YouandTheTarot

  Gaining awareness through the tarot cards dates back centuries. Back then, to gain that perspective on who you are you would go to a "professional reader." Today, you can become your own tarot reader.  In honor of World Tarot Day, which occurs on May 25th, I share with you two ways you can master the mystical art of tarot reading. One is provided by The New York Times. Yes, that prestigious media institution has published features on the tarot. Here are its celebration of the tarot as a tool for self-understanding and its how-to become your own reader.  A second kind of how-to I created for my clients who felt they wanted to continue on their journey of discovery as their own interpreter of the tarot. Here is that comprehensive  DIY guide. However, you might want to be able to relax and take in a tarot reading from a professional. In honor of World Tarot Day I am providing a 50% discount on all tarot readings during the entire month of May 2024. No minimum or maximum numbe

  The current turmoil associated with geopolitical matters on university campuses is not Counterculture 2:0. That is the message coming up in the pulling of Tarot cards. Above is the symbol in the cards for conflict. Back then in the late 1960s and early 1970s leadership in higher education had essentially been blindsided. In most cases they caved to the demands of the protestors. Penalities inflicted were later rescinded. Constituencies for special interests felt embolded. That was then. Now, whether it had been Harvard or more recently Columbia the ethos is different. Congress has gotten into the act. So has local law enforcement. There is even chatter of lawsuits filed against protestors for misdeeds such as blocking business traffic.  The Tarot warns against the illusion that one's cause is right and society will come to agree. Meanwhile it is dangerous to assume that behavior will be given a free pass.  Tarot Card Reader. Intuitive Career Coach. Medium. Solutions-Based. Discov

Professional services such as finance, management consulting and law are known as "sweat shops." Very recently on  Fishbowl Big Law  there are some comments that law firm Paul, Weiss' Private Equity practice is among the most sweaty. Others note that the firm doesn't really have an PE group, with that kind of work done under the M&A umbrella and the culture varies with who oversees the individual teams. There are partners who are respectful of associates' time and mentor. As with much of what goes on inside organizations and on career paths, the concept of "sweat shop" is misunderstood. When almost-bankrupt Chrysler poached me from financially solid GM, colleagues got very busy with the gossip. They smirked that I was opting for a sweat shop. According to the traditional understanding of sweat shop I was. At GM my hours were 9 to 5 (it was a different time). At Chrysler, as we struggled to save 50,000 American jobs, we rolled in about 7 AM and out ab

The for-sales could have run on Craigslist for 16 more days.  Then came that Ah-Ha moment. Given the low prices you get for used furniture, even though in excellent condition, why not just donate the barely used innovative bed set, artsy storage chest/prism, snow-removal equipment and karma icons.  I knocked on a neighbor's door. When I described the goodies her face lit up. You bet, she said, her husband would be right down the stairs to bring up their new stuff.  Their five-year-old would tag along with some of her stuffed animals to place immediately in the chest.  That family is delighted. The glow spills over to me. And I need that as I continue to put together the logistics for relocating back to Sierra Vista, Arizona. It's a must move, so soon after coming here to the Midwest.  Those who had heard of me back in AZ have offered me contracts for ongoing tarot reading sessions. The region has three resort areas.  Here there is only one resort area - Geneva on the Lake - and

  " ... if you have an emotional block or destructive mental loop, you will be out of energetic harmony ... It is easy to be controlled by circumstances. You may react with annoyance or even anger at things that wouldn't normally bother you ..." - Chapter 2, page 26 of "Modern Guide to Energy Clearing" by Barbara Moore, Llewellyn Publications, 2019. The professional anonymous networks such as Fishbowl, Reddit, Glassdoor and Blind are full of tirades about long hours. They are blamed for everything from mistakes in tasks that result in negative performance evaluations to the onset of mental-illness problems. But the issue may not be the hours themselves.  There are those who are genetically configured to not require the usual six to eight hours of shut-eye. An example is chair of law firm Paul, Weiss Brad Karp. He can function on very little sleep and go out into the world in the morning and host three consecutive business breakfasts, then run the shop until lat

  We learn. What is cemented in me now is a lesson from a dying colleague. She gushed at the joy of the tedious task of brushing her teeth. That was because 1) She could still do that self-care herself and 2) How clean and fresh she felt afterwards. I got it. Those duties of daily life which seem so mundane and, yes, beneath us (after all, too many of us are quite overeducated) can be platforms for bliss. One such experience is doing the laundry. If I stuck to the drill of using the residential complex's machines I couldn't extract the magic of laundry day. Instead I drive to the lake area for that. Along the 57 miles I can shake off the obsessions. I gas up at the truck stop and jaw-jaw with the drivers, the tourists and bikers on their hogs. That gets me further out of my too little world. As poet Sylvia Plath put it in the "Bell Jar," I had been trapped in my own bad air. No more. There are yard sales. There are scouts being trained in survival. I hear the waves. Y