Diamond Pane Window Tarot Bag
Peek-a-boo Bag! Every tarot deck needs a bag. But how do you know which deck is in which bag? Shed some light on the matter with a window tarot bag! This bag features an eyelet lattice pattern reminiscent of a…
Year 2014
Tarot Blog Hop: The Joy Of Gifting
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Big Things Come in Small Presence: Twelve Ways to Find Connection and Balance in a Minute a Day
When receiving a gift, a friend of mine would quip, the Universe loves presence. I have a regular client who took the time out of her busy schedule to see me in person for a reading—she usually does phone readings. As…
The Top 5 Ways to Raise Your Reiki Energy and One Cool Gift
A few weeks ago in my Shinpiden (Reiki 3) class, I proposed the discussion topic of how to make your Reiki energy stronger. Everyone spoke eloquently on how the Reiki energy comes not from us but from Source, the client…
Rank-o-phile: The Chrysalis Troupe
About five weeks ago, I came across a review of the Chrysalis Tarot by Dan Pelletier of the Tarot Garden (published October 30 on his Facebook page). He praised the deck creators, saying, “Sierra and Brooks demonstrate they actually understand…
Afternoon Tea on the Day of the Dead
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Mala Bead Apps
That morning my cell phone told me that it would rain all day. It didn’t. But in the late afternoon, thunder crashes assured me that the rain was indeed coming. I had a class that night and decided to walk…
Quantum Leap
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
The Elements of the Tarot
The topic for the upcoming BlogHop (to be published September 23) is to talk about a time when your understanding of the Tarot underwent a quantum leap, what brought about the change in your understanding of the Tarot and how you approach…
Q&A with Joy: Why Meditate?
The following is a transcript, edited for clarity, of a discussion we had in my Practical Qabalah class earlier this month. One student asked, Why meditate? Here’s her question and the discussion that followed: D: Meditation, as I encounter it, seems…
The Best Way to Learn Tarot
It was nearing the end of the day at the Isis Books psychic fair this month when someone I knew from the store sat at my table. “I am overcome with the urge to buy a tarot deck and I…
Invoking the Silent Sage
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Best Practices for Meditation
When I first started working full time as a tarot reader and Reiki practitioner, I had a Reiki client who was discussing meditation with me. She wanted to have a daily meditation practice and had been successful with a meditation…
Q&A with Joy: Numerology and the Tarot
A student who has been studying esotericism (tarot, astrology and kabbalah) with me all year contacted me this morning with the following question: “You mentioned that the numbers associated with the tarot are not necessarily accurate, as I understood you;…
Joy
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Deck Review: Chrysalis Tarot by Holly Sierra and Toney Brooks
Subject: Chrysalis Tarot I have managed to score 12 copies. These are the only ones we will be able to get for the foreseeable future. …[S]end your people down, 12 of them, anyway, and let them get them while the…
Q&A with Joy: Timing in the Tarot
A tarot student contacted me today asking for a suggestion for reading a question of time, such as, will a specific event happen, and if so, when. Here’s my answer: There are a variety of ways to read for time. I’ll…
The Union of Opposites
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Deck Review: Les Vampires Oracle Deck by Lucy Cavendish and Jasmine Becket-Griffith
A sultry, dark-haired, pale, wide-eyed immortal sits demurely in her Victorian parlor, as she and her cat both turn their heads back over their shoulders, casting two pairs of green eyes up toward the moon just peeking out from behind…
A Myriad of Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Methods for Manifesting Money
In honor of tax day, I would like to share my favorite ways for creating a magical mindset around money. Here are my top ten magical, mystical, marvelous methods for manifesting money: Reiki your checkbook! (Wallet, purse, money pouch, fanny…