The Wisdom and Magic Blog
Tarot Journaling
Tarot Journaling: Using Tarot Cards as Journaling Prompts to Help You Transform Your Life For many of us journaling is a way of getting our thoughts and feelings out of our heads and onto paper so we can process them and move on. For others, journaling is a way of...
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Have you ever told a story about your past, only to realize later that the details you remembered were not entirely accurate? Or listened to someone else talking about an event you also experienced, and realizing that what they’re sharing is very different from what...
Personal Empowerment
Personal empowerment as an act of rebellion is a way of saying "no" to the status quo wherever you find it in your life, and saying "yes" to your dreams, desires, potential, and power. It's about taking control of your life, making your own decisions, and...
Unleash Your Inner Wisdom
Unleash Your Inner Wisdom and Magick with Tarot Tarot can help you unleash your inner wisdom and connect with your intuition and your authentic self. Have you ever felt like there's something more to life than what meets the eye? Do you believe in the power of...
Tarot and Intuition
Tarot and Intuition Whether you're a solopreneur or someone who is interested in exploring your intuitive abilities, Tarot cards can be very effective at helping you identify and develop your intuition. "Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than...
Curiouser and Curiouser
“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Have you ever watched a child fully in their zone of...
The Power of Words
The Power of Words. Our words have power – to make our life better, to keep us stuck where we are, or to even make our life worse! Every word you say to yourself about yourself has an impact on your brain, your mind, and on your beliefs. Telling yourself that you’re...
Stop Chasing Happiness
Stop Chasing Happiness! The truth is you have a better chance finding happiness by taking out the garbage and making your bed than you do journaling about abundance!" Dr. Chris Lee Try stacking your day with small wins instead! Who here has heard the saying "When you...
Using Tarot Two Ways
Using Tarot Two Ways – as a Predictive Oracle, and for Magick/Manifesting There are any number of ways that Tarot can be used to provide guidance and support during any end-of-year strategic planning and intention setting, but my two favourite ways are to use Tarot...
Tarot as Your Business Coach
Using Tarot as a personal transformation or life coach is becoming an increasingly popular way of enjoying Tarot. But did you know that using Tarot as your business coach, particularly for Solopreneurs, is another amazing way that we can use Tarot to improve our...
Tarot as Storytelling
Tarot as storytelling, Each card contains images that create scenes and stories about people, activities, events, challenges, triumphs, etc., that we can apply to our own life. Have you been interested in learning how to read Tarot Cards but thought that you either...
What is Your True Desire?
What is your true desire? The only natural talent a person is born with is their true desire. Everything else is a skill that can be learned. I read that comment the other day, and it had me wondering about what that meant in terms of helping a person create a life...
Who Are You?
One of the most challenging personal questions to answer is the question "Who Are You?" or more accurately, "Who Do You Think You Are?" And that's not meant as an insult or a put down. I’ve heard/read this question being discussed four times this week, and it got me...
Changing the World
Changing the world, even by one small step at a time can have an amazing, positive impact! There's been a lot of news over the pst few years about Greta Thunberg, the twenty year old from Sweden, and her railing against a political system that is slowly letting our...
Actions Create Clarity
It doesn’t matter how much planning, or visualizing, or journaling, or dreaming we do, full clarity on what we need to do to bring the change we want into our life requires us to start taking action. Actions create clarity by helping us connect with our thoughts,...
Omen Days – the 12 Magick Days of Christmas
There's a German/Austrian/Bavarian tradition, called Rauhnachte, which roughly translates as the 'rough' nights or 'magic' nights. They are a German/Austrian/Bavarian equivalent to the more widely known 12 Days of Christmas, also celebrated as Omen Days - but they are...
Creating Your Own Luck Charm
Have you ever found a penny and chanted "Find a penny, pick it up. All the day you'll have good luck!" I used to do that every time I found a penny, believing that I would be blessed with good luck, at least for that day. That's how easy it is to create your own Luck...
Tarot as an Unconventional, but Powerful Business Building Tool for Solopreneurs
As a Solopreneur, there are any number of conventional tools that can be used to help build a business. There’s Time Management Tools, Calendar Management Tools, Content Creation Tools, Accounting Tools, Social Media Scheduling Tools, Marketing Tools, Networking...
Happy Winter Solstice
This year is quickly drawing to a close. Whether in the Northern Hemisphere celebrating the Winter Solstice or in the Southern Hemisphere celebrating Summer Solstice this is a time for looking back on all that we have accomplished during the past year, and...
2022 Tarotscopes
It's that time of the year when we begin exploring what next year has in store for us. I don't know about you, but I enjoy checking out my horoscope to see what the Astrological Stars and Planets are predicting. Last year I discovered that Tarot can also do some...
Are You Resisting Your Winks from the Universe?
Are you receiving little winks from the Universe encouraging you to go for it, but either aren't noticing them, or talking yourself out of following through? What would our live's be like if, instead of resisting the unexpected nudges, dreams, and desires we...
3 Tips for Creating Powerful Deliberate Affirmations
We use affirmations all the time, whether we realize it or not. Do you ever say "I really need to lose some weight!" everytime you catch a glimpse of your reflection in a mirror or a window? Or say something like "There is never enough money to go around!" everytime...
Using Tarot as Your Business Coach
I’m a long-time fan of using Tarot for daily guidance. I’ve used Tarot off and on for the past couple of decades to help me gain clarity on large and small lifestyle transformations, as well as to help me sort out what I should be focusing on during the...
Resistance and the Shadow Career
No matter how hard you try to ignore your natural life.….to ignore the things you dream of doing, to ignore the lifestyle that should come easily and naturally to you, to ignore the gifts you have to share with the world.…. the more your natural life...
Is Resistance Holding You Back?
Resistance is always with us. Like fear, love, joy, sorrow.......resistance is a part of who we are. Resistance is that voice inside our head that tells us we can't do something because we aren't smart enough, don't know enough, aren't prepared...
Why Midlife is the Best Time of Life
Why Midlife is the Best Time of Life "Midlife is when the Universe gently places her hands upon your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear: 'I’m not screwing around. It’s time. All of this pretending and performing – these coping mechanisms...
The Power of a Positive Mindset
There is an ancient Chinese curse that says "May you live in interesting times." Well, we are definitely living in interesting times, and not the good kind of interesting - economic challenges, work stress, family stress, political stress, violence,...
What does ‘Living Authentically’ Really Mean?
The encouragement to live authentically has become a fairly common catchphrase, found in all sorts of places and situations. Life coaches encourage their clients to 'live authentically', even business conferences have speakers encouraging employees to live...
The Power of Choice
“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” Wayne Dyer I used to spend a...
How Tarot Helps You Manifest Your Desires
The Tarot card shown here is from the beautiful Chrysalis Tarot Deck, created by Toney Brooks and Holly Sierra. I pulled this card specifically to provide a special message for this post. This card, The Watcher, who is also known as the Queen of Mirrors or...
