring balance, beauty and harmony.” It is also a “year where one is actively involved in some major creative project or idea.” I like the sound of stability. The last few years have been anything but. Although I have to admit that I am dubous about stabliity when the Trump administration seems bent on undermining it on a national and global basis.
Still, I am trying my best to be optimistic. This month and the next, at least, look to be full of opportunities. I am heading to St. Louis to meet up with my friend and help her vend at the Oddities & Curiosities Expo. And at the end of the month I have a convention where I will be selling copies of the tabletop roleplaying game I created with my family. In between those two events I will be launching my first full-fledged online workshop called “Lived Your Magic”. All of this speaks to creativity and balance.
I am forty-nine years old today. Somedays I feel all those years. More often than not, though, I still feel like my fourteen-year-old self. I know, more than ever, what it is is I want to do with my life. And this year seems to be the one where I make it all come true.
*Information on Tarot years can be found in Angeles Arrien’s The Tarot Handbook.
Tarot card from the Divine Feminine Tarot Deck.