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Say No to Say a Better Yes
I couldn’t think of what to write today, and so I pulled 3 cards for direction.
10 of Cups
6 of Pentacles reversed
10 of Wands reversed
Immediately, I knew what to share about.
We all deserve to enjoy a ‘Heck Yes’ feeling regularly in life, and so many of us ‘should on ourselves’ in a way that defeats this potential.
For the past two years, I have been working at freeing myself of old codependent habits.
For me, these look like:
– Saying yes to showing up for others in ways I don’t feel impelled to do
- Feeling guilty for not doing enough for others, or not being productive enough
- Choosing other’s wants over my own needs
- Not asking for support or receiving other’s offerings
- Needing people around me to feel good before I can feel good
As a tarot reader, I see so many querents suffering from the same unhealthy cycles in these areas.
If this is you, you are not alone, and there are better ways to approach being a good person than giving your best energy away.
I have a deep well of tools to share in this area now. Today, I want to offer one primary system I have learned that may help you in your own journey.
I made up a system that I call the 3 P’s:
Pause - When asked for your time and energy, use the phrase, “Let me get back to you”
Ponder - Consider whether you want to give of yourself, and in what ways that would feel like a ‘Heck Yes’ in your body
Perform – Offer what level you can show up and then hold yourself firmly to that limit you have set
Keep in mind, this is awkward to start. People who are accustomed to you over-giving will be confused and possibly flustered.
At first, my own body became almost physically painful when I did this.
Over time, it’s become more at ease and even a joyous sensation.
I have learned that I need to give a lot of self-compassion to myself to feel good while taking care of my energetic boundaries.
Afterward, I try to reward myself with something that feels good to accomplish, perhaps that I might avoid doing by being ‘too busy’ in ways that are not serving my best goals.
Please note, I still do a lot for my community. When I have choice, I simply do the things that feel like a ‘Yes’ in my body, mind, and spirit.
Many more tips and tricks are available when you sign up for a personal tarot reading as a navigation tool.
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The tips here today are about the somatic body awareness that an Intuition Coaching session can directly train you to tune into.
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Enjoy Your Full Yes,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
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Total Eclipse Tips
On Monday at 11:25am PST, a total solar eclipse will pass over North America during a new moon in Aries.
Astrologically, this is a powerful time to set strong intentions as you ride the waves of unexpected changes (which can also be good things).
Aries is all about your will and making things happen. This combination is a powerful reset that let’s you start fresh.
That this is happening during Mercury Retrograde means that you don’t have to take immediate action. You want a slow and introspective calibration of your intentions. Don’t rush or react, breathe and get strategic.
Aries is also about courage. Time to do the things that scare us as individuals. What freaks you out? How can you create a real plan to finally write your book, go swing dancing, or learn tarot.
Here’s some more questions to ask yourself to make the most of this astro-opportunity:
What habits help you choose to respond instead of react to surprises?
How do you feel ready to step outside your comfort zone?
What new ideas have been brimming that it’s time to put to work proper?
What feels brave to you? How can you lean into courage around this?
How can you design a functional approach to accomplishing these goals?
Sail through eclipse season smoothly when you use a personal tarot reading as a navigation tool.
Want to learn the cards yourself? Get a Tarot Reading Lesson with Jenna to learn to align with your own symbolic knowledge.
Tune into inner knowing with Intuition Coaching to manage changes with your highest wisdom.
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Shine Bright,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
Free Ostara Tarot Reading
Blessed Ostara!
May spring feel like an awakening of your most enlivened spirit this year.
Enjoy the free reading below and then sign up for a personal tarot reading to go deeper into sorting through the month ahead.
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All of these are available at a 10% discount during Mercury Retrograde with the code RETRO2024
Happy Spring,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
April Showers Bring Blossoms of Change
With Mercury Retrograde starting on April Fool’s Day, this upcoming month will be a time to realign with how we manage negotiations for our physical needs.
The 5 of Wands is about how we compete and hold our battles in life. It’s the only fire in the spread, and is a key in how we are burning our earthy pentacles around it.
How can we each keep a cozy fire going that serves community, rather than burn bridges in the name of ‘winning’?
Sitting next to it is the 4 of Pentacles, relating directly to our need for control and management of the physical realms.
The top two cards are asking us to be cautious of how we approach stories of “mine” and “yours”.
Imbalances in our earth, from chores to bank accounts, need to consider a new approach.
The 5 of Wands is also being held by the 2 of Pentacles. While it is healthy to be asking for our desires and even letting ourselves be in a competitive mindset, we will be more successful if we can be balanced in negotiations.
Decide on how you will approach any conversation about desired change from a practical place. Be sure everyone involved is well-fed and able to focus before discussions even start.
Enact these shifts with plans you can actually implement. Adjust your routine based on what’s sensible and realistic, rather than reaching for the stars this month.
Expect some level of compromise for each party involved. You can set forth with a planned outcome, but be adaptable to other’s needs and requests.
The 6 of Pentacles is the perfect card to support the 4 of Pentacles. Find balance with a healthy give and take. Some people need more support than others, but everyone needs to do their part in the ways that they can give.
Bring a story of generosity to overcome the greed and protectionism that each person involved in negotiations likely holds dear.
Overall: Don’t be afraid to ask for your needs this month, but consider how to approach these discussions with good timing and an open mind.
Sign up for a Full Tarot Reading with Jenna this month to get more guidance on managing conflicts gracefully and going for your goals with gusto.
Deck Playful Heart by Kitten Chops
How to Help Life Suck Less
Scrolling through Reddit this week, I came across a post on r/ask simply titled, “Does Life Suck? Why / why not?“
People gave all variety of answers, from long pep talks to short, sullen statements to philosophical meanderings.
It got me thinking about how both are inherently true, life has lovely aspects and awful aspects, and we are all going to get a mix.
The real question is how to make life suck less.
It’s different for each of us, but here are some of my personal tried and true ways . . .
My Personal Techniques to Help Life Suck Less:
Art
– Turn off mindless TV one night and put on that weird, artsy film that your quirky friend told you about.
– Go to a museum, a play, a dance performance, or a gallery.
– Learn an instrument. I found the Ukelele to really help me through a depression.
– Learn an esoteric art with a Tarot Reading Lesson.
– Draw, paint, sculpt, cook. Pick one and stick to it long enough to see improvement.
– Dance everyday. Even just one song.
Explore with Curiosity
– Try new things. Go to the local international market and buy something you never ate before.
– Travel abroad. Travel locally. Find a festival you never went to before. Get away from the mundane familiar and see new places.
– Dive inward to the unknown. Use Intuition Coaching to develop a sense of how to listen to the voices guiding you away from the suckiness.
– Volunteer with refugees to help them practice English and learn about why life sucked enough for them to move here.
– Find a picture book from a realm unknown to you in time, culture, or mindset and spend time pondering how people live different lives.
Love
– Let go of love being about romance or partnership. Love anyone or anything with joy (and healthy boundaries).
– Volunteer to help other’s lives suck less. Choose something that you actually like to do so it does not add to the suck.
– Love yourself enough to be gentle when you have a sucky day, week, month or year. Experience messages of self-compassion in a personal tarot reading.
– Find a friend you love and make plans together. Meet new friends through going out and doing activities you love with a local meetup group.
This is a short list for a long subject. I welcome you to reach out and share what your own techniques are to help life suck less.
Live Well,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
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Train Your Brain for the Long Game
With the advent of smart phones, it has become easy to get addicted to what is called ‘cheap dopamine’. We get a little mini high from scrolling through short videos.
The algorithms feed into this, giving creators more benefit from making their content shorter and shorter. It is now recommended for us to make reels on Instagram that are only 7 – 15 seconds.
The issue is that this feeds our brains a reward for jumping from one subject to the next. Puppies! War! Celebrity gossip! Comedy! Anger!
We get a ‘cheap dopamine’ high from this habit. Like sugar, the more we feed on it, the more we desire it.
So I am proud to share that this month, I accomplished a goal of a tarot lesson that combines movie archetypes and tarot.
It took me over 30 hours to create in many sessions where I had to choose to sit down and write, then edit, then prep tech tools and lights, then film, find clips, then edit, then edit, then edit some more.
When we stay vigilant on a long-term, self-motivated goal, it can be very disconcerting and even physically uncomfortable at first.
Over time, our brain gets the “real dopamine” of meaningful accomplishments, and final completion gives us a deeply satisfying continual flow.
I got to enjoy this quality of dopamine this week as I got a wonderful response from my community who enjoyed the video and shared it and messaged me to share what they liked about it. So I am also now high on the love drug of oxytocin.
If you have seen the film Poor Things, please enjoy my video essay, Poor Things Explained: Through the Tarot Lens.
It just won 4 Oscars for it’s outstanding art designs and for Best Actress, so I am not alone in my love of it.
Spoilers alert! If you have not seen Poor Things yet, please add my video to your watch later list and see the film first. It is currently streaming on Hulu in the US. It’s weird with a lot of sex scenes, so not for family movie night.
If you enjoy strange and insightful films that question the norms of society, then I hope this might inspire you to watch Poor Things and then check out my interpretation afterward.
What about you?
What is one of your personal goals that you want to put effort into this month?
Which part of your day can you begin making a choice to add working on a long goal into your routine?
Let’s talk about which of your long-term goals are most meaningful and figure out a path toward them during a personal tarot reading together.
Use Intuition Coaching to develop a sense of how to tune into the part of your mind that knows where to focus yourself from a psychic place.
If you like the style of teaching in the video, sign up for a Tarot Reading Lesson. Bring a friend along to split the cost at no extra charge, and more friends for only $10 extra per person.
Keep On Keeping On,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
Tarot reading for International Women’s Day
Tarot is a field that has a very female lineage. There are readers of all genders, but women have carried this art form through the centuries to modern day.
When I went to my first NW Tarot Symposium conference, I was surprised to find the unique culture that comes with this women-led industry.
There is a collaborative mindset of sharing our gifts and celebrating each other’s wins.
We support each other’s businesses.
We listen to other’s card interpretations with open minds and questions, even if we debate some concepts.
Male readers are quite enthusiastic to enact these values as well. Truly secure men enjoy their feminine side as much as women can enjoy our healthy masculine side.
This community makes me proud to be a reader. My local community outside the tarot industry also presents joy in uplifting our feminine powers. I hope today you consider how you would like to enact positive change in this direction of your own community.
I am grateful to be in this era where much progress has been made through societies around the world recognizing women’s values more and more.
We know there is still much work to be done. The reading today focuses on that, scroll down to learn more and then consider how to activate your best future with a personal tarot reading with me.
Or, experience how Intuition Coaching is a form of empowerment to deepen your own relationship with your higher self. Sign up today to step inward more deeply.
Access this art form yourself when you learn the cards in a Tarot Reading Lesson. Bring a friend along to split the cost at no extra charge, and more friends for only $10 extra per person.
Relish Your Feminine,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
Very Feminine Deck: Tarot of Mystical Moments by Catrin Welz-Stein
Two powerful female figures top this reading with a message about listening closely to our own minds and speaking our truth in a way that is well thought out and cuts through the BS with a sharp knife and adept timing.
The Queen of Swords is wise and mentally centered. She meditates and reads and listens well. She also can smell a lie (or a gaslight) like a fart in a car.
She calls out what she sees, and is able to say it in a way that the receiver can hear the message clearly. She cuts right to the core of truth, but with an eloquent tongue that people tune into.
The High Priestess listens to her own intuition and supports the Queen of Swords with right timing. She feels the rhythms of the cosmic flow to align messages that integrate with the beat of those she wants to impact the most.
The High Priestess reads the room, and leads people by leaving some room for mystery that they need to fill in with their own wisdom. She can get them to think it was their idea.
These two are supporting the cause of the Ten of Pentacles, which is about carrying forth traditions we hold dear and increasing our collective wealth.
The Queen of Wands reversed is asking us to not be hasty or fierce in how we approach this long-term goal. It’s about using our head and our wisdom, it is not bulldozing forth out of impatience.
The Seven of Pentacles says that our efforts will bear great bountiful fruits, but it is not quite harvest season yet. Don’t require results immediately. Bide your time and know that your most clever approach will have a big pay off in the end.
Get a full reading with Jenna to determine your own most astute strategy forward in your pursuits.
Best of Luck in All Your Efforts for the Greater Good of All!
Drink from the Cup
Some weeks are more of an emotional journey than others.
We are in the midst of Pisces season, and in honor of my fabulous fishy friends, I want to talk about the Cups suit and our feelings.
The Cups Suit is about water. This element relates directly to the heart as a center of emotions and spirituality.
Water flows with gravity and finds it’s way to the ground. It’s incredibly powerful in this insistent path and cuts through rock to create canyons over time.
Our own hearts are the same element. Big feelings can be contained temporarily, but they will carve through to freedom, often becoming a churning eddy that bursts forth when time and circumstance set them loose.
In my experience, this can end up happening at inopportune times. I am so grateful for the stranger on the NYC bus who held my hand while I openly wept about my cat. And all the others who were in the right place at the right time to nurture my tears unexpectedly.
I hope we can normalize public crying for all of us, but I also want to self-care better so I don’t get embarrassed in a business meeting.
That’s why it’s so essential to tend to your watery heart and let it’s feelings flow forth. The only way over is through.
Today, I offer you a short practice to give yourself space to feel.
Sit or lay down, bring your knees to your chest, and place one hand on your heart.
Breathe and feel your heart center for a minute or five.
When you feel ready, ask your heart, “What sadness has been dismissed lately that I can welcome today?”
See if anything arises, and then go through with the same question, changing the word sadness to joy, shame, loneliness, anger, etc.
You can also ask what ‘feelings’ have been dismissed, but I find naming different ones calls them forth more easily.
If any arise, get super present with letting them express. Observe how they rise and fall and morph, bubbling through phases.
If expression feels stuck , consider putting on a song that seems to capture the feelings and dance them out. Get weird with your dance, let it come from the body and not the brain.
When you feel complete, give yourself gratitude for nurturing your heart. Then go for a walk or some natural movement to shake out and reset.
Give yourself a little celebratory reward for the important work you did, no matter what surfaced or didn’t.
I welcome tears and big feelings when you come in for a personal tarot reading with me. Know that it’s a safe space to express.
Intuition Coaching is about learning to tune in more clearly to your feeling body, and listen to it’s hints and wisdoms that can emerge from emotions. Sign up to start your journey with me today.
Better attune to all the suits that are already within yourself when you sign up for a Tarot Reading Lesson with me.
Hope you get to feel your feelings this weekend.
Love Your Big Heart,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
Let Go to Let In
February is a slower reading season, and so I have been cleaning out spaces in my house all week.
My living room is now full of the purge that is going out on my local Buy Nothing group, followed by a drop off at the thrift store and a free box on the sidewalk. Be free, stuff I don’t need anymore (if I ever did).
My back hurts, but my mind feels lighter to walk through spaces that have, well, spaciousness again.
Today, I hope you’ll consider one area of your life that needs a little clearing up. It can be physical, mental, emotional, or energetic.
For any form of clearing, we start with attention.
What feelings need felt to let them move through you?
What thoughts need better noticed when they come up so we can pause and transmute them into a healthier version?
Where are we putting our energy too often that isn’t replenishing us enough?
What area of our spaces feels stagnant and cluttered?
Remember that making room means you also get to then call in fresh blessings to fill those spaces you shifted in your life.
Ask: What do you want more of in the season ahead? What needs altered to make space for that?
Clear out old stories when you sign up for a personal tarot reading with me.
Join me for Intuition Coaching session to feel more certainty in making your best next steps into the Spring.
Open a window to let in new ideas when you sign up for a Tarot Reading Lesson with me.
Have a lovely weekend!
Scrubadubdub,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
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Swords Court Cards and a Free Reading
Below is an offering of a free reading for the week ahead.
It focuses a lot on the power of the Swords Court, so I want to offer a short lesson in these cards as well.
The Swords Suit has the most intimidating images of all the minor arcana.
This is because it’s about the mind. The brain serves us best when it has focus and quiet listening behind it.
As the mind amplifies in intensity, or increases up to ten in the minor arcana suit, it often brings fears, anxieties, and neurosis.
What I try to help my tarot students understand is that the Swords Court cards do not reflect this darkness. They are simply the Air sign personalities who are more intellectual, logical, and mentally centered.
Swords or Air people aim to understand through books and reason. They are often engineers, philosophers, and writers.
Swords people love sharing ideas and debating from a less emotional energy, albeit still passionate. They want facts to back up truths. They love learning.
If you relate to this, know that the best way to serve this aspect of yourself is through a mix of meditation practice and engaging with fascinating ideas and brilliant minds.
Activate your gifts this week by listening to a smart podcast or reading a book that makes your brain crinkle with new ideas. Add some videos on YouTube from Pema Chodron, Slavov Zizek, Alan Watts, or some TED talks. Look up words you hear that you don’t know (I tried to include a few 50 cent words in the reading to inspire you.)
Get insight into how to use your mind to direct your greatest achievements when you sign up for a personal tarot reading with me.
Empower yourself to make your choices from your right brain this year when you join me for Intuition Coaching sessions.
Open a part of your mind that hungers for archetypes of old when you sign up for a Tarot Reading Lesson with me.
Have a lovely weekend!
Enjoy Your Fabulous Mind,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
The Mystical Medley’s Deck is one of the few that offers a sacred Happy Squirrel Card. This derives from the Simpsons episode where Lisa sees a fortune teller.
Obviously, this means that we get to create our own interpretation of it.
In this spread, I feel that it is asking us to get busy running about collecting acorns and planting them for the joy of future harvest. Even if we don’t know where we planted 70% of the seeds, trees will grow from those that will create harvest for our future generations.
The Ten of Pentacles is very much about abundance of inheritance and reaping benefit from our efforts. We may as well share our bounty with our framily.
This direction is tempered by the King of Swords, who knows how to be righteous in directing who gets how much of our ample gifts.
He knows who is worthy of our gifts, as well as where we don’t need to dedicate to a cause that might place our blessings on nonarable land. Be wise and firm and sensible in whom you bestow your benedictions to.
The Strength Card shows that, if we are wise in our energy expenditure above, we will have immense reserves to build the empires we desire.
The Queen of Swords reminds us that true wisdom is in knowing what your own personal strengths are, and are not. She is discerning and can extricate the hokum (i.e. cut through the BS).
Do what you are good at, and hire out for the skills you lack.
Use your most clearly rational self to determine where to share your energy and to whom you accord your abundance.
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Happy Year of the Wood Dragon
Xīnnián kuàilè! (Pronounced “She-nee-an Kwai leh”)
Happy New Year!
I lived in Taiwan for two years teaching English, and loved the vibrant fun of ringing in the lunar new year.
Celebrate by wearing red clothes this weekend, hanging red decor from your door, visiting your beloved elders to pay respects, and do NOT clean house on Saturday! Get chores done on Friday or Sunday instead.
The Wood Dragon is an abundant year for creative endeavors and laying down foundations for long-term goals.
It is a year of evolution that supports the growth of projects that you are ready to bring forth fully.
With this in mind, please take a few minutes to sit and dream up your year ahead.
What is one direction you want to put your energy more fully this year?
Envision yourself in 11 months from now, having successfully accomplished this goal.
Imagine how you feel having finally supported your own dream to fruition.
How does this ripple out to bless the people around you as well?
Further engage with your highest possibilities for inner evolution when you sign up for a personal tarot reading with me.
Empower yourself to make your strongest choices this year when you join me for Intuition Coaching sessions.
Hope you have a lovely year ahead!
San Nin Faai Lok, (Cantonese for Happy New Year)
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
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