The Growing Green Workbook: Toward an Ecological Astrology

Gemini Season: May 20-June 20

Hello, friends—

This is the tenth of twelve workbook posts in my Growing Green with the Zodiac series. (Previous posts are on the Growing Green tab.) In this issue, we’ll compare the "court” and the “people” cards from the Rider Waite and the Gaian Tarot. I have also assembled several Gemini projects and some journaling suggestions for you, and (of course!) we’ll make a trip to the kitchen.

As usual, there’s a lot of material here, so you may want to tuck it away and come back to it when you have a little extra time. It’ll always be here for you, online—or maybe it will even become a book. Who knows? And if this tarot and astrology stuff just isn’t your favorite cuppa, go here to select what you receive from me. (You always have a choice!)

I call my chatbot collaborator for these workbooks Hildi.¹ As usual, I’m available to respond to your comments, discuss ideas, and think out loud together in our comment/conversation space.

Gemini, Swords, and People

The popular Rider-Waite-Smith deck, published in 1909, was estimated (in 2019) to have sold over 100 million copies. I think of it as the “patriarchal” tarot, a reminder that the cards’ images are only the social expression of the underlying archetypes. They tell us as much (and sometimes more) about the culture that created them as they do about the archetypes themselves.