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What To Do With Negative Readings (Tarot Speed Blog)

Donnaleigh — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:42:02 +0000

So you’re doing a tarot reading and let’s face it — things are looking pretty crappy in the cards.

What can you do as a reader when things look…uh…less than optimistic?

Draw one card and see what your deck suggests.

- What does it suggest the client do to edge away from the situation toward better results?

-Which suit does the card have and how would this element help?

- Is there something in the character’s hand in the illustration? How would that help? Could that be suggesting you draw a card that they can keep in their hand/mind as the future unfolds so that it can give them strength?

- Are there buildings illustrated? What kind? Nature? How will the environment in the card assist your client in finding their outcome?

Another Tip ~ Try this during the actual reading:

Quietly throw one card for yourself for guidance on how to share or whether to present certain information to your client.

Here’s wishing you a day of smooth presentation.

Warmly,

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaleigh.com

The Top 10 Things You Should NEVER Say To Your Tarot Reader

Donnaleigh — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:04:00 +0000

The Top 10 List of Things You Should

NEVER Say to Your Tarot Reader:

10.

What will my next husband’s name be?

I mean, I know I’m married, but suppose there was another one coming…

How is the sex life of my husband that divorced me 18 years ago?

When will I die?

Can you remove the curse that was put on me and all my descendants

and their descendants?

What will the winning lottery numbers be?

That can’t be true. Because the other reader told me….

Oh my gosh, I’m SO sorry I sneezed all over your deck…

How many chickens have you sacrificed in this business?

You don’t really believe those cards work, do you?

And the #1 top thing you should NEVER say to your tarot reader:

Do you mind if my kid plays with these cards while we wait?

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled week!

Warmly,

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaleigh.com

This blog is dedicated to Ginny Hunt, who created the clever blog titled,

The Top 10 Things Your Tarot Reader Won’t Tell You…

Steele Wizard Tarot (Video Review by Donnaleigh)

Donnaleigh — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:29:25 +0000

Welcome to the world of the Steele Wizard Tarot.

This video review shows the quality and color of a new deck

that will be easy for fans of the Rider Waite Smith system to slip into using.

Meet your newest “old friend” in today’s video review.

To learn more about this deck, visit www.SteeleWizard.com.

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled week of vibrant color.

Warmly,

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaleigh.com

The Illluminated Tarot Video Review by Donnaleigh

Donnaleigh — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:57:00 +0000

Iridescence

is the property of certain surfaces which appear to change color as the angle of view or the angle of illuminaton changes.

Iridescence

is commonly seen in items such as soap bubbles, butterfly wings, and sea shells.

Iridescence

is an optical phenomenon of surfaces in which hue changes in correspondence with the angle from which a surface is viewed.

Behold, a tarot deck like no other….the King of Pentacles of all decks.

Today’s video review features the magical, sparkling

ILLUMINATED TAROT by Carol Herzer.

This deck is absolutely amazing and vibrant,

and is a stand-out display of color and energy.

This is the deck of a lifetime.

Below is my brief, 8-minute video review,

longer if you want to stay to see all the cards of the deck in the end.

CLICK THE VIDEO BELOW TO WATCH…

To learn more about this deck, visit

www.soul-guidance.com.

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled week of bling!

Warmly,

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaleigh.com

Who Are You? (I’ll Bet You’re In There Somewhere…)

Donnaleigh — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:52:29 +0000

The value of identity of course

is that so often with it comes purpose.”

Richard R. Grant

How It All Started…

The Wizards Tarot

This week, while looking through Corrine Kenner’s stunning Wizards Tarot, I was struck by the physical similarity of the woman in the 7 of Pentacles to an online friend of mine, Christie Sweet. When I pointed the likeness out to Christie, she and her husband were also both impressed by the remarkable similarity.

Better yet, Christie asked, “What does this card mean to me?”

And So It Began…

An interesting activity in self-observation ensued….

I wondered if there was a “me” in the deck,

something I could find that related to who I physically am.

…Not which card/s embodied my emotions today, nor one that is acting out my hobbies

…but rather, which card LOOKS like me. Physically?

In the Wizards Tarot, the card I felt I most physically resembled was The Initiate (The Fool). This was further enhanced by her wearing draped clothes like I enjoy, a big, honking shoulder bag, and holding a fluffy animal in her hand.

Then I thought of how this card’s meaning applied to me. I always have ideas — often more than I can possibly manifest. So, many things stay in the ethers. I also see her a being on the outskirts of society in this image…with the city/school behind her… but she is most comfortable by the campfire in the woods.

But the Fool is also free-spirited by nature, and this suits me well. Her exhuberance and trust is childlike, feeling rather protected in what she does, the great optimist of the tarot deck.

Yes, this suits me well.

The Lens of the Gaian Tarot

When looking through the Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell Colbert, I found 6 cards that showed characters I felt could be “me.” When I narrowed my choicees down to one card, I settled on her Four of Water.

She reminds me of myself, first thing in the morning. Am I looking at the possibilities of the day? Are the grates an obstacle I need to surpass? She ponders, she thinks, she may be scrying into the water and creating something from her imagination. In any case, she has a peek into the portal of something that is intriguing her, and I do feel like the perpetually curious learner (taking me back to the Fool/Initiate that I received above through the Wizards Tarot). This card is daydreamy, imaginative, and taking time out. And I can definitely relate.

Who Are You?

So who are you in the tarot deck?

Is there a character that physically resembles you? Go further than just the card that is doing what you like to do…take it to your physical reality. Which card could *be* you?

And when you find that card, take a close look at what you are doing in that card’s atmosphere. What is the activity? What is the message to you? What is your mirror image wanting to convey to you?

I wish you a tarot-filled day of finding yourself manifest in the cards.

I would be interested in learning what you see.

Warmly,

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaleigh.com

Tarot! The Wonder Workout for the Brain…

Donnaleigh — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:29:08 +0000

The brain gives the heart its sight.

The heart gives the brain its vision.

~Kall

THE BRAIN, MEMORY, AND AGING

Wonderful research has emerged over the past decade about that 3-pound organ called your brain, showing how working out the brain nourishes it and stimulates neural synapses that help to keep our minds sharp. According to one study in the Journal of the America Medical Association, elderly people who strengthened their synapses through ten sessions of brain-boosting exercises showed improvement in memory, reasoning skills and mental processing, “well beyond the specific skills the volunteers learned.”

For the brain, it is “use it or lose it.”

According to recent studies, when it comes to the brain, those who “use it,” don’t “lose it” as quickly as those who sit idle. In a recent study, cognitive challenge was shown to actually create new neurons in the adult rodent brain, which means that the old idea that mammals have all the neurons in the brain when born and gradually lose them is probably wrong. Mental exercises are, we are finding, likely activate new neurons in the adult brain.

See this article to see ways that exercising the brain can help you, and this article, “Use It or Lose It,” to recognize ways you can give your mind a work-out. Those who use their brain may be less likely to suffer cognitive function than those who do not.

Crossword puzzles are one means of neural sharpening that are often recommended by experts. Why crosswords? Because they stimulate both hemispheres of the brain…the logical left brain, and the creative right brain. Memory retrieval, figuring out, and filling in the blanks, seeing the unseen, all these parts pull in the hemispheres during something as simple as a crossword puzzle.

BUT TAROT?

I’d like to offer another powerful suggestion for neural work-outs: Tarot.

Tarot exercises both sides of the brain in order to pull out information. It uses both logic and creativity, both intellect and intuition, to pull forth information.

And you don’t need to be psychic to use tarot.

TAROT LEFT BRAINERS

Why tarot? Tarot stretches both hemispheres. The left, logical side of the brain works hard with intellect. In tarot, symbolism is used to create connections between two things: a tangible situation and an image, a person and a topic, and memory retrieval of the meaning of those symbols is used to pull in information. One can look up further meanings and grow during the process of learning about numerology, astrology, physical imagery, elements and suits, and dignities.

We can memorize meanings of numerology, kabbalah, colors or chakra systems, dignities, adding points or numbers in readings, searching for further meaning from experts or other resources, looking at what is concrete before us and seeing to what it connects. Numbers can be brought into the process, adding, subtracting, deducting…

1+1=2

19 = 1+9 = 10. which can be reduced to 1

TAROT RIGHT BRAINERS

Tarot is also a powerful tool for creativity at the same time So both hemispheres will be popping and sparking, stretching and flexing, at the same time. Tarot connects two things together: a situation and an image….and a story unfolds. Using the right brain, what story do you see? Where does your imagination take you? What is your gut feeling and how does intuition speak to you through imagery? What story connects two cards? What are the inferences that lie between, the unseen, something that cannot necessarily be found in a book but is felt with the heart?

What can’t you find in numbers or logic that sings to your soul?

TAROT: NOT JUST FOR READINGS

Tarot is not just for intuitive readings or card games. Tarot can be used for other creative systems that also employ both left and right brain strategies. These include but are not limited to:

Creative writing

Poetry

Art

Dream interrpretation

Personal growth

Community activities, private actiities

Story-telling

KEEP IT FLEXED!

The next time you’re looking for something smart to do to keep your brain exercised….reach for your favorite tarot deck. It’s Flexible Yoga for the Mind, and a Wonder Workout for the neurons.

Not sure how to read tarot? See our series of free classes that help guide you through the deck.

Not psychic? Surprise! You need no psychic abilities to take advantage of the wonders of tarot. You can work with exactly what you see before you, and then take it a step beyond to flex the right brain with what you see before you.

Tarot is not a religion, nor is it dangerous. It is a natural, creative self-exploration of the psyche.

May you have a wonderful time creating powerful, new, neural biceps.

Here’s wishing you a wonderful, tarot-filled week of synapse work-outs.

Warmly,

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaleigh.com

Tarot, Japan, & Active Courage (Speed Blog)

Donnaleigh — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:00:29 +0000

Serenity Prayer, left, by Reinhold Neibuhr

Are you feeling helpless with the events that are unfolding (and continue to unfold) in Japan?

What could you possibly do about something of such a wide scale?

On February 9, I wrote a blog on the Serenity Prayer.

A month later, the record-breaking Japanese earthquake hit, followed by

a massive tsunami, and then nuclear melt-downs…

The world took pause, and we wondered what we could do, and felt paralyzed by what we could not do.

Let’s take a personal look at Japan, and see what we can do as individuals and as a global community.

Today, draw 3 cards from your favorite tarot or oracle deck and ask:

1) In what should I accept with serenity that I cannot change about Japan?

2) How should I initiate active courage with something I can change about it?

3) What can give me the wisdom to understand the difference

between that which I have control over and that which I do not?

Another activity

Draw 2 cards from your favorite tarot or oracle deck and ask:

1) What do I have the courage to do on a personal level for Japan?

2) What can the global community do as a collective energy for Japan?

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled day of world healing.

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaleigh.com

My Inner Dialogue (Tarot Speed Blog)

Donnaleigh — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:37:40 +0000

“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one’s own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”

~ Buddha

What are you telling yourself?

“What is my inner dialogue?”

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled day of enlightenment.

Warmly,

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaeligh.com

“Write On!” (Writing on Decks)

Donnaleigh — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:19:55 +0000

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

~William Wordsworth

Do you have a deck where you love the imagery

…but you just don’t “get” the deck?

Would key words help you?

What about oracle decks or tarot decks without identifying text on them?

You can also add astrological symbols, rune symbols,

or anything else you’d like to enrich any of your own favorite decks.

Don’t be afraid: “Write On!”

This quick video by Donnaleigh shows you how….

In the video, you’ll see I wrote with gold (to match the cards)

the number 77 on the Symbolon card…

That tells me the page where the interpretation is in the book.

At the bottom is the title for the card, but I hold it in such a way that it does not reflect the light and you cannot see it. A wonderful play of light!.

I did try to write on the spare cards with Micron permanent markers, but even after a drying period, they would smear if touched.

These Pilot paint-pens are much more permanent. Pretty, too.

Store them sideways.

The silver and gold Pilot markers can be found at many places online,

including HERE.

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled day of happy writing!

Warmly,

Donnaleigh

www.Donnaleigh.com

What’s Distracting Me? (Tarot Speed Blog)

Donnaleigh — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:45:40 +0000

“One of the points about distractions

is that everything that they do is destabilizing.”

Bruce Sterling

Today, draw one card from your favorite tarot deck and ask:

“What is distracting me?”

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled day of focus…

Warmly,

Donnaleigh