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
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 next,…
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
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 next,…
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…
"The Four Corners of the Barn" Tarot Spread
This post is what I’ll call a Blog Dialogue. Another blog I read inspired this response, which I’d like to share with you. At our last Tarot Blog Hop, tarot colleague and friend Jordan Hoggard wrote a blog on his…
From My Table to Yours
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…
Brighid Mala
This year I am serving as a flamekeeper for Brighid. At Imbolc, the festival of Brighid in February, the flamekeepers met for a meditation ceremony at which we each lit a small candle from a larger candle that had been…
The Chariot as Cancer
The symbolism behind the Chariot’s correlation to Cancer in the tarot just came to me. First, it helps to understand how the assignment of the cards to the planets and signs came about. In fifteenth century minchiate decks, twenty additional…
Circle Celebrations and Faery Fun
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…
Q&A with Joy: A Reiki Error Which Was or Possibly Was Not Reiki
New feature on Completely Joyous! I’m now going to be offering short answers to questions that you ask! Students and colleagues ask me questions about tarot and Reiki privately and I’ve often thought that other people might want to know…
Q&A with Joy: Jumper Cards
Q&A is a new feature on Completely Joyous! I’m now going to be offering short answers to questions that you ask! Students and colleagues ask me questions about tarot and Reiki privately and I’ve often thought that other people might…
Dancing Between Light and Darkness
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the next, seeing all the permutations…
Becoming One with the Precepts
Last week in my Shoden (Reiki 1) class, we were discussing the precepts and practicing various methods of meditating on them, including the practice of speaking the precepts energetically from the hara, or the energy center in the belly. The…
In the Belly: Finding the Muse Within
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the next, seeing all the permutations…
How to Choose a Tarot Deck
Recently I talked with representatives of a couple metaphysical stores and asked what their bestselling tarot deck was. I thought there would be a “tarot flavor of the month”—an especially popular current deck—but it turned out that both stores sold…