Devising your own three-card readings
The most basic form of divination with a card deck is thinking of a question, then picking one card to represent an answer. This works with any type of divination deck, including tarot cards, angel cards, and animals cards. Three-card readings help us go deeper into our intuition and yield more information. To do a three-card spread, shuffle the deck while thinking of your question and pick the top three cards. Or you might fan out the cards (upside down) and pick the three cards you are intuitively drawn to. Then arrange the cards in front...
Calling back soul essence and power through recapitulation
Core soul loss happens in traumatic situations such as childhood abuse, a serious accident, or loss of a loved one. A piece of our soul goes away when an overwhelming conflict occurs between how it would like to be treated and the reality of how it is being treated. With core soul loss, a shamanic practitioner would perform a soul retrieval to reunite us with our missing soul piece and support us in our return to wholeness.We also potentially lose pieces of our self in very common, everyday circumstances when we live, speak, act and think in...
Wording powerful intentions
Settings intentions can help us learn to live consciously and support us in creating the life we desire. Intentions give us purpose and principles to live by. When we set intentions, the Universe hears what we want and brings the people and the experiences we need to make them true.There are many ways of setting intentions. One template is: I < active verb > rest of sentence. I speak my...
Newsworthy events as pointers to our truth
On Saturday, over 70,000 people marched on downtown Madison, protesting Governor Scott Walker’s proposed plan to eliminate collective bargaining for state employees in an attempt to balance the Wisconsin budget.Also on Saturday, I taught a class at Granite Winds, less than ten miles from State Street and the Capitol. My energy felt off while teaching, even though I was solid on my drive into Madison earlier that morning. I forgot to call in the directions at the beginning of class, and I frequently stumbled over my words. About halfway...
The shadow of the thing
When we’re manifesting a job, a house or a romantic relationship into our lives, we often have multiple options.Let’s say we’re working with a realtor to buy a home. The first few houses we look at miss the mark completely. Then with the next several properties we tour, we start to see features we like and add them to our mental picture of our ideal residence. As our realtor gets to know us better and we become clearer about what we’re looking for, we get closer to finding a home we could imagine ourselves living...
Clearing out internal clutter
I am an avid reader and have frequently indulged my passion for books. But after years of acquiring, I finally reached a point where too many books were coming in and not enough were going out. My groaning bookshelves couldn’t hold even one more tome. So I went on a “book diet” and weeded through my collection. Although visitors to my home still notice my love of reading, I have pared down considerably to make more room in my living space.It’s human nature to hang on to stuff. We have attics, spare bedrooms, closets,...