Natalia Lee

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On the negotiating table

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Augury
For the month of May I’m going to come at the augury from a different angle. Instead of a general look at the month, I want to look ahead with a purpose. So I’m asking the cards for suggested ways of better flourishing for May. The cards responded with…

Voltige Playing Cards designed by Henri deSaint Julien & Jacques Denain, published by D&D Playing Card Company.

Seek to fill your heart with what stimulates and motivates your passions, what mobilizes you in relation to what you love so that you do more of that. Cutting the poison taking root at the center by finding ways through it, re-invigorating your thinking around what you do with your body and your time, and in doing these things, stimulating your thoughts toward more fruitful routes. Reduce needless over-stimulation, contract what is unnecessary, and which poisons through excess. Move your body in accord with mind, seeking messages that rejuvenate, inspiration, locating ways through the tangled web of torpor.

In other words: what makes your heart race with renewed excitement and also nourishes you? Seek stimulation down this route. Think, do, and be with these things, renew your daily living. The more you move in this direction, the web of lethargy that holds the heart captive loosens. May is a time of negotiations, as are most times really, but in this case, negotiations between what is necessary and what is superfluous. What feeds and what poisons. What benefits thriving and what excessively occupies your attention.

When our attention is focused, we are better able to analyze whatever situation(s) are playing out in our lives both in the micro and macro scale.

Suggestions for May:

Let your bare feet touch earth and allow worries to dissipate downward, leaving the body through your feet.

Find material, in a book, a project, a task, or a goal that stimulates while also being a point of contact with another, be it through conversation, planning, or study. *Contact can be played out through email, letters, video, or a forum, however it is best accessible.

Converse and be enriched in dialogue with others and through the experience of sharing.

Remember to embrace what you love and make time for it.

Trump disillusion through enchantment.

Voltige Playing Cards designed by Henri deSaint Julien & Jacques Denain, published by D&D Playing Card Company.

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In related updates:

I’ve recently finished and posted another installment in my tarot pips series: The Suits in their Element. You can now find all the parts so far of the series under the Marseille Tarot section in the Telling Fortunes tab in the menu, titled Animating the Tarot Pips.

For more inspiration on thriving in place, I’ve also shared some thoughts on interacting with my local environment and isolation, Of Shadows and Corners. Which includes photos of my home and environment.

Also, here is the brilliantly wonderful Becca Tarnas in conversation: Imagination as the Topographical Inversion of Reality.

I am available for one-on-one card readings, and always look forward to slinging the cards for my readers both old and new. You can find my reading options at the Book a Reading page.

Have a question or two, or just want to say hi, send me an email: mistandaether@gmail.com.

Be gentle with yourself and others, and remember, love.
Almost hanging by a thread

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I stood before my kitchen table, shuffled the cards with April in mind, and laid them down. I confess, looking back now at March’s augury it was propitious that the cards called for temperance and a re-positioning of our chessboard, as all this pandemic and quarantine business loomed on the horizon. And now poised for this month’s augury, I shuffled the cards hoping for inspiring windows and uplifting words. Before diving too deep, let’s show the cards, and get into the augury of April.

Fantarocco di Franco Anichini, published by Modiano, Italy.

This month we continue riding the ongoing fallout with the fluidity and malleability of water coursing through the falling rocks and boulders, keeping a tight grip over our coin. It’s curious the tower pops up here, during my own personal readings regarding the current landscape of things at the moment, in macro, the tower has shown up too frequently. For me, these kinds of recurrences with the cards mean nothing outside the moment and the question, until they actually do mean something. In this case, there is definitely something here. But let’s not get carried away with doomed scenarios, let’s look at the whole picture from the perspective of this hearty knight with his cup, and he has backup cups to boot.

April is the month we situate our selves in the flow of this river, as the castles fall and our plans drastically change in all areas of our lives. We navigate our way through and/or around all of this. The this here includes the falling castles, perilous foundation of our local and global economies, job losses, the arising housing issues and ongoing health crisis. We make a course through all of this, while also being a part of it all. All the while keeping a close watch over our coin, our things/assets/property/valuables. This month we are advised by these grasping insects to moderate our purchasing and spending throughout this unfolding precarious landscape.

Fantarocco di Franco Anichini, published by Modiano, Italy.

Nevertheless, let’s reach out to those around us, those that need a hand, let us be present and aware of our surroundings keeping in mind that despite our isolation we are all trudging through this ordeal together.

In other words, the ordeal continues, so let’s sharpen our discernment with our finances, and keep a close eye on those around us that we can reach out to, to aid, uplift, or comfort in any way. Let’s emulate the knight that buoys the way forward, navigating treacherous waters with a good dose of faith.

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Updates

Amidst all the isolation and reduced physical contact with others, I’ve decided to re-open my virtual shop. I’ve kept the prices low, and I’ve also added a video option for readings. You can find it here: Tarot Readings or head to Book a Reading to see the reading options available.

I’ve completed the overview of the individual suits in my tarot pips series. The master list of the installments can be found here: Animating the Tarot Pips.

I recently reviewed a Lenormand deck, The Friar’s Delight.
The art of temperance

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Back again with the monthly auguries, as March is already underway.

The Medieval Scapini Tarot, Luigi Scapini, published by US Games Systems, 2005.

The month of March has us looking back at the gains born out of our compromises, out of accord. The benefits of a steady and consistent gait, and an unswerving attention to detail. Placing the question before us, how to carry this discipline forward? The answer lying in how we moderate our whims, at best, our desires.

A dialogue unfolds as we deliberate between what pulls the heart and the mind, on the fulcrum of discernment. March is about this dialogue we open up in the meeting ground of our bodies. Our actions moving forward will be the judge. There is a whiff of new beginnings here, at least of reconsidering, re-positioning the chess board, and moving forward with renewed vision through the middle ground.

The Medieval Scapini Tarot, Luigi Scapini, published by US Games Systems, 2005.

In other words, this month we blend opposites seeking the fortitude that comes with understanding. Keeping our daily life, our coin, and our social selves, on an even keel is called for. Equilibrium.

Therefore, let us laugh and raise our cups, rejoicing at our achievements, both big, small, and everything in between. We are here, and now let us continue. May the angel of temperance temper our humours as we navigate this month.
Bright candle in the dark

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I’m back again with this month’s augury. This one is extra something more, because as I am writing these words I’m considering for myself, the end of a decade and of a long and arduous year. Also, Jupiter just moved into Capricorn. All of his adds to the clanging bell quality of this transition point with the month of December. Nonetheless, let’s move forward with looking at the cards and staying with the moment.

Fantarocco di Franco Anichini, published by Modiano, Italy.

This is a month for seeing things as they are, for removing what is redundant, unneeded, and excessive. Stripping down to the core of what is important, what we want to carry with us moving forward. What is worthwhile for you and I? what is worthwhile for us? And I don’t mean worthwhile from a pragmatic point of view. I mean, those things, and facets of our lives that move each of us to invest time, effort, and devotion. There is also a particular spotlight in cultivating relationships with others that nourish these aspects in our lives, mutually. Forming bonds that cross over barriers to nourish each other and further our aims/goals/visions.

Fantarocco di Franco Anichini, published by Modiano, Italy.

The sun here shines a spotlight on our acts of reaching out, extending ourselves toward others in sympathy and camaraderie. There is a jovial quality to this but it is tempered by the spread in its totality, as if communicating to us that while we reach out in companionship to others, this should be in the spirit of sincerity. In other words, let us consider the people around us and how we each contribute to our mutual growth and well-being. Sometimes, there are areas of our lives where we put our passion and devotion that do not deserve our focus. This includes people and relationships. This is the month for looking into these affairs, surveying the lay of the land that envelops us, and pruning our external gardens.

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I do hope that this month is one full of closeness, closeness with our selves, with our loved ones, and with the things that truly matter in our lives.