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Holding a gun does not make you powerful. It takes away your power and reduces you to nothing. If you want power, the tool you’re looking for is art.

23 Mar 202123 Mar 2021
I am always confused by what motivates people to commit violence. Always. Violence is not my thing, and I don't understand it, even though I have studied it. But I…
politics

A Few Words About Words (Warning: Political Content to Follow)

13 Oct 2016
Words are NEVER "just words." Lawyers know this: Words are very often deeds. Words are the difference between marriage and divorce; words can create a legal person in the form…
relationships

Does the Emperor Have Control Issues? Why I Hope There Is NO Emperor in Your Relationship

23 Apr 2015
There is one tarot card that, as a feminist, I really hate to see in a relationship reading. If you come to me for a relationship reading, you might be…
daily forecast

Facing the Music of Defeat

11 Jan 2013
The Five of Swords plus Justice reversed: this doesn't look like an easy day. Unfairness, bad news, and defeat. We may have tried and tried, but there is one battle…
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There Is No Such Thing as Powerless — True Power Is Based in the World of Spirit

8 Jan 20138 Jan 2013
I'm not one for perky posts, but the two cards I pulled together this morning are rather jaw-dropping: Power and Creativity, from the Universal Wisdom deck by Toni Carmine Salerno.…
daily forecast

The Intersection of Love and Power: Who Do You Become When You Are With Your Lover?

28 Dec 2012
Even old love can be new love. And when it emerges, it can stop you in your tracks. In the Samurai Tarot, the Three of Pentacles represents this emerging love…
daily forecast

Cards for the Day: Monkey and Bear, Flexibility and Assertiveness, Mischief and Power: A National Dialogue

7 Nov 20127 Nov 2012
Since we were all behaving like children over the election yesterday, and I happen to have a deck of children's oracle cards on my desk that I've been asked to…
daily forecast

Cards for the Day: Queen of Wands/Emperor: The Creative Struggle for Control of Time and Work

27 Oct 2012
It's not easy to do creative work in the world, amid chaos and many people who make demands on your time. The creative spirit pines for solitude. Nobody, perhaps, has…
daily forecast…

Cards for the Day: R’d 3 of Swords/10 of Cups: Lay Down Your Sword and Pick Up a More Powerful Tool: Forgiveness

26 Sep 2012
Some problems can't be solved with fighting. They require magic. And what greater magic than the magic of forgiveness? In the Samurai Tarot's version of the Three of Swords, a…

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