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Free Reading for February
Announcement: I left this week for Panama to stay a few weeks with my friend Anna who I’ve known for 25 years. I will have some times opening during my trip (on East Coast time), and more will open up as I know my schedule better.
I’ll continue to send these emails each Friday. I’m curious to see what inspiration might happen with some much needed downtime.
Please note that you can still hire a fantastic tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers while I am away! I’m happy to make arrangements to bring quality entertainment at your winter party!
Satisfying with Nourishment
Over the weekend, I allowed myself deep rest after the high cortisol week.
My therapist pointed out that in order to rest we must also nourish. This is based in the Sensitivity Cycle by Hakomi therapist Ron Kurtz.
This theory states that we have 4 parts to a full experience:
Insight: Awareness that I want or need something
Response and Action: I do something about it
Satisfaction: I experience nourishment from fulfillment
Completion and Rest: I release seeking and relax
Each of us can have barriers to one of these fields that weakens the cycle. For me, that is in the area of allowing nourishment, which also blocks my ability to fully rest.
Today I ask, what is nourishing for you? How do you sense your own satisfaction with a task?
For me, feeling relaxed is more about shifting my energy positively rather than laying around.
Just Keep Swimming
This has been a hard week for me, and the only way to write this today is to share the cycles I swirl through and hope that someone out here will benefit from thinking about their own with compassion or humor.
In short, the privilege to poop at home is about to cost a large portion of my savings, and might require me to get a loan. (Please send good vibes that the latter is not required).
With all that is happening in the world, I can roll with the presumption that you are also mucking through the mire of poo management in your own ways.
The only way out is through. So let’s collectively consider our own natural cycles around stress response and offer ourselves compassion and forgiveness in our current state of being.
The Power of Persistence
This week, I absorbed a fantastic 5-hour documentary about one of my favorite directors, called Mr. Scorsese, made by Rebecca Miller.
Whether you enjoy his films or not, you likely know his name. (Fair warning: these movies are often violent and not for everyone).
I have seen 17 of his films and enjoyed all but one (Skip The Irishman). My favorites are Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The Departed, Shutter Island, Wolf of Wall Street, and Killers of the Flower Moon.
What feels relevant to share is how struck I was by the trajectory of his career. With so much success over five decades, I presumed he could rely consistently on being a wanted talent.
Nope. It was constant up’s and down’s…
Free Tarot Reading for 2026
Since it’s the start of the year, our reading today offers more cards than usual, so I will keep this portion brief.
Heads up that I am going to be unavailable for readings for the first 3 weeks of February!
That makes January an especially great time to get some guidance. Sign up today for a personal tarot reading, anintuition coaching, a tarot reading lesson, or share the gift with someone you love in a Tarot Together session.
AI Ad vs. Reality: What’s in the Box?
For your entertainment, I have made an unboxing video of the thing I warned you not to buy.
Three months ago, I shared about this item that I knew was advertised with AI images and suspected was fake.
When I found it for cheap, curiosity got the best of me. I had to know, ‘What’s in the booooox??”
Gift a Life Well Lived
During the pandemic, I took the unexpected free time to purge my closets of stuff. It took many days.
When I returned to shopping in thrift stores, which I love to do, I realized that each item, however affordable, had an added cost of time.
I would need to find a place for this thing in my home and then tend to dusting it, or replacing it’s batteries, or fixing it if it broke or getting rid it when I was done with it’s use.
I bought less… for a spell. I admit I still love stuff and definitely bought physical presents for people this year. But there’s something magical about gifts of experiences.
Holiday Conflict Resolution
Ram Dass says, “If you think you are enlightened, go spend a week with your family.”
The holidays are coming up, and I know for many of us it’s a good time to consider how we hold ourselves through interpersonal strife.
I took a lovely class with small business advisor Jaime Pulliam on conflict resolution this week, and I want to share some of the insights with you.
Free Tarot Reading for Dec 2025
Welcome to December! 2025 is soon to be complete.
As always at the start of the month, I offer a free Tarot reading to help you set your compass for the month.
This month is about being bold in your decisions, a theme I often recite in these newsletters.
If you find value in the questions and directions of these Friday gifts, I hope you will share them with a friend who might enjoy them as well.
Your Story has Influence
As a tarot reader, I have witnessed the magic of people unraveling their own stories to rewrite them.
This is a powerful medicinal practice, and often is a long journey that requires patience and humility and persistence.
This week, let’s gently take a first step. Our awareness of this aspect of life will help us find more peace as our family stories collide in the US over the Thanksgiving holiday next week.
The vast majority of humans both function and dysfunction from a place of story.
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