Why Magic Works Better than Logic
Shift Into the Magic of the Dark Woods Often I am reading several books at once, as I was when I wrote this. And frequently they seem to comment on each other. Last year, just as I was putting together…
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Tarot Traditions and Rituals: Sephirothic Names of Power and the Tarot
I was recently re-reading The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune and came across an interesting comment that suddenly made sense to me in a new way. The comment sparked a possible approach to assist in meditating with the cards. To…
How to Do a Tarot Spell for Health (Written Instructions)
Many people feel the challenge presented by this current health cry for help. Being stuck at home can make some people feel trapped and stressed out, like you have no control. Learn how to do a tarot spell for health…
Brother Battle
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TBH: The Magic of Images
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From Aces to Action
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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…
Using Tarot to Create a Money Chant
Last night at the Denver Tarot Meetup, DTM Co-Organizer and Tarot Social South Host Linda Bean led us in a wonderful exploration of Paul Foster Case’s correspondences of the musical scale to the tarot cards. After several enlightening exercises, Linda…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Q&A with Joy: Why Meditate?
The following is a transcript, edited for clarity, of a discussion we had in my Practical Qabalah class earlier this month. One student asked, Why meditate? Here’s her question and the discussion that followed: D: Meditation, as I encounter it, seems…
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…
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…
Tarot, Healing and Creativity
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Brighid Mala
This year I am serving as a flamekeeper for Brighid. At Imbolc, the festival of Brighid in February, the flamekeepers met for a meditation ceremony at which we each lit a small candle from a larger candle that had been…