“What do you want to make happen this year?” Because if tarot does anything, it acts as a key to our own personal paths. And within those paths is the freedom to be ourselves. I don’t believe that the future is neatly mapped out for us, moment by moment. If it was, why would we …
In my own life and in working with clients, I’ve noticed a pattern: When we don’t create and maintain healthy boundaries in our relationships, it seems that our bodies try to compensate by creating physical “boundaries,” which we then experience as tension, constriction, or illness. Here are just a few examples: We say yes to …
One thing from re-reading The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey, it’s that LaVey liked to fuck, but I also learned a lot of other life lessons, and they are surprisingly practical and actually pretty positive. Though there is a lot of stuff in there about rituals and bells and witchy women wearing sexy outfits—unless …
I must understand that I can’t turn shit into gold. Some nice women, and even a few half-courtesans, turned to me and asked if I could help them to operate at a higher level. The trouble was, with many of them, that I couldn’t even begin to teach them, as their life fell apart before …
YOU FEEL SUFFOCATED AND WEIGHED DOWN BY SOME KIND OF INVISIBLE FORCE. And you don’t really know why, but this force is relentless … no matter what you do, you carry this knotted heaviness inside everywhere you go. Nothing feels right anymore. You look at your life and marvel at how it doesn’t feel like …
Full Moon in Virgo – A Bridge From Heaven To Earth The first Full Moon of March (yes, we have two Full Moons this month!) happens Thursday, March 1st at 11° Virgo. Although Virgo is not necessarily the most romantic sign of the zodiac, this particular Full Moon is all about love. That’s because the Moon is opposite Neptune, the planet of …
Alchemy is a form of magic that’s concerned with transforming the external world by evolving the inner self. Alchemy is ultimately the most demanding and the most rewarding form of magic, as it emphasizes principles that all other forms of magic eventually harken back to (i.e. – for example, if you make pacts with spirits …
2018 is in Numerology is an 11, a master number. The 11 is the most intuitive of all numbers. It represents illumination; a channel to the subconscious; insight without rational thought; and sensitivity, nervous energy, shyness, and impracticality. It is a dreamer. The 11 has all the aspects of the 2, enhanced and charged with …
Shame is a normal (and extremely painful) emotion to experience. It has its roots in social aspects of our nature. It becomes abnormal and highly destructive when we internalize and carry it with us. WHAT IS TOXIC SHAME? “Toxic shame” is a term that was first coined by psychologist Silvan Tomkins in the 1960s. Unlike …
For a moment, perhaps, you could see it for what it was: a compelling voice that told you to conform, and to turn away from the freedom you were contemplating. Freedom from obsolete obligation, from allegiances to causes that no longer nourished you, which wanted only your time and your energy. The kicker about …
