Cardinal earth: rapaciousness, growth, deep roots

Hedges, like lawns, are of no use to the witch unless they are overgrown, wild, and generative.

Cardinal earth: initiation, deep future, building

When you have been inhabiting a world so deeply, it can feel like a loss to turn it into something that other people can perceive. In some ways, the more fully-realised your imaginative space, the more difficult to let go of your vision.

Cardinal earth: ambition, architecture, boundaries

When we read a story, temptation only works when we agree to it. Like the two figures here, we must submit to story.

Cardinal earth: cathedral, winter, resources, the unknown

The Five of Pentacles appears to be about stuckness, and scarcity, but it can teach us a lot about the luminous mysteries.

Cardinal earth: initiating a sensory practice, intentions

A sigil is a powerful symbolic representation of your magical will.