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In the “Way of The Seeker” workshop in San Francisco this past weekend, we looked at different tarot archetypes and how they represent the process of transformation, from the fiery, explosive destruction into construction of the Tower card, to the Hanged Man, which (in Voyager) is something like death by drowning, surrendering and returning to the undertow of the sea, only to bob back up and get thrust onto land, perhaps as a green algae slime mold, which is one “brainy blob” and full of nrg! (not bad for a new beginning).

What is the primal gift of the sea?  Its magic is as the ultimate container and cleaner; it takes our garbage, our sewage, our acid rain and absorbs it and recycles it into life giving water.  The almighty mother ocean dissolves so that it can solve and resolve.

It struck me that, as we were sitting in the class, each of us were absorbing everyone else’s words, moods, vibrations.  In the taking on of another through the genius of our mirror neurons, we empathically become another.  We absorb each other.  We are consumed by another as we ingest their essences and personnas.  In the process, our previous moment dissolves and is resolved into a new self, only to be dissolved again by the next influence, which happens from moment to moment.  Life is one big dissolution dance as we eat and are eaten by others.  Since we are mostly h2o, like the sea, we take in and are transformed, Continue Reading

I had a meeting today with my “Tarotware Party” producer of fine Voyager delicacies including Chocolate Intuitif.  As we are talking, I get a package in the mail.  It’s from a long-time Voyager afficionada in NYC and it was her gift to me, the gift of the Empress… in chocolate.  Edible. It has a color imprint of the Voyager Empress on the cholocate bar. Edible.

Knowing that “you are what you eat,” I say, “Want some power, want some creativity, want some compassion, want some success, eat this.”   Instead of eating a Jesus wafer, why not an Empress – a goddess-style sacrament. and now a staple at one of the legendary “tarotwear parties.”

I wonder if I eat it, what will happen to me?  As you are all intuitives, please forecast my outcome for partaking in the goddess, but I can’t wait for that, so am picking a Voyager Card on the iPhone Voyager (beta version), and it’s….Wow, “Anger.”  That immediately suggests to me, by the frenetic breaking apart of cups and glasses in the card, as having way too much sugar and becoming manic.  Then I get angry for doing that.

The gist of this true story…don’t be greedy.  The Empress does not like that.  “Partake of me,” she says, “but gently, lovingly, joyously, consciously.”  I can see and taste a YouTube presentation about the Empress epicurean (which btw is a blog site… Continue Reading

I’ve been flirting with the idea of making an AMOEBA CARD for the Green Wisdom Deck.  This early creature is what biolgists call a “proto-animal,” and somehow I felt intuitively important to include it.  As synchronicity would have it, I open the NY Times “Science” section today and there’s a headline that says, “Slime Mold Proves To Be a Brainy Blob.”  Let’s hear it for the amoeba!

The first paragraph of the article is all you need to know. “Researchers in Japan have shown that a slime mold can design a network that is as efficient as one developed by humans over many years:  the Tokyo rail system.  Furthermore, the slime mold can build its network in a day.”

Oh, our human arrogance. Continue Reading

Question asked by my friend Ted with whom we share coffee in the AM.

What’s Up With Our Political System?

Nothing progressive like health care seems to get done.

My response as a political scientist  is that the U.S. political system is broken because of mistrust.  When trust in any relationship, partnership, friendship is broken, the connection is severed and what we call the body politic in governance is rendered dysfunctional. As a result, legislation like health care gets bogged down.

The Green Man’s Response is Nature’s Strategies For Healing A Broken Government.

I asked my Green Man “mythic mentor” about it and this is what he said:

“In nature, there’s basically four responses: fight, flight, adapt, pray and wait for a mutation.”

Given that I see distrust as a bigger and ultimately deeper issue than health insurance, fighting would only exacerbate disrule.  Running away is denial and ultimately that gets you nowhere, unless some mutative miracle happens (or perhaps like a “9/11″ crisis of crippling disease that plagues millions and millions and forces a viable health plan). Sustainability results from the law of “natural selection,” which is the ability to communicate, adapt and create Continue Reading

I had just blogged about “success is an inside job” and the very next day of Readings and Workshop at Visions and Dreams in Costa Mesa, CA, the Star card in Voyager kept showing up.

Two clients (one a shaman woman wanting to work more  and another, a young woman actress wanting to be successful) both picked the Star.  This archetype represents the “radiant, luminous” you, but to be this, you must claim the Star in you – by loving yourself and having self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, self-value, you are inwardly prepared to succeed.

If you can say, “I am a star” to yourself while looking at yourself in the mirror, without a hiccup of doubt, then you are a STAR!  When that card came up in the Readings, I was all over it and asked each if they were a Star.  That is the big test.  Stars shine from the inside out, so “claim the star that your are!” Continue Reading

We can know all the techniques and right steps to take to be successful in the world but unless the person is prepared and passionate, it does not make much difference.  In the atomic world, atoms can dance and dance around, but until they are ready to commit, the dancing goes on.  When the sub-atomic, inner elements in the atom are ready, change happens in a one quadrillionth of a second.  It’s an “overnite success,” but only after a lifetime of getting ready.

The most important thing you can do to get launched is to work on yourself.  Build confidence, delete and dismiss inner and outer detractors, and cultivate your magic and talent.  Success from the inside out is true, but even all that may be on the back burner because sometimes it simply takes time, a natural, organic maturing that just happens.  No wine before its time.  In the mean time, grow yourself. Continue Reading

Einstein got his extraordinary insights by doing “thought experiments,” such as asking, “what if…”

So, what if “creation is the new consumption?”  I ask this because our economy is troubled by dependence upon consumption rather than on innovation, invention, ingenuity.

As an experiment, I try to  create something instead of going out and buying something. The results… I’ve been way more creative, saved money, and ultimately gain financially and more importantly, spiritually.  (Spirit – life force – is by definition, innately creative, so to be spiritual and alive, create).

The drive to buy comes from a desire to have something new and different that feeds the physical senses.  Instead, feed the life force – the creative spirit, the instinct of apotheosis to fulfill your potential and realize your destiny.  Another pair of shoes simply does not compare to a finely crafted piece of writing.  Renting a movie feeds the voyeur but not the voyager.  The fulfillment level of your creativity is far greater than just another something or just another show that you really don’t need and will probably turn up in a throwout pile sooner or later.  Break the consumer addiction, express your natural genius, and create yourself.

“Create it, Don’t buy it.” Continue Reading

I was writing up one of my Green Wisdom Cards – it’s a blank card called “Nothing.”

As I began to write, a song was playing on an Internet radio station and the first words I heard were… “nothing is real.”

Synchronicity is one finely tuned instrument.  Anyway, WHO SANG THIS SONG?  I don’t know.  If you know, email me and win a prize – a FREE READING with me. Continue Reading

 I got this wonderful quote in an email today from April Lies, an eco-therapist in Whistler, Oh Canada,

“Sometimes the truth depends upon a walk around a lake. –Wallace Stevens. 

I just looked out my window and think I’ll go for a walk around a lake called “the streets of LA.” Continue Reading

How do we maintain “Ageless Vitality?”

There’s an aborigine sitting on the ground in the Voyager Seer card, so sit on the earth, get barefoot and feel the ground, eat food close to the earth (real food, raw, unprocessed – alive).  Camp out, go for a short walk about in nature. Sing songs. Do art.  Go primal.

How do we maintain “Ageless Vitality?”

There’s a yogi with “fire in the belly” in the Voyager Seer card – find and follow an inner drive, have a hunger that inspires and fires you up with passion.  Put your body in motion with emotion – the catalyst and fuel for the journey of living long and well.

How do we maintain “Ageless Vitality?”

There’s a Tibetan Buddhist monk chanting in the Voyager Seer Card, so sound out.  Make sounds with breath and purpose and variety.  The vibrations of sounding keep you vibrating and keep you sound.  Sound heals and sound energizes.  Sing, chant, make noises either alone or with others. 

How do we maintain “Ageless Vitality?”

There’s a Hawaiian Hula dancer in the Voyager Seer card, which means to dance.  Move effortlessly like a palm tree in the wind with hips swaying and heart pulsing.  Let your body tell a story.  Enjoy the freedom of movement.

How do we maintain Continue Reading