Mirrors of the Soul - The Lover's

I have been receiving many e-mails from clients who are in difficult relationships that are controlling or unfulfilled.

This brings me to the Lover's Tarot Card. The Lover's when appearing usually signifies a relationship. More importantly, it helps to know that every relationship you are in is a direct reflection of your inner state. Many times people complain that others walk all over them. This is a reflection of your inner state. Perhaps you walk all over yourself. You can never change another person. You can only change yourself and thus your vibration. In doing this, the relationship will either follow you, and raise with you, or it may be time for it to dissolve on the physical plane. Whether a relationship changes form or dissolves you can always honor this on the Spiritual plane.

It is important when making a decision in relationships to decide if you want the relationship to change form or release. I have taught this for many years in my Spiritual teachings and was refreshed to read it in Sanaya Roman's Soul Love, a fantastic book, which I highly recommend. In the book Sanaya urge's you to imagine your life, if you had everything you wanted and were satisfied with your life, had good friends, had a good salary, good job. Would you still want to relationship to end? If the answer is no. Then perhaps it wasn't the relationship you were dissatisfied with, but your own life.

When the Lover's card pops up in a tarot reading I urge you to look to the relationship you have with yourself. Do you honor it? The outer relationships you have with others reflect this inner state of being.

Image from the Osho Zen Tarot deck. 

Awakening your Cards

Many tarot readers will know exactly what I am talking about when I say my cards seems tired, our not responsive, or muddled. Now there can be another cause for this brain drain, which is fatigue, dehydration and emotional upset. But if you are sure, you are attuned and ready to read and your cards are sluggish, I created a special ritual to wake them  up. Take your cards and put them  back in order again, in the order in which they came. For most decks, including the Rider-Waite Smith Deck, you will put them In order with The Magician first then all the majors and stop at the Fool. Then the rest of the suits will be Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles. Aces first through ten, then courts up to King.

That is the order in which they come and Arthur E. Waite lists them.

Then, put them either in a windowsill or outside under a Full Moon's Light. In the morning remove them , so they had a little sun too.

And your cards will be dancing. I also place a crystal on top usually a quartz, while they moon bathe under the magical light of Luna.

I have used smudging and every other cleaning technique and not to say they don't work, this method just works best for me. Try it. Leave a comment and let me know how yours feel.

I swear the next day, not only were the cards alive with energy, and details, the colors even seemed alive.

Tea & Tarot

It is very rare I allow someone to read cards for me. However yesterday I had an enchanting afternoon with Barb from the Mystic Review. As she read me, she confirmed my thoughts and referred many great books. Whenever we get together, it is like Fate takes a break to have Tea with us, as goosebumps come at the eerie accuracy and synchronicity soars. I love our talks.

Barb has wonderful energy and gives advice as a friend should. She steers me from pitfalls and brings me down to earth from my latest follies. Perhaps going to Africa to become a Root Doctor wasn't the best decision for me. So, I appreciate her. :)

A good reader and friend knows when to give good advice in a gentle way. And a professional reader always gives advice and spiritual material to read as Barb always suggests great books.She has a great taste in reading and I am always shocked by her accuracy in picking the right books.

Our afternoon tea's & tarot are awe inspiring in Barb's two story 100 year old home which I rent..

It is so good to have a friend to exchange readings with. That I wouldn't change for the world, or even for a nice trip to Africa.

Tarot Journeys- Lesson 1- The Fool

In the Tarot there are five suits, similar to the playing cards, but with an additional suit called the Major Arcana or Trumps. Although opinions vastly vary on this topic, I will give my two cents as this is my blog. I believe in Free Will, 100%. I also believe in Karma as being certain energies that we are meant to experience due to learning or past life issues. I do believe that we have total free will in how we respond or act. When a major Arcana card pops up, I know that there energies at work behind the scenes. If it is a relationship question, or money question I know that it is more than just the question being asked, that there is more going on that the querent may not be aware of at force.

That takes us to The Fool, our first Major card who holds the #0. There are different schools of learning on the Fool, some believe it is the first of the majors, followed by the Magician #1, and some put it at the end of the deck and begin with the Magician #1 as the first card of suit. I have a totally different take on this.

I take the fool like a joker, or a wild card in the deck.

The Fool is Free Will in motion, it is the person's choice in the matter. The Fool is Free Will experienced in the cards. The Major Arcana are the Life Lessons, The Minor Arcana are the smaller things we experience in life, and the Fool ,is its own. At times, I separate the Fool onto its own.

So, when The Fool appears in a Tarot reading,  I predict that the outcome of the question lies within the person's ability to exercise their own free will.


I always believe in a Free Will. I do not believe that life is preordained. People may ask, "Then how do you predict the future?"

My answer to them is, that people are existing on vibrations. And as much as they may will something, if it isn't in their higher good or they are reaching for it in the wrong manner, the cards will show blockages, etc.

As long as people have free will, the cards will always be up in the air.

I read for one of my best friend's yesterday. Her name is Barb at the Mystic Review blog, when I did her reading, I saw that she was put here to write, healing books and to channel. She confirmed this is what she wanted and has been working on. Can I say 100% she will continue on to write and publish. No. That is within the realm of her Free Will. Do I think she will, yes. Why, because there was so much energy she was vibrating at that was headed in that direction.

It is almost like shooting an arrow. Once you get the arrow, load it, pull back and let go. It is gone into the air. Sometimes you put so much energy into something, creative energy and will, that you create something.

It is like a pregnancy. A doctor can read all the signs and tell you as long as nothing bad happens, as long as there are no health issues or unforeseen accidents this fetus will turn into a human being. Not a fish, not a hang glider but a human. Certain things can be predicted because the energy generated created a seed,a living energy. And that can manifest into something. Many times my predictions for people come true, in fact most times, 100% on target. People will say, then some of it has to be predestined. Not necessarily.

I will give two examples of this.

A few months ago a woman came to me and asked if she would ever have a baby because she tried for years with failure. Her cards to my surprise said yes. She later found out that she actually was pregnant already at the time of the tarot session and didn't even know it.

I read for a client yesterday as a matter of fact. She is trying to sell her home. I told her I saw in the cards a darker complexioned woman (queen of pentacles) would come with a spouse (lovers) and another female who was dominating. The client said, that is remarkable, I have a showing for the house this coming weekend it is an Indian woman, her husband and her mother. She asked how it would go, I pulled the 5 of swords ( aggravation) and the three of swords (heartbreak). I felt these people wouldn't be the ones to buy it with the heartache as the outcome card. She said that the wife's mother is coming with them because she has a real estate license and it is well known she can be a real pain in the rear and dominant.

She e-mailed today, and said the people had canceled and are not coming to see it after all.

Were the cards wrong? Not at all. They described people coming to look at her home, their physical characteristics and disappointment in the end.

Nothing is set in stone. Things are apt to change. Why, simply because there is Free Will, and with the Fool, we can ride it out or deny that it exits instead waiting for our dreams to come true. Me? I would rather be the Fool and travel through this short game of life, weightless with my dreams and wishes in my little bag, waiting for my next journey.

Preparation for Tarot Reading

Many people ask how I prepare for my readings, and the answer is simple. An old Spanish Gypsy method is to clean your space/or the room in which you divine, before the session. This is not feasible by today's standards, but I think the point was much deeper. By cleaning the room, we not only concentrate and clear our heads, but too, focus on cleaning ourselves. Whenever we do a motion, there is an energy on the spirit realm which equals that. If we find the need to eat, for example, we want our spirit's nourished. If we clean, we too clean our spirit.

Before a Tarot session, I pray, clear my mind of all thoughts, in Buddhism it is called the no-mind. If you are having problems that day, when you read for someone, you may actually begin to see your problems mirrored in the cards. You owe it to yourself or one you read for, to be of complete meditation. I noticed that yoga and breathing exercises help to ground my restless Piscean nature. I have also noticed that drinking water during my sessions, helps to keep me awakened, and at times I drink green tea.

I used to burn a lot of incense during my readings and it seemed to distract me. Now, I have an oil burner, with a tea light under it, and I burn floral oils, I hear the Angels love that. I don't usually burn synthetic oils I make my own, or put in an essential oil. Sometimes, I even put water, a little essential oil, & some dried flowers or herbs it boils it like a little witch's cauldron or Shuvani (witch is Romanes -Gypsy language).

I used to switch from deck to deck, and realized I like to stick to one deck now. Although I do like to collect decks now and again. Magical colors for candles especially in Romani-Gypsy culture are purple and blue and frankincense or cedar scent. The cedar clears the mind, coming back to the no-mind. The most important lesson I have learned over the past 23 years of Tarot reading, that I wished I knew then, was that you are the most important part. I practiced hundreds of different methods, bought different cards, read tomes of books, and none made me happy. It was only when I threw everything out of my room, and put a blue cloth upon my table, and nothing, nothing but my cards, did I find myself again. And it took me back to when I was nine, and I found my first love, not walking along the halls of school, but sitting on top of my grandmother's old oak table, waiting to be shuffled...A love affair that will never end.

Honey Nature's Healer

Years ago, I read a book entry that spoke of the healing powers of honey. The story was about a woman who was burned on the legs, then she rubbed honey immediately upon the burn & wrapped it in cloth, the morning, upon waking, the burns were gone and there was no pain at all. I have used this many times in my own life with much success. The other day, while making candles, I removed the boiler and set my hand down right on top of the burner which was still on high. I quickly removed my hand but it was so burned, the skin was actually white, I never saw a burn this bad. I grabbed honey put it on and wrapped it. An hour later I went to bed. When I was cleaning the next day, I found the bandage, and remembered what had happened the night before. When I looked at my hand, to see if there was a bubble, or blister, I couldn't even locate where the burn was.

Herbal remedies are nature's healers. Never use herbal medicine to replace medical reason. I just put these tidbits up to help others along the way.

The Moon's Watching

The moon is rising in her waning stage and I prepare for bed. Today I mediated on the Moon Card in the Tarot. I am reminded of the waning & waxing stages, the ebb and flow of nature. The moon does not reflect her own light, but rather reflects back the light of the Sun.

This is the fantasy aspect of the Moon card. Many times the folly we see in others may be a reflection of our inner self. When the Moon card appears in a Tarot reading we are reminded to feel the cool night breeze and dream. Not to give in to the fantasy, and illusion the moon's gaze may cast. Separate the dusk from dawn, illusion from fantasy.

On the Moon card (see rider waite picture) there is a path, which we are to follow, which leads us home. There can be seen a dog & wolf baying. These symbols represent the anima of the human consciousness, beckoning at the moon. We know, that the darkness doesn't last forever and will soon be consumed by the fire of dawn.

Many see the dog & the wolf as dangers on this card. I, see them as spirit guides, or animal totems, there to protect me and guide me, until I make it home, wherever that may be.