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Reading for the Week of January 17th, 2022

Reading for the Week of January 17th, 2022

Oracle Cards by Maia Toll – Illustrated Bestiary, Crystallary, Herbiary and Wild Wisdom Companion. The Alchemist is the transformer, creator energy that gives purpose to things that lay dormant. The seed requires no coaxing to become the tree, yet without the creative forces that drive life there is no impetus for anything to grow. Love is the creative energy that drives all life, it is the…

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Weekly Three Card Reading - January 9th, 2022

Weekly Three Card Reading – January 9th, 2022

1 2 3 Choose a reading from the image above (either 1, 2, or three), then read the corresponding reading below. Challenges will be overcome The White Buffalo brings hope that balance will be restored and acknowledges the toll the past few years has taken. The Buffalo stands in it’s truth, strength and authenticity and is immovable to most challenges. It asks that you remove any sense of…

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Weekly Oracle - January 1, 2022

Happy New Year!

January 1st reading for the week has never been more appropriate for me and perhaps it will resonate with you as well. The holidays are full of intense emotions, both good and not-so-good and after leaving 2021 behind and there is a sense of tension and simmering fear about what 2022 might hold. Currently, we are in a 5th wave of the pandemic as the latest variant, Omicron, (which in Greek, means…

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Weekly Oracle- Three Card Reading Dec 5, 2021

Weekly Oracle- Three Card Reading Dec 5, 2021

Choose a Card (1,2 or 3) for the Reading that you feel might speak to you today. Your reading is below: Reading #1 Healing of Familial Patterns – Wounds that Heal As we head into the Christmas/Yule season, we may be feeling the inevitable pull towards the anxiety of family gatherings, navigating crowds, travel, and increased spending. Our anxiety is largely derived from how we integrated…

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Weekly Oracle - November 28th, 2021

Weekly Oracle – November 28th, 2021

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Heather How to get your Oracle for the week: View the image below and choose Message 1, 2 or 3 and then read the three-card reading associated with the number you chose. Message#1 Energized Patience You feel ready and raring to go (you’re maybe even a bit anxious) in some area of your life right now. Arianrhod guides you to understand that time is on your side…

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TAROT: A QUANTUM COMPUTER?

TAROT: A QUANTUM COMPUTER?

I first became familiar with Quantum theory back in 2010 when I was a nursing student completing my acute psychiatry placement. One of the patients there was a Native man who suffered from bipolar disorder, but who is also one of this country’s most brilliant minds when it comes to Quantum physics. In order to understand his illness and his brilliance, I tried (on a ‘Quantum Physics for Dummies’…

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The Hermit

I’ve been in hermit mode. Not hiding, but feeling like I’ve had to withdraw from blogging, doing readings, posting on my social media feeds. Perhaps it’s the symptoms of a long and dark winter combined with the start of a new job with immense responsibility and challenges. In any case, I’ve needed distance to feel motivated once again to pick up my cards. Like friends, many of my decks have given…

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I’ve neglected this blog (among other things) for several months.  My intention was to draft an article a week, start a YouTube channel where I could review decks and wax philosophical, and host a Tarot Meet-Up group once a month.  Instead I found myself immersed (dare I say drowning) in work.  It got so bad (the worrying, planning, answering texts and calls in my ‘down-time’) that I suffered a pinched nerve in my neck that made it impossible to write or type because I had no strength in my arm and had a terrible numbness in my first and second fingers.  It literally took more than 8 months to recover and I still find that I get an ‘asleep’ feeling in my right arm when it’s held above the level of my heart for any length of time.  It was my body saying, “That’s bloody well enough of that!!” to all I was putting onto my own shoulders.  I was responsible for peoples lives, their safety, their employment, the running of the place and the income being generated.  I was one person acting in the role of many and it was going to kill me if I hadn’t woken up unable to move my neck or arm for all the pain.  What I realized was that my family, my co-workers, the business and my household wasn’t going to fall apart without me.  People picked up the slack where they could and where they couldn’t it really didn’t matter anyways.  I was given the opportunity to look at my life, my goals and my needs and start to do a hard soul search into what I valued most.  I realized that I have certain obligations to earn and income, support my family, to maintain my health and then I have the pleasures of spending time with my grandkids, studying Tarot, writing this blog, painting and spending time in nature.  My pleasures had literally disappeared for the sake of other people and I simply allowed myself to be swallowed whole.

During my recouperation, I started looking for another job, and got one, in a city an hour away, with a dedicated schedule and with potential for some upward mobility that wouldn’t make me responsible for everything about the business.  It means taking a pay cut, but the quality of life I will enjoy will be worth it.

It means that I can start blogging again, and I happily spent a full day in my studio to paint.  I’ve reintroduced myself to my cards and their warning and advice to me has always been centered around self care.  I will endeavor to make this a priority from which all other good things in my life will spring from.

Thanks to all who follow this blog.  Blessings, Heather

Reflections Of the Tarot I've neglected this blog (among other things) for several months.  My intention was to draft an article a week, start a YouTube channel where I could review decks and wax philosophical, and host a Tarot Meet-Up group once a month. 

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RainCoast Tarot – KickStarter I'm all about supporting local (Canadian) independent publishers of Tarot decks.  This West Coast artist draws on traditional Hermetic influences and mingles with an illustrative talent reminiscent of poster art of the 70's. 

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Madam Clara's 5 Cent Tarot!!

Madam Clara’s 5 Cent Tarot!!

I’ve recently backed this wonderful Kickstarter Tarot creation by Madam Clara.  This quaint and engaging Victorian themed deck is reminiscent of the fortunes dispensed at fairs and circuses.  The goals have nearly all been reached and I eagerly await delivery sometime in August!  There’s still time to become a backer and an opportunity to win a free deck if you share the hashtag #5centtarot to…

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Solving the Warped Card Problem

Solving the Warped Card Problem

Has this ever happened to you?? You get a nice deck home, you open it up, sift through the cards and the next day you have a distinctive bow to your entire deck! This happened to me with a couple of my decks I had been working with over the course of a couple of days and it was upsetting for the fact that the cards would not lay flat on the table surface. (Shown below are RolePlaying Game cards…

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The Crow Tarot

My latest obsession (aside from the acquisition of unique Tarot decks like the StarMan Tarot) has been with Crows and Ravens. Since moving to British Columbia, I am keenly aware of the multitude of Ravens and Crows that populate the Okanagan Valley. These birds carry a dubious and dark reputation as thieves, marauders, pests and killers of songbirds. Their feathers appear black, but are actually…

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STARMAN Tarot: Review

David Bowie wasn’t my favourite pop singer back in the 80’s I must admit. I wasn’t a fan of pop singers wearing makeup and dying their hair…not that I held any prejudices one way or another, it’s just that it wasn’t a genre of music that appealed to me. I did love many of his hit songs and still do, I just didn’t appreciate his genius at the time.

A MOJO magazine cover featuring one of David…

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October update

It’s been a rocky ride from August until October, both personally and professionally. I’ve dealt with finding my inner truth and speaking it authentically to those I know and love. Relationships have endured an unprecedented level of stress, stretch and strain…seeking to find balance and peace has never seemed so difficult and yet so necessary. I’ve accumulated nearly half a century worth of life…

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Nursing is a lot like Witchcraft: My Two Sephora’s Worth

Nursing is a lot like Witchcraft: My Two Sephora’s Worth

In this Trumpified era of ‘witch hunts’ and offence and indignation, it seems appropriate that even something as simple as a ‘kit’ for creating a personal ritual could turn into a political debate. The ‘rightness’ or ‘wrongness’ of someone’s personal practice and therefore connection with the spiritual is no one else’s business, except (so it seems) when you intend to make a profit off of it.…

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Tarot for Everyone!!!

I am starting a fan club of sorts in the small city I live in where I hope to attract members of a likeminded community of Tarotists and Oracle card readers.  Our local New Age and Used bookstore sells card decks, books on the subject and a huge variety of crystals and crystal jewellery and anything else you might need for your divination practice.  So from frequenting this place (as my second…

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D.W. Prudence on the Alchemystic Woodcut Tarot

D.W. Prudence on the Alchemystic Woodcut Tarot

A selection of cards obtained by Google search. Click on image for Source.

Gratefully, Mr. Prudence was able to reply to my analysis of his amazing Tarot deck. He clarified his intention with the use of color and how the background was chosen. Of course my impression was no where near the actual symbolic meaning of the color choices. I am, after-all, a novice with regards to all things esoteric,…

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