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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.
Tower Card: Progress is a Spiral
This week, I found myself in some tower card templates of torment.
Same old mid-summer struggle to rest enough.
Repeats of conflicts with loved ones.
Familiar frustrations with how much news is healthy to absorb.
It’s easy to feel defeated and focus on the feelings of failure.
This is the Tower Card. Old patterns that keep coming around.
You can move towns. Break up with that person. Change jobs. Yet you find yourself rehashing the same cycles with new places, people and careers.
This is where it helps to focus on the progress that has been made.
Annual Reflection & Cancerian Love
Today is my birthday!
It’s also the first day of Mercury Retrograde, so you get the gift of a discount for the next 3 weeks in readings and intuition development sessions when you sign up with the code RETRO2025
Today I am offering a more personal share with my annual ritual of pondering on where I have been and where I am going. I am also sharing a video of Gary the Unigoat below for your entertainment.
My hope is that you may relate to some of the messages or come up with your own mid-summer ponder.
Water Rituals
As the heat builds, let’s all engage more with water for body, mind, and spirit.
In the Tarot, the water element of the cups suit represents emotions and spirituality. It’s the essence of the heart. When we drink or consciously touch water, we better balance our whole system from the heart center.
Free Reading for July
Happy Independence Day in the USA
May we all take part in the freedoms we enjoy the most and cherish our democracy over this weekend and beyond.
Self-expression is a precious right that I am about to go relish as I play in a variety of costumes with my troupe, Risk of Change. Started by a group of gay men adjacent to the radical faeries in the 1980’s, we are celebrating our 40th anniversary this year!
Last week, a wonderful 1-hour documentary about the Oregon Country Faire came out that includes highlights of our crew.
You might even catch a quick shot of me dressed up as my gnome, Oomph von Ploomph!
Harness Your Summer Fire with Tarot
The heat of summer is coming to the Pacific Northwest, and with it comes a busy season in both work and play.
For myself, the tourists and events want readers to add to their summer magic. Plus, my yard and garden needs most of it’s annual maintenance and attention.
For all of us, Nature is calling us to relish in her current vibrancy. Our community has more opportunities to connect in person. Travel might be in the works. And yet we still need to do all the other things that we also do in winter.
So much is going on all at once! How do we juggle it all?!
So today, I want to talk about the Wands Suit.
Each suit in tarot is related to one of the elements, and Wands is about Fire.
Fire is passion, movement, energy, action. It can relate to exercise and focus and attraction.
Solstice Rituals
We in the Northern hemisphere are tilted toward the sun and have thus returned to the longest day of the year!
This weekend, consider making some time for a ritual to celebrate in the ways our ancestors of various lineages have for many centuries. This has always been a world-wide celebrated event, so it might be fun to look up your own historical practices of your own ancient relations.
The Gentle Way Through Overwhelm
I often overbook myself, take on too much, and resist pulling out of any commitments when I realize I am past my limits.
My German mom and workaholic dad taught me to just push on through the overwhelm. I am grateful for the fortitude they instilled in me, but I am trying to learn a new way.
I want to make different choices when I get this drained and fried out.
So I got up, and put away the tools and work gear. I tidied up the mess from the partially done big task. I accepted that it would reside in limbo.
This felt like a big shift for me. I didn’t push through. I backtracked. I paused. I prioritized my focus on one zone to manage, instead of spreading myself too thin.
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