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Remove the Monster From Tarot
Hello! Greetings! Salutations!
As a writer and English teacher, I love words and etymology. Once, I pondered the word “Demonstrate” and realized that it may have the word “Monster” in it. English is a mess of so many languages that my guesses are often wrong though. So I looked it up, and . . . huzzaahh . . .
From de- “entirely” (see de-) + monstrare “to point out, show,” from monstrum “divine omen, wonder” (see monster)
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To show the monster . . . to teach . . . just that these words are related is delightful. To have ‘divine omen and wonder’ included only uplevels my glee.
To de-monster-ate is the act of entirely taking the monster out of.
So much about Tarot is misunderstood. It is up to those of us who love it to demonstrate the truths of it.
If you know someone who has the wrong idea around what Tarot is about, please share my most recent YouTube on What to Expect from a Tarot Reading with them.
If you want to look closer at the fears in your life to bring divine omen and wonder into any situation, contact me for a tarot reading or intuition coaching session.
I hope to see you soon!
Face Your Fears,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
PresentPathTarot.com
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.
When I was in the 5th grade, I became mysteriously sick for 6 weeks. When I was well again, my 4th grade teacher Miss Britting gave me two tickets to the movies. I felt seen.
This month, a friend took her teenage son to a unique Beatles music concert with circus acts called the White Album Show. They now have a memory shared.
One of my friends gifted me a massage, which I am so excited to use in the New Year. She wants to book one at the same time so we can have a day out together. Heck yeah.
I recently used my passes to a sensory deprivation tank at Float On for a friend so I could show him something he has never done. He loved it.
Whether it’s a spa day or music lessons or parasailing or tarot reading lessons, consider what your friends have been saying that they wish they could try and do someday.
If it’s expensive, see if you can pool money with community to make a collective fund for their dream experience to happen.
Help your loved ones explore the enlivening magic of tarot when you get a gift certificate for your loved ones. Use coupon code GIVETAROT through the end of the year for 10% off any of these.
The added benefit is you get an email immediately to pass along, so no need to leave the house or wait on a package. These sessions can be used online to share with people from afar.
Multiple options can be gifted to two people who come in together.
A tarot reading lesson is the same cost for one or two people, since it’s more fun to learn with friends.
Include yourself or treat two people to a bonding experience with a Tarot Together gift certificate.
Let your friend choose if they would prefer a personal tarot reading or an intuition coaching session for the same cost to you.
Ring in the New Year with a look into the year ahead. Create real experience for the whole party when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers. These sessions can also be online to bring together a group across the country for an online party.
I hope you have the experience this week of a wonderful holiday season and a blessed Yule.
Happy Solstice,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
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. If this resonates, reach out to her to learn the more full details or glean from her many other unique offerings.
Somatic Anchoring: Get Present in your Body
The first step is all about self-awareness. When we get triggered, we can lose touch with our center, which makes it hard to hear our personal wise adult self.
To do this, we can do a few simple tasks.
1. Think of where your body is contacting the earth and focus there.
2. Notice your own internal cues such as breath, heartbeat, or what the inside of your mouth feels like.
3. Bring attention to the sounds and sights around you and name them in your head.
This embodiment pulls you more out of the reactivity and grounds you in presence.
At this point, if you’re still agitated, let go of attempting to resolve the conflict now. Set it aside on the shelf until you can find a moment alone to reflect on . . .
The Wheel: Shift Your Lens with Structured Approach
This part is best written out to review it clearly.
1. Outline the facts only. What is the sequence of things that happened? No emotional values here! Only the most absolute evidence you could use in a cold case file.
2. What is the story I am telling myself? Get emo here with what story is driving your feelings. Take ownership as you acknowledge that you have also taken part in creating this story.
3. What single word emotions can describe how I feel? Hold yourself in compassion towards the discomfort of these feelings.
4. Identify what you need from these feelings and this story. What actionable items can I do to create repair? What resolution would I like to see happen? We can’t force others to our view, but we can share how we take ownership of our part, which can defuse conflict. We also can ask for specific needs to be met with direct requests that have a clear action communicated.
Window of Capacity: Pause the Loop with a Choice
Notice if you are able to engage in conflict from the place you are currently in after writing the Wheel out. Remember that if you are off-center, you are not going to present your side of the conflict adeptly anyhow.
1. Hyperarousal: if you are in fight of flight, step into some self-care to calm your nervous system. Perhaps go outside for a walk, wash your face with cold water, or take some long slow breaths.
2. Hypoarousal: If you are in fawn or freeze, you need to nurture yourself. What fills your cup? Perhaps a snack or a hug from someone not involved? I find a good laugh with a friend can rejuvenate me.
3. Know where you are at and what you need to sit in your own agency so you can map out your best choices.
For support in unraveling your conflicts, sign up for a personal tarot reading with me.
Get more in your somatic body with some intuition coaching session.
Let a friend in on your conflict challenges during a Tarot Together session.
Create connection and depth of conversations with your community when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
Hope the holiday whirlwind swirls easily for you this year!
Self Care is Community Care,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
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.
The holiday season is a wonderful time to treat someone to a reading.
Offer your loved ones a gift that sets them off into their new year with a fresh mind and an energized spirit.
Gift certificates are available! If you order by December 15th, I will mail a physical copy to you or your loved one.
Gifts can include a personal tarot reading, intuition coaching, tarot reading lesson, or share the gift with two in a Tarot Together session.
Another fun way to bring Tarot to your community is through welcoming a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers to an event.
If you’re trying to make your office or family party uniquely magical, fill out our no commitment booking form today.
Scroll on for the free reading today. Have a beautiful weekend.
Relish the Month,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Deck: Earth Magic Tarot by Daniel Martin Diaz
The 6 of Swords feels like a remnant of this Mercury retrograde round. You know you’re ready to leave behind something that’s not serving you anymore.
The 5 of Wands reflects the flavor of effort it’s going to take to make this move. There might be conflict or competition ahead, so get ready to stand up for yourself and own this situation with resolute certainty.
The Justice card leans into the story of balance. The process of exiting the situation will need attention to fairness with all involved, especially after the strife of the five of Wands. Just because someone fought with you about this change doesn’t mean they should not be considered kindly in the steps forward.
The Justice card can also lean into re-balancing your life once you complete the exit. How do you manage all the factors that align you with your center? I imagine it may be overwhelming, but the Justice card is upright, so you will be capable of achieving this restructuring.
More so, because structure is the primary story of the Hierophant. Lean into systems that can support you in the next phase. Seek out wisdom of those who have come before you and understand the steps and routines that will get you further along your path now that you’ve let go of this old weight that you were carrying around.
This is a powerful set of cards that emphasizes the power of what happens when we make room in our lives. Let go of the clutter, even if this shift gets push-back from some people around you or goes against what the community wanted.
This is not a time for people pleasing. This is a time for taking ownership and leadership over your own life and then leaning into systems that keep you on a better track going forward.
Be a leader who trusts their own instincts of what is not working anymore.
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.
Try to think of it as a neutral. Like with food, some is nourishment and some is sickening.
This can be conscious and future focused – you set a goal and envision how you will benefit.
Or, conscious and past focused – I am this way because of how I was raised.
Those are the easier forms of story to adjust. We know what we believe and how it forms us. We can decide to reset our goals or overcome our learned coping mechanisms.
The unconscious story messages are the ones that I believe we cling to in ways that create conflict and disharmony.
These beliefs often source from a collective experience like family history and school and movies and parables. They have an underlying message that we don’t directly think about.
Consider these common messages and the issues that stem from them:
There is a hero and a villain in every situation – If this is true, then I always have to figure out how I am good and others are bad
Situations have a beginning and an end – This makes us wait for a feeling of finality that might never come, leaving us in limbo
Once you commit to loving someone, it’s forever – Even if you grow and they become abusive?
There is only one way to consider right and wrong – If I dedicated my beliefs to a situation that I believed was right, and then other information shows up, my worldview painfully crumbles
True love starts with immediate attraction – We must always know on a first date that this person is going to be our perfect mate?
Example regarding the true love misnomer: I have been love bombed twice, and they were the worst emotional roller coasters ever. They also mimicked the rom-com story the most.
Is that healthy? No. So I had to do a cord cutting from my desire for that kind of connection. It’s been years, but I still have to be vigilant when a date moves too fast toward my heart. I still want that story, but know it’s not in my best interests.
I learned to replace it with new stories: It might take time to build a connection with the right person. And . . . If someone is my person for life, they will be patient with me from the start.
We can all share similar unconscious beliefs and have different interpretations of how these messages translate.
It’s good to have compassion about how we each cling fiercely to our version of our stories, and it’s no small task to pull the threads that untangle us from them
Pull out your journal and a pen:
Think of a movie or story you watched / were told a lot as a kid before you were 10.
Brain dump all the messages and beliefs that you can see were inherent in that tale, including what you brought to it.
Choose ONE that you can see has detrimentally impacted your life.
Consider some experiential evidence of how it is not true.
Write out some examples and then write out counter beliefs that are healthier.
Consider stories that match those beliefs that serve you better.
Forgive yourself and society for giving you stories that caused disharmony.
Move into daily practice of catching when that one story belief bumps into you. Let it be a slow process of awareness and change.
It can be deeply painful to let go of a story that we have linked to our sense of self. Be gentle and kind.
If you struggle with a loved one who differs from your beliefs, ponder on the stories that brought them here. Notice with curiosity how they are locked into a story that is likely being rehearsed in their world regularly.
Don’t expect to change their stories, as we can only heal our own. Goddess knows I have tried . . .
For support in unraveling your stories, sign up for a personal tarot reading with me.
Learn another way to find answers in an intuition coaching session.
Create a story accountability buddy during a Tarot Together session.
Share stories in community when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
Have a lovely week, hopefully uniting with loved ones over joyous shared stories as well.
Look Beneath the Surface,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Investments Beyond Dollars
I spent this last week visiting old friends in my home town of San Diego, CA. I am lucky to have grown up in a lovely warm place, but the trip was less about sun and more about chosen family.
Each person I visited has known me for decades. My oldest friend and I shared a 40 year anniversary this week.
Some of my community only recently started their own families, while others are at a point that their kids are moving into college and careers and adulthood.
There were multiple heart-opening family events this week.
Watching a Dad dance and sing with his 4-year-old daughter.
Quality time with dedicated partners of some of my favorite people.
Karaoke with my 24-year-old niece’s wonderful new boyfriend.
I chose not to have kids, but I love being an Aunt.
I was thinking today about the idea of how much investment is about time spent rather than dollars.
I am so honored to be a trusted part of these families. The only way I have earned that is through small visits over decades. I also feel how their deeper long-term effort is incredibly priceless.
When we say investments, we typically align with income and savings and business. We don’t reflex to the other ways we invest in ourselves and in our communities.
I spoke with a few of the recent graduates about their plans and strategies to move their dreams forward. From my mid-life seat, they have an ocean of time ahead of them. It’s all about what they are putting their time into now.
Then I realized that this same advice is just as relevant to me. As we get older, it’s easy to slip into routines that draw us slowly away from the path of our dreams.
Today, I hope you will consider ways you can shift a little time toward a worthwhile investment that has gone neglected.
Some of us are deeply lacking in a choice of where to put our time. I offer consideration into ways to also enhance the time you have set aside.
Here’s some questions on Time:
– What is a goal that you want to invest in long-term that you can chip away at each week? What is the smallest unit of task that could take you a step closer?
– What is a time frame each week or day would make the most sense to wiggle some effort into that task?
– Ponder on your why. How will it feel when you know you are moving toward your investment in this? What is the payoff?
Here’s some questions on Quality:
– What is something you do without presence that it would feel good to add more attention toward in the moment?
– How can you enhance that time spent with mindfulness, music, shared activities with others, or another method?
– What is one thing you are hoping to gain from increased awareness of this life experience?
For deep presence on your own life, sign up for a personal tarot reading with me.
Bring better daily attention on your own moment to moment choices with an intuition coaching session.
Prioritize quality time with a friend when you come in for a Tarot Together session.
Upgrade any event to an even more quality investment in community when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
Value Your Time,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Make a Meaningful November
There’s something about the hullabaloo of summer followed by the resettling of September running right into the Halloween costumes of October (which is a busy month for tarot readers) that just makes me grateful to arrive at November.
I feel like November is a time to catch my breath before the swirl of hectic December holidays.
In the same way that we make intentions for a new year, let’s make some intentions for this month ahead.
Consider which of these questions ignite curiosity, and focus on one or two for a focused ponder or a short journal entry.
What do you want to accomplish in the month of November that feels possible and satisfying, without being overwhelming?
Are you able to explore a more leisurely pace this month?
What ways can you step into a new rhythm that serves you best as we move toward the slower winter season?
What can you do this month that would prepare you for 2026 a little bit ahead of time?
If you’re currently tired, is there a way you can prioritize rest and put aside progress this month? What are the bare essentials to achieve “good enough”, wrapped in a blanket of ease?
Can you ask others for support in your goals? Who could help with what tasks? Would offering compensation make it easier for you to get help?
If spiritual guidance may help you deepen into any of these questions, signup for a personal tarot reading with me.
Welcome listening to your whole self to find your own best questions to ask during an intuition coaching session.
Prioritize quality time with a friend when you come in for a Tarot Together session.
Make November a bit more fun when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
Enjoy the Respite,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Free Tarot Reading for Samhain / Halloween
Samhain (pronounced Sau-wen) is a high holiday that honors our ancestors.
My costume troupe will share a silent dinner on Sunday. We will bring photos of our dead beloveds and make an altar.
Once seated with food, we will send a plate around the table where each person will add to the meal for our ancestors.
For an allotted time of about 20 minutes, we sit in silence while eating. This is for us to appreciate our memories of those who came before us and the gift of food while we still exist in this corporeal form.
After, we likely will share stories of those who have graced our lives and moved on to the other side.
It is a lovely way to celebrate life, both of those that have passed and to express real gratitude for the experience of being in this body for a spell.
I hope you will take a moment this weekend to make use of this time when the veils are thin. Speak to a loved one who has passed and relish this physical earth suit with it’s array of senses.
Make the most of this life when you sign up for a personal tarot reading.
Enjoy senses beyond the standard five when you you join an intuition coaching session with me.
Share sacred time with a living loved one when you come in for a Tarot Together reading.
As we move into the season for staying inside, invite friends over and hire a tarot or palm reader with Portlandia Fortune Tellers to entertain. We offer in-person entertainment in the Portland and Salem areas and with online experiences.
Scroll on for a free tarot reading for the month of November.
Blessed Be,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Free Reading for November
Deck: Trionfi della Luna Tarot
Our many desires in the Seven of Cups makes us spread ourselves too thin and set our ideals too high. That’s a rough combination that lends to an anxious mind in the 9 of Swords.
If you are struggling with sleep, the 9 of Swords is a message to prioritize your bedtime routine. Go to bed early and turn off your screen. Maybe enjoy some relaxing tea and read a boring book to find your best snooze.
The yawning Knight of Pentacles is further driving this message of getting your Z’s on proper every night.
He also is a message to slow down and get grounded in building routines that manage the stress of all the things you want to create in the 7 of Cups. Step by step, you can move toward your goals.
The Page of Swords reversed above him wants you to restructure the mental approach to the tasks you want to accomplish.
If you are starting your path toward your heart’s goals with a negative mindset of not feeling capable or good enough, then you won’t enjoy the journey of creation ahead.
Lean into the practicals of being positive and reasonable as you set forth on your essential steps with a long-term plan in mind. Give yourself time, pace the projects out like a good Knight of Pentacles.
From the 7 of Cups we go to the 6 of Cups, which leans into nostalgia and childhood. This message adds a layer of allowing for your dreamy goals to be approached from a realm of play and curiosity. Leave perfection behind and let yourself daydream on the wisdom of ages past.
The King of Cups means that your heart will be fulfilled if you allow it to be a part of the goals and dreams you are calling into reality with your Knight of Pentacles practical plans. He reminds us that the experience of growth is best done when our emotions and creativity are seen as valuable aspects of the process.
TLDR summary: Reign in the overwhelm and the worry and grumpy vibes around the things you want to create in life. Lean into the practical plans. Value nostalgia and your emotional, creative heart as a part of the process.
Sign up this month for a tarot reading to figure out what your best next steps and wisest angle of approach come from.
Uplevel Your Costume (or Find Your Idea)
I have been a costume nerd for over 25 years. This includes spending much of my free time over the last decade being a part of Risk of Change, a sacred mummer ambiance troupe that wow’s at Oregon Country Fair and at paid gigs around Portland.
Despite closets full of costume options, I still sometimes get that last minute anxious panic as to what I am going to be for Halloween. Luckily, I love the creative journey that this panic takes me on, and I want to offer you some ways to access or enhance your own perfect costume this year.
Here is a tips and tricks variety package:
Monsters: As I have written a longer post about before, one of the most powerful ways to make the most of this holiday is to meditate on the inner monster you are ready to release this year.
When I had eczema, I did an itchy character. When my feminist self needed to express the societal shadow, I became a creepy old guy.
Consider journaling or meditating on what irks you the most right now and needs expression, and then go thrifting to find the parts.
Mimicry: I bet you can do a pretty great impersonation of one of your parents or siblings. Take it to a next level and go full caricature of their archetype. Or, go classic celebrity and enjoy the night in character. I loved being Björk all night long, and mish-mashed my own silly mess of colors and jewelry that I think capture her weird.
Reverse Engineer: Rather than have an idea and seek it out, go into your closet and pull out anything that sparkles your sense of character until you find the costume that makes you laugh the most.
Gender Play: My troupe is quite queer, and I love trying out my drag king. Allow yourself to fully own it. Relish the stockings or your new mustache. Welcome your inner feminine or masculine to be present. Please don’t use this outfit to mock those who found their truth in a different gender than they were assigned. That is so pre-RuPaul gauche. Instead experience exploring another aspect of yourself. You contain multitudes!
Twins: Anytime two people wear the same thing on purpose, a costume is born. There is also safety in numbers. If you want to do something that strikes the edge of your comfort zone, get a friend to join you and bravery becomes play. This is also easy to reverse engineer if you hit the off-price department chains with your buddy to find a matching outfit.
Go Full Scary: Freak people out playfully. Do something that makes people’s skin crawl. Bring the spooky. Be grody.
(Note: you can do this and STILL be consensual and stay safe. If you go into Jackass prank territory, you might get consequences you don’t want but perhaps deserve. You can walk the line without being a jerk).
Improve a Basic Costume: Go dig out some old item you once wore and consider how you can add a layer to it with creative accoutrements. Make a mash up or a portmanteau. Bring a character to the clothes.
Honor the Dead: Which dead celebrity do you want to represent? My friend had a Paul Reubens party the year he passed (Rest in Play, PeeWee). I went for a deep cut as his 30 Rock character, Prince Gerhardt. That party was one of the highlights of my whole year, as everyone brought such great effort to their outfits.
i am pretty darn booked through Samhain, so we will have to wait until November on a personal tarot reading to help you look at your own inner demons.
Bring that twin with you to a Tarot Together session sometime.
Tis the season for some inward explorations that an intuition coaching session is all about.
Snazz up your party when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers. I am excited to say that we are nearly all booked up for two major party nights this year!
Have a safe and fun Halloween! Feel free to send me photos of your costume! I love seeing the ideas people come up with.
Get Spooky,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Defeating Your Draggin’ Dragon
Over the last two weeks, I have finally completed a project that I procrastinated for over 3 years. I am relieved and exhausted.
During the long era of paralyzed delay, the anxiety around my failure to take action on it felt like a tight grip around my chest. Whenever the subject was brought up, I would slip into a shame spiral of sighs and grumbles.
Sometimes you swirl around in avoidance of a task, only to find that it is way easier and less time consuming than you expected.
This was not that case. I have worked diligently on this for nearly two weeks, putting in around 60 – 70 hours on it.
This naturally would have been more reasonable to spread out over a longer period of time. However, I only got fully charged up after I found a person to assist me, and she starts a new job next week.
I am so grateful that I found amazing support in a compassionate and grounded professional to help me get this done. I wonder if I could have accomplished this years ago if I had simply made greater effort to seek out skilled support sooner.
Regardless of woulda-shoulda-coulda’s, it is complete, and I am free of that particular weight.
Last night, I had a dream about removing this monster from myself . . . uhhhh . . . quite literally. (Full dream story available upon request. it’s too creepy and gross to share without consent.) This made clear that my subconscious is also doing some house cleaning from my efforts.
Today, I want to share some tips to break through procrastination that *actually* helped me. I have tried many many suggestions, and it seems that my draggin’ dragon will blow fire or slink around most.
Body Doubling: Whenever I hear this term, I think of a fantasmagoric film like Dead Ringers, or The Substance. But okay, that’s the term I guess we’re collectively going with for a surprisingly helpful tool.
It’s insane how much better I work when I have another person in the room with me doing their own work. If we make an agreement of what we are each working on, and can take timed little breaks to vent without going into overtime, it’s pure anxiety gold.
“Baby step onto the elevator… baby step into the elevator… I’m in the elevator.” : What about Bob? is one of my favorite comedies. It’s directed by one of my hero artists: Frank Oz of the early Muppets. Second, it actually has great therapeutic advice that I have used in my life to take risks.
The key foundation of the guidance of Dr. Leo is to break down your overwhelm into manageable parts, and eat the challenge piecemeal.
Bite Size Time Bites: On that note, only require yourself to work on it for 10 minutes at a time.
I used this trick to get myself doing workout YouTubes. After 10 minutes, I found myself happy to do more, and was delighted to see myself sweating for 40 minutes or more.
Friends with Similar Problems: As mentioned, I likely would have accomplished this sooner had I reached out to my community to find my skilled and paid support.
You also can find a friend to do a trade with, checking in weekly or monthly to see how each of you are progressing. When they make progress, it can inspire you and make it all seem more possible.
When a Deadline is a Lifeline: Create a time that this task must be done by, and create reasons WHY so you believe it.
I tried to just time block in my calendar, but would ignore it without reasoning behind it. Once I knew why the date mattered, I was more on it.
Messy is Better than Perfect: Start sloppy just to get it in motion. If your anxiety is around how it’s not good enough, then celebrate a very rough start over no start at all.
Compassion and Knowledge Abolishes Fear: The people who helped me overcome my shame were the ones who had knowledge of the challenge and helped me see why my fears were common but overblown. They knew better from experience and I so believed them.
The others were the people who simply said, hey, that’s understandable and you don’t need to feel bad about it. Let’s talk about your fear some more to unravel it.
I would love to be one of those supportive people for you during a personal tarot reading.
You can also have a friend hold your hand through the tough questions during a Tarot Together session.
Tune into your own mind and body to see through what holds you back with an intuition coaching session.
Take a break from the anxiety when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for your upcoming event. Halloween nights are filling up, so get your quote today!
Hope you have a lovely weekend of getting some good stuff done and resting as well.
You Got This,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Everything is Witchcraft
A fellow Tarot reader and I were recently hired for a 10-year-old’s birthday party for a girl who loves witches. My colleague read cards while I taught an age-appropriate lesson about how to be a good witch.
I asked the group of fresh faces, “So, what do you think about witches?”
Each girl repeated a similar sentiment:
“Well, I used to think they were scary and bad but then I learned that a lot of witches are good.”
I asked them, “What do you think witchcraft is about?”
One of the first answers floored me:
“I think it’s about trusting yourself.”
I had written down that very idea as a part of the lesson. I didn’t expect to hear it reflected so quickly. I was delighted to hear from a young person’s voice how understanding around witches has improved.
This story relates back to ancient mythology. If you look at the history of the feminine divine, her representation was twisted through centuries.
She began as whole and complex, and slowly turned into females who were either good or bad, dark or light.
The witch became associated with the darkness, despite the wide array of people who she belonged to.
What is the danger of the witch?
She listens to the signs of nature around her. She is respectful of and tuned in to a form of wisdom that no middle man between her and the divine can own. She trusts herself.
The witch is a dangerous figure to those who would want to wield power to the detriment of those she loves. Thus burning her at the stake.
It’s easy to call someone a witch. Because witchcraft is (potentially) everything.
One night years ago, I came home very late to find my roommate bubbling tinctures in enormous pots. She was going to Burning Man and was preparing Chinese herbal medicine that would help friends naturally manage the heat.
I helped her clean up, sweeping the floor with a broom and washing out essentially a witches’ cauldron.
Medicine is not the only thing that witches brew.
If you make food while hoping to infuse love into it, you’re basically spell casting.
When you cut pictures from a magazine with the intention of manifesting something better, you are welcoming in collaboration with the divine in a witchy way.
If you go for a walk in nature and collect pieces of lichen and sticks and stones to place on your altar at home, you might be doing witchcraft.
Beyond that, as the 10-year-old girl noted, the simple art of trusting yourself is what witches are all about.
Listen to your body deeply.
Observe the world around you for the unseen quiet knowing within.
Dance you’re empathic body clean of all the weight of others that you’ve been carrying.
Take an Epsom salt bath.
Make art with intention.
A financial planner can be witchy about her work. I know one. It’s in the way we do things with awareness and intention.
I know a lot of witches. They are all good. That’s who I surround myself with.
Of course there are toxic witches out there as well. There is no subset of humans that does not include some unhealthy people.
The problem with the witch hunt is that it is easy to claim anyone is a witch if it’s primarily a woman with power who offers healing support to her community. Scared people who don’t have answers will look for any threat that they can scapegoat.
That’s why it’s so important that this group of 10-year-old girls gets to learn to own this word with safety and curiosity and hopefully a mentor who helps them respect the craft and only use it for good.
I felt honored to teach these girls a little with games around telepathy and setting good intentions.
This October, I hope you will welcome in your own witchy ways in your approach to the mundane daily tasks with some intention setting and intuitive knowing.
Align with some real craft during a personal tarot reading.
Get your coven together for a Tarot Together session.
Learn to trust your higher self better with an intuition coaching session.
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Enjoy getting ready for Halloween!
Cackle Cackle,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot 
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