Darkness to light - tarot version

Here are Death and Temperance from the Wild Unknown tarot, linked to Scorpio and Sagittarius in the zodiac. These are the energies shifting around us right now, the bare bones of the winter and the fires of the returning light. I especially love this version of Temperance, as I have a special connection with heron in my shamanic and magical practice. As Old Crane Wife, I associate her with this time of year, perhaps because of Grey Heron Nights (which I really hope will be back soon!)

Old Crane Wife strips you back to bare bones. I think that's what's in the flame-bag that heron carries, the bones of Death. Heron is singing over them. She is weeping over them, and her tears quicken life. Temperance is the return from death, aflame with the gifts of life. Back you have travelled from the dark, rising up out of the depths of Scorpio to cross the rainbow bridge of Sagittarius visions. Maybe Old Crane Woman guards the pot of gold. For there were riches in the dark, if you knew where to look. If you knew how to look.

And now we carry those riches with us, bringing them into the light.