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Harness Your Summer Fire with Tarot
The heat of summer is coming to the Pacific Northwest, and with it comes a busy season in both work and play.
For myself, the tourists and events want readers to add to their summer magic. Plus, my yard and garden needs most of it’s annual maintenance and attention.
For all of us, Nature is calling us to relish in her current vibrancy. Our community has more opportunities to connect in person. Travel might be in the works. And yet we still need to do all the other things that we also do in winter.
So much is going on all at once! How do we juggle it all?!
So today, I want to talk about the Wands Suit.
Each suit in tarot is related to one of the elements, and Wands is about Fire.
Fire is passion, movement, energy, action. It can relate to exercise and focus and attraction.
Solstice Rituals
We in the Northern hemisphere are tilted toward the sun and have thus returned to the longest day of the year!
This weekend, consider making some time for a ritual to celebrate in the ways our ancestors of various lineages have for many centuries. This has always been a world-wide celebrated event, so it might be fun to look up your own historical practices of your own ancient relations.
Hustle and Hammock Time: Free June Reading
Phew! I have been in a whirl of getting ready for seasonal tarot event work and other summer fun.
The next 4 weekends, my team at Portlandia Fortune Tellers and I are going to be at the Oregon Renaissance Fair in Canby.
If you need a little merriment and frolicking, come on down!
The last session of Psychic Sundays is this weekend! Join our online course in the 4 Pillars of Astrology with Heather to gain insight into how your full chart works.
Prepare for the Unexpected with Confidence
I was a girl scout, and I love having my little pouches with all the tiny items that rescue me from crisis. It quells my anxiety in the meantime.
I also see how too much stuff becomes a burden.
It’s a balance act.
So how prepared in life is the right amount for you, and how much is too much?
Here are some tenets of preparedness to consider for yourself.
The Horror of Horoscopes
I sometimes talk about astrology on this newsletter, even though it is not my expertise. I share the information because I see how it has great value.
My goal is for people to use the upcoming alignments to shape our paths in a positive direction, instead of getting stuck in fear cycles around transits that so many hobbyists slip into.
I understand why some people dislike astrology. It has a power that is sometimes misapplied.
Some people use it to attack others, ‘Oh I don’t date Leos anymore.’
Or, ‘You’re a Scorpio? Ugh, that must be hard.’
These are dismissive presumptions that we already know someone, without doing the work to learn who they are more fully.
The more you comprehend about actual charts, the more the Sun sign becomes a small detail in a big picture.
Empress Card: What is the Feminine about?
Today, let’s talk about all things Maternal with the Empress Card.
When I was traveling in my late 20’s, a wise woman helped me understand that my feminine self was shadowed by my masculine.
I grew up in a neighborhood full of boys, and I loved being included as one of them. We rode bikes and did trick endo’s by shoving our foot in the front tire.
I came home from ballgames, WWF mockups, skateboarding, and kick the bucket covered in bruises, concrete scrapes, and knowing all the worst insults an elementary kid could dare.
When I started the Thundercats club in a neighbor’s side yard, I insisted that I be Lion-O, and was verbally battled with to accept being Cheetara. She wasn’t the leader though, and I was the one who started the club. Me.
I already saw the feminine as marginalized and lesser, and so I valued my masculine traits more.
Now a young adult woman, I felt inspired to ponder on what it even means to be feminine. This in turn informed my concept of the Empress card in my tarot deck.
Free Reading for Beltane & May
Happy Beltane!
I have started leading my online class in the Art of Tarot Reading on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6pm to 7:30pm PST through May 15th. If you want to join, there are videos from the first week to catch up on and live classes continue next week. You will have access to all videos for 3 months after.
The next session of Psychic Sundays is a fun Mother’s Day opportunity on May 11th with one of the easiest forms of divination, Charm Casting with Lynda.
Bring a friend or your mom and each of you can use the code 2FORCLASS for 10% off each!
Sign up by Monday to get a bag of charms mailed out to each person who is signed up!
Or come in person and get your bag of charms before class!
The Choice to Stay Connected
I do my best to keep this blog as neutral and lighthearted as possible. Today I feel called to share a personal challenge that I think a lot of you can relate to.
The next edition will return to the usual programming of a free reading for Beltane, so I hope you’ll stay on board.
This week, I joined my parents and their friends in a celebration of my parents 50th anniversary.
With the current political climate and our differences, I was anxious about interfacing with their community. I know many of you can relate, regardless of which side you are on.
Choose Your Energetic Focus
In this information overload era, the world is pulling us into constant distractions in a way that can feel scattered.
Today, let’s take a moment to consider what it means to realign with focus in order to choose where we send our energy.
Allowing the chaos of the world to dissolve away and have a singular attention, even for only a few hours, can help us feel more centered in other areas of life. It helps rewrite the neural pathways in our mind to remain more centered in our daily lives.
Consider when you are the most able to remain totally present with the task in front of you. What does it feel like?
Self Care is Community Care
Even in this individualistic Western culture, many of us were taught to put others ahead of ourselves.
At first, this switch felt selfish to me.
Then, I witnessed my loving friends drain their vivacity in over-giving.
I saw how people came to rely on them and slowed their own self-reliance.
I saw the givers become resentful and sometimes shut off the support completely.
The tarot has a lot of cards about balance, and this is an area that often is skewed for many of us.
It’s essential that you show up for others, yes. It’s also imperative that you offer what feels sustainable so there’s energy left over for your own growth.
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