Daily Draw: Life/Work Balance
Today, I asked the cards the following:
“How can I better balance work, life, school, and writing?”
Lately, I’ve been finding myself running up short of time–finishing homework assignments at midnight, for example, or not writing for two or three days straight (which is a lot of time, for me!). I am not happy with the current [...]
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Daily Draw: Building Compassion
So, I’m going to start typing up my daily draw questions and draws here, as I want to get back into regular blogging. I also hope that it is useful for readers to see the different daily questions I ask in order to “spice up” the daily draw, which can become a bit repetitive if [...]
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Tarot for Yourself Study #3: Reading the Cards
“Oracular knowledge represents a way to escape the anxiety of risk. However, there is danger of illusion here, because it is only through your own individual encounters with life and chance that you evolve. It is the clarity and perceptiveness with which you view the events around you that heightens self-awareness and personal growth, and [...]
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Tarot for Yourself Chapter 2: The Tarot Journal
“The best way to acquaint yourself with the Tarot is to find out how the cards function in your own life. Recognize the ups and downs of fortune by watching the daily patterns of the cards.” Mary K Greer, Tarot for Yourself
In this chapter, Greer discusses journaling in Tarot and why it is important. She [...]
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Tarot for Yourself: Last Part of Chapter 1 (Cards and Rituals)
Although I’ve spent a long time on chapter one, I thought that one last word might be useful, as this chapter really is full of excellent material.
In the second half of chapter 1, focused on rituals, Greer says that “rituals are very important in establishing rapport with your cards” but that “you must have faith [...]
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The Life Journey Spread
So, to avoid my long pauses between Tarot for Yourself posts, I thought I’d get back to doing spreads for myself. This morning, I did a “Life Journey” spread, which seemed fitting as I am going to turn 30 this year, as well as have some major life changes. I used the Osho Zen deck [...]
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Tarot For Yourself Study–Chapter 1, Part 2
See my previous posting on Part 1 of Chapter 1 of Tarot for Yourself:
In the second section of the chapter, Greer gives instructions for how to create a “Tarot Profile” by finding your personality and soul cards, as well as many others. I’ll focus on the Personality, Soul, and Year cards, which might be [...]
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Tarot For Yourself–Chapter 1, Part 1
So, moving on to chapter one of one of the best Tarot Books ever written (in my humble and biased opinion), Tarot for Yourself by Mary K Greer. If you want to follow along, please take a look at Part 1, The Introduction, posted last week.
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“Deciding to work with Tarot is like embarking on [...]
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Tarot for Yourself: Intro
Note: This is my first blog post in working through the book “Tarot for Yourself” by the amazing Mary K Greer. Each Week I’ll work through each chapter, providing my exercise results, thoughts, and quotes from the text. I’d love to have anyone join me in the comments section if you want to read along.
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When [...]
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Tarot and Loss
“Suppose that the earthly lives she and I shared for a few years are in reality only the basis for, or prelude to, or earthy appearance of, two unimaginable, supercosmic, eternal somethings. Those somethings could be pictures as spheres or globes. Where the plane of Nature cuts through them – that [...]