For the lovely full moon on the 31st July, me and a couple of friends went down to the beach to build a bonfire. We were collecting twigs as the sun set, and started contructing our bonfire just as the moon was rising over the sea. Our attempts to make fire weren't all that successful but it was fun. We burnt herbs on the fire, and the scented smoke wafted around us. The moon was hanging low over the sea, casting a glittery trail of light toward us. We waded into the waves with our containers to collect the sparkly moon water. I filled a large glass jar full of warm water that had been heated by the sun during the day. The sky was quite dark by this point, and we decided to draw oracle and tarot cards by the light of the moon. We were using Destiny's Portal oracle cards and the Tarot of the Hidden Realm. We were all amazed as we read the cards, they were so accurate. I drew the cards "Renaissance Rose" and "Fairy Stallion" which reflected my situatio...

Tarot of Marseilles Thirteen, that dreaded number, is considered unlucky by many, but why? The number is associated with the moon in all cultures, because there are approximately 12.4 lunations per solar year. This means that there are always twelve lunations in a year, from which we derive our twelve months, but there is one lunation which straddles the old year and the new year. Thirteen therefore represents an inbetween time. In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, the number of full moons was counted from winter solstice to winter solstice. Most of the time there would be twelve full moon but sometimes there would be thirteen. If there were thirteen then an extra month of the year was inserted at the time of the summer solstice, making the summer a whole month longer than usual. The Summerland is a concept of an afterlife paradise where good souls live inbetween incarnations. This concept was devised in the 19th century by a Spiritualist called Andrew Jackson Davis. The concept of a Summ...