November 2018 Tarot Card Astrology Join me this month as I share my thoughts on three of the Minor Arcana tarot cards which will be astrologically activated over the course of the next few weeks. Each of the twelve zodiac…
In this series on Beginning Meditations, I’ve been teaching the practices that I find most useful and that I most frequently recommend to students and clients. Today I’d like to introduce you to The Middle Pillar Exercise, which is the…
If You Think You Can’t Read Tarot for Yourself, Think Again! Do you think you can’t read tarot for yourself? You can! Clients often ask me if I read my own cards, and are usually surprised when I say yes.…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! PREVIOUS | MASTER LIST | NEXT The co-wranglers for our Fall Blog Hop are Jenn Waltner of Phoenix & Lotus and Louise Underhill of Priestess Tarot. They proposed that we seek to restore the balance of light and…
This is the third post in my Beginning Meditations series, in which I teach the most important techniques that I recommend to clients and students. Today I’m teaching discursive meditation, which opens up insight and inspiration. This meditation is the primary method I use…
Good Cards for Something Bad About five years ago I did a reading for a woman who asked about starting a business. She told me she had just found the perfect storefront to lease. It was in the fall, maybe…
Reiki Blog Hop: Reiki Meditations For this session of the Reiki Blog Hop, which I wrangled, I proposed that we each share the instructions for the first Reiki meditation we learned or teach. Today’s post includes written instructions for jôshin kokyû hô,…
Reiki Blog Hop Master List: “Reiki Meditations” This is the Master List for the August 2018 Reiki Blog Hop! For the August Reiki Blog Hop I proposed that each blogger write out instructions for how to do whatever basic meditation or first…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! PREVIOUS | MASTER LIST | NEXT Arwen Lynch of Tarot by Arwen was our wrangler this time around, prompting us with the theme, the Sun Harvest. She asks what harvest we’d like to bring in before fall. Sun Harvest…
Two Ways To Develop a Tarot Spread Without a Question Last week we explored tarot questions that can be used when you don’t have a question. This week I’m sharing two ways to develop a tarot spread without a question.…
Fifteen Tarot Questions to Ask When You Don’t Have a Question Most tarot readers eventually find themselves in a situation where they want to do a reading but don’t know what to ask. Cruise control is on. Straight road ahead.…
Fourfold Breath Meditation with Tarot Ace Visualization: Beginning Meditations In this Beginning Meditations series, I teach the basic meditations that I recommend to clients and students. Today’s post is on the fourfold breath meditation, which can be done by itself or…
The Tarot Lineages Tarot decks fall into one of three tarot lineages: pip decks, esoteric decks, and scenic decks. These lineages are based on the style of illustration and the type of information included in the numbered suit cards of…
Q&A with Joy: The Right Order of the Tarot Suits Have you ever wondered what the right order of the tarot suits is? I have, and so did someone who came into the store yesterday. Discover that order and the…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! PREVIOUS | MASTER LIST | NEXT As the wrangler for this season’s tarot blog hop, I used some astrological and qabalistic sleight of hand to develop our topic (see the Master List post to get a quick breakdown…
2018 Summer Blog Hop Master List — Theme: Don’t Fence Me In Another musical blog hop! June 21 marks the summer solstice, or the beginning of the sun’s transit through the sign of Cancer. The Major Arcana card associated with Cancer…
Reiki Blog Hop: How to Practice and Share Reiki When Ill I wrangled this session of the Reiki Blog Hop. I posted a comment in our Facebook group pondering the complexities that surround the question of whether to practice Reiki when…
Reiki Blog Hop Master List: “How to Practice and Share Reiki When Ill” This is the Master List for the May 2018 Reiki Blog Hop! When learning Reiki, we are taught that our personal stuff doesn’t interfere with the flow of…
Uranus in Taurus When Uranus entered Aries in spring of 2010, my head constantly buzzed with the oppressive feel of being tangled in clouds. As a last recourse, I started chanting the Orphic hymn to the sky god Ouranos. I felt…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! PREVIOUS | MASTER LIST | NEXT What I Can Teach the World Morgan Drake Eckstein of Gleamings from the Golden Dawn, gave us a refreshingly simple topic: “What I can teach the world.” Curiously,…
