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I’m Baaaaaack!

This past winter I started a fun but short-lived blog before becoming completely overwhelmed with schoolwork. This is that blog, and I think it’s time to resume writing. I love the tarot, I love thinking and reading and writing about the tarot, and I’m super excited to go through my deck and blog on each and every card. So sorry for the hiatus--it was painfully necessary. But now I’m back, and I’m going to make it my goal to write a post every week about a different tarot card.

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So beautiful

Four of Swords- Contemplation in a place apart. Rest.

New tarot painting today.

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Judgement--In The Wild Unknown, I see it as a card about rising above the darkness and letting go. In The Everyday Witch Tarot, I interpret it as being about dancing to the beat of your own drum and leaving negativity behind you. These interpretations are probably colored by my first oracle deck, though, which replaced Judgement with Mercy.

What tarot card would most represent forgiveness to you?

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20,000 (TWENTY THOUSAND) VOLUMES!!!!

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Hey babes! My valentine for you this year is a simple Self-Love tarot spread.

1. Something to love about myself. What’s so great about me? What am I getting right in life? What makes me special? What can I love about myself right now?

2. Where in life can I be more patient with myself? What am rushing myself to do? Where am I in such a hurry to grow that I need to take a breath and slow down? In what areas of life am I too much of a perfectionist?

3. Where in life can I be kinder to myself? Do I treat myself the same way I treat others? What unimportant stuff have I been beating myself up about? How can I treat myself better?

4. Energies and strategies to draw on. What energies can I bring in, and what strategies can I use to foster a better relationship with myself?

This spread can also be used to review and improve relationships with others. Just ask all the same questions about your relationship.

Wishing you all a happy Valentine’s Day! Much love!

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I could use this right now.

I know I am not the only one who has struggled - or is struggling - with grief or losing someone they loved dearly. So, this is something I not only made for myself, but for my followers as well, if they ever need it. Sometimes, even something very little can help a huge amount. 

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Vintage Romance tarot ~Swords~ part 2

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I love this concept. Especially as someone who’s about to study romantic literature this term, starting with the concept of the sublime.

Vintage Tarot ~Swords~ part 1

Digital collage

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i can read ur fortune but instead of tarot cards or tea leaves i will roll 12 d20s and that will decide how ur year will go

‘o shit u crit hit july, but october was a nat 1 :(‘

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Three Card Tarot Spreads

Time

Past / Present / Future

Today / Tomorrow / Next Day

Morning / Afternoon / Evening

Beginning / Middle / End

Yesterday / Today / Tomorrow

Week / Month / Year

Self

Fear / Why it’s invalid / How to overcome

Who you were / Who you are / Who you will be

Mind / Body / Spirit

Who you’re meant to be / What to work on / When to know you’re there

Strengths / Weaknesses / What to do with them

dreams / fears / reality

Relationships

What’s healthy for the relationship / What isn’t / What needs work

What you like about your partner / what you undervalue / how you can appreciate them better

What you can do less / what you can do more / what you haven’t been doing

What you need from your partner / What you can give your partner / How to make sure everyone’s needs are met

Situations

Positive / Negative / Reality

Best case / Worst case / Most likely outcome

Goals / Obstacles / Solution

Problem / Solution / Likely Outcome

Pro / Con / Best Choice

problem / cause / solution

What you have control over / What’s out of your control / What you need to know

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PSA

Reading up on sea witch spells and seeing people suggest putting offerings in bottles and letting the sea carry then away.

This upsets me.

It’s littering. Please leave your offerings on something that’s not harmful to the environment. A sea shell, rock or even just on the beach. Please don’t use anything that could cause harm to the ocean or its inhabitants. Thank you!

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My brother gave me the most amazing notebook for Christmas, and I'm so excited to turn it into a tarot journal! I'm going to record my card interpretations, favorite spreads, and maybe even some readings in here. Plus, there's a dragon on the cover, and I. Love. Dragons.

As far as card interpretations go, I promise that my post about the Magician is coming soon. I've been on vacation with my family, and on top of that I have a huge (and honestly unrealistic) load of prepatory reading assignments to do before next term, so my focus has been divided between family and study lately with little room for this blog. BUT I plan on writing about the Magician in the next few days, so keep an eye out for that post.

Happey belated New Year! May 2018 be full of joy, insight and, above all, hope!

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As a big fan of both coffee and tarot THIS IS WONDERFUL

Morning Coffee Tarot Spread

As I sat here drinking my morning coffee I contemplated my day, then I figured other people are contemplating their own days. So I put this together! Simple, sweet, and to the point. Enjoy your days you lovely people!

*Please don’t delete this caption!*

1) Coffee - The basis of a good morning (in my official opinion) is a good cup of coffee. This first card will represent you basis of your day. Good or bad, always a great heads up and eye opener. 2) Cream and Sugar - Not everyone adds to their coffee, that is cool, but lets bend the rules today. This card represents things to add to your day to help it run smoother. 3) Stir - If you’re going to add Cream and Sugar, you need to stir it all up. This card represents actions to consider taking through out your day. 4) Enjoy - MMmmmmm! This card gives you one last bit of advice for the day to make sure you enjoy it till the last drop!

*Image from Google, basic Stock Wallpaper Photo, no artist link available, so if you know LEMME KNOW!*

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THESE ARE THE BOOKS I USE AND THEY’RE SO GOOD

two of my fave #tarot books & both by the amazing rachel pollack. these two volumes have such a delight of information in them. the new tarot handbook is one of my go-tos for beginners because it is simple & straightforward but allows for the complexities of the cards. plus: it has amazing spreads for each of the major arcana cards & each of the suits!

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A spread for the coming Winter Solstice. The sun will come and days will grow longer once again. As the light, returns in the sky, so it does in you too. Let this spread help guide you into a new, brighter calendar year. 

1. This card represents what you need to be open to in the new year. Maybe this is a person, a new adventure or even a new way of thinking. 

2. Let this card help guide you on what you need to let go of and move on from. This might be a judgment you’ve placed on yourself or someone else. This could literally be a person you need to step away from.

3. What part of yourself have you lost throughout this year? Was it you childlike wonder? Your ability to love and care for others? This is the part of yourself you need to reconnect with and balance.

4. Simply explained, goals to take with you into the new year. You could even think of these goals as new year’s resolutions. 

5. Where in your life have you allowed yourself to fall into darkness. With the “dark time’ of the fall season sometimes we ourselves can fall into a darkness too. This card will help you understand where in your life you need to shine a bit more light.

6. A message from the spirits of winter. This may be from whatever deities you work with or other “spirits” you connect to during the winter months.

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I've been getting back into sigil magic. This one means, "Write wild, amazing poetry."

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There’s a shop near me, owned by an older woman with deep, practical knowledge of herbal medicine.

The front portion of her shop sells cooking supplies and spices, cards, little artsy things, and local goods like soaps and crocheted blankets. But the back was, at one point, my nightmare and laughing stock all at once.

An entire section dedicated to ‘flower fairies’ and ‘light fairies’. Little glittery kits of herbs and stones, with guides so even the mundane-est person could get money, or love, or good luck, with the power of magic. The ‘fluffiest’ of fluffy witchcraft, as I used to think of it. And that’s not even counting the ‘angel spirit classes’, or the rune casting lessons by White Mother of Three, pseudonym, “Cleopatra”.

And yet…

Her classes are never rained out. Her little altar area, dedicated (as far as I could tell) to the Gods-of-Resin-Collectable-Dragons and a Barbie doll, always has fresh flowers and cookies. Her shop prospers through every local and country-wide economic disaster, and has paved the way for other similar shops to open in her area.

And she has power. When she speaks, people listen, though her voice is gentle and matter of fact. If my power, at one point, was laid out next to hers…no doubt it would appear as a small, angry spark next to an ocean of gentle light.

With that said…I guess the moral of this little story is such:

Don’t mock the gentle witches, the Fairy believers and the candle-wishers. Don’t laugh at their books, or their collections of angel statues. Their ‘healing light’ or happiness spells of sprinkles and joy.

You don’t know their power, their Powers, their Gods. Don’t be like me, and laugh up your sleeve at their songs, or their paintings of beautiful ladies holding butterflies.

Let them be. Or better yet, learn from them. Don’t make my mistakes.

Look at how much time I lost that I could have been friends with her, and could have traded secrets!

And try a little gentleness yourself.