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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
Deciding on the Go with Tarot
Today I was driving home when someone messaged urgently for a last minute reading.
Moments like these happen to each of us countless times a day. Split second decisions are more common in the digital era. The myriad of little choices can wear us down with decision fatigue.
I want to offer a perspective of how to approach these quick choices through the lens of all the cards related to the two’s of tarot, which each lend their own perspective on decisions.
I am using examples from how I thought about my best choice about doing the reading after I pulled over the car before passing my office.
Minor Arcana are all about the elements, and that means tapping into different aspects of yourself.
Two of Swords is the mind, and thus uses basic logic.
“I’m near my office. I can call her to find out how soon she is available to see if it’s reasonable.”
Two of Cups is the heart, and taps into our emotional center.
“She sounds like she really needs support today. I feel for her and want to help.”
Two of Wands is energy and desire, which works well with spur of the moment choices.
“Even though I didn’t sleep well last night, I have a strong motivation to give a reading right now.”
Two of Pentacles is a slower and more practical balance of resources.
“I would like to make money today. I likely will be too tired later when the lack of sleep catches up with me. And I am already near the location.”
The Major Arcana has multiple cards that represent Two’s, and each speaks to a deeper level of self.
The High Priestess is intuition and inner guidance.
“Something in my spirit wants to do this. It feels like a yes in my gut.”
The 11 of the Justice card adds up to 2 in numerology, and speaks to balance and acting for the greater good.
“The choice to read doesn’t feel like it’s throwing me off balance, and I am not imposing on any other prior agreements. It also feels like the right thing to do to support someone right now.”
The Judgement card is number 20, and offers up a sense of calling or an epiphany.
“I know from experience that this timing of her reaching out as I am passing by my office aligns as a message to move forward.”
With these aspects all lined up, I confirmed that she was available to come over right away and felt clear in my choice.
Often, one of the aspects is a no, and it’s up to you if that is relevant enough to negate the whole plan. You can consider which of these elements is the most relevant to the situation and use that aspect to weigh the options.
If people ask for immediacy, it’s not required that we fulfill their requests if that throws off our plans.
If it’s an unexpected serious emergency, then obviously their needs may outweigh our preferences at times. Sometimes people put forward an energy of emergency due to a lack of basic planning, and in that case you need to make the choice best for yourself.
If you sense a choice aligning for a personal tarot reading with me, please book ahead for us to make an easy scheduling choice together.
Readings are wonderful with two’s! Bring in a loved one for a Tarot Together session.
When planning a party, it’s a great decision to hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers to entertain. Our readers can help your guests connect with each other with this added magic in your gathering.
May your weekend be filled with easy and joyous choices.
Trust Your Picker,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Writing is Dancing for Your Hand
My Dad has always been the man with a book balanced on his chest. He has shelves and stacks of textbooks on history and science and he’s actually read them all.
My very social mom has done her best to keep her beloved introvert in good company. He regularly regales dinner parties with stories and fascinating factoids.
Now I’m excited to share that we can have his own book in our collections!
He just turned 80 in June and this month he has published his first full novel! He’s been working on this for decades, editing and updating along the way.
It’s a two part historical fiction about the Queen of Eqypt. He did extensive research to gather as many facts as possible from 3500 years ago. This book is an act of love for an amazing woman of ancient history.
Find Hatchepsut: Female Falcon over Egypt on Amazon or Barnes and Noble
It is available as a Hardback, Paperback, Kindle, and Ebook. If you have a Kindle subscription, I believe it’s free to download. (This is fresh news, so all editions will be on both sites by next week.)
This update got me thinking about the ways we can start our day by bringing our voice to paper.
I had the thought that writing is like dancing for your hand and wrist.
Whether it’s tap dancing on the keyboard, swyping fingers on the skating rink of your phone, or swirling a pen to page, you are moving words with from your mind to your fingers and out into the world.
This week, I have begun to write morning pages. I decided to keep it analogue to enjoy the most creative form of this type of dance. I love journals and pens, and so I get to use my favorites as an extra delight.
My friend Ivana is joining me as an accountability buddy, which helps me a lot.
I love to write and yet I rarely make time for it. One thing I have learned is that writing a little is the best way to write a lot.
Doing this weekly newsletter has been a wonderful way to build a healthy habit, and I am grateful to each of you who check in.
Morning pages offers me the added bonus to say whatever is on my mind without concern for who is reading.
I can describe my dream from the previous night or what I am looking forward to in the day ahead. I might journal about my worries or epiphanies. It can be boring or creative. I don’t have to put pressure on it being special or inspired, but it could lead somewhere magical.
A quick jaunt to jot only takes me about 5 to 10 minutes, and gives me a way to start my day that is not scrolling on my phone (a habit I am ready to be done with).
I hope you might join me in your own daily practice. Feel free to send me the highlights of your best notes if you desire to share them!
Want to build a good habit? Start with a chat with your spirit guides during a personal tarot reading with me.
Welcome community to hear your messages during a Tarot Together session.
Hear the channeled words of a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers when you hire us to entertain at your upcoming holiday and Halloween parties.
I hope you have a lovely weekend of considering which of your thoughts need scribbled.
Write Ritually,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Free Reading for September and Dolly Wisdom
I rarely weep for celebrity deaths, but Dolly is a representative of love and authenticity in a way so few have captured.
I remember being a child and knowing about her only as the lady with big boobs. We would put balloons under our shirts and giggle about being Dolly.
I watched her in movies like 9 to 5 around the same time, and began to see the messages of empowerment that she was all about.
Then I experienced her music. First through Whitney Houston, whose rendition of “I Will Always Love You” paid such great royalties that Dolly built a strip mall to support commerce in a black neighborhood and called it “the house that Whitney built.”
This era led me to listen to more of her music, and I watched more of her interviews.
I found that the person who I mocked as a child for how she looked laughed about it while she celebrated her choices and used humor and lightheartedness to brush off judgments.
“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”
“I am a self-made woman, and I have the doctor bills to prove it.”
Dolly was wise and kind and strong, as evidenced in her philosophy:
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
“Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.”
“You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.”
So this week, I hope you’ll consider taking Dolly’s advice and write out a list of the things you love about yourself.
Consider how you may feel judged for your authentic self and call in the flippant joy that Dolly took in being fully herself for a full 80 years.
Consider your own wisdom during a tarot reading, a tarot lesson, or a tarot together session with me.
Bring in good vibes to your next event when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Telle
Scroll on for our free reading that is eerily what Dolly would say and a lovely story about her from Roger Ebert.
“Be a diamond in a rhinestone world”,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Today’s deck is the Lonely Planet Tarot, which uses places around the world to represent the card messages.
We begin with the Sun, represented by sunny Tanzania. We all can keep an eye out for the opportunities to come in the month ahead. Bring out your best combo of your playful spontaneous child-self and your most adult practical self to make the most of what’s ahead.
When the offers come through, negotiate for your needs like you’re bargaining at the largest outdoor market in South America in Otavalo, Equador. I had to buy an extra bag to carry all the delights I gathered from this very place, and I hope that signifies the gifts you are soon to receive. Consider also what you want to bring the table to make for a fair exchange.
When we give and receive well, our hearts can be fully open to the emotional and spiritual awakening of the Ten of Cups, presented here as an oasis in the Dominican Republic. Allow yourself to welcome the joy and blessings with a full acceptance of all that a rich emotional life entails.
If we balance all of these cards well, we will land ourselves in the lush grace of the King of Cups, represented by a man standing in Cape Town, South Africa. Welcome your ability to hold your heart with integrity as a healthy receiver, while also being a support for others to be in their full experience of a heart-full life.
I think Dolly would approve of this reading’s messages of welcoming in all the beauty that life has to offer with an open heart that both gives and receives with grace.
Find out how to best grasp your blessings during an online or in-person tarot reading or an intuition coaching session.
The Grace of Holding Accountable
I got called out last week by a friend and I was so grateful.
I am not saying it didn’t ruffle my feathers or fail to send me into a small tailspin of guilt. I am hyper-vigilant specifically to avoid these uncomfortable moments.
But I much prefer to be told that I hurt someone rather than have them stuff it down or build up resentment or fear or anguish. Yuk.
It helped immensely that my friend was fair, kind, strait-forward and forgiving in her presentation of how something I said hurt her feelings.
I felt a bit defensive at first and jumped to explain what I meant to say. Then I caught myself and slowed down and apologized and acknowledged that she was reasonable and that my initial reaction came out wrong on my part.
To me, being called out with kindness is a sign of respect. The person believes that I can hear their feedback rationally. If it’s reasonable, I am honored that they saw me as worthy of a hard conversation.
It’s only fair anyhow, since I am known as someone who can be overtly honest. As a lovely review I received today stated, “She doesn’t sugar coat anything.”
It’s in my blood. My mom is German and fits the culture’s fiercely direct reputation. I like to believe that I have integrated a bit more compassion into our family communication style, but friends still don’t expect me to bite my tongue or be coy.
Society does well to value people who speak up. Recently, two local social circles that produce events have had major breakdowns due to people in leadership protecting bad behaviors and hiding it from public view.
It has led to the removal of the offenders, finally, but has also dismantled trust in the other managers of the organizations. Nothing good has come from the delay in response and brushing serious things under the rug.
That’s why I grimace when I hear kids being rude to their parents in public to no consequence. I know parenting is hard, I tried the stepmom role for a decade and fell on my face regularly. I am still certain that accountability is necessary to make good humans.
Consequence and culpability is a way of saying to someone that you hold them to a higher standard. You believe they are capable of better. It’s a weird compliment.
How you approach the matter is key to the potential of a good outcome. Remember that even if you do everything as conscientiously as possible, they still may not respond well. Own your part as best you can, even if they can’t own theirs.
For support, here is a systematic strategy to help navigate calling someone out graciously when you need to:
Praise in Public, Correct in Private: Don’t add embarrassment to the already challenging experience
Timing is Key: Balance between telling them as soon as possible, but after you soften your initial triggers. It’s hard to bring a neutral voice when you’re disregulated.
Approach with the Situation, Behavior and Impact Model: Stay specific to one time and place this occurred to avoid general statements. Be clear about the exact action that was problematic. Then explain the consequence of that choice in that moment.
Let them Speak: Ask them to explain where they were coming from and their own perspective without being interrupted.
Create a Plan: Discuss how you each can take actions to avoid this happening again.
Get called out lovingly by the spirit guides during a personal tarot reading with me.
Bring in a friend who needs to hear their own BS during a Tarot Together session.
You can request that our reader is direct with their mini-reading call outs when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers to entertain.
I hope you have a lovely weekend of accepting yourself and your community in all our foibles.
Own It to Love it,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Memory is Messy
I recently watched an animation by Don Hertzfeldt about memory, and how elusive it is.
He shared a story that he has told his whole adult life about two women who met Elvis, only to learn from his parents that he was off about all the details except one.
The courts have considered whether having witness testimony should even be legal since humans are so often wrong in their reflection of a moment.
Memory is stored in various parts of the brain according to what kind of memory it is: emotional, explicit, etc. Science is emerging that our body holds memories outside the brain. Perhaps this is why I get flashes of forgotten moments when I do yoga.
Maybe this is also why regular dancing is aligned with a 76% decrease in getting dementia. Boogie your booties for mind health, folks!
We don’t fully understand how memory works, but we know it’s not reliable. We cannot actually rehearse stories of the past with true certainty.
This brings up a lot of feelings for me, since it’s such a source of security that my stories are valid and my interpretations of moments are real.
As I experience perimenopause, I have days where basic words are elusive, or moments I have reflected on countless times feel more distant. It freaks me out, but my elder women tell me it gets better . . . and then other new memory challenges will happen down the line again.
Today, I want to offer some ways to massage the memory muscles.
Even if the recall is imperfect, it’s good practice to dip into history.
Old memories:
What were the names of some of your earliest childhood friends? What do you recall doing with them?
What was your earliest address or phone number you can recall?
What was a hobby you enjoyed as a child that you don’t do anymore?
What is one memory that you share with someone you still know today? Remember as many details as you can from that day. Call them and hear their version and see how the notes align.
Emotional memory:
What was your first date? Who was it with? How did you feel before, during or after?
Who did you first fall in love with? Close your eyes and let your body remember what that felt like.
What did it feel like when you got your first paycheck or big job offer?
Recent memory:
Name three things you did yesterday.
What did you eat last Wednesday for each meal?
What moment of the past week stands out as the most desired memory to keep. Perhaps consider writing it out in a journal.
Mental Mindgames:
Count backwards from 100 by subtracting 7 each time
Spell words backward, seeing how long of a word you can get up to.
7 second trick: Think of something you would like to remember and hold it in your mind for 7 seconds without distractions. This triggers the hippocampus to lock it into longer-term memory.
While memory is good to practice, know that you are always free to audio record or take notes during a personal tarot reading with me.
Or, have a friend help you remember what the cards had to say in a Tarot Together session.
Create a wonderful memory for many people when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers to entertain at your next celebration.
The best ways to keep your memory strong is through good sleep, good diet, aerobic movement, and mindful practices.
I hope your weekend includes all of these, and hopefully making some new sweet memories as well.
Relish Your Memories,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Limerance Explored
A lot of clients this summer have come to me for a reading around their unattainable crush.
I first ask if they are thinking about them constantly, maybe even obsessing. If they say yes, I ask if they know what Limerance is.
It’s not a type of diagnosis, but I ask them to look up the term to decide for themselves if they are in it, or speak to a trained counselor about their experience.
Limerance is an infatuation or crush where your mind fixates on a person. You desperately want their validation and reciprocation.
You idealize them, and daydream constantly with intrusive thoughts about the next time you might see them or envision conversations you might have.
This can be for a person you know or a celebrity. I have had both, although limerance for a celebrity is more of an adoring super fan vibe with thoughts of this stranger filling your day. Limerance for a personal connection includes the hope of reconciling your passion, and this potential makes it more intense.
I am not medically trained in this area, but I have a lot to say from my own personal experiences. It is a big deal for me to publicly share this truth, since I have often felt deeply embarrassed by it.
In times of depression, I have become hyperfocused on an object of affection. During COVID shelter-in-place, I scoured the internet for anything I could find about Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
When I was trying to date again after a 10-year break up, I got my heart set beyond reasoning on Carl.
These moments taste of heightened life. The desire and the adoration is intense, and your brain is flushed with dopamine and other chemicals.
It turns out that people with ADHD are more likely to get limerant due to dopamine dysregulation… so that tracks.
I remember sitting at my kitchen table during my Carl phase. I could observe my heart feeling like an enormous rocket in my chest. It was both painful and exhilarating. I tried to focus on being grateful that my body even has the capacity to allow such strong feelings. I was anything but comfortably numb.
In my layman’s opinion, I believe that limerance comes at a time when you are ready to bridge yourself out of a time of darkness.
One article I saw said that it is a form of depression. For me, it has been a launchpad out of the blues.
It feels like a kickstart, similar to a defibrillator, where you go from mundane to wide awake in the feelings of life.
I believe that you can use this crossover moment to let yourself feel fully alive. Please acknowledge and celebrate that those strong sensations are yours and are for you.
They might be inspired by an external catalyst, but they are a powerful emotion that belongs to you. Relish that you are a vivacious human who can feel intensely and live and breathe through that full spectrum of feelings.
The feelings will subside through time if you allow them to. You likely can find a healthy balance again.
Once you accept that this person is not your ‘twin flame’, you can simply enjoy the sensation of adoring them from afar in a more reasonable way.
I know it’s not easy to get there. You want their approval so desperately. Give yourself that approval instead.
Imagine that someone felt this way about you at some point (you might even know who in your history). Turn that love on yourself, and relish your own precious value.
I believe that our objects of affection might be people with qualities that you share and that inspire you to love yourself more.
How do they represent a beautiful part of yourself? How do they inspire you to want to be more like them in joyous ways?
The funny thing about Carl is that we did date briefly during my peak desire time. He soon let me down in the most kind and sincere way. I was sad, but also relieved that I had my answer, even if it was not the one I wanted.
We slowly became friends, and my limerance waned. I realized how wrong he was for me as a potential partner. Our limerant desire is not rational, and often is not for a person who is practical for us.
Ironically, a year after we met, he fell into limerance for a woman and I – of all people – counseled him through it. I felt honored and enjoyed the universe’s sense of humor.
The therapists pages will say that limerance is not love. I can consider this is true, but I do love Carl. Heck, I still love Phoebe. I just don’t love them in the same way as when I was infatuated with them.
I also want to state that my experience of this has opened my heart chakra in a powerful way, and I don’t want anyone to dismiss their experience.
Trust that it might be waking you up to allow a real and equal love into your life. Let go of the false belief that this person is better than you. Let them be your muse for some art and release them as “the one”. If they really are your person, it will be easier for them to see you as such when you love yourself fully anyhow.
There are many pages by therapists describing how to free yourself from limerance and I recommend that you look for those or send your friends to those places if they are fixated on someone.
I also hope you’ll consider sharing this article, because I think there is deep value in embracing ourselves and abolishing the shame around limerance.
I even have learned when to lean into it. If I get really sick, I now let myself rabbit hole on my current film fascination. I deep dive on their movies or shows or interviews for a spell. It limits choice and quells the FOMO. The distraction comforts me and gives me an odd sense of purpose when I am down and out.
I don’t know if that is right for you or what therapists would recommend, so be sure to have a trained counselor on your side to confess to around this matter.
If you want to share your heart with a compassionate soul and learn your spirit guides perspective, come see me for a personal tarot reading.
Bring in a friend who knows your heart to be witnessed in a Tarot Together session.
Invite all your objects of affection over for a party and hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers to treat them to a unique gift.
Have a wonderful weekend of loving all those that you love, including yourself.
Love your Full Heart,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Free Reading for August
Before I realized this is our free reading week, I was pondering on writing about a very similar subject to what the cards illuminated today. So hopefully it also resonates with you.
In mid-August, Portlandia Fortune Tellers will be at the Albany Scottish Festival for our first time. Come watch some highland games and get your cards read by me.
Preparing for a company holiday party early this year? Make it easy to delight your guests with presence and magic when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
If you crave a full-fledged long-form tarot reading, a tarot lesson, or a tarot together session, reach out to me.
Online readings work just as well as in-person, and it’s a great gift to give one of your favorite Leo’s this month for their birthday.
Scroll on for our free reading!
Happy August,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Today’s deck is the lovely Coastal Crow and Raven Tarot by Pacific NW artist MJ Cullinane
Two eights and a Knight offer our message today.
Eights are at the point where you are high on intensity, but also getting closer to a breakthrough in essential clarity.
The 8 of Wands reversed is heeding you to not rush in. Slow your roll. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Often when this card comes up, we are feeling setbacks in our focused flow forward.
Don’t let this frustration dismantle your centered self. Instead, pause and reflect on the message of the 8 of Swords reversed.
You are ready to get unstuck on a deep mental level. You have been acting on autopilot out of a belief that perpetual movement forward is always the answer and you are a failure if you stop.
But stop. Notice the mentality that you are pursuing your goals from. Consider how you can shift that perspective to become more free and joyous in your pursuits. Release the societal myths that don’t serve your personal flow.
The Knight of Pentacles reversed is asking you to look at where you have become too comfortable in your routine, even if it is not working for you right now.
As the deck maker eloquently says in her accompanying book, “The Knight of Pentacles can dig in too deeply; it carries with it an energy that is loyal to routine even when the routine stops serving growth.”
Today’s message is a double whammy that offers you freedom from trudging the same way up the same hill to the same results.
Pull back to move forward. Ponder on the ways you are too hard on yourself and choose to turn your gaze away from your mindset because it’s uncomfortable. Be curious about how you speak to yourself and what beliefs are driving you.
Now is a time for pause and reflection on motivation and self-respect. You won’t get unstuck by doing the same tasks as always. You will by breaking free of the same stories that push you from negative feedback instead of positive. Shift those stories and then dive back into productivity from a place of joy.
Learn your best affirmations to more forward on the right foot when you sign up for an online or in-person tarot reading or an intuition coaching session.
Click it Back One Notch
In the Pacific Northwest, we have about 4 months of packing in everything everywhere all at once.
Being overly busy is a part of life for many of us these days, so summer can feel like it takes things to eleven.
We are at the center of that time frame, and so this week I offer a reminder to find the chill wherever you can.
This is not about wiping whole plans out. It’s about noticing where you can take it down one little click back.
Making micro adjustments can ease the strain just enough to let relaxation get a higher priority in the gaps created.
It seems easiest to find these in managing the efforts around fun.
For instance, my friend and I were supposed to go white water kayaking, and we decided instead to go to a swim spot. Still enjoying water, but taking it down a notch on the effort.
Unpacking from the Oregon Country Fair, I decided to do it in phases, piecemeal, and let there be mini-messes that I can chip away at instead of one lump of hustle.
I am relishing movie theater time over party socializing to feed the introvert in my ambivert.
It’s a healthy practice to say, “No”, or, “Let me get back to you”, before taking on new opportunities, however fun they may be. Fomo can take a backseat.
For responsibility overloads, tapering things down comes from different angles.
Do a brain dump of all the things you have to manage, and then take out some highlighters.
Circle the ones that are absolutely essential and locked into a deadline. Then mark the ones that can be managed in less than an hour, and set aside a chunk of time to focus fully on knocking those off the list.
The larger urgent projects are moved onto a new sheet, and each one is broken down into smaller steps.
Look at all the others and consider which ones can be put off till a later date. Leave them be for now. Perhaps set yourself a reminder when they are closer to their own deadline.
While you are in accomplishment mode, be sure to take mini-breaks. Set a timer and walk away for 5 minutes to check in on how you are feeling.
Does your body need water or protein? Will you be more effective if you gave yourself a quick nap? Can you do some long breaths to remind your nervous system to reset before you dive back in?
If you find a small gap between activities or meetings, choose to set an alarm and simply close your eyes and listen to your breath instead of scrolling or filling in the time with micro-tasking.
Consider what strategies you can use to add ease into your actions. Please message me with any that you love, since I would be grateful for more ideas.
If life is overwhelming in other ways, take a load off and re-frame things with a personal tarot reading.
Make the most of friend time when you come in for a Tarot Together session.
Find an ease in bringing entertainment to your parties when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for your events for either work or play.
Have a great weekend of seeing where you can add smidge of relief into your moments.
Simmer in the Summer,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Circle Back this Retrograde
As many of my closest friends know, I am a huge fan of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who had a birthday this past week (fellow fabulous Cancerian… as my birthday is tomorrow).
In one interview, they asked what her favorite Americanism is. She said, “Let’s circle back”.
I had not known that this was a unique phrase to the US at the time, and her acknowledgement made me think more about this concept and the power of suggesting it at the right time.
This week ahead is the final week in this round of Mercury Retrograde. While many abhor these 3 week phases, they can be beneficial to engage with purposefully.
My favorite astrologer friend, Heather Harris says, ‘Mercury Retrogrades are all about the RE. Take time to re-turn, re-commit, re-consider, etc.’
This week, I ask you to ponder on something that you would do well to circle back on.
So many times we put off something and plan to return to it later, but then never come around to it.
What is one thing that you put on the shelf that is getting dusty and needs re-engaged with?
Perhaps a friendship faced a challenge that is worth breaching the conversation about?
Maybe there is a project you meant to finish before the swirl of summer swept you away from it?
Think about a self-growth action that you can step back into better practice with yet again.
Are there any inner evolutionary shifts that have been left in a state of limbo? Is now a good time to choose one to step forward back into them?
Give yourself a few minutes to look away from the device you are reading this on and stare at the ceiling and sit with your answer.
After your pause. Return here.
Is there is a flush of guilt for ‘failing’ to complete this before today? Phew, take a breath and remember that this week ahead is the next best time to take action on it.
If there is an overwhelm of ideas or paths to take, narrow down your plans to the most simple and minor next step in the most accessible option.
Being Mercury Retrograde, you have a whole week before you must take action. For now, reconfigure your next best steps and notice the blocks halting you in your plans.
This weekend, call in the energy of release from any anxiety around this and trust yourself to begin the process forward again.
If you need some divination motivation, sign up with me for a personal tarot reading.
Ask the cards and find your own answers after a solid tarot reading lesson.
Bring a compassionate friend to share your foibles with in a Tarot Together session.
If a celebration is the venture you are ready to embark on, remember to hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for the party.
I hope you enjoy finding your center as you circle back on what is important to you this week.
Enjoy Renewal,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
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Crab Evolution
There is a scientific phenomenon that began in 1916 called carcinization that describes how creatures evolve into crabs over time. It is surprisingly common.
This has become an internet joke, saying that all nature will someday become crab-like.
As a Cancerian, I approve this message that our zodiac sign is the height of evolution.
I feel redeemed since being a Cancer zodiac sign is not easy.
Our animal representative is a creepy crustacean. Our title of either Cancer or Crabs each reflect a health ailment: one of the worst diagnoses you can hear and an STI (that is not even a crustacean, it’s a lice). Even our symbol looks like a sex joke.
The zodiac memes all present us as being overly emotional milquetoast people.
I remember enjoying Lynda Goodman’s Sun Signs book as a kid and reading about my sign. It focused on our sensitive nature being someone who likes making crafts at home and going to garage sales and thrift stores. The next chapter on Leo exemplified someone who was the life of the party and a total charmer. Rough contrast. (Perhaps I was more attracted to Leo though because it turns out I have a lot of it in my chart.)
Over time, I have come to love my Cancerian self. The world might be a wonderful place if we all evolved into crabs.
We are sensitive, and that comes with empathy for others and wisdom of the heart.
Don’t let this soft aspect mingle with any idea that we are not bold. My birthday lands on the same day as both Nelson Mandela and Hunter S. Thompson. Cancers have pushed the boundaries of society, and do so in their own unique way.
It is true bravery to feel your feelings. Cancers are gifted a sensitivity that makes movies and music richer with intricate layers of emotional waves woven into the experiences.
We also are creative beings. You bet we make crafts at home, and it’s one of the most wild and fabulous activities a human can do. Let the Leo’s have their parties, Cancers are in comfy clothes while concocting art with a cup of tea and some good music.
The art of reading cards is supported by my own intuitive Cancer within. This part of me can tune into people and listen for emotional messages with compassion. I have come to relish my tenderness that once felt like a burden.
To get your own nurturing divination experience, sign up for a personal tarot reading.
Access your own psychic sensitivities when you sign up for a tarot reading lesson.
Bring your favorite Cancerian in for a birthday reading during a Tarot Together session this month.
Lavish love on a group of Cancers and their friends when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for a party.
I am heading off to the Oregon Country Fair to satisfy both my Cancer and Leo sides. I will wear my home-crafted costumes (that I bought many parts of at thrift stores) in order to tune into participants and playfully nudge them to open more to magick and their own hearts.
I hope this effort might assist others to evolve more toward their own inner crab.
Be Crabby,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
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