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Unlike the other posts in this series on Beginning Meditations, the recording I’m sharing today is not something I’ve frequently recommended, or really ever recommended. However, of the meditations that I’ve produced, it is one of my favorites. I wrote…
In this series on Beginning Meditations, I’ve been teaching the practices that I find most useful and that I frequently recommend to students and clients. The technique that I’m sharing today is metta bhavana, the Buddhist practice for cultivating compassion.…
Opening a New Tarot Deck Is a Special Occasion This month the Denver Tarot Meetup hosted their first “New Year Party and Meet the Artists” event. We featured a panel of five deck creators and authors, moderated by Jason Gruhl,…
Today’s post in my Beginning Meditations series is a color breathing meditation. Color breathing meditation helps you shift your mood at will to energize, relax, or focus yourself. I go beyond the basics by adding a tarot card visualization and…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Five years ago, for Valentine’s Day 2012, I developed a series of relationship spreads for the Denver Tarot Meetup and I would like to share them now with you today. Each is a stand-alone spread, but they also pull loosely…
Welcome to the fifth and final installment of my weekly series on overcoming common tarot frustrations, problems that the members of a meetup group I visited had expressed to me. The participants described their tarot holdups as: Reading clearly for…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the next, seeing all the permutations…
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…
Tarot Three of Pentacles Vs Eight of Pentacles A discussion came to my attention in which a number of people were debating whether, kabbalistically, the threes in tarot are higher than the eights. In particular, the person posing the question…
