Joy
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Deck Review: Chrysalis Tarot by Holly Sierra and Toney Brooks
Subject: Chrysalis Tarot I have managed to score 12 copies. These are the only ones we will be able to get for the foreseeable future. …[S]end your people down, 12 of them, anyway, and let them get them while the…
Q&A with Joy: Timing in the Tarot
Please note, an updated version of this post and an updated Tarot Timing Information Sheet (pdf file) is available in the post, Tarot Timing Information Chart. A tarot student contacted me today asking for a suggestion for reading a question of…
The Union of Opposites
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Deck Review: Les Vampires Oracle Deck by Lucy Cavendish and Jasmine Becket-Griffith
A sultry, dark-haired, pale, wide-eyed immortal sits demurely in her Victorian parlor, as she and her cat both turn their heads back over their shoulders, casting two pairs of green eyes up toward the moon just peeking out from behind…
A Myriad of Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Methods for Manifesting Money
In honor of tax day, I would like to share my favorite ways for creating a magical mindset around money. Here are my top ten magical, mystical, marvelous methods for manifesting money: Reiki your checkbook! (Wallet, purse, money pouch, fanny…
A Simple Process for Manifesting with the Tarot
I was having a conversation with a colleague the other day about affirmations. She works with them a lot, and I use them to a lesser degree. At first it seemed like we had divergent opinions on the topic, but…
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,…