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My Ack!Knowledements
I have been thinking about validation lately.
People often reflect that my tarot readings are validating, and I enjoy being a stranger who can reflect back what your intuition is saying.
More poignantly though, I have been talking about acknowledgement with my therapist a lot.
Because I desire approval and I don’t like that appetite.
Can you relate?
We seek it from friends, lovers, family, and, to an unhealthy degree, random strangers on the internet.
Often these groups don’t reflect what we want. But we keep going back anyway.
Why?
Probably because it’s awkward to trust our own internal validation.
While it’s challenging to accept a compliment from anyone else, it’s super duper hard to lean into taking your own positive feedback.
Right?
Wellllllll, sometimes not so much.
If I tell myself I am funny, I feel a physical response of utter certainty.
Even if I tell a joke that doesn’t land. That does not change my inherent nature.
Why do I believe this wholeheartedly?
My parents often told me I was funny growing up. When we’d have an emotional upheaval with tears, I could return us to joy with a joke.
However, at one point, I lost my funny. It scared the hell out of me. I think it was a twisted way for the universe to reign in my ego. And it worked . . . temporarily.
So I am now humbly grateful for this gift in my life.
You hear that Universe??? I AM HUMBLE! Please be gentle.
So, why do I need validation in other areas?
Well, my parents and siblings are also highly dismissive and critica
My mom is German, a culture that even has a very specific facial expression to dismiss you and what you just said. And they use it often.
(Push out your lips and turn your head to the side . . . that’s it. You can now tell people they are foolish without verbiage).
Why this fascinating overshare?
Today, I want you to consider the following:
1. What ways do you trust your own inner acknowledgements?
2. Why are you confident in these areas?
3. Sit with gratitude for these gifts of being you.
Then reflect on:
1. What areas do you desire more validation?
2. How do you attempt to get it and from who?
3. Does this effort give you the desired results?
4. How can you affirm this better from within yourself?
Finally, create a morning routine this week where, while brushing your teeth, you praise yourself for the ways you trust you are awesome, and you praise yourself for the ways you desire to be told you are awesome.
If you crave some healthy life path validation, get a tarot reading that will help you move forward with more confidence in your choices.
If you prefer to get better at trusting yourself, sign up for intuition coaching today.
You are FABulous,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
Self-Care is Sexy
This week, I noticed that I was agitated.
I am dating a nice guy who gives good vibes in person. I found that my flirty texts weren’t resulting in the kind of banter I desired to ease the distance during my travels.
I hinted, but the response I wanted was not there. Even though he was engaging in other ways, this craving beckoned me.
More importantly, I could see myself getting resentful, which really was not fair to him. He’s not the psychic. That’s my job.
Finally, I nervously made the phone call.
I said, “I really enjoy how communicative you are in so many ways, but I feel like I am initiating most the text flirtations, and it’s feeling a bit lopsided.”
He replied that it’s good for him to hear that, and ended the call somewhat abruptly. I felt my anxiety kick in, but I also knew he needed to get his workday started.
That afternoon, he sent a nice text saying that he appreciated the ask, and that my direct communication in itself was sexy. Woo!
In the texts since, he’s given some stellar sweet nothings. These brighten my day.
I am proud of myself for being so bold, and today I want to know:
“What desire do you have to ask for a need that you’re shy about?”
A lot of us struggle to ask for what we want. And yet, it’s sometimes the only way to get it . . . or find out that other’s cannot provide it.
Were you raised with the idea that focusing on your needs is selfish? How can you break free of that untrue belief?
Consider how grateful you are when a loved one sweetly requests what they would like to receive. It’s so much easier than guessing.
We may even be honored to know that we are able to provide for someone. (Or, of course we can happily say ‘No’ if that’s outside our own desires).
This week, take a leap and ask for what you want.
Do your best to make your request in a way that is kind and accepting of whatever answer you receive. Remember that how you ask is key to hearing a joyous ‘Yes’.
I know it’s not easy, but it can be very worth it. Most importantly, it’s a great habit to practice.
Learn more about your inner needs and join me in a session of Intuition Coaching!
Honor Your Self,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
PS. Enjoy this hilarious song that kept going through my head before I made my request.
Adventure is the Fool’s Journey
I am back from 2 weeks of travel in Ecuador! As much as it was a fun foray, I am happy to be home.
My friend Darcy and I explored the lava shores of the Galapagos and watched colorful birds in the misty clouds of the rain forest.
It wasn’t all fluffy fun. We began the trip with a ‘bird poop scam’ and then a few days later were hit with a bout of food poisoning. The finale found us spiraling downhill from our hot springs plans to cure the altitude sickness that had taken our breath away at 11,000 feet.
This all offered a precious reminder of who I am when I am outside my homeland.
By 30 years old, I had spent over 5 years of my life abroad and backpacked through Southeast Asia and India on my own for a year of that.
This trip was one of my first global ventures in a long time, and it was nice to reacquaint with my younger self.
One of our first days in the Galapagos, sitting in the sweltering heat on a loud boat, a sense memory from 20 years ago flooded through me of that young woman who was giddy to set forth into seeing the world.
This reignited the Fool’s spirit into me.
The Fool is an adventurous yet naive wanderer, who seeks out the new and is open-minded and curious to learn and grow.
I suddenly heard the voice of my high school writing teacher, Bob McHeffy, who would ask us, “Would the child you were be proud of the person you are today?”
I felt so grateful that the middle-aged woman I am is proud of that young adult who made a solid effort to explore the world.
Those choices instilled a well of youthful vivacity that I can still drink from today.
I am also grateful to the stable and rooted part of me, my inner Queen of Pentacles, who I developed over the last 15 years. Because this journey also asserted that with age comes a higher need for creature comforts.
I appreciate the economy my grounded adult has built to afford the last minute taxi to take us back down a few thousand feet when the altitude sickness became intimidating. My pentacles self also had a lot of fun bartering at the enormous Otavalo outdoor market and reading cards for locals with the skills she developed.
I hope right now you will consider how you are grateful to yourself for what seeds you planted that you can feast from the trees of today. It might stem from very different choices than mine, and reap very different fruit. Take some time to ponder the wisdom of your younger self.
I hope that my little share here today gives you pause to thank your past self for what they created. Then relish your present self for who you have become.
To know where your inner Fool needs to explore next, sign up for a tarot reading with me this month!
Live Fully,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
PS. Scroll down for a few photo highlights!
The Value of travel: Global and Internal
Tomorrow, I embark on an adventure to Ecuador!
It’s been a while since I have been on a trip like this.
In my 20’s, I worked and traveled abroad for many years in Asia.
After I landed in Portland in 2008, I shifted into a Pentacles Era of nurturing resources like my home, business, relationships, and community.
Now, I find myself wondering what makes big journeys so very essential.
While most of us love travel, I ask us, “Why is travel important?”
Being that this is the first email I am sending out since journeying over to my new email service, I can say that I am giddy about the fresh look of my newsletter.
While I aimed for a level of consistency in the style, it feels brighter and more exciting.
Travel gives us a chance to push outside our comfort zones, and taste flavors we are unfamiliar with.
We get to see who we are in ambiguous circumstance, and consider how we approach life from a different culture.
A Tarot Reading is a form of travel, right from the comfort of your home.
Divination encourages you consider your life with new eyes.
It asks you to break out of your old cycles and attempt bold moves forward toward your best life.
A solid tarot reading links you to a realm of magic. While this is with us all the time, sometimes we need a journey to remember it’s there.
While I won’t be available for the next 2 weeks, you can sign up now for an exploration into the mystic with me after I return at the end of the month.
If this trip is like my others, I will likely be in an extra vibrant space to share the messages of the cards.
Where will you journey to next?
Either Globally or Internally . . . take yourself on a jaunt into the unknown this month.
Bon Voyage,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot
The Future is Formed by Stories of the Past
I just spent a few days with my parents, which is always a great reminder that I am nowhere near enlightened yet.
It was a nice visit though. And my Mom always impresses me with her deep well of positivity.
She considers herself incredibly lucky. I agree, and yet her story could be adapted into a harrowing drama. Here’s a few quick highlights:
Born in the end of WWII, her pregnant mother had to run for the border to give birth to her away from the bombs of Berlin.
Soon after, the border of East Berlin cut right through their back garden, and they were housed on the East side. As a child, my mom would playfully throw water on the Russian soldiers patrolling through her yard.
Her family had to leave their home and belongings behind to escape to the West, where they traded a lovely home for the basement of an apartment complex. Her father became abusive.
By 23 years old, she was a divorced single mother in the US where she was not yet fluent in the language.
Right after marrying my father, she was diagnosed with malignant melanoma skin cancer.
Two years later, right after my birth, she had early onset menopause. This was before hormones were medically understood at all. It took 14 years of emotional and physical turmoil before the medicine came through.
With all this and more, she vehemently states that she considers herself incredibly lucky.
She sees this through the lens of someone who got out of the East, met a wonderful 2nd husband, survived cancer, found an outstanding OBGYN who listened to her, and was able to live a fulfilling life with economic security.
I agree. She is lucky. (She also has me for a daughter, which clearly adds to her blessings. Ha.)
I have personally been struggling lately with my own recent stories. As a Cancerian, it’s easy to slip from healthy self-compassion into self-pity.
Today, I want to offer us all an exercise in reframing our stories.
Consider some aspect of your life that you feel negative about. Perhaps you feel that you failed or someone else failed you.
Consider the gains you can dig out from how this story defined you as a stronger person. How can you see yourself as the hero who overcame challenge?
Align with the lessons and positive impressions this had on your current person.
Recognize the ways this twisted some turns in your path that brought unexpected blessings.
It’s not all about being positive. You can honor the pain that you have been through, and still respect who it has made you into.
Today, sync up with your best self, past and present. Take a leap towards betterment and schedule a tarot reading, lesson, or intuition coaching session with me.
Have a lovely weekend of creating new stories, hopefully with ease and joy.
Find your Best Story,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
PresentPathTarot.com
Look from a New Angle
Snow has blanketed my home town of Portland, Oregon. Plans were cancelled. Readings moved online.
Moments like these insist on a fresh perspective. Everything looks so different outside that the mood inside the house shifts along with it.
Tarot also asks us to gain insight from a new lens. Our problems transition into epiphanies for our evolution.
It’s like the changing the lighting in a room. Nothing physically moves, but the elements look completely different.
Today, I want to offer some ways that even basic archetypes can do this.
Consider a challenge you have that seems stuck.
Ask if you are looking at it more from a big picture, or a small picture.
What happens if you shift to the opposite?
Widen your lens to consider it in the grand scheme of things.
Macro your lens to consider the details about it that are manageable.
Notice if your pressure around this matter feels more >external< or <internal>
Do you presume others are judging you around it?
Or, is a part of you feeling something is not aligned with your values?
Recognize the source of the stress, and consider if there are people you can express your concerns to that might quell this overwhelm, or if meditation would help you center in clarity.
Finally, how might you be looking at this from black and white thinking?
Is there a nuanced gray area to consider?
What is the risk of approaching this from a softer place inside?
There are 78 archetypes of far more subtlety in the deck though. Get even more new ways of seeing when you schedule a tarot reading, lesson, or intuition coaching session with me.
Scroll on for a short meditation to listen to your own inner knowing.
Have a great weekend.
Refresh Yourself,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
PresentPathTarot.com
Life is Overwhelming: Let’s Simplify
Vulnerable share . . . I feel pulled all sorts of different directions, and lately I have struggled to get anything really solidly satisfying done.
I manage a business, a home, relationships, and my health on multiple fronts.
I am wrangling connections with new people on dating apps.
I am showing up for friends in times of trouble.
I am cooking to eat right, and exercising as often as I can squeeze it in.
I am I am I am . . .
I am guessing that you can relate.
As a Tarot Reader, I know that it all comes down to balance.
From a Tarot perspective, we need to engage with each of the four elements everyday.
Earth is about our income and resources, including relationships.
Water is about the heart and emotions and our spiritual connection.
Air is about our mental intellect and communication.
Fire is about our desire, movement, and the way we move our energy.
Consider which of these fields needs more inclusion in how you move through your day.
Keep in mind that you don’t need to do ALL the things that this element relates to. Simplify down to just one essential that feels nourishing.
Ask yourself:
Earth: How can I ground each day into my body?
Something as simple as feeling the weight of your body in a chair as you eat your breakfast can support this.
Water: When can I make time to feel my feelings?
Take a quiet moment when you are driving to turn off the radio and feel your heart as you speak words of gratitude for the blessings in your life and all the myriad of feelings you feel.
Air: Does my mind need more or less learning today?
If your brain needs stimulated, add a podcast or a show that asks you to expand your knowledge. If you are overdrawn, numb out with some familiar and fun entertainment.
Fire: What could spark my joy today?
Listen to your body and ask what feels like a delight you can make room for. Allow desire to speak, and narrow down to a way to give it a treat today.
Do you want to clarify the other complications of your busy life?
Consider the opportunity to schedule a tarot reading, lesson, or intuition coaching session with me. Most clients claim to feel better after a reading and more at ease on the fields they came in feeling low about.
Watch my video below about how Balance is presented in the cards. Then have a great weekend!
You Got This,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
PresentPathTarot.com
Treat Yourself to a Fresh Perspective
One of my favorite types of readings to give is ‘Tarot Together‘, where two familiars sit and listen in on each other’s 30-minute readings.
The person receiving the reading will often sit with a poker face, while their companion reflects delight and dismay at how spot on the information is.
Nearly without fail, the friend will turn to the querent and say, “Oh my gosh, we were *just* talking about that!”
Most people have a different impression of what divination entails. Movies tell us that oracles only offer dark foreshadowing for the hero. The reality is a vast ocean apart from that squalor.
The most common thing people reflect to me during and after a tarot reading is how much more clear and validated they feel about what steps to take to expand further into their best life.
A real psychic tarot reading is magical in that it will tell you things that are unique to you and will resonate with your life’s current moment.
Experience real magic and spiritual guidance when you schedule a tarot reading, lesson, or intuition coaching session with me.
Scroll down for a YouTube on What to Expect from a Professional Tarot Reading.
Have a lovely weekend of relishing your own journey.
Blessings,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
PresentPathTarot.com
Moody Decks Make Me Happy
As I was walking through the NW Tarot Symposium, the name ‘Pensive Path‘ passed by me, hanging from a woman’s lanyard with antique images all around it.
The name resonated because it is so similar to my own business, and the images impelled me to stop and ask her about it.
It turned out to be Reese Marren, a deck designer at The Curated Card. She pulls together meaningful decks from hours of digging through old art resources.
I purchased the deck the same day, since it is unlike any other I have seen. She puts a lot of thought into capturing the essence of each card’s meaning.
Despite the images coming from a wide span of resources, they all collectively share a dusky mood that has gristle in it, which I personally love.
To see the deck in it’s full glory, check out my YouTube Flip Through and Review this week.
I am excited for her upcoming project as well, The Wonderful World of Hilda, featuring a pin up woman shaped like my own figure.
Treat yourself to some insights that can lighten the mood of your own life when you schedule a tarot reading, lesson, or intuition coaching session with me.
I hope you can take in some art this week, or make some of your own.
Live Creatively,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
PresentPathTarot.com
More Fun is Soon to Come
If the last few months felt stuck, get ready for a change!
Astrologically, things are shifting forward finally on a lot of levels.
The cards agree and have some tips of how to make it move more smoothly, as you will find in the free reading that I share this week when you scroll on!
Learn what adventures you are ready to embark on when you schedule a tarot reading, lesson, or intuition coaching session with me.
I hope you enjoy your weekend and get some mental rest to ready yourself for some great actions toward your best goals.
Find Your Fire,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
PresentPathTarot.com
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