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Life as Tarot Suits
Today, I want to share with you a theory I have around phases of life. I find that witnessing myself through the lens of tarot has helped me gain perspectives on the patterns we collectively experience.
The major arcana is about the overarching messages we face in our individual hero’s journey. It’s about the more grand archetypes.
The minor arcana speak to the myriad of essential building blocks that make up our day-to-day living.
When I look back on my nearly half a century, I can see how each decade of life typically aligns with one of the four elements present in the minor arcana.
Just Keep Swimming
This has been a hard week for me, and the only way to write this today is to share the cycles I swirl through and hope that someone out here will benefit from thinking about their own with compassion or humor.
In short, the privilege to poop at home is about to cost a large portion of my savings, and might require me to get a loan. (Please send good vibes that the latter is not required).
With all that is happening in the world, I can roll with the presumption that you are also mucking through the mire of poo management in your own ways.
The only way out is through. So let’s collectively consider our own natural cycles around stress response and offer ourselves compassion and forgiveness in our current state of being.
Free Tarot Reading for 2026
Since it’s the start of the year, our reading today offers more cards than usual, so I will keep this portion brief.
Heads up that I am going to be unavailable for readings for the first 3 weeks of February!
That makes January an especially great time to get some guidance. Sign up today for a personal tarot reading, anintuition coaching, a tarot reading lesson, or share the gift with someone you love in a Tarot Together session.
AI Ad vs. Reality: What’s in the Box?
For your entertainment, I have made an unboxing video of the thing I warned you not to buy.
Three months ago, I shared about this item that I knew was advertised with AI images and suspected was fake.
When I found it for cheap, curiosity got the best of me. I had to know, ‘What’s in the booooox??”
Gift a Life Well Lived
During the pandemic, I took the unexpected free time to purge my closets of stuff. It took many days.
When I returned to shopping in thrift stores, which I love to do, I realized that each item, however affordable, had an added cost of time.
I would need to find a place for this thing in my home and then tend to dusting it, or replacing it’s batteries, or fixing it if it broke or getting rid it when I was done with it’s use.
I bought less… for a spell. I admit I still love stuff and definitely bought physical presents for people this year. But there’s something magical about gifts of experiences.
Holiday Conflict Resolution
Ram Dass says, “If you think you are enlightened, go spend a week with your family.”
The holidays are coming up, and I know for many of us it’s a good time to consider how we hold ourselves through interpersonal strife.
I took a lovely class with small business advisor Jaime Pulliam on conflict resolution this week, and I want to share some of the insights with you.
Free Tarot Reading for Dec 2025
Welcome to December! 2025 is soon to be complete.
As always at the start of the month, I offer a free Tarot reading to help you set your compass for the month.
This month is about being bold in your decisions, a theme I often recite in these newsletters.
If you find value in the questions and directions of these Friday gifts, I hope you will share them with a friend who might enjoy them as well.
Your Story has Influence
As a tarot reader, I have witnessed the magic of people unraveling their own stories to rewrite them.
This is a powerful medicinal practice, and often is a long journey that requires patience and humility and persistence.
This week, let’s gently take a first step. Our awareness of this aspect of life will help us find more peace as our family stories collide in the US over the Thanksgiving holiday next week.
The vast majority of humans both function and dysfunction from a place of story.
Free Tarot Reading for Samhain / Halloween
Samhain (pronounced Sau-wen) is a high holiday that honors our ancestors.
My costume troupe will share a silent dinner on Sunday. We will bring photos of our dead beloveds and make an altar.
Once seated with food, we will send a plate around the table where each person will add to the meal for our ancestors. . .
Everything is Witchcraft
A fellow Tarot reader and I were recently hired for a 10-year-old’s birthday party for a girl who loves witches. My colleague read cards while I taught an age-appropriate lesson about how to be a good witch.
I asked the group of fresh faces, “So, what do you think about witches?”
Each girl repeated a similar sentiment:
“Well, I used to think they were scary and bad but then I learned that a lot of witches are good.”
I asked them, “What do you think witchcraft is about?”
One of the first answers floored me . . .
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