Before I take off for somewhere, I often do a three card cut to get a “trip omen.” Over the years I’ve noticed that certain tarot cards show up when, for instance, I’m going to miss the plane or the connecting flight. Tarot cards are quick to point out some bummer up ahead.
However, a common phenomenon with the tarot is that it reacts to immediate circumstances that obliterate the more relevant long-term results of what you are asking about. Anything that causes a strong emotional reaction can loom large in a tarot reading.
“How is my vacation going to go? ” can look pretty disappointing if in the first 24 hours, the jolly vacationer missed their connecting flight, then missed some event they were due at, etc. It helps to look at which cards fall on which placement on the divinatory map (the layout), to know what trip difficulties the cards are pointing out. Accurate tarot card reading is a combination of intuition, and understanding the properties of the four elements and natural phenomena each card relates to, in combination with where the card falls on the map.
It’s especially unnerving to look at an unsettling tarot card layout about transportation. Recently, I had a clarifying personal experience about the sometimes trigger-happy reaction of tarot cards to an upcoming event. I saw this in action when I picked my brother up at the airport the other day. Cutting the cards on his flight, it looked like he wasn’t going to get here! The 3 of Swords was in Earth, a final comment that can mean: “…the plan you expect to be carried out, is not.” (More detailed discussion on post about “scary tarot cards” here. )
But my brother arrived just fine, and on time. What was the tarot picking up on?
Here’s what it most likely was: My brother had a circuitous route to Santa Fe, that brought him to St. Louis, Mo. , then Las Vegas, Nevada, and then New Mexico. Perhaps because he can be an absent-minded professor engrossed in his work (www.geneheyman.com), the details that New Mexico was the last stop didn’t register, and he was shocked at first that the plane was headed to Las Vegas. Have you ever thought something was wrong about your flight while you are actually on the plane? It causes a very big adrenalin rush.
I believe those brief but disruptive emotions caused the cluster of distressing Air cards that reflected his flight. (air= the mental plane, your thoughts) You always have to look at what element the trouble is showing up in: if it’s in air, it can be simply anxiety that doesn’t turn out to be based on reality, like a nightmare.
Leaving New Mexico a few days later, I knew my brother would make his departure flight, even though it was a close call because we were late, and I dropped him off outside the airport moments before the plane began to board. I knew he made it through security and to the gate because the tarot characterized his trip with two sixes. Six is ruled by the Sun, and in fire (action) it showed the successful action of getting to the airport, i.e. driving like a bat out of hell. As a conclusion card, Six in water (environment, emotions) showed he’d be successful in both meeting and reuniting with people; in other words, successfully getting where he was going and happily reuniting with his party. (For details on what success looks like on the tarot, click here.)
Before I take off for somewhere, I often do a three card cut to get a “trip omen.” Over the years I’ve noticed that certain tarot cards show up when, for instance, I’m going to miss the plane or the connecting flight. Tarot cards are quick to point out some bummer up ahead.
However, a common phenomenon with the tarot is that it reacts to immediate circumstances that obliterate the more relevant long-term results of what you are asking about. Anything that causes a strong emotional reaction can loom large in a tarot reading.
“How is my vacation going to go? ” can look pretty disappointing if in the first 24 hours, the jolly vacationer missed their connecting flight, then missed some event they were due at, etc. It helps to look at which cards fall on which placement on the divinatory map (the layout), to know what trip difficulties the cards are pointing out. Accurate tarot card reading is a combination of intuition, and understanding the properties of the four elements and natural phenomena each card relates to, in combination with where the card falls on the map.
It’s especially unnerving to look at an unsettling tarot card layout about transportation. Recently, I had a clarifying personal experience about the sometimes trigger-happy reaction of tarot cards to an upcoming event. I saw this in action when I picked my brother up at the airport the other day. Cutting the cards on his flight, it looked like he wasn’t going to get here! The 3 of Swords was in Earth, a final comment that can mean: “…the plan you expect to be carried out, is not.” (More detailed discussion on post about “scary tarot cards” here. )
But my brother arrived just fine, and on time. What was the tarot picking up on?
Here’s what it most likely was: My brother had a circuitous route to Santa Fe, that brought him to St. Louis, Mo. , then Las Vegas, Nevada, and then New Mexico. Perhaps because he can be an absent-minded professor engrossed in his work (www.geneheyman.com), the details that New Mexico was the last stop didn’t register, and he was shocked at first that the plane was headed to Las Vegas. Have you ever thought something was wrong about your flight while you are actually on the plane? It causes a very big adrenalin rush.
I believe those brief but disruptive emotions caused the cluster of distressing Air cards that reflected his flight. (air= the mental plane, your thoughts) You always have to look at what element the trouble is showing up in: if it’s in air, it can be simply anxiety that doesn’t turn out to be based on reality, like a nightmare.
Leaving New Mexico a few days later, I knew my brother would make his departure flight, even though it was a close call because we were late, and I dropped him off outside the airport moments before the plane began to board. I knew he made it through security and to the gate because the tarot characterized his trip with two sixes. Six is ruled by the Sun, and in fire (action) it showed the successful action of getting to the airport, i.e. driving like a bat out of hell. As a conclusion card, Six in water (environment, emotions) showed he’d be successful in both meeting and reuniting with people; in other words, successfully getting where he was going and happily reuniting with his party. (For details on what success looks like on the tarot, click here.)
This is a “go for it” Summer where what you want, and believe you are supposed to be doing, requires breaking through your own limitations and displaying more flexibility. Go For It! There is no better time to follow your own drumbeat and re-direct yourself onto a meaningful path. Here is more specific guidance to ensure your personal success:
Follow Through: Keep up with what’s in progress, and take care of unfinished business. (The Summer beginning when Mercury is retrograde suggests it’s not a great time to begin something brand new, but to maintain what you’ve already started.)
Embrace the Unknown: Expect obscurity and murkiness to mark the beginning of your progress through this Summer’ objectives. People walk themselves out of tight situations by their willingness to change and endure uncertainty.
3: Call on your Guides: The potential for spiritual development is high, so if you ever wanted to experiment with just what kind of help is personally available to you, try calling on your spiritual guides this summer! It’s as simple as being curious and receptive and willing to expand your circle of support. Let yourself be empty and in the present, have an open heart, and permit whatever has your best interests in mind to give you a message.
The Circles I’ve been holding in Santa Fe and around the country have evolved into a workshop with time for more unusual and profound experiences…I’m pleased to present The Creative Journey Workshop!
WE ARE HERE TO HEAL, EVOLVE, AND TRANSFORM….And I want it to be fun! Please join me in Santa Fe June 29th -July 1st for a workshop that gives you tools and tips for your personal journey. Detailed curriculum on request.
The Creative Journey Workshop takes place in Santa Fe, in my downtown office by the Plaza, with a couple of field trips and outdoor assignments. It begins with an introductory meeting the evening of the 29th. Monday and Tuesday we’ll meet in a circle for a series of connected sessions, two a day, morning and late afternoon. As well as give you psychic tips, tools, and techniques, the overall goal is to make you more confident about your inner resources and your ability to create the life that inspires you.
We will focus on:
INTUITION AWARENESS: We are a language-based culture but there are many ways to communicate beyond the limits of language. This workshop includes exercises and experiences to explore and strengthen our true communication skills. Expanding our self-awareness and awakening to ways we naturally connect, promotes among other things, sharing more of ourselves, and experiencing more love.
YOUR STORY: Within themselves, people are aware they are healing, changing, and moved to fulfill what’s in their heart to do. We explore your story’s themes in an intuitive art-making process called The Transformative Art Cards. Other tools and processes can bring resolve about specific issues important to you now.
A TOOLKIT FOR YOUR PERSONAL JOURNEY: Some of the exercises and practices are from my own psychic counseling and spiritual healing practice, and many are from shamans I’ve studied with, for energy balancing, communing with Nature, self-healing, and receiving spiritual guidance. Some exercises are outside, please bring comfortable clothes and shoes.
Includes PSYCHIC MESSAGE AND SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE. My goal is to give you clarifying and empowering insights, healing, and practice in accessing your own intuition. Specific questions answered. (Private psychic counseling and healing sessions available within workshop timeframe.)
TO REGISTER: elissa@elissaheyman.com or 505-982-3294 Llimited to eight. All materials, supplies, and tax included. $350. Please email me for detailed curriculum.
REVIEWS FROM CIRCLE PARTICIPANTS:
“What a wonderful circle we had last night! Despite the power failure it all was just magical and so personally rewarding and reassuring for me!Thank you so much for providing your insight and intuition and helping all of us move along in the direction we wish to go, and the one the Universe wants for us!It was important to do the movement part too I believe, it helps cement the ideas and so useful for release of old ideas and habits! Also, it was a very fun evening! Nice space.With affection and appreciation, Connie”
“What I got was a positively profound clarity with respect to who I am, where I’m heading and the energies I need to be conscious of as I move along. And as well, Elissa gave me practical insight into how to manifest my fuller nature. I am deeply grateful for the whole experience and certainly feel I received everything and MORE than I could have expected.” Patricia
“I loved the circle and the way it all played out, just like it was supposed to. I felt it was a perfect closing to our trip. We both read our letters to each other in the morning. It was very cathartic, we laughed and cried. I’m grateful to share this growth and journey with my best friend. You were a beautiful surprise, thank you!”
Thanks again for facilitating the wonderful healing circle on Saturday. I am very fortunate to have come across your brochure. I thought the format was awesome and I really do love how we attract the right people at the right time. I felt a high level of resonance with everyone in the group and I benefited from their readings as well as my own. I got a lot from these two hours. –Sophia, Oregon
Elissa held a circle workshop for our group of sorority sisters visiting Santa Fe for a reunion. We women have known each other since the mid-seventies, and have quite a bond. Elissa was able to bring us even closer together by sharing her unique healing techniques, insights, and intuitive card readings. We experienced a group reading using OH cards that was amazingly accurate and full of hope. Thank you Elissa
Uncertainty waxes during the full moon–here are some tips to stay stable this murky mid-June:
Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Fire signs: Security is strengthening your newly stretched borders, and acting on your ambition.
Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, Water signs: Gain stability comes by smiling! You may be holding on to some things as powers that no longer work for you, and now you’re asked to let go with a smile. This is your best protection and your best way to move forward.
Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, Air signs: Create a more stable life by becoming more focused and streamline your activities towards a specific goal. Get intense about your intention!
Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, Earth signs:Stability comes from being able to step back and listen. Acceptance, receptivity, willingness to do things differently–that works the best.
The spirits delivered a Full Moon Message about being embodied in a chaotic world , and how to enjoy it. At its core, it’s saying it to look at the cup as half full: to fake it until you make it; to stay focused on the positive changes you are making. If you are at a standstill, it suggests you begin to put things in their place as a way to get back in the groove of doing what’s important to you:
“All is well if you’re well
If you’re not well, all is hell.
Everything belongs in place…start there, with order
That leads to Grace.
Feeling well is just a thought: “Everything’s okay–I’m here!–Death’s not!”
So keep on living by keep on giving, and sharing, and caring,
The dog ate my homework… I had all kinds of troubles getting this newsletter out, one of which I could have avoided if I’d remembered to take probiotics before getting on a plane last Monday. When I forget to do that, I come down with whatever bug is going around in the lands of my fellow travelers. Invest in a week of pre-travel probiotics, vacationers!
Speaking of travel, I had a reassuring experience last week in Nevada City when I attended the 80th birthday party of my old friend Ed Buryn, author of “Vagabonding in the U.S.A.” and creator of the William Blake Tarot deck. It was impossible to imagine that Ed could be 80, but I didn’t really have to: Rasputin-like, he seemed to possess the same level of energy he had in San Francisco in the ’70′s. Maybe we don’t all have to get old the way we expect, and maybe I’ll be dancing my ass off at 80, too! At the party, Ed read a great and very long poem about reaching such a venerable age… here it is on my blog for your enjoyment.
I’m excited to announce a new kind of workshop at the end of June, “Unleash Your Intuition and Reach Your Goals”. It’s an evening and two days, an expansion of the circle work that includes shamanic practices and exciting creative processes.
Although the weather has been all over the place (it was freezing today!), Santa Fe will be extra-delightful this Summer. This year there are even more free music concerts, festivals, art happenings, and new restaurants opening. Not to mention the surprise of TWO Indian Markets at the same time, one a breakaway from the traditional S.W.A.I.A. event. I’ll be here throughout the season enjoying it all, and I hope to see some of you here. There’s a new Drury hotel opening the end of July just down the street from me on East Palace, across from where I do circles. They’ll probably have grand opening specials…
Have a wonderful month,
Love, Elissa
What’s New:
New tarot card meaning article on my website:Signs of Success in the Tarot click here
June Intuition Circles:Women’s Circle, Wednesday, June 18, 7 pm (I’m offering a Men’s Circle in July, please contact me if interested.) 2 hours, 7 pm, $45, downtown Santa Fe. To reserve a space: elissa@elissaheyman.com or 505-982-3294. If you’d like a private circle for a group of up to 8, please get in touch.
New June Workshop:Unleash Your Intuition and Reach Your Goals, or if you prefer my more flowery titles, Transformative Tarot and Earth Magic Workshop.Santa Fe, June 29th (evening), June 30th and July 1st. $350 includes art supplies and tax. Only two or maybe three spaces left. For complete details click here.
Do You Live in Santa Fe? Wednesday, June 11th at 4 pm at the Sweeney Convention Center at 201 W. Marcy St. is the last chance to save La Bajada Hill from strip mining. Public input matters at this special hearing! Be there or suffer the hideous dust, noise, and ugly sight of a strip mine at Santa Fe’s entrance. The showdown is this Wednesday beginning at 4 pm.
Psychic Counseling and Spiritual Healing sessions: I’m available for private sessions through the Summer in Santa Fe, or by phone. 505-982-3294
Psychic Messages and Suggestions for a SuccessfulJune 2014
Success comes to those who work at it, and can deal with the obstacles June presents. It can be stressful and kind of tough to get things done, although it’s an inspiring time for creative ideas.
The general guidance is to not get into it with anybody or anything. Don’t engage in a fight around what’s wrong with the system or individual. Don’t expect people and institutions to behave differently than they do. If you’re an individual, be on the lookout for exit points from conflict-prone situations. But if there are no exit points and you are a nation or race or gender, it will only be huge protests and united grassroots organizations that can go up against the powers that be. Fights get a lot bigger in the future.
The important retrogrades in June 2014: Four planets are retrograde in June including Mercury. June 7-July 1st. With that many retrogrades, it’s a natural omen telling people to slow down and do things carefully. Also, the kind of projects people are into in June tend to require extra planning and preparation, and going slow but steady will work the best.
It’s an excellent time to revise plans and do any re-doing that needs done. Now we can get pointed in a more successful direction.
You don’t often see the conclusion of things in Mercury retrograde periods. If a person doesn’t see concrete signs of success in June, they should remember how far they’ve come, rather than focus on what hasn’t happened yet. The stars can cause us to vacillate between optimism and doubt about our big goals. Whatever you’re trying to accomplish, try working through the mood swings.
Mercury retrograde in Cancer puts a focus on your home, the past, and family. It’s a good time to reconnect with your roots. Cancer rules the stomach, and you can feel what’s truly important to you more keenly. In the way Mercury retrograde has us look inward, you gain insight into how you’ve grown and changed, and how much you’ve stayed the same.
Neptune retrograde June 9th-November 6th: The dates suggest a lot of duplicitous activity around the U.S. mid-term elections. (Note on June 9th: I wrote this two weeks ago, before the outrageous deal announced today, the Republican bribe Dem. Phillip Puckett took to sell out disadvantaged Virginians.) It’s easy for political machines to be nefarious and behind-the-scenes-vicious with Neptune retrograde in Pisces. Yet that same influence can make individuals experience exciting breakthroughs in their personal and spiritual development. Neptune retrograde is an easier time to become attuned to subtle energies, their hidden creativity, and Nature.
June Horoscopes for the Fire, Water, Air and Earth signs
Read your Sun, Moon, and Rising Signs
Aries, Leo, Sagittarius:, Fire signs: Start stuff! Start stuff! You conquer your domain in new ways. Brush off doubt as you figure out how to manifest a goal, even though how is probably not an answered question this month. “Fitting into the world” is a theme you explore. Reach out this month, it’s empowering.
Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, Water signs:You get looser and lighten up. New places and faces shine down on you…say yes to life and smile back! This is a month of gaining experience away from home and in beneficial environments. There’s something happier about the plans you’re making and your general outlook on life.
Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, Air signs:Something great, fun, and creative has a lot of complications leading up to it. Things are both screwed up and straightened out, and you can thank Mercury retrograde for this, which goes to the very end of the month. Expect adjustments and plan changes, but everything works out.
Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. Earth signs:You know something that makes you feel safe; life is beginning to feel more solid. Your dreams have you imagining far into the future, and what you are picturing takes quite awhile to manifest. This month, however, don’t expect a lot of evidence of how good things can be.
This is a “go for it” Summer where what you want, and believe you are supposed to be doing, requires breaking through your own limitations and displaying more flexibility. Go For It! There is no better time to follow your own drumbeat and re-direct yourself onto a meaningful path. Here is more specific guidance to ensure your personal success:
Follow Through: Keep up with what’s in progress, and take care of unfinished business. (The Summer beginning when Mercury is retrograde suggests it’s not a great time to begin something brand new, but to maintain what you’ve already started.)
Embrace the Unknown: Expect obscurity and murkiness to mark the beginning of your progress through this Summer’ objectives. People walk themselves out of tight situations by their willingness to change and endure uncertainty.
3: Call on your Guides: The potential for spiritual development is high, so if you ever wanted to experiment with just what kind of help is personally available to you, try calling on your spiritual guides this summer! It’s as simple as being curious and receptive and willing to expand your circle of support. Let yourself be empty and in the present, have an open heart, and permit whatever has your best interests in mind to give you a message.
The Circles I’ve been holding in Santa Fe and around the country have evolved into a workshop with time for more unusual and profound experiences…I’m pleased to present The Creative Journey Workshop!
WE ARE HERE TO HEAL, EVOLVE, AND TRANSFORM….And I want it to be fun! Please join me in Santa Fe June 29th -July 1st for a workshop that gives you tools and tips for your personal journey. Detailed curriculum on request.
The Creative Journey Workshop takes place in Santa Fe, in my downtown office by the Plaza, with a couple of field trips and outdoor assignments. It begins with an introductory meeting the evening of the 29th. Monday and Tuesday we’ll meet in a circle for a series of connected sessions, two a day, morning and late afternoon. As well as give you psychic tips, tools, and techniques, the overall goal is to make you more confident about your inner resources and your ability to create the life that inspires you.
We will focus on:
INTUITION AWARENESS: We are a language-based culture but there are many ways to communicate beyond the limits of language. This workshop includes exercises and experiences to explore and strengthen our true communication skills. Expanding our self-awareness and awakening to ways we naturally connect, promotes among other things, sharing more of ourselves, and experiencing more love.
YOUR STORY: Within themselves, people are aware they are healing, changing, and moved to fulfill what’s in their heart to do. We explore your story’s themes in an intuitive art-making process called The Transformative Art Cards. Other tools and processes can bring resolve about specific issues important to you now.
A TOOLKIT FOR YOUR PERSONAL JOURNEY: Some of the exercises and practices are from my own psychic counseling and spiritual healing practice, and many are from shamans I’ve studied with, for energy balancing, communing with Nature, self-healing, and receiving spiritual guidance. Some exercises are outside, please bring comfortable clothes and shoes.
Includes PSYCHIC MESSAGE AND SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE. My goal is to give you clarifying and empowering insights, healing, and practice in accessing your own intuition. Specific questions answered. (Private psychic counseling and healing sessions available within workshop timeframe.)
TO REGISTER: elissa@elissaheyman.com or 505-982-3294 Llimited to eight. All materials, supplies, and tax included. $350. Please email me for detailed curriculum.
REVIEWS FROM CIRCLE PARTICIPANTS:
“What a wonderful circle we had last night! Despite the power failure it all was just magical and so personally rewarding and reassuring for me!Thank you so much for providing your insight and intuition and helping all of us move along in the direction we wish to go, and the one the Universe wants for us!It was important to do the movement part too I believe, it helps cement the ideas and so useful for release of old ideas and habits! Also, it was a very fun evening! Nice space.With affection and appreciation, Connie”
“What I got was a positively profound clarity with respect to who I am, where I’m heading and the energies I need to be conscious of as I move along. And as well, Elissa gave me practical insight into how to manifest my fuller nature. I am deeply grateful for the whole experience and certainly feel I received everything and MORE than I could have expected.” Patricia
“I loved the circle and the way it all played out, just like it was supposed to. I felt it was a perfect closing to our trip. We both read our letters to each other in the morning. It was very cathartic, we laughed and cried. I’m grateful to share this growth and journey with my best friend. You were a beautiful surprise, thank you!”
Thanks again for facilitating the wonderful healing circle on Saturday. I am very fortunate to have come across your brochure. I thought the format was awesome and I really do love how we attract the right people at the right time. I felt a high level of resonance with everyone in the group and I benefited from their readings as well as my own. I got a lot from these two hours. –Sophia, Oregon
Elissa held a circle workshop for our group of sorority sisters visiting Santa Fe for a reunion. We women have known each other since the mid-seventies, and have quite a bond. Elissa was able to bring us even closer together by sharing her unique healing techniques, insights, and intuitive card readings. We experienced a group reading using OH cards that was amazingly accurate and full of hope. Thank you Elissa
