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July 20, 2014
We talked – now it’s your turn
Did anyone listen to the premier of the “Menage A Tarot” podcast?
We talked – now it’s your turn!
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July 18, 2014
Scattered Life Collective: 18 July 2014
Another day, another spate of violent world news. Turn off the TV and ignore it? Easy to do, but is it the right thing to do? Do something about it? But what? I feel spent. I put all I had into #PeaceTarot and released it to the world. Emptied of those words, all I can do is BE peaceful today, appreciate my lovely here and now, safe with home and family. May there be peace for all. ‘Nuff said.
July 17, 2014
Thank you, whoever you are!
Originally posted on Modern Oracle Tarot:
Someone searched the blog with “Carl Sagan and Reiki”. Thank you.
Seeing those words together on a page with “Tarot” put me right in my wheelhouse…my great loves in one place.
Some might say they are unrelated. I say everything is part of, well, everything so they are part of the one unified whole of … you guessed it…everything. Tarot, Carl Sagan, and Reiki have common threads.
The reason I call this blog and my style of Tarot “Modern Oracle” is because I believe we can take a modern, reasonable approach to the spiritual and the mystical. We really can be part of both…it isn’t either / or, life is connected, one, all-of-the-above.
I’ll spare you the long winded rant about that and save it for the book.
I look at it as a toolkit approach. You don’t use a hammer to fix the screw that popped out of your…
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July 16, 2014
I’m in a Podcast…who would have thought…
“Menage A Tarot” Podcast is now available…
Please visit www.MenageATarot.com and listen to the premiere episode
In this episode: “Three Friends Playing With a Full Deck”. Meet the hosts, hear hints about upcoming episodes, decks, intuition and more.
Episode 2: “You know, THAT client” coming in August
July 15, 2014
July 14, 2014
Merry Monday: Buffets
I like all you can eat buffets. Yes, it’s because I can eat an obscene amount of food, but not only that, every bite is different. I like taking a teensy bit of every little thing, just to taste it…I’ve gotten some wonderful cooking ideas that way. My daughter has started to dislike going to buffets because that usually means I’m going to spring some new way of disguising vegetables on her. Last time it was carrot souffle, from the lunch hot bar over at the huge Nature’s Basket Giant Eagle at Settler’s Ridge, my official favorite salad bar. She always looks so suspicious when she says I have my “tasting face” on…what a hoot! She’s probably right though.
More than buffets, I guess the real core of this Merry Monday is variety. It doesn’t have to be the incessant change and drama that so many people find so stressful. Just a little something new or different every now and again to spice things up.
Life can be a buffet. The variety can come from small shifts in attention, even littlest things – a different dessert, or tea instead of coffee, – it isn’t the change that makes variety spicy as much as the attention we give it…variety wakes us up, brings our attention and mindfulness back to what’s going on. By the same token, a return of mindfulness, or shift in attention can lend variety without much of an external change at all.
Some say that sort of mindfulness is an effective (and fun!) way to eat in a healthier way. If you are paying rapt attention to each morsel, you are going to naturally be more satisfied in the end by the sensory experience of it first of all…and second over time you will naturally gravitate toward higher quality (ie more natural, less processed, more wholesome) foods.
July 13, 2014
Big news!
I’m co-hosting a NEW podcast that premiers Wedn...
I’m co-hosting a NEW podcast that premiers Wednesday July 16.
It’s called “Menage A Tarot”, and features the three of us talking all things Tarot. Please visit http://www.menageatarot.com to listen or catch up from the archives as time goes on…
And I’m told by our technical genius, David, that the podcast is headed to iTunes too…
Menage A Tarot Podcast
Three Friends Playing with a Full Deck
David Dear
www.myownminister.com, Tarot reader, metaphysics expert, author of “The Tarot of Manifestation”, podcaster extroidinaire
Kate
www.dailytarotgirl.com, Tarot instructor, author of “How to Read Tarot Cards With Love, Light and Intuition” and “The Ultimate Tarot Journal”
Ronda Snow
www.modernoracletarot.com, Tarot reader, author of “#PeaceTarot”
July 9, 2014
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July 7, 2014
Merry Monday: The Dude, The Fish and Bob Marley edition
From Modern Oracle Tarot.
Bob Marley and The Dude make Mondays like these a little merrier.
My mentor Joy Star taught us about “psychic attention”…if something in a room or on a card when you are doing a reading grabs your attention…especially to an extent over and above the norm…give whatever-it-is the attention it is grabbing. It is a valid, meaningful part of the overall message, roll with it. It’s a very Jungian notion, essentially syncronicity in action. It may be coincidental the whatsis is there, and that it is capturing your attention. When coincidences like that seem meaningful, they are.
That’s how it was with today’s card. Just couldn’t get past the idea of a fish in a cup giving some dude the hairy eyeball. (Anyone else ear-worm-ing on that odd song from the 70s with roly-poly fish heads?)
Some days are just like that. Not that you literally get in a stare-eyes contest with a herring, but some days have that edge of the absurd sort of vibe. Just one of those funky-mojo kinds of days.
Today was one of those. For my audacity for going to the grocery store to get a few necessities, was rewarded with seeing one fender bender and two other near misses (one of which was the jagoff* who took the rolling left off the stop sign right in front of me, when I didn’t have a stop…except for the screeching one I had to do to avoid hitting you, ms gold tone SUV).
And cup ‘O fish was the card I pulled after the adventure was over.
All other interpretations of the card aside, in today’s context, the message is clearly something seafood related.
Actually, I think it is a clear reminder to not take life too seriously, with a slightly different take than the ‘remember to play’ meaning sometimes attached to the Fool from the major arcana. This is more of a ‘life is weird, enjoy the ride’. It is totally a roll with it, and abide, be Zen, and as Big Lebowski Dude about it as you can muster. Days like these, break out the flip-flops, fire up the Bob Marley and just be grateful you don’t have a fish staring at you.
Life is a comedy of the absurd sometimes. Don’t forget to laugh at it.
*one meaning: irresponsible driver – for a full translation of the Pittsburghese, please visit www.yajagoff.com
July 3, 2014
More Fun With Friends
Tarot is more fun with friends…so I’ll be joining friends and fellow Tarot reader / experts David Dear (www.myownminister.com, “Tarot of Manifestation” blog) and Kate (www.daily-tarot-girl.com, author of “The Ultimate Tarot Journal”) for a new podcast called Menage A Tarot.
The podcast will be conversations among “three friends playing with a full deck”…in other words, the three of us having lively and fun conversations about all things Tarot.
Stay tuned for the premiere in late summer!
Meanwhile, follow us on Twitter (@manageatarot) or visit our new website at www.MenageATarot.com
