Total Eclipse 2024

Come camping at The Practical Witch Sanctuary for the total eclipse on April 8, 2024!

Over a decade ago I purchased property to create an organic teaching garden and sanctuary for earth-centered spiritualists. Because I write The Practical Witch’s Almanac every year, I knew that the property would be in the very middle of the April 8 total solar eclipse. In 2012 I registered ArkansasEclipse.org to provide information about the event. The sanctuary is specifically dedicated to serving those in the community with limited community support and resources in the “bible-belt.”

Witches, Pagans, Wiccans, Earth-centered spiritualists, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are invited to the sanctuary to camp and enjoy this celestial event in a safe space. Friday Gladheart will offer workshops in Witchcraft, herbalism, and tarot throughout the week of the event. All campsites can have a vending booth free! If you’d like to come camping with us, visit ArkansasEclipse.org. Please note that students of Witch Academy, members of Every Witch Way, and subscribers to The Practical Witch newsletter should use the links in their email for discount passes.

Daily Tarot

8. FORTITUDE (Strength).–Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honours. Reversed: Despotism, abuse if power, weakness, discord, sometimes even disgrace.

A woman, over whose head there broods the same symbol of life which we have seen in the card of the Magician, is closing the jaws of a lion. The only point in which this design differs from the conventional presentations is that her beneficent fortitude has already subdued the lion, which is being led by a chain of flowers. For reasons which satisfy myself, this card has been interchanged with that of justice, which is usually numbered eight. As the variation carries nothing with it which will signify to the reader, there is no cause for explanation. Fortitude, in one of its most exalted aspects, is connected with the Divine Mystery of Union; the virtue, of course, operates in all planes, and hence draws on all in its symbolism. It connects also with innocentia inviolata, and with the strength which resides in contemplation.

These higher meanings are, however, matters of inference, and I do not suggest that they are transparent on the surface of the card. They are intimated in a concealed manner by the chain of flowers, which signifies, among many other things, the sweet yoke and the light burden of Divine Law, when it has been taken into the heart of hearts. The card has nothing to do with self-confidence in the ordinary sense, though this has been suggested–but it concerns the confidence of those whose strength is God, who have found their refuge in Him. There is one aspect in which the lion signifies the passions, and she who is called Strength is the higher nature in its liberation. It has walked upon the asp and the basilisk and has trodden down the lion and the dragon.

General meanings from The Pictorial Key to the Tarot By Arthur Edward Waite. Illustrations By Pamela Colman Smith, 1911

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