Junk Mail Tarot
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Q&A with Joy: How do I Integrate the NOW Into a Birth Chart Reading
Heather Rose of Enchanted Rose, LLC, who completed my Esoteric Tarot certification program, emailed me with a problem she was running into doing astrological chart readings. Here’s the question: “I have done some chart readings. I feel like I have that…
Through the Shining Veil: Planetary Ingresses for Self-Reflection
Through the Shining Veil: Planetary Ingresses for Self-Reflection TO SELENE, THE MOON The Fumigation from Aromatics. Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horn’d and wand’ring thro’ the gloom of Night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night’s torch extending,…
Permission: Omission or Commission?
Welcome to the Reiki Blog Hop! A group of Reiki practitioners from around the world are all writing on the same topic, and linking to each other so you can hop around from blog to blog, reading all the different stories…
Maypole Tarot Spread
Karen Sealey of Pure and Blessed Tarot offered us an odd but intriguing topic—the word “may.” Of course, that’s the current month, and our holiday in folk traditions is often called Mayday. So after working with the topic from a variety…
50 Beginning Tarot Decks
Joy’s Rules for Choosing a Tarot Deck for The Magician’s Tools Beginning Tarot Class I have been teaching beginning tarot for 22 years. I teach a unique method that systematizes the way intuitive tarot readers approach the cards, giving you…
Tarot and Finance: Unlock Your Money Magic
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My First Reiki Experience
Welcome to our inaugural Reiki Blog Hop! A group of Reiki practitioners from around the world are all writing on the same topic, and linking to each other so you can hop around from blog to blog, reading all the…
2016 March Reiki Blog Hop Master List
Today is our first Reiki Blog Hop! The topic was to share how you got started on your Reiki journey. How did you first hear about Reiki? Why did you first get a session? What was giving your first session…
Rookie Mistakes that Beginning Tarot Readers Make
Reading tarot is hard. You’ve taken classes, studied, read books, asked your cards a million questions, but every time you lay the cards out, you feel like you’re lost at sea with no land in sight—just a lonely, empty silence…
Symbolism in the Tarot
Often tarot teaching focuses on specific symbols in the cards and what they mean. Certainly, the particulars of historical usage of a common symbol in religious iconography, alchemical woodcuts, Renaissance art, or other divination symbol systems can enlighten us to…
Using Tarot for Better Relationships
Using Two Decks for Couples Readings Welcome to the Tarot Professionals Blog Hop! Their intention is to host a monthly blog hop that is an exclusive forum for their members to share their tarot and cartomantic blogs and build community through…
Awaken the Heart
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2016 Midwinter Blog Hop Master List
2016 Midwinter Blog Hop Master List Morgan Drake Eckstein, Gleamings from the Golden Dawn JoannaKate Grant, A Journey with the Thoth Tarot Benebell Wen Arwen Lynch Poe Sarah ‘Sezo’ Kral, The Divine Path Joanne Sprott, Cosmic Whispers Tarot Christiana Gaudet…
Best Beginner Tarot Decks
With thousands of tarot decks in print, plus used and collectible decks readily available online and in used book stores and metaphysical stores around the world, buying a tarot deck is a daunting challenge. Where do you start? I’ve been…
Q&A with Joy: Which Type of Reiki Attunement is Best?
Nicole, a regular participant in the Denver Traditional Reiki Meetup Reiki Shares, emailed me with a question about the different rituals used for Reiki initiations, commonly called reiju in the traditional lineages and attunements in the Western lineages. Here’s the…
New Deck: I Can’t Make Up My Mind
I’m excited to start off the new year by joining another blogging community. I have joined the newly formed Tarot Professionals Blog Hop and this is their inaugural Hop! Their intention is to host a monthly blog hop that is an exclusive…
Within or Without
There are two primary metaphors for describing the flow of spiritual energy in the practice of Reiki Ryôhô. In one, we describe the energy as flowing from above or beyond us. We use words like “channeling” Reiki or being a…
Two of Hearts Tarot Bag
A Romantic Bag For Your True Love Such a pretty bag for such a pretty deck. This lovely bag tells everyone that your heart belongs to tarot! A pair of lace hearts adorns the front of this bag, bringing to…
Peace in Joy
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