The Harvest of a Six-Month Cycle

Fresh from November’s recent new moon in Scorpio, Uranus and an energised Mars provided impulse and encouraged you to push for the freedom and change.. You released past hurts, attachments, and losses and found space to grow new dreams and move in new directions.

And looking back six months to May, recall the beginnings of this narrative at the Gemini New Moon: you consciously began crafting your voice and ideas. Launched under the tutelage of an empowered Mercury, your words were granted logic and sharp articulation, and a trine from retrograding Pluto in Aquarius amplified their reach and lent them power. This potent alignment ensured your personal message was, from its very inception, a perfect expression of the Zeitgeist.

The karma from these seeds now culminates in December’s full moon in Gemini. The full moon illuminates the explorative truth-seeking Sun in Sagittarius. It tests your philosophical passions against the realities of your daily life, connections, and day-to-day mind, asking how your grand exploration is being received by your immediate environment and relationships. 

The Supportive Depths of the Grand Water Trine

This pivotal dialogue is profoundly anchored by a larger, silent symphony: a Grand Water Trine forming between Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn in Pisces, and Mercury in Scorpio. This triangular circuit of elemental power channels a profound current of collective feeling, memory, and intuition. This dialogue is supported by Jupiter, Sagittarius’s ruler, currently retrograde and exalted in Cancer. Acting as one cornerstone of this Water Trigon, Jupiter offers profound reassurance, nurturing your confidence while reminding you to protect what you cherish. This is a time to move with sensitivity, retrace steps in familial relationships, and reconsider self-protective behaviours that may have become overly defensive or isolating.

Fresh from its recent retrograde, a direct-moving Mercury in Scorpio—host to this Moon—and another key planet in the Grand Trine, infuses the lunation with newly clarified insights. Secrets are unveiled, yearnings laid bare, and your intuition guides your way. Here, your personal mental clarity (Mercury) is amplified by its harmonious flow with Jupiter’s nurturing wisdom and Saturn’s structural depth, allowing you to articulate not just personal truths, but ones that resonate with the collective. In the days that follow, this clarified awareness prepares you for Mercury’s second conjunction with Black Moon Lilith. This meeting adds a raw, emotional edge to communication, empowering you to give voice to forbidden truths, challenge unspoken norms, and speak from a place of profound authenticity; and now from a place of greater measure and inner certainty.

A Necessary Reorientation at the Bending of the Nodes

The Gemini Full Moon is square to the North and South lunar nodes, creating potent pressure for reorientation in your Pisces and Virgo houses. This necessary rebalancing will manifest in the life areas governed by this nodal axis, unfolding as a sacred dialogue between release and becoming.

First, the South Node in Virgo marks a domain fated for decrease—a necessary surrender of aspects of your self-image, untenable expectations, and outworn structures that limit your growth. In their place, you are invited to embrace uncertainty and insecurity not as failures, but as the fertile ground from which your authentic self and purpose can manifest.

Simultaneously, the North Node in Pisces extends a profound invitation toward dissolution, compassion, and spiritual unity. Yet this is not a passive drift; with Saturn and Neptune sharing these waters, your journey requires discipline and imagination. It may bring personal limitations to a head in an effort to reach higher ideals, demanding you build faith with responsibility and navigate your ideals through real-world limitations.

The Third Decan of Gemini: The Reconciliation of Inner Duality

This Full Moon falls squarely within the second decan of Gemini, which Austin Coppock names “The Hermaphrodite.” This decan speaks to the fundamental duality within ourselves and the world—not as a simple opposition, but as an intimate, often irreconcilable, tension held within one being.

Its symbolism is rooted in the myth of the mother goddess Cybele, who was born a hermaphrodite only to be split apart by jealous gods. This story serves as a profound archetype for the human condition: our longing for a lost “other half,” and the simultaneous joy of reunion and tragedy of separation that define our search for wholeness. Traditionally, this decan was associated with both Mars and Venus, reflecting its core dynamic of love and war, creation and conflict, woven into a single strand.

Yet amidst this psychological reckoning, Jupiter’s supportive energy offers a wellspring of reassurance. It reminds us that we are held and protected, soothing the Nine of Swords’ sharp self-critique with emotional warmth and perspective.

This Gemini Full Moon is the karmic harvest of the stories you set in motion six months ago, now brought to a fated culmination. The energy of this decan compels a sacred reconciliation. It urges you to unite the divided parts of your mind and spirit, moving beyond the paralyzing duality of perfectionism and fear. This is not a burning away, but a profound integration: a marriage of logic and intuition, analysis and faith.

Holding Duality with Grace

This lunation does not ask for a perfect argument, but for the courage to trust the silent, intuitive conversation—the wordless understanding—that arises when opposing thoughts are finally held as one. The path forward is illuminated by the Sabian symbol for this degree – “A conversation by telepathy.” This offers the key to navigating the mental crucible: a shift from harsh, analytical debate to a state of profound, intuitive understanding that can hold both sides of the dialogue as one.

Aries 

A Burst of Communication and Local Activity

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Aries, you are feeling particularly motivated, adventurous, and energised with your ruler, Mars, transiting fiery Sagittarius alongside the Sun and Venus. This potent stellium is further empowered by its host, Jupiter, which is exalted as it retrogrades through your 4th house of home. You are feeling optimistic and supported at home, and this is giving you even more impetus in your worldly endeavours.

You may experience a brief pull from bad habits or self-limiting beliefs with Saturn’s return to your twelfth house, a pressure amplified by the copresent North Node. However, the expansive and positive trine from an exalted Jupiter in your fourth house provides the strength and perspective to keep you on the straight and narrow.

This Gemini Full Moon joyfully activates your third house, placing communication squarely in the spotlight. Expect a flurry of activity involving new ideas, local connections, creative writing, essays, interviews, and job applications. With the opposing 9th house hosting Venus, the Sun, and Mars, this communicative bustle is likely connected to higher learning, philosophy, foreign cultures, or distant lands. You might be embarking on an overseas trip to teach English or to garner new material for your online channel.

Adding to the narrative, the Moon’s ruler, Mercury, is now direct after its journey through your 8th house in Scorpio. This suggests that family secrets or karma may be brought to light, or that shared resources or inheritance could come into play.

Also of significant note is the South Node (Ketu) traversing your sixth house. Aries, this is a wonderful opportunity to liberate yourself from criticality and perfectionism in your routines, health, and service. Ketu here burns away the ego’s attachment to “perfect performance” in your work and daily duties. It’s time to let small things slide, hire help instead of insisting on doing everything yourself, and release guilt over unfinished tasks.

Lead with your signature courage, Aries, but let strategy be your guide. Enjoy this dynamic time.

Taurus 

A Financial Turning Point Amid Personal Revolution

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The return of Uranus to your first house in Taurus initiates a profound 7-8 year revolution of the self, electrifying your identity, body, and life direction with an imperative for radical authenticity. This awakening will inevitably send destabilizing ripples through your Seventh House of partnerships and tenth house of career, testing relationships and professional status, not to destroy them, but to force their alignment with your liberated, authentic spirit. The anxiety of this transformation is the friction of an outgrown self dissolving, with the ultimate goal of shedding a confining skin to step into a life that is thrillingly and unapologetically your own.

Amplifying this theme of personal revolution, this Gemini Full Moon activates your Second House, bringing your financial and material resources into sharp focus. A business venture, job, or new livelihood idea is now reaching an eventful culmination. With the house ruler, Mercury, positioned in your seventh house, this turning point is significantly linked to a partner. You may have decided to begin working together, or a dynamic shift in your shared situation is directly impacting your finances. This could include a decisive change in how you earn a living or how you relate to your material security.

For an earth sign like you, Taurus, this can be exciting yet potentially destabilizing—a feeling amplified by the intense emotional currents of the Grand Trine in water signs. Have faith that events are unfolding to restructure your life for your ultimate benefit. Communication at this time is expansive and beneficial; unexpected support may arrive from siblings, neighbours, or within your local community.

Meanwhile, the Sun, co-present with Venus and Mars in your eighth house, brings themes of shared resources to the fore. Matters of investment, inheritance, karmic or financial debts could arise. While this house also holds anxiety, the harmonious support from Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn suggests these pressures will lift, ease, or that you will feel profoundly supported through any unsettled feelings.

Finally, the Moon’s square to the Lunar Nodes will trigger changes along your Eleventh and fifth house axis. Look for shifts in your friendships, social circles, and long-held ambitions. This could also bring developments concerning children, creative pursuits, or a romantic affair, reshaping the landscape of what you enjoy and how you express your heart.

Gemini  

A Moment of Self-Clarity and Relationship Reckoning

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This Full Moon is all about you! Illuminating your first house—the helm of your chart—this lunation brings aspects of your mind, body, character, and vitality to a powerful fruition. It’s a moment of clarity: do you like what you see?

Straddling the axis of your first and seventh houses, the Sun and Moon highlight the fundamental polarity between self and other. This is a potent time to ask yourself: Have you been truly nurturing yourself? Are your boundaries both healthy and sustainable?

With Venus, the Sun, and Mars all gathered in your Seventh House of Sagittarius, your partner is in a period of high energy and action. The crucial question for you is: how is this impacting your own equilibrium? Is there a balance between what you give and what you receive? If not, this lunation may catalyze inevitable changes or endings in significant relationships, underscoring a pressing need to nurture yourself, reclaim your sovereignty, and honour your personal truth.

The ruler of this Moon, Mercury, resides in your sixth house, inviting you to reflect on your daily routines, work-related stresses, and physical health. If these areas are not supporting your emotional and physical well-being, the call for change is now. In fact, this is amplified by the Grand Water Trine between Jupiter in your second house, Mercury in your sixth, and Saturn in your tenth. In Vedic astrology, this powerful triangle forms the “Houses of Growth,” all linked to material success and survival. This configuration is pushing you to develop, through your own effort, your personal resources (2nd), the discipline to overcome daily challenges (6th), and the career achievements (10th) that define your place in the world.

Finally, with the Lunar Nodes squaring this full moon, also look for tensions impacting your tenth and fourth houses. These pivotal areas may see new developments in your public reputation and career, as well as significant shifts in the most personal domains of your life: your home and family.

Cancer 

Abundant Growth Meets Necessary Release

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Jupiter has been journeying through your first house since late May, bestowing a magnificent cloak of blessings, expansion, and wisdom. You have likely been feeling a profound sense of optimism, generosity, and overall well-being. This transit has gifted you with deeper insight into your own nature and a renewed appreciation for the sacred web of familial relationships—and those bonds that are family in spirit. A more magnanimous and protective energy has taken root, fostering stronger, more nurturing connections with your inner circle.

Yet, even amidst this Jupiterian abundance, this Full Moon in your twelfth house illuminates the hidden chambers of your psyche, revealing areas where deeper work awaits. Old habits, patterns of self-undoing, or tendencies toward isolation now surface, ready to be compassionately healed and released. This is especially potent with the twelfth house ruler, Mercury, now moving direct through your fifth house, freshly clarified from its retrograde. Be aware of revelations linked to children, pleasurable (or potentially addictive) activities, or love affairs that were previously obscured from your view. As the Moon reflects the light of the opposing Sun in your sixth house, a push-and-pull dynamic may emerge, asking you to balance the duality between your daily routines, obligations, and your physical health.

Remain mindful of the tension from the squared Lunar Nodes. In your third house, relationships with siblings or community ties may be shifting dramatically, or the very nature of how you communicate—interpersonally, recreationally, or professionally—has reached a powerful turning point. Simultaneously, in your ninth house, you are called to integrate, surmount, or surrender to constraints in the realms of higher studies, foreign travel, philosophy, or your core spiritual beliefs.

Weaving through it all, the supportive geometry of the Grand Water Trine connects your first, fifth, and ninth houses. This powerful flow amplifies your emotions and intuition, inviting you to reflect on the sacred continuum of your being: your native intelligence and inherent talents (first house), how they manifest through your creative expression (fifth house), and how they ultimately inform your higher, philosophical wisdom and connection to the divine (ninth house).

Leo 

Your Social Circles and Creative Dreams in Focus

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This is a potent moment to reflect on your social circle. Are the people around you a true reflection of the new values and aspirations you’ve been nurturing, and are you your true self in their presence?

The ruler of this lunation, Mercury, is now moving direct. It has been transformed—renewed and now carries the profound insights that were revealed to it during its rebirth in the heart of the Sun. It now travels with a new, wiser understanding of deeply embedded family patterns, carrying this karma not as a burden, but with acceptance and insight. As it journeys toward your fifth house, you do so as well: feeling lighter, more self-aware, and with a clearer vision of what truly brings you fulfillment.

This inner unburdening creates expansive space for your ideas to manifest and grow. You are not alone in this creative surge. You are supported by Venus in her joyful home, gracing you with faith and an eye for beauty, while an energetic Mars fuels your courage and thirst for adventure. The opposition from Uranus awakens a powerful urge to break from convention, spurring you to live as your most authentic self. Meanwhile, Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, works behind the scenes to bless these developments, even if you can’t yet see how.

However, profound change rarely happens in a vacuum. Your new dreams and creative ambitions, activated at the bending of the Lunar Nodes, may require tangible shifts in your material world. This could manifest as a need to reorganize your finances or rebalance the resources you share with others—be they financial, emotional, or karmic debts that connect you. Embracing your new path involves consciously restructuring these foundations to support the life you are now creating.

Virgo 

Releasing the Old Self, Reviewing Partnerships

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The South Node has been travelling through your first house since the beginning of the year. In Vedic Astrology, it is known as Ketu; the tail of the Serpent. Ketu’s profound lesson is to let go of worldly and material attachments to find spiritual liberation. In your first house of self,  this manifests as a powerful call to shed aspects of your identity that are no longer authentic. You may find yourself in deep soul-searching, revising your self-concept, or experiencing physical nudges, all guiding you toward necessary changes in how you understand yourself and how you relate to others and the wider world.

This process of release is directly mirrored by its opposite: the North Node, Rahu, travelling through your seventh house. In Vedic astrology, it is the Serpent’s head, mouth open, eternally hungry and insatiable. Its presence here asks you to reflect deeply on your committed relationships. Do they trigger a desire born from fear, abandonment, or a sense of inadequacy? 

These themes may be activated by the full moon in Gemini, which sits in your tenth house at the bending of the Nodes. The full moon illuminates your public actions, your career, and your reputation in light of recent upheavals, transitions, or restructuring of your home and living situation. There may be a dynamic tension or reciprocal push and pull between these areas of your life, for which you must try and find balance. 

Yet, you are supported beautifully. Venus in your fourth house ultimately weaves harmony and positive connections into your domestic foundation. Its Sagittarian host, Jupiter, brings blessings and expansion, while its supportive alignment to Saturn in your seventh House provides greater practical stability and commitment within your partnerships.

Finally, Mercury—the ruler of both your Virgo Ascendant and this lunation—now travels direct once more, freshly clarified with new knowledge. It empowers you with a deeper understanding of what you wish to communicate and asks you to find the courage to use your skills and initiative to grow through practice.

Libra 

Wisdom and New Conversations Reshape Your Path

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The Gemini full moon lights up your auspicious ninth house of divinity, philosophy and higher learning, and foreign lands. It may bring existential wisdom and clarification in your search for meaning, faith, and God. 

This is intimately tied to your second house of finances and resources, where the Moon’s ruler, Mercury, is currently travelling direct. You are re-evaluating how you support and sustain yourself and your relationship to material wealth. The insights you gain are about to be put into practice, as Mercury will soon bring this new understanding into your bustling third house of communication. Here, a powerful stellium of Venus, the Sun, and Mars is placing your immediate environment in the spotlight. Expect dynamic conversations, inspiration to put pen to paper, news from siblings or neighbours, and a strong urge to express your ideas locally.

The ruler of this active third is Jupiter in strong dignity in the warm, fertile, watery Cancer, retrograding back through your tenth house. You may be reassessing your career at this time. Does your current job meet your needs for nurturance, intuition, fairness and justice? And is it receptive to your ideas, guidance, or professional insight?

Simultaneously, this potent Full Moon squares the Lunar Nodes, challenging you to balance your Virgo-Pisces axis. This is a call to transform your relationship with service and sacrifice. Are you ready to release old patterns of self-undoing or spiritual escapism (twelfth house) while proactively managing daily stress and health (sixth house)? Your key now is to establish a healthy, sustainable routine that grounds you, turning the “daily grind” into a practice of mindful self-care.

Scorpio 

Navigating Financial Security and Shared Resources

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Your Sagittarius second house is hosting the stellium of Venus, Sun, and Mars, bringing your livelihood, financial affairs, and material assets into focus. They oppose this Gemini full moon in your eighth house, creating a tangible push-pull dynamic between the two houses. Whilst the second house relates to your material security, the eighth house brings up troubling anxieties, fears of loss. It may involve other people’s money, such as debt, family inheritance, or your partner’s wealth. Are concerns over your financial security causing you to lose sleep? Or will you receive an inheritance that eases your financial burden?

Fresh from its powerful meeting with the Sun, the lunation’s ruler, Mercury, now resides in your first house. This has ignited profound clarity about your identity and desired path, placing you firmly at the helm of your journey.

Fortunately, Jupiter in your ninth house provides supported expansion and a protective influence, easing your worries by encouraging a philosophical perspective that helps you weather these storms and see the bigger picture.

The full moon is in a stressful alignment to the North and South Nodes. As these financial and personal themes unfold, you may find yourself releasing long-held aspirations and noticing shifts within your social circle. Simultaneously, your recent self-discoveries are igniting a fresh enthusiasm for creative projects, potentially bringing new, invigorating activities and pastimes into your life. 

Sagittarius 

Personal Insights Illuminate Your Partnerships

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Mercury, the psychopomp, is now returning from your twelfth house of solitude and the unconscious. You may be undergoing a deep, cathartic transformation of the emotional energies and strategies you carry. These newly gained insights bring revelations about your emotional patterns and character, illuminating how they impact your self-presentation and your relationships with others.

In your seventh house of committed partnerships, the Gemini Full Moon illuminates your spouse, romantic partner, or—if you are unattached—your feelings about your independent path. The ruler of this lunation, Mercury, resides in your twelfth house, suggesting your partner may be navigating challenging circumstances or difficult events, which will, in turn, naturally impact you.

Adding to this dynamic are the planetary guests in your Sagittarius first house: Venus, the Sun, and Mars. This creates a potent focus on you—your body, mind, and soul. This stellium makes you particularly spirited, bold, and passionate, a vitality that may serve you well. However, the ruler of your first house, Jupiter, is currently retrograde in your eighth house. Issues of loss, anxiety, or dynamics related to financial or karmic debts could challenge your inherent optimism and sense of freedom. 

The Full Moon’s tension with the Lunar Nodes creates a dual pressure. In your public life, you are called to loosen perfectionist tendencies at work and question whether your dedication is truly valued. Privately, you may face intense pressures related to home, family, or ancestral matters, testing your patience.

Yet, a benefic Jupiter aspect to your Fourth House ensures that even profound challenges around home or loss will be softened, with their resolution ultimately bringing a deeper, hard-won peace. This is a significant time: hold fiercely to your innate positivity and honour your need for both truthful action and personal freedom.

Capricorn  

Daily Routines and Deeper Healing

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Capricorn, the Gemini New Moon illuminates your sixth house of daily routine and well-being, potentially straining communication and creating friction in your workflow. You may feel the weight of life’s inevitable administration and chores more than usual, demanding extra attention to your day-to-day habits to safeguard your physical health.

Ruled by a Mercury stationed in your Scorpio eleventh house, these daily difficulties are not without purpose. They are poised to restructure your ambitions, uncover crucial information, and draw new, influential people into your orbit.

This is a moment of significant pressure, as the Sun and Moon align with the bending of the Nodes, activating your karmic axis. The North Node, travelling with Saturn in your third house, may have you feeling silenced—as if your ability to express your needs is restricted. The lesson here is to relinquish control and rethink how you communicate your message. It is profoundly significant that Saturn, your ruling planet, forms a trine to Jupiter from this position, providing a stable, supportive structure that blesses your efforts and promises a positive outcome from this period of growth.

At the same time, the South Node in your ninth house may evoke a lingering sense of meaninglessness.  Are you too dogmatic or inflexible? Or has your philosophical world view or religion become habitual and stagnated? If you are engaged in higher education, this is a potent time to reconsider your course of study, or to grant yourself a restorative break to reconnect with your immediate environment. This is a call to release outworn beliefs and find meaning not in distant dogma, but in the immediate, tangible world around you.

Aquarius  

Creative Culmination and Financial Foundations

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Aquarius, this Full Moon in Gemini illuminates your fifth house, bringing a creative project, idea, or personal joy to a meaningful culmination. With its ruler, Mercury, now direct, you are ready to take your creations to the next level—perhaps finally staging that gallery exhibition, launching an online craft business, or celebrating a child’s milestone like a graduation.

This lunation opposes your eleventh house, where Venus, the Sun, and Mars transit through fiery Sagittarius, placing your ambitions and social dreams front and centre. Your life may be buzzing with exciting gatherings and a powerful drive to fulfill your goals. Fortunately, Sagittarius’s ruler, Jupiter, is exalted in your sixth house, supporting a return to healthy routines, physical well-being, and the resolution of any workplace tensions.

The Sun and Moon are at the bending of the Nodes, creating tension that may trigger shifts in your second house of resources (where the North Node travels) and your eighth house of shared assets (where the South Node resides).

Your Ascendant ruler, Saturn, is copresent with the North Node, Rahu, in your Pisces second house. This ignites a deep, perhaps anxious, drive to build wealth and secure your material foundation. Saturn’s presence demands discipline and patience with these desires. As Pisces is spiritual and boundless, you may be guided to use your resources for compassionate purposes or to allow a creative project to become a steady source of income. This could involve a leap of faith regarding your current career.

Have faith and surrender, Aquarius. Jupiter, exalted in your sixth house, forms a supportive trine to Saturn, providing structure, practical support, and a philosophical outlook as you navigate this terrain.

Opposite this, the South Node, Ketu, in your Virgo eighth house, asks you to release a karmic debt, settle old financial dependencies, or surrender to a loss. This house holds deep-seated anxieties; it is time to unearth lingering fears, unpick your psychological motivations, and move forward with greater independence.

Pisces 

Home and Career Balance Under a Demanding Sky

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Pisces, this is a significant and potentially challenging period of growth and reflection. Friction from this Full Moon along your Nodal axis is amplified by the North Node, Rahu, in your first house—a placement joined by Saturn, offering you a profound opportunity to cultivate discipline, perseverance, and patience. While you may face obstacles, restrictions, or moments of pessimism, take heart. What you are compelled to release will ultimately bring wisdom and a better outcome. This transformation is supported by an exalted Jupiter, which trines Saturn, the taskmaster, ensuring your efforts are met with cosmic grace.

Opposing the Moon, a dynamic stellium of Venus, the Sun, and Mars energizes your tenth house of career and public reputation. You feel driven to achieve your ambitions and make significant professional strides. The ruler of this house, Jupiter, is retrograde in Cancer and forms a supportive, expansive angle to Saturn in your first house. This boosts your creative confidence and can bring unexpected success, recognition, or a financial bonus that directly benefits your family, children, and home. A romance may also spark with someone you meet through work, potentially on an overseas trip.

Finally, with the South Node, Ketu, in your Virgo seventh house of partnerships, the profound shifts in your angular houses may place pressure on your significant relationship. This is a time to consciously release criticism or silent retreat. The Gemini Moon encourages you to embrace free communication and emotional vulnerability, moving beyond a detached, service-oriented connection. Channel your innate Piscean empathy to foster understanding, acceptance, and unwavering faith in your partnership.

Referenced Books

Austin Coppock – 36 Faces: The History, Astrology, and Magic of the Decans

T. Susan Chang – A Decanic Journey through the Minor Arcana of the Tarot