Main Quest Content

This week you will find the final two videos on the Fool's journey through the Minor Arcana, and these are focused on the 7s-10s in the pentacles and cups suits.

It was magical how these wound up being the last two videos that I recorded for the class. Almost all of the new video content that I recorded for the 2024 version of the class was recorded between December of 2023, and May of 2024, but I had to stop the recording process with 3-4 videos left to do because our lives got so busy. Through miraculous Jupiter-Uranus good fortune we were able to purchase a home while we were in the middle of the class (on 4/20!), and we then had to begin the very intense process of moving. 

The stress of the move settled down about six months later, and I was able to record these last videos on the Minor Arcana about one year after I started the filming process in 2023. The very last commentary that I did for these videos was on the 10 of Cups, and it was exactly at the moment that our family was having our 10 of Cups moment. Pictured in the Pixie deck (and many other decks) as a happy family with their happy home, there we were, blessed by the planets to have a home with a terrace view of almost the entire ecliptic.

And this is my wish for each of you who have travelled the whole journey of this class, that you each are feeling the 10 of Cups attitude of gratitude for the extra magic you were able to make during these eight weeks. Can you see how you are making stronger intuitive decisions that have lead to happy outcomes? 

I know that I feel so blessed in this moment of completing the text for these weekly overviews and assignments. It has been a long journey for me to get this standalone program ready as a complete product meant for sale. This is something I've been trying to create stemming back all the way to 2015 when I was launching a package of products that was meant to include introductory trainings in astrology and tarot. Unfortunately life had other plans, but I stuck with the dream, and four years later (in 2019) I launched the first version of Tarot and Flow. 

After that class I was really happy with how things went, but I did not feel like the recorded product was complete to my own standard, and I also was still learning for myself what these new practices were that I had just taught. I knew that it was going to take another round of the class to get things to where I wanted them to be for a standalone product. I was aiming for the next year for round two, but that ended up being the pandemic, and I went on my own journey of skywatching with the Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto conjunction of that year, documenting my skywatching adventures on film. 2020 was also the year that I fell in love with my wife Marianella, and a major timeline was beginning to unfold.

2021 was still the pandemic, and I just didn't feel up to doing the class. 2022 was the year my San Francisco landlord negotiated with me to move out of my beloved apartment of 25 years. I got engaged that spring during the Moon-Venus-Jupiter-Neptune quadruple conjunction, and that summer we found out Mari was pregnant with Stevie Rose. In the fall we got married and moved to Colombia, and in the winter Stevie was here. 2023 was all about baby consciousness, but by the end of the year I was ready to make the push to do Tarot and Flow 2.0.

From December of 2014 to December of 2024 was one long individuation process for me, moving from an approach to astrology that I would call overly academic, to an approach that became all about direct embodied contact with the sky, and an approach with full integration of tarot and altar practice. All along the way I was becoming more and more my authentic self through a long process of self-discovery that had Tarot and Flow 2019 and Tarot and Flow 2024 as essential elements.

I want to send special thanks to the initial 50 students who participated in the 2019 and 2024 classes and their live Zoom meetings. I know that it was the presence of each of you excellent and beautiful people that elevated the content and helped me to teach these practices at the level I was able to. I know that I was teaching what I also needed to learn, and I feel so blessed and grateful to have learned as much as I have over this past decade.

I want to thank all of you who have been on the journey with me, and especially each of you who have gone deep with these practices. Every person that has invested their time and energy in these practices and assignments makes it easier for future students to draft behind the work that you were doing out ahead of them. And my thanks also go out to all future students that will go on this journey. I believe in retrocausality and that breakthroughs on future timelines have a ripple effect that comes back to the practitioners of the present, and that we here at the start of this class were also catching the waves that you have sent back from the future.

Main Quest Assignments

Skywatching Assignment

This is your last big skywatching expedition, and it is meant to be a form of closure to your class journey. Consult your calendar for the dates and times of your last Moon-Venus conjunction and last New Moon of the class. Maybe put some extra time into this expedition with the creation of a special altar meant to be part of your closure and meant for important last messages of guidance. Bring even more devotion to your skywatching and perhaps add ritual elements like a rattle/bells. Call out to the divine for extra support as you bring this 8 week journey to an end.

Keep it Going

Your only other assignment this week is to take everything you've learned in these eight weeks and just keep it going. After two months of commitment to any skill development process, it is usually the case that a very strong habit has been developed, and I hope this has been the case for you.  Once you have a strong habit with a strong positive feedback loop that motivates you to keep the habit going, the key is to just keep maintaining the practices with regular focus and time investment.

Strong habits can sometimes fade, and most people have experienced this with some athletic discipline that was going awesome for several months or years, but then grew weaker due to interfering life events. The good news is that once you've established a strong habit, even if it fades, the groove is so strong that it doesn't take much  to get the habit back. If you find things fading, all I would say is that it probably will take half as much time (4 weeks instead of 8) to get your intuitive skills back up and rolling strong. 

Four more weeks of skywatching with a big expedition to see Moon-Venus conjunctions at the beginning and end of your 4 week run, and four more weeks of devoted tarot/altar practice, with regular five card spreads guiding your daily decision making process: that's all it will take to feel like your habit that got so strong during these 8 weeks is right back in good form.

And for you who have just given full devotion to these past eight weeks, I say: "keep it going for 4 more weeks, and then another 4, and then another." I know from my own experience that it is not so hard to keep doing something that is as inherently satisfying and pleasurable as the practices we have learned here together.

I think the key, as we learned from studying flow state triggers, is to decide to enjoy these practices even more next month than we have in these past 2 months. How can I develop my intuition to be even stronger? How can I spend more time skywatching? How can I invest more in altar-crafting and tarot/oracle cards? How can I develop an even stronger connection with my higher self?

So I send you all blessings and love and light. May you each remember that you are the Fool, and that many adventures await you on the journey towards more and more love.

Week Eight Side Quest Content

Here you will find three last videos. There is "Shuffling 4" where I invite you to explore shuffling while dancing as an especially joyous practice. There are also the two last videos from my 2019 series on the minor arcana in the Deva Deck, and these ones are focused on the Pentacles suit.

Additional Content

Altar Journey 2019

I have pulled out another series of videos from 2019, "Alar Journey 2019," as its own unique side quest for when you have the additional time to explore them. I think these could be fun to watch for anyone that has really enjoyed the artistic craft of altar creation, and wants to see how devotion to an altar garden can unfold over a 9 week period.

During the 2019 class I had the space and time to spend several hours each week creating and filming a class altar that was meant to guide us through the class content, and also meant to inspire us for what altar crafting can be. I was able to film a time lapse video each week during the hours and days that I focused on the altar, and at the end of the whole journey I stitched each of this short time lapse clips into a larger video.

If you only see one video from this series, please check out "Tarot and Flow Time Lapse: 9 weeks in 6 minutes." It will give you a good sense for what sustained altar practice can look like after two lunar cycles. 

I think these videos could also be helpful to watch in order to hear my approach to reading the cards for the class. I also took time to photograph each altar and these photos, as well as give attribution to the creators and artists of each deck that was used for these altars (this can be found underneath each video).

Bonus Content

Here you will find the awesome bonus content that comes with this product. There's the Birthday Portal Ritual package, with everything you need to make every birthday more magic and pleasurable than the last. There's the full recording of my workshop on "Psychedelics and Tarot Practice," where you will get to hear me share about how these tools can help you have the best possible expanded state of consciousness experiences.

Another bonus you will find is an optional "Planetary Breathwork" experience, with supportive induction and music included. Everyone who did this breathwork for the live class reported a positive experience, and I think you could easily do this journey on your own and have your own good experience.

There are some cautions with breathwork and expanded states generally, and if you have certain conditions like high blood pressure/heart disease, glaucoma, pregnancy or serious mental health challenges, I would discourage doing breathwork or other sacred medicines. 

There are also two more video recordings of the Bonus Zoom meetings that were held in both 2019 and 2024, where we had a final share group and question and answer session, as well as some final readings for students, and perhaps watching either of these sessions will be helpful for your own completion process with this standalone version of the class. 

Integration Oracle

I was downloading all kinds of oracle videos in 2019: 60 second oracle videos, 5 minute oracle videos, and at the end of class I was moved to record these 10 integration oracle videos. I pull cards in each video and I use them to inspire a conversation about certain important principles of integration.

The process of integration is so important for maintaining the strong habits that you have developed during these eight weeks, and so I encourage you to pick a number between 0-9 and let the message from that video inspire your own integration practices.

Extras

You'll also find a few more extras that you can look through on your own.

Wishing you all more and more love every day!