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Uplevel Your Costume (or Find Your Idea)
I have been a costume nerd for over 25 years. This includes spending much of my free time over the last decade being a part of Risk of Change, a sacred mummer ambiance troupe that wow’s at Oregon Country Fair and at paid gigs around Portland.
Despite closets full of costume options, I still sometimes get that last minute anxious panic as to what I am going to be for Halloween. Luckily, I love the creative journey that this panic takes me on, and I want to offer you some ways to access or enhance your own perfect costume this year.
Defeating Your Draggin’ Dragon
Over the last two weeks, I have finally completed a project that I procrastinated for over 3 years. I am relieved and exhausted.
During the long era of paralyzed delay, the anxiety around my failure to take action on it felt like a tight grip around my chest. Whenever the subject was brought up, I would slip into a shame spiral of sighs and grumbles.
Sometimes you swirl around in avoidance of a task, only to find that it is way easier and less time consuming than you expected.
This was not that case.
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 . . .
Spooky Season Tarot Reading
Do you have any friends in life who knew you as a youthful person (6 of Cups), but you’ve lost touch with?
This month, at a time when we honor those who have passed away, we get a a reminder to honor the living who have fallen out of our field of connection.
How to Spot AI
This week, I saw the cutest little set of tarot statues advertised to me on Facebook. The algorithm knows me so well.
I clicked on the shop, and something didn’t feel right. I did a google search on whether the business was legit, and it had a very low trust rating. I am not sure if those little statues are even real.
That feeling in regards to AI is called the “Uncanny Valley”. It is a form of unsettling intuition that a human image or mock up is so close to real that it’s creepy. This phrase likely will begin to be used for AI creations overall.
Today, I went and looked for the product again, and it’s on 5 more sites, but none of them have a very high trust score. Hmmmm…
My dad always says, ‘If it’s too good to be true, it likely is”.
The Power of Now-stalgia
Being a Cancerian, I love old photographs and books. I enjoy hearing stories of different eras and watching classic black and white films.
Being nearly half a century on this earth, I now can sense the changes we have collectively been through in my own experiences.
There is something so precious about knowing how things used to be before the waves of change that came with first the internet and then smart phones. I might sound old to say it but, “Oh my goodness things are so much faster now!”
Add onto that the nature of aging and experiencing internal shifts with perimenopause or whatever health surprises life has required of each of us . . . and it’s a wonder we sense any consistency at all.
This is the 6 of Cups – a card about days gone by and childhood.
Unplug: Your Soul doesn’t Scroll
I set an intention to make September about health, and I admit that it’s been a wonky start.
This week, the news feed pulled me in and I might need to log out to gain control over my wide-eyed fascination.
Yes, it is important to know what is happening in the world.
Remember though that there used to be one newspaper per day that people would read, or one news program at night.
We might have discussed details with friends and neighbors face-to-face at some point.
We did not have constant updates and ways to debate the issue with strangers or people we met once at a party in 2013.
Receiving is as Sacred as Giving
oday is about the 6 of Pentacles, the card of healthy giving and receiving. (Lightseers Tarot version in image above)
Many of us want to give and give and give, but then struggle to welcome in the gifts others share.
Imagine you hand someone a present, and they reject it. Even if politely said, it stings a bit.
You may know their refusal is coming from a place of their own guilt or insecurity, but the energy you are emitting out in not being taken in.
Free Reading for September
This upcoming weekend after Labor Day, I will teach a course on Tarot through the Cinematic Hero’s Journey at the Northwest Tarot Symposium.
If you’re able to get to Portland, I hope you’ll consider joining. There are free vendors in the Monarch hotel along with some free classes available to the public.
As back to school season is upon us, consider coming in to get your own message from the teachers of the universe with a personal tarot reading.
Balance Your Inner Critic
Lately, I have been thinking about the balance between striving to do things well, and suffering with the critical monster of perfection.
A lot of us are taught to do our best and aim for the top. There are positive attributes to this, but the side effects can be dire.
Many of us are so hard on ourselves when we fall short that we decimate the joy of our accomplishments.
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