Tag: Sage Snow

Choose Your Tarot Card: Lessons Learned

Sage Sips is Tarot in the time it takes to sip your coffee.

Choose your card, left or right. Pause if you want more time. Restart to see the reveal and get your reading below

Four of Cups: You can offer every drop of all you feel, but you can’t control if another person will receive it. There is emotional truths in the adage “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink.

Page of Wands: Sometimes life’s biggest lessons are a baptism by inner fire. Your passions will teach you. Wishing health, safety and peace for all in the Los Angeles area disaster

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Choose Your Tarot Card: 9 Jan 25

Thanks for reading! I appreciate all of you!

Choose your card. First impulse is usually best, but if you want to take more time feel free to pause the video and restart to see the reveal

Strength: Work hard, play hard. You are strong. Use that strength in all aspects of life: for others, for yourself, for work, for play, to grow, to rest…you got this.

Hanged Man: Timing is everything. A little wait now could have benefits later. Watching, waiting, planning are all doing something. Mental and emotional activity counts, even if it isn’t outwardly visible.

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Choose your card: 6 Jan 25

Sage Sips is Tarot in the time it takes to sip your coffee.

Watch the video & choose your card. Pause the video if you need more time to think, but go with your first quick hunch if you can – that’s usually the best choice. Restart to see the reveal and get your contemplation for today Tarot reading below

Two of pentacles: Keep your eyes on the prize and strive 100% of the time and there is a good chance that you will burn out before you get there. There has to be some mix of things. Find your right mix, your balance.

Five of pentacles: Be kind, you never know the full experience of others. Treat your own sorrows with the kindness you would give a stranger in a snowstorm.

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No Reason Not To

New Years Private email Tarot readings are OPEN all week, no appointment needed.

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it”

Agatha Christie (probably my spirit guides too)

New Years readings (Seasons layout, look at the year ahead – $30) are OPEN all week, no appointment needed. Order yours HERE

Second Chances come at the price of learning

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Prices $5 to $35 Open all holiday season!

Page of Cups: life is full of distractions, but you can still learn to plumb the depths of emotion

Judgement: Second chances come at the high cost of changes

Meet Your Reader Fall & Winter ’24

The seasonal hello: reintroducing myself, the website and the blog

The holiday season is zooming in and our first glimpse of snow is forecast for tomorrow. Time flies when you are having fun – or having occasional existential crises as the case may be. I hope it is the former and not the latter for you.

I‘ve recently restarted the Substack again. They say third time is the charm. I’m not charging for it, but at the same time I’m hoping it will appeal to people who don’t care for algorithm driven social media or the traditional blogosphere.

Speaking of social media, I’m Sage.Sips on Bluesky now too. Still on the meta platforms, Tumblr and YouTube with no plans to leave. Bluesky is the most enjoyable at the moment and the best place to actually interact if you want to say hi.

Given the new-ish newsletter, new social media and impending new season it seems time to do yet another refresh and re-introduction. If you are new, welcome. If you’ve been here – you have my deepest thanks.

Hi! I’m Sage.

I’m also the author of Sage Sips blog, PeaceTarot and TaoCraft Portfolio

I’ve been reading Tarot cards since around 1992 which adds up to 30 years of experience with intuition development (!)

I didn’t originally start out to be a Tarot reader (who does?) At first I did readings for friends (why PAY for it when you can DIY it?) A close friend suggested I go online with my readings (forever grateful!) I’ve offered professional psychic Tarot readings through Keen, Advice Trader and AllExperts under my old internet handle, Baihu. After doing hundreds of online readings (I stopped counting at 400 and that was a long time ago) I opened my own Tarot practice with ModernOracleTarot.com, the Tarotbytes blog and the now-defunct Quirk & Flotsam shop on Etsy. It was all good, but had become a hodge-podge of things over the years. In 2018 I leveled it all and re-branded everything as TaoCraft Tarot featuring the Sage Sips blog.

The TaoCraft name is drawn from my love of Taoist philosophy. My work will always be guided by the principles of simplicity, authenticity, and kindness. The name is also a nod to magical craft and my favorite hobby, knitting.

Sage is a pen name, which protects both of our privacy. White christian nationalism and evangelical bigotry are a reality here in the US. I want this to be a safe space for you. While religion and certain politics are not permitted in readings, I want my writing and online presence to feel warm and welcoming to anyone interested in the subject of Tarot. My strict privacy policy and use of a pen name is a part of that.

The herb sage has a comforting, familiar scent and flavor that most of us know from breakfast sausages and holiday turkeys.

In aromatherapy, Sage incense and essential oil can clear negative energy, calm anxiety and promote a feeling well being.

Most of all, the word sage means something or someone who is wise. The word sage speaks to all of the wisdom that Tarot can bring to our lives.

Comfort, calmness, wisdom and a feeling that things are going to be alright are all qualities that I hope you’ll experience when you read the blog or read your personalized Tarot email.

I’m Sage Sips on Substack and some version of Sage.Sips or SageSipsBlog on all of the usual socials. Party, phone and in-person readings are currently closed, please follow the blog for further details.

Click HERE if you would like to order a private reading by email, no appointment needed.

Marriage Q&A: What love language do you speak?

Sage Sips is tarot inspired meditations in the time it takes to sip your coffee

Use the “Ask Me Anything” page to ask any questions on your mind. I’ll answer it here, with a post like this one. Names and everything will be changed to protect your privacy. Most of the time a Tarot card will be involved, but not always. My readings are a folk art form intended for meditation, contemplation and spiritual guidance, NOT to predict the future.

Q: What will be the primary love languages of my destined wife for me after marriage?

A: There are at least two important parts to your answer.

There is a deep spiritual law at play here: “Like attracts like.”

If you want to know what kind of love language your future wife (assuming you get married) you must first ask what love language will you speak to her?

True conversations, true communication, love languages and true love can only exist when it flows both ways.

Another way of thinking of this is embodied in the Six of Pentacles Tarot card which is sometimes read as “reciprocity” – you get what you give.

If you first speak the love language you want to hear, not only does use the spiritual law of “Like attracts like” in your favor, it helps you to find the right partner for you in a real-world way by helping you to find common interests and common bonds with a potential life-mate.

For example, if you love food and would like for good cooking to be your future wife’s love language, then cook for your potential mate or take her to nice restaurants as your love language to her.

An excellent way to find your wife’s love language – and a wife – is to speak your love language first.

How are you doing so far?

Sage Sips is tarot inspired meditations in the time it takes to sip your coffee

Special shout out to all of the energy sensitives in the US.

What a couple of weeks it has been *insert your favorite interjection or expletives here*

I don’t know about you, but I’m furious. I have a hunch we’ve entered into a crash course on shadow work and have to make fast friends with our dark side so we can survive theirs. Last week was not unicorn farts and marshmallows. Although the energy hasn’t quite stabilized yet – it feels like the pouring rain scene in the Star Wars prequel on that planet where Obi Wan discovered the clone army- it does feel like the storm front is starting to pass and we are beginning to get early glimpses of the aftermath.

Or put another way, the lightning bolt from the Tower card hit, and now we are in ten of swords mode.

I’ve done some private reading, for which I am SO grateful. The individual messages are breaks in the clouds and rays of sunshine in the storm of collective energy. Thank you all. I hope the readings help you as much as it has helped me to put things in a little more perspective.

Perspective looks both ways.

Perspective shows us where we are right now in the grand scheme of things (think World card). It includes our best guess and firm intentions for the future but it also includes lessons from the past that we can use now.

Camouflage is a survival technique seen in nature, and perfectly fine to use as long as you remember what is really underneath. Protection is valid too. Protect, preserve, celebrate and honor the true you, always.

I see you. I appreciate you.

The squirrels rave again. Blog posts are as unpredictable as ever. Private readings by email are always OPEN (even if delivery times vary and even if the superficial appearance changes a bit.)

Stay tuned. We’ll muddle through one way or another.

Still no, but in a good way

Sage Sips blog is Tarot in the time it takes to sip your emotional support coffee

On Fridays, I want to get back to writing “Weekend Oracle” and draw an Oracle card to get a feel for the weekend energies and maybe get a hint how to best navigate this liminal time. Not everyone gets a work break on the weekends, and they may enjoy the same heads up the rest of us like on Mondays. Plus, with the vast majority of folks on a weekday schedule, weekends have a different vibe, they are the space between work week for the majority of us. Weekends have a different vibe, and a touch of that liminality where magic lives.

I started to do that today, but still got the intuitive ‘nope’. Halloween last night might have been a pressure valve. The collective energy here in the US may have taken a deep breath, a long drink of a cold beer and a hefty dose of chocolate last night, but things may re-ramp up as we sprint to the finish line with this election thing as far as the actual voting goes.

So nope.

I’m still going on meatspace sabbatical for collective energy readings. Y’all on your own with whatever coping skills you already have on board (reaches for coffee and emotional support Doritos)

Private readings, however, are a whole different story.

I’ve been doing those all along, and last night was the first time in a while they layouts weren’t all supercharged with big time major arcana energy. There were major arcana cards all around, so no stagnant or stuck-energy messages, but nothing over the top either. All very pleasant and positive, actually.

Encouraged by that, I drew a “weekend update” Tarot card this morning for myself rather than the collective. It may apply to a broader audience – In fact, I hope this is a collective reading even though I’m not inclined to really read it that way.

Eww – no – still too sticky mess melange of right wing-y nazi-ish nastiness out there, despite it being a sunny, cool, pleasant morning where I am…

So still no on the collective energy read, but in a good way.

The card was the Sun which is about as all-good as Tarot gets. It is a card of happiness, optimism, joy, success and all of those things we like to hear. I’m not so overly optimistic as to think of this as a good omen for the election outcome, but it is going to be OK between now and Tuesday.

There is just as much chance of happiness as there is of anything else.

Thanks for reading! See you at the next sip!

October / November ’24 Announcements

Sage Sips blog is Tarot in the time it takes to sip your coffee.

Private Readings are OPEN

Even during the holidays. There may be some off and on delivery delays between now and New Year. It’s just me, by myself, doing this part time, so you’ll have that. For the most part if you order a reading, it will be in your inbox within 24 hours of my receiving the order. I’ll email you to confirm the order has arrived and give you any updates.

TaoCraft Tarot is OPEN

Call it the re-grand opening. TaoCraft Tarot’s online “grand opening” (basically changing the name on everything from Modern Oracle to TaoCraft Tarot) was October 2018. It’s perfect to come back home to that name in October 2024. The blog & substack is still “Sage Sips” but everything I can think of with “Sage Words Tarot” on it is back to TaoCraft. Why? Because I like it. It tells you who I am and the kind of Tarot reading you get with me. Mostly. A little cagey mysteriousness isn’t necessarily a bad thing in this business.

The New-New Stuff

I’ve re-worked the old five card reading to honor YOUR path and YOUR choices even more than before. The old layout is available 60% off until Halloween (a return to TaoCraft treat for you). The new TaoCraft Path layout will be available by email and zoom / phone for the same price as the old five card layout.

Meatspace Sabbatical

I don’t know how you are feeling, but the collective energy here in the US has gotten pretty radioactive lately. Every single private reading I’ve done for the past two weeks has been major arcana dominant to one extent or another. Private readings are definitely OPEN, but I’m taking a break from collective energy & social media readings until after the election results are in. If you need a reading you can order HERE. Otherwise I’ll be in my corner rage knitting and having stress doritos (this is WAY beyond popcorn, people!)

And above all, US eligible people, VOTE

Like Tarot? Vote Harris/Walz.

Like having civil rights and bodily autonomy? Vote Harris/Walz? Like the idea of not going extinct due to climate change? Vote Harris / Walz. Like access to healthcare? Vote Harris/Walz. Like basic human decency? Vote Harris/Walz.

See you on the other side.