by Kooch Daniels | Featured
Don’t be surprised if you’re feeling a major shift from your norm as we transition into the Chinese year of the fiery horse. Power is key! Cosmically, we’re experiencing a solar eclipse in Aquarius, the sign of our collective, humanitarian spirit.
Also, Saturn, linked with structure, organization, tangible karmic lessons, is sitting kissing close to Neptune (illusion, imagination, fantasy) in the sign of Aries, the zodiac warrior. To make a long story short: It’s a good time to envision your well-being and take extra good care of yourself. You can worry about Mercury being retrograde in Pisces, sign of the water loving fish, after Feb. 25th.
This morning after I finished sending my latest astro blurb to FB, a brilliant golden light flashed across the room about 4 feet in front of where I was sitting. Ten seconds later, the roaring sound of thunder crashed across my living room filling my being with terror. I wasn’t sure if I was on my way to the other world as I saw my two cats running for their lives and ducking for cover. All the metal in my mouth felt as if it was a melting saw blade cutting through my cheeks. My heart went into crisis mode as I realized that a thunderbolt had just entered my personal world with a crash. Was my house about to fall apart? Was Thor coming to take me to the underworld, or was Kali coming in person to give me a difficult lesson that I’m needing to learn? While adrenalin pumped wildly throughout my body, I wondered if I would survive the moment.
Challenge is a word that leaves out the horrific feeling of stark terror. I had left the word thunderbolt out of my astro narrative, not wanting to offer an overly negative divinatory message. WTF!!!! And now I had just come face to face with its sublime strength and beauty and watched it light shine like a spotlight on me from a close distance.
I’m breathing a bit better this afternoon after I had time to sleep and decompress. And I’m only feeling a stressful headache. Maybe I shouldn’t stay awake til 5 am writing blogs??? What I know for sure is that I have so much gratitude for being alive today. My take away message: Enjoy each moment…in spite of the complexity of cosmic messages, as long as we’re awake in our body, we can each reach for the stars of our desires.
Sending wishes for your inner light to be one with the eternal flame burning within the compassionate hearts of master creators of the universe.
Love to each and every one of you!
Kooch
by Kooch Daniels | Affirmations, Featured
Without us even thinking about it, the earth is turning, moving through cosmic space. As we wake up each morning, it’s the perfect time to look at the seeds of ideas that we’ve planted in our life. How are we nurturing their growth? How do we spend our time and energy to our best advantage? What responsibilities do we gladly accept and what ones do we hope to ignore?
Personally, I’ve experienced the loss of way too many friends to the god of death to take making choices for granted. Knowing that I can’t control the up and down flow of positive and negative life energies brings me to a humble resolve. Enjoy each moment before it passes!!! Yet, as most of us know, in this crazy world that isn’t always so easy.
Hearing my muses mummer, I must share that I’m not trying to condemn myself for being late writing my blog and getting my life in timely order. I’m not going to curse because I have dirty dishes hiding inside my stove. No…I’m going to pull cards from my astro-oracle deck and seek answers to how I can live peacefully in spite of daily news being so bleak. Who am I becoming as the world turns? Where is the light hidden in my soul?
I could continue by ranting about global problems or talking about how people are being vaporized by hidden toxins in technology, but no. I’m simply ending this note by sending you wishes for your dream’s fulfillment and a happy 2026.
And on an astrological note….
Are you an air, earth, water, or fire energy person? For those of you interested in learning how the four elements are viewed in relation to your zodiac sun sign, here is a brief summary:
Astrological Links with the Four Elements
Earth:
The zodiac Sun signs Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
Earth energy is connected with being rooted in the career and financial energy
Air:
The zodiac Sun Signs Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
Air energy soars with the wind of ideas and conscious awareness
Water
The zodiac Sun signs Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
Water energy is equaled with flowing waves of emotions, deep feelings, and intuition
Fire:
The Sun signs Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
This element is compared with flames of creativity, passion, willful determination
Wishing you great success,
Kooch
PS.. Feel free to DM for readings by appointment and/or virtual hugs.
by Kooch Daniels | Astrology, Books, Featured, Tarot
For a special Halloween delight, read Kooch’s
Troubled Moon: Confessions of a Tarot Reader
Order from your favorite bookstore
“Readers of Troubled Moon are in For a Wild Ride. I couldn’t put it down….” Ms Gates
Dylan’s uncanny knack for journeying into alternative psychic realities invites encounters with spirits from subterranean depths. While balancing between occult and worldly realities of doom and hope, he struggles to unveil mysteries of the heart. His life is strangely intertwined with an offbeat cast of characters who walk in psychic realms and the shadowy side of San Francisco.
Excerpt:
…. Mark, Give that to me. I’s my magical stone.” she said in protest. She didn’t know why but a current of fear shot through her body. At the same moment the electricity went out and room became comletely dark. “give me my stone,” she repeated.
Dancing shadows filled the room from a glow that emanated from the stone in Mark’s hand. Its shape seemed to shift into what appeared to be the head of sphinx with luminous eyes that penetrated the darkness.
“Wow, it glows in the dark,” Mark said. “Is it some kind of crystal or is it plastic? Where did you get that thing? Mark strained his eyes to find her hand in the dark. “Oh crap! It feels like fire ants are biting my palm. Here, take it back before I drop it.”
Just as she rock slipped back into Camilla’s hand, she pulled away from Mark’s touch, and the electricity came back on.
“I found it in an old abandoned house,” she replied….
by Kooch Daniels | Featured
A tarot student once asked, “What does it mean if the majority of the cards in my tarot spread show the suit of cups?”
“It’s important to drink from the cup of love,” was my reply.
A different answer to this question can involve exploring the meaning of the specific cards in the layout. However, this question could also be answered by examining the the meaning of the symbols on the suit of cups. What are the cups communicating to us?
Traditionally, the suit of cups most often involves love, passion, and relationships. It’s identified with the element water, the emotions, depth of feelings, receptivity, imagination, the intuition, and the subconscious. When there is a predominance of the suit of cups in a tarot spread, its message involves a watery or emotional inquiry. It visually shows the importance of discussing your client’s heart-felt needs and puts their longings and desires in the limelight. Even if the topic of romance isn’t the main question being asked, the person receiving the reading may need to get more in touch with their feelings and the truth of what’s affecting their inner reality. Listening to feelings can play a strong role in decision making.
A majority of this suit in a spread can indicate that life experiences are triggering emotional reactions. If the cards are mostly upright and illustrate positive or heart happy images such as we mostly find on the ace of cups, I might ask my client if he or she is falling in love or seeking advice about an on-going relationship. When most of the cup cards in the spread are reversed, I may ask whether a relationship is in conflict or if there is tension invoked by emotional concerns. Is the person who is getting the reading suffering from the pain of loss, focusing on a past relationship, or quarreling with a significant other?
During the discussion of the potential meaning of the cup cards, it will become obvious if the person is anxious or secure, a victim or victor in love, and how you can best nourish your client’s sense of well-being. While viewing the spread to explore the path of the inner self, it may become possible to dive into the sea of the subconscious mind and find truths buried under the surface of conscious awareness. Most often, a key to unveiling the message of this suit is to inwardly question, “What are you presently drinking from the cup of love?”
Wishing you joy,
Kooch
Readings with your path to success in focus
by Kooch Daniels | Featured
Thanks to the powers that be, my book Stars, Cards, and Stones is honored to be one of the Top 10 finalists of the UK’s International Carta Awards 2025. I would truly love it, if you’d lend your support and vote for my book. Voting is open til July 5…
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Scroll down on their page, click Click “Vote Here” and it’ll will take you to a form where there are 8 award categories. They ask that you vote in each category. Mine is the 7th called, “Best Book Independent of a Deck. ”Simply look for my book title and give it a vote….
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Sending a loving hug of gratitude and thankful appreciation.
Kooch
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Readings by appointment
by Kooch Daniels | Featured
Thurs. May 22 @ 7 PM.
Location: Many Rivers Books & Tea 130 S. Main Street, Suite 101 Sebastopol, Ca. 707-829-8871
Using Kooch’s book, Stars, Cards, and Stones, Exploring Cosmic Connections between Astrology, Tarot, and Runestones, and your natal chart as the source for our discussion, we’ll learn how to design a personal twelve-house zodiacal Tarot spread. We’ll discuss the wheel of life symbolic patterns to gain insight and interpret comic messages using the 22 major arcana cards from any of your favorite Tarot decks.
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Please bring a hard copy of your natal chart and a Tarot deck (if you have one) with the 22 major cards separated from the minor cards. If you don’t have your horoscope, class demonstrations and handouts will provide you information to create your personal zodiac spread when you have it to view. As time allows, you’ll also be offered a couple, short astro/Tarot spreads to help you get insights and answer your own questions.
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Hope you can join us for this interactive event,
Peace and Love,
Kooch
