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Using Tarot Imagery to Write Love Poems

Love poetry? Love tarot? Or maybe you are curious about both. Tarot and poetry rely on images to create a connection, ask questions, inspire conversation, and bring us closer to our hearts. In my Using Tarot Imagery to Write Love Poems workshop…
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Tarot Improvisation: Creating Your Own Tarot-Inspired Art

Living in this pandemic-induced dual awareness of the cozy home orbit and the grave, grey anxiety of the collective mortality we face globally has brought me back to my desk where I’ve been coloring into the night as an antidote. If you…
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Using the Tarot to Ask and Answer What Kind of Writer or Artist am I?

Waving from my kitchen table to yours under “shelter in place” orders in California as of last night due to the coronavirus, with time to take stock of yesterday’s joys. Here’s a simple tarot reading you can do for yourself based on…
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Tarot Journaling: A Heart’s Compass Approach

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Using the Tarot to Mine Your Life for Writing Material

I am so pleased to announce a new tarot writing course I'll be teaching through Antioch University's online Inspiration to Publication program this spring; you can sign up here. I am delighted to share my passion for working with the tarot in…
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Garden of Gratitudes: Rockvale Writers’ Colony and Two Gardens

In early October I headed to College Grove, Tennessee (about 45 minutes from Nashville) for a beautiful week-long residency at The Rockvale Writers’ Colony, won with a poem (based on a time-themed contest back in May), Two Gardens, which is…