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Leisa ReFalo and Dena DeCastro join Storm to discuss the difference of the elements in different traditions. Whether you are an Astrologer, Taroist, or a Psychotherapist the elements of fire, earth, air, and water are used to describe certain areas of life, personality temperament, and modes of expression. Join this group of experts for an enlivened discussion and find out how understanding what mode of expression you most associate with can provide you with startling insight into your life. Example readings will be provided for further understanding.

Dena DeCastro & I talk about Saturn and Saturn Transits and do a reading based on these themes.

Saturn Notes by Dena DeCastro

Saturn

Ruler of Capricorn

Ancient Ruler of Aquarius

Your Natal Saturn:

Saturn in the natal chart is the function within us that makes it possible for us to develop discipline and maturity.  Saturn’s house and sign placement indicate where and in what way you are to enact your earthly responsibilities, and where a sense of duty lies.

Saturn Transits:

Saturn times are times in which we are invited to step into a role of authority and maturity in our lives.  We must learn to choose decisively and act upon our decisions.  We are asked often to shoulder more responsibility, and perhaps “toughen up” in the area being touched by the transit.  There are no magical solutions available, nor any “get out of jail free” cards during this season.  A Saturn transit offers the lesson of facing reality head on.  The gift of this time is in learning that you actually can do it.  A successful integration of Saturnian medicine shows you that you are more mature, wise, and capable than you thought possible.  This leads to a sense of accomplishment, and the strength to move forward.

Spread

Invoking Saturn Spread

1. Combat Inertia
2. Conquer Fear
3. Seek a Solution
4. Set Goals
5. Get Organized

Resources:

• Astrology for the Light Side of the Brain
• Astrology, Magic and Alchemy in Art
• Astrology for Dummies
• THE MINCHIATE TAROT The 97–Card Tarot of the Renaissance, Complete with the 12 Astrological Signs and the 4 Elements
• Saturn in the Signs from Always Astrology

Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Transition Music: Saturn, the Prime Mover of the Spheres by William Wilde Zeitler from Music of the Spheres

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]]> http://tarotconnection.net/episode-97/feed/ 5 0:58:34 Dena DeCastro & I talk about Saturn and Saturn Transits and do a reading based on these themes. Saturn Notes by Dena DeCastro Saturn Ruler of Capricorn Ancient Ruler of Aquarius Your Natal Saturn: Saturn in the natal chart is the function withi[...] Dena DeCastro & I talk about Saturn and Saturn Transits and do a reading based on these themes. Saturn Notes by Dena DeCastro Saturn Ruler of Capricorn Ancient Ruler of Aquarius Your Natal Saturn: Saturn in the natal chart is the function within us that makes it possible for us to develop discipline and maturity.  Saturn’s house and sign placement indicate where and in what way you are to enact your earthly responsibilities, and where a sense of duty lies. Saturn Transits: Saturn times are times in which we are invited to step into a role of authority and maturity in our lives.  We must learn to choose decisively and act upon our decisions.  We are asked often to shoulder more responsibility, and perhaps “toughen up” in the area being touched by the transit.  There are no magical solutions available, nor any “get out of jail free” cards during this season.  A Saturn transit offers the lesson of facing reality head on.  The gift of this time is in learning that you actually can do it.  A successful integration of Saturnian medicine shows you that you are more mature, wise, and capable than you thought possible.  This leads to a sense of accomplishment, and the strength to move forward. Spread Invoking Saturn Spread Combat Inertia Conquer Fear Seek a Solution Set Goals Get Organized Resources: Astrology for the Light Side of the Brain Astrology, Magic and Alchemy in Art Astrology for Dummies THE MINCHIATE TAROT The 97–Card Tarot of the Renaissance, Complete with the 12 Astrological Signs and the 4 Elements Saturn in the Signs from Always Astrology Dena DeCastro A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation. To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here. Music Credits Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis Closing Music: Transition Music: Saturn, the Prime Mover of the Spheres by William Wilde Zeitler from Music of the Spheres Play or Download the Episode ~Episodes Leisa ReFalo no no http://tarotconnection.net/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-predict/ http://tarotconnection.net/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-predict/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:20:59 +0000 leisa http://tarotconnection.net/?p=401 (I was a guest on the Storm Cestavani Show)

Original Air Date: 10/22/2009 10:00 AM
All The News That’s Fit to Predict!

Radio has Ryan Seacrest, Television has Oprah, and Tarot has Leisa ReFalo. Leisa is the owner/operator of The Tarot Connection and has the most successful Tarot Podcast on the Internet. She will join Storm and Robin to discuss The Tarot Connection’s latest release “All Hallowed Tarot,”. Also, we will be giving away decks throughout the show! You can listen to Leisa’s wonderful podcasts by going to http://www.tarotconnection.net.

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I was born and raised on the Jersey shore, where I enjoyed a life of sun and surf.  I was always aware of the fact that I was a “tad different” then most of the kids that I hung around with, when I would challenge them on their thoughts or tell them what they were thinking.  I was promptly labeled “freak.”  LOL.  At 16, I began watching the soap opera Dark Shadows and was fascinated with the character Magda the Gypsy and her skills as a card reader.  Of course, I knew these were fake readings for the script, but I became intrigued with the cards that were being used.  Once I got enough money together (in those days, a tarot deck cost about $10.00), I bought two decks; a Swiss IJJ and a Rider-Waite Smith.  I quickly put aside the Swiss and concentrated on the Rider-Waite-Smith and started a notebook with my thoughts on the cards because trying to read the Little White Book, you needed a magnifying glass.  Once I started, I never looked back.  That was 40 years ago.

You can contact Barbara on Facebook. This picture is of her beloved cat (RIP) Ginger, aka Mushie-mushie, aka Poochie-poo, aka Booga.

Reading One: How will this go?

Subject, Verb and Direct Object

Reading Two: Should I Offer Assistance to a Friend?

Music Credits

• Opening Music & Transition Music: Narcissus by Queenie from Dream of Flight
• Closing Music: Under the Boardwalk by  by Bob Rowe from The Podsafe Music Network

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I know you know at least one. I know you’ve probably even been one at some point, though it may be embarrassing to admit. At least once and probably many more times you have made that proverbial mountain out of a molehill. You Drama King/Queen! It’s ok, really. I have a side that inclines toward the dramatic. Ok, maybe more than a side. A whole flank of my being perhaps. Enough that a friend of mine, who also relishes the fair amount of drama sprinkled through out her life, will call me out, “O! M! G! You’re being so drama!” At least we recognize it in ourselves and can laugh at it when it rears its entertaining head. This fact makes us decidedly not Drama Queens. The true Drama King or Queen does not accept the fact that he or she is being ridiculously melodramatic nor do they seem aware that they are consistently creating situations that result in exhausting drama for themselves and others. So my friend and I were talking last night when she wondered aloud, “Which tarot card would represent drama?” We had been discussing the Moon card and the dramatic side to that card and the question made us both stop, mid-convo, and mentally rifle through the deck. At first we were rather nonplussed. I said the Fool and Moon combination would make me think “drama” but I wasn’t satisfied with my answer. We continued our conversation and somehow the Ten of Swords was mentioned and she interjected, “There is the drama card!” I laughed, “Oh yeah! For sure!” Talk about over the top, that card screams “Woe is meeeeeee!”(read the full post)

Ginny Hunt

Ginny Hunt is a Professional Tarot Reader from Maryland. Her interest in the spiritual and metaphysical has been a lifelong passion. She has been a practicing counselor, both professionally with adolescents and para-professionally as a volunteer with abused women. She offers professional reading services through 78 Notes to Self.

Music Credits

• 78 Notes Music: Winter Moon by Rhonda Lorence from Winter Moon (Magnatune)

Please be warned there were some difficulties with recording. The worst part is on my end with voice distortion. But the episode is mostly a conversation between Robert & Ciro.

Robert M. Place

Robert M. Place is an internationally known visionary artist and illustrator, whose award winning works, in painting, sculpture, and jewelry, have been displayed in galleries and museums in America, Europe, and Japan and graced the covers and pages of numerous books and publications. He is the designer, illustrator, and co-author, with Rosemary Ellen Guiley, of: “The Alchemical Tarot” and “The Angels Tarot“, which are both published by HarperCollins and have received international acclaim particularly for their skillful and illuminating graphics. He is the designer, illustrator, and author of “The Tarot of the Saints” and “The Buddha Tarot“. And, he is the author of “The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination“, which Booklist has said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot.” He is currently working on the “Vampire Tarot“, which will be published by St. Martins Press in 2008.

Robert is recognized as an expert on Western Mysticism, the history of the Tarot, and as a gifted teacher of divination. He has taught and lectured at the New York Open Center, Omega Institute, The New York Tarot School, and the World Tarot Congress. He and his work have appeared on Discovery, The Learning Channel, and A&E. He has been a guest on numerous radio shows including The Woodstock Roundtable on WDST-FM, People are Talking on WKZE-FM , and Mystic Musings on KKUP FM.

Together with his wife Rose Ann, he has been creating hand crafted jewelry for over twenty-five years. Their work has been exhibited in the White House, in the American Craft Museum, The New York State Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, The Montclair Art Museum, The Irish American Heritage Museum, the International Wilhelm Muller Competition, (which toured Museums in Germany), Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, England, and in numerous galleries in the United States, Ireland, Britain, and Japan.

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Ciro Marchetti

Ciro Marchetti (Florida) is an award-winning artist from the United Kingdom. He studied art in London, followed by a career working in Europe and South America before settling in the United States where he opened a design agency in Miami. In addition to managing his company, Ciro also gives workshops and lectures on digital digital imagery and illustration at the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute, and continues to create his own visionary art.

His new companion site for Legacy of the Divine Tarot is launching this month.

• Website: http://www.ciromarchetti.com
• Companion Site: www.legacyofthedivinetarot.com.
• Empress Card: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoSTPd–Nik
• Wands IV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX-cFCxPu2U

Available Decks

Music Credits

• Opening Music & Transition Music: Narcissus by Queenie from Dream of Flight

• Closing Music: Fortune Laisse (Attaingnant) by Edward Martin from Art of the Lute in Renaissance (Magnatune)

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]]> http://tarotconnection.net/episode-95/feed/ 3 http://tarotconnection.net/thetens/ http://tarotconnection.net/thetens/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:43:13 +0000 leisa http://tarotconnection.net/?p=143 The Tens by Ginny Hunt

So if nine is the finale, why the ten? Because ten is neither the end nor the beginning, but a transition between an ending and a beginning to a higher order of things. See, the number ten is the start of a whole new order of numbers and the culmination of the numbers that come before it.

All the base ten numbering systems in existence from ancient times such as Hebrew and Greek systems use the number ten as this natural transition between the numbers that come before into the numbers that come after. A look at the number values assigned to the Hebrew and Greek letters show that the letters were given values from one to ten, then increasing in tens to 100 then increasing by 100′s and so on. Numbering by tens is natural for us given our ten fingers which are quite useful for adding and subtracting. You have to re-use fingers when you get past ten, so it starts a new “order.” So ten represents “completeness of order.” It symbolizes a cycle has completed and all is where it should be. As such it represents the perfection of divine order. (read the full post)

Ginny Hunt

Ginny Hunt is a Professional Tarot Reader from Maryland. Her interest in the spiritual and metaphysical has been a lifelong passion. She has been a practicing counselor, both professionally with adolescents and para-professionally as a volunteer with abused women. She offers professional reading services through 78 Notes to Self.

Music Credits

• 78 Notes Music: Winter Moon by Rhonda Lorence from Winter Moon (Magnatune)