One quality I’ve noticed about people who love and work with tarot is they are sensitive, intuitive and above all insanely creative people. I’ve a hunch that many of you have creative projects simmering, stewing or boiling over. You may, from time to time, struggle with your artistic gifts.
A recent tarot reading with Carrie Paris found me asking questions about personal creativity and production. Carrie suggested I watch the following lecture from Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love.” If you’ve a creative bone in your body, I’d advise you to do the same. You won’t be sorry:
Captivated by this idea of a daemon, I created this simple tarot exercise so you can put a face to your own personal daemon:
~ Remove your Court Cards, place them in a pile, discarding remaining cards.
~ Shuffle your court cards while thinking about your creative gifts.
~ Recall a time you were working brilliantly. A moment you felt divine inspiration.
~ Recall what it felt like; the goosebumps on your skin, the ease in which your words, paintbrush or hands flowed.
~ When you feel ready, randomly pull a court card.
~ This is the face of your daemon.
If you’d like to share who your daemon turns out to be, drop me a line and let me know.
And no, not this Damon! 
Star light, star bright . . .
How many times have you wished upon a star? Me? Think I’ve lost track.
A dream came to fruition with Llewellyn’s recent release of my book Tarot Diva. Seeing it on the shelves of Barnes and Noble was utterly surreal and amazing!
The author’s process reminds me of the Celtic Cross’s “Hopes and Fears” 9th card position. This idea that you can want something so much and be terrified of it simultaneously.
Isn’t is interesting that our goals, our dreams tend to be intertwined with the core issues we always grapple with?
Perform a simple two tarot card spread or just journal on the following two questions:
1. What do I fear?
2. What do I hope for?
Can this be one and the same issue?
Do we crave the precise thing we need for growth? Are we genetically inclined to reach for things that require we expand in extraordinary ways? If this is true, then it makes our lives easier in a way doesn’t it? We must run, leap and embrace exactly those things that scare us.
Tarot’s beauty lies in that we can use it to mirror and examine our interiors. The darker cards of Tarot remind us it is not only safe, but essential to confront what we fear.
Without a personal laundry list of foibles, see a recent example of hopes and fears coming true:
Tarot Diva comes out and I’m featured in a cute segment on the morning news. Hooray!
The following day, The Daily News follows up on the story, trashing me, comparing my tarot reading to something a kindergartener could do – without the cards. Booo!
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2011/04/26/2011-04-26_local_newscasts_are_overreporting_on_prince_william_and_kate_middletons_impendin.html
A people pleaser by nature, I was beyond mortified to discover the Daily News article. Then I thought about what Madonna or Lady Gaga would have said to me and I felt much better.
We must express ourselves.
We must speak without fear.
We must risk and reinvent ourselves daily.
This is the core of Tarot Diva. May not always succeed but I’m trying my best to practice what I preach.
I do hope you’ll join me!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I there’s a big giant fear in the form of a novel hiding in the corner. Must go shed some light on it.
And if you’ve a fear to share, say it out loud me cause sista, I hear ya! Peace 
And special thanks to Paul Nagy for taking this photo at The Readers Studio 2011!
