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Spooky Season Tarot Reading
Do you have any friends in life who knew you as a youthful person (6 of Cups), but you’ve lost touch with?
This month, at a time when we honor those who have passed away, we get a a reminder to honor the living who have fallen out of our field of connection.
How to Spot AI
This week, I saw the cutest little set of tarot statues advertised to me on Facebook. The algorithm knows me so well.
I clicked on the shop, and something didn’t feel right. I did a google search on whether the business was legit, and it had a very low trust rating. I am not sure if those little statues are even real.
That feeling in regards to AI is called the “Uncanny Valley”. It is a form of unsettling intuition that a human image or mock up is so close to real that it’s creepy. This phrase likely will begin to be used for AI creations overall.
Today, I went and looked for the product again, and it’s on 5 more sites, but none of them have a very high trust score. Hmmmm…
My dad always says, ‘If it’s too good to be true, it likely is”.
The Power of Now-stalgia
Being a Cancerian, I love old photographs and books. I enjoy hearing stories of different eras and watching classic black and white films.
Being nearly half a century on this earth, I now can sense the changes we have collectively been through in my own experiences.
There is something so precious about knowing how things used to be before the waves of change that came with first the internet and then smart phones. I might sound old to say it but, “Oh my goodness things are so much faster now!”
Add onto that the nature of aging and experiencing internal shifts with perimenopause or whatever health surprises life has required of each of us . . . and it’s a wonder we sense any consistency at all.
This is the 6 of Cups – a card about days gone by and childhood.
Unplug: Your Soul doesn’t Scroll
I set an intention to make September about health, and I admit that it’s been a wonky start.
This week, the news feed pulled me in and I might need to log out to gain control over my wide-eyed fascination.
Yes, it is important to know what is happening in the world.
Remember though that there used to be one newspaper per day that people would read, or one news program at night.
We might have discussed details with friends and neighbors face-to-face at some point.
We did not have constant updates and ways to debate the issue with strangers or people we met once at a party in 2013.
Receiving is as Sacred as Giving
oday is about the 6 of Pentacles, the card of healthy giving and receiving. (Lightseers Tarot version in image above)
Many of us want to give and give and give, but then struggle to welcome in the gifts others share.
Imagine you hand someone a present, and they reject it. Even if politely said, it stings a bit.
You may know their refusal is coming from a place of their own guilt or insecurity, but the energy you are emitting out in not being taken in.
Free Reading for September
This upcoming weekend after Labor Day, I will teach a course on Tarot through the Cinematic Hero’s Journey at the Northwest Tarot Symposium.
If you’re able to get to Portland, I hope you’ll consider joining. There are free vendors in the Monarch hotel along with some free classes available to the public.
As back to school season is upon us, consider coming in to get your own message from the teachers of the universe with a personal tarot reading.
Balance Your Inner Critic
Lately, I have been thinking about the balance between striving to do things well, and suffering with the critical monster of perfection.
A lot of us are taught to do our best and aim for the top. There are positive attributes to this, but the side effects can be dire.
Many of us are so hard on ourselves when we fall short that we decimate the joy of our accomplishments.
Brave Your Emotions
Emotions can be uncomfortable and hard to lean into.
One morning, I woke up angry next to my then partner. It wasn’t even from a recent fight so much as an accumulation of frustrations.
I wanted to gather my things and leave and let myself be angry at him without discussion.
But, then it happened . . . the cat laid on me.
Obviously I now had no choice but to stay there and feel my anger.
Quality Alone Time
I recently had a bout of COVID. It was so light that I was shocked when I tested positive, which was lucky, but I still had to isolate.
At first, I was grumpy. Right at the start of extroverted Leo season, I had to tuck myself away. Blarg.
I cleaned my car and room and my office to feel productive. But I knew that I needed to rest properly.
I decided to tap into the wisdom of the Hermit Card and do one of my favorite things that most people don’t enjoy. I put on the Kanopy app (free movies with your library card!) for some obscure cinema, and I watched slow existential movies.
Free Reading for August
I am excited to share that I was welcomed to teach a course on Tarot through the Cinematic Hero’s Journey at the Northwest Tarot Symposium coming up in the first weekend of September.
If you’re able to get to Portland, I hope you’ll consider joining. There is a free vendors area in the Monarch Hotel that weekend that is also open to the public.
I love this topic I am teaching because it combines many of my passions: Movies and Tarot and Storytelling.
We each are living our own unique story, and one of my favorite things about my work is getting to hear all the individual journeys that querents are navigating.
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