The Tower Revision

Hi all,
My Guest for Next Week will be the Tower.
I like the other reference to it. Revision
It is interesting to play with the Tarot in such a way that it relates to other things that are happening.
I believe there is not any better time during the year than now, to be gifted with a visit from Revision or the Tower.
Towers appear strong and long lasting.. They are a result of a lot of concentrated effort.
Although they have a appearance of being permanent, Mother nature and man kind has proven this to be a farce.
Look at the Twin Towers.
My personality card is Judgment and my Karma card is the Magician. Taking the magic I now see in my bag of tricks and using discernment to push through the not so desirable things in my life I embrace the magic and medicine of Revision to build a stronger future for myself and those around me.
The Card we are reviewing is The Universe or The World.
Using the wisdom of the Tarot... I encourage you to connect these cards together, meditate and create...
Please join me this Halloween at 7 pm to foster in a new year of Council for Ourselves and Our Country.
When we look at the metaphysical, we can clearly see and be reminded that all our magic , medicine, action begins first within ones self.
Am I strong and firm in my decisions
Are they well planned and completed before I take on more ?
Am I able to think and communicate with others in a clear and fair loving manner?
Do I follow through with my inspirations or do I let them sit?
Do I speak up for myself and defend what is my own?
All of this first begins with me and radiates out

I want to remind myself that if I am fair, loving and truthful with myself.
If I am coming from a place of love
There is no need to be passive
The Idea of coming from the place of a mother bear defending her cubs is not an ugly, egotistical, irrational, unfavorable place to come from. It is the place the the spirit awards Her .. to protect what is hers.

This Hallowmas I ask you to take up that medicine, ritual, meditation, prayer and contemplation that we all use to form a new space of renewal and revision for a the Royal Spirit to reside in.
Ask all the powers that be, to come and remove all that we no longer need in our lives and replace it with the integrity and truth we are all made from.
All of our conditioning that was once used to fend of wild animals and night meres as children is not really needed anymore.
As adults and masters of our own universe we can now wear our super man super woman capes with pride and defend that which is most righteous Our Selves, Our Planet, Our Universe. It belongs to us. We were born in a country that belongs not to a king.. but to us. If we reclaim our relationship with ourselves and our planet we can walk again with two feet on the ground. If we experience a not so favorable election... heaven forbid.. We can at least say to ourselves that we made the first step towards a better world for ourselves.. Beginning at home.

You are all invited to the Rite we are performing this Hallowmas at our center..The Muse. We all are asking for all our relations to listen at this time of year when the veil is its thinnest to hear our pleas.
The election time is time for us not only to elect the new president of the United States of America, it is time for us to unite our fractured selves and become our own powerful leaders.
The Rite Begins at 7 pm and will be followed with a trance dance and pot luck after wards at 10.
Land of The Blind a Shamanic Live Band will carry us through those revisions we make during the ceremony.
Many guests are coming from out of town for this powerful ritual

Please come
7pm The Muse A Resource Center for The Arts. Halloween Night.

and keep playing with those doors... Oh I mean cards.. did I say doors??????

See you this Wednesday.
Warmly,
Mana

Reminder Wednesday (Tomorrow Night) At The Muse. / The Living Tarot

Hi all. Hope your finding the time to pick up the three cups that spilled over this morning. Well that might have just been me... Any how.. Tomorrow Night !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More fun., Art and Theater with Donna Kerr and All the rest of the gang. Bring a friend.. Name a movie that reminds you of your Major Tarot you pulled. If you did not get a card last week .. Pick one to bring. See you all there.!
Much Love
mana

Keeping Ones Life Reverent

Nice Idea of using Tarot in forms that remind us of our beauty. I found this of course in my little magic book ...(bag of tricks) whatever...
The day after such an emotional day was harder than I thought .
I continue to move into the Aeon as well as the other card that I chose.
These daily experiences walking through the hallway and finding 22 doors to choose from...
Well the thought did come to me beyond anything else today was to make each moment count.
Celebrate your life , your breath, your highs and lows, dark and light, celebrate the walk.
We are amazing people who want to learn to love our selves and our fellow beings more richly, deeply and with reverence.
When one looks at the walk of life "The Heros Journey" the at each turn take the courage to grow more present in their understanding of the "Heros Journey" We are the heros.. All of us.
Thanks for being at the last meeting Jesse, Lucy, Donna . It was so fun. Please forgive me I have not sent the reading. I will not post it on the web. I just want to say that it was an amazing experience to share time with such an intuitive as you Jesse!
Keep on studying the Tarot. It has an endless path to self discovery!
Bright Blessings and Amazing Tarot Readings!

Peace, Tarot Blake and more.

Okay Okay... I went a little over board. ... Great painting though...
The last post was a little confusing. I am tired and it is late.
so the The Egyptian Book Of Doors has nothing to do with The William Blake Book on Tarot.,
Both are great resources.
If one is interested in Egyptian Study. The Book of Doors has more information than I have found in a long time
However the Tarot and Blake are very powerful. I hope to get this deck soon/
Thanks for inspiring me you all, Keeping your life open to the doorways to the soul.
Tarot is so powerful It is a gift left to us and knowing this hold that some died to keep the Tarot alive for us..
Peace is not a notion.. It is an existence.
Love
Mana
If you want me to take you off my short list let me know.
Much Much love and respect//
Mana

William Blake A Good Book is Hard to Find...

This is a book that I want to purchase.. I hope you find the information helpful

I also found a great site that offers readings with the entire deck. It is electronic but I like this deck.
I really feel like I resonate with it and am considering purchasing it with the next order as well as the Book Of Doors. This is not so much a Tarot Deck however it is a fantastic way to study Egyptian Mysticism and it is an oracle.
Blessings. If you have lists of books for us to refer to please list them and I will print them on the site.
Bright Blessings and Great Readings.

The William Blake Tarot: Of the Creative Imagination

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Authors: Ed Buryn, Mary K. Greer
Release: 1995-10
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Format: Paperback 160 pages
ISBN: 0062513168 ISBN 13: 9780062513168
List Price: $32.00
Edition: 1st

9/11 The Towers

I found this image over the magic wand of a pc. ... yes ... well it is intresting because it represents the towers and time and religion and balance.. a lot of different things. I wish I could tell which deck it was from. sorry...
I am hoping that tomarrow I will contemplate the tower in a very real way.
What structures am I falling away from. This is a positive note for me.
I hope you all find the fortune of what you have .. stable and true for this years 9/11

Tonight 9/11 The Tower. and more

Hi all.
Do not forget tonight at 6:30 the living tarot visits 9/11.
If you have already got this post.. just delete.
If you have not received it..
Come to our Living Tarot and bring art and materials you have been working on.
We will have a great art piece from Donna and we hope to see more tonight.
See you there.

Temptation.

While sorting out yet even more crap from my boxes of things that 'I just have to have!",
I found my favorite set of major arcana tarot cards I will bring them this Wednesday.
I am so happy to have this meeting. I wait all week for it. It has been a major source of my inspiration and I am so grateful to you Donna for the effort and energy you are providing.
So now I am sad because I hear that Lucy and Jesse may not be attending due to schedule challenges.. This is a huge disapointment. Everyone get those candles out !
WE WANT THEM !
Where the hec was Adam.......?????????????????
Damian ????????????????
John????????????????

Anyway bring who you can and what you can. Don't forget to feed the creative vine growing deep inside yourself.. make up a skit or art or something to share.... Feelings.. Journal entries.. WE do not care.. Just treat yourself for a few moments to creative juice if you have not already.
I will see you all on Wednesday
Many Blessings and Happy Tarot Reading...

mana

The Star

This one is for all the "Stars" out there.
I was talking to someone about stars ... Oh yes.. Lady Loreon / Temple Of Isis.
She and I were talking about the Convocation of Isis this October.. See her site Templeofisis.org
or isisoasis.org
The Convocation is during the second weekend of October. 11,12,13 I am pretty sure.
The theme this year is Nuit. the Great Egyptian Star Mother... Ancient.. woah!!!!!!!
Check her out. google is amazing..
Back to Stars...
by the way my reading today said not to get too spread out.. hummm
Stars. Yes the ancient ones of Egypt (and probably all over the place for that matter...), believed that when they left their bodies they went to a star or group of stars. I know my fathers family believed that they went to stars.
There is a passage I read where an elder wanted to leave their body outside so they could look at the sky and merge with the stars..
I love love love this.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I could be that lucky.
So merging with stars... being a star... rock star. star pilot... what ever Mana your rambling.
BE THE STAR YOU ARE.
Okay that is quite enough for the day..
Make a wish upon a star..
In conclusion
Most of us have powers we know we cantain but fail to use..
Why the hec is that.
make your wishes...
ABRACADABRA!
Okay wish granted.
Peace
Love
Light
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September 6th Tarot and Strength

Hey Tarot Artists..
That sounds like Fellow Artists...HUMMMMMM

Today I have been using the web images concept of looking at all these different Tarot card images.
What a magic wand that turned out to be...
While viewing all these creative, spooky, strange, fantastic.. unlimited images.. I had the thought that one could take and pick a card from probably any image request and create their own deck.
weird but a thought..
the other thing I saw that was so inspiring was a book that consisted of each card that was pasted into a notebook with embossment, writing, images and odds and ends like buttons leaves.. you name it. That was really something.
I love this idea of taking a card for a week and marrying it...
So that is what I have been doing.
Strength.. what a card. What calms my savage beast..
Well this group.. the ideas of drama and the tarot..
Art in general.
I would love to hear from you.
Lucy wrote me.. that is a start.
Hope your all well and checking into
www.thelivingtarot.blogspot.com
let me know what you think
You can add books to read. music, art, happenings. What ever you want.
If you do not want to get these mailings let me know I will take you off the list.
many tarot blessings.
mana

Wednesday September 3rd 2008

Thanks to all of you who attended our second meeting of the Living Tarot.
Welcome to Tre ! We are happy to have anyone who wishes to attend come to our project with The Living Tarot.
We missed Adam, Jonathan and Fran this week. :( Hopeful to see you on your return You are a huge contribution to our growth as a group....If you can not make it please attune with our postings here on the site.. Other references to other sites , books and events are greatly appreciated.

The evening began with Donna's wonderful collection of Tarot Affirmations. A great begining to dialog and scripts for our Living Tarot Project.
These next few meetings will be working with Major Tarot Personalities and will continue until we feel we are comfortable with the Major Arcana.
Jesse wrote a wonderful piece for the fool that we hope you will send into us so we can post it.
You drawing was also quite a compliment and we can scan it to post this as well if you wish.
Good work Jesse!
Lucy created a great image of her experience with Strength including a very nice drawing of her image in relationship to her life as a mature woman.
Donna created a presentation of the Wheel of Fortune that related time, the goddess Fortuna, art, the astrological wheel and finally the atlas. Not a surprise. The poetry she has written and shared with the group too is wonderful. Please let us know Donna if you have any for sale.
We will be posting anything you members send to this Living Tarot Table... Those of you who are attuning with us please also feel free to comment and to send your work to us as well.
You can do so by responding in the comment box below. Also if you wish to see our site.. it is www.thelivingtarot.blogspot.com
In conclusion... I wish to add some theater to next weeks session. If you have a monolouge of no more than 3 -5 mins we would love to see it. Or if your not ready to act... your comments and artwork are greatly appreciated.
Until then.. please so feel free to share your spreads and concepts as well as reading lists and events related to our project.
WE love hearing from you.
If you have an article you can send it to 2takeabreath@yahoo.com and we will cut and paste into a posting for the site.

The cards pulled for next week are:
Tre= Star
Lucy= Star
Jesse= The Hanged Man
Donna= The Chariot
Mana= Strength..(thanks goodness...I need it).
so Donna... If you have questions or thoughts that can stimulate these cards and thier personalities or anyone else for that matter.. Please send them to us!

Mana'sDaily Reading

The Ace of Wands card suggests that my power today lies in initiation. I am a winner by virtue of my desire, belief, vision, and intention. I bring fresh inspiration into the world and am "master of my domain." My solution is found in creative transformation and I am empowered by my spark of life.
What did you pull today?
Mana

The Living Tarot Tonight 6:30 - 9 PM

SEE YOU ALL TONIGHT FOR THE LIVING TAROT
30 EAST SF AVE.
WILLITS CA
95490
707-354-2475
THIS IS AN OPEN MEETING FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO EXPLORE THE TAROT.

The Living Tarot Wednesdays 6:30 - 9 pm

Everyone is welcome. The Living Tarot.
I went to Isis Oasis and told them of our group. The work we did was with the Tarot.
Taking one card for that which we have harvested from our selves to give to others and One Card which is from our harvest gifted from the Goddess... Divine.. Whatever you wish to call the Mystery.
This group was very sweet and we chose cards from the Rider Deck for the Gifts to Others.
5 Wands
Justice
9 swords
Empress
Q Swords
Page of Swords
King of Pentacles
Fool
The Moon
Q Pentacles
Page of Cups
There were 11 of us who attended the rite
We then spoke to the cards passed them around and
Took the Druid Animal Cards Deck for the Gifts that the Goddess has given us to use..

White Swan
Crane
Stag
Salmon
Bear
Fox
Goose
Hawk
Snake
Wren
Sow

If you would like details on this reading please respond to this post.
May the blessings of the Lady and the Lord be ever present in your hearts and minds
The Living Tarot

August 20 Introductions and Ambitions..

This is the first of many of your meetings.
I would like to thank you all for being a group of ambitious souls looking for the truth that we carry deep inside ourselves...
This is a humble attempt to pull together the nectar from our gatherings..
I am very pleased to see Jesse and hope to have more younger readers join us.
Just to recap..
We discussed our lives and intent with Tarot.
We shared a little about ourselves.
Donna read a beautiful poem which we hope she will post on our site?
Many of us shared some of our favorite decks.
We spoke to the history of the heroes journey.
We were given the assignment to draw a card and take it home and see how it apply to us as well as become familiar with the card and bring it to our next meeting this Wednesday as an invited guest.
Regrettably, I did not get everyones card written down.
We also spoke some on the Astrological aspects and Adam brought a great resource of tarot and astrology to share with all of us. I will scan and post all materials we wish to share.
In respect to ritual and tarot... I would like to speak to this subject briefly and hold a time limit to this discussion .. the material world can be very clever in the means it comes to distract us from our purpose.
Ritual and Tarot do go hand in hand however it is not the intent of our work to become a coven or perform long rites and ceremony with the tarot at these meetings. I am open to a separate group that may stem from these meetings in reference to working with the tarot and spell casting..ect...
I do have a suggestion.
We take on each meeting the service of creating a tarot alter.
If we do decide as a group to take this on ... It MUST BE MAINTAINED it also must be treated with the highest of respect and taken down each meeting as well.
This would be done before the meeting at 6 pm.. That gives us a 1/2 hour to create sacred space.
The concept of casting a circle is not really nec for this meeting however taking time to ground may be a good idea.
If we created an alter with Tarot and each person came in and added to this alter and then at the end took something from it like fruit or what ever... This could be very simple in recognizing the sacred aspects of the astral causal and extended universes...
There are so many ways to call out and cast a circle.. I would rather just keep the concept very simple with no circle casting.. For many reasons.
I am very very very open to those of us who want more ritual in their lives and meeting on the other Wednesday as we meet every other wednesday to do such things as developing tarot and ritual together in a more structured manner.
For now lets keep this a a learning and artisit format...
I will build the alter for the meeting tomarrow and we can take 10 -13 mins to do the working..
IT means to bring something that represents the card that you are bringing to the meeting and
We can then move on..
I will also have some coloring projects for those of us who like to doodle.
Snacks are nice to bring and share if you like.
Remember your donations to our group go directly to the scholarship project for Willits Young Actors.. Please consider your tax deductible donations... Even if it is a few dollars... They add up.
However do not take this as a prerequisite for attending.
These are free donation based gatherings ..
The Muse, Willits Young Actors and Willits Center for Artful Living all want you as a community to come together...
If you know anyone intrested.. please ask them to come along!
Many Blessings
The Living Tarot
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