Commune, Communicate, Commemorate
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Enterprising Insights: Testimonials
I’ve been working long hours the past couple of weeks developing a new website. My current one was developed in 2009 using FrontPage, an old MS Office program that is no longer supported. And even though my site looks great on…
Joy’s Lecture on Insurance for Tarot Readers and Reiki Practitioners
If you have questions about insurance for tarot and Reiki, here are some recommendations and resources. I also share which company I currently use! I updated this article in July 2023, editing for clarity, optimizing for Google search, modernizing, and…
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…
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…
Joy
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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…
Tarot, Healing and Creativity
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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…
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…
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…
From My Table to Yours
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Waka and Oneness
Poetry is an important aspect of Traditional Japanese Reiki. The Usui Reiki Ryôhô Gakkai included 125 poems, called waka, in the hikkei, or handbook, given to members. Meditations on gyosei, the poetry written by the Meiji Emperor, reflect the nationalism…
Solo/Ensemble
I used to wear a red windbreaker style jacket with the Constantine High School band insignia on it. I pinned all my festival medals on the front left breast—they mostly just blended in with the coat. Red for receiving a…
High Park Alchemy and the Jar of Sunlight
I have been following online the news about the High Park wildfire. It is the third largest fire in recent Colorado history after the tragic Hayman fire started by a forest service employee in 2002 and the Missionary Ridge fire…
The Portal of the Pavilion: An Epic Commemoration of my Victory over Technology
I bought my computer in December of 2003. It is an HP Pavilion and has been a one-hundred-percent reliable workhorse for almost nine years. It is old and starting to slow down, but I have always been patient with it.…
Page of Cups
I wrote this July 25, 2011 and didn’t post it because it didn’t have much of a point. But not everything does, does it? I hope this summer memory brightens your winter. Sunday afternoon I went to the Botanic Gardens…