The Bamboo Reed
In this essay, I consider two different metaphors for the Reiki practitioner--the overflowing vessel and the hollow reed.
Joy Vernon
Joy Vernon is widely recognized as an expert tarot teacher and respected community leader. With over twenty-five years’ experience teaching energetic and esoteric modalities, Joy brings expertise and practiced familiarity to her specialty of esoteric tarot, which layers astrological and qabalistic symbolism onto the traditional tarot structure. Under her leadership, the Denver Tarot Meetup grew into one of the largest and most active tarot-specific meetups in the world. Now Joy runs the Greater Seattle Tarot Meetup. Joy works as a tarot reader, astrologer, and teacher in Burien, Washington. To learn more, please visit JoyVernon.com.
Tarot as a Healing Art
But true soul-level healing can arise when the reader continues on to the layer of highest expression. By giving voice to the unassailable inspiration of these cards, whatever stories they may have already told, we shed the light of Divine Unity on the shards of self, and fractured parts reflect the perfect whole.
Tarotist or Kabbalist?
I was asked a week and a half ago if I am a kabbalist who is interested in tarot, or a tarotist who uses kabbalah to open new perspectives on the tarot. I had to think about that one. I…
Backwards and Forwards
Rather than seeing each suit as an Ace through 10 progression, in this short article I propose the idea of moving backwards through the suits of Wands and Swords, and forwards through the suits of Cups and Pentacles, to discover the plot of the pips.
Six of Cups
Two different questions. Two different decks. Two single card draws. Six of Cups both times. My first memory of the Six of Cups is from my Barbara Walker deck–first deck I ever got, back in 1991. That card, Childhood, showed…