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Action Ease Anxiety: Cresting Wave

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The Action Eases Anxiety layout gives us a look at the current energy for today or the week. It shows what the energy is, then suggests a good way to deal with it. Whenever you have some small bit of understanding and an action plan, those ideas together can ease anxiety and worry a little bit. It’s no grand prediction about what will happen, but a solid suggestion how to move through this current energy with a little bit more peace of mind.

Like I’ve always said: Tarot isn’t about predicting what will happen in life – Tarot is for figuring out what to do when life happens.

What it is: New Moon (reversed) – fragile potential

What to do: Five of Winter – persist

There is much potential around you, but it can be easily thwarted. Don’t sell yourself short. Persist. Don’t bail out just when the worst is about to be over.

I ‘hear’ (meaning the intuitive interpretation comes as words or sounds instead of mental images) “It can’t rain all the time” from the 1994 movie version of The Crow.

I am also reminded or the adage to not change horses mid stream.

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

It’s also said that it’s darkest before the dawn. Don’t give up just before the sun peeks over the horizon.

Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.

And all the platitudes and proverbs like that.

In other words, yes it’s hard. Yes it’s a mess. Hope is over the crest of the next wave. Don’t wimp out at the last minute. Dig deep you’ll make it over the crest of the biggest wave sooner or later.

shown: The Normal Tarot deck by Seven Dane Asmund, used with permission. Learn more at publishinggoblin.com

Ease Up

It tracks.

Today is a good day for the three of cups.

Cups represent emotion, and our emotions have been, collectively speaking, taking a breathing the past few months to years. The energy has been intense lately, especially here in the US. The world rightly hates us. We hate us. Terrible things are happening and if the people in power aren’t actively instigating it, they are tacitly allowing it.

Which only makes it more important to claw back a moment of simple pleasure when you can.

It’s St. Patrick’s day weekend. Enjoy the parades. Enjoy the beer. Enjoy being with friends if you can. Take a breath or take a nap and then get back at it.

Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate.

Weekend Oracle: The Source

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Your card for today: TEHOM

Stop and think is your best strategy over the next few days. Evaluate. Recalibrate. The root cause of the problem is the best place to solve it.

As I understand it, the Tehom card refers to the life source, the impetus of creation at the beginning of the universe. Sometimes we have to bake up to the beginning at take a fresh run at things. It may not solve current problems, but understanding the root cause of them can help us see the most effective solution. Root cause analysis may be a doorway to a fresh start.

To solve a problem, understand the source of the problem.

This continues the flow of energy we’ve seen lately with the 8 of cups Standing in the Ashes post. Understanding why boundaries had to be set, or why the things we released no longer serves us can help us in that process of holding intention for something new and better to fill that space that was created by those boundaries we set and attachments we released.

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Deck: Alleyway Oracle of Secrets by Seven Dane Asmund, used with permission

Standing in the Ashes

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8 of Cups: You’ve let go of that which no longer serves you. That creates space. What are you holding that space FOR?

It has been said that nature abhors a vacuum. That space you’ve created will be filled with something. Are you going to fill it intentionally or let chaos and entropy take its course?

You’ve burned the necessary bridges so now you stand among the ashes. What will you build from them?

This is the why behind the “let it go” type of energy we’ve seen so much for many months now. When you let go and burn whatever bridges that need to be burned it creates the space and materials to build something new. It becomes necessary to deliberately and intentionally create whatever aligns with yourself and your needs as they are in this present moment.

Or you have the choice to surrender your intention and let the same old Phoenix rise.

What do you want? What will you do as you stand amid the space and ashes after you have let the right things go?

deck: Witches Tarot by Ellen Dugan and Mark Evans all rights reserved, used with permission (llwellynpublishing.com)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…

Oh for the luvva….

I thought we put this to bed yesterday.

Love and relationships are the whole ballgame when it comes to being a human – um – being.

But I was hoping to move on to the half price chocolate and leave the whole My Tarot Valentine thing behind.

But then, maybe we did. Leave it to Lenormand cards to roll up smack us in the face with a frying pan and put the last nail in that coffin.

My intention was to do a nice, normal “action Eases anxiety” reading for this week, but noooo, here we go zooming back to yesterday’s annual Valentine’s day rant.

Here’s the beef:

Valentine’s day (at least here in America *rolls eyes*) seems to be all about white heterosexual romance.

If you are in a relation like that or adjacent to that, then it can be sweet and romantic and a great time to pay attention to the people that mean the most to you. It can and does extend to friends and family.

But it can, and does, make some people feel bad because they don’t have the romance or life partner they want in their life right now, and that right there is where it all goes off the rails.

And that right there is where today’s cards grabs us by the head and turns it for one more look

One of the many things I like about this Healing Light Lenormand deck by Gerard Butler is the way it makes both male and female versions of both The Lady #28 and The Gentleman #29 cards. It lifts the deck beyond binary gender roles to include any romantic relationship, and in conceptual extension, to any relationship at all. I like to think this card showing up today is a validation of being the love you want in your life. In giving love, in loving the things and people in our lives now, we put the whole Valentine’s Day soulmate thing into perspective.

And makes those relationships when they are in our lives doubly important, valued and appreciated. They become love heaped upon love. It makes relationships more valued and precious when they are an expansion of a love-filled life, not filling for an empty spot.

Looking at today’s cards as they usual ‘what it is’ and ‘what to do about it’ we see the lady/gentleman paired with the hear.

The lady/gentleman cards are a self significator…they stand in for you in the reading. This reading is aimed at purely internal, subjective perception. What you think these cards mean, is exactly what they DO mean. The reading is between you and you…all I did was pull the next card for you to contemplate.

The heart card is the star of all of this…relationships. Not just one to one romance…any connection, anyone or anything that is significant to you…anyone or anything that you love. YOU love is the key. Not expectations. Not ideals. What do you love in your life right here, right now? What connections need to be nurtured and grown? What connections need to be trimmed or cut? What connections need to be built? What connections are right there, just waiting to be seen and discovered?

It is at once the simplest and the hardest part of life.

What it is – you

What to do about it – love.

I wish you a peaceful week free from ridiculous commercial holiday expectations. Happy half priced chocolate to those who celebrate.

See you at the next sip!

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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

Deck: Healing Light Lenormand by Christopher Butler copyright 2021 all rights reserved, used with permission found on llwellynpublishing.com

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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

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Dropping In

And you thought I was kidding about the whole “I don’t have ducks, I don’t have rows, I have squirrels and they are hosting a rave” thing. 

Actually, ‘nibsnextdoor’ is one of my favorite new Instagram finds. Ranks right up there with Mr. Chicken, that animated duck dancing to “Hey Ya!” by Outkast and clips of Count Von Count from Sesame Street set to Dragula by Rob Zombie.

Here is the rave playlist….

I’m in the middle of changing jobs. I’m friggen’ 60 and basically starting a whole new full time job only vaguely related to anything I’ve done before. I’m stressed.

But what I HAVE done before is natural stress management. Tarot is part of that. Readings can help put your mind and emotions at ease. I’m walking, talking PROOF of that. 30 years worth. 

My stress managing happy place in Tarot right now is one card daily meditations. I’m going to stick with that on the blog for a little while until I can settle in to the new normal

BUT

Rest assured that free readings are still fully available for members and for purchase from the READINGS menu. Worst case scenario it will just take me an extra day or two to get the reading to your inbox. But even that delay should abate in a few weeks. 

Thank you all so much for patience, grace and understanding. I appreciate you!

Stay tuned, and rave on my friends!

Week Ahead Tarot: Warmth and Meaning

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For THIS week, I have a treat – for myself, but hopefully for you, too. I’m finally breaking out my “Normal Tarot 2” deck . This thing is GORGEOUS! I love the gold foil on black with skeletons aesthetic (no surprise there) and I’m really looking forward to exploring it more with all of you in a few weeks.

But now…this week. Interestingly, it might be helpful to read both, regardless of which one you chose in the beginning.

THE FROZEN KING: If we think of this card in classic Tarot terms, it is a little bit Death, a little bit Hanged Man. It is about the loss and tragedy of stagnation when the stagnation stems from choice – not the lack of choice. The frozen king is like locked up riches that can not be used. It is about lack of progress and prosperity stemming from a refusal to adapt and change. This is another facet of the Death card that has turned up in some readings lately. If you are frozen, resisting flow and change, ask what passions and loves in your life have you been neglecting. What flame do you need to (re)kindle to once again find your Flow.

THE SIXTH OF SUMMER: This is almost the opposite of the Frozen King, and the solution to it. It also marries elements of multiple Tarot cards, the Lovers and the Three of Cups with a little Ace of Wands thrown in. In short, be passionate about your relationships with people with a strong overlay of playfulness and lightheartedness – be generous with your smiles to strangers and add a little extra wattage to the intimate relationships that matter most to you. The battery for all of the extra energy is authenticity and genuine emotion. Only light the torch of passion when you genuinely and intensely mean it. But the hottest flame ends the soonest. Take care not to flame out fast. Cool the passions you want to last. Advice from trusted sources and friends can help, akin to that three of pentacles energy that is coming through here.

Merry Monday! See you at the next sip!

Sage

Deck: Normal Tarot 2 by Seven Dane Asmund used with permission and available to purchase on PublishingGoblin.com