The Bellingham Tarot December Meetup

Our first anniversary! Happy one-year birthday to us!

Let's celebrate by doing a Tarot deck or book swap -- bring any decks or books you are ready to release into someone else's hands. And if you don't have anything you're ready to let go of, then bring ANYTHING for a swap or gift exchange -- something you've made, or cooked, or grown, or found. Just don't spend much money on it.

As for a topic, I'd like to focus again on our Year cards, for both 2008 and 2009. The method of calculation can be found in Mary Greer's "Tarot for Your Self."

Simply: Add the day and the month of your birth to the current year, 2007 (and again for 2008). Then reduce the resulting number to 22 or less. You always keep the highest number under 23, because there are 22 Major Arcana cards. (22 corresponds to 0, for the Fool.)

For example: My birthday is January 7th. So I add 1+7+2008, and I get 2016. Then I add 2+0+1+6 for a total of 9. 9 is the number of the Hermit, so 2008 has been my Hermit year.

When I add 1+7+2009, I get 2017, which reduces to 10. 2009 will be my Wheel of Fortune year (#10) -- hmm . . . might be a pretty active year.

Make sense? We'll calculate your Year Cards at the meeting if you haven't done it beforehand.

We'll be meeting at Lee & Elaine's house this time as most of the old-timers know where it is. Thanks guys!