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What Cycles Serve You?
While living in Taiwan in 2005, I was sitting outside by a pool in late November (mmmm, subtropical autumn).
I shared with my pool companion, a very artistic friend named Cathy, how I was frustrated to be in a creative slump.
She pointed to the orchid latched to a nearby tree and said, “Some flowers only bloom once a year, but are they any less glorious for it?”
This has stuck with me through two decades. Normally, it helps me forgive the times when I am struggling to be productive.
This week, I am in high activity mode with good results thus far. I am finishing up major house projects and getting the June activities like Ren Faire and grad night parties into action.
This quote comes to me now to remind myself that I will need to cycle down some next week to keep my own best rhythm.
I know how my cycles work. I presume you have a good idea of how yours work. It is a major feature of adulthood to witness and tend to our own rhythms.
It’s hard to do so due to life circumstances requiring more of us . . . in part.
The other part that we can overcome is the pressure we put on ourselves to constantly be in bloom. Societal pressure is strong to keep that arrow of success constantly pointed on the upwards diagonal.
This made me think about how the symbol for cycle is arrows in a circle, while the symbol for chaos is arrows making a circle outward.
So I asked AI to make an image of this idea. (It is useful for some things, but rest assured that I won’t use it to write these blogs, because I enjoy the routine of this creative effort in my own weekly routine.)
Being that my job is reading symbols, I am very intrigued by this image.
Life is a mix of routine and the unexpected. It is up to us to know how to keep ourselves in a healthy wheel of the sequences that serve us while managing the surprises.
Obviously we need to constantly keep orderly enough with our daily needs of sleep, food, water, exercise, work, cleaning, etc.
We also do well to know what our needs are around larger scales of energy output versus decompression.
These may not be the same for everyone, and you can thrive when you know and respect your own course, and correct it as needed.
This symbol also makes me think about how the chaos can come from internal pressures as well as external societal expectations.
My ADHD might decide to hyperfocus next week on a new project, and it is up to me to down regulate and choose rest over impulsive attractions.
This makes me think about how the chaos symbol looks like a butthole. How fitting that is, because it’s always challenging us. And this makes me think about how AI company symbols all look like buttholes. Google it. They do. You’re welcome.
Which brings me back to reigning in the madness into regulated behavior again. This is a small taste of my dance with the balance of the two.
What does your balance game look like? How do you relish the creativity of chaos and contain it with grounded choices?
Consider how you can adjust your weekly activity and rest rhythms to better allow for what works for you.
Do your expectations on yourself create a vibrant blossom? Are you requiring constant progress when nature does not work that way?
How could you make small changes to your pace and style that allow for your own choreography to come through in this dance of life?
What works for you?
I am happy to sit with you in this question during personal tarot reading.
If you also like looking at symbols, let’s do it together during a tarot reading lesson.
Compare notes with a friend on how you find balance during a Tarot Together session.
This summer, add some pleasant magick chaos to the party when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
Enjoy your weekend as you let yourself lean into your own best cycle and chaos management.
Embrace Your Dance,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Free Reading for June 2026
By Jenna Lynne Roberts
It’s beginning to feel a lot like summer up here in the Pacific Northwest.
The team at Portlandia Fortune Tellers is about to dive into a busy month of Graduation parties and Renaissance Faires!
You can catch us any weekend in June starting the 6th in Canby at the Oregon Renaissance Faire. Last year we were on the entrance side across the street from the pub, and we’re hoping for similar again.
In mid-July we will be at the Canterbury Faire in Silverton, Oregon for our first time.
Hope you can come to gnaw a turkey leg, watch a performance, and get a reading from our fabulous divination experts.
If you crave a full-fledged long-form tarot reading, sign up with me on a weekday this month.
Have some downtime this summer? Spend it learning the archetypes with a tarot lesson.
Add to your summer parties with a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
Scroll down for the free reading this month!
Have a Rad Summer,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
It’s time get fancy with animals in the Fantastic Menagerie Tarot, based on J.J. Grandville illustrations recreated by Alex Ukolov and Karen Mahony
We blast off with the Judgement Card. This image captures the bright awakening of the epiphany that you are ready to welcome into your comprehension.
The item our blue bird is holding strikes me as a music album that embodies this new truth. Put on some jams that bring you into a state of clarity.
Let yourself believe in the answers that have been waiting for you to fully embrace them. Trust the messages in your recent journey.
The Three of Swords reversed says that this is going to lead to an internal transformation that will shift your identity of how you express yourself in the world. Burgeoning into a new layer of authentic self is not easy, but it’s more painful to stay stuck.
To break free from old ways, the Hierophant reversed asks us to dissolve our attachments to the systems that hold us in that stuck place.
Shift your routine, question the rules that bind you, do things differently. Notice how the cultural agreements you signed up for are not serving your true self.
From here, you will know what it is time to walk away from. The Eight of Cups says there is something that does not serve your heart anymore and you are allowed to move on.
Do not presume this has to be some big drama. Do the steps to find out what it is. TTake this Judgement Card realization and follow the identity shift into questioning the big picture. Then you will know what you are done with in your heart. This all feels like a more internal shift around how you engage with the world.
Once you do move on, there will be a state of peace that you can release into. The Hanged Man is a surrender into acceptance of this new perspective on life. This implies an adaptation time that may feel like limbo, but with the other cards it also offers a state of nirvana after a powerful shift.
This seems like a deep era that will be a positive life change in the end. If this reading resonates with you, it’s time for an online or in-person tarot reading or an intuition coaching session.
Celebrate Small Satisfactions
By Jenna Lynne Roberts
In the field of self-improvement, we often want big gains that are obvious and quick.
I’ve been doing a new health regiment and I have to remind myself to acknowledge the improvements I have made, rather than focus on my impatience with how slow the process is.
Screenwriter Nora Ephron wrote a resonant line in When Harry met Sally, spoken by another great writer, Carrie Fisher: “instant gratification takes too long”.
With smartphones and the internet, we’ve all become quite accustomed to immediacy.
These days, it takes real fortitude to have a debate with someone and not fact check them on Google in the moment.
Hilariously enough . . . as I was writing this prior paragraph’s rough draft on my phone with speech-to-text, I said the G word. My phone instantaneously thought I was talking to it and Gemini started asking what I was needing. Perfect example of the problem and blessing that we are in right now.
Which is why it’s all the more important that we really give ourselves lots of acknowledgment for the small gains that take a longer time to build.
We have more instant gratification than ever. It can be fun. I love being able to find the commercial from the 80’s I am thinking about in only a minute.
But we all know how that can also become an addiction. Rather than stop enjoying the high, let’s give ourselves more support on the long-form satisfactions.
Sit for a moment and think of one thing you have accomplished in this last week that might have been easily overlooked?
Let it be minor. Did you brush your teeth everyday? Twice even!? Wow! High five!
What is one habit that you are getting better about slowly but surely, even if you’ve backtracked a bit and had to restart?
Impressive! Your persistence is an inspiration!
What are the baby steps that you see yourself doing more regularly that’s taking you closer and closer to improvements you’ve been wanting to make?
I bet you are already feeling some of those benefits! Amazeballs!
We need to remind our brains that slow and steady is super impressive and deserves accolades even more than the quick fix.
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Let’s look at th present stretch of your long game during a personal tarot reading with me.
Strengthen your journey in long form learning of something you enjoy in a tarot reading lesson.
Share the high fives with a friend in a Tarot Together session.
Give your community some quick and fun gratifications when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for a party.
I hope you get to enjoy a long weekend of giving yourself lots of compliments for the little stuff.
You are a Rock Star of the Things You Do,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Nurturing Taurus Wisdom
By Jenna Lynne Roberts
I love Tauruses.
I have almost no earth in my natal chart (only Taurus in Chiron). I seem to collect Earth people to help me balance out.
A major reason I enjoy my bull friends is because they have a grounding effect on me. They like good food, snuggles, and routines. These are all essential for my well-being, and each of these work best with outside support.
Tauruses know how to nurture their bodies. Most of the ones I know often will choose rest over social fun, root vegetables over sugar bombs, and comfy clothes over impressive fancies.
They are known for how they hold strong boundaries. I will admit that this can be challenging with their stubborn nature and resistance to change. It’s also a form of healthy living that more of us need. They know what matters to them and they are unwavering.
In 2007, I was traveling in Tante Toraje, Sulawesi in Indonesia. A village was attempting to get two water buffalo to fight. I am grateful that they didn’t use any cruel techniques to inspire the bulls like some other places.
Instead, we watched the local men in their sarongs jump around and smack the bull rumps and pull at their horns. The buffalo were not phased a bit. They simply could not be bothered. This is what it feels like to try to influence a Taurus through brute force or illogical arguments.
Taurus people seem to run on their own time scale. They are not in a rush, and don’t do well when forced to. They are all about steady and slow win the race. It requires patience to be around them, but the pay off is usually worth it.
I remember when I first met my ex-boyfriend (now dear friend) Christopher. We would go on walks in the park and I would literally be zipping circles around his plodding pace. We would walk up a hill and I would go faster and then take breath breaks while he would somehow beat me to the top going slow.
Even if they don’t intend to change, I don’t know a single Taurus who pretends to be perfect. They know themselves and are accepting of their flawed nature, which in turn makes them very accepting of my own foibles. They believe in the power of good enough.
This weekend, I hope you will consider how to slow down and smell the roses and chew the cud.
In honor of Taurus season, take some time to be a healthy lazy with a solid meal and your favorite entertainment.
Make the fam watch a nature show. Do it your way, even if others protest. It’s good for them to be nourished and grounded by your best interests.
Trust your own gut in that way that doesn’t care what others think.
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Start the steady path toward learning a wonderful art form when you sign up for a tarot reading lesson with me.
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Treat your favorite Taurus to a Tarot Together session.
You can have a small group of close friends enjoy a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers during a more casual afternoon get together. You could even make a routine of it.
Have a great weekend of nurturing your body like a good Taurus would.
Moo is just Om backwards,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
A Wider Spectrum of Love
By Jenna Lynne Roberts
I finished season one of the Telepathy Tapes podcast. Now I have been binging Love on the Spectrum‘s new season. These got me thinking about how wonderful community can be when we include more acceptance of the socially awkward outliers.
This thought is also supporting my own neurospicy self, as s some of my regular readers know that I found out a year ago I have ADHD.
My junior high best friend Sarah kept telling me I was a clear candidate.
“Look at the class we met in,” she’d say, talking about the VISIONS class we were both put in in the 7th grade, “look at who was in that class with us and how they ran it. It was for people LIKE US, Jenna.”
I didn’t realize my own issues because my own community is rampant with people who are ADHD AF. One of my friends gets a minder at weddings to make sure she shows up to photos and her bridesmaid duties in reasonable time.
I thought that I simply had picked up habits of it from my mom, who is a text book example. (Sorry mom, it’s true.)
Then I saw a list of the signs in young girls and there was not a question left, so I got a proper diagnosis.
My therapist asked me why it was important for me to know. I said that it gives me compassion and self-awareness for all the ways I haven’t fit in. And it gives me new tools to improve my habits.
The thing is, I think this growing area of psychological research is going to find that everyone is in their own mode of unique brain.
We are all relying on a false presumption that we think and function in the same ways.
My friend Michele is a therapist who says that there is probably no such thing as neurotypical. We just haven’t found the other varietals yet.
I also surround myself with people who identify as autistic, but you wouldn’t know it at first as they are all (likely) low level 1.
The DSM definition of level 1 autism is simply “requiring support”. As I get to know these smart lovable people beyond their masks, I see that they do need a subtle kind of support and a wider range of acceptance.
I love when a neurospicy person asks if they can info dump about the book they’re reading about volcanoes. Let me get a cup of tea and sit for a spell.
It’s a gift for us to have a keen eye to see when our friend is dysregulating and offer them to step outside or loan them some earplugs at the show.
I am so happy to live in a place where friends can say with total respect, “Don’t talk about eggs in front of Ted”, and it’s no big deal.
While we all need to wear masks to function as a society, our friends can be the people we get to take our masks off with. We can trust that they will accept our oddball quirks.
I cried during the moment in Love on the Spectrum where Madison dysregulates because she is called “Maddy”. She calms herself while talking about how she’s learning to manage these triggers. Her partner stands by her calmly, nodding his gentle support.
She is doing the work to self-care, and her loved ones see her and appreciate her self-awareness and effort toward growth. She’s accountable and they are supportive.
Whether we are neurospicy or not, isn’t that what we all desire?
We all want to be able to be our natural selves and be seen in how we are doing our best to evolve. We each get dysregulated in our own ways. We each need compassion with loving accountability around it.
We all have to learn the social rules and adapt to them, but it’s harder for some people. This is not excusing obnoxious behavior or welcoming main character vibes.
This is saying let’s acknowledge that the norms we designed are somewhat arbitrary. If it doesn’t upheave a group experience, let’s collectively let it ride.
I prefer to live in a world where everyone is given some balance of freedom with respect for their efforts to play along with our cultural agreements.
Neurodivergents are often the artists and musicians and scientists who see outside the average and make the inventions that change the world, like the very one I am typing on right now.
Albert Einstein wore the same style suit every day with a monotonous wardrobe choice. You can too.
You don’t have to hold an identity title if you don’t want to, you can just be you (in the ways that don’t hurt others). Because we are all a bit strange after all.
The more we accept the outliers, the more we get to relax and unmask our quirks as well.
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Celebrate odd things with your oddest friends and hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for your next event.
Have a great weekend of being your full self and loving the neurodiversity in your community.
Scroll down for a Flip Through of the Opal Oracle by Heather Agosta below.
Love Your Full Community,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Beltane Free Reading and a Saucy Song
By Jenna Lynne Roberts
Last chance to join the only 9-hour class I will be teaching this year! Do the deed and learn the cards this Spring!
If you need to miss a class, I can record the Zoom sessions for you to watch at your convenience.
Art of Tarot Classes will run on Saturdays
May 2nd, May 16th, and May 30th
11:30am to 2:30pm PST (you can eat lunch while we learn)
This class will give you a solid foundation to read tarot for yourself and others
Here’s what another student, Sally, had to say:
“Jenna is a phenomenal teacher and communicator, so even though I had reservations about the course being online, it was extremely engaging. It really changed my view of how impactful virtual readings can be! The amount of information in the course was immense and will continue to fuel my development as a reader for quite some time. My thanks to Present Path Tarot!”
I am also delighted to share that my Psychic Skills Workshop at Spirit Northwest Conference went fantastic. I had a big turn out and everyone was beaming about the class by the end. This filled my soul.
This conference was a lot of fun and tickets are only $160 at the early bird price for Spring 2027 tickets! You can also use the code on the site through May 3rd for an added discount!
It’s a great time of year for an annual tarot reading. Learn about how to make the most of the upcoming warm months.
If you can’t make the class in May, but you want to learn, you can also sign up for a tarot lesson.
Get social with woo friends and throw a party where you hire a professional tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
Finally, I want to share with you a saucy song that I wrote most of the lyrics to.
Over a decade ago I wrote lyrics about a challenge many of us face. It wasn’t quite a song, more like beat poetry, with no bridge or chorus. I asked a few musical friends to help me flesh it out, but no one took the bait.
Then my friends Melody Sunshine, Teresa Bawd, and Jen Estevez started a band called the Menage Ah Twats, full of hilarious songs about the female experience.
Melody took the lyrics and moved them around and added a few of her own and made a full-fledged song! I am so honored and delighted. Below is at it’s debut public performance. (Please excuse the wavy camerawork at first.)
Happy Beltane,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
For Spring we get to enjoy one of my favorite decks, the World of Hilda curated by Reese Marren
We begin with the High Priestess giving herself a bath in the waters of soapy wisdom. She’s got the kettle on to brew up some time to listen to her inner knowing. This May, gift yourself a deepening into self-trust.
The first question to ask yourself is the 2 of Wands primary question: “What do I desire to put my best energy toward this season?”
Tune into both your firey cravings and your highest wisdom to find the steps forward that combine the two sensibilities.
What you are seeking is seeking you, and you will need to put yourself full throttle into the chase toward that which calls you to acquire it.
The King of Wands is the best way to enact this fresh certainty. Come out of the shadows of winter to alight your wings into the spring.
Set the shy aside as you revel in your own sparkle and show off what you’ve got to the world. Bring forth your zest to impress. It’s a time to shine and go for your goals with levels of confidence that would appear silly if you weren’t so convincingly fabulous.
Want to read the cards for yourself?
Join my class that starts tomorrow!
Step into your best future with an online or in-person tarot reading or an intuition coaching session with me this month.
Court Card Characters
By Jenna Lynne Roberts
First, a fun opportunity!
A client has collected a group of friends who all want to learn tarot and we have a tarot class happening in May.
They graciously welcome more of you to join us! (The dates slightly changed from the last email about this, and these current dates and times are solid.)
This is likely the only 9-hour class I will be teaching this year, so I hope you can join if you want to learn the cards.
If you need to miss a class, I can record the Zoom sessions for you to watch at your convenience.
Art of Tarot Classes will run on Saturdays
May 2nd, May 16th, and May 30th
11:30am to 2:30pm PST (you can eat lunch while we learn)
This class will give you a solid foundation to read tarot for yourself and others
Here’s what one student, Devon, had to say:
“I took the three week on-line class The Art of Tarot with Jenna and it was fabulous! She is an excellent teacher and made the cards make sense and come alive in an easy and approachable way. Class was fun! I learned SO much! Take a class, have a private lesson or get a reading from her.”
I am also teaching an interactive workshop on Psychic Intuitive Skills at the Spirit Northwest Conference in Portland this weekend. There are still day passes available for Saturday when I teach.
Today I am offering a small lesson to give you a taste of how I break down the cards into simple concepts.
The court cards are the character cards. They are personalities and ways of approaching life.
Sometimes these relate to community in your life and sometimes they represent phases of self that you are stepping into.
For instance, if you’re a new homeowner, you’re probably going to get the pentacles suit more as you figure out the earth in your life. You will likely learn to manage resources, finances, physical projects and grounding.
If you’re in school, you’re probably going to get the swords suit characters who are the most intellectually engaged. These folks are focused on reasoning, wisdom, and communicating in a direct and logical fashion.
A fun way to learn the court cards is to align a character from a movie, book, or your life reflects the nature of that personality.
Action heroes would fit in with the wands suit for instance. Especially ones who don’t think too much or plan too much before they jump into getting to kicking butt.
Actors also can reflect aspects of the cards. Creative powerhouses such as Meryl Streep are a wonderful representation of the cups suit. The way she’s able to empathically embody nearly anyone with emotional depth is a great example of the cups energy. She’s also a Cancer Sun Sign, which fits the same zodiac aspect of water elements as cups.
If you’re familiar with astrology, you can use the zodiac to be a part of the elemental nature in the court cards as well.
Next, you can look at the age mentality of each the court cards.
Pages are open-minded, curious and youthful in spirit. While they have young energy, an elderly person who is retiring and wants to step into a totally new hobby is also a page in that field.
Knights are actively engaged in the pursuit of their passion for the element they are representing. They often can be a bit smug in their confidence. Think of someone getting more talented at aspects of life without real experience to back it up yet.
Queens and Kings are equals as peak examples of skill in their elements. The Queen’s bring a more feminine energy to their mastery. Kings bring a more masculine energy. Don’t get caught up in the gender binary. Anyone can reflect the masculine or feminine in how they are holding their power.
This is a small taste of a light tarot lesson to get across. We go over this in depth and dive into more complex subjects in the class. We will learn about reversals, symbolism, numbers, tapping into your own psychic gift, and juxtaposing the cards to create a new meaning, among other lessons.
No time for class, but still want to learn? Bring a group of friends together for a lower individual rate when you sign up for a tarot reading lesson with me.
Learn the cards while listening in each other’s readings in a Tarot Together session.
If you prefer to get a reading from a professional instead, sign up for a personal tarot reading session.
Give your community the gift of short reading tastes when you hire tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for your next event.
Have a great weekend with whatever court card characters you choose to hang out with.
Scroll down for a Flip Through of the Invisible Order Oracle Deck.
Some Learning is Fun,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Surprise Tarot Reading Class in May!
I have a Unique Quick Update and Opportunity…
A wonderful client has found enough people to run a class in May!
A month ago, she asked when the next course was and I shared how much I dislike the long-term marketing for classes, and thus rarely run them.
So she went out and collected a group of friends who all want to learn the cards and we have a surprise class happening!
They graciously welcome more of you to join us!
Art of Tarot Classes will run on Saturdays
May 2nd, May 9th, and May 16th
11:30am to 2:30pm PST (you can eat lunch while we learn)
This class will give you a solid foundation to read tarot for yourself and others
LEARN MORE HERE
If you need to miss a class, I can record the Zoom sessions for you to watch at your convenience.
If you would also like to create your own class with friends who are interested, message me to discuss times and dates.
Feel free to message me with any questions.
Love Learning,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Somatic: More than a Hot Topic
Everyone’s using the word “Somatic” these days. You have likely already integrated some related practices into your life.
The term comes from 1976 when professor and theorist Thomas Hannah defined the concept. It is a fancy word to describe something essential to us all, so I am glad it’s getting talked about.
At it’s core, it’s about healing and soothing through body awareness rather than thinking and talking about our challenges.
While this is associated with a type of trauma therapy, it is valuable to all of us to learn these skills for our daily sense of well being.
Here are just a few ways you can access this methodology today:
Ground: Feel your body weight and how you are touching the earth, stay present with this for at least 3 breaths.
Track Sensations: Notice what you are internally feeling without a story or any judgment.
Body Scan: As Vipassana Meditation teaches, scan your body from the top of your head to your feet, going ‘part by part, piece by piece’.
Resourcing: Retreat in your mind to a time and place where you felt safe and secure, in love and comfort. Be present with this past moment with a recollection of how your body felt.
Pendulation: Focus on a comfortable part of your body, and then focus on an uncomfortable sensation. Go back and forth between the two until the discomfort regulates (even a little is progress).
Soothing Sounds: Make a humming or ‘Vooing’ sound to trigger the vagus nerve to relax deeper. (There are dozens of great Vasovagal release methods beyond this option as well).
Self-Contact: Warm your hands by rubbing together and then touch the part of your body that feels discombobulated. Send ease and relaxation there.
Stretching / Dancing: Tune into a yoga session on your own or put on some music and stay very aware of letting your body move how it needs to without self-consciousness.
Self-Hug: Wrap your arms around yourself and squeeze and tense a bit, then tap each shoulder with your fingers as you release.
There are naturally many more techniques to dig into, including various types of breath work. I hope you’ll choose a few of these to try right now and observe whether they have an affect on you.
I love how these practices naturally tether us to our intuition. Using our gut is trusting the signals our body gives us without deduction or logic.
If you want to access this more, I am teaching an interactive workshop on Psychic Intuitive Skills at the Spirit Northwest Conference in Portland next weekend.
We can also integrate these techniques into a personal tarot reading session.
Engage with receiving and giving empathic energy when you bring in a loved one for a Tarot Together session.
Bring a group of friends together for a lower individual rate when you sign up for a tarot reading lesson with me.
Give your community with some somatic goose pimples when you hire tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for your next event.
Have a great weekend of paying attention to your whole physical and emotional experience with love and compassion.
Scroll down for a Flip Through of the Myth Oracle!
Breathe Slowly,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Dedicated to Frivolity
When you hear the word “Committed”, what areas of effort come to mind?
These seem like the obvious answers:
Relationships / Marriage / Family
Success in a Career
Health and Diets and Workouts
I admit that I thought about this subject this week because I am starting a 3 month effort towards a health goal.
But this got me thinking about how many things we dedicate ourselves to that are not so heavy.
You can commit to watching all the seasons of a TV show. There were multiple episodes of Succession that I had to drudge through, but I made it to the end. I was dedicated.
People who set their sites on Burning Man know that it takes a lot of will power to do all the things to be self-reliant on the playa. Hot Tip: the best time to buy tickets is in July when many crumble like dust in the wind.
We assert our will power often on things that are not about serious gains. We simply approach these from a different energy. It almost seems like this casual angle might empower us more.
Time is varied in our less obvious goals as well.
You might make a weekly effort, as I set the intention to get this newsletter out with consistency.
Perhaps it’s a daily journal practice.
It could be deciding to always have protein bars in a reachable spot in the car to hand out to homeless people whenever the opportunity arises.
What is one casual thing you have achieved without really thinking about it as a commitment?
What is something silly that you have owned fully?
How do you feel about this effort and how you approached it?
Today you can consider: What playfulness am I committing to for this Spring and Summer?
How do you want to take this ability to make nonsense happen organically and apply it to your own joy?
What is something that makes you lights up that you can let yourself focus on this season?
There is a power in bringing absurdity to heaviness, much like an inflatable frog or a musician in a banana costume might be standing up for a very real cause.
With this lightness in mind, is there a way to approach a less fun goal from a place of the joy it will bring you someday?
“Mmm, I am so excited to fill out this tax receipts spreadsheet so I can feel the satisfaction of turning it in and be done with it! Yum!”
Learn more about your own self-motivation angles during a personal tarot reading with me.
Bring in a friend for an accountability buddy in a Tarot Together session where you split the hour.
Own more fully learning the cards during a tarot reading lesson with me.
Add some fabulous to your frivolity when you welcome a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers to your next event.
Hope you get to have a fun weekend committing to the parts of life you love the most.
Scroll down for a Flip Through of the Portland Tarot!
Let it Be Easier,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
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