The Conscious Breath
We did an exercise during my members-only livestream on my YouTube channel last week that I want to share with you.
The topic of the livestream was Tarot and Intuition. The exercise was about tapping into your inner voice.
The trick with intuition is this. Our intuition is always right. Yet, we may not always be able to distinguish the voice of intuition from the voices of fear and desire.
The simple exercise we did uses the power of breath to help us find an inner truth.
Here is the exercise for you to try.
Focus on your breath. Breathe as deeply and fully as you can. As you exhale, release worry and anxiety. As you inhale, let your breath bring you to your center.
Now, ask your inner guidance to tell you something you need to know.
Hear what comes to you and write it down.
Once you have returned your breathing to normal, consider the message you have received. A true intuitive message will always be helpful. It may be firm, but it will also be kind. Your guidance may offer you a course correction, but your guidance will not speak harshly to you.
Conscious breathing is the simplest and most profound way to connect to guidance, healing, manifestation, and to the spirit world around us.
Our autonomic breathing keeps us alive. Our conscious breathing allows us to access whatever truth and energy we need.
The StaarCorner
We are very excited to welcome Madam Adam back for StaarCon 2024. Adam will teach daily classes at StaarCon 2024. Madam Adam will also be an exhibitor at StaarCon 2024, with great merchandise and opportunities for you to have a reading with one of TikTok’s biggest tarot influencers.
Tickets for StaarCon 2024 will be available soon. Mark your calendar for January 19-21 and plan to join us, either online or in West Palm Beach.
The Air Cards of Tarot
When we think about the power of the breath, we also think about the element of Air. In tarot, the suit of Swords is related to the element of Air. It is interesting to note that the most brutal and disturbing images in tarot appear in the suit of Swords.
The element of Air is associated with the powers of the mind. This includes communication, intelligence, integrity, and decision-making. It makes sense that thoughts, words, integrity, and decisions would be pictured with upsetting images, since these are the things in life that can cause us a great deal of grief.
The fact that we use conscious breathing to clear the mind, and to engage the powers of the mind, fits nicely with the metaphysical qualities we associate with the Air element.
In the Major Arcana of tarot there are five cards that are related to the element of Air. These cards are the Fool, the Magician, the Lovers, Justice, and the Star.
It is easy to see how the powers of the mind, of communication, and of integrity fit with these Major Arcana cards. The Star may give us pause for thought, until we realize that the character in the card is not pouring water, but rather is pouring starlight onto the earth.
It is in this card that we can see the highest expression of the healing power of Air, and therefore, the healing power that we harness when we implement the conscious breath.
The Week in Review
It’s a new month, so make sure you find your TarotScopes on my YouTube channel! I pull three cards for each Zodiac sign to see what energies will be available for the month. Check out your sun sign, your rising sign, and your moon sign.
Join us tomorrow, Thursday, April 6, for our monthly Global Tarot Circle. We share readings with each other and enjoy some informal tarot conversation and study. Anyone with an interest in tarot is welcome.
From Around the Web
Theresa Reed has our monthly astrology forecasts and horoscopes.
Erika Robinson keeps a wonderful divination blog. I was impressed with a recent entry where she frankly discusses some of what it is a be a professional diviner in a world full of shortcuts and trickery.
This article from Refinery29 made me smile. It is a great feature for a lot of reasons. This is the story of a young tarot reader who tried working a psychic hotline. I did the same thing, back in the 1990s. Her experiences were like mine. Neither of us lasted very long.
Creation and Divination
A deeper way to work with the simple exercise I have shared in this newsletter is to try automatic writing.
Have paper and a pen, in a comfortable space. Begin with consciously breathing. This time, ask spirit to communicate through you. You may ask for a loved one in spirit, or for your angelic guardian. Hold your pen to the paper and stay focused on your breath. You may want to hold the pen in your non-dominant hand.
Allow the pen in your hand to move, but do not consciously write anything. You may move your hand in circles, allowing the pen to scribble.
As you continue to breathe, let spirit guide your hand. Do not worry about what you are writing, just write.
When you return your breathing to normal, read what you have written. Does this feel like an authentic message from spirit?
Automatic writing, also called spirit writing, is an ancient practice. There is evidence of automatic writing being practiced in China during the Song dynasty (960-1279). In the West, we see automatic writing as part of Enochian magic during the 16th century.
In 1918 Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that automatic writing could either be the writer’s subconscious, or an outside spiritual influence.
The practice of automatic writing can be a creative form of divination.
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 6 Issue 14
April 5, 2023