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Keep it Simple, Sibyl! Grand Tableau Class March 8th at NWTS 2020

1/31/2020

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Find out how to register for my grand tableau class and other Lenormand, tarot and oracle classes at NW Tarot Symposium in Portland, Oregon, March 6th-8th. This is year six of NWTS! 

I'll have a booth in the vending hall, which is free to attend! I'll have all of my decks and books for sale. AND...I'll be showing the progress of my two latest decks that I'm currently working on. If you're planning on attending, please come by and say hi! 
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I’ve created a grand tableau class for #cartomancers that I will be presenting at #nwts2020 in March. □□□ 9 steps to hone the GT and answer your or your client’s questions. The GT can easily become overwhelming, but in this presentation, I will share how to unpack this classic layout and...⠀ ⠀ Keep □ It □ Simple □ Sibyl □ ⠀ ⠀ □ ⠀ ⠀ I am really looking forward to this! Will you be there this year? ⠀ ⠀ #tarotconference #nwts #lenormandreadersofinstagram #tarotcommunity

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New Moon in Aquarius and the Star

1/24/2020

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Out with the old, in with the new! The New Moon in Aquarius begins at 1:42pm PST. ✨💫♒️ Today's double Aquarius energy (Sun and Moon, but Mercury has also been in Aquarius) brings the Tarot Star’s energy. Though Aquarius is an air sign, she's the Water Bearer, bringing renewal and new ideas. Aquarius is the visionary, the inventor, the humanitarian, and the revolutionary. And she brings progress!

Some astrologers believe that the Age of Aquarius dawned in the 60s, but others say that the Aquarian Age hasn't really begun—that December 21st's Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction will be the true gateway to the Age of Aquarius. (That conjunction will be in Aquarius.) I think it's a bit of both. That we've been in that doorway of transition! (If you don't know an astrological age lasts 2000 to 2100 years, and we're leaving the Age of Pisces.)

As the lunar month begins (and the Lunar New Year! Tomorrow is the first day of the Chinese New Year 🎆🎊and the start of the Rat year🐀), I've been cleansing my space, settling into my self-care practice, and launching into creating my new tarot deck, the #luatarot I’ve completed about 25 cards! Here’s the Star 🌟 again—as one piece this time. Aquarius is often connected to technology and I’ve been working on perfecting my digital collage technique 🙃! 

Since the Sun-Moon blast of Aquarian energy is present, I've been cleansing my space with water and essential oil. (Water in the Air...Aquarius combo.)

Many blessings to you on this New Moon. May the innovation, genius and progressiveness of Aquarius bring the renewal, peace and revelation of The Star. 
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MLKJ Day and the Lunar Masculine

1/20/2020

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“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding darkness to a night devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ⠀ The image is the Lunar Masculine card from #divinemusesoracle and represents the sensitive warrior practicing the nonviolence philosophy, as Dr. King spoke about in the Lorraine Motel just hours before he was assassinated in April 1968. He sat on his bed and went over the principles of nonviolence with his entourage....not strategy, but the importance of nonviolence.⠀ ⠀ In the guidebook, I use the above Dr. King quote (from Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? p. 67) in connection with the Lunar Masculine archetype, the sensitive warrior who uses words and compassion as his weaponry of choice, instead of violence. On MLKJ Day, I honor Dr. King’s legacy...and beyond today, everyday. ⠀ ⠀ May we all remember his message of love and continue to evolve and learn from each other; find our common links as human beings in a time that seems like we are more divided than ever. Where hate and fear continue to create bigger divides; love, compassion and acceptance bring us together on the same side on this small planet in our galaxy of galaxies. ✨□

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Magical Child Oracle Sample Cards

1/17/2020

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I got a sample of the Magical Child Oracle cards that I have completed so far. Here are just a few of them. My intention is for this to be a children’s / inner child deck. ⠀ ⠀ The idea was birthed during the making of the Magical Child card from the #DivineMusesOracle (2nd photo). □□‍♀️ I’m not quite done with the Magical Child Oracle yet, but wanted to see how they would look/work as cards. I had them printed in mini and standard tarot size. I think I may also release them as a set, one for the parent (standard size) and the mini size for their child. I’m still working out the details of this deck and finishing card designs, but wanted to share a few of them with you today. ✨□□‍♀️✨□✨ ⠀ ⠀ #MagicalChildOracle #divineMuses

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Uranus Stations Direct in Taurus

1/10/2020

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Uranus goes direct today (5:49pm PST)! ✨□(Photo captured by Voyager 2 in 1986.) This planet is the rebel planet —the revolutionary. Uranus has been taking a retrograde nap in Taurus since August 11th 2019. If you feel like things have not been moving ahead, the evolution you’ve been waiting for (particularly in connection to your body, the earth, material realm or things you possess—Taurus related things) is ready for you to take action! With today's Eclipse your positive choices and intentions have power. ⠀ ⠀ Uranus going direct in Taurus is a powerful time to start embodying your personal evolution. One of my favorite astrology teachers, Divine Harmony, calls Uranus in Taurus the "embodiment evolution." What actions are you going to take toward the environment? How are you waking up in your body? This is the time to start moving: exercise, dance, or do whatever your Uranus in Taurus wants to do. □□□□□□‍♂️□□‍♂️Perhaps it's though ritual or invocation, bringing the spiritual into the mundane, and creating an embodiment practice ✨. ⠀ ⠀ As I said in my Lunar Eclipse post, my word for the year is self-care, so I'm using Uranus direct's energy to help buoy my daily practice. ✨□How about you? What's this look like for you?⠀

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Wolf Moon Lunar Eclipse Cancer

1/10/2020

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Today is the Lunar Eclipse (exact a 11:21 am PST) in the Wolf Moon—the first of the 13 moons of the year. □ ✨And it’s in the sensitive and loving sign of Cancer. Eclipses can be intense, but they also offer us opportunities to take an honest assessment of the things that are not working and change them. With the Sun in Capricorn, it’s a time of stepping up to take responsibility for what isn’t working for us. ⠀ ⠀ Since we’re starting the year off with this eclipse on the axis of Cancer and Capricorn, it’s the perfect opportunity to focus on self-care. I’ve chosen self-care as my word for the year, to remind myself to do a daily practice so I can ground and take care of my mind, body and soul this year. ⠀ ⠀ However, this eclipse axis also reminds me to reach out to the people I love in my life. Cancer wants to love AND be loved. We need to remember to get off our screens and meet up with our loving friends and family...because we will need each other more than ever this year! So we mustn’t isolate ourselves. ⠀ ⠀ I felt so much joy after reconnecting with a dear friend of mine who had been out of the country—my heart felt so buoyed! I had been feeling down for a few days and this sweet conversation made me remember the importance of connecting with the people we love. ⠀ ⠀ Happy Lunar Eclipse! May you find this to be a time of empowerment. May you remember that you are loved and supported. □ ✨□

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New Year Astrology. 2020 Begins with a Bang. Saturn-Pluto Conjunction, Cancer Lunar Eclipse and Uranus Stations Direct.

1/6/2020

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We started off the year with some positive energy last week! We're into week two and there are already three potent cosmic events, making it an intense start—and not the best way—to the year. 

The Cancer Lunar Eclipse is Friday January 10th at 11:21 am (not visible from America). The year begins with Full Moon in Cancer and we will end the year with one too (though December 29th won’t be an eclipse)! This puts a spotlight on feminine energy (Cancer is a super feminine and maternal sign). This year will bring more awareness to the topic of feminine empowerment and leadership. 

However, 2020 is a 4 year, meaning the tarot's paternal Emperor is the archetypal energy for the year (leadership, authority, action, stability, structure and order). But, if you combine this with the Full Moon Cancer energy, we have the 
Solar Feminine archetype: leadership roles merging with feminine, nurturing qualities. The Solar Feminine card from my Divine Muses Oracle deck is basically a merging of the Empress and Emperor cards. 

This year we will see women in roles of leadership continuing to increase, and people wanting to combine the nurturing quality of the feminine in their leadership roles. What would the world look like if everyone (not just women!) led with love and not fear-based energy. We are already starting to see this in various ways and it's so inspiring.

The occult significance of the Emperor looking to the left shows that he draws from the qualities of the Empress in order to rule in a positive way—that is based on love and understanding, not fear and greed, which is Emperor reversed energy. It's lovely to see 2020 with Cancer Full Moons bookending the year.   
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Solar Feminine from the Divine Muses Oracle
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The Empress and Emperor from the Antiquarian Tarot

Uranus goes direct on the same day as the eclipse! This planet is the rebel planet—the revolutionary. Uranus has been retrograde in Taurus since August 11th 2019. There is an evolution waiting to happen and it is going to break us all out of a collective rut this year. The Cancer Lunar Eclipse energy will precipitate this change.

With Uranus going direct in Taurus, it's a powerful time to embody the revolution. Taurus lessons are around the body and material realm, so moving the body is a healthy way to break out of ruts: exercise, dance, or whatever movement you are craving.
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Mystic Rapture from the Divine Muses Oracle. When reversed talks about being in the midst of eclipse season. Eclipses bring change and force us to grow beyond our current perception of ourselves and the universe.

The Saturn-Pluto Conjunction 

Sunday, January 12th is one of the major cosmic events of the year. Saturn and Pluto join together at 8:59am PST. This "Great Conjunction" happens once every 33 to 38 years. This one marks the end of the Saturn-Pluto cycle that began in 1982! Sunday we come full circle to complete this cycle. 

Historically, this has been an intense aspect! Saturn-Pluto conjunctions have seen major wars and economic upheavals that defined their particular era. (This is interesting given what has been happening between President Trump and Iran for the past few days. We will have to see what happens by Sunday.) Saturn-Pluto conjunctions are a collective experience that happens over a period of time where economic downturns, trade concerns, corruption and misuse of power are observed.  

Saturn wants to protect the old ways—the established order, and Pluto wants to transform and reveal what’s hidden beneath the surface. I don't think it's a surprise that we'll continue to see (all over the world) political infighting and further division between those who insist things should stay the same and those who are ready to usher in something new! This is not just a singular cosmic event happening on January 12th. This cycle has been ongoing since 1982. In 2001, Saturn and Pluto were in opposition (180°, the halfway point) the month before 9/11. Saturn has been approaching Pluto for the past year. 
 

January 12th marks the end of the 38 year cycle of Saturn and Pluto, and the start of a new cycle. As Saturn slowly moves past Pluto this year, this cycle of change brings challenges, especially around the need to break down old structures with weak foundations. This transit expresses the Tower card perfectly, where chaos is necessary to clear out the debris of the past in order to rebuild something better for the future. What comes after the fall of the Tower is the Star, where hope and clarity reigns. 


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Tower from the upcoming Lua Tarot by Divine Muses ©2020
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The Star from upcoming Lua Tarot by Divine Muses ©2020

​And on that Star note, 2020 does show some positives, though wrapped in intensity. The planet of expansion and abundance, Jupiter, will conjunct Pluto 3 times this year (April 4th, June 30th and November 12th). Plus, Jupiter will conjunct Saturn in Aquarius on December 21st (Winter Solstice), which is known as the "Great Mutation in Air" and also believed by some astrologers to be the official gateway to the Age of Aquarius.  

I’m seeing Jupiter's conjunctions with Pluto and Saturn as a sign that things are evolving even if it seems things are devolving at times. 
Jupiter meeting Pluto (and then Saturn at the end of the year) means there's a powerful force that's pushing for expansion and growth. Jupiter is the planet that brings optimism and luck to everything he touches (like the Sun card does in a tarot reading)! However, Jupiter is connected to the tarot's Wheel of Fortune card, with its cycles of fortune and misfortune.

Big change is on the horizon...and like Friedrich Nietzche's quote, we need chaos in order to give birth to a dancing star. That quote encompasses the tarot cards Tower + Star perfectly. This is what this Saturn-Pluto conjunction is all about. So when things feel like they are effed—and, well, they might be—try to remember that Jupiter, the “Greater Benefic," is kissing these two planets with its "luck" through the year for good reason. If things seem intense and uncertain, know that there are lessons in transformation for the highest good of all. 

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Happy New Year! Year in Review

1/1/2020

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#best9of2019 Even though it was one of the most challenging years I’ve experienced, it was also the most enriching. So many connections and so much gratitude for you all and all that was accomplished. Farewell 2019. Here’s to 2020! ✨□□

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