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A Virgo Full Moon Reading!

by Jamieson Wolf, posted in Tarot Decks, Tarot Spreads

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It’s the Virgo Full Moon! So, I did a Full Moon Reading. Before beginning, I chose some crystals that focused on self-love: rose quartz, purple tourmaline, garnet, carnelian and citrine. Oddly enough, I think the crystals influenced the reading. I love how that happens. I also used The Starchild Tarot. I love the dreamy feel of the deck and moons play a big part in it’s art, so it seemed so appropriate!

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1 – What baggage am I being challenged to leave behind? I drew the 4 of Cup depicts a woman sitting alone, bemoaning the world around her. She is lost within her emotional self. This card is asking me to look at any emotions that I’m holding on to that are doing me a disservice. It’s asking me to leave behind all the self-hate and self-loathing and walk away from that.

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2 – How can I be less critical this Full Moon? 3 of Cups. This is a card of abundance and healing. This is a card of love. It’s asking me to surround myself with people I love and can bring me healing. Close friends will bring me joy and, more than likely, show me a way of seeing past my perceptions. I also feel that they will help me be less critical of myself.

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3 – What health and wellness area needs attention? 2 of Cups. This is a card of love. A woman swims in the ocean. She is ready for love, for what it can bring and what it can give her. I know that this card is essentially about a budding relationship, a love that is blooming. But I really feel that this card is also about loving myself more, about letting the love for myself bloom bright and strong.

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4 – What area of my life needs reorganizing? Ace of Cups is a new beginning. It’s the start of a new cycle that will fill me with energy. It’s a new start to how I view my relationships with other people but also how I view myself. It’s a card of universal love and deep psychic knowing, of delving into the depths of the wisdom that has flowed through my life and learning from that. I need to reorganize how I view myself and how I love myself. I have to know that I am a person worth of love.

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5 – What needs to get done this Full Moon? King of Wands. He is enthusiastic and charismatic and inspirational. He is a man who knows how to get things done and isn’t afraid to do them. He’s a confident person and others are motivated by him. I need to become more comfortable in my own skin, I need to love the skin I’m in. I’m on a journey that can inspire others so I can’t be afraid of my journey.

Clearly, this full moon, I will have to take a deep look into myself and the relationship I have with myself and with other people. It will be an awesome time of self reflection and self love. 😊

Interviewing: The Light Visions Tarot

by Jamieson Wolf, posted in Tarot Decks

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When I get a new Tarot deck, I really like to get to know it before I use it. So, I interview the deck and see what it has to say. This is the interview I did of The Light Visions Tarot.

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1 – Who Are You? 2 of Wands. This deck is all about choices and its at the beginning of a journey. There are plenty of choices about which way to go and how to get there. The boy holds the two Wands and looks across the water at where he wants to go. This card is all about potential, about ideas and the creative spirit (I can hear the gears in his head thinking about how to get across). I get the sense that this deck is joining me at the beginning of a journey. Now I have to see where it will take me.

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2 – Your strengths? The Empress. She is all about beauty and grace, about being in touch with Spirit. She is the Earth, the sun and the air. She is the wind and the grass, the natural world around me. She is so strong with connecting to myself, to what I need to know. She is so strong in finding the simple joys, the little things that make up the day that bring clarity. She is strength of Spirit.

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3 – Your weaknesses? 6 of Chalices.  The 6 of Chalices is normally a happy card, one of celebration, a recognizing of the people within your life that fill your life with joy. From this card, I get the sense that she is spending too much time looking at what is bringing her joy, so much so that it isolates her from the world around her. I need to focus on what brings me joy, not isolate myself from them.

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4 – Type of readings you prefer? The 5 of Chalices. A boy let’s go of three chalices by letting them fall from a cliff. This card is about letting go of that which would hurt me, though it may be hurtful to let go of that in the first place. The cards prefer readings where I’m working on getting past of letting go of that which is hurting me and holding me back.

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5 – How you challenge me? The Moon. I love this card. It’s all about choices. Do I move the boat further in the water and move between the rocks to travel beyond? Or do I go back the way I came? Do I head towards the Moon and the wisdom it brings, or turn away from it? The same can be said of the deck. The Light Visions Tarot will help me to confront the possibilities and the choices I have yet to make.

I love this deck. It’s odd that I already know it so well, having and loving the Prisma Visions Tarot. I do love the subtle differences in the Light Visions Tarot from the Prisma Visions deck, though. There’s just something about it that’s like a soft and lovely hum.

The Fools Journey

by Jamieson Wolf, posted in Personal Growth, Tarot questions

220px-RWS_Tarot_00_FoolI’m often asked about my path to the Tarot cards. Here’s that story:

I thought the Tarot was all about fortune telling. You asked a question, you drew a card and you read its meaning in the book and that was it. It never occurred to me that they could be for something deeper, something more personal.

During our first class, my teacher told us that the cards were really doorways. That stuck with me and each card was like a little window showing me what I needed to know.

When I started taking Tarot classes, I thought I knew everything already. I had been reading the Tarot cards for years, had delved into different types of fortune telling.

I was also a bit of mess. I was coming off the end of a difficult relationship and my body was different than it had been and I was still coming to grips with how it was now. I was battered emotionally, physically and spiritually.

My teacher talked a lot about using the Thoth deck for personal growth. It was a revelation for me. I never knew that the Tarot could be used in such a way. It never occurred to me that they could be used for anything other than fortune telling.

We started off reading just based on colour. We had to draw a card for ourselves every day after we asked the cards a question. I kept getting repeat cards.

One of them was the Aeon, a bright and beautiful card that to me looked like arms giving me a hug. The Aeon kept coming up for me in my daily card draw. I wondered why it kept coming up. It wasn’t until we started delving into the meanings of the cards that it started to make sense.

The card represents insight, transformation, that we should leave behind our old perceptions and embrace higher learning. What it really represented was the balance between spirit and self.

I was, quite frankly, stunned. I had been going through a transformation in my life. I was struggling to find peace in my new life, reborn in the same body but a different person. I was drowning. The Aeon was a light amongst the darkness.

I realized then that I had to open myself up, that I had to embrace what the cards were trying to tell me. So my questions to the cards changed. Instead of wanting to know if I would find love, I asked them how to go about loving myself.

I felt an awful lot like the Fool that opens the deck. He’s starting on a journey and it takes him through the deck of cards. I was going on my own journey, learning about myself and about what I was cable of.

As my confidence with the cards grew, so did my confidence in myself. The cards helped to put things into perspective. Yes, I was a different person, no longer the same. However, the cards showed me that I was on the right path and that the journey would only be over when I was no longer willing to lean and no longer willing to grow.

That journey still continues. Every day, I learn more about myself, I learn more about what I am capable of. My spirit and my heart are aligned now and the world is no longer filled with darkness. It is only filled with light.

Let’s hope this Fool’s journey I am on never ends.

All We Need Is Love

by Jamieson Wolf, posted in Personal Growth, Tarot questions, Tarot Spreads, Uncategorized

Tunnamedhe question I am asked most as a Tarot Consultant is: Will I find love?

Love is one of the greatest things we can be given by another person and yet it has no form, no shape, nothing we can touch and yet it can fill up our bodies, our hearts and our souls. It’s a beautiful thing.

All the readings I’ve done as of late have been about love or finding love. I have happily done  the readings but urged my clients to think of questions that would further their personal growth.

I’ve come to realise that love is part of any healing process. Self-love should come first. However, when we don’t have love from another, we are always searching for it, always wanting it. We aren’t a species meant to be on our own; love should be a constant.

We have family and friends that love us, but it’s not the same thing as having romantic love. Someone to wake up with, to fall asleep beside, to pick you up when you are down, to lend support when you need it most.

When I was on my path to love, the first question I asked a fellow Tarot reader was “Will I find love again?”

I had just ended a really bad relationship and had one failed marriage behind me. I wondered if I would ever find it again, whether or not it was in my path or in my cards. Thankfully, the cards said I would, but they urged me to love myself first.

I thought I already loved myself.  I went on a few disastrous dates. They all ended badly and I knew that these men weren’t right for me, that they were repeats of past relationships. They were doors I didn’t want to open.

So I took the card’s advice, asking questions like “What do I need to know?” and “What do I focus on?” and “What is the next step on my path?” and “What do I need to do to better myself?”

Throughout the next few months, I focused on self-love, on being good to myself, and more that on actively loving myself. It wasn’t easy. However, the cards were there every step of the way to guide me along, giving me advice when it looked as if all hope was lost or giving guidance and support when life was dark.

Love is one of the emotions that we cherish and need the most. Why wouldn’t we want to know if or when it’s coming?

After all, I did; everyone does.