Fool Card Connection Ritual
incantation
Doorway, threshold
Ground I stand
What is this foreign
Mystic land
Answers sought
Questions known
Through this territory
I shall roam
Trod this path
Like souls before
Search until
I find my door
Ingredient
- • The Fool
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today is April Fool’s Day.
Spring bursts forth in unexpected ways, as does the trickster pictured on this card. It is the perfect day to connect with the archetypal energy of the Fool’s folly.
Enter the arcana of the Fool. He is the true mascot of tarot. Stand on the threshold.
Everyone ignores the madman dancing on the edges of reality. Are you mad to enter the tarot? You cannot turn away; you follow his maniacal laughter and stand atop a mountain peak. The Fool prances before you. The sun casts blinding white light of potential upon your upturned face. The Fool carries a white rose, symbolic of innocence. Only the innocent would follow his example. Only those who are pure of heart can follow his course. Can you forget all you know? Would you risk it? The Fool risks everything because he has nothing. With nothing to lose, you have everything to gain.
Leave your preconceived notions at the door. Shed your clothing. Rules? Throw them out the window. The Fool knows neither up nor down. The Fool is ridiculous. The Fool is an opening. Can you hear his maniacal laughter?
The sacred symbol of all life, the circle, the zero, hangs above his head. No thing. The circle is the shape of the solar system, our planet, your z, a clock, an egg, the shape of the molecules building your body. To enter the O is to enter the physical world. O is manifestation of physical reality. O is us as far as we can explain and experience ourselves. O is the beginning of the tarot. It is also the end. The Fool is ascended master and novice. Enter the mystery.
Begin your adventure.
Start.
Now.
April • 2
Raise the Wind and Your Energy Spell
incantation
Queen of Swords
Goddess of Air
Your magic flows
Like wind in my hair
The change is quick
True and fast
The results we bring
Are meant to last
- • Queen of Swords
- • Dried flower petals or milkweed or dandelion fluff
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Over sixty tornados
broke out in the
United States on
this day in 2006.
It once was a commonly held belief that witches could control the wind. It was also said that a woman during childbirth and shortly thereafter had the power to raise the wind. Try your own hand at raising the wind with this spell. At the very least, you’ll blow fresh air into your life and change your luck.
Place the Queen of Swords. This queen is direct, pointed, and precise. Venture toward her throne; feel the wind and billowing clouds surrounding her. The air is clean and crisp. Your thoughts are already beginning to sharpen. Her profile looks as if it has been carved from porcelain. She hears the scuffle of your footsteps and turns to look at you.
Bid her hello and tell her how you would like to change and adjust your energy. When you are certain she has heard you, carefully enclose the petals or the fluff from milkweed or dandelions in each of your fists. Walk to the largest open space you can find.
Stand with your arms spread apart and gaze at the sky. Place an image of the Queen of Swords across the entire expanse of the sky from the horizon upward. She should appear as enormous as the entire sky. When she is crystal clear in your vision, repeat your request.
The moment you feel a breeze, open your hands to release your petals/fluff to the wind.
3 • April
Pentacle Pomander for Financial Wealth Spell
incantation
Solar rays
Soak into me
Money growing
Wild and free
King of finance
Inspire me
You show me how
I follow you
Wild wealth
I now pursue
- • King of Pentacles
- • Orange
- • Cloves
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The first casino opened
on the Las Vegas Strip today in 1941. Why gamble when you can make your own financial luck with a Pentacle Pomander?
The King of Pentacles is the wealthiest and most financially secure card in the tarot deck. Pomanders were first created in the Middle Ages for protection and sweet scents. Even Nostradamus wrote pomander recipes. You will craft a pomander out of the orange and cloves. Oranges are associated with the power of the sun, and cloves are known for their money attraction.
Gaze at the King of Pentacles. Step inside the card so you are standing before him on equal ground. His rooftop garden is lush. Greenery and bursting flowers surround him. Creeping ivy represents the stratification of his ever-growing wealth. The surrounding castle is his. All that is available to him is also available to you. Around you wealth grows like spreading ivy. Feel it sprouting from your feet and ankles and up the back of your chair and the wall behind you. Ivy will grow, untethered, like the King of Pentacles’ riches. Spin the web of your own wealth, which multiplies.
Note the pentacle the king holds. Now you can create your own.
Bring the orange before you. Focus on the circular nature of the orange. Like the sun, it holds the energy of growth and expansion. Decorate the orange with cloves (use a sharp point to make room for the clove rather than the clove itself), making the shape of the pentacle or the money sign.
Place your pomander somewhere warm. Each time you catch its scent, smell the money you are drawing.
April • 4
Three of Wands Connection Ritual
incantation
Three of Wands
Creativity unbound
Set forth your ships
Send them round
They will return
Someday, somehow
Make your plans
Plan well now
- • Three of Wands
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the Three of Wands.
The Three of Wands
was called the Lord
of Established Strength
by the magicians of the
Golden Dawn, who assigned it the time period of March 31–April 10.
A new possibility has been born from two. Threes are the sacred triad of manifestation. A third option has emerged. This is the birth of creativity from the tiniest grain of sand to the furthest galaxy in the known universe.
The brilliant lemon yellow light of morning fills a bay. A merchant waterway bustling with boat traffic spreads before you. Great ships with decks of a hundred men sail over churning waters. Pungent rosemary bushes dot the rocks along the seashore.
A figure stands before you. He is dressed in colorful clothing and a cherry-red cloak.
Wet and shiny sea moss creeps across the rocks he stands upon. Two wands, sprouting leaves, align next to him. They protrude from the sea cliff. His hand reaches out and grabs for a third wand. His stance opens toward the water, toward the sailing ships.
He has put a plan into action; wheels are in motion, the stage has been set. The wheels of fate have turned by his very own hand.
The Three of Wands is the creativity of fire, the coming together of passion, ideas, and potentials.
The figure causes you to reflect on the nature of what you have created in your life. What have your passionate desires created in your life? What have you set into motion? What has been born through you?
5 • April
Peaceful Homecoming Spell
incantation
Home sweet home
I’m coming back
Full of heart
I feel no lack
What is old
Becomes new again
This time I say
Where and when
No matter what
I find peace
Conflicting feelings
Come to cease
1. Eight of Cups
2. Ten of Pentacles
- • Favorite grounding stone or rock
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The Mayflower set sail
from Plymouth on this day
in 1621 on its journey back
to England. This spell is useful for class reunions or visits to a former home after being away for a long time.
Returns can be joyous, heartfelt, and unexpectedly poignant. Usually they come with a combination of emotions. Sometimes we return home wearing our accomplishments like badges upon our sleeves. Other times we return home to care for a loved one or clean up someone’s mess. Sometimes we return to find ourselves.
This spell promotes a centered grounding. No matter your homecoming’s reason, you will remain peaceful and centered inside of it.
Place the Eight of Cups. Enter the card. Feel the warm, red cloak upon you. Embark on the upward climb. See the return journey. The cups behind you are the lessons you’ve learned and the experiences you have had while away. The eight cups represent your current identity, the physical ways in which you now define yourself. You know, as you walk, that to return home means coming back into the world of preconceived notions about who you are. You define you. Others do not.
Place the Ten of Pentacles. This card represents the rich tapestry you are walking into: the heady combination of people, place, and memory. Move through the card for a moment, past the wise grandfather. Feel the soft canine fur against your knees. Wink at the child who hides and moves to the banner in the back. Upon it you will find the scales of balance. This scale is your center, your saving grace. Though the wheels of emotion and the affects of others are felt, with this scale in hand you will find your inner balance. Nothing will throw you. You are a rock.
Feel your stone in hand with its grounding and centering energy. Keep this with you at all times on your trip, touching it when and where you need to center yourself.
April • 6
Powers of Prophecy Tarot Reading Ritual
incantation
Queen of Cups
And god Apollo
Fill me up
When I am hollow
Let the words I speak be clear
Be the words we need to hear
Let me give them
What they need
Provide wisdom
They can heed
- • Candle reserved for tarot reading only
- • Queen of Cups
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today ancient Greeks
honored Apollo, god of
prophecy, light, and beauty,
with the festival Delphinia. Perform this ritual before reading tarot for a client, friend, or yourself.
The Queen of Cups carries an empathy as deep as the ocean, and as such she is the glorious tarot reader of the deck. She is psychic, able to see visions in sea foam, scry across placid waters, and navigate storms.
Place the Queen of Cups, the most empathic card of the deck, beneath your lit candle. Look at the light of the candle. As a tarot reader, you become the shining light for your querent. The light you shed is found in the words you say, the compassion you offer, and the counsel you give. How do you act as the shining beacon for those who sit across the cards from you? As a reader, it is not the time to spout your opinions and projections onto your client or friend.
Focus on the candle and feel yourself becoming hollow. Feel all preconceived notions falling away from you. Become the vehicle through which truth and kindness flow. Let your light reflect the querent in the best possible way. Remind them of how special they are. Become the witness to their truth. Become the candle.
Allow the invisible rising heat of the candle to let your spirit open to the wisdom above so that the best possible words are spoken.
7 • April
Empress Connection Ritual
incantation
Empress, goddess
Warmth and light
You are dazzling
In my sight
Your gifts of creation
Are love and birth
You spread joy
Exuberance and mirth
- • The Empress
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The self-declared
Empress Matilda prepared
to become the first female
ruler in England on this day
in 1141, though she never
quite managed to take the throne.
Enter the arcana of the Empress. You are walking through a field of gold. You run your fingers across soft tips of wheat. The wind blows like waves in the field, and the sweet smell of hay and poppies makes you dizzy. White dandelion fluff flies past you like Victorian fairy kingdoms in flight. It is late afternoon, and the sun casts a rich orange glow across the meadow.
Do your eyes deceive you or do you see a woman? You feel confused. Refracted light pings back and forth in a million fractals. The excitable quality of summer hums, confusing everything in a golden haze. The closer you get, you see it is, indeed, a lady.
She reclines on a chaise lounge that is covered in velvet pillows. Her belly grows round with new life warm and safe inside of her, ensconced within watery darkness. The signs of Venus are engraved inside a heart beneath her. She is adorned with a crown of twelve stars, each shining for a sign on the zodiac. She carries the secrets of the heavens, yet this woman is made entirely of earth.
Her neck is strewn with a pearl necklace, and she bears a glowing scepter. Her gown is covered in pomegranates, and her ruby slippers caress the ground beneath her. A waterfall flows behind her, its waters churning a sparkling rainbow mist.
“Come to me, my darling,” she bids you. You walk forward and sit before her. Her voice purrs, throaty and full. She strokes the top of your head in a motherly fashion.
“Child, I know how I must appear to you, but do not be confused. I am merely a reflection of you.”
“Of me?” You shrink back, shocked.
“Yes,” she answers knowingly. “I am the epitome of your creative self.”
April • 8
Irresistibility Empress Tea Spell
incantation
Cherries red
Passion bright
My wish is granted
By evening’s light
I serve this for
The things I crave
And to their hearts
I do enslave
- • The Empress
- • 8 cherry tea bags
- • 1 cup water
- • 1 cup sugar
- • 1 lime
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Japanese Buddhists celebrate Buddha’s birth today in a festival called Hana Matsuri, or the flower festival. Serve this empress tea to become irresistible and have your way with anyone who drinks it.
Baby Buddha statues are erected in temples during Hana Matsuri. These baby Buddhas stand like the tarot Magician: their right hands point to heaven and their left hands point toward the earth. Sweet tea is purchased by the faithful, who pour the tea over the baby Buddhas. This occurs just as the cherry blossoms bloom.
You can pay homage to this festival by preparing a brew to become irresistible. Cherry fruit has a long history of attraction magic—who can resist sweet cherries?—and cherry juice can be used as a substitute for blood in spells and recipes. The Empress card is used because she has her way with all who cross her path.
Focus on the Empress card with your mind’s eye. There is nothing she cannot create, manifest, or influence. She represents the ultimate in female desire and creation.
What do you desire from your guest or guests? See them bending to your desire. Slip into her dress, feel the light weight of her crown. Embody the Empress as you whip up this tea.
Dangle eight cherry tea bags near your lips and whisper your desire into them before steeping them in a pitcher of cold water. Place in the sun to catch its rays and infuse the tea. Dissolve sugar in water over a low flame until the sugar has dissolved. When the tea water has turned the ruby color of passion, remove the bags, add the sugar water and the juice of one lime.
As you stir everything, repeat the incantation.
9 • April
Activate Crown Chakra Energy
incantation
Divine connection
Love and light
Bring conscious awareness
To me tonight
An open channel
Crystal clear
Angels and guides
Are always near
- • The World
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Henry the Fifth was
crowned King of England
on this day in 1413. Royal crowns rest on the top of the head and denote the connection between royalty and divine right.
The crown chakra is the spot where all the chakras of your body integrate. It represents spiritual connectiveness, consciousness, and enlightenment. It is the soul level of self-knowledge, often depicted in saints as the golden halo glowing around the head. This is seen in the arcana of the Hanged Man.
The crown chakra is located at the top of your head, in the very place the circle of a royal crown sits. Sit on a chair with your feet flat on the floor or sit in yogi position, legs crossed on the floor. Place the World card before you. Focus on the top of your head. Feel the energy there begin to warm and glow. Imagine it is colored violet or pure white. You might even begin to spin the chakra’s energy. Sit straight. Perhaps you hear the energy, smell it, or even taste it.
Focus on the World card. See each and every element of the card dancing, moving in tune with the flow of the universe. Feel the connection of divine love, and let the violet or white energy move from yourself to the card and back again. Toss the energy back and forth between you and the card. Each time the energy returns to you, your sense of the present becomes more ingrained. You engage with the fluidity of life.
Feel the ball of energy move through your spine, filling your entire essence with love.
April • 10
Tree Journey with the Four of Cups
incantation
Leaves and bark
Sun and sky
Through your branches
I will fly
Travel up
Travel deep
Enter you
In twilight sleep
Move inside
Move between
Enter realities
Quite unseen
- • Four of Cups
- • Your favorite tree
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
In almost any tarot deck the Four of Cups
The first Arbor Day
was celebrated on this day in 1872.
card reflects a figure sitting beneath a tree. The traditional meaning of this card describes unseen opportunities. The entire universe is your personal unseen opportunity. Infinite realities are awaiting your discovery. True magic exists in what you place your attention on.
Trees are the lungs of the planet and are representative of the human journey. Did you know trees can serve as thresholds to other realities? For this journey, you will embrace the gateway quality of a tree.
If you have a favorite tree, take your card to the actual tree. If you don’t have a relationship with any particular tree, take a walk until a tree catches your eye. If you do not have access to trees, simply use the Four of Cups.
Focus on the Four of Cups as you sit beneath the tree or move inside the card if you are only using the card. Feel the soft grass beneath your crossed legs. Note how the towering tree’s leaves dapple you in sunlight. Spend twenty minutes observing the tree. Look at the bark. What does it look like? What does it remind you of? Examine its leaves. See if you can follow its root system under the earth.
Sit beneath the tree, back to its trunk. Align yourself with the tree’s energy. As you do, allow yourself to drift off to the state between wakefulness and sleep. What happens? What do you notice? Hear? See?
Record your findings in your grimoire or journal with the Four of Cups in sight.
11 • April
Ace of Wands Cloud Divination
incantation
Ace of Wands
Clouds of sky
Bring me messages
While rushing by
Crystalline, wet
Water and white
Shed information
In billowing light
- • Ace of Wands
- • Sky clouds
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today in 1903 marks
the death of Italian mystic and saint Gemma Galgani. Gemma purportedly produced the stigmata, communicated with guardian angels, was often found in states of ecstasy, and had powers of levitation in which she rose to embrace crucifixes.
Nephomancy is the fancy name for cloud divination. It is one of the oldest forms of oracles. Ancient people sought favorable weather conditions for crops. They looked skyward for sustenance. Historically, cross-cultural gods manifest themselves through clouds. The World card and the Wheel of Fortune appear as if in the sky amongst the clouds. Each ace in tarot is expressed as a gift coming forth from a mysterious cloud.
The mutable nature of clouds provides an excellent canvas for the subconscious. Choose an optimal day for cloud observation, but before observing the clouds, place the Ace of Wands. Wands represent the energy you will want to tune in to before performing nephomancy.
Focus on the Ace of Wands. See the hand emerging from a burst of clouds. Let this sudden burst remind you that answers are always at your fingertips. The spirit of fire running through you is tenacious. Your subconscious will pick up on messages if you direct it to do so. Feel the energy of wands moving through you and warming your body like the heat from a campfire.
The castle in the distance of the card holds the treasure you will receive by listening to the messages sent from your subconscious to your conscious. Repeat the incantation as you look upward.
April • 12
Vampire Regeneration Love Spell
incantation
Love of mine
You’re worth the fight
Peace and openness
With you tonight
Past is gone
It slips away
Together find
New ways to play
1. The Moon
2. The Lovers
3. Ace of Cups
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice’s infamous vampire tale, was published on this day in 1976. While vampire wounds heal immediately, mortals can use the vampire metaphor when we need to find rejuvenated love for another person.
The Moon card is indicative of the nightwalker. It carries the only sunlight a vampire can tolerate. The Lovers card represents your relationship. The Ace of Cups represents the cup of immortality and the liquid a vampire thrives on to survive.
Place the Moon card. You are inside the pool of water, looking at the landscape of the card. The shellfish rises before you. It begins its arduous journey toward the mountain. Wolves howl, and the moonlight sheds itself and everything in mysterious light. Quiet supernatural power emerges from you. Smell the air. Hear the howling. Feel the potency coursing through your veins. This power is eternal, like the vampire. It is the power of love.
Place the Lovers card. It rests in stark opposition to the Moon. The sun is hot on your head. You and your lover stand in the card. A snake hisses behind you. Fire snaps and crackles behind your lover. You are naked and vulnerable. The act of love is dangerous. You are unafraid. You proceed.
Place the Ace of Cups. Everlasting water and immortality fall on the cards beneath. The Lovers card is refreshed and reinvigorated, the couple saved from the unrelenting sun. The powers of the Moon, the mystery of the subconscious, cycle through the Lovers card. All cards connect, circling, regenerating. See the face of your lover. See them naked, open, and available to you. Let all preconceived notions fall away. Past arguments dissipate and lose their importance. It is just the two of you, open, free, and filled with the waters of regenerated love.
13 • April
Wash Away Past Pain Spell
incantation
Though the mark
Will remain
I no longer
Endure pain
1. Three of Swords
2. The Star
3. Ace of Cups
4. The High Priestess
- • Swimming pool or shower
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The Songkran Festival
begins today, marking Buddhist New Year in Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. Temples are visited and water is poured over the hands of monks and Buddha images. Water is symbolically splashed to wash away the old year.
Water is a baptismal and cleansing agent. If you don’t have access to a pool, a shower will work.
Place the Three of Swords before you and take an honest look at the pain you have endured. The piercing of the swords have served their purpose. Their lesson was taught. You have been marked. Look at them honestly, piercing the soft tissue of your heart. Recognize them for what they are. You will not allow this pain to become a habit upon which further truths are made. It is time to extract them. You will pull each sword out of the heart with the help of another card.
Place the Star card. Pull the first sword out. In its place feel her cool waters of refreshment and inspiration filling the sword space. This heals the wound. Say the incantation.
Place the Ace of Cups. Pull out the second sword. Feel the waters of renewal and peace fill the space left from the blade. Repeat the incantation.
Place the High Priestess card. Pull the third and final sword out. Her dress turns into currents of moon water that fill the open gap left by the sword. Repeat the incantation.
Dive into a swimming pool or take a shower. As you do, feel the effects of your operation and all attachment to pain wash away. Embrace renewal on all levels.
April • 14
Hot Date Spell
incantation
Mint of fire
Sparks desire
Laughter and fun
Take us higher
Magical night
Magnetic attraction
Brings us each
Much satisfaction
- • Red candle
- • Favorite moisturizer
- • Cinnamon mint
1. The Lovers
2. Queen of Wands
3. King of Wands
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today is Black Day
in South Korea, an unofficial holiday focusing on singles. Matchmaking and speed dating events are held in order to get couples together.
Cast this spell for a hot night out on the town when you want to feel alive, sensual, and sexy. This is not a spell for long-term romance. This is a spell for the delicious feeling of being a sexual creature and enjoying yourself. However, the casting of this spell will not prevent true love from blooming.
A red candle sparks attraction. The Lovers card represents desire. The Queen of Wands is the sexpot of the deck. The King of Wands is the ultimate passionate lover.
Light the candle. Place the Lovers card before you. Smell the musk of the lover’s skin. Feel the magnetic attraction between them and feel the same desire rising within you. Let it fill your body from your feet on up. Feel your body and skin glowing red with desire and arousal.
Place the king and the queen cards on opposite sides of the Lovers. Feel them coming together with a magnetizing energy through the Lovers. Send out tendrils of attraction to your date.
As you prepare for your date, apply moisturizer over every inch of your skin. As you apply, imagine your date’s lips on every inch of your skin. Before meeting your date, place a spicy cinnamon mint in your mouth and utter the incantation three times.
15 • April
Da Vinci Follow Your Passion Spell
incantation
Sun of light
Sun of fire
From this moment
Feed my desire
Walk passion’s path
Follow through
Swap fear for integrity
This I do
- • The Sun
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Artist Leonardo da Vinci
was born today in 1542.
He is the iconic archetype of an artist, a person who follows their passion and creates great works of art. This spell gives you permission to blaze a trail of passion.
You needn’t be a painter to realize your passion. You can be a passionate stamp collector, dog walker, or number cruncher. It matters little what form your passion takes. Embrace an attitude of allowance and acceptance of who you truly are.
The Sun card gives power to you.
Place the Sun card before you and feel yourself as the naked child standing there. Solar power generates all life on earth. It has even stirred the molecules of your body. Feel it. Feel the power you have coursing through your veins. Feel the things you are passionate about. This passion, this truth, is stronger than the blocks that stand in your way. See road blocks being erased. They have been placed by your mind and may now be removed.
Your passion is the roadmap you can follow that will always lead you where you need to be. The sunlight illuminates this path for you. The horse will take you wherever you need to go. Grant yourself permission to follow your heart.
April • 16
Four of Wands Connection Ritual
incantation
Four of Wands
Passion stable
Use enthusiasm
You are able
Create a life
Of joy and fun
Be an example
For everyone
- • Four of Wands
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the Four of Wands.
The Four of Wands
was called the Lord of
Perfected Work by the magicians of the Golden Dawn, who assigned it the time period of April 11–20.
Fours represent stability. The arcana of three bursts forth creatively and has evolved to the next stage. A fourth appears; stability is reached. A square. A home. A haven. The structure is complete. Four seasons. Four directions. Four elements. Four suits of tarot. Reality in the physical world has been achieved.
A classic European fairy-tale scene appears before you. It is complete with a turreted castle and revelers dressed in long, flowy gowns. You discover the symbol of wands and see they are being used for a party. Four wands are draped for celebration. Cheerful garlands are suspended between the wands, which are tied with charming ribbons. Flowers, grapes, and citrus drape from curly ivy and lush greens.
This marks the celebration of the harvest. Noting the suit of wands, you recall how wands represent passion, fire, and energy. You realize the party is held to honor what has manifested as a result of clear intention.
The four wands are a gateway and a structure. You move to stand inside of them. You feel the grounding nature of intention made real. It surrounds you from every side. Can you feel the support? What happens when the stability of passion blossoms in your life? What happens when you support what you love?
A maiden moves toward you. She leans in. You smell lemon and jasmine in her hair. Her sweet breath whispers a secret into your ear. This message is meant for you and you alone. What does she say?
Bring this message back with you.
17 • April
Grow My Money Spell
incantation
Pentacle, seed
Coin and bill
Multiplication
Is my will
My money grows
It builds up high
It is an endless
Continuous supply
- • Mint root
- • Box
- • Penny, nickel, dime, quarter
- • Page of Pentacles
- • Seven of Pentacles
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Spring is underway.
Bulbs quiver and grow, hibernating animals awake, and the sun grows warmer with each passing day. The earth is awakening and so is your bank account with this money-growing spell.
Mint root will make your money grow. The box represents structure and protection. The coins represent small denominations of money that grows in value. The Page of Pentacles represents a person about to plant a seed. The Seven of Pentacles reflects the harvest of that seed.
Place the root inside a box. Place the Page of Pentacles before you. See the rich, upturned earth. The sweet smell of poppies and hollyhocks flowers the air. Hold the penny before you the same way the page gazes at her pentacle. It represents the beginning of manifestation. Whisper the incantation and place in the box.
Hold the nickel. Your money grows five times. Repeat the incantation. Place in the box. Hold the dime. Your money grows ten times. Repeat the incantation. Place in the box. Hold the quarter. Your money grows twenty-five times. Repeat the incantation. Place in the box, then close the box.
Place the Seven of Pentacles next to the page. The single pentacle has divided and multiplied, just like your finances. It is the singular nature of growth. All things innately seek growth and expansion. Imagine the money in your account growing; see it multiplying.
Choose one way you can help another person with your money. It can be an act as big or as small as you like. A surprise gift for someone you love or a donation to the charity of your choice. Perform that action to seal your spell.
April • 18
Inner Beauty Salt Bath Spell
incantation
Beauty and grace
Allure and bloom
Provide peace
Inside this room
Allow myself
To shine and see
Exactly who
I’m meant to be
- • Candles
- • 1 cup Epsom salt
- • A bath
- • Your favorite ambient music
- • The High Priestess
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Beauty and the Beast
opened on Broadway on this day in 1994. The story meditates on the nature of inner and outer beauty. Is beauty skin deep or does it lie in embracing the ultimate truth of who you are on the inside?
A person in touch with themselves who acts out of personal authenticity reflects a universal principle of growth. Nothing is more rapturous or beguiling than an individual who knows who they are.
The electricity occurring inside a person operating from their inner truth is felt by all who connect with them. It can’t be applied with makeup or bought in a store. It cannot be found in any person, place, or thing other than you.
Invoke inner beauty here and now.
At night, preferably by the light of the moon, safely fill your bathroom with as many lit candles as you can find. Fill your tub and add one cup of salt to the water. Play your favorite ambient and transporting music.
Place your High Priestess card as the waters rise. Enter the milky moonlight of the card. Stand before her. She is you. You are her. She is your reflection in the mirror, existing to remind you of who you are, of what you have forgotten, and of what you are to recover. Make a solemn promise to be true to her. The secrets behind her veil were once known and available to you. It is your journey in this lifetime to recover them. She will give you a glimpse. Are you ready? Allow her to pull back the veil. What do you see?
Remove your clothes and enter the sacred waters of your bath. Sink as far into the depths as you can, and close your eyes. Contemplate what you saw. Spend the rest of your tub time basking in the beauty that is you.
19 • April
Primrose Hidden Treasure of the Soul Spell
incantation
Seven of Cups
The magic of rose
Enchantment and treasure
Around me grows
Wild sorcery I weave
Around this home
Embrace a happiness
I have always known
- • Seven of Cups
- • Primrose seedlings
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Primrose Day is celebrated today in Britain. Primroses, sacred to Venus, are known to reveal truth. Germanic culture calls them “cowslip” and describes how they will open locks to reveal hidden treasure. Transplant primrose around your home and reveal hidden treasure existing inside of you.
Our days lay like a deck of cards, unturned, unknown, until the moment greets us. Life remains an intrigue, surprises are numerous, and life can be lived as a revealed joy. Tarot steers you in desirable directions but will not reveal the deepest joys. Hidden treasure must be cultivated and experienced yourself.
The Seven of Cups reflects potentials, surprises, and unseen choices suddenly revealing themselves to you. Primrose seedlings will unlock hidden potentials.
Gather all of your transplanting materials. Place the Seven of Cups before you. Enter the card. Consider the mysterious cups floating before you in the air. Each cup represents a hidden treasure that has yet to spring from your soul. Reflect for a moment on the quality of surprise in your life. Think of the last thing you acquired a new taste for. What was the last reversal of opinion you experienced? When did you discover something paying off in ways you couldn’t have imagined at the time? Consider what you have unexpectedly accomplished.
Move around your home or garden and transplant each tender primrose. Knowing that as you do, you are planting hidden treasures to be revealed when the time is right.
April • 20
Sensual Pleasure of Taurus Spell
incantation
Sensual pleasure
Fill me up
Life is elixir
Drink my cup
With attention and cultivation
I soon see
All life’s pleasures
Revealed to me
- • The Hierophant
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today is the first day
of the sign of Taurus, who is ruled by Venus. Taurus is renowned as the best kisser of the zodiac. Ancient Mesopotamians created Taurus before all other signs.
Your senses are the gateway to the invisible and a direct route to pleasure. You have the ability to fill yourself with pleasure at this very moment, no matter your circumstance. You can also turn this into a sex spell and perform with your lover and a little imagination.
The Hierophant resides over formal spiritual matters.
Place the Hierophant before you. Enter the card. Step up to his feet and listen to his words.
“Senses are the gateway to the spiritual. This is why incense, flowers, candles, music, performance, and beautiful clothing are so often utilized in cross-cultural religious ritual. Let’s embrace your senses right now to increase pleasure, compare and contrast. This hones your power of observation.
“Create your own compare and contrast experiment. Set aside one hour. Find the items I have described or similar items. Compare and contrast them. But you must take your time doing so. When you see, really see. When you smell, really smell. Move inside the source of the sight, smell, taste, feeling, and sound. Move through to experience the other side of it as well.
“Repeat the incantation with each sense. When you are finished, walk out of my cathedral. Exit the card. Move back to your life.”
- • See: farthest thing you can see vs. closest thing
- • Smell: ripe fruit vs. ground coffee beans
- • Taste: dark chocolate and goat cheese
- • Feel: favorite sweater vs. the skin of your forearm
- • Listen: Mozart’s Requiem in D minor vs. Nirvana’s “Smells like Teen Spirit”
Continue to compare and contrast on your own.
21 • April
Chariot Card Connection Ritual
incantation
Chariot card
Of travels speak
What experience
Do I seek?
My intention always
Sets the course
Take the reins
Control my horse
Hone desire
Fashion will
As I move
My center’s still
- • The Chariot
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the Chariot.
Today is Rome’s birthday. Roman charioteers entered arenas such as the Circus Maximus and raced to honor the gods and achieve love, adoration, and glory.
A radiant golden figure stands before you. His creamy skin is youthful and plump, while his hair is speckled with flecks of sunlight. Light radiates from within him as if a fire were lit and flickering inside. He stands motionless, awaiting your instruction. The crown on his head bears the northern star, plucked from the galaxy like a grape; it will guide you on your journey. His metallic armor reflects silver lunar powers that combine with the yellow generation of solar energy. The veil upon his canopy has been fashioned from the Empress’s clothing, as he carries her essence with him. His two sphinxes—one black as night, the other white as bone—mark the choices we make.
The Chariot pulls Earth in its circular pattern around the sun. The Chariot pulls your own body through its linear experience of time. We would experience all things at once were it not for the presence of the charioteer. The charioteer brings us toward the destiny we weave for ourself through personal choice and action. We act as charioteer when we get behind the wheel of our vehicle, literally and figuratively. The Chariot makes dreams a reality.
To greet him, you leave what is known and comfortable and move into the wild providence of nature.
Point him in any direction you choose. Let him guide you or take up the reins. He will let you embody him if you choose. Though your feet may never touch the ground, an airplane lift you to the clouds, the wheels of a car spin under your feet, or your passport get stamped, you journey still.
Every day, every hour, every minute of your life is a journey.
April • 22
World Card Connection Ritual
incantation
World card
Earthly goal
Peaceful goddess
Eyes rimmed with kohl
Together dance
Together fly
Entwined alight
Through the sky
- • The World
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
The United States
celebrates Earth Day
today.
Enter the arcana of the World.
To enter the World card is to enter the luminous state: true enlightenment and the remarkable present. The possibility of the World is always there. We are free to enter and inhabit at any moment.
You discover yourself sitting in a yogi position. The legs of your lithe body are crossed, your spine is straight, and you sit atop a green, grassy hill. This is a space of meditation. You’ve been coming regularly for days now. This is the peace amidst the chaos of your day. As always, you finish your practice with a deep final breath. Breathe in sweet air, inhaling into your lungs, and exhale through your mouth.
Empty blue sky stretches before you. A goddess-like naked woman dances before your field of vision. Nothing but a long scarf conceals her body. She looks to the side in an expression of ecstasy. She balances two white wands in her hands. She is circled by a bright green wreath, the magical threshold to her world. It is clasped by red ribbons on the top and bottom. Swirling clouds have broken out at her four corners, and creatures appear there in the shape of man, beast, and bird.
The figures move and bounce. You feel yourself growing lighter as she lifts you off the ground and you become weightless. Your body mirrors hers as she rises higher into the sky with you. She floats in the ecstasy that is complete immersion in the nature of life. Time ceases. You are released from your body. You no longer sense any physical boundary between yourself and what lies beyond the exterior of your physical body. You have become one with the energy of magic. You have merged with the essence of the universe.
You are nirvana. You are. You.
23 • April
Charmed Grimoire Spell
fyi
The first World Book Day was celebrated April 23, 1995. This date was decided on in part because it was also Shakespeare’s death and birth anniversary.
- • Sketchbook, journal, or grimoire
1. Ace of Cups (east)
2. Ace of Wands (south)
3. Ace of Pentacles (west)
4. Ace of Swords (north)
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
World Book Day is
celebrated today. Mark the day by creating a first edition of your very own. A grimoire is a place for spells and sketches, dreams and ideas, poetry and secrets.
Place the book before you and repeat the following in the exact order listed.
Place the Ace of Cups and say:
Ace of Cups, your waters run true
Wash over my book, your powers imbue.
Place the Ace of Wands and say:
Ace of Wands, passion’s spark
Fire’s light illuminated the dark.
Place the Ace of Pentacles and say:
Ace of Pentacles, the words I write
Magic inside these pages take flight.
Place the Ace of Swords and say:
Blades of intellect and steel
Express the way I always feel
To the whole book, say:
With love and light and time to rest
I do declare this book be blessed.
April • 24
Give It Up Spell
incantation
It’s over
It’s finished
This I know
Bonds release me
Let me go
1. Eight of Swords
2. Nine of Pentacles
- • Bowl of dried rose or loose flower petals
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Today marks the traditional 1182 BCE date of the fall of Troy. Do you, like the Trojans, need to give it up? When an issue continues to plague us, this spell will help us let it go. Rest assured something new and wonderful will fill its place.
Make dried rose petals from the flower petals of your bouquets to extend the usage of the rose. Dried petals can be used for potpourri, homemade oils, and rose water, sprinkled on tables or beds for decorations, and are always welcome additions to spellwork.
The Eight of Swords represents being held hostage. The Nine of Pentacles reflects glorious, self-empowered freedom.
Place the Eight of Swords before you. Enter the card. Come to terms with the headspace you are in. How does your situation hold you in its grip? What must you break free from? Contemplate the ways in which you are held hostage by this idea or situation. You crave freedom. You need to unravel it. You will do so now.
Mix the bowl of dried flower petals with your hands while reciting the incantation. Let the sweet scent enliven you. Repeat the incantation until you feel you have been released from the bonds of old behavior.
When you believe the words you are saying, release a palmful of flowers to the wind.
Place the Nine of Pentacles before you. Bring your mind’s eye into the card and see yourself standing tall, proud, and independent in the garden of manifestation. Look at the garden. Allow a new reality to unfold before you.
25 • April
King of Cups Connection Ritual
incantation
King of Cups
Where sea meets sky
His ocean’s deep
His waves grow high
He dreams the mist
Of fish and foams
Imagination’s landscape
Freely roams
- • King of Cups
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the King of Cups.
A feast honoring
Saint Mark, patron saint
of Venice, is held today.
The King of Cups is the watery and aquatic King Neptune, ruler of emotions, who, like the city of Venice, sits atop the high seas.
Soar across silky, blue-green waters like a bird to locate the King of the Sea. He floats on ocean waves in his throne. Beneath him minnows dart back and forth. The dark shadows of a sperm whale and her calf pass silently beneath him. To the passing ship he appears in the mist, perhaps as a pirate or a sea ghost. Sirens sing to him in the briny wind.
His eyes are blue marble. His skin is oxygen and water. His voice rushes over you like crashing surf, soothing you, repeating in rhythmic cadence the words you need to hear again and again. His crown is made of compact shell, his jewels of volcanic rock.
Dolphins, mermaids, and manatees leap around him, his willing playthings. He forms rogue waves that will destroy a coastline or tickle your toes with sea foam. His emotions are wide and deep. The ocean contains his breadth of feeling. He dreams as far and wide as the ocean is deep. He carries these dreams to completion.
His slippers are rainbow scales of tropical fish. His breath is the fog that creeps across the ocean in the early dawn. Like the ocean, he will wipe your slate clean, cleanse you, and erase all stress, all fear, so you are set back into place.
The King of Cups, as a creature of the ocean, is a shapeshifter, taking on any form needed to complete his task. You hold all of these abilities inside yourself. You are a creature of water: a singular, unique point of energy on the event horizon of your life.
April • 26
Finish a Project Spell
incantation
Work of love
Work of me
Toil and sweat
No complacency
I worked you hard
I worked you well
Now use my magic
For this spell
We finish quick
With joy and fun
I do declare
My project done!
1. Eight of Wands 4. Ten of Cups
2. Ten of Wands 5. Ten of Pentacles
3. Ten of Swords 6. The World
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
William Shakespeare was baptized on this day in 1564. Call upon the most prolific of playwrights’ energy to aid you.
The start of a project is often more interesting than the finish. Some creative projects are like childbirth, exciting and full of surprises in the beginning. As the project ends, though, it’s filled with temporary contractions, sharp pains, even terror. This leads to unfinished projects and potentials who hang in midair, halfway done. Give yourself the gift of working through the pain and delivering a completed project.
Lay the Eight of Wands. Feel the energy of passion taking you to where you need to be.
Place the Ten of Wands. Put the final bits into place. You have already done so much. He will help you over the finish line. Your original spark has manifested into a finished project.
Lay the Ten of Swords. It is the end of the drama; the show is done. You have nailed down what needed to be said and done.
Place the Ten of Cups. Feel the celebration on the card. Feel the exuberance and joy of accomplishment. Feel your happiness once the project is complete.
Lay the Ten of Pentacles. Marvel at the manifestation within the card. It is your nature to be creative.
Place the World card. See your project in its perfect state. You are the creator. Feel the pride coursing through your veins. Feel unexpected delights coming your way.
You did it. It is already done. Just add those finishing touches, and you are there.
27 • April
Five of Pentacles Connection Ritual
incantation
The ups and downs
Of relationships go
Insights most people
Don’t even know
Through times of tough
And times of sweet
How does your soul
Rise to meet
The challenge of
The pentacle suit
Your inner strength
Is outer fruit
- • Five of Pentacles
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Enter the arcana of the Five of Pentacles.
The Five of Pentacles
was called the Lord of
Material Trouble by the magicians of the Golden Dawn, who assigned it the time period of April 21–30.
Fives imply challenge. Fives are the halfway point, the turning point, the space where a new chapter begins. What has manifested up until this point begins to build on itself. This required challenge provides perspective for the ultimate outcome in the finality of the ten. Inside every challenge lies a gift. Can you discover it?
Wicked winter howls through white, snow-covered alleyways. The silence of city streets is broken only by the wind’s whistle. Residents avoiding the bitterness are tucked away in their homes, sitting before crackling fireplaces and warm tables laden with hearty soups and stews.
Two souls, looking lost, wander amidst the fray. One hobbles on crutches, a bell at his neck. A bandage covers his head. The figure leading the march gathers her scarf close to her chin. They appear as penniless beggars even though their clothing is richly textured and colored. Their feet are wrapped in paltry fabric, toes exposed to the bitter, numbing air as they trod through the snow.
The wall of a church looms next to them, laden with heavy stone. A stained glass window radiates the richness of heat, shelter, and sustenance. The lit glass reflects five pentacles as seen at the top of the Tree of Life. Where is the couple walking? Why do they not see salvation before their eyes? Will they pass by safety and comfort? Are they looking to find the entrance?
How does the manifestation of money, objects, or people in the physical world become problematic? How do these problems serve as lessons?
The wind continues to howl, and the couple moves on.
April • 28
Totem Animal Discovery
incantation
Felines teach us
To be ready
Buzzing bees
Are slow and steady
Spiders teach us
How to weave
Geese show us when
It’s time to leave
Bats enhance
Nocturnal visions
Owls guide us
To wise decisions
1. The Star
2. Nine of Pentacles
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
George Balanchine’s
“Orpheus” premiered today
at Lincoln Center in 1948. Orpheus is the Greek god of music. His singing and playing was so beautiful that animals, reptiles, and birds were seduced by him.
Discovering your totem animal is an enjoyable, often surprising process. You may find your animal changes seasonally, even yearly, as you evolve. You may have one special animal for a lifetime. Your spirit animals could be the ones appearing in your yard or at your window on a daily basis. This meditation into the tarot will help you move closer to animal essence.
Place the Star card. A landscape of tender grass and fields of hay caresses your senses. The night sky brims with subtle energy. A sweet song escapes a bird who perches on a branch behind the female. The woman in the card puts down her watering jugs. She wants to have a conversation with you. Ask her questions about yourself. She will answer each question:
- • What animal have I always been attracted to?
- • What animal am I terrified of?
- • What animal have I dreamed of?
- • If I could shapeshift into an animal, what would I become?
- • Did I have profound animal experiences as a child?
Listen to her answers carefully.
Place the Nine of Pentacles. Enter the card. Hear the same birdsong around you. An airplane engine hums overhead. Green vine leaves bow in the breeze. There is a gated area just to your left. Lift the rusty latch, enter, and find yourself inside a secret garden. An ancient stone fountain stands in the center. You enter to look inside the deep waters of the fountain, seeing your reflection in the placid water. You hear something behind you. It is your spirit animal.
Turn around to discover who and what it is.
29 • April
Happy Marriage Spell
incantation
Union of two
Life of love
Aspects from
Divinity above
A life together
Is work and play
Consider the other
Every day
- • Rosemary plant
1. Two of Cups
2. Four of Wands
3. The Lovers
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Kate Middleton and
Prince William were
married on this day
in 2011.
Rosemary sprigs were often worn in bridal crowns. The Two of Cups reflects the emotional union of two people. The Four of Wands represents a home filled with love, laughter, and passion. The Lovers card shows the spiritual and physical union of opposites.
Place the rosemary plant before you. Inhale. Note how rugged and strong its branches are. Consider the history embedded in its scent.
Place the Two of Cups. See the couple standing gazing into each other’s eyes. They are separate, unique individuals, yet their unique aspects complement one another. Her beauty reflects his handsomeness and humor. He admires her strength and beauty. He reaches for her. She accepts his hand. Both raise their cups and sip from the healing liquid of love. See yourself in this card.
Place the Four of Wands. Laughter floats up to the sky like tendrils of incense. A crowd gathers to celebrate the happy occasion. The four corners of the home, aligning with the four suits of tarot, are in balance. This creates structure and stability for the life to be lived inside these walls. The passions and pursuits of the bride and groom are reflected in the decorations. Baby leaves sprout from the wands, a sign of growth and expansion due to this union.
Place the Lovers card. The couple stands naked before each other. Their bodies join in the mystical experience of lovemaking. The scent of musk, sex, and sweetness fills the card. Emotion in motion. Love mingles with toe-curling desire. Nightly they worship each other on the altar of creation magic.
Plant or place the rosemary outside or close to the door of your or the newlywed’s home.
April • 30
Charm to Gain Your Heart’s Desire
incantation
Flesh of darkness
Born of death
Give my will
Thy life and breath
Wither dry
And shrink to dust
My hearth shall feed
Upon thy crust
- • Nine of Cups
- • A large wild mushroom
- • Red cloth bag
- • Needle and thread
Method, Visualization, and Meditation
Cast this nature charm to gain your heart’s desire. As the moon rises tonight, it marks the beginning of Beltane, the Gaelic May Day festival. Bonfires are lit, homes are decorated with flowers, and magic runs rampant through the evening air.
This spell is adapted from a personal favorite, Valerie Worth’s Crone’s Book of Charms & Spells. The Nine of Cups is incorporated to ensure you gain your heart’s desire.
Place the Nine of Cups. The genie inside is ready and willing to grant you your wish.
In wet weather, walk across the fields until you find a large white mushroom. Capture the largest you can find. Bring it home with you. That evening, by candlelight, take out your Nine of Cups again so the genie sees the work you are doing. Take a large needle and inscribe your heart’s desire on the mushroom’s upper skin. Breathe upon your words and utter the incantation. Lock your mushroom away for the rest of the night.
In the morning, cut the mushroom into a multitude of tiny pieces. Set them in an oven until they are quite dry. Sew the pieces into a red cloth and carry with you, as close to your heart as possible, until you have your desired effect.
When your heart’s desire is granted, go back to where you found the mushroom and bury the bag.