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May 22 through May 28, 2023

"Alright, alright, alright!", isn’t just a famous line from the movie Dazed and Confused, it’s also a great theme for this week of cool vibes and some easy-going days. With all the planetary changes for the month completed, we can move forward with confidence and grace, even if we aren’t 100% sure where we’re headed. Treating each day as a new adventure and being open to whatever happens is definitely the way to cruise through the week. A Cancer Moon hangs overhead Monday and Tuesday, casting a calm if somewhat ethereal air around. We may not get much done but our focus should be on interpersonal relationships, creature comforts, and taking things easy. The Moon travels through Leo Wednesday through Friday, asking us to focus on ourselves and our own personal needs. Of course, we’ll be available if someone needs our help, but for the most part, being selfish is not a liability under the Leo Moon. After a week of just "being," the Virgo Moon will bring us back to earth and reality on Saturday and Sunday. But hey! Wasn’t it fun while it lasted?

The Path of the Tarot Priestess, by Leeza Robertson

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Over the years, people have mistakenly thought I was a witch. You see, there are similarities to the practices of the witch and my personal work. But I have always known I am not a witch. Yet untangling practice, craft, and beliefs is not easy when the lineages of two very separate systems have been merged over time. Which is why I felt it so important to write Tarot Priestess and lay out the path of the Priestess.

You see, a priestess can be mistaken for a witch and a witch can be mistaken for a priestess. To the uninitiated, they can appear very similar. But they are not the same and their paths, though at times parallel, are very different. I have always been and will always be a priestess. The moment I walked my first labyrinth, I felt like I came home.

Yet my relationship to the goddess was not always harmonious, which is where the Tarot comes in—for it was through my tarot work that I started to drop my biased walls of belief and open myself up to building my own personal unique relationship with the goddess. It is this path, the lesson I myself learned, that I have filled in the pages of Tarot Priestess.

In many respects, you could say I queered the priestess path. I threw away the gender bias and rules and stripped it down. The path of the Tarot Priestess is inclusive, unique, and a safe space. It is here as a Tarot Priestess that you get to come to the feet of the goddess as you are. No boxes to fill. No lines to toe. No shoes to step into. Who you are is who you get to be.

The path of the Tarot Priestess is a journey of liberation, a way to explore your tarot practice as a form of devotion. This isn't about learning a new way to read tarot; no, this is about going deeper, wider, and further with the archetypal energy that the cards already have. To do this I have placed the priestess framework over the structure that tarot does so beautifully—marrying two processes so that they easily become one seamless path of self expression and personal exploration.

This all starts with the three Priestess Gateways of the Major Arcana. The Gateways are the three levels of initiation that we must go through to honor the goddess.

Gateway One: The Magician to the Chariot: Ritual and Ceremony
Gateway Two: Strength to Temperance: Pilgrimage, Initiation and Rites of Passage
Gateway Three: The Devil to the World: Reclaiming the Wild Shadow and Dancing in the light

The cards of the Major Arcana take us through the deep unfolding layers of what it means to be a spirit having a human experience, to be tethered to the goddess while exploring the gift of physical expression. Each time you draw one of these cards, you can see where along the path you are, which gateway you are in and what lessons the Goddess has in store for you.

Right now, pick up your tarot deck. Shuffle it and flip over cards until you come across a major arcana card. Which gateway does it belong to and which of the lessons jumps out at you?

While writing this article I did this exercise and the Chariot was the first major arcana card I came across. This is at the end of Gateway One; the lesson that jumped out was that of ceremony. More specifically, a ceremony honoring how far I have come ( movement is the chariot, it is a vehicle for travel) in the last year.

This simple exercise can lead me to a deeper understanding of my journey, one that has changed immensely in the last 12 months. For one thing, this time last year I had just finished the book this article is about (Tarot Priestess</em), now it is being sent out into the world.

I can take this card to my journal and ask the following questions;

• How did the path unfold for me over the last year?
• Do I feel my journey is complete? Perhaps not seeing as this card is only in gateway one.
• In what direction am I currently pointed?
• What gift did the goddess bestow upon me here in this gateway?
• What will I need to leave behind in order to move to the next gateway or temple
• If I were to reflect on the past year, what lesson would I say moved me the most?

You can use these questions for all the gateways along with card specific questions. Think about the card you have in front of you. What does its archetype mean to you? How curious can you be about that archetype and the energy it flows into your life? If it helps, write some keywords for your card and use those as starting points for your questions.

Next, you can explore what temple this gateway leads you to. Do this by picking your deck back up, giving it another shuffle, and flipping the cards over until you come across your first Ace. I landed on the Ace of Cups; this is the temple of water and the domain of the Priestesses of Avalon. What ace did you flip over first and what temple is the goddess asking you to explore?

In honor of your selected temple, consider getting flowers and candles in its colors to place on your altar to honor the goddess.
Cups: blue or white
Wands: red or orange
Swords: black or purple
Pentacles: green or yellow

Once you have your items on your altar, write a question you would like the goddess to help you with. Remember, it has to be in the temple you drew the Ace from. So for example, I drew the Ace of Cups. My question might be something like: "Goddess help me to create an overflow of love, happiness, or joy in my life."

For Swords it might be: "Goddess assist me gain clarity or focus around a particular problem or situation." For Wands you may think about inspiration or movement. Lastly Pentacles, which you could ask about health, money, or even growth.

Depending on the size of your candle, you may need to write your query as a short, concise ask (which is advised anyway). Then, light your candle and proclaim your request to the goddess. You might even think about opening up your journal and seeing if the Goddess has a message for you now that you have sent her a request.

Set a timer for two minutes, pick up a pen, and just write whatever floats through your mind. Some of it might make perfect sense, while some of it might seem like nonsense. Who knows, you might even be blessed with an immediate solution or answer to your question! The goddess does work quickly. Once your timer goes off, you can either let your candle burn all the way down if it is safe to do so, or blow it out and repeat your ritual again and again until your candle is burned all the way down or you get the resolution you were seeking.

Each of the temples have a different initiation, healing, lesson, and gift for you. Each temple has its own goddess. Whichever one you landed on you can guarantee the goddess has called you there for a reason. There are no mistakes along the Tarot Priestess path. The cards you draw will always be deliberate, strategic, and beneficial. The points of discovery the Goddess has laid out for you is intentional.

There is no limit to how deep, far, or wide you take your work with the cards, the gateways, or the temples. Tarot Priestess is a devotional framework, a map to assist you along your own Priestess path. May you walk it with your heart wide open and your head held high.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2022. All rights reserved.

A while back, I received an email from a friend who lives across the country. I hadn't talked to her in a few months. She said that she was dropping me a line to say hello. She was thinking about me because she had had a dream about me the night before. In her dream, we were meeting at a bar for a drink. When she walked in, I was sitting on a tall chair, and my feet were dangling down, like I was a dwarf. She thought it was funny. A few hours later, I received another email from a friend who lives in the same state I do, but we hadn't spoken in several months. She too had dreamed of meeting me, only in her dream we were to meet at a party. When she walked into the room, she noticed that I was about four feet tall. She thought it was funny and wanted to tell me about it. Needless to say, I was speechless when I received her email. These two people don't know each other; they don't even know OF each other. How could they both have almost the same dream, certainly the same theme of me being a little person, on the same night? There has never been anything bad between myself or either one of them. I don't know what it might mean, if anything, but it seems beyond coincidence to me. What do you think it means?

Vince

Susyn:

There are no coincidences, only synchronicities designed to shift our focus and heighten our awareness. The fact that two friends had similar dreams about you on the same night is striking, so let's investigate this further.

Metaphysically, we all share a spiritual consciousness, so it's possible for seemingly unrelated people to have the same dreams, ideas or experiences at the same time. An example of this the The Hundredth Monkey effect, which got its name when a monkey on a Pacific island decided to wash his food before eating it. Soon all the other monkeys on the island began to follow suit. While this was not surprising, the amazing thing was how, after a certain number of monkeys had taken up the practice (about 100), other monkeys on distant islands began to wash their food even though they had no physical contact with the monkeys on the first island. Henry Ford was not the only person inspired to build an automobile, nor Edison the light bulb: other totally unconnected people were working on similar inventions at the exact same time.

Even though your friends have never met each other, both have a strong connection to you. There was a reason they both recounted similar dreams to you: it was such an important message that Spirit did not want you to miss it! Dreams that portray one as short in stature are not necessarily negative. Note that both your friends found the dreams amusing rather than alarming.

When a change in physical characteristics is prominent in a dream, we should examine its metaphysical meanings. I think this dream may be about you shortchanging yourself personally. Because you met both your friends at a social event, it might indicate that you were withdrawn at the time or cutting yourself off from the world at large. In this day and age of computers and text messages, we often end up connecting with others from our easy chairs. Another meaning could involve shortchanging yourself emotionally. If you are or have been involved with either of these friends, this could be something to look at. In fact, comparing the similarities of the two people who had this dream could hold further clues.

Perhaps you are feeling limited in your career or finances or ignoring your health. Considering any aspect of your life where you feel you're being shortchanged may will reveal the hidden message in these dreams. Once you figure out how its meaning, you will begin to receive intuitive guidance on how to go about changing the area that is falling short for you.

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Oceania:

Do you in any way resemble a renowned dwarf actor such as Warwick Davis, Peter Dinklage or Herve Villechaize? It's possible one of them appeared in a television movie or series or as a guest on a late-night talk show the evening before your two friends had their respective dreams. They both may have seen the actor and made an unconscious association with you if you and the actor share a facial feature, smile, hair style, expression, gesture or personality trait.

Perhaps you resemble one of the actors from the popular Lord of the Rings films, which feature dwarves and hobbits. Perhaps both of your friends saw one of the movies the day before they dreamed of you and made an unconscious association. It is surprising how much we observe in a given day that never makes it through to our conscious awareness. Sometimes when we examine our dreams carefully, we can identify where various bits and pieces came from in the prior day.

There are other possible explanations for your friends having similar dreams about you. Friends - especially female friends - can be very tuned in to our emotional state and often sense what we're going through even at a distance. Your friends may have picked up on you feeling small, powerless or child-like in some area of your life at that time. Though your insecurity may have troubled you, it may have seemed absurd or even humorous to friends who think highly of you and found it hard to imagine you feeling small, which made their dreams seem funny to them.

If we examine the two dreams in detail, we see that one of your friends had you on a pedestal of sorts - a tall chair with your feet dangling down - indicating that she looks up to you and/or is aware of your discomfort with high places! Perhaps you had recently been promoted or given more responsibility but didn't feel entirely comfortable in that role. In your other friend's dream, her perspective was to see you shorter than her, suggesting that she sensed your discomfort and wanted to comfort you or raise you up.

I would reflect back on the time period when your friends wrote to you and assess whether you were undergoing a professional change or a personal challenge. The dreams may have been expressions of your friends' women's intuition, which makes them good people to turn to when you need advice or support in the future. If you want to further insight into this synchronistic event, you could ask your friends for feedback about how each of them perceived you at the time of their similar dreams.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.