Resurrection and Rebirth
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The Heart of Healing
Kokoro: Heart, Mind, Spirit The following is excerpted from the student manual for the Daiseishi Bosatsu Reiki class that I teach. One of the goals of traditional Japanese Reiki is to approach Reiki from a culturally Japanese perspective. What does…
Difficult Cards
We all have those cards that we hate to see come up in a reading. These are the difficult cards. For me, it’s often based on the image used in a particular deck–I had a Two of Cups in one…
Learning to Heal the Hard Way
I first learned to work with energy back in the late 80s/early 90s through the magical practices of a few Neo-Pagan ritual groups. The work I learned included some healing techniques, although I didn’t use them much. In addition to…
Q&A with Joy: All Reversed Cards
Chris recently read my article Reading and Ceremony for Charging a Tarot Deck in the Llewellyn Journal and sent me the following question: Tonight I charged my first ever deck of tarot cards like you instructed on Llewellyn.com. EVERY card I…
Tarot, Healing and Creativity
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How I Became a Reiki Teacher
After I had received my teacher training in Usui Tibetan Reiki (Jan 2005), in addition to the daily energetic meditations I was doing (I was practicing chi gong meditations, because the Usui Tibetan system didn’t teach any traditional Japanese meditations),…
Oneness on the Southbound 0
For compassion to develop toward a wide range of persons, mere knowledge of how beings suffer is not sufficient; there has to be a sense of closeness with regard to every being. That intimacy is established either through merely reflecting…
What’s the Difference Between Usui Reiki Ryôhô and Komyo Reiki?
Despite being trained in both Western and Japanese styles of Reiki, I now teach only traditional Japanese Reiki—Usui Reiki Ryôhô (as taught by the International House of Reiki) and Komyo Reiki (as taught by Komyo Reiki Kai Founder Hyakuten Inamoto).…
Eyelet Tarot Bag Knitting Instructions
You can never have too many tarot bags! Tarot bags are pretty and functional. They keep your cards safe, provide a quick way to identify decks, and are perfectly portable when you need to grab your cards and go. Ever…
Turning Darkness into Light
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Eyelet Tarot Bag
Recently I knitted a couple pairs of Montgomery Fingerless Mitts and thought, this basic pattern would make a good tarot bag. This is my first attempt at adapting a pattern for another use, so it’s not perfect, but it is…
Turkey Conundrum: Qabalah
Suddenly I realized it is the last day of November and I had not posted anything on my blog! I couldn’t believe how lazy I had been to go a whole month without writing anything. And then I remembered–Oh, right,…
Q&A with Joy: Online Readings
One of my Facebook friends mentioned that a specific organization offered tarot readings online, and asked if they were legitimate or if the recipient of the reading has to be present. Here’s my answer to her: A lot of times you…
Love: A Fool's Approach
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Deck Review: Tarot Illuminati
I first became aware of the Tarot Illuminati through Facebook a couple of years ago. What caught my eye was the decadent image of the High Priestess which graced the cover of the Tarosophist International winter 2011 issue. As I…
Deck Review: The Sacred World Oracle by Kris Waldherr
I’m a tarot reader and have never had much use for oracle decks. But earlier this year when I was preparing a presentation on accessing your intuition and finding your answers using tarot and oracles, I came across The Sacred…
Tarot vs Oracles
I love writing formal poetry. I love the way my intuition opens up when the rigid guidelines of meter and rhyme keep me focused. I love how a perfect line spills out of me in response to the limitations of…
Divination and Myth: Archetypal Expansion
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Deck Review: Tarot of the Hidden Realm
Three seals playfully swoop through the water as a pretty girl floats just below the surface in a yellow-green sea, drifting, arms out, head turned down. Interesting, I thought, as I mentally compared this to the traditional interpretation, with the…