tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91387999295476867012024-03-05T21:48:55.434-08:00Sun Goddess Tarotthecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-53289843034601666562017-01-04T00:21:00.000-08:002017-01-04T05:34:54.822-08:00Starting Anew In 2017<br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A Slight Delay</span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This blog
post had been long overdue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was meant
to write a piece in preparation for the New Year but the inner child in me
stomped her feet in disapproval whilst crossing her arms and insisted that I
put my pen and paper down so that I could fully enjoy the sights of Hanoi where
I spent my year-end holidays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was
the best decision I had made as Hanoi had been almost a spiritual adventure of
sorts.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well rested,
and fully charged for the new year, I am now ready to bring you my perspectives
about what 2017 will bring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So do
forgive me for writing this post, a week into the New Year when most of you are
possibly raring to go and on the way to manifesting great things in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A Recap of 2016<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the cusp
of the new year, my social media feeds were filled with comments about how
challenging the year 2016 was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many were
managing difficult issues like crumbling relationships, ill health, surgery, bereavement, yes celebrity deaths included,
retrenchments and volatility in the office environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Followers of
my blog will remember this post that I wrote <a href="http://sungoddesstarot.blogspot.sg/2015/12/get-set-to-declutter-in-2016.html">here</a>. </span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Here is a
recap of what I had written about my expectations for 2016.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><em><span style="color: blue;">“2016 is
governed numerologically by the number 9. With 9 being the final number
in the 9-year cycle in numerology, the number represents a culmination of all
your hard work put into attaining your goals, your experiences and skills
cultivated throughout all these years, the lessons you had picked up along the
way, the knowledge gained, and the wisdom attained. <o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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had worked hard to achieve, and all the loose ends of any long-drawn project
that you had been working on will need to be completed in this year.
Everything that you needed to do on your priority list, must be done.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><em><span style="color: blue;">Being a year
of completion, it is the year you let go of whatever does not serve your higher
purpose. If you had been in toxic relationships or unhappy jobs hanging on a
thread for so long, this is the year to let go and start anew. Don't
expect it to be easy though because as you make that final push through the
journey in anticipation of a numerological year 1 in 2017, you can expect to
experience some stress, tension and conflict. If you struggle to let go
of what does not serve you, it could be a painful year filled with anxieties.
You might feel some exhaustion and perhaps be unfocused. That is why you
are encouraged to keep an open mind and heart in 2016, and just be focused on
healing, forgiveness, re-energising and renewing yourself through
contemplation and meditation. Self care is so important, so remember to
honour your energies and ensure that you take time out to care for yourself and
keep a happy harmonious balance between the time and energy you invest in
others and the time and energy you invest in yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><em><span style="color: blue;">The numerological energy of a year 9
encourages you to "spring clean" your work space, your home, your
Facebook Friend list, and even yourself. This is not the year to harbour any
residual emotional resentment against those who had done you wrong in the past.
Empty your heart off grudges and keep it clean from hurt, disappointments and
unfulfilled expectations. De-cluttering will help pave the way for
you to accept new experiences in the following year.”<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Did this
resonate with you?<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What Is In Store For 2017<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2017 is
generally governed by the numerological energy of the number 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 promises a new beginning filled with
possibilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a year where you
can make a brand new start, once you have let go off the residual emotional
negativity from 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are encouraged
to wipe your slate clean, take on new perspectives, and believe in your personal
power enough to embrace this new year, filled with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new adventures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 spells opportunities that you create. Do
not wait for things to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
the year you will plant the seeds to manifesting the goals that you have been
dreaming of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the skills and
knowledge honed from the challenges of last year, you are definitely
well-equipped to shape that vision for your own success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I love the phrase
“Your Own Success”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has a ring of
independence and self-reliance to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That again, leverages the numerological influence of the number 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2017 will provide you with the opportunities
to shape your own destiny on your own terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You will start to take accountability for your own future, knowing that
only you can influence your own desired outcomes, based on the choices you
make.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The number 1
energy will imbibe a flicker of ambition within you to spark your attempts to
turn your vision into an action plan this year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having stepped out of a challenging year, you
are now ready to take control and be in that driver’s seat as you navigate your
journey throughout 2017.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You will be
ready to take on new challenges this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So remember, whatever you had undergone in 2016, must be left in
2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the memories of the hurts, disappointments,
fears, anger, and tears incurred in 2016, must not have a role in your new
journey in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let the negativity go
and start walking forward with a positive mindset.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Fool In Tarot<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I liken the
year 2017 to the Fool card in Tarot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Fool is a manifestation of unlimited potential, just on a cusp of a new
journey, raring to go, and filled with so much courage to take on new
adventures, with full trust in the Universe that he will be guided throughout
his journey through a winding path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
is ready to learn new skills, gain knowledge, and embrace new experiences that
will contribute to his growth and development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is the mindset that you need to have, to take on 2017.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Magician In Tarot<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While the
Fool kick starts that journey in Tarot, the Magician is numbered as 1 in a
Tarot deck. The Magician represents the ability and the will to manifest your
goals by welding your personal power, your boundless energy and your
creativity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Magician is an
affirmation of your ability to put all odds aside to create a new life cycle
for yourself that is full of potential.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is filled with so much optimism and hopes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is confident, and full of courage and a
Never Say Die attitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is willing to
try new things, take risks, and step out of that comfort zone.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So in 2017,
the Fool and the Magician are 2 Tarot cards that you should meditate on when
you have any doubts about what the new year will bring.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Your Personal Year<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></o:p></span></u></b><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While the
year 2017 in general is governed by the numerological influence of number 1,
each of you do have a personal year number that you need to be aware of to
better navigate the new year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
calculate your personal year, add your birth day, to your birth month, to this
year.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So if your
birth day is 21<sup>st</sup> February, the way to calculate your personal year
would be:<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2+1 +2 +2+0+1+7 = 15<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then add 1
and 5 to reduce it to a single number, and this will give you 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your personal year is 6 if you are born on 21<sup>st</sup>
February.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Incidentally,
if you were born on 21<sup>st</sup> February, your Tarot year cards would be The
Devil ( the number 15 card in a Tarot deck) and The Lovers ( the number 6 card
in a Tarot deck).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There would be so much
tips and advice that could be provided just through your personal year number
and these Tarot year cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one key takeaway
I would offer those born on 21 February would be that, you do have a choice to
let go of past negativity as you look to serving others in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oh I love
combining numerology and Tarot in my readings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Understanding
the numerological traits of your personal year and overlaying it with the
numerological traits of the year 2017, as well as the interpretation of your
Tarot year card will support your goals better as it would bring so much robust
advice about the different learnings, experiences, lessons and purpose that
they serve you this year.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My contact
details are below this blog post should you wish to get a comprehensive reading
which includes an understanding of the impact of your personal year and your
Tarot year card, and how they can support your goals better this year.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #660000; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">About The Writer:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #660000; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br>
</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #660000; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The writer of this blog post is a marketeer by trade, and
a tarot card reader by accident. She was awarded a Certified Professional Tarot
Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of America (TCBA) and
is also a certified numerologist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is
currently running a Tarot consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess
Tarot,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which provides confidential
intuitive readings combining the metaphysical disciplines of Tarot, Numerology
and Astrology via face to face and emails as well as readings at corporate and
private events and workshops. A member of the American Tarot Association
(ATA) and the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI), she is also a
reader for the Free Tarot Network and mentors Tarot protégés on behalf of the American
Tarot Association<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #660000; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Website: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.sungoddesstarot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">www.sungoddesstarot.com</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #660000; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com3Singapore1.352083 103.819836000000010.8441055 103.174389 1.8600605 104.46528300000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-33656818598745700862016-07-21T03:22:00.001-07:002016-07-21T05:59:16.000-07:00Holding The Hand Of My Inner Child<br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A Moment Of Rest<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></o:p></span></u></b><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I have not
been updating my Sun Goddess Tarot blog for a long while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had been almost 8 months. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed a moment of rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That moment lasted longer than I thought, and
it was a period when I seemed to be in conflict with myself.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reading For The Right Clients<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I was always
excited about meeting new clients, doing readings anytime and anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, I grew increasingly exhausted and
started making excuses for taking long breaks from readings. It reminded me of
the time when I was very young and was forced to complete my homework before I
could go out to play with my friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some of my client appointments started to become a chore.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I proceeded
to cut down on my list of client appointments, and was discerning about whom I
wanted to read for, and what type of readings I wanted to do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
no longer interested in doing readings on a fly, or for clients who just wanted
to have a casual read about issues that had little or no material impact on
their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the same reason, I was
not interested in reading at events like hen parties, birthdays and themed
corporate dinners where more often than not, the questions that I got seemed so
frivolous that I felt I was not adding much value to the client.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Questions
that come from clients in such circumstances could border on topics like
winning the next show-jumping championships or dumping a boyfriend who was not
making enough money. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remembered a
question that I got at one of these events was, “Would my boss eventually leave
his wife for me?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really had
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I was not adding value to my
clients, it was not exciting for me anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was very clear to me, months down the road, that if I had an
intuitive gift, it was meant to serve a more meaningful purpose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Playing With The Fun People<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I started to
crave for my own space even more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
not about needing to be alone. It was more about needing my space to do what I
wanted to do on my own terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just
wanted to have a little more fun with whatever time I had, with whomever I
chose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not anti-social.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did
enjoy social gatherings, I looked for every opportunity to have some fun, from
impromptu travel, to casual dinner and drinks sessions and even organizing relaxing
off-site meetings with my team so that we got a chance to bond over meals and
road trips. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Writing The Fun Stuff<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It was a
period when I could not write a single post for my Sun Goddess Tarot blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, I was happily updating my personal blog
with fun observations about my personal life, writing reviews <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>within my food blog as I ate up a storm across
the nation and happily posted pictures and updates multiple times a day across
my social media platforms.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Learning What I Wanted To Learn<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></o:p></span></u></b><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It was a
period when I could not pick up a book to read about any metaphysical
subjects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to voraciously devour
every knowledge that could support my growth and development as a Tarot Reader,
Numerologist and Astrologer through books and courses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I could not bear to read anything
complex and theoretical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had purchased
a few books on Soul Mapping, Psychic Development and Clairvoyance but they had
been sitting on the shelf gathering dust for over a year. However, I would sit
for hours listening to my mentor, talking about her experiences, telling me
stories about her own personal journey as she honed her intuitive skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was fascinated with the blog posts of my
friends from all over the world who were professional Tarot Readers,
Numerologists, Astrologers, Psychics, and Mediums. They shared snippets of
their experiences, their views of the world, and provided opinions about any
subject that touched their hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even
had a lot of fun conversations with them over Facebook or Instagram and felt
that I was learning more than I could have ever picked up from any books or
formal courses.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Playing On My Own<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Increasingly,
I wanted to take off on my own to do quirky stuff. I enjoyed taking photographs
of wall reliefs and intricate carvings of roof tops at old buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would never have even noticed them in the
past. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoyed walking barefoot across
the manicured lawn in front of the Victoria Concert Hall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
while others would make “Snow Angels” during winter by lying in the snow, I
made “Grass Angels” by lying on the grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the past, I would have been worried about getting grass stains on my
skirt or pick up some bacteria from the dirt that will get onto my feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In short,
this strange behavior outlined above seemed to be like that of a child crying
out for help and attention.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rationalizing My Internal Conflict<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Being a
rational being that was typical of my Lifepath number 7, I analyzed and
explained this strange behavior by labelling it simply as grief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt I was grieving for my Dad who had
passed on last year and this internal conflict I was going through, was my way
of manifesting grief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the months, I
realized that this proved to be partly true. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it took me a while to realize that there
was something that went beyond the grief, and I set out to find out what it
was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew deep within my heart that
this even darker cause of my internal conflict could destroy me and my efforts
in serving my purpose over the long term if I did not manage it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time, I knew that if I learnt
more about it, and harnessed it better, it could support my goals in the way
that my higher self was guiding me to do so.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I had
discovered over the next few months that the strange behavior, and the grief I
felt were actually just symptomatic of a deeper, and darker cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Stepping Into A Journey Of Self-Discovery<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">With the
first few steps taken rather uneasily, like a toddler, I began a journey of
self-discovery with my mentor <a href="http://www.alixektracey.com/2016/06/17/building-a-sustainable-business-starts-with-this/">Alixe K.Tracey</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I started the journey as part of her course called Freedom Party which
saw me releasing aspects of myself that did not serve me positively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went through fear, anger, tears, pain, and
then release as I learnt to acknowledge these negative emotions, treated them
with compassion and then let them all go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Within the last few months, I confronted my fear of lack of control, my
fear of lack of approval, and my fear of lack of security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These fears had a debilitating impact on my
relationships at home, at work and with my business. <o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed to always be in control, and disliked
any form of change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When changes
happened at work, I was thrown into a tailspin of defensive behavior in a bid
to protect my turf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This explained why I
was so angry when my boss had decided to transfer a few staff from my team out
to another department as part of an exercise to restructure the organization. I
was so upset when my son went against my wishes to date a girl I did not
approve of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was disappointed when my
husband took on some projects on pro-bono basis at a time when what the family
needed most was money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
circumstances that grated on me, became a stage at which I played out my fears
of lack of control, approval and security.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Recalibrating My Body, Mind And Spirit<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">My body, mind and spirit then went through a period of
recalibration, as I dug even deeper to reconnect with my higher self. I was
determined to get to the “cause” of the issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were dark corners that I
had to come face to face with but instead of running away like I used to do, I
acknowledged it, honor it and found that the person hiding within these dark
corners, was my inner child. </span><div><font color="#1d2129" face="calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span><font color="#1d2129" face="calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivrU1ZZckgttRjCLmXrP8TcFLEl2vFU32lTGBG3bUCxekGND0-2MmD_xoFYy1ZO5kjra48sQJRxW9PlinUvcpHAV2VRnYkLTm0O44S10tNFXw-z9J6V3tnjpWwrQVBOxmbw-O-jSOJ5oF2/s640/blogger-image-561280452.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivrU1ZZckgttRjCLmXrP8TcFLEl2vFU32lTGBG3bUCxekGND0-2MmD_xoFYy1ZO5kjra48sQJRxW9PlinUvcpHAV2VRnYkLTm0O44S10tNFXw-z9J6V3tnjpWwrQVBOxmbw-O-jSOJ5oF2/s640/blogger-image-561280452.jpg"></a></div><br></span></font>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Searching For My Inner Child<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I searched for the first memory of my inner child when
she experienced her fears of lack of control, approval and security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw her as an 8 year old, seated at the
dining table with her Chinese language tutor, learning how to write some
Chinese words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly, a gang of men
barged into our home and declared, “We are from the Internal Security
Department and we have a warrant to search your house.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Mom protested, telling them to wait for
Dad to get home first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A leader of that
gang of men said, “Don’t worry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your
husband is coming. He’s in the next car.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>True enough, Dad and yet another gang of men came through the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad’s face was ash-white and he seemed to
have aged overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I gasped suddenly
when I spotted that Dad was led into the house in handcuffs and proceeded to
dash across to him to want to save him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, one of the men pulled me roughly aside, not allowing me to be
with Dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Amidst the flurry of activities and with my Mom sobbing
at the side, I learnt that my Dad was going to be detained without trial under
the Internal Security Act for alternative political views that were deemed “subversive”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the next few months, the situation
escalated with my family being dragged through national press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was labelled the daughter of a “political
dissident” who could be dangerous to the establishment’s nation-building
efforts. This 8 year old was quoted in the press, as having said, “Daddy is so
naughty”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would not have remembered
that, let alone understood what being a political dissident was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom and I visited Dad at the Detention Centre
every week, communicating with him through a telephone with a glass window
separating us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friends at school
pointed fingers at me, whispering at each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom held my hand and took me to Dad’s company
to meet his boss, appealing to his sense of compassion to allow Dad’s salary to
continue to be paid into the bank account so that she could feed the both of
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I felt anger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
could not do anything to help the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I could not save Dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Dad was
forcibly taken from me. My Mom had to find ways to feed us both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to be a normal 8 year old who
enjoyed school, friends and everything an 8 year old would do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However I was judged by the perceptions of
others whom did not even know my Dad, Mom and I.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">That had sown the seed of my fears of lack of control,
approval and security and I grew up always needing to be in control of
everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed to get validation
for everything I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt so insecure
that I had to hide behind a passive-aggressive exterior, trying to be
emotionally detached to everything around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I even despised any outward display of love and affection which I had
considered a weakness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My heart chakra
was partially closed, as I struggled to love and accept love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My throat chakra was partially closed, as I
struggled to express my true feelings.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>My favourite picture of Dad and I at my birthday party. I was always the apple in my father's eye and we always had such a special bond. This picture has a lot of happy energy and was the basis of the intuitive painting which Rozanne did.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The
Transformation<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When I finally confronted my inner child, cowering in the
dark, alone, afraid, angry and sad, Alixe and I set out to support her with a
lot of prayers and meditation which helped to cleanse the chakras and release
the pain she felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alixe put a specialized
program together to help me as I identified the real cause of all the negative
emotions that were triggered by any situation no matter how big or small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
learnt to communicate with my inner child, to find out what she needed, how I
could help her, and what thoughts and emotions were coursing through her.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I learnt to open my heart chakra a lot more, so that I
could, with compassion, acknowledgd all the fears, let them come up, understand
where they had come from, and then offered them up to the divine light, to be
eventually dissolved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From time to
time, my ego would grip tightly to the feelings of fear because it was, in a
way, a comfort zone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, as I was
committed to healing my inner child and listening to her with compassion, my
ego never got a chance to win in this struggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the end, I knew that my inner child just needed to be embraced with a
little more compassion than I was prepared to offer in the past. <o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This had helped me so much that at every juncture, when I
am aware a situation had triggered a feeling of fear, I went back to talk to my
inner child and assured her that I would always be beside her.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>A picture of me at my Kindergarten graduation.</strong></em></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Honoring My Inner Child<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></strong><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">One day, I spotted a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beautiful painting posted on Facebook <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by one of my friends, <a href="http://rozannehenry.com/intuitive-commissioned-paintings/">Rozanne Henry</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a painting of herself and it seemed to
have exuded a sense of creative personal power reclaimed after having been
through a period of healing herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rozanne<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is an Intuitive Artist
who created paintings from intuitively channeled guidance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
guided immediately to commission her to do a painting of my inner child as my
way of honoring the 8 year old me, and giving her a special place of her own in
my home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shared my story with her and
explained what I wanted to achieve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having received a photograph of Dad and I,
Rozanne was able to draw upon that energy within the photograph to connect with
what had happened when I was a child and she was able to communicate the
messages that Dad wanted me to receive as she drew the 8 year old me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rozanne worked on it throughout the week,
supporting that piece of artwork with lots of meditation and prayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through that painting, she created a bridge
between Dad and I where I could feel him put his arms around me, to cradle me
with a lot of love and assurance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will
share snippets of what my Dad’s messages were, throughout Rozanne’s work on
this painting.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He said, “Go and be free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Free to be happy. Release yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am here always for you no matter what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Trust in yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are doing well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are going
to be free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Just trust. I am guiding you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pray more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Stay close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Connect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I am so proud of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Be free to be yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be whom
you were meant to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Go and find your truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It will save you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Don’t be afraid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We will always support you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She was guided to draw my inner child with her legs
tucked to the side as she sat on the ground, and her arms outreached as if in
the act of receiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was also
guided to draw 3 doves flying towards my inner child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, was for me, an affirmation that Dad was
sending me love, peace and healing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the same time, I saw clearly that within these gifts, he was also opening my
heart and mind to my own gifts to heal others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I felt that that was Dad’s way of endorsing my taking Sun
Goddess Tarot to the next level of where it ought to be, and that is to use my
intuitive skills to be a healing coach for others as Alixe was with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder, the last few months had seen me
choosing my clients, reading only for those whom I thought I could genuinely
add value to. Coincidentally, I have also noticed that the clients that got blown my way were highly intuitive souls, who had their respective inner child issues that created blocks along their own paths.</span><br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>This is a print of Rozanne's painting of my inner child set against the automatic writing she did with the channeling. The exact painting on canvas is now sitting beside my Dad's photo on top of my piano at home.</strong></em></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Holding
The Hand Of My Inner Child<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The painting now takes pride of place on top of a piano
my parents had given me when I was 3 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It sits right beside a photo of my Dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am very grateful I can finally move on,
and genuinely feel that I have been healed and the past cords of negativity had
been cut. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the healing process over
the past few months, I have become even more spiritually aware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became more sensitive to everything around
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My intuition seemed sharpened to the
point that I realized I was indeed reading more with my clairsentient
skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This inner child work we did,
taught me to open my heart chakra more so that I could listen with more
compassion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It taught me to open my
throat chakra more so that I could fully express myself and my creativity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It taught me to have courage to open my
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a tarot card reader by accident. She was awarded a Certified Professional Tarot
Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of America (TCBA) and
is also a certified numerologist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is
currently running a Tarot consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess
Tarot,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which provides confidential
intuitive readings combining the metaphysical disciplines of Tarot, Numerology
and Astrology via face to face and emails as well as readings at corporate and
private events and workshops. A member of the American Tarot Association
(ATA) and the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI), she also mentors Tarot protégés and actively coaches fellow intuitives who are in the midst of honing their psychic development whilst managing a full time job.</span><br>
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</div>thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com2Singapore1.352083 103.819836000000010.8441055 103.174389 1.8600605 104.46528300000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-52646016005519421262015-12-28T15:24:00.001-08:002015-12-28T19:49:54.810-08:00Get Set To Declutter In 2016<div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Many at this time, are contemplating what to expect in the new year. Some who had been through a rough ride in the past year are hoping for a better year ahead. Some who had experienced a productive year in 2015 are hoping that their luck would never run out. However, I do not believe in luck and as a spiritualist, my beliefs are that you are a master of your own destiny because you can shape your own outcomes by the decisions you make and the perspectives you hold.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So what's in store for 2016? What are your aspirations for the coming new year and how are you empowering them? Numerology is just one of the metaphysical modalities that can help guide one's decisions made throughout the year by harnessing the numerological energies of that year. In 2015 the year was governed by the number 8 in numerology. You can determine the year's numerological energy by adding the digits of the year. So in 2015, by adding each number of the year, 2+0+1+5, you will get the number 8. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><u>Looking Back At 2015</u></b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For many who had harnessed the energy of the number 8 well in 2015, it was a year of executive power, ambition, opportunities, and abundance, particularly when you were able to harness the right resources to create your own opportunities. If you had experienced a busier year with your business or at work, an expanded role within the same job, or you had left your current job for a bigger and better one, that's just some of the hallmarks of how the 8 energy is supporting you in e last year. The 8 energy might have inspired you to make astute financial plans and leverage the right financial opportunities. The number fanned the flames of bold decision-making based on good judgement, confidence and the determination to attain your goals. Finally, the number 8 would force you to leave all negative aspects of your past so that you could be ready to tread on a journey of self -discovery, embrace new growth and approach every challenge with a can-do attitude. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><u>2015 Tarot Year Card - Strength</u></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In tandem with the numerological 8 influence, the Tarot year card for 2015 was the Strength card, which is the 8th card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. Strength in Tarot was an important reminder to us of the power of human will, determination and the tenacity of the inner spirit. If you had harnessed the traits of this card as you managed the year 2015, you would have been able to better deal with challenges and attain your goals through the more effective use of soft persuasion instead of brute force and aggressive confrontation.</span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><u>Looking Forward To 2016</u></b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So what then is the numerological energy that will impact 2016? 2016 is governed numerologically by the number 9. With 9 being the final number in the 9-year cycle in numerology, the number represents a culmination of all your hard work put into attaining your goals, your experiences and skills cultivated throughout all these years, the lessons you had picked up along the way, the knowledge gained, and the wisdom attained. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Whatever you had worked hard to achieve, and all the loose ends of any long-drawn project that you had been working on will need to be completed in this year. Everything that you needed to do on your priority list, must be done.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Being a year of completion, it is the year you let go of whatever does not serve your higher purpose. If you had been in toxic relationships or unhappy jobs hanging on a thread for so long, this is the year to let go and start anew. Don't expect it to be easy though because as you make that final push through the journey in anticipation of a numerological year 1 in 2017, you can expect to experience some stress, tension and conflict. If you struggle to let go of what does not serve you, it could be a painful year filled with anxieties. You might feel some exhaustion and perhaps be unfocused. That is why you are encouraged to keep an open mind and heart in 2016, and just be focused on healing, forgiveness, re-energising and renewing yourself through contemplation and meditation. Self care is so important, so remember to honour your energies and ensure that you take time out to care for yourself and keep a happy harmonious balance between the time and energy you invest in others and the time and energy you invest in yourself.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The numerological energy of a year 9 encourages you to "spring clean" your work space, your home, your Facebook Friend list, and even yourself. This is not the year to harbour any residual emotional resentment against those who had done you wrong in the past. Empty your heart off grudges and keep it clean from hurt, disappointments and unfulfilled expectations. De-cluttering will help pave the way for you to accept new experiences in the following year.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">9 is also a number that inspires giving to humanity and supporting the community at large. So in 2016, think about what you can do for your community, how can you add value to your community and how can you be of service that will benefit the greater good of people around you?</div><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><u>2016 Tarot Year Card - Hermit</u></b></span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In tandem with the numerological 9 influence in 2016, the tarot year card for the year is the Hermit, the ninth card in the Major Arcana in Tarot. The image on the Hermit card often depicts a cloaked man standing on top of a mountain holding a lamp. The mountain represents the pinnacle of his achievement and growth. The hermit has attained all that knowledge through his journey and is ready to light the path of everyone else by sharing his knowledge. The Hermit encourages you to tap into your inner consciousness to reevaluate your goals, reassess your path towards it and make adjustments if you need to do so. The card encourages you to find your inner light within you and use it to shine the path of others around you. From your space of experience, skills and knowledge that you have attained, share your gifts with the world and support others with compassion and generosity. If you need to spend some time in solitude, honour that need to have that space so that you can listen to your inner wisdom.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2016 urges you to think before you act. Leverage the lessons from the past year to approach the year ahead. Forgive those who have hurt or disappointed you. Don't take unnecessary risks unless you have evaluated all angles of an opportunity. Let go of anything that no longer serves you positively. Spend more time on your own to heal, recharge and renew. Expect some stress and tension but it is not insurmountable if you manage it all with openness to differences and give it enough deliberation time. 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She was awarded a Certified Professional Tarot Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of America (TCBA) and is also a certified numerologist. She is currently running a consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess Tarot. As a member of the American Tarot Association (ATA) and the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI), Joanna governs her practice under the associations’ respective codes of ethics. 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Last week, I wrote a<a href="http://thecrazyangmoandhisangrywife.blogspot.com/2015/12/looking-for-christmas-spirit.html"> personal blog</a> that described the immense loss I felt this Christmas, because it was my first Christmas without Dad. The month leading up to the Christmas celebrations filled me with emptiness and depression as I felt that a Christmas celebration, which should be a celebration that involved family and close friends coming together, just would not be complete without the presence of Dad. I could not bring myself to get to the garden centre to pick out our Christmas tree. Dad loved gawking at my colourful Christmas tree each year, and he adored the smell of fresh pine. If Dad was not by my side at Christmas this year, why bother with a tree? I could not bring myself to go grocery shopping to prepare for our annual Christmas Eve dinner, so David took it upon himself to put the Christmas feast together. We did get on with it and celebrated Christmas in our usual way, inviting our extended family over for our annual Christmas Eve dinner, but I could not help feeling an even deeper sense of loss. So I set aside a glass of red wine and a plate of chocolates for Dad the way I had set aside a glass of milk and a plate of cookies for Santa every year when I was a child, hoping that wherever he was in spirit, he could see that I was thinking about him.</div>
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Spent from entertaining the family the night before, I spent my Christmas Day curled up in bed just wallowing in even more sadness and exhaustion. Just as I drifted off into deep sleep, I remembered seeing an image of myself in a dream, walking into an all-white living room. The floors, the walls and a sofa in thet room was all white in colour. Just beside the sofa was a corridor to a bedroom perhaps, and in front of it was a big Christmas tree that looked so beautiful. It had glittery baubles all over it and orange lights twinkling around it. As I was about to touch the tree, I felt a gentle nudge on my right shoulder that woke me up. I knew in that instant that that dream was delivering a message to me, perhaps from Dad. </div>
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It took me an entire evening of discussions with David before I realised what Dad was really trying to tell me. In fact, what got me nearer to the essence of the message was when David drew a picture of exactly what I had dreamt. </div>
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Dad was telling me that how beautiful a Christmas tree can be, a home will be cold and empty, if the family was not there to fill it with warmth, love and laughter. Christmas was all about the family. Dad loved Christmas when he was alive, and he had always loved how I had decorated my Christmas tree. Most of all, he enjoyed being surrounded by the family during Christmas. He enjoyed watching the kids tinkering with the baubles and putting a hole in the Christmas decorations from time to time, and laughed at my youngest nephew attempting to tear open some of my presents under that tree. With or without the tree, a Christmas without the family, was not Christmas at all.</div>
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So I started a conversation with Dad, using my Hanson Roberts Tarot deck. I felt Dad's presence as he guided my hand to pick the cards. I picked the World Reversed, the 4 of Wands, the 3 of Cups and the Sun.</div>
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These cards affirmed Dad's message to me. He acknowledged that when he had passed on, because it was so sudden, there was lack of closure, and we all just could not move on. There were so many things left unsaid. I felt particularly so because I was so busy juggling work, running my business and training most days at the gym that my conversations with Dad was relegated to the Sundays when I visited him. He was taken so suddenly from me that I had no time to say how much I loved him, how I wanted to take him to see the world on his wheelchair, and how much I wanted him to see Joel start his 2-year stint in national service. I just wanted more time with him. However, Dad wanted me to just accept that his time was up but he wanted me to get on with life and embrace it with positivity. He was happy to see that the family had come together to celebrate Christmas and he wanted to assure me that in spirit, he was amidst the din of the merry-making and did enjoy the atmosphere of family bonding, chatter and laughter at my home. At the end of it all, he wanted me to just let my hair down and enjoy Christmas for what it stood for - the family. </div>
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So that was my gift from Dad. He "passed on that baton" to me, to ensure that I would continue to keep the family close, and did everything to fill the home with love and laughter. He promised to be behind me always, and in his way, he would carry me through the difficult times and fill it with as much sunshine as he could. He promised to continue to hold my hand through it all, in the way he had always done when I was Daddy's little girl. He nudged me on my right shoulder to wake me up from my slumber, as if to say, "It's your turn."</div>
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com3Singapore1.352083 103.81983600000001-53.008532 21.202648500000009 55.712698 -173.5629765tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-3010994505327008532015-10-30T00:22:00.003-07:002015-10-31T11:00:49.207-07:00Getting To Know The Grandmother I Had Never Met<br>
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you are celebrating Halloween, Hallows’ Eve, Samhain, Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead, All Saints’ Day or All
Souls’ Day (celebrated by Catholics on 31 October and 2 November respectively),
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or disliked that ties with Tarot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chose
to write about my paternal Grandmother whom I have never met but had built a
close connection with in the past months as I honed my claircognitive and
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Granny’s name was Tan Suat Ngoh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
a name I could hardly pronounce and I knew very little about her apart from the
fact that she died very soon after Dad graduated from the University and was
about to embark on his first job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad
loved her dearly and the only few nuggets of information he had shared about
her was that she died quite suddenly the night after eating soup which might
have gone bad and that she was a very dutiful wife who sat by the window every
evening to wait for my Grandfather to come home after whiling his nights away
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sense of duty to her husband in spite of suffering the extreme loneliness of
what seemed like a loveless marriage was commendable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet in my heart, I harbored so much disdain
for my Grandfather up till today and wished secretly that my Grandmother was
still alive so that I could hold her and tell her how much I loved her and how
grateful I was to her for nurturing my Dad to be my biggest hero in my life.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br>
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with the help of my Hanson-Roberts Tarot deck, I decided to have a little conversation
with her, to get to know her better during her lifetime and to find out what
lessons she wanted to share with me as I walked my journey as her Granddaughter
in this life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And here’s what she told
me:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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marriage to my Grandfather was a match arranged in accordance to our strict
Peranakan family traditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
both cousins. All she ever wanted was a beautiful home, surrounded by a loving
family, and be provided with emotional and financial security, like most young
women of that time. She probably had most of these but something was in the way
of that complete picture of security and contentment that she had originally
envisaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> As the 3 of Cups and the High Priestess indicated, the</span> major cause of this
obstacle, was the fact that she spent much of her married life in an unhappy
marriage because my Grandfather indulged in extra marital affairs and was never
quite present for the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact,
there was another prominent woman in my Grandfather’s life with whom he spent a
lot of time with. 3 people in a marriage, made for a very uncomfortable
situation at home, yet Granny stoically stood by his side, bore him 5 children
and waited patiently for him by the window every night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stuck to her responsibility of raising
the kids, managing the household, and being a dutiful and giving wife, with no
complaints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What free time she had, she
spent those with the kids or played a local card game called “Chek Kee” with
the other womenfolk in the household. What the cards had unveiled, were aligned
to the stories that my Aunt and my Mom had told me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Aunt said, “The saddest picture imprinted
in my mind for life, is watching my mother seated by the window every night,
with a blanket around her shoulders to keep warm, as she waited for my father
to return from “work”.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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thing I had gleaned from her life, was her love for nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In spite of the “prison of an unhappy
marriage”, she was actually a free-spirit at heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She channeled the Empress card, not only in
the way she nurtured the family, surrounded the home with warmth and loved my
Grandfather unconditionally, she also loved to be surrounded by nature and
often took walks by the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
affirmed by her when she communicated to me and showed me that vision of her
walking by a river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Aunt validated
that vision when she told me that one of Granny’s favorite activities was to
take a walk along the East Coast beach that was nearby their home in a little
village called Geylang before the Singapore government reclaimed the land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Granny
was a very patient woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her life was
her kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even when my Grandfather was
not present for the family, she ensured that she gave the kids everything they
deserved. She surrounded the home and herself with as much positivity as she
could muster and often looked at the bright side of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one thing she always had, was hope. She
pinned her hopes on her kids, expecting that one day, when they all grow up,
they could lead useful lives, adding value to the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had hopes that one day, my Grandfather would
turn around and realize that she was his one true love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
Granny wanted me to take a leaf from this page of her book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wanted me to approach everything I did
with positivity, patience and practicality no matter the hurdles thrown in my
path. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To her, my success would be
measured by the effort and commitment I put into achieving my goals. No matter
the circumstances, regardless of the challenges that I faced, she wanted me to
stay focused on what I had set my heart and mind to do and to know that in my
life, only I would be accountable for the outcomes because of the choices I
have made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Her
best advice to me, was that my life journey will undoubtedly be dotted by many
bumps, twists and turns along the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead of fearing these challenges, avoiding them, or feeling negative
about them, I should embrace them with positivity and hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every situation, gives me the opportunity to
learn, grow and develop as a person as long as I keep at it, stay focused, and be
committed to my goals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the currents
get rough, I have the choice to jump off the ship, adjust the sails, or steer
the ship against the currents, and only I am responsible for any of these
choices that I have made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br>
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died quite suddenly after suffering a night of stomach ailment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She died about a month after my Dad graduated
from the University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His graduation, as
the eldest son of the family, was her proudest moment as much as it was
his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad promised to look after her and
provide for her when he started work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, this promise could not be delivered because she had died before
he was able to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad often told us
that he felt so much regret and remorse about not being able to give her much
when she was alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He too felt a lot of
resentment for his late father, for not giving her the love she deserved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dad passed away in April this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deep
down in my heart, I know that he is in a happier place and by his mother’s
side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I needed validation and
proceeded to pull another card asking Granny if Dad was with her at the moment.
Guess what showed up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the 10 of
Cups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Enough said,” I whispered
silently, “I am so happy that the family is now together and they are all now
at peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day, I will take my place
by your side, Granny, so that you can tell me even more stories.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I thanked my Granny for being present and having that conversation with me, I
pulled a last card to validate my relationship with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I picked the Queen of Cups and knew
immediately how much she truly loved me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Granny is one of my main guides who had been with me since I was
young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know now because I have been
talking to her more regularly as I developed my mediumship skills. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I doubted my intuitive capabilities, I
was shown a vision of a woman with another girl by her side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When that woman pointed a finger in circular
motion around her tummy to my question about how she had passed on, I shared
that vision with my Aunt and my Mum who validated that she had died of a
stomach ailment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked my Aunt who
that girl was by my Granny’s side that looked like she was a generation
younger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Aunt affirmed that that was
her sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Granny had a daughter who
died after accidentally falling off a tree when she was quite young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I
did not need anymore validation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
Granny was that maternal presence I had always felt around me since I was
young. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had been protecting me
whenever I was about to fall into a pothole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She held my hand whenever I was feeling down and lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She patted me on my back whenever I needed a
bit of encouragement to take a little leap of faith. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br>
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was my Queen of Cups, my confidante and my mentor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How privileged I felt to have a Granny
sitting on the other side of the rainbow, watching over me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The writer of this blog post is a marketeer by trade, and an
intuitive reader by accident who deploys the combined modalities of Tarot,
Numerology and Astrology overlaid with her Clairvoyant, Claircognitive and Clairsentient skills
to deliver her readings with authenticity. She was awarded a Certified
Professional Tarot Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of
America (TCBA) and is also a certified numerologist. She is currently
running a consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess Tarot. As a member of the
American Tarot Association (ATA) and the Tarot Association of the British Isles
(TABI), Joanna governs her practice under the associations’ respective codes of
ethics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is currently mentoring
fellow intuitives on the path of developing their intuitive potential and teaches
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com26Singapore1.352083 103.81983600000001-53.008532 21.202648500000009 55.712698 -173.5629765tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-12076140832756526392015-09-20T09:02:00.001-07:002015-09-23T08:06:37.211-07:00Creating A Gem Of A Tarot Card For The Autumn Equinox<br>
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blogpost was written as my contribution to the 2015 Tarot Blog Hop themed to
celebrate the Autumn Equinox or Mabon which falls on 22 September, marking
the start of the Autumn season. Our bloghop wrangler, <a href="http://tarotwitchery.blogspot.com/">Maureen AislingDuffy-Boose</a> had asked that we pick a card from the Tarot deck that we
associated most with the Autumn Equinox and attempt to create our own depiction
of that card.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tarot card that I associate the Autumn Equinox with, is the Hanged Man, which
is a card that reflects the process of letting go, healing, surrender, taking
on different perspectives, change, and taking time out for learning new skills and
gathering of new knowledge to lay the foundation stones for renewal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Autumn
as a season is much like the Hanged Man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a time of release and letting go when we see the leaves turning
colour from green to brown, and finally dropping off the trees with absolutely
no resistance. As Mabon marks the second harvest where people gather and store
crops to prepare for the impending winter months, it is also a reflection of a
time to gather knowledge and skills to prepare us for what is to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hanged Man, and its association with Autumn is particularly meaningful for me
at this time,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In more ways than one,
this has been a period where I had been giving myself some time and space to
manage the letting go of several aspects of my life:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This was a period of
spiritual renewal where I was forced to confront limiting factors from my past,
let go of my ego, and deal with my anger issues caused by my fear of lack of
control. Before I struggled with my intuition from time to time, but with this
spiritual renewal, my intuition developed further from a space of heart-centredness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This was a period of
learning, studying, finding myself and honing my intuitive skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a consequence of that purification process
of letting go, I started letting go of my total dependence on my usual
metaphysical tools of tarot cards, numerology and astrology as I developed my
claircognitive and clairaudience skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This was a period of
dealing with my resistance to the changes in the dynamics of my relationship
with my son. This again, has to do with my fear of lack of control. Our
relationship went through a roller-coaster of emotions from anger, to
disappointment, to sadness simply because it was difficult to deal with his
growing up and his preparing to “leave the nest”. I wanted to hold on to every
last vestige of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only when I learnt
to let go of this fear of lack of control, and allow him to thrive as an independent
young man, watch him learn from his own mistakes and explore the world around
him without me, that I found peace again with my son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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changes at my workplace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Organizational
changes always brought about uncertainty, stress and fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However when I learnt to let go and change my
perspectives that the new environment could be a good opportunity to further
push the boundaries of creativity and strategic thought leadership, that I was
able to better manage the change and be a better mentor and manager to my team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I thought about creating my own Hanged Man card for the Autumn Equinox, I felt
I was not going to do it justice by copying the usual image of the Hanged Man
depicted in most Tarot decks, that is, a figure suspended upside down from a
tree. That image etched in the minds of most Tarotists<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has already done a wonderful job of teaching
us so much because that card is chocked full of meaningful symbolisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wanted instead to create a card image that had the symbolisms of the Hanged Man
card, yet was a reflection of my current journey and the support that I had
been given to walk that journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
chose to design my Hanged Man card using a combination of crystal gemstones and
photography.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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loved working with crystals, and the energy of crystal gemstones are what had
been supporting me through this period of change, when I had to manage stress,
anxiety, the reluctance to let go, my anger issues and my vulnerabilities. So I
got my friend Jennifer Toka, a fellow intuitive and jewelry designer who owned </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.healingdragongems.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">www.healingdragongems.com</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
to design a bracelet for me to reflect this period of change, letting go and
renewal that I was going through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wanted her to pick the gemstones and design the piece using purely her
intuition and my vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of the
brief, was that because Jennifer was also a professional photographer, I wanted
her to take a photograph with that jewelry as the subject but composed the
image by using purely her intuition, in such a way that would allow the image
to depict what the Hanged Man card was all about. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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note that Jennifer lives thousands of miles away from me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is in America and I am in Singapore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet when we worked on this project together,
it was almost like we were speaking to each other in our dreams, telepathically
building a piece of jewelry together and linking that jewelry to my past, my
present and my future. We co-created the image of the Hanged Man card together
using her creativity, our intuitive skills, and our vision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Designed and photographed by Jennifer Toka, </em></strong><a href="http://www.healingdragongems.com/"><strong><em>www.healingdragongems.com</em></strong></a></td></tr>
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the main imagery, the final outcome resulted in a bracelet made up of gemstones
that were very much Autumnal in colours and had properties to support me in my
process of renewal and letting go:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from the metaphysical properties of the stones that aided me in my time of
change, letting go and renewal, Jennifer was guided to string them all together
in such a way where the focal gem of Gold Rutilated Quartz paired with the
Garnet actually symbolized the Sun Goddess emerging from an eclipse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Autumn equinox was about the balance
of light and day, the Amber in its Autumnal colour was positioned to balance
the strength of the Gold Quartz and the Garnet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She put 4 dark cherry polished Amber stones on each side of the bracelet
because the Hanged Man is usually depicted being hung upside down with his legs
crossing to make the number 4, the number of building of foundations
through<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the gathering of knowledge and
skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Autumn and the Hanged
Man were symbols of changing perspectives and renewal, the bracelet started
with dark coloured Amber at the top and then separated by the green pearl to
symbolized change, followed by the brighter gemstones that symbolized renewal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then fastened a gold Chinese coin at the end of the bracelet. This coin honors
my Chinese heritage, and as a coin, it not only had protective energy but much
like the ancient days where coins were buried with the dead to aid them in
their passageway across the other world, this Chinese coin symbolized my
passageway from my old self, to a renewed self.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jennifer held the completed bracelet up, the piece resembled the original Hanged
Man imagery where the focal gem of that Gold Rutilated Quartz<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>resembled the head of the Hanged Man, the
Chinese coin resembled his torso, and the gems on each side of the focal point
of the bracelet were his arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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loved this beautiful piece of jewelry so much that I had dreams of co-creating
a piece of jewelry with Jennifer for the rest of the cards in the Tarot deck,
and I would have called it the Healing Dragon Gems Tarot Deck!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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putting this bracelet together with the highly symbolic gemstones that
reflected the essence of the Autumn Equinox and the Hanged Man card,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jennifer then put her photography skills to
work by composing an image of what we both thought would best depict the Hanged
Man card in Tarot using that bracelet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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version of the Hanged Man card depicts an image of a mother suspending her baby
up in the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wanted to play “airplane”
with her by tilting her downwards with her arms outspread just like an airplane
swooping down the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her baby clearly
felt uncomfortable in that position and was poised to cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like the Hanged Man, the mother was hoping
for her daughter to surrender in trust that Mummy will never allow her to be
accidentally dropped from her hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
assurance, Mummy held her close, and that was a representation of the Divine help
that we get when we faced challenges that required us to step back, recalibrate
our thoughts and just Let Go, Let God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as the Hanged Man card was about learning knowledge and garnering skills, Jennifer
was teaching her daughter the skill of flexibility, building trust through
play, having fun by letting go of fear.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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as the Hanged Man card was about sacrifice, release and letting go, Jennifer’s
relationship with her daughter was a manifestation of the same because of the sacrifices
she had to make along the way as a Mother for the love of her daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would be spending these years, nurturing
her daughter, knowing that it would be a relationship of a lot of good times as
well as bad times but at the end of it, she would need to let her go as she
walks into adulthood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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on the mother’s wrist, is the Autumn Equinox bracelet which she had specially
made with the gems that reflect the essence and color of Autumn. We also opted
to name the card SURRENDER instead of calling it the Hanged Man. Surrender,
most aptly defined the Autumn Equinox and everything that the season stood for,
knowing that annually, the season brought with it the typical changes of mother
nature which served to prepare us for the harsher months of Winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hope you like the Hanged Man card created by Jennifer and I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had the opportunity to develop a full
Tarot deck of 78 cards using Jennifer’s intuitive jewelry designing skills and
her photography, I definitely would.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do
check out Jennifer’s awesome work at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.healingdragongems.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">www.healingdragongems.com</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
and if you were to place an order for a piece of jewelry from her, do quote Sun
Goddess to get your 15% discount.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The writer of this blog post is a marketeer by trade, and an
intuitive reader by accident who deploys the combined modalities of a Tarot,
Numerology and Astrology overlaid with her Clairvoyant and Clairsentient skills
to deliver her readings with authenticity. She was awarded a Certified Professional
Tarot Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of America (TCBA)
and is also a certified numerologist. She is currently running a
consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess Tarot, which provides
confidential intuitive readings combining the metaphysical disciplines of
Tarot, Numerology and Astrology via face to face and emails as well as readings
at corporate and private events and workshops. As a member of the
American Tarot Association (ATA) and the Tarot Association of the British Isles
(TABI), Joanna governs her practice under the associations’ respective codes of
ethics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is currently mentoring
fellow intuitives on the path of developing their intuitive potential and teaches
Tarot and Numerology as well. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This blog post was written as my contribution to the Tarot Blog Hop to celebrate the Summer Solstice which falls <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on 21 June 2015</a>. Our Blog Hop wrangler <a href="http://www.tarot-thrones.com/">Alison Cross</a> has asked us to pick a card from the Major Arcana as our subject for this blog post. I was a late entrant. I picked the short straw and got the Judgement card. Why couldn’t I get prettier and more positive cards like The Empress, The Fool, or The Star? How did I end up with Judgement?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was purely my choice. Really. There were a few more un-exciting cards, like the Sun, that none of the blog hop participants had picked at that time. I could have picked the Sun. But it was boring. I could have pulled out of the hop too, but that would have made me look like a bloody wuss in front of my Tarotist friends.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes choices. And that’s what this blog post is going to be about. At the height of the Summer Solstice, it is a perfect theme because we could all choose to get out of the house and embrace the warmth and abundance Summer brings, or we could choose to stay indoors because we are worried about tan lines. And if we chose to stay indoors, at least be accountable for the fact that you’ve just missed out on all that fun and the rest of the world thinks you’re a sad lonely wanker.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am not typically fond of the Judgement card. The card within my Radiant Rider Waite Tarot deck updated by Virginijus Poshkus, depicts an image of naked bodies rising from the dead, armed raised towards the heavens as an angel blows his trumpet. Every time I pick this card for a client, the key message would be to get him to re-evaluate what decisions he had made in the past, the impact of these decisions on his future, recalibrate his thoughts about his goals and then reassess his plans to achieve these goals. The message is very loaded. Sometimes, it feels as if the card forces the client through a process of going through multiple stages of hoops and hurdles before he can finally get to his prize. Believe me, it is easier if I had picked the Star card and told him, “Don’t worry honey, all’s going to be well.” But life doesn’t happen like this all the time, does it?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So let’s take another look at the image on the Judgement card. The angel in the card is Angel Gabriel, the messenger of God who famously appeared to Mary to announce the impending birth of Jesus Christ. He was the angel that also famously appeared to Zacharias to announce the impending birth of John the Baptist to Zacharias’ supposedly barren wife, Elizabeth. The naked bodies rising from the dead seems to be responding to the call of Angel Gabriel’s trumpet. The mountainous terrain, clouds and waves in the background suggests the challenges one has to surmount throughout his journey to his goals.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you view the Judgement card as a good knock on the head before you wake up your senses enough to walk towards the true potential of what the World card promises, I reckon, it is THE card that truly says it all and in many ways, ties the deck together to underscore what the true purpose of Tarot is, which is to offer you choices.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When I reflect on both the Lovers and Judgement card together, I am reminded that throughout a lifetime of challenges, along with its fair share of good times, I did have the ability to make choices that shaped how I responded to these challenges. Whatever outcomes I had experienced as a consequence, were all attributed to the choices I made. Judgement, tells me that I am almost reaching there. I am almost getting to my destination. It is a card placed just before the final card of the major arcana, the World, and quite aptly too.</span></div>
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com13Singapore Singapore1.374555 103.879533tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-57746482223041274322015-03-30T02:25:00.001-07:002015-03-30T04:56:56.319-07:00A Day Wasted On A Tarot Card<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br></span><div id="divSignature"><p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hidden Agendas – 7 of Swords</span></b></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today, I picked the 7 of Swords from Maria Kurara’s Black Cats Tarot deck as my Card du Jour and that got me reeling in a sense of dread about coming to work after a restful weekend. The card warned me of the prospect of being embroiled in a situation that involved people with hidden agendas. I truly had no time for corporate politics at this time, not especially, with the fact that after recovering from the upheaval of a departmental restructuring, we now had to get on with a ton of work around projects that were marked “urgent”. I had to steel myself to be wary of those whose goals were not aligned with mine or were not aimed at a higher good. This calls for an introspective approach to work issues. I reminded myself that I should not be reacting to anything or anyone when challenged today. It could be part of a hidden agenda to get me in trouble.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFKI8jLJVObB3r3AyyR6PLAF0prt2htJKQU-NeCn9cXMVApgxAnJC-8W_UinluHHwUc_4yl37XoUxstucCagpfXtgjQJBDYEdgzq7-mw4Ey-FHuHrc28OHkU_EZHCfjMcKaC931LJIDG1t/s640/blogger-image-2029249207.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFKI8jLJVObB3r3AyyR6PLAF0prt2htJKQU-NeCn9cXMVApgxAnJC-8W_UinluHHwUc_4yl37XoUxstucCagpfXtgjQJBDYEdgzq7-mw4Ey-FHuHrc28OHkU_EZHCfjMcKaC931LJIDG1t/s640/blogger-image-2029249207.jpg"></font></a></div><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I spent most of today keeping to myself, keeping my head down, and just reminding myself to be tactful and sensible at meetings. The day passed with no incident apart from a missing avocado that I had asked and paid for, but did not get, at the sandwich shop nearby.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I tucked into my sandwich at lunch behind my desk, I waited with my guard up for anyone that might pass by my desk whom I thought fell into that description of the 7 of Swords. Every email that came in, was scanned in-between the lines for hidden meanings that I thought was meant to trap me into responding with one of my explosively sarcastic replies. </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The only indication of what the 7 of Swords card might have pointed to, was my time wasted in trying not to get into any trouble of sorts, my inability to contribute effectively at meetings for fear of being slapped at the back of my head for not being aligned to management, and my open expression of sheer joy when a member of the management team called of a conference call due to conflicting appointments, hence delaying the project deliverables for awhile. I felt so guilty about making my work day so unproductive just because I built a “protective shell” around myself, more concerned with my own needs rather than that of the company. </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Own up now. How many of you had fallen into the same trap when you pick a similar card to advise you on how best you should be managing your day?</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So my day at work came and gone, and I hurried to my slew of back to back Tarot reading appointments in the evening. Funnily, out of the 3 readings I had done, the common card that showed up in the Advice position was the Judgement Reversed.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So this brings me to the next topic of accountability.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Accountability – Judgement Reversed</span></b></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The reversed Judgement card from the Radiant Rider Waite Tarot deck updated by Virginijus Poshkus, was a poignant reminder to me that I could not be totally free of blame, for whatever could potentially happen to me, at work or at home. Every time we collide head-on with the “negative train”, we blame it on everyone around us and the external environment that we are in, but we forget that we are the artist behind that canvas we call life. We need to be accountable for our actions, knowing that every decision that we had made in the past, actually accounts for what we experience today. Why would I need to lie in wait for people with hidden agendas, welding a knife behind their back when I should be confident about the amount of meticulous effort and thought that had gone into my work? If there were changes within the department or the company, why would I need to build a barbwire fence around myself when I had made that decision to stay on with the company to deliver on its business objectives, aligned with the management team? When I made that choice to spend a good number of years with the company, it is somewhat like a marriage. I had chosen to commit my time and effort to co-creating a successful business with the rest of my colleagues. There will be rough days, and there will be great days. But most of all, these would be meaningful days built on my original decision to stick with it through thick and thin. Ultimately, I am accountable for my own decisions. If I choose to leave the organization in the future, then, I would need to ensure that I am accountable for the consequence as well. No complaints.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7-Tl39szV_Ls-G7mtL_XnE_Gr1oR3g3b_pgqi_Xry4j7gQVSOZay96D3cu56MYYHtXqp7AUhQkB5OQF8EKi1XS9KvJYPUfkgw8JKDLNNKifxlvlaNmg3hooFWqYUjDO1i9omeRpwMFGf4/s640/blogger-image-591086945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7-Tl39szV_Ls-G7mtL_XnE_Gr1oR3g3b_pgqi_Xry4j7gQVSOZay96D3cu56MYYHtXqp7AUhQkB5OQF8EKi1XS9KvJYPUfkgw8JKDLNNKifxlvlaNmg3hooFWqYUjDO1i9omeRpwMFGf4/s640/blogger-image-591086945.jpg"></font></a></div><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ultimately, I needed to let go of my fear of changes and challenges that may come my way. I needed to let go of my dislike for certain people whom I worked with and who were responsible for some of the more unpleasant days I had at work, because it did not serve me well at all. I needed to let go of past perceptions of my role and my scope of work within my company when departmental reorganizations happened, because these perceptions only serve to limit the potential of what my team can do in the future. I needed to deal with past disappointments from people at work who indeed had hidden agendas. Clinging on to these limited my growth in the company. The truth of the matter is, I cannot control what happens within the environment, but I can control how I react to whatever happens within my environment. </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWGeLFA3QHor7WCgWMZ-bVZwWRqFp_sXqH1KryDITYIRUzBPMRWRvxTvwqH2H8JMsiawv_SCFKBpnWI5EmP0MgrY2_JCxwCGdbxKlhYtoEDbRGmp11GJauYFXbe8-RN6lvVbq7n1rJ5kw/s640/blogger-image-1767323843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWGeLFA3QHor7WCgWMZ-bVZwWRqFp_sXqH1KryDITYIRUzBPMRWRvxTvwqH2H8JMsiawv_SCFKBpnWI5EmP0MgrY2_JCxwCGdbxKlhYtoEDbRGmp11GJauYFXbe8-RN6lvVbq7n1rJ5kw/s640/blogger-image-1767323843.jpg"></font></a></div><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of my favourite cards is the Devil card from Judith McKay Stirt’s The Cook’s Tarot deck. It reminded me that I can never be bonded to negativity unless I allowed it. I had the power to break free from the chains of negativity in a tension-filled job, in the best way that made me most accountable to my family, my staff, my company and myself.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">See how much Tarot can teach you with just 1 card in the morning? 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She was awarded a Certified Professional Tarot Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of America (TCBA) and is also a certified numerologist. She is currently running a consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess Tarot, which provides confidential intuitive readings combining the metaphysical disciplines of Tarot, Numerology and Astrology via face to face and emails as well as readings at corporate and private events and workshops. 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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">This blog post was written as my contribution to the Tarot Blog Hop to celebrate the Celtic festival of Imbolc <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on 2 February 2015</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Our wrangler Karen Sealey had asked that we explore the topic of “Oracular Anomalies” for this particular blog hop. That was initially deemed as an interesting feat for me because I could not even pronounce the words – oracular anomalies, let alone understand what that meant. For someone who did not celebrate Imbolc, to finally understand what the festival meant after spending 2 years in the company of this wonderful Tarot blogging community, this new phrase Oracular Anomalies had given me a month of worry. I remembered muttering to myself, “ Oh Karen, it finally dawned on me what Imbolc is. Now I have to try to find out what Oracular Anomaly means? Damn you, woman.” </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">So today, I want to write about the Fool card and the card I picked for this blog post was the Fool from the Radiant Rider Waite Tarot deck updated by Virginijus Poshkus. I looked at the card in detail and started asking, “Why is this card marked 0?” It is the first card of the Major Arcana, so why could they not just mark it as 1. Why did they have to label it as 0? A journey had to start somewhere. For numerologists like us, new beginnings, fresh new starts, a first step to a new journey is always marked by the number 1. Yet, the Fool card which is a card of new beginnings, fresh new starts, a first step to a new journey, is labeled as 0. I had no answers to this ”anomaly” apart from the fact that we numerologists used to think that Tarotists were a complicated bunch that needed to just sit and chill for a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">In the card, the Fool had the image of a man about to step off the cliff. His head looked up to the sky as if trusting the Universe to guide his hand along his journey. His dog beside him was like a companion assuring him that wherever he went, he will not be alone. The card illuminated in bright orange, full of sunshine, hope and positivity, as one would feel when they embark on a new journey. As a numerologist, my lifepath is 7 and I do not take unnecessary risks, often rendering a lot of thought and analysis to every move I make particularly when it comes to my career goals. This Fool card however, seems to depict a man who is about to fall off a cliff and not giving two hoots if he did or not. I do trust the Universe, and I am thankful for the support I get from my friends and family. However, as a believer of this reality that I am a creator of my own circumstance, I find it difficult to let go in the belief that I would not fall off the cliff just because I have got the Universe, my friends and my family holding my hands. I don’t mind taking risks, if they are indeed calculated ones. So that brings me to how I saw the numerological significance of the Fool card evolving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This spoke to me a lot and cracked a new dawn for me as like the Fool, I had been meandering along my journey of discovery about my spiritual self. Beyond the work around tarot, numerology and astrology, I had been developing my clairvoyant and mediumship skills. Along the way, I met a lot of teachers and mentors who were manifested by the Emperor card in tarot. They have been critical to my spiritual growth, developing my knowledge and my skills and encouraging me along the way. Today, I take on the mantle as an advisor, teacher and mentor to my students, leveraging the same energies of the Emperor’s card, yet I am still on the Fool’s journey of making new discoveries every day.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">If you look at the Fool card closely, the terrain is rough, and there are mountains surrounding him. Where the Fool steps next, could be a perilous road ahead. In the same way, I had been through a tumultuous journey of bad experiences ranging from health, career and familial issues. However, had also learnt that I cannot make new discoveries, learn new things, or make fresh starts if and when I cling on to vestiges of these negative issues. This then brings me to another card that had the numerological energies of the number 4 - the Death card. Death is numbered 13 in a Tarot deck, which when reduced, becomes a 4. </span></div>
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com13Singapore1.352083 103.819836000000010.8441055 103.174389 1.8600605 104.46528300000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-29611707688266220382014-12-31T09:11:00.003-08:002014-12-31T09:51:39.345-08:00Happy New Year And Bring On 2015<div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are your aspirations for 2015 and how are you empowering them? When I thought about my aspirations for 2015, I dug deep at my experiences in 2014 for lessons I could bring into the new year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I looked back at 2014 with a lot of gratitude for the blessings of new friendships made, new opportunities that came my way, the spiritual growth that I built through my experiences, important lessons learnt and an even stronger bond with the family. The Tarot year card for 2014 was the Chariot, the 7th card in a Tarot deck, The Chariot is a card representing victory and success in achieving goals through sheer determination and focusedness. The card urged me then to strive for success through self discipline, determination and the courage to step up and assume accountability for my life and my passions. 2014 being a year 7 in Numerology urged me not to act impulsively when confronted by issues but to galvanize my thoughts with proper evaluation of the repercussions and impact of my actions. I was so grateful for the times I was guided to step back and reassess the way I got to my goals. In a year when I juggled my full time career in Marketing and Public Relations, with my business as an intuitive consultant and teacher, my training in boxing and Muay Thai and my hobby as a freelance fight journalist, I was forced to look at where best to invest my time and energy, and make the right choices to ensure that I took care of the people around me as best as I took care of myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The year is governed by the number 8 in numerology. 8 is the number of executive power, ambition, opportunities, abundance. 8 is the number that urges one to dream big and turn these dreams into reality. 8 asks that you harness the right resources to create your own opportunities. 8 is about making astute financial plans and leveraging the right financial opportunities. The number fans the flames of bold decision-making based on good judgement, confidence and the determination to attain one's goals. Finally, the number 8 forces me to leave all negative aspects of my past so that I can be ready to tread on a journey of self -discovery, embrace new growth and approach every challenge with a can-do attitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In tandem with the numerological 8 influence, the Tarot year card for 2015 is the Strength card, which is the 8th card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. Strength is a card reminding us of the power of human will, determination and the tenacity of the inner spirit. You are advised to harness the traits of this card as you approach 2015, and know that sometimes, soft persuasion in the face of challenges is more effective than brute force and aggressive confrontation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In about a month and the half, we will be welcoming the year of the goat. The 8th animal in the Chinese zodiac. Goats are gentle creatures known to coexist very well with men and other animals. They have a determined streak and their tenacity is second to none, Have you seen goats scaling treacherous mountains to hunt for food? That's the tenacity you will need to leverage when you maneuver the challenges of 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So there you go, definitely a colossal amount of things to ponder on as you prepare to confront the new year. I hope my perspectives are useful in helping you maneuver your 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yule, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on 21 December</a>, is a celebration of the Winter Solstice when we experience the longest night of the year, in anticipation of the start of the cycle when the day gets longer. In the darkest of hours, I began to turn inward to ask myself, what truly fulfills me, what have I given of myself and what have I recieved that had given me joy. </span></div><div id="divSignature"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div id="divSignature"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many do honour the balance between light and darkness at Yule, so I would like to look at Yule as a representation of the need for balance in my life. This year has seen me attempting to balance time and energy amongst the many commitments I have on my plate. Most of these commitments involve my giving a lot of time and energy to the people around me who matter, but I had to also learn to balance these efforts by giving myself time and space, and taking care of my own needs.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So Arwen did have foresight when she asked that we focused on one Tarot spread for our Yule blog post. This was a spread about the joy of gifting. When I approached the topic of what had been giving me lots of joy, it really came down to the passion that had driven me to put 100% into each and every commitment that I had been involved in throughout the year. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I shuffled my cards to Arwen’s Tarot spread the one message that I took out of it was that the biggest gift the universe had given me, was the courage which saw me through my passions. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Queen of Pentacles is an embodiment of balance. She balances her life well with her capability of sustaining a productive career whilst using her sense of selfless love and compassion to generously spend time on nurturing and caring for people who matter. This is a great card to pick for what I would love to be able to give the world. My life has been inundated with multiple commitments all of which seem to rank equal in terms of priority. I have been juggling my full time career as a marketing and PR professional, while running my consultancy Sun Goddess Tarot, my assignments as a freelance sports writer, my family and my kickboxing training. I do admit that the multiple activities on my plate have been overwhelming. I hardly have time for friends and family. There are days I even connect with my own husband and mum on facebook. So yes, the gift I would like to give the world, particular to the people who matter, is my time and my energy, yet be able to efficiently balance this with my other priorities. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The Hermit reminded me of my role as someone who should be using my skills, experience and passion to guide and inspire. However, to do this best, I needed to be able to take care of myself. The only way I could take care of myself, was to give myself some space and time for introspection and surround myself with positivity. So I saw 2 interpretations with the appearance of the Hermit. As a gift, what I would love most from the world, would be the gift of space. Just as I put a lot of demands on myself, I sometimes feel that there are a lot of expectations from me coming from multiple sources. I am expected to perform at my peak at work, as an intuitive reader, as a mentor and guide to my team and my clients. I am expected to deliver on projects and assignments as quickly as I can before the next assignment comes in. I am expected to make vast progress in my kickboxing training because of the commitment of time and resource that I put into it. So I think the best gift would be space. I need space to be alone, tap into my inner self, recalibrate my thoughts and my spiritual energy. While I appreciate being surrounded by so many wonderful people, I do appreciate some alone time, free from expectations. I need space. The second interpretation of the Hermit is in terms of a spiritual guide and mentor. I do have a spiritual guide and mentor but she is so far away from me, in France. One of the best gifts I could have is the ability to spend some time with her in person and surround myself with her strength and positivity. We are oceans apart but I am so glad that we are so spiritually connected enough for me to learn so much from her. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reversed 3 of Pentacles threw me off and I had to think long and hard about this. So I picked a second card to clarify the reversed 3 of Pentacles and the King of Wands appeared. I finally saw the light when I realized that for years, I had been leading a life of mediocrity. Life was wrought with the mundanity of the usual rigmarole of work and home and that triggered my restlessness. The King was a reflection of how I had decided to inject passion back into my life by getting involved in activities outside my comfort zone. I started to lift my consultancy Sun Goddess Tarot to a new level by investing in a newly developed website, better content and a search optimization strategy. I got more than I bargained for when I was asked to conduct more workshops and do a lot more consultancy work for corporates who valued my intuitive gifts enough to obtain my help as they navigated their businesses, both start-ups and established ones. Another niche area had just opened up with parents of newborns who had been asking me to use numerology to select names for their babies. I started paying attention to my health and fitness but got more than I bargained for when I fell in love with kickboxing. When I fell in love with kickboxing and gave it 100% of my commitment to be a competitive kickboxer, I got more than I bargained for when I became a freelance sports writer specializing in mixed martial arts.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another King! The King of Pentacles is an embodiment of one who nurtures, guides, advice and mentors others. He provides much security and stability to others through his skills, experience, and maturity. I do like to think of myself as the King of Pentacles. I feel much gratitude that I am able to financially provide for the family, so that they can all live comfortably and have a wee bit extra to enjoy a little luxury from time to time. However, I think as I harness the strengths of the King, I am more than a financial provider. As a daughter, I have been a listening ear to Mum as she dedicates all her time and energy to taking care of my Dad who had been recovering from a stroke. As a wife and mother, I have been holding the hands of my husband and son everyday, supporting them in everything that they do. At work, as a manager, I am more friend and sister to my team than I am a boss as I guide and mentor them through their work. As an intuitive reader, I support and advice my clients when they meander their way through difficult situations. In truth, I am grateful that my gift to the world is my ability to harness the strengths of the King of Pentacles.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 9 of Wands is a message of courage and persistence. It is definitely an apt message for me to share with everyone this season, with the hope of inspiring others with the same. You see, juggling multiple commitments on my plate is not easy. I have had a tough time with a balancing act between all these commitments, which are of almost equal importance to me. And I consider them so because I am passionate about everyone one of them. However, what keeps me going everyday, is that my persistence and courage are what sees me through these passions as I manage them each day. When I can follow through with my passions, then the juggling act would gradually become effortless. Today, I consider my marketing career, my intuitive consultancy, Sun Goddess Tarot, my hobby as a freelance sports writer, my kickboxing training and my family as my passions. That courage and persistence I leverage to help me manage these passions, are the universe's gifts to me.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><br></u><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></b>The writer of this blog post is a marketeer by trade, and an intuitive reader by accident who deploys the combined modalities of a Tarot, Numerology and Astrology overlaid with her Clairvoyant and Clairsentient skills to deliver her readings with authenticity. She was awarded a Certified Professional Tarot Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of America (TCBA) and is also a certified numerologist. She is currently running a consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess Tarot, which provides confidential intuitive readings combining the metaphysical disciplines of Tarot, Numerology and Astrology via face to face and emails as well as readings at corporate and private events and workshops. A member of the American Tarot Association (ATA) and the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI), she also mentors Tarot protégés on behalf of the American Tarot Association<br><br>Website: <a href="http://www.sungoddesstarot.com/">www.sungoddesstarot.com</a><br>Email: <a href="mailto:Joanna@sungoddesstarot.com">Joanna@sungoddesstarot.com</a><br>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SunGoddessTarot">www.facebook.com/SunGoddessTarot</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/SunGoddessTarot">www.twitter.com/SunGoddessTarot</a></span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">I wrote this blog post as my contribution to the Samhain 2014 Tarot Blog Hop. To my blog readers who do not know what Samhain is, it is a Gaelic festival celebrated <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on 31 October</a>, that marks the end of the harvest and the beginning of the winter when days get shorter, and darker quite quickly and the weather gets colder. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">As a Catholic, I celebrate All Saints’ Day <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on 1 November</a> and All Souls’ Day <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on 2 November</a>. Every year, Mum would visit the memorial niche of grand dad at the church at which his remains had been placed, and she would lay some flowers, wiped the surface of the niche and said a silent prayer to remember grand dad. As the certified weirdo of the family, beyond saying my prayers to remember the family members that had passed on, I would also leverage my intuitive gifts to have a conversation with them. So it was very apt that the wrangler of this year’s Samhain Tarot Blog Hop, Louise Underhill from Priestess Tarot, had tasked us to discuss within this blogpost whom we would like to invite to tea on this occasion, with the help of our Tarot cards.</span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">I did not have to think too hard on this one. As many friends are aware, I have been training very hard at the gym 6 days a week with the goal of wanting to compete hopefully next year. Training had been hard and grueling, particularly for me because I had recovered from a knee surgery 2 years ago, had been extremely unfit, is of the age when most would be doing lawn-bowling instead and I started kickboxing lessons only at the beginning of this year. My coaches had been unrelenting whenever I felt like giving up or when I wallowed in self-doubt during some of my more difficult training sessions. Last weekend was one such moment, when I was pummelled mercilessly during a sparring session. Other than a headache and a bruised ego, I crashed into a complete funk for almost a week because I felt like boxing was not a sport for someone my age and that I was so bad at it that I could not even defend myself at a sparring session. I thought perhaps I had better stick to lawn-bowling, knitting or at best, geriatric line-dancing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">First, let me explain why I love Bruce Lee. Like me, he has a spiritual life path of 7. This was a life path of one who was a thinker and analyzer who had the capability of processing complex information, and who approached profound subjects like philosophy and spirituality with a lot of curiosity and enthusiasm to learn more. Like Bruce and myself, people with life path 7 prefer to be alone and live by our own ideas. Like him, our lifepath 7 makes us a perfectionist at heart. I shared some aspects of that life path 7 that made up the Bruce Lee that we know. I enjoyed the technicalities of kickboxing and worked with a few coaches who were specialists in their respective fields from a kettlebell specialist, a strength and conditioning coach, a boxing coach and a Muay Thai coach to hone the different aspects of my skills as a Kickboxer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">Like a perfectionist, I worked hard and expected to be ring-ready in no time, but that was not to be and it disappointed me when my boxing coach said, "You will not be performing in the ring for at least a year and a half yet." I was clearly not ready, and disappointingly so.</span></span><br />
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The below is a glimpse of the conversation I had with Bruce Lee, using my Tarot cards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Me:</b></span> Tell me more about yourself Bruce, I am fascinated by the legend that you have become.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Bruce:</b></span> Since young, at the urging of my Dad, I was committed to learning new skills like martial arts. I worked hard to train and study martial arts. My dad thinks it will be useful for my future as there will be opportunities to do something with the skills I had learnt, like coaching perhaps. I have always said, <b><i>"Life itself is your teacher and you are in a constant state of learning."</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Me:</b></span> What shaped your career as a martial artist?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Bruce:</b></span> I went through my youth getting involved in street fights. One of the street fights involved a member of the triad or secret society and my Dad became very worried that the gangs would put a revenge contract on my head. It caused the family a lot of anxiety and with a heavy heart, I was sent away very quickly to the United States to pursue further studies. My life took a sudden turn in the United States where I got to meet new friends, build a new life, teach martial arts, and I spent time honing my martial arts skills and adapting other skills that I had picked up to create my own brand of martial arts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">When I was living in Hong Kong, I trained in the martial art form of Wing Chun under my master Ip Man. Then when I moved to the U.S., my skills evolved into a martial art form I had created and named after myself called Jun Fan Gung Fu (Jun Fan is my real name by the way) and as I started getting more exposed to other forms of combat sports and started to build more flexibility in my approach to martial arts, I created what is known today as Jeet Kune Do. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Changes in life are just opportunities for you to rebuild yourself with new skills and knowledge. Flexibility is key and never be afraid to step out of your comfort zone. For example, I adapted the footwork of fencing and striking skills of western boxing in my martial arts. Although it was traditionally forbidden for a Chinese martial artist to teach and impart skills to non-Chinese people, I did so anyway and am proud to count many Western students who have been true to the teachings of Jeet Kune Do. Growth comes from flexibility and willingness to open your heart and mind to new learnings and experiences. Remember my words, <i><b>" </b></i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b>You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”</b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Me:</b></span> I am beginning to feel that this might not be my sport. I feel upset that I can never be as quick, as fit, as strong, as nimble as other kickboxers I know. I keep getting pummelled at sparring sessions. If I cannot even survive a sparring session, I will never be ready for the ring.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Bruce:</b></span> Yes, I can see how frustrated you are with the slow progress and you feel that in spite of training everyday, you are not progressing as quickly as you want to. However, that is not the way a true martial artist thinks. You are approaching martial arts with impatience and a fear of defeat. You have let your ego get in the way of what a true martial artist should be. Remember what I had said,<span style="font-style: italic;"> <b>"Defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing. It is a path leading to success and truth." </b> </span>Continue to train hard and never give up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Me:</b></span> What other advice can you give me to pick my gloves up again and get more committed to my kickboxing training?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Bruce:</b></span> Your kickboxing journey like the journey of any martial artist, is not an easy one. It will be riddled with a lot of obstacles, even more defeats, injuries and other setbacks. I had said before,<i> <b>" Without frustration, you might not be able to discover you can do something on your own. We grow through conflict."</b></i><b> </b> Even when you feel daunted, you must press on in your training to get better everyday. Even when you have won a fight, that is not the end. The journey continues, so that you fall again, get up again, lose a few more fights and go on to win a few more fights. A martial artist's journey is always a work in progress. Do not be afraid of this ever-winding road and just continue to work towards your goals. Do not allow defeat and disillusionment to dampen your enthusiasm. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">By continuously training hard and with the help of your coaches, you will be able to fulfill your goals as a Kickboxer. There are no egos, no barriers and no limits as long as you approach your journey with flexibility, determination and diligence. Remember, <b><i>"</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."</i></b></span></span><br />
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Bruce Lee's short but meaningful life had inspired millions after him to pick up martial arts. Many have gone on to become great martial artists but many have failed. I have got many odds stacked against me like my age, my fitness level and an imperfect knee. However, so did Bruce. He was a foreigner in a strange country, he met his fair share of racial discrimination, and he was even pushed back by his own fellow Asian martial arts teachers who saw his teaching of martial arts to foreigners as a betrayal of the code. That never stopped him. He went on to become one of the greatest martial arts teachers and a legend. Even after his death, he continued to inspire people like me.</span><br />
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Happy Samhain, Halloween, All Souls' Day or whatever you might be celebrating. I hope you enjoyed my blog post. Before you think I am woo-woo crazy just because I talked to the dead, I would like to remind you that the best gifts to those who are in the present are the lessons from those who had lived in the past. </span><br />
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I thank the <a href="http://www.bruceleefoundation.org/index.cfm/page/About-Bruce-Lee/pid/10378">Bruce Lee Foundation</a> for being the resource I turned to for my research for this blogpost. The cards I had used in the reading, was taken from the Radiant Rider Waite Tarot deck updated by Virginijus Poshkus. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This week had not been particularly super for me. I seemed to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. My Ipad on which I used to do most of my work for Sun Goddess Tarot started to act up on me. I could not get into my social media platforms from my Ipad. So I decided to use my trusty Iphone to do my daily posts, and my writings instead. However, even my trusty Iphone could not be trusted to deliver to my expectations of what an Apple product had promised to deliver. I remembered barking at my husband, “It’s an Ipad Air you know? The very latest, isn't it? Why can’t I do anything with it?” He muttered something about my needing to download IOS 8, but I had to wait for the second version of IOS 8 because apparently the first one was useless. As you can tell by now, I do not understand "tech-speak". </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">At work, I was apparently taken to task for having a “volatile” personality. I think what they meant was that my charmingly loud, brash, and straight-forward demeanor, was mistaken for being too loud, too brash and too straight-forward. I was politely asked to be “softer and patient” with others. My Mum rubbed it all in for me when I lamented to her about the issue, “You see! I told you! I raised you to be a girl! But you behave like boy!” That ticked off the box on my list this month for that ultimate “One Fight A Month With Mum”.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I wished I could turn the clock back, go back to bed, and wake up on the right side of bed again, but the reality hit me that what seemed to be going backwards ( and that is not a reality by the way, it just seems to be so) is the planet Mercury. About 3 times a year, Mercury apparently goes retrograde. To find out what this means, please read all about it <a href="http://astrology.about.com/od/advancedastrology/p/MercuryRetro.htm">here</a>. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Mercury goes retrograde <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">from 4</a><sup><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">th</a></sup><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true"> October to 24</a><sup><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">th</a></sup><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true"> October</a>. When Mercury goes retrograde, all hell breaks loose….particularly for some of us who are even more sensitive. The planet Mercury governs communication, thoughts, logic and intellect. For a control-freak like me, I hate it when shit hits the fan, no matter the reason. I was not going to allow a planet on one of its wonky moods to pull the rug from under me just because it has decided to slow down its orbit and appears to move backwards instead. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">In our day-to-day lives, every time a hurdle gets thrown our way, it is an opportunity to re-assess how we think about it. If we cannot change a situation, then we need to have the courage to change the way we think about a situation When Mercury goes retrograde, it is not the planet’s fault that screws your life. The choices that you make in response to the things happening around you are what could potentially screw your life. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You see, the mercury retrograde presents a useful reminder for you to step back and re-evaluate your goals, re-assess the direction you are taking to your goals, re-calibrate your thoughts and re-think your actions. With or without the Mercury going into retrograde, isn’t that something one is advised to do from time to time anyway?</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When these issues happened to me this week, I had decided to slow down….along with the planet Mercury, I guess. I slowed down to re-think if I was over-working and juggling too many projects when my Ipad and Iphone decided to act up on me. I started to re-think if it was necessary to write and post yet another blogpost. So what if I took a wee break and not write another blogpost? So I gamely handed my equipment over to my husband for him to perform that IOS upgrade thingy on them while I took a break. He also took that time to transfer all my photos from the iPad and iPhone to the computer. Apparently, like me, the equipment lacked memory space and I was reminded to clear space as regularly as I could. Is that not what husbands are for? They are good for clearing space in my iPad and iPhone, as well as the refrigerator. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When my brashness was judged as “volatile”, I stepped back after a day of spewing blood-curdling expletives at that “bias judgement”, and re-assessed how I had presented my arguments to the people around me from time to time. Their perception of me, is often their reality isn’t it? I was often domineering, and opinionated, sometimes not tolerant of others’ point of view. I guess I had to manage perceptions by being more thoughtful about the way I put my points across to people. I had to be more tactful when I expressed myself to the sensitive flowers out there. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">With my son, well, while he is my monkey, it really is not my circus. He is at an age where he needs to be accountable for his actions and resolve his own issues. We can be there to offer him advice and support but at the end of the day, he has to make the right choices to shape his own life. So we spoke to him about shaping up his attitude, or shipping out of the house. Yes, I do believe in tough love. </span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Ultimately, you have choices you can make to take control of your life. When shit hits the fan, no matter how unpleasant it is, you have the choice to roll up your sleeves and clean it all up or walk away. It’s the same principle when I do a Tarot reading for my clients. When a bunch of cards show up to offer advice about their situations, it would be their prerogative to make the right choices with the advice given. Do not blame your woes on planetary movements. Mercury retrograde, can only serve as a reminder that you are in control of your own choices.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Remember, you can let circumstances rule you, Mercury Retrograde or not, or you can take charge and rule your own life.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br></u><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></b>The writer of this blog post is a marketeer by trade, and an intuitive reader by accident who deploys the combined modalities of a Tarot, Numerology and Astrology overlaid with her Clairvoyant and Clairsentient skills to deliver her readings with authenticity. She was awarded a Certified Professional Tarot Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of America (TCBA) and is also a certified numerologist. She is currently running a consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess Tarot, which provides confidential intuitive readings combining the metaphysical disciplines of Tarot, Numerology and Astrology via face to face and emails as well as readings at corporate and private events and workshops. A member of the American Tarot Association (ATA) and the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI), she also mentors Tarot protégés on behalf of the American Tarot Association<br><br>Website: <a href="http://www.sungoddesstarot.com/">www.sungoddesstarot.com</a><br>Email: <a href="mailto:Joanna@sungoddesstarot.com">Joanna@sungoddesstarot.com</a><br>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SunGoddessTarot">www.facebook.com/SunGoddessTarot</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/SunGoddessTarot">www.twitter.com/SunGoddessTarot</a></span><br>
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com2Singapore Singapore1.282129 103.850911tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-14062636503440259422014-09-23T07:35:00.000-07:002014-09-23T16:12:34.296-07:00A Quantum Leap In My Understanding Of Tarot<div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">This blog post was written as my contribution to the Mabon Tarot Blog Hop 2014. Please follow the links below to read the contributions of my fellow Tarot bloggers who are part of this wonderful Tarot Blog Hop community.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I like Autumn. Although there isn't Autumn in tropical Singapore, the pictures of trees in their various hues of red, gold and brown, swaying in a wind-swept Autumn day just seem so poetic to me. It is the changing colors of the leaves, the weather and the impending dwindling sunlight, that makes this a season of transformation. Often, the word transformation sparks fear in many. To me, transformation is the necessary pathway to growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">During this period, my Pagan friends around the world celebrate the Autumnal festival of Mabon on 23 September. For some of my blog readers who are not familiar with Mabon, the name Mabon came from an age-old Celtic myth about the Welsh god, Mabon who was abducted when young, and found again by King Arthur so that he could be reborn into the light. For more on the story of Mabon, do read it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabon_ap_Modron">here</a>. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The Quantum Leap In My Understanding Of Tarot</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A festival borne from a myth about rebirth and transformation is an ideal basis for the theme for this Mabon Tarot Blog Hop, designed by the wrangler, Morgan Drake Eckstein. I swear, he comes up with such difficult topics to stress me out but I love Morgan for his wit so I took up the challenge to write this post hoping to see if the creativity could flow from my heart and mind through my pen the way his did. Morgan had asked us to write about the time our understanding of Tarot had taken a quantum leap. That was when I got really stressed out with writer's block. Doh...my understanding of Tarot took a quantum leap the day I entered that beginner's class, Morgan!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">When Morgan challenged me to interpret this topic, I started to think about the transformational aspects of Autumn, and mapped it against my life and the transformation I had gone through with Tarot. There were actually 2 occasions when this "quantum leap" had happened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">One of these occasions was the time I had stopped being fearful and embarrassed about my gift of clairvoyance enough to use my clairvoyance as a "scenario-builder" and my Tarot cards as a "scenario -clarifier". This allowed me to provide even more accurate and more focused advice to my clients. In the past, my client readings were just a session of questions answered by a few shuffle of the cards. Today, I spend a good amount of time tuning into my visions, talking my clients through them, sharing what I see in their situations, then I would spend the last 15 minutes of the session clarifying the advice with my Tarot cards. I used to feel that my clairvoyance had "betrayed" my Tarot cards as the former had taken precedence in my readings. I was called Sun Goddess Tarot and not Sun Goddess Clairvoyant remember? However, as I slowly built my business and saw how satisfied my clients were, and the increasing fulfillment I felt about finally working my purpose to the fullest, I realized that my own understanding of the role of my cards had changed. The cards have not been less important to me. Rather, the process I took to do my readings have undergone a wee transformation as I had tweaked the role of each of my skills to better meet the needs of my clients. An example of a reading that had undertaken this process can be found <a href="http://sungoddesstarot.blogspot.sg/2014/04/trust-in-the-message-behind-every-vision.html">here</a>, where I used channeling to navigate through my visions for my client, then validate the reading with with numerology and Tarot. This is <a href="http://sungoddesstarot.blogspot.sg/2014/04/trust-in-the-message-behind-every-vision.html">Ava's story</a> which I had built through this process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The second occasion when I experienced that quantum leap with my Tarot cards had to do with my understanding of Tarot ethics. In the past, I would never use my a Tarot cards to answer a Health question. I often had clients who asked questions like, "Is that lump serious you think?", " Should I go for that surgery?", "How likely do you think that I can get pregnant?" and the classic, "I really feel so exhausted, and have been losing a lot of weight. Do you think there is something wrong with me?" To each of these questions, I always responded with an encouragement to go visit a qualified medical practitioner. These questions had no place on my Tarot table. Even when Dad had suffered a stroke last year, Mum asked if I could do a reading to find out the outcome of his health. I refused to do it and assured her, "Pray Mum. Dad will be okay if you'd just pray."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I still stand by my code of ethics and refuse to read for a Health issue but that quantum leap happened just recently when I realized that in the least, if I had been promoting Tarot as a tool of guidance and advice, I should be able to use it for just that even when a client asks a question about his or her health. I can't pretend to be a doctor, but I certainly could offer advice on how best to manage one's life as one journeys towards better health right? I will just have to tweak the question a little to get to a more advice -centric answer, By doing so, I would be true to my purpose of using Tarot to guide and advice. An example was a reading I did for myself some months ago when I felt extremely exhausted, stressed and was often down with the flu. When my immune system seems consistently weak, I knew I had to do something about it. I could have picked my cards to ask, "what's wrong with me?" Instead, I picked my cards to ask "how could I better take care of myself?". It led to a <a href="http://sungoddesstarot.blogspot.sg/2014/09/tarot-tip-tuesdays-designing-self-care-package.html">"Self-Care Package"</a> that I had designed for myself. I have stopped flinching from health questions and have embraced these by seeing them as an opportunity to reframe the questions in a way that empower querants to do something proactive to manage their journey towards better health and well-being. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">So I do dig the fact that Transformation is always a necessary step to growth and development. My understanding of my Tarot cards certainly has grown leaps and bounds through the process of re-engineering my perceptions about what role Tarot should play and what questions it could be used to answer. I don't think this learning process will ever stop. And if one can embrace the season of Autumn as a season of harvest and beautiful colors, instead of griping about the windchill and raking a garden full of dried leaves, I embrace Tarot as a tool that evolves according to the relationship that I have built with it.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Don't forget to visit the blogs of my fellow Tarot bloggers!</span><br>
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com25Singapore1.352083 103.819836000000010.8441055 103.174389 1.8600605 104.46528300000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-63582811596053700282014-09-22T08:17:00.002-07:002015-12-19T02:22:59.418-08:00Tarot Tip Tuesdays - Busting Some Tarot Myths<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><br></span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Wrong. There are so many great Tarot readers who are not clairvoyants. You just need to have a heart of compassion and be attuned to your intuition. Anyone can learn to read the cards. The knowledge is opened to those who are curious, who love to explore and learn new things all the time, who are not afraid to take on life’s adventures along with the Fool on his journey and who embrace the compassionate quest of using the cards to help and guide others.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Wrong. You are the master of your own destiny. The cards can only be a guide to help you make the right choices for the highest good. Where free will comes in, is when the querant has that free will to make that choice he or she deems will influence the right outcome That is why I am adamant about doing a Tarot reading in a positive way, that is advice-centric and clear on purpose. A tarot reader should not tell a querant what to do, what choices to make, or which direction to take. Life is full of options and a Tarot reader’s role is to use the cards to provide options, like a friend, offering a friendly advice to help the querant along his or her journey.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Wrong. A tarot-reader should be true to him or herself. It does not matter what you wear and how you look. You don’t have to keep a zen-like composure all the time. Just be yourself and you might earn better trust from your clients by being REAL. I am loud, very direct and will not mince my words. I am also a boxer who just happens to be a Tarot reader. It does not make me a bad Tarot reader. It just makes me different. I don’t have a crystal ball, a headscarf and all the trappings of a “fortune-teller” at the fair ground. But I am comfortable in my boxing gear of shorts and T-shirt and still read Tarot with plenty of compassion. So far, I haven’t had any complaints.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Wrong. Doing and saying things which serves only yourself at the expense of the highest good, is un-Christian and defies God’s will. A clear purpose of using your intuitive gifts and talent to help others, is not.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Because Tarot readers violate God’s will by influencing the actions of their querants, most Tarot readers die young, lead unbalanced lives and meet with tragic circumstances.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Wrong. Along with many of my Tarot reading friends in the international community, I am blessed with so much abundance and a zest for life. If I die young, and I am not young, by the way, that’s okay, because I have lived my life to the fullest, loving every day, and being loved every day. So this is DEFINITELY a myth and laughable at that.</span><br>
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com2Singapore1.352083 103.819836000000010.8441055 103.174389 1.8600605 104.46528300000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-28051198730570952612014-08-04T07:21:00.001-07:002014-08-04T18:05:51.830-07:00Tarot Tip Tuesdays - More Ways To Use Your Tarot Cards Beyond Readings<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Whether you are new to Tarot and in the throes of building a connection with your Tarot cards or an advanced Tarot reader diligently honing your Tarot reading skills, I am putting out a Tarot tip a week to help you to consistently make Tarot a part of your everyday life.</b></span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Coincidentally, this Lammas 2014 Tarot Blog Hop would mark my 2<sup>nd</sup> year of being part of this community of beautiful, generous and talented Tarot bloggers. I would love to have you explore the contributions of the other Tarot Blog Hop participants by following the links below.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those unfamiliar with the festival, Lammas celebrated the first harvest. It honored the bountiful crops, the first gathering of grains and the first plucking of fruits and vegetables, and a table full of food brought in from the garden well-planted in spring. As the season allows for even more opportunities for growth in the next few months, Lammas reminded us to not rest on our laurels but to continue to work towards even more growth whilst being thankful for the blessings of abundance that surrounds us. This was significant for me as I took a moment during this Lammas to say a prayer for more creative inspiration around my work at my consultancy, Sun Goddess Tarot. At the same time, I whispered my gratitude for the many blessings I got like the ardent support of my family for what my husband jokingly termed, “ another level of weird”.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That was why I had decided to look to the Queen of Pentacles as my muse this Lammas. She was the epitome of the nurturing earth mother, providing the family with warmth and love whilst managing a productive career too. She taught me the importance of striking a fine balance between my continuous efforts to reap a bountiful harvest of more knowledge, experiences and skills whilst being present for my family and my friends.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Like the Queen of Pentacles, I was inspired to balance my love for Tarot with my desire to be present for my family and friends. So, I would like to cordially invite you over for dinner. You will be treated to a 3-course meal with recipes personally designed by me and guided by my Tarot Cards.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Clearly as the Queen of Pentacles was my muse, I used her as a “significator” for my meal planning so she inspired my main dish of The East And West Harvest Pasta. The dish was designed to reflect my managing that fine balance between my 2 careers as a marketing communications professional and a professional Tarot reader, that dainty juggle between my family life and my work life and the even more intricate complexities between my Eastern culture and my husband’s Western culture as expected in an inter-racial marriage. And in every aspect of these priorities, I had every desire to bring 100% of myself into everything and everyone that I touched nurturing these with lots of diligence, attention, commitment and love.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For the starter, I picked the 6 of Cups to inspire my recipe. Wow! That was a difficult one. How do I come up with a recipe that reflected appropriately the 6 of Cups in Tarot? While mulling over the possibility of using 6 cups for presentation or stealing my son’s jello from the fridge because the card had image of kids in it, I then remembered that it was a card that represented good old familial memories. So I had decided to create an appetizer inspired by my Mum’s version of prawn cocktail. I loved prawn cocktail and I remembered that when I was very young, the first chi-chi dinner that the entire family got invited to was a grand wedding dinner of a relative who had invited 1000 guests from all over the world to attend that event. We were served prawn cocktail as the starter. I felt so grown up eating it.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The last dish was of course the dessert! My favorite! I hoped to pick a court card. It would be easier to match a personality to a dish. However, I ended up picking the Sun instead. Perfect. Not wanting to risk serving you sunflower petals sprinkled over ice-cream, I had to think doubly hard about this one. The Sun represented happiness, joy, positivity, vitality, zest, energy. I had to create a dish that had a burst of energy in it. So, my dessert, inspired by the Sun Card was a Fruit Salad With Orange Honey Dressing And Creme Fraiche.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have appended the recipes below this blog post, but allow me a paragraph or two to mull over this menu that I had put together with the help of the Queen.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Lesson From My Lammas Muse, The Queen Of Pentacles</span></b><br /><br />When I re-evaluated this meal that I had put together with my Tarot cards, I saw a special message within it. To help me channel the Queen of Pentacles in my life, I was reminded about the happiness that I had felt with the wonderful memories of my childhood ( 6 Of Cups + The Sun). No matter how busy Mum and Dad were, they always made sure they involved me in everything they did, they took me everywhere, they gave me as much room to explore my creative potential as they could. They were present for me. The Queen had just told me that the best way to channel my inner Queen of Pentacles, was to be present for David and Joel the way Mum and Dad had been for me.<br /><br />Below are the recipes created and shared with love.<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Starter</span></b><br /><b><i>Prawn and Mango Cocktail With Kaffir Lime Leaf Dressing</i></b><br /><i>Ingredients:</i><br />2 Cups of peeled and deveined blanched prawns<br />1 medium size mango, sliced.<br /><br /><i>Dressing:</i><br />1 tablespoon finely chopped spring onion and red onion<br />Extra virgin olive oil<br />2 Tablespoons Kaffir lime juice<br />Chopped kaffir lime leaves<br />2 Tablespoons lime juice<br />2 Tablespoons orange juice<br />1 red chilli de-seeded and chopped<br />Salt and pepper to taste<br />1 Tablespoon sugar<br /><br />Whisk dressing ingredients together and mix until the sugar has dissolved. Spoon over the prawns and mix well. Spoon marinated prawns over mixed lettuce leaves. Garnish with some mint and coriander, and decorate some mango slices around it.<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Main Course</span></b><br /><br /><b><i>The East And West Harvest Pasta - Inspired By The Queen Of Pentacles</i></b><br /><i>Ingredients:</i><br />1 cup roasted pumpkin pureed in food processor<br />1/2 cup roasted aubergine sliced<br />1/2 cup roasted zucchini sliced<br />1/2 cup chopped bok choy blanched in salt water<br />1 cup cherry tomatoes halved<br />1 cup toasted pine nuts<br />Dash of Olive oil<br />1 cup cream<br />1 tablespoon chopped garlic<br />1/2 cup dry white wine<br />1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese<br />1 leek, white part only clean and sliced.<br />1 teaspoon whole coriander<br />1 pinch ground cinnamon<br />1 chilli de- seeded and chopped.<br />salt and pepper to taste<br />1 pack pasta, cooked to package instructions<br />1 tablespoon olive oil<br />1 clove garlic, minced<br />1 leek(s), white part only, cleaned and sliced<br />1 teaspoon whole coriander<br />a pinch of ground cinnamon<br />Chopped basil<br /><br /><br /><i>Method:</i><br />Pour olive oil into a skillet or large sauce pan and sauté garlic until aromatic. Add the leek and tomatoes. Stir in the coriander and cinnamon and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add white wine and raise heat to reduce volume by two-thirds. Add cream and then puréed pumpkin, then simmer. Set aside.<br /><br />Add the penne to the sauce and warm thoroughly. Toss with the zucchini, aubergine, bok choy, chilli, pine nuts and Parmesan cheese. Then serve.<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Dessert</span></b><br /><b><i>Fruit Salad With Orange Honey Dressing And Creme Fraiche - Inspired By The Sun</i></b><i>Ingredients:</i><br />1 cup blueberries<br />1 cup cubed pineapples<br />1 cup cubed cantaloupe<br />1 cup strawberries<br />2 bananas sliced<br /><br /><i>Dressing:</i><br />Juice from 1 orange<br />2 tablespoons honey<br />Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg<br />1 tablespoon of chopped mint leaves<br /><br /><i>Method:</i><br /><br />Whisk all dressing ingredients till honey is dissolved and pour dressing over the fruits. Toss, spoon into individual bowls and serve immediately with a dollop of Creme Fraiche. garnish with a sprig of mint.<br /><br /><br />Do remember to explore the contributions of the other Tarot Blog Hop participants by following the links below.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hi! You are probably visiting this particular post because you are a participant of the Lammas 2014 Tarot Blog Hop. If you are not part of the Tart Blog Hop community, I welcome you to the Lammas 2014 Tarot Blog Hop and hope that you will spend some time hopping through the 21 blog posts appended below, when they go live <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on </a><b><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">1</a><sup><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">st</a></sup><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true"> August at 11am EDT</a>/<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">4pm BST</a></b> as we celebrate the festival of Lammas which honors the first harvest.</span></span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For this blog hop, I had picked the Queen of Pentacles as the “Lammas Muse”. I saw her as the epitome of a nurturing earth mother and a capable career woman providing financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually for the family and the people around her. I am inspired by the Queen to bring abundance to my home and work life. So the theme for the Lammas 2014 Tarot Blog Hop, was <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">“How Do You Channel Your Inner Queen Of Pentacles?”</span></b></span></span><br>
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<li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Use the Queen of Pentacles as a significator and create an advice-centric spread to help others balance family and career commitments.</span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">If you had been putting so much time and effort at work and desire to be more present for the family, share how you could use the Queen of Pentacles to inspire your resolve to do just that.</span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Be creative and dream up a poem, a song, a drawing or even a recipe that is inspired by the Queen of Pentacles.</span></li>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">1) Stella Tarot <a href="http://wwwusgamesinc.com/tarotblog/tbhcomfort/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">http://wwwusgamesinc.com/tarotblog/tbhcomfort/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3) Ania M </span><a href="http://aniam.co.uk/blog/a-good-crop/">http://aniam.co.uk/blog/a-good-crop/</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">4) Maria Luisa Salazar <a href="http://misteriostarot.blogspot.com/">http://misteriostarot.blogspot.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">5) Christiana Gaudet <a href="http://tarottrends.com/content/dancing-queen-pentacles">http://tarottrends.com/content/dancing-queen-pentacles</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">6) Joy Vernon <a href="http://joyvernon.com/Blog/invoking-the-silent-sage/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">http://joyvernon.com/Blog/invoking-the-silent-sage/</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">7) Alison Cross </span><a href="http://tarot-thrones.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/blog-hop-lammas-queen-of-pentacles.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">http://tarot-thrones.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/blog-hop-lammas-queen-of-pentacles.html</a></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">8) Mary Caelsto <a href="http://www.musecharmer.com/the-queen-of-pentacles/">http://www.musecharmer.com/the-queen-of-pentacles/</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">9) Chloe for TABI <a href="http://tabitarot.blogspot.com/2014/08/queen-of-pents-lammas.html" x-apple-data-detectors-result="10" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">http://tabitarot.blogspot.com/2014/08/queen-of-pents-lammas.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">10) Joanna Ash <a href="http://sungoddesstarot.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-dinner-invitation-from-the-queen.html">http://sungoddesstarot.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-dinner-invitation-from-the-queen.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">11) Alison Coals <a href="http://alisonsalembic.blogspot.com/2014/08/tarot-blog-hop-lammas-and-queen-of.html" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">http://alisonsalembic.blogspot.com/2014/08/tarot-blog-hop-lammas-and-queen-of.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">12) Arwen Lynch <a href="http://witchesandpagans.com/sagewoman-blogs/tarot-templates/tarot-blog-hop-lammas-the-queen-of-pentacles.html">http://witchesandpagans.com/sagewoman-blogs/tarot-templates/tarot-blog-hop-lammas-the-queen-of-pentacles.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">13) Louise Underhill </span><a href="http://www.priestesstarot.co.uk/2014/08/tarot-blog-hop-inner-queen-of-pentacles/">http://www.priestesstarot.co.uk/2014/08/tarot-blog-hop-inner-queen-of-pentacles/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">14) Hilary Parry </span><a href="http://tarotbyhilary.com/tarot-blog-hop-lammas-and-the-queen-of-pentacles/">http://tarotbyhilary.com/tarot-blog-hop-lammas-and-the-queen-of-pentacles/</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">15) Chloe <a href="http://innerwhisperscouk.blogspot.com/2014/08/finding-our-inner-queen-of-pentacles.html" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">http://innerwhisperscouk.blogspot.com/2014/08/finding-our-inner-queen-of-pentacles.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">16) Aisling <a href="http://tarotwitchery.blogspot.com/2014/08/tarot-blog-hop-lughnassadh-2014.html">http://tarotwitchery.blogspot.com/2014/08/tarot-blog-hop-lughnassadh-2014.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">17) Joanne Sprott </span><a href="http://cosmicwhisperstarot.com/2014/08/01/sink-into-the-cushions-lammas-tarot-blog-hop/">http://cosmicwhisperstarot.com/2014/08/01/sink-into-the-cushions-lammas-tarot-blog-hop/</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">18) Shauna Aura Knight <a href="http://shaunaaura.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/lughnasadh-abundance-and-seeking-your-dreams">http://shaunaaura.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/lughnasadh-abundance-and-seeking-your-dreams</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">19) Ethony <a href="http://ethony.com/lammas-tarot-blog-hop-inner-queen-pentacles/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="20" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">http://ethony.com/lammas-tarot-blog-hop-inner-queen-pentacles/</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">20) Chloe for Celtic Lenormand <a href="http://www.celticlenormand.com/2014/08/lammas-blog-hop-who-is-queen-of.html" x-apple-data-detectors-result="21" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">http://www.celticlenormand.com/2014/08/lammas-blog-hop-who-is-queen-of.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">21) Karen Sealey <a href="http://pureblessedtarot.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/q-of-p-has-it-all-in-hand/">http://pureblessedtarot.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/q-of-p-has-it-all-in-hand/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">22) Vivianne Kacal <a href="http://kismetscompanion.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/sad-lammas.html">http://kismetscompanion.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/sad-lammas.html</a></span></div>
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com1Singapore Singapore1.282073 103.850904tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-49263920398578548862014-07-28T07:11:00.000-07:002014-07-28T15:30:28.281-07:00Tarot Tip Tuesdays - Establish Credibility And Trust As A Tarot Reader<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Whether you are new to Tarot and in the throes of building a connection with your Tarot cards or an advanced Tarot reader diligently honing your Tarot reading skills, I am putting out a Tarot tip a week to help you to consistently make Tarot a part of your everyday life.</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">That was why when I read that article in the newspapers, I was so filled with rage that fraudulent people like these had made my job even harder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Brian's character number was 8, corresponding to the Strength card in tarot. This indicated that he was a very persevering person in the face of challenges. 8 was the number of one who had a special gift for business as he could conceive ideas and plans on a grand scale. He had good executive skills and was a good judge of values. With his dogger personality, Brian would not have a problem looking for that job because he would leave no stones unturned. If he wanted to try his hand at establishing his own business, that could be an alternative option with which he could meet his goals too. Brian's character number is aligned with the traits of his astrological sign Leo too. As a Leo, he was dynamic and ambitious and enjoyed making an impression on others, although sometimes he could come across as being quite aggressive and domineering. He had to temper his aggressiveness, and forward attitude so that he did not come across as being too overbearing and consequently intimidating to the hiring managers whom he had interviewed with. So my advice to Brian was to harness the strengths of his character 8 and his astrological sign Leo to approach his job search with optimism, confidence and determination. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Brian's life path was 5. This told me that life offered him opportunities to be catalyst for change and required him to be flexible and resilient to these changes. He needed freedom of thought, freedom to explore new things. He needed to walk a journey that was off the beaten track, and travel to gain more knowledge. With his lifepath 5, I advised Brian to be opened to job opportunities that may stretch him outside of his comfort zone. This will offer him opportunities to learn new skills and gain new knowledge. I also advised him to roll with the punches when he came face to face with organizational changes in future, by viewing such changes as an opportunity to step up and shine, he could possibly make a difference to his team or the company.</span></div>
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thecrazyangmoandhisangrywifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478083642882553930noreply@blogger.com0Singapore1.352083 103.819836000000010.84410649999999987 103.174389 1.8600595 104.46528300000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138799929547686701.post-48366240636521493662014-06-30T08:36:00.003-07:002014-06-30T18:28:53.467-07:00Tarot Tip Tuesdays - Keep It Simple With Numerology And Tarot<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Whether you are new to Tarot and in the throes of building a connection with your Tarot cards or an advanced Tarot reader diligently honing your Tarot reading skills, I am putting out a Tarot tip a week to help you to consistently make Tarot a part of your everyday life.</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">From her character number, I deduced that Helen was a perfectionist. She over-analyzed situations and would spend a lot of time mulling over potential suitors, deciding whether or not he was a perfect match for her. When a relationship did not go as plan, she would again over-rationalize it, and turn the situation over and over again in her head, thus causing her, over time, to build up walls around her in a bid to protect herself. No wonder she was not getting much head way in developing meaningful relationships with potential partners. She had also formed such high expectations of her potential partners that often she lets romantic opportunities slip past her. Now this lined up with her zodiac sign Aquarius which clearly influenced her idealism and her tendency to over-rationalize situations.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About The Writer:</span></b><br><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></b>The writer of this blog post is a marketeer by trade, and an intuitive reader by accident who deploys the combined modalities of a Tarot, Numerology and Astrology overlaid with her Clairvoyant and Clairsentient skills to deliver her readings with authenticity. She was awarded a Certified Professional Tarot Reader qualification from the Tarot Certification Board of America (TCBA) and is also a certified numerologist. She is currently running a consultancy based in Singapore called Sun Goddess Tarot, which provides confidential intuitive readings combining the metaphysical disciplines of Tarot, Numerology and Astrology via face to face and emails as well as readings at corporate and private events and workshops. A member of the American Tarot Association (ATA) and the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI), she is also a reader for the Free Tarot Network and mentors Tarot protégés on behalf of the American Tarot Association<br><br>Website: <a href="http://www.sungoddesstarot.com/">www.sungoddesstarot.com</a><br>Email: <a href="mailto:Joanna@sungoddesstarot.com">Joanna@sungoddesstarot.com</a><br>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SunGoddessTarot">www.facebook.com/SunGoddessTarot</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/SunGoddessTarot">www.twitter.com/SunGoddessTarot</a></span></div>
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