Shaka Card

Weekend newsletter card: The Hanged Man. Want a weekly digest instead of every post in your inbox? Subscribe to Sage Sips on Substack!

I adore Hawaii.

And I adore the shaka, you know, that “hang loose,” all good, take it easy, right on thumb-and-pinky hand sign from surf culture. I don’t surf. I’ve only spent a single, glorious week on Maui. But I adore the feeling and attitude of the place and culture just like I adore Tarot, Taoism, Tai Chi, Reiki, Witchcraft and all the other things that have made my life so so so much better just for knowing about it. Just thinking about the shaka sign and all it means while I’m writing this makes me feel just a little bit better.

All of those things, unfortunately aren’t typical to southern American culture. They aren’t typical to the usual Anglo-European connotations that go with the Hanged Man major arcana card. With the Hanged man with think about “stagnation” with the connotation that it is a bad thing. That in turn implies some inherent value to striving, achieving and moving forward.

Not so, bruh.

Today’s energy around the Hanged Man card is more like a kind reminder, a friendly shaka, to take it easy.

Slow your roll.

Stop even.

Take a doggone minute, take a deep breath and be where you are.


Announcements: No COTW in observance of MLK day.

Email private readings are OPEN and the listings now include the VIDEO option. If you order, please let me know which version you want. If no selection is listed, I’ll just do an email by default.

Email readings come to your email as an attached .pdf document that includes a photo of your real-world card layout, typed card interpretation and an open psychic summary that often includes crystal and aromatherapy suggestions.

Video readings come to you as a link to a PRIVATE-share video on the Sage Words Tarot YouTube channel. You are the only person with the link to access the video. The video shows your cards being drawn, a spoken card interpretation and an open psychic summary that often includes crystal and aromatherapy suggestions.

INKMAGICK pen & ink readings are available in 1 card and five card versions, sent by mail (US only.) Handwritten and hand-doodled with a fountain or dip pen on high quality paper, these readings include card interpretations, my terrible sigil and glyph-likd doodles that show you what intuition shows me and the open psychic summary with crystal and aromatherapy suggestions. Feel the potent magick of physical paper and ink.

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Anarchy Ducks

Cue the Sex Pistols.

It doesn’t always look like it, but I do try and keep my ducks in a row as the saying goes. My ducks, it seems, are a bunch of rampant anarchists on meth.

So, if you’ll indulge me, I’m going to keep making announcement posts every now and then. It helps me get organized and keep track of those overly caffeinated metaphoric ducks. Although I have to admit, it is better than it used to be.

In any case, here is the latest. I hope something of it will catch your interest. You are welcome at TaoCraft Tarot and among the Anarchy Ducks. I’m glad you are here.

So are the ducks.

March 2022

  • THANK YOU to all new social media followers and especially to new Tarot Table members
  • E-mail Tarot is still the fastest way to get a reading that contains the exact SAME things I would say to you if we met in person. Order 24/7 NO APPIONTMENT NEEDED
  • TaoCraft Tarot Table membership tier on K0-fi is $5 per month and gives you members only content including a 3 card “pathway through the month” Tarot reading in the ko-fi blog, newsletter (mid-month) and random special offers and giveaways.
  • IN-PERSON individual readings are BACK!! Scheduling by email at TaoCraftTarot@gmail.com is fastest contact. Get the details HERE
  • Party Tarot is back on a very limited basis. Appearances will only be accepted on a case-by-case basis with a much smaller service area. Email is best contact for that, too.
  • I’ll be wearing a face mask for in-person sessions indoors, at least until the summer months.
  • The Clairvoyant Confessional podcast is fully changed over to the TaoCraft Tarot format. It’s pretty much an audio version of the blog, but after listening to some podcasts during road trips lately….podcasts are a good thing.
  • “Short Sip” blog-cast episodes are Tarot guidance for your day in the time it takes to sip from your coffee. Weekend Tarot Turnover episodes let you exercise and develop your own intuition, with YouChoose Interactive Tarot, behind the scenes, and Q&A randomly sprinkled in.
  • Spiffed up the home page. What do you think?
  • Comments are OPEN. Ask me anything for an answer in the blogcast! (It’s moderated and spam will still be obliterated in a flash of hellfire – so don’t worry. It’s all still good energies here.)