The arrival of the new moon stamps the moonth with an initiating energy that shifts and develops through a cycle of growth, fullness, and descent. Each moonth I look to the Tarot’s astrological correspondences for the new moon to find 3 Tarot cards (a Major showing us the path, a numbered Minor showing us our passage and practice, and a court/people card showing us the posture to take on the path) to guide musings on soul tending, selection of prompts for personal/spiritual practice, and creation of a moonthly reading. The reading can be done any time, but ideally between the new and full moons. Revisit the cards you pull periodically up until the next lunation to gain new insight as the light changes.

I once had a housemate with an otherworldly coffee maker. Well, it made otherworldly sounds. I’d hear the extraordinary coming from the most ordinary appliance. The gurgles of water passing through the filter gave way to long notes like a moan but with a twist of sound that turned toward elation. A whole range of feelings flowed from those few sounds.

Whale song filled my kitchen.

This is a season and time for whale song to guide us to our depths and invite us then to surface.

In March we are not in winter but not yet arrived in spring. There can be storms but also sudden days of sun and where I live that means mud, that messy mix of earth and water. Our hearts may rise one day like the whale surfacing to play, but the next slip back into the watery deep called by a song that holds longings and emotions too complex to be easily described. We are between seasons, diving and rising like whales to move with the shifting currents.

In Algonquin tradition, the divine being Glooscap breaks the hold of Winter by riding a whale to reach the Summer and bring her back to warm the lands of His people. We might think of March as that time when He journeyed to Summer and was not yet returned.

Whale is a good guide to this strange season where winter and spring do a messy push and pull.

And a whale appears on Tarot Roots of Asia’s 10 of Cups, the card for this decan’s passage.

In the Tarot tradition, the 10 of Cups indicates simple pleasures and emotional connection, inviting us to connect to the family that nurtures us (biological and/or chosen). The meaning is not complicated and it’s hard to find a challenging aspect. But the whale in the Tarot Roots of Asia 10 of Cups brings an added layer of, yes, depth where, along with enjoying the 10 of Cups’ gifts, we also acknowledge what is below the happiness or obscured by the simplicity of a pleasant image.

Our reality is not simple.

We are a world at war on the surface, hot and hateful and spreading. We in the United States, along with Israel, are the instigators. The bombs are not falling on us–though we are most often their makers–but they are falling in fury over the Middle East. If we seek to evade this reality, any happiness we experience will be a thin skin over spoiled fruit. The feelings we push down too deep will fester and grow. They could be building into a sudden storm that will rise to sink us into depths too dark and deep to swim or find our way back to the surface.

This acknowledgement of true feelings and reality is vital to walking this moonth’s path of The Moon where light shifts constantly, our intuition is the best guide, and all flows with endless waters of emotions. This is not just an esoteric correspondence but a physical reality.

Our bodies are composed of 55% to 78% water with the same salinity as the ocean. The moon awakens within us our inner seas and rivers, activates our puddle parts slicked with rainbows of oil. And these depth waters are a necessary part of filling that womb in which the new is gestating below the chaos at the surface.

The NOs! we are keening in grief and shouting in rage at protests against the cruelty of our times make the womb waters of what we seek to say YES! to. The full vision of our collective YES! may not be truly clear right now. It has yet to rise fully to the surface but like the mess and mud of spring this may just be part of the process.

This moon of the Moon is a good time to keep dreaming the YES! Let yourself catch glimpses of it in your longings for peace, in the consolation of sun after rain, in your admiration for how people are standing up for each other and in the new still small and rickety but real systems of care we are creating to take the place of the institutions that fail.

These are the YESs we desire to bring to the surface from out of the depths of so much water.

How can we do this lifting? Our model for path walking this moonth is the Queen of Wands who calls in fire, new energy, and focused vision.

Queens of Wands channel their energy and vision into bringing forth positive relations, projects, and/or works of art that uplift the people. These Queens are not swamped by the waters but stand on top of them to create the new.

On the astrological Wheel of Year of Tarot correspondences, the Queen of Wands is a bridge between one year and the next. They guide us through these last few days of the whole astrological year, and usher us into the new one beginning with the Spring Equinox on March 20th. The Queen of Wands then rules with the Emperor through the first weeks of the new astrological year and the tipping toward greater light as the days lengthen.

In the Dark Goddess Tarot, Cerridwen, the Welsh Goddess of Transformation, takes the place of the Queen of Wands. Deck creator Ellen Lorenzi-Prince gives Cerridwen’s advice to us as: Craft anew with the bones of the old.

These times we live in are stripping our old lives down to the bone, attuning us to strange new songs. The soul work of now is not to walk away from this challenging truth, but instead to transform what remains into new ways of being and structures that are equitable, just, sustainable, and, yes, joyful.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS / READING FOR THE MOONTH

These questions are offered for reflection and to spark practice throughout the moonth. Pulling Tarot and oracle cards in connection to these questions is appropriate, but not absolutely necessary. You might carry a question with you on a walk, for example, and observe what is happening in the natural world as a way to find insight into the answer to the question.

DEPTHS: What is being called from my depths?

SURFACE: How can I bring it to the surface?

EMERGENCE: What can come forth if I shine a light on what’s surfacing?

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The arrival of the new moon stamps the moonth with an initiating energy that shifts and develops through a cycle of growth, fullness, and descent. Each moonth I look to the Tarot’s astrological correspondences for the new moon to find 3 Tarot cards (a Major showing us the path, a numbered Minor showing us our passage and practice, and a court/people card showing us the posture to take on the path) to guide musings on soul tending, selection of prompts for personal/spiritual practice, and creation of a moonthly reading. The reading can be done any time, but ideally between the new and full moons. Revisit the cards you pull periodically up until the next lunation to gain new insight as the light changes.

This Tuesday, February 17th the new moon arrives to remind us that renewal is possible (exact at 7:00 am ET, time zone converter ).

In the Northern Hemisphere, we’ve just been through the solar cycle’s renewal flowing out of the Winter Solstice. Each day the sunset comes later and later. The light is not yet abundant, but it is growing. So, it is appropriate that The Star (because of its correspondence with the new moon in Aquarius) is this moonth’s path card to guide us toward the springtime.

In the progression of the Tarot’s Major Arcana, the Star’s peaceful image comes after the upheaval and challenge of Death, the Devil, and the Tower. The gentle light of the Star offers a place to rest and receive the gift of the cosmos’ gentle light.

In Rachel Pollack’s Shining Tribe Tarot, The Star is the Greek Goddess Persephone who with her mother, the Goddess Demeter, initiates seekers into a revelation about how Life and Death are connected to, not separated from, each other.

When Persephone is abducted by Hades, the God of the Underworld, Demeter overcomes obstacles to bring her daughter back to the land of the living. Because Persephone has eaten pomegranate seeds in the Underworld, she must return for part of each year to reign as Queen of the Dead. But Persephone’s annual return brings joy to Demeter, which ignites the growth of seeds of grain buried in the ground.

In even this barest retelling of Persephone and Demeter’s story, we see Life and Death flowing in and out and around each other to become the renewal of the seasons, life on earth, and the connection between generations.

Entering into the details and deviations that come from a millennia-old myth and the sacred art it has inspired brings new layers of wisdom. As I prepared for our 2022 Greek pilgrimage I read the beautiful Hymn to Demeter (Apostolos N. Athanassakis’ translation from the 2nd edition of The Homeric Hymns; 2004). The words of the Hymn opened my eyes to new wisdom in the Shining Tribe’s Star card.

In the card image Persephone stands in bright light. The door to the Underworld is behind her. She pours out revivifying waters to help her mother’s grain grow. The water represents a literal need for life-giving food, and its two streams also invite meaning-making with our symbolic eyes. Meditating on the image with the words of the Hymn to Demeter in my heart and mind, I find a stream of Hope and a stream of Rage open up a renewal of the myth so that it speaks even more fully to the realities of our times.

The Stream of Hope

Persephone is gathering flowers and as she reaches for a narcissus, Hades springs forth from the Underground in his chariot to capture the young Goddess. She cries out but no one hears her except the ancient Goddess Hekate who lives apart in a cave. No one sees her abduction, but the Sun God Helios who is high in the sky.

Hades’ chariot seems to be moving at such speed that they all rise up into the sky. As she is captured, Persephone looks from a new vantage point at her world.

So, while [She] looked upon the earth and the starry sky

and upon the swift-flowing sea teeming with fish

and the rays of the sun and still hoped to see

her loving mother and the races of gods immortal,

hope charmed her mind, despite her grief (lines 33-37 from the Hymn to Demeter).

In this terrible moment, Persephone is touched by a vision of earth, sea, and sky; she connects to her mother’s love; and though she grieves, she lets herself be charmed by hope.

She is a model for us in our times of deep distress. She shows us that even while we are grieving, we can hold onto visions of possibility. We can find solace in the natural world. We can remember the love that exists in our lives. These inspirations do not displace grief but exist alongside it. The light of these inspirations can be quietly working to renew us, even before we are aware of the healing underway.

The Stream of Rage

Although she does not know it during her long days in the Underworld, Persephone’s hope is justified. And her faith in her mother’s love is well placed. Because in the Upperworld, Demeter is determined to rescue her child.

Demeter senses immediately that something is wrong, but no one can tell her what has happened to her child. She is distraught, stops eating and bathing. Finally, she encounters Hekate who tells her she heard Persephone’s cry and advises her to consult Helios.

Helios tells her the whole story. Not only has Persephone been taken by Hades to the Underworld, but Zeus—Persephone’s own father and Demeter’s brother—gave her to Hades (Demeter’s brother, too!). She confronts Zeus but is rebuffed so with a “pain more awful and savage” Demeter leaves the home of the gods in Olympus to dwell among humans.

At first Demeter is not herself; her divine power is hidden by her grief. Among the humans, she serves as a nursemaid to a royal family. It seems almost as if she has forgotten her true purpose, but, no, we eventually see she is just gathering herself together. A spark of anger when she is thwarted in making the child she cares for immortal returns her to her rescue of Persephone.

The spark of anger seems to be the catalyst for Demeter’s greater rage to emerge. Her betraying brother Gods and the other Olympians who did nothing to stop them will be made to suffer.

… [Demeter] is plotting

greatly to destroy the feeble races of earth-born men.

The seed will be hidden under the earth and the immortals will lose

their honors. Her anger is dreadful, and she does not mingle

with the gods, but apart from them in a fragrant temple

she sits, dwelling in the rocky town of Eleusis (lines 351-356 from the Hymn to Demeter).

Humans suffer because of Demeter’s rage but in truth her targets are the gods. If deprived of offerings the humans make to them, their power will wither.

Zeus finally understands the situation is dire and sends the messenger God Hermes to negotiate with Hades for Persephone’s return.

Before we rush along to Persephone’s rescue, let’s pause to contemplate Demeter’s rage and what it can offer us for understanding rage in our own times.

Demeter’s is the rage of a mother against a system that has consigned her child to death. Zeus, both as ruler and as father, has abused his power, conspired with Hades, and decided Persephone’s fate. In some tellings of the tale, he dismisses Demeter’s first approach by ignoring her distress and instead tells her that it is a good match. Really, she should be happy.

But Demeter refuses to accept His manipulation of the truth and belittling of her own emotions. She embraces the power of her rage.

Today, we seethe along with the Goddess against the horrors of our times. Activists are often criticized for being too disruptive, too extreme, too impatient. They are counseled to work within the system, be pragmatic, accept incremental change. But looking through the lens of Demeter’s story we see rage has a role to play in prodding the system that would rather maintain the status quo toward change.

While not all activism has to take the same form, respect for, and inclusion at the table of, those who are fired by sacred rage is necessary. The Wiccan teacher and earth activist Starhawk talks about a need for an ecology of activism.

Afterall, it is only Demeter’s rage flowing out from the love of her child that moves Zeus to right his wrong. We might think of Demeter as the first activist to meet her change goals by working to break the human Pillars of Support for the Regime of the corrupt Gods.

Return

Hermes is successful in his task of retrieving Persephone. Together they ride Hades’ horses out of the Underworld. Soon Demeter is embracing her child, but as she does, she senses something is not right; there has been some trickery. She asks Persephone if she has eaten anything. Persephone replies that she ate the pomegranate seeds Hades forced upon her in the Underworld. Demeter knows that her daughter now has an unbreakable connection to the Land of the Dead. In the Homeric Hymn, Persephone must return to spend a third of the year in the Underworld.

In other stories about Persephone, she is said to embrace her role as Queen of the Dead and to introduce compassion and mercy into the Underworld.

Persephone returns but she returns changed. Her and her mother’s life do not go back to “normal.” New awareness and roles must be integrated into both their lives. Persephone does not forget her connection to Death but rather Death becomes part of her life.

Renewal: The Alchemy of Hope and Rage

Rage on its own is dangerous. Rage needs to be mixed with the expansive, love-seeded hope of Persephone.

Persephone’s hope comes from seeing the whole of the cosmos and from feeling a connection to earth, sea, and sky. Persephone shows us hope that is inclusive and that is beyond a singular focus on the self.

Persephone’s hope gives a direction to Demeter’s rage that is oriented toward the whole. Love is then the agent that mixes the two together. Persephone trusts in her mother’s love and Demeter’s love for her daughter is at the root of the rage that moves her to action.

When Persephone’s hope and Demeter’s rage combine to reunite them, their love for each other than spills over into a life-giving force serving more than themselves. Persephone’s return catalyzes Demeter to once again cause the grain to grow and all of the earth to blossom. Demeter then teaches humans to grow the grain on their own. She shares her power with humanity.

The alchemy of hope and rage renews because it expands power, flows with love, and serves life. The call of the Star path is to become practitioners of this renewal.

Seven of Swords Passage and Practice

On the Star path we are passing through the days of the 7 of Swords. In the iconic Rider Waite Smith deck, we see a figure tip toeing away with hands full of Swords and watching their back. Their strategy has worked and they seem to be getting away with the goods.

This card of the trickster may remind us of the tale told above of Hades keeping a hold of Persephone by feeding her the pomegranate seeds. As such, this card reminds us that there are people who will attempt to trick us to get what they want. As Swords is in the realm of air connecting us to the mind and communication, we might be on the lookout during this moonth for those people who are saying one thing but are doing or believing another.

But Hades is not the only possible figure represented in this card. We might find this image represents Persephone herself.

In some versions of Persephone’s story—my understanding is that they are modern versions—the Goddess either leaves willingly with Hades or chooses on her own to spend time in the Underworld. She sees that the dead need someone to comfort them. She elects to be their Queen. She knows she cannot just return to life with her mother as it was before. She is no longer innocent.

Perhaps then She knows something is up when offered the seeds and eats them to be able to give this reason to her mother for going back and forth between the worlds. Perhaps She knows it would break her mother’s already grieving heart to know that her daugther is moving away from her.

This possible trickery on the part of Persephone then leads to her attention being divided between the worlds of Life and Death. This division, however, becomes expansive rather than limiting. Persephone’s love for her mother calls her back to the living world. While those she serves in the Underworld connect her to Death. She invites us, too, to practice tending a loving flow between the living and the dead.

Be a Knight of Cups on The Star Path

Our model this moonth for walking the path of the Star is the Knight of Cups.

All Knights are on a quest to serve the Greater Than themselves. How the Knights serve is inspired by their elemental association. The Knights of Cups’ association with Water calls them to lead with their heart. They care for those they love and they also care for those they don’t know because water flows all over the earth ignoring boundries.

They use tools of the heart on their quest. Knights of Cups are the ones who nurture and show compassion in groups, offer hospitality to all, and create openings for feelings to be felt and expressed. They bring art and singing into the action.

Yes, they dare to care and believe that their caring can make a difference for creating the world we want to live in.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS / READING FOR THE MOONTH

These questions are offered for reflection and to spark practice throughout the moonth. Pulling Tarot and oracle cards in connection to these questions is appropriate, but not absolutely necessary. You might carry a question with you on a walk, for example, and observe what is happening in the natural world as a way to find insight into the answer to the question.

HOPE: What expansive hope is most beneficial to nurture within me now?

RAGE: How can I work with my grief/anger so that its energy moves me toward making my hope real?

ALCHEMY: When my hope and rage combine what can be renewed for myself and the Whole?

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The height of this moonth’s cycle comes with the full moon arriving on Sunday, February 1 (exact at 5:09 pm, time zone converter), and offers a revelation about how the lunar energies initiated on the January 18th new moon are developing. The new moon, guided by its association with The Devil, 4 of Pentacles, and King of Swords, called us to protect what is most important. Out of a full moon revelation about this developing energy, we are issued an invitation to return a gift to the world in the final weeks of the lunar cycle.

The astro-Tarot correspondences align this full moon with Strength. The name clearly states the card’s meaning – no enigma here – but the iconic image of a woman tenderly holding open a lion’s mouth invites us into a deeper exploration of what constitutes true strength.

When I do Tarot sessions or e-readings, I often start with the prompt of: What aspect or detail of the image most captures your attention? As I consider the current lunar patterns, I am most captivated by the lion, the open mouth, teeth, and tongue. And find myself pondering the lion as both an inner and an outer force.

Outer lions are dangerous. Lions in nature are territorial, keen hunters, and known to even kill humans. A lion is not to be trifled with. Looking into a lion’s mouth is recognizing danger – and not looking away.

There are so many outer lions circling us now. You know this; the news is an onslaught of chaos and violence in our feeds each day.

What can guide us in responding to these outer lions? Our inner lions, who are also on the move, who are inviting us to meet their power.

Your inner lion may be one, some, or all of these:

• capacity to care
• commitment to community
• devotion to values and vocation
• belief in democracy
• faith and devotion to the Divine
• cultivation of kinship with our fellow humans and more-than-human family, community, and friends.

These are quieter lions than aggression, violence, and dominance. But these inner lions can be powerful companions when we consistently tend and gently nurture them. They don’t respond to force, but instead to love and attention.

The inner lions move independently of external power. They assert themselves whenever and wherever we decide to work in partnership with them, whenever and wherever we need to be courageous.

As we reach toward our inner lions and let their energy flow into us, we are filled with their power. Energized by our inner lions, we become co-creators of the world we want to live in. We act to create that world not because our success is assured but because we have the strength to keep moving toward the vision. When we do this, we protect what is most important.

To encourage a revelation on these themes as we journey through this moonthly cycle, you are invited to one, some, or all of these practices:

• Moon bathe by sitting or lying under a window or outside on the ground. Let go of your thoughts and soak in the light. Or you might take the inspiration of this feline-connected moon and turn your moon communion into a prowl or a “dance.” Face the moon and lift your heart toward it. Feel the moon (seen or unseen) energy flow into your heart area and let that spark a movement. Let that movement lead to another. Let your thoughts flow away and follow instead the promptings of your body led by the moon.

• Take out any reading or your reflections from the new moon and look at them in a new light. How does your understanding of the cards shift now that time has passed and light has shifted? (If you haven’t done a reading yet, no problem, just do it now under the light of the full moon. You can try the one from the new moon.)

• Bring out your Devil and Strength cards from your Tarot deck and connect them to your new moon reading / reflections. You could place/imagine these cards on either side of your reading or above and below, and then look at how they add meaning into the story your original cards offered you.

• Reflect on questions such as: What is/are your inner lion(s)? How do you connect with them in these times? What action do they call you to? How do they help you protect what is most important? You could, of course, pull cards as responses to any of these questions. You may want to engage in Visio Divina to find the layers of wisdom within the cards.

When you are done, remember to offer gratitude for what you have received. Consider what gift you now want to return to the world. Pulling a card for guidance on the gift is always a fine thing to do. In the coming weeks and before the moon returns to dark around February 12th offer your gift to the world.

The arrival of the new moon stamps the moonth with an initiating energy that shifts and develops through a cycle of growth, fullness, and descent. Each moonth I look to the Tarot’s astrological correspondences for the new moon to find 3 Tarot cards (a Major showing us the path, a numbered Minor showing us our passage and practice, and a court/people card showing us the posture to take on the path) to guide musings on soul tending, selection of prompts for personal/spiritual practice, and creation of a moonthly reading. The reading can be done any time, but ideally between the new and full moons. Revisit the cards you pull periodically up until the next lunation to gain new insight as the light changes.

We live in a time of breakdown, a time of the old making way for the new. But is everything to be surrendered? The January 18th new moon (exact at 2:51 pm ET, time zone converter) that moves us along the Devil’s pathway through the passage of the 4 of Pentacles counsels us to hold on to what is most important. Reminds us that some things are worth protecting.

Passage: The Four of Pentacles

In the iconic Rider Waite Smith image a nobleman—the king? —sits on his throne with each foot tamping down a pentacle, the crown topped with one, and arms wrapped around the fourth. Both flow from the Greater Than Above and the Heart’s Love Within is blocked by this grasping after wealth and power entirely for one’s self. This is not an image to emulate. It highlights for us the challenging aspects of the Four of Pentacles.

But each Tarot card holds a whole range of meaning. And Dust II Onyx Tarot invites us into another more connective possibility for the Four of Pentacles—called Coins in this deck. In this image, we see a figure standing in front of adobo structures: the dwellings and grain storehouses of the Dogon people of southwest Mali and Burkina Faso. The figure is a guard protecting the village.

The grain storehouses deserve protection not just because they contain food as necessity and wealth, but because the Dogon honored this smallest element of earth as reflective of the whole of the universe. In the Dust II Onyx guide, Courtney Alexander shares with us the richness of the symbolism (I’m just sharing a taste of it here):

The granaries are artistically constructed as a metaphor for the structure of the Universe, the human body, and the generative power of women. The circular base represents the Sun and the square top is the sky. … The exterior parts of the granaries symbolize the species of the world, the offspring of the eight great ancestors.

By guarding the granaries and homes, the Four of Coins figure is protecting what is most important not just for themselves but also for the community and even for the preservation of a universe in balance. The Four of Coins passage of Dust II Onyx shows us the wisdom way of this image and calls us to emulate its guardian figure.

What is most important to you? What are your necessities that represent the world you want to live in? What are the structures and symbols that represent what is most important to you?

Path: The Devil

We move through this passage on this moonth’s pathway of The Devil.

In the Tarot, the Devil’s meanings are illusion, addiction, bondage, compulsion. In the oldest Tarots the Devil is made up of strange parts cobbled together presiding over figures that are tied at the Devil’s feet. As their bonds don’t look that tight, we might wonder why they do not break free. Although this Devil is a bit of a buffoon, it is clearly dangerous, not just for what it might do on its own but for what it might incite others in thrall to its power to do.

This Devil is a warning to us when we are acting as Four of Pentacles guardians. There is real danger. We must prepare to meet it.

Like the Four of Pentacles, the Devil archetype has a range of meanings. The Devil can be a guide for our soul tending when we follow the inner work of this path by meeting our Shadow.

The Shadow is made up of parts of ourselves that we have difficulty accepting. Most often we are not even aware of these parts as existing within us. Of course, these are challenging parts (fears, addictions, blind spots), but also positive parts (power, courage, the ability to change). We can get clues about what our shadows are by our strong reactions to others. When we judge “he is so controlling” or “she is so eloquent” we are invited to consider these as parts of ourselves that you are projecting onto others. Not always but searching your thoughts for a clue to shadow can be fertile work.

I attended a seminar on Jungian principles for advancing spiritual growth where the presenter said, “The only way to truly grow is to integrate the shadow.” When we own all the parts of ourselves, we become more fully who we are. We no longer have to expend energy hiding who we fully are.

We have both personal and collective Shadow. In these turbulent times, our collective shadows are rising up from places where we have tried to hide them: white supremacy and racism, greed and exploitation, grief from all this turning to rage institutionalized into war … the list goes on. Their rising can feel overwhelming, terrifying, but they come now to offer us an invitation to integration and healing.

Posture: The King of Swords

On this challenging pathway we are shown the clear mind and focused purpose of the King of Swords as a role model for our ways of being and acting.

We can’t ignore the feelings that will surge through us during this time, but we can let them pass through us. Then we can be guided by a mind that seeks out facts, envisions futures based on highest ideals, and speaks out.

We will not use literal swords. Instead our voices speaking out about the need to protect what is most important—to our legislators, our family, our neighbors, our community—will be our best tools. With the King of Swords as our guide, we will not be silent. We raise our voices in service to the Whole.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS / READING FOR THE MOONTH

These questions are offered for reflection and to spark practice throughout the moonth. Pulling Tarot and oracle cards in connection to these questions is appropriate, but not absolutely necessary. You might carry a question with you on a walk, for example, and observe what is happening in the natural world as a way to find insight into the answer to the question.

PROTECTION: What is most important to protect?

ACTION: What contribution can I make to protecting this?

SEED: What seed will be allowed to grow as I do this work?

I do offer this as an e-reading in my collaborative intuitive format for $32. Sign up with PayPal or email me about sending a check. When I receive notification, I’ll be in touch to let you know about when to expect to receive your reading by email. I generally have openings to do these readings on Mondays and Saturdays.