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Tarot Tuesday: Justice

Oh man, am I excited to try to write about this card. I draw it (mostly reversed) in almost all of my readings these days. I can ask about my creativity, my love life, my future, my kids, even old relationships and situations long gone, and there it will be – upside down. It’s clearly […]

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Tarot

Tarot Tuesday: The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune isn’t too different from how it sounds. It has to do with all we associate with fortune – luck (perhaps good luck), random chance, a little touch of so-called karma. It can talk about changing tides and unexpected windfalls. But the wheel part also has some sway over the meaning. Natural […]

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Healing Personal Tarot

Tarot, YouTube, And How To Not Ruin Your Life

I imagine a decent percentage of people already know what pick-a-card readings are, but I’ll fill you in just in case: a generous subset of YouTube mystics offer up somewhere between three and ∞ piles of tarot and oracle cards, having shuffled them with a particular quandary in mind. Will you succeed? Do they like […]

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Personal Writing

Reiki Part 2: Religious Aftershocks

Quick update! At least I’m gonna try to make it quick. My personal life still exists, and I suppose it’s worth mentioning now and again. In January (way back under the last administration – ya know, 17 years ago) I completed my second level of reiki training, and since then things in my life have […]

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Tarot

Tarot Tuesday: The Hermit

The first thing that comes to mind when I draw the Hermit card is isolation. However often I draw it, however many descriptions I read about it, I still think, first and foremost, of aloneness. Maybe it’s because I’ve spent so much of my life alone, or because I both dread and crave time to […]