by christel | Jan 9, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
It’s hard to think about having power without assuming there is a subject—person, tool, idea, domain—that you have power over. Being power rather than wielding power is a possibility that has been denied us for a long time. The panther may be caged and separated from...
by christel | Jan 8, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
Repression is the character and purpose of the constructed world we live in right now. The socioeconomic, built world of financial, religious, gubernatorial, educational and scientific systems that seem entirely interwoven with how we move, live and be are intended to...
by christel | Jan 7, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
It does feel like there’s something extreme going on just under the surface. The full moon (I actually typed “fool moon”—is there something to that?), the relentless retrograde trudge, the fizzy mix of hope and fear and uncertainty going into this year… Perhaps it is...
by christel | Jan 6, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Expanded reading
Summary: This full moon represents a climb to a universal, communal vision of humanity’s transformation through individual struggle. Self-healing by means of internal resources despite lack of encouragement—or even downright sabotage—from so-called leaders brings a...
by christel | Jan 5, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
Double cards again today, two that pair so well together that they should almost never be separated. Where there is water, there is inevitably conscious life, whether or not we can recognize it. Physically, we are mostly water and esoterically, we are mostly spirit....
by christel | Jan 4, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
These two cards came out together today. Oddly enough, yesterday someone gifted me a hand-knit pair of gloves featuring a heron/crane type bird and I wondered if I would see such a bird next time I pulled cards. The way she stands with legs making a cross of 90°...
by christel | Jan 3, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
Today I didn’t even get to shuffle the cards; as soon as I picked them up and went to split them, out came the snake. She speaks to this hypersensitive Cancer full moon coming up on Friday on the cardinal axis of the zodiac wheel, opposite sun in Capricorn and...
by christel | Jan 2, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
Just because we are coming to know and appreciate who we really are (bold, beautiful creatures, children of the Earth and Heavens born to be free and wild) doesn’t mean we are free of systemic impositions and demands. Like the mismatch of a majestic stag doing a...
by christel | Jan 1, 2023 | Clarity Readings, Daily card
The faint rainbow coming through is the seed of a human collective of mature individuals, a future that emerges as we see ourselves and our tumultuous history on this planet more clearly than ever before. What seem like fractures are lessons learned, scars borne,...
by christel | Aug 7, 2020 | Blog, In the studio
As teachers know and students should probably be aware, things are always a little rough the first time through a new course. And the semester doesn’t usually include the routine-shattering circumstances of a global pandemic. In the fall of 2019, I approached Paul...
