Find Your Inner Teacher in the Year of the Hermit
Joy Vernon Astrology * Tarot * Reiki Teaching Manifesto: What I Offer As Your Teacher 2025 is the year of the Hermit. That is to say, the digits 2 + 0 + 2 + 5 add together to equal 9,…
Category Rants, Raves and Reveries
Fool’s Soup
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…
Why I Do Not Now Nor Will I Ever Refer to Myself as a Psychic
Using words clearly, avoiding vague phrases, and understanding nuances are of utmost importance to me in my profession. I work full-time as a tarot reader, astrologer, and metaphysical teacher. The generic umbrella term that is used to describe what I…
Letting Go
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…
Awaken the Heart
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…
The Memory of the Sun
On November 3, local author Grace Padilla led the Denver Tarot Meetup in an presentation called “Pen and Ink Tarot.” After opening with a discussion on using tarot for writing and then leading us in a few exercises to warm up our…
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…
Joy
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Tarot, Healing and Creativity
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
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…
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…