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My Tarot Valentine 2026

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When you love, you win. It’s the act of giving love that matters.

Love heals the deepest wounds without dwelling on them including – perhaps especially – when that love and healing is directed toward yourself.

Loving others is its own reward, no matter how others respond.

Love is a living tree. Water and tend to it, always. It will give air and fruit and color and life in return, if not in this season, then in another. Love will outlive the pain.

“The only thing stronger than hate is love” – Bad Bunny

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My Tarot Valentine is a collection of Tarot meditations with the theme of love, romance, and relationships of all kinds. 44 pages.

My Tarot Valentine

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My Tarot Valentine is a collection of love, romance and relationship themed daily meditation Tarot readings from the Tarotbytes (Modern Oracle) and Sage Sips archives

Today’s Tarot: Only You

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Happiness isn’t at your fingertips. It’s inside them.

Looking for happiness is like trying to buy a one of a kind item that you already own. Or to paraphrase the adage Mark Salzman references in Iron and Silk – looking for happiness is like looking for the donkey you are already riding on.

Only you can decide what, if anything, makes you happy. Only you can decide if and when you are happy. No one can else can make you happy – only you.

And if that is true, then no one else can take your happiness away.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Tarot for the Week: Portals and Possibilities

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I’m loving the Alleyman card today – mostly because I am in my happy place, at home drinking coffee, watching the Olympics and knitting.

Very often, the Four of Wands is associated with community celebrations in support of the family or individuals within that community – think birthday parties, weddings or baby showers.

Sometimes there is a sense of sanctuary, with some sort of shelter in the art work, be it open and symbolic or a literal structure. The Pamela Smith RWS deck artwork shows both a wedding chupah and a fortress or castle.

The open shelter images also give a sense of a portal or a gateway. This kind of energy doesn’t come as often as the other, but it steps forward today.

Today is the most optimistic week-ahead energy I’ve felt in a long time.

I hear “ripe with potential.”

I know, I know – that’s not the exact adage, but I’m not going to go all grammar police on the powers that be. I hate pedantry.

I also get “opportunities are what we make of them.”

This isn’t the time to let up. Keep up the pressure. When the christofascists rock back on their heels even a little bit…push harder.

Doors can be shown, doors can be opened, but we can’t walk through them for another.

We must each walk through each door for ourselves.

Or shove unwanted energies out of them.

It is a week of portals and possibilities.

It’s up to you what to draw in, push out or walk through.

Deck in video: Alleyman’s Tarot by Seven Dane Asmund, used with permission Publishing Goblin LLC

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Quick Sip: What they are

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Feel what you feel. Emotions are what they are. They come. They go. They are valid while they are here, but it is OK to let them flow away as easily as they bubbled up.

Be gentle with yourself and kind to what you feel today.

Sage’s Sip of Tarot: Be The Cause

“Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
Emily Dickenson

This is always a good new card.

Think of it as a fortune cookie reminding you that your efforts will pay off, sooner or later.

Cause and effect is the engine of the universe. Be the cause of good things.

Sage’s Sip of Tarot: Pine and Cypress

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“…the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and stability.”

Life can be a dumpster fire. Or a sudden storm. Or a dumpster fire in a storm.

When that happens…and it always does at some point for everyone…you do what you have to do to make it through.

During those times stability and comfort zones are sometimes more helpful than striving, goals or lofty ideals – even our so-called “personal growth.”

When the dumpster fire is particularly raging, it can help to get granular, get smaller but more stable. A lower center of gravity is more stable.

But so is flexibility. The tree that bends in strong winds doesn’t break. That is why coastal cypress trees are a classic symbol of strength in the storm.

When the storm comes, it is an opportunity to be the creator and protector of your own little bubble of strength and stability. You alone can’t stop the storm, but you can control your reaction to it. You can control your hunkering down and seeking shelter, protecting you and yours as best as you can.

The protective, competent, powerful, self-confident energy of the Emperor card reminds us of this.

Anything helps. Anything is better than nothing. This is where all the little milquetoast platitudes and meme-ish affirmations take on some actual value. Anything you can do to create a little stability for yourself, anything that will foster the strength and flexibility that you need has benefit. Meditation for even a few minutes, sitting and staring at your morning coffee for a few minutes, say that affirmation to yourself in the mirror, scroll and inspirational social media feed – draw that Tarot card.

You don’t have to be a towering redwood. A short and supple pine tree will do just fine.