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On-Going Lessons: Nov 25, 2018

Earlier this year the need for inner child healing work was screaming to be done.  Last year (2017) brought many unhealed wounds to the surface.  I erroneously thought these were no longer an issue, as it turns out they are huge issues begging to be healed.  I was pregnant for most of 2018 and I refrained from diving too deep to inner work because I was very hormonal and emotional.  I didn’t want to cause myself undue stress or anxiety facing the roots of my stress and anxiety.

I am now 6 weeks post partum at the time of writing this and the inner work albeit minimal has finally begun. My husband suggested a couple useful journal prompts for self reflection.  I also incorporate tarot into my self-work, more on that later.  It’s quite interesting when the synchronicities start happening on these inner journeys we take.

I knew journaling would be a part of this process. It’s always been a way for me to get to know the true, inner me. A theme that has come up for me specifically is soul purpose / life path.  I will start the string of synchronicities when I began to declutter our copious amount of paperwork in the house. It was stashed in various locations and we had several out of date and useless pieces of paper. Everything is now centralized and old documents shredded. Can a house lose weight? Because it felt lighter after that clean out.

I came across an old journal with entries dated 2006 – 2008. Seems I was unknowingly using it for the same process that I am embarking on currently. It was interesting re-reading some entries and how they are parallel to current events. Many entries written in pencil I decided I’ll just erase them and use the journal for my current journey. It was a process erasing the entries, but I went through and anything I wanted to keep I typed electronic copies.

I was chatting with some friends online and I had mentioned twice, once to each of them, the word “transformative.” It feels to me on a microcosmic scale to be true and I see this reflected in some of my friends’ experiences also.  The same night I caught a Facebook live broadcast of a friend and psychic/medium, Allison Boswell, was pulling some cards.  Lucky me, though this was no coincidence, a card was pulled for me: Transformation.  Everything Allison said was hitting the nail on the head.  This was confirmation that I am heading in the right direction.  I continued to listen to her broadcast and reading for others in the background as I worked cleaning this journal.  She mentioned in the next reading, as I was literally doing this task, erasing the past and rewriting your story… another BAM.

Screenshot of reading Nov 2018

I finally get my book ready to be re-written in.  I plan on using tarot as a tool for further insight as it will show me things in an undeniable way.  I have several decks and I was having a hard time choosing which one I should use.  I was thinking Dark Carnival Tarot or Tarot of Sex Magic.  They are very specific decks, while they felt right they also felt as though they didn’t quite fit my purpose.  My son came with me to the tarot shelf.  He mentioned the Golden Tarot.  I told him the story about this deck and how I forgot I even owned it and just recently found it in this bag.  I lift the bag up, take the deck out, and hand it to my son.  As I’m telling him that he can have the deck if he wants it I noticed a little baggie and a tissue paper wrapped thing in the bottom of the bag.

The baggie has two small blue-green obsidian pieces and the tissue is wrapped around an aragonite piece.  It took a moment but my son and I remembered getting these things.  The obsidian was his and the aragonite was mine.  This is great as I’ve been working to get all the crystals in the same spot.  When it came to the tarot deck selection I input all the deck titles into a random name selector.  Dark Carnival Tarot popped up first.  I decided to do a top 3.  Mythic Tarot was number two and lastly Tarot of Sex Magic; 2/3 ain’t bad, another BAM.

Photo credit: Echoside Phoenix Rose 2018

I will leave this entry off on this note, as it is already quite wordy and there is so much more.  Just so many synchronicities I can’t possibly list them all!
You can find more about Allison on her webpage: https://allisonawakened.com/ 

Brightest Blessings,
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Tarot Talks: Effective Questions in Tarot

I find there are two types of people that come to tarot: those with very specific questions, and those who have no idea what they want to know. As a reader it is easier to read when specifics are involved, however looking for too specific an answer does not allow the cards to offer alternative possibilities. The best is to find an easy medium between specific and open-ended.

Focusing on one aspect helps to narrow down the reading because every card holds many meanings depending on how you read them. The Big 3 topics that most people want insight on: career, relationships, and health. Your question does not have to be limited to one of the Big 3, but it’s an example of choosing an aspect that you want to focus on.

Asking, “where is my career/relationship/health heading?” Is focused enough onto a topic and open-ended enough to give many possibilities.  However, it may still be too open-end. Your career may take a fabulous turn, but that may not happen for 10 years down the road. You can put a time frame to your questions. “Where is my career/relationship/health heading in 6 months?” is a more effective question that is focused enough that you will know what aspects of the cards to read, and is open-ended enough to give various vantage points.

My favourite question to ask tarot is: “What aspect do I need to see which I am not already seeing?”
You can ask this in regards to overall life, or in a specific area. Open-ended and all-encompassing readings can get convoluted, as cards about money, love and health will all pop up, and they may or may not be related to each other.  Information overload is not something that you want to do in a reading.

Stay away from yes/no questions in tarot. Although there are methods that can be used with the cards to answer yes/no questions, they are not always accurate, how you have to divide cards may not give an equal amount of yes/no cards, therefore favouring one answer over the other. To avoid this often a complex method of reversals and this and that… it’s too much. Get a pendulum for yes/no questions! Tarot is a deeply profound tool that can help unlock hidden aspects of yourself – it’s a journey of the soul.

If you have a specific scenario, or are at a crossroads an effective question that I find works well is, “what do I need to know about this?” You can replace/add to “this” with your specific scenario, e.g., “what do I need to know about this relationship?”

To recap, here are effective and open-ended questions:

  • What do I need to see that I’m not already seeing?
  • What do I need to know about this?
  • What are the possibilities?
  • What are my options?
  • What is the Universe/Angels/Higher Self/Spirit Guide trying to tell me?
  • What is the most effective way to deal with this?
There is a plethora of tarot spreads that can be found all over the internet and in tarot related books. Decks often comes with sample spreads. You can also create your own spreads if you cannot find a spread that answers what you are looking for.  Next week I will go over some effective spreads that I frequently use.
Brightest Blessings!
Phoenix Rose

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