Dealing the Distasteful
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The Top Five Reasons TarotCon Denver is Going to be Awesome!
5. A Gorgeous Spiritual Center, not a Fluorescent Convention Center. TarotCon Denver will be held at the Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality. This amazing historic building was built in 1898 as a church of Divine Science, one of the denominations…
Is Tarot Ancient?
I presented this paper to the Denver Tarot Meetup a couple years ago. I started thinking about it yesterday, and even though it’s not my best scholarly work, and the topic could be expanded considerably, I think it’s interesting and…
Riker’s Journey: A Story of Change and Transformation
Riker Saw Himself as if Dead Guinan was wrong. After making extensive repairs, the Enterprise headed towards Wolf 359 to re-engage the Borg after it had assimilated Captain Picard. While they raced to the battle, Guinan confronted Riker in the…
Q&A with Joy: Reading About Other People
The following is a transcript, edited for clarity, of a discussion we had in my Magician’s Tools Intermediate Tarot Class this week. One class participant asked about reading about other people. Here’s her question and the discussion that followed: Class Participant: Can you do a tarot…
Spring Fling: Discard
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Q&A with Joy: Is the Drama Queen Ready for Reiki?
A colleague of mine who is a Reiki teacher contacted me with a conundrum. Here’s a distilled version of the question: “I have a potential student who invites a lot of drama into her life (and tries to include me…
Where Do Answers Come From? As Dreamed by Mercury in Pisces Lorded over by Jupiter in Leo
I’m currently taking a class on The Lyric Essay at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. This is the first draft of my essay, which was workshopped in class on Monday (I made only a few small edits since then). I will re-write it and…
Oracular Anomalies
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The Three Diamonds: A Reiki Approach to Experiencing Oneness
The Japanese term for birth is U-MU, consisting of the kototama U, “Being” and MU, “Nothingness.” That is, life springs forth when Form and Emptiness are in perfect balance.— Morihei Ueshiba, Aikido Founder In the previous article, I wrote about…
Spirit is our Shield: Taking on the Energy of Others in Reiki
At a recent meetup the topic of taking on the energy of others came up. A woman told a story about doing a healing on a friend who had pain in her hip. The next day, the healer woke up…
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…
Tarot Blog Hop: The Joy Of Gifting
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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
Do We Need to Make Our Reiki Stronger? 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…
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
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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
When My Understanding of Tarot Took a 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 Elements of the Tarot
Insights into the Four Suits and Four Elements 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…