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Free Reading for September and Dolly Wisdom
I rarely weep for celebrity deaths, but Dolly is a representative of love and authenticity in a way so few have captured.
I remember being a child and knowing about her only as the lady with big boobs. We would put balloons under our shirts and giggle about being Dolly.
I watched her in movies like 9 to 5 around the same time, and began to see the messages of empowerment that she was all about.
Then I experienced her music. First through Whitney Houston, whose rendition of “I Will Always Love You” paid such great royalties that Dolly built a strip mall to support commerce in a black neighborhood and called it “the house that Whitney built.”
This era led me to listen to more of her music, and I watched more of her interviews.
The Grace of Holding Accountable
Consequence and culpability is a way of saying to someone that you hold them to a higher standard. You believe they are capable of better. It’s a weird compliment.
How you approach the matter is key to the potential of a good outcome. Remember that even if you do everything as conscientiously as possible, they still may not respond well. Own your part as best you can, even if they can’t own theirs.
For support, here is a systematic strategy to help navigate calling someone out graciously when you need to:
Memory is Messy
We don’t fully understand how memory works, but we know it’s not reliable. We cannot actually rehearse stories of the past with true certainty.
This brings up a lot of feelings for me, since it’s such a source of security that my stories are valid and my interpretations of moments are real.
As I experience perimenopause, I have days where basic words are elusive, or moments I have reflected on countless times feel more distant. It freaks me out, but my elder women tell me it gets better . . . and then other new memory challenges will happen down the line again.
Today, I want to offer some ways to massage the memory muscles.
Limerance Explored
A lot of clients this summer have come to me for a reading around their unattainable crush.
I first ask if they are thinking about them constantly, maybe even obsessing. If they say yes, I ask if they know what Limerance is.
It’s not a type of diagnosis, but I ask them to look up the term to decide for themselves if they are in it, or speak to a trained counselor about their experience.
Limerance is an infatuation or crush where your mind fixates on a person. You desperately want their validation and reciprocation.
You idealize them, and daydream constantly with intrusive thoughts about the next time you might see them or envision conversations you might have.
This can be for a person you know or a celebrity. I have had both…
Free Reading for August
Before I realized this is our free reading week, I was pondering on writing about a very similar subject to what the cards illuminated today. So hopefully it also resonates with you.
Click it Back One Notch
n the Pacific Northwest, we have about 4 months of packing in everything everywhere all at once.
Being overly busy is a part of life for many of us these days, so summer can feel like it takes things to eleven.
We are at the center of that time frame, and so this week I offer a reminder to find the chill wherever you can.
Circle Back this Retrograde
This week ahead is the final week in this round of Mercury Retrograde. While many abhor these 3 week phases, they can be beneficial to engage with purposefully.
My favorite astrologer friend, Heather Harris says, ‘Mercury Retrogrades are all about the RE. Take time to re-turn, re-commit, re-consider, etc.’
This week, I ask you to ponder on something that you would do well to circle back on.
So many times we put off something and plan to return to it later, but then never come around to it.
What is one thing that you put on the shelf that is getting dusty and needs re-engaged with?
Crab Evolution
There is a scientific phenomenon that began in 1916 called carcinization that describes how creatures evolve into crabs over time. It is surprisingly common.
This has become an internet joke, saying that all nature will someday become crab-like.
As a Cancerian, I approve this message that our zodiac sign is the height of evolution.
Free Reading for July’s Mercury Retrograde
The reading today offers some great directions in regards to a challenge you are facing. I hope this month brings you a positive shift in an area you weren’t sure what to do about before.
In mid-July Portlandia Fortune Tellers will be at the Canterbury Faire in Silverton, Oregon for our first time. I’ll be there on Sunday, July 26ht if you want to stop in and say hi for a quick reading before you watch some antique entertainments.
Bring divination to your summer parties with a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
If you crave a full-fledged long-form tarot reading, a tarot lesson, or a tarot together session, it’s 10% off online and in-person readings with me through July 23rd if you use the code RETRO2026.
Change is a Series of Shifts
Most of my clients come in for readings to figure out change.
Sometimes to make it happen.
Often to manage it.
Always to process it’s influence.
Tarot is a wonderful art to approach change from a place of curiosity and fresh perspectives. I believe the cards encourage leaning into shifts, especially when you have no choice in their arrival.
The best kind of change is the one where you get to control it’s activation. Even when we know that, it’s still hard to stick with upgrades. We can initiate and fail countless times before holding firm to a growth we know we need.
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