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Spring, Healing, New Beginnings

Spring! Late spring now. It’s well established, where I live. In early spring here, there is still snow. Brave little snowdrop and crocuses do appear, sometimes pushing through earth, newly visible in spots between snow, sometimes pushing…
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Retiring into … Passion!

I have never seen myself as a particularly passionate person. (That, it emerges, is absolutely false, a mis-understanding of myself caused by attitudes to emotions learned in childhood, and all the resulting choices made on the foundations of…
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You Never Stop Growing

In this month where the theme is supposed to be love and pleasure, I am going to start by talking about abuse and woundedness. I have set aside the post I had intended for this week in order to use this one. It feels right. (For those of you…
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Resilience and Determination

For the month of January, we’ve been exploring approaches to growth and self-improvement. On this final Monday in the month, I decided to pull a card and see what the Tarot had to say about this theme. We want to be fuller, richer, happier…
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Being You

I have a poor memory. Lists are a way of life – and I like them! I like ordering my thoughts to make that list. I like ticking things off the list as they are completed. I like adding extras, things that didn’t make it onto the list, but…
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Moving from ‘Should’ to ‘Could’

Some while back I read an article which suggested that, when we are setting goals for ourselves, we move from thinking “I should” to “I could”. I tried it out. My ‘should’ was easy to find: “I should get more exercise.” It’s…
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Aspirations + Resolutions

All those of you who made resolutions: have you already broken them? All of them? Some? I’m betting a lot of you have. New Year’s Resolutions. Last week we considered approaching the new year with the attitude of the Fool rather than…
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Temperance for Christmas

It’s December!! On your marks, get set … HOLIDAY!!! Aren’t you just so excited? More likely, you’re feeling tired before you start. Your month is a to-do list to rival Santa’s “Good kids" list. And it’s topped by a day that…
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The World

The world is your oyster! I bet when you read that, you automatically listed the ways in which it is clearly not. “Huh,” you said to yourself. “She obviously doesn't know my life!" You haven’t hit this milestone or achieved that…
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Find me a Feeling

This post is nothing to do with tarot! I know, crazy, huh? In my life outside tarot, I am a voracious reader.  Most years, I read 80 - 100 books. Everything from fluffy chick lit to meaty non-fiction. Well, almost everything. I don't…