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Empress Card: What is the Feminine about?
Today, let’s talk about all things Maternal with the Empress Card.
When I was traveling in my late 20’s, a wise woman helped me understand that my feminine self was shadowed by my masculine.
I grew up in a neighborhood full of boys, and I loved being included as one of them. We rode bikes and did trick endo’s by shoving our foot in the front tire.
I came home from ballgames, WWF mockups, skateboarding, and kick the bucket covered in bruises, concrete scrapes, and knowing all the worst insults an elementary kid could dare.
When I started the Thundercats club in a neighbor’s side yard, I insisted that I be Lion-O, and was verbally battled with to accept being Cheetara. She wasn’t the leader though, and I was the one who started the club. Me.
I already saw the feminine as marginalized and lesser, and so I valued my masculine traits more.
Now a young adult woman, I felt inspired to ponder on what it even means to be feminine. This in turn informed my concept of the Empress card in my tarot deck.
Free Reading for Beltane & May
Happy Beltane!
I have started leading my online class in the Art of Tarot Reading on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6pm to 7:30pm PST through May 15th. If you want to join, there are videos from the first week to catch up on and live classes continue next week. You will have access to all videos for 3 months after.
The next session of Psychic Sundays is a fun Mother’s Day opportunity on May 11th with one of the easiest forms of divination, Charm Casting with Lynda.
Bring a friend or your mom and each of you can use the code 2FORCLASS for 10% off each!
Sign up by Monday to get a bag of charms mailed out to each person who is signed up!
Or come in person and get your bag of charms before class!
The Choice to Stay Connected
I do my best to keep this blog as neutral and lighthearted as possible. Today I feel called to share a personal challenge that I think a lot of you can relate to.
The next edition will return to the usual programming of a free reading for Beltane, so I hope you’ll stay on board.
This week, I joined my parents and their friends in a celebration of my parents 50th anniversary.
With the current political climate and our differences, I was anxious about interfacing with their community. I know many of you can relate, regardless of which side you are on.
Choose Your Energetic Focus
In this information overload era, the world is pulling us into constant distractions in a way that can feel scattered.
Today, let’s take a moment to consider what it means to realign with focus in order to choose where we send our energy.
Allowing the chaos of the world to dissolve away and have a singular attention, even for only a few hours, can help us feel more centered in other areas of life. It helps rewrite the neural pathways in our mind to remain more centered in our daily lives.
Consider when you are the most able to remain totally present with the task in front of you. What does it feel like?
Self Care is Community Care
Even in this individualistic Western culture, many of us were taught to put others ahead of ourselves.
At first, this switch felt selfish to me.
Then, I witnessed my loving friends drain their vivacity in over-giving.
I saw how people came to rely on them and slowed their own self-reliance.
I saw the givers become resentful and sometimes shut off the support completely.
The tarot has a lot of cards about balance, and this is an area that often is skewed for many of us.
It’s essential that you show up for others, yes. It’s also imperative that you offer what feels sustainable so there’s energy left over for your own growth.
April’s Magical Opportunities & Free Tarot Reading
Free Reading Inside!
This month has lots of fun opportunities to learn!
My friend and colleague Sasa is running a free online retreat that starts this Monday. I will be speaking at it about the truths and misunderstandings around being psychic and how we are all psychic.
On April 13th, psychic medium Anna Alexander will lead a lesson online and in-person on How to Communicate with Your Spirit Guides.
After a long hiatus, I am leading my online class in the Art of Tarot Reading on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6pm to 7:30pm PST starting on April 29th through May 15th. This will likely not be running again for a long time! Hope you can join for this round!
Sitting and Breathing is Epic
People are often uncomfortable with the big M . . . Meditation.
We presume this is a state of total thought-free freedom . . . and you must be doing it wrong if you catch yourself thinking (not true).
We then use words like Mindfulness to soften the concept.
This other M word can lend to the idea that simply being mildly conscious here and there through the day is fully doing the work. I have found that it doesn’t compare in the results though.
Unseen Community Connects Us All
I appreciate the family across the street who welcomed home a baby daughter the same week I moved in. As she grew up, I knew that was how long I had lived in my house. We’re not close, but I know we watch out for each other.
Sometimes it’s important to think about the people outside our first circle who do care about us. They may not be our best friends or our blood relatives, but they are our community.
Then there are those we form a sense of family with, even if each person is not a part of our core support.
This weekend I’m going to the coast with my costume troupe. The regular members know my ups and downs, my worst and best parts. They are my chosen family of weirdos who dress up in odd outfits together. (See photo) The new guest artists get to see me in that authentic self, even if they don’t know me yet.
Then there’s this unseen community that I have learned about through being a tarot reader.
At the start of every reading, I call in our guardians, guides, angels, and ancestors…
Triple Goddess Symbol Revealed
One of my favorite people and deck creator of the Disassembled Tarot, Jennifer Steidley, invited me to have a chat with her on an instagram live this week about the Triple Goddess symbol.
Here are some highlights to consider the next time you see this symbol on a shirt, a tattoo, jewelry, or hanging from the wall of a New Age shop.
The triple goddess symbol represents the three phases of life through the feminine divine. Maiden is the waxing moon, Mother is the full moon, and Crone is the waning moon.
I prefer to call this Maiden, Mother, Matriarch, because alliteration is pretty and I don’t know many women who want to be called a crone these days.
Thrive in Venus Retrograde
At the start of March, our view of Venus went Retrograde. First in Aries, and then into Pisces.
After April 12th, our view of the morning star will appear to head in it’s normal path again.
What does this mean? How do we make the most of this?
Venus is aligned with relationships, money, creativity, and beauty. During a retrograde, it’s better to not make any grand shifts in these areas of life.
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