sage sips newsletter – Sage Sips / TaoCraft Tarot

Consider it recycling. I’m saving the planet doing this, right?

Actually, this is me sticking to the plan for a change. Thursdays are newsletter days. Today’s substack newsletter uses the card from here yesterday. If this was made of paper I’d say we’re saving trees, but really it is just saving me a few headaches during a busy week.

Just a reminder:

Email readings are available to order 24/7 no appointment needed. Email readings are OPEN throughout the holidays (including Halloween!)
FREE Zombie Cat style yes/no readings until 10-31-23. See details below*
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Please comment and let me know if you like the daily card or the week-ahead format better. I’ve always been partial to daily meditation one card readings. They are the most helpful most of the time unless a crisis hits or you need to make a big decision. Then the big layouts are the way to go. (Individualized one cards are more helpful than the collective energy one card posts, too)

Wishing you all a great weekend. See you at the next sip!

“…we are the only thinkers in our minds. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.” – Louise Hay

Basically, make friends with yourself and your life.

Today’s card, Temperance, picks up where the Energy Path for the week left off four days ago.

On Monday, the Knight of Swords, the Queen of Wands, and the major arcana Magician reminded us of the courage to continue, the courage to connect to earthy, nurturing ordinary-ness and the audacity to find magic in the ordinary.

Temperance reminds us of that same balance. Not every day has to be striving or spiritual. We can live our spirituality in a comfortable, natural way. Not everything has to be bland, pedantic or mundane. There is balance. There is magic in the ordinary, and ordinary in the magic.

The paranormal is really just normal seen with our heart at the same time as we see with our eyes.

It’s a balance.

That being said, on to the shameless self promotion part of the Thursday newsletter available on the main website blog, the member’s ko-fi blog and now on Medium. I’m still new to medium so this introductory part will get shorter as time goes on.

If you want ALL of the free Tarot content on the day it posts, please follow the blog here on SageWordsTarot.com by putting your email in the box on the right hand side of the page (or scroll WAY down on mobile) New posts come right to your inbox as they are published.

Membership gets you on-demand one card private email readings, discounts on all larger email layouts plus occasional member-only content on the ko-fi blog.

Or, if you only want a once weekly summary, please subscribe to Sage Sips newsletter on Medium.

The Temperance card today is a nice validation for me – or at least I’m taking it that way. It’s been a year of changes around here since switching to the Sage Words Tarot name in January and it has taken a seven month long hot minute to find a new balance around here. This is my general plan for August. If it works, then this becomes the plan for the foreseeable future.

EMAIL TAROT

Email readings are available to order 24/7 – no appointment needed. How long it takes for your full write up to arrive varies depending on when you place your order, USA eastern time. Weekday orders usually get to you within 12 hours. Nights, weekends, and US holidays take longer. I’ll send a confirmation message with an estimated delivery time when you place your order. Getting an email reading with me works like ordering anything else online. Pick the layout you want – I’ve got lots of choices. There is something there for any question or budget from a $5 one card “Sage’s Sip” up to a full 7 card “TaoCraft Extended” layout for $40. Then you check out just like buying anything else online. I only take PayPal, but PayPal is secure for both of us and takes most credit cards. You’ll get a chance to enter your question or the topic for your Tarot reading as part of the checkout process.

PHONE / ONLINE / IN-PERSON TAROT READINGS

These only offer the 7 card layout.

I don’t do brick and mortar. By working mainly online, I can keep my prices lower for everyone. When we work in-person, we’ll meet in a local quiet public place. I have some routine spots where I’ve been going for years and never been bothered. If you live in the South Hills suburbs of Pittsburgh PA and are interested in this kind of reading, just contact me for full detail or to schedule.

Same for phone or live online readings. Contact me to schedule. I’ll send you an invoice and confirmation email. A valid email is required, again I use PayPal for secure payment processing.

FREE TAROT

I don’t do free or discount private readings for non-members because of the years and years and metric craptons of FREE Tarot content that is already on the free website blog and social media.

If you want to actually talk to me, Threads and Instagram comments is the place to do that. DMs are a members-only ko-fi thing. You can find my Tarot content and blog links on Facebook, TikTok and Tumblr, but I don’t interact with those. As far as the free content goes, this is the general plan – subject to random unannounced changes of course.

MONDAY: Three card “Energy Path” Tarot reading for the week ahead.
TUESDAY: private readings only, no free content
WEDNESDAY: Learn With Me – currently posting an “Oracle Dice” series
THURSDAY: weekly newsletter with a Tarot card for the day & announcements
FRIDAY: some random something, maybe nothing
SATURDAY: “Sage’s Other Words” non-Tarot blog
SUNDAY: closed

Thank you so much for reading!

All of this promotion and re-branding stuff is getting pretty ICK for me too. I think *fingers crossed* that this is really truly it for the getting organized phase so I can put my energy back into Tarot and writing for you all.

I’d really appreciate it if you’d share this. All of this FREE content depends on YOUR support through reading purchases, memberships, & virtual coffee on ko-fi.

See you at the next sip!