14. December 2011 by admin.

Tarot Reading Gift Certificates for the Holidays!

 A brief reminder that I do offer reading Gift Certificates.  Both for readings in person and phone or skype.  Every year I receive several queries about this possibility and often forget to remind my clients that it does make a really appreciated and unique gift especially for the start of the New Year.

If you would like to arrange this for a loved one contact me directly by email or give me a call at 519-513-9457. I print the Certificate on parchment and send it by mail or email depending on your location, needs and timing.

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7. December 2011 by admin.

I love this liminal time, when the tide of All Hallows gives way to the Yuletide.  Now that we’ve harvested and eaten our pumpkins we’re bringing out the holly, the ivy, and the candles to welcome the return of the Sun from the South pole to the the North.  The Old Ones still hold sway for a few weeks yet–this darkest time of the year remains their season.  No wonder there are so many folktales about the dead visiting the living on Christmas Eve!

As we respond this month to our cultural imperative to shop, socialize, prepare for Yuletide celebrations both at work and home, remember to take advantage of this yearly gateway opening to the Spirit World.  This year especially as we stand at the precipice of 2012.  According to the esoteric writings of East and West, each of us earthbound travelers is guided by one or more advanced spirits whose purpose it is to love and protect us unconditionally.  Plato’s teacher Socrates, declared by the Oracle of Delphi to be the wisest living person, had a disconcerting habit of wandering through the streets of Athens in apparent conversation with himself.  By his own account, he was engaged with his daemon– an entity that, since his early childhood, had served as his moral guide.  As he explained, “In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accustomed has always been my constant companion, opposing me even in quite trivial things if I was going to take the wrong course.” As to its origin, he explains, “When a good man dies he has honour and a mighty portion among the dead, and becomes a daemon, which is a name given to him signifying wisdom.”
Within the iconography of organized religions, visitations from the spirit world took the form of Angels.  It was while Prophet Mohammed was meditating in a grotto near Mecca that the archangel Gabriel revealed to him that he had been chosen by Allah.  Through the Old and New Testaments, God’s senior angels ran a direct courier service to Moses, Jacob and St. Paul.  A line of early martyrs claimed visitations by the risen Christ or Madonna, then reportedly became visiting saints after their own deaths. In the first century, Augustine was turned from his debauched ways by an angel. In the fifteen century, Joan of Arc believed herself summoned to her heroic mission by the archangel Michael, who appeared to her in a form as solid as her eventual accusers.

Napoleon Bonaparte also thought himself a host to guiding spirits — a shining sphere that encouraged and a red dwarf who warned.(while his spouse Josephine studied and read the Tarot!)

In the 20th century, Dr. Carl Jung (influential psychiatrist) relied on the wisdom of a spirit guide named, Philemon.  When Philemon first appeared to Jung as an old man with horns and wings, Jung described him as a wise fragment of himself (psychological interpretation).  However, as Philemon developed in physical and psychological reality, Jung identified him as an outside independent entity.  At times, Philemon was so manifest that Jung could often be found chatting with him in the garden explaining that this engagement was no different from consulting a living guru.

Edgar Cayce, a famous spiritual healer in the 20th century, claimed to have been visited several times by a dark complected and turbaned figure who warned him when others were trying to exploit him.

Transpersonal therapy, the brainchild of two psychiatrists, Grof and Maslow, is aimed at direct experience of the sacred without the crutch of drugs:  Like Spiritualism in the Victorian Age, this movement answered a secular call for something that aims to marry science and religion. As Grof witnessed his wife’s descent into alcoholism after suffering childbirth trauma, he had a powerful insight about addictions which would significantly contribute to the evolution of attitudes and treatment of the addiction disease process.  He understood that to hit bottom with alcohol and drugs was like a perverse re-enactment of the shamanic journey.  Like Shamans, addicts descended into the underworld, where they were tortured by supernatural spirits before ascending into the light to be reborn.  This connection between addiction and spiritual aspiration had already been intuited by William James a century earlier, “The sway of alcohol over humankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of sober hour.”

Jung also noted the connection between alcoholic spirits and the sacred kind in a 1961 letter to Bill Wilson, co-founder of AA.  Comparing the craving for alcohol to a low-level thirst for union with God, Jung declared the antidote to be spiritus contra spiritum—Spirits against spirits. In other words the cure for addiction lies down the spiritual path to light and right purpose.

All of this spiritual her/historical preamble is to suggest that it’s also not such a random coincidence that the Yuletide season festivities constellate the consumption of “spirits”!  However you celebrate this magical and liminous season, I hope it is one resplendent with love and an excited anticipation of that so soon to be 2012.

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“What began as a strength of the Society for Psychical Research became its folly:  defining itself in the terms of its materialistic critics.  Eventually, its well-meaning search for irrefutable physical evidence encouraged mediums - some of whom possessed genuine gifts- to manipulate their audiences with ever-grosser tricks, so that investigation of death, soul and God came to turn upon the concealed contents of a subject’s bloomers.  Yet, according to history’s greatest seers, psychic phenomena are of little consequence unless related to spiritual development.  The medium is not the message.  Inner meaning is.  Why, not how.”

The Quest for the Fourth Monkey by Sylvia Fraser 1992.

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