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   Geoxena's Art Blog

   A blog by geoxena in Member Blogs

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   • Time to make art
   • Clarity
   • This blog

   

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   Time to make art

   I have two art projects I need to work on.  They are entries for art contests and I often wait til the last possible day to start work on an entry before the submission deadline.  It's not just because I've had limited time to work on them due to my efforts to schedule things to do or events to attend in order to meet people and socialize.  It's also because I am such a procrastinator!  Well, now I have all the time in the world to work on them since I fractured my ankle two days ago and am going nowhere for a while!  Hopefully I'll make the most of staying home with my foot in a walking cast.  I could probably go out with it on - after all, that's what it is meant for - but I will wait until I feel more secure about that.  In the meantime, I will make art while my ankle heals!

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   Tarot for self-development and shadow work

   A blog by Cariabella in Member Blogs

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   • Let’s Borrow the Magician’s Tools to Do Some Magic

   

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   Let’s Borrow the Magician’s Tools to Do Some Magic

   The Magician teaches us to do actual magic—specifically, how to sharpen our manifestation skills by unlocking the subconscious. If you look at the Magician’s table, he has four tools. I like to map these directly to Carl Jung’s four psychological functions, which align beautifully with the tarot suits:

   • Sensation (Pentacles): Gathering raw data through our physical senses (what we can see, touch, hear, taste, and smell).

   • Intuition (Wands): Perceiving cosmic insights, gut feelings, and potential futures without needing logical proof.

   • Thinking (Swords): Analyzing, organizing, and structurally categorizing that information.

   • Feeling (Cups): Assigning personal, ethical, or subjective value to things—deciding what they are actually worth to you.

   Putting the Tools to Work: A 3-Step Ritual

   Here is how we can intentionally lay these elements out on our own "table" during a practice:

   1. Sensation (Pentacles): Prep your space! Light incense, put on music, or chant to get your physical senses fully engaged.

   2. Thinking & Feeling (Swords & Cups): Hold your goal in mind while acknowledging that you currently lack it. Blending thought and emotion is the secret sauce of energy transmutation—the ultimate magical technique.

   3. Intuition (Wands): Shift your thinking to a state of absolute completion, acting as if the goal is already yours.

   The Secret Backdoor to the Subconscious

   Jung noticed that most of us lean heavily on one dominant function, use two as sidekicks, and leave one completely in the dark. This weakest one is known as your Inferior Function.

   Because it sits squarely in your blind spot, it is deeply embedded in your unconscious. That means your weakest function is actually your personal backdoor to the subconscious mind. Integrating it is the real key to unlocking authentic magic.

   Easy Daily Exercises to Strengthen Your Functions

   You don't need a fancy altar to practice this; you can do it on the fly!

   • Alchemize Everyday Stress: Got yelled at by your boss? Don't waste that energy! Sit in your car or a quiet corner and use that frustration to fuel a completely different manifestation (like a new car). To anchor yourself, engage your senses internally: visualize a peaceful river, hear the birds, or replay the taste and smell of your morning coffee.

   • The Senses Check-In: While walking or working, take a moment to notice everything you can physically see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Then, close your eyes and recreate those exact sensations internally in your mind's eye.

   How do you see these four functions playing out on your own Magician’s table? Which suit or Jungian function do you think is your "inferior function" or blind spot when trying to pull things down from the astral into the physical?

   

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   If You Ask Me----

   A blog by Grizabella in Member Blogs

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   • Lustrous Lenormand
   • Two Books for March (but now it's June)
   • More Gold Foil
   • Gold Foil Tarot
   • Info in, Info out---Presto Change-o

   

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   Lustrous Lenormand

   I have the Kipper and Lenormand decks by Ciro Marchetti  and I love his work.  This deck, though, is really impressing me because of the extra cards and Toni Savory's contribution in meanings of all the cards.  Toni Savory wrote the accompanying book and she's done quite an amazing job of it.  The deck has 11 added cards and that, in my opinion, really make the readings so much more enlightening and helpful for your sitter.  

    

   I haven't had much time to really sit down and study the book and deck in depth yet but I've launched my study officially recently.  I've made a little bag for the deck.  I have the deck and book beside me so I can easily spend time doing some reading and studying whenever I have the urge or the time.  

    

   There are 11 added cards which are:

    

   28/29  Two each of the Man and Woman cards

   37  Time

   38  Well

   39  Dice

   40  Compass

   41  Bridge

   42  Masks

   43  Labyrinth

   44  Closer Look

    

   I won't go on with describing the book and deck because it's such a detailed and extensive deck/book but I'm going to dedicate the rest of 2026 to the Lustrous Lenormand.  I've read Tarot for so many years but I've only used Lenormand much less frequently so this is going to be very rewarding and stimulating.  I moved (when will it ever stop? lol) to another space in the park where I have more room and less distraction so I'm going to start doing readings for neighbors and, of course, for people online to get very experienced with the deck and the spreads in the book, etc.  If it's allowed, I'll offer some readings in exchange for feedback here on the forum if members will be so kind as to help me in that way.  I'll check with the mods to be sure I don't do anything not allowed before I put out any offers.

    

    

    

    

    

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