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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
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 day. My...
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 that...
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 lot of time...
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 the Queen...
Identity Shifting – External Sources
Identity Shifting - External Sources Our identity is created not only by internal sources, what we say, think, feel, and do, but also by external sources - our immediate environment. If someone who did not know you very well walked into your house, what could they...
Identity Shifting
Our Identity How do we really know who we are, what our 'identity' is? For that matter, how do we know who someone else is? I can easily say and believe that my name is Anne Bolender, that I have Lupus, that I read Tarot cards and perform small acts of practical...
Intuition and Your Core Values
Why are we attracted to some things but not others? Why do some things bring us pure joy but to other people, they bring nothing but pure misery? How can we design a life that is fully in alignment with things and people and activities that we love? What if there...