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By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Personal Growth, a Butterfly Perspective

This first paragraph is a succinct summary of the embroidery that follows: Clearing your mind of other people's stuff frees you up to rnbe yourself, because yourself is under there somewhere. How to do this? Question. Observe without assuming or rnconcluding, as much as you can, until you are doing that rnall the time. Don't be afraid that Your Truth is different rnfrom mine, it's all truth. How can that be? Because our rnperspectives on the relative plane color material from the rnabsolute planes.

Primary topic: Tarot

3,563 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***A Tarot Answer to a Client's Dilemma about Calling Herself a Mystic

A mystic, to me, is someone who has a direct relationship with God (He doesn't care what you call him, by the way!). That relationship is accomplished by simply willing it to be so ... not thinking that you willed it to be so. With that definition, calling yourself a mystic should not be considered nervy - yes?

Primary topic: Tarot

3,421 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Garlic Ginger Butter with Marjoram & Grape Seed Oil

GARLIC GINGER BUTTER with Marjoram &rngrape seed oil This is a spread to die for, a spreadable butter that is healthful. This is a pasta dressing to live for. It makes half a Wolferman's sour dough English muffin a rich meal. This is also what to cook just about anything in, and it will be outstanding. It even tastes different on different foods it is cooked with. It raises the smoke point of butter because grape seed oil (which is tasteless and therefore the butter taste is fully present!) has a smoke point of 450° - so your butter does not burn in that usual nanosecond.

Primary topic: Tarot

3,370 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Healthful Barbecue Sauce on Chicken Wing Drumettes

Barbecue Sauce Beneficial on Chicken Wing Drumettes Easy barbecue sauce is not only healthful, not only easy, but it clings thickly to the food, isn't sugary, and is mouthwatering. Get out your blender. Fetch a head of jumbo garlic, your best friend. Keep this a secret: You don't have to peel the individual cloves, no one will know! Put the cloves in the blender. Shake a bottle of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce: That is the one that has the antique-looking paper from top to bottom.r

Primary topic: Tarot

3,298 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

Faith - It's not about Religion, It's about Reality Testing

Spiritual life is real life. It's who you really are - even who you are when you aren't living physically anymore. In a sense, what you are is your beliefs, your values. Seekers of actionable and factual information, however, are inundated by theory, propaganda and religious politics. It's so hard to know where to start in spirituality that some of us don't start. Which is a bad thing. You have to start with what YOU really believe, not what you are led to believe you believe, or what you assume you believe, or what your social circle believes. There's a real 'you' under the surface.

Primary topic: Tarot

3,217 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***The Lottery Entity and You: A Meeting, A Chat

Trying to pick the winning number is going about it backasswards. This story is how to win in any type of gamble but of course it doesn't guarantee you will succeed any given incident. It may work for gambles in business and in getting away with your mischief, but I am less sure of that.

Primary topic: Tarot

3,097 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Personal Growth Becomes Mutual Through Reality-Testing Your Faith

Let's say your question is how to get out of an undesirable situation or how to make a desired situation happen. Asking the question is an act of faith in the universe, whether you address the question to Tarot or anywhere else.

Primary topic: Tarot

3,045 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***The Talk: The Tennessee Expert

The lanky blond man bends to come in the door of the deposition room. I am there with my Stenograph set up ready to go. It's always best when an expert witness is the first to arrive: You can chitchat with him, put him at ease, find out what he is an expert in and how he talks, because you are responsible to write it down sensibly. I ask for his curriculum vitae (a resume of sorts). Here is a list single-spaced in small print of a page and a half of death-defying stunts: Evel Knievel he was--stuntman, fire jumper, demolition . . . and him barely thirty years old.

Primary topic: Tarot

3,045 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***The New Morality and Me

What people used to openly call good and evil in others must now be considered a matter of personal style or personality instead. This is the politically correct mores imposed by—hmm, the media perhaps? So now one can feel the same illicit thrill saying so-and-so is evil as one can saying a 'dirty' word...now known as an expletive. The labels that differentiated acceptable behavior from wrong behavior are now themselves to be considered wrong. So [Sigh] Nixon is not a crook, not to be reviled. The only person exempted from the rule is Hitler. Yes, Hitler was evil.

Primary topic: Tarot

3,034 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Open Face Vegetarian Chili Orgy

OPEN FACE VEGETARIAN CHILI ORGY Oil warms in a large fry pan, getting acquainted with half a head of jumbo garlic that left the food processor finely honed. A bunch of green onions (white and green, whole body) are getting chopped while the other ingredients get together in that pan, and the onions soon join in the warm oil simmer. So do some jalapeno slices from a bottle, if you like those guys. When the onions are a darker shade of green, it is time to call the chili in from the can: Nally's vegetarian or Nally's jalapeno!

Primary topic: Tarot

3,015 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Psychics Find Turning Points in your Life that Reframe Your Reality

Everything is going swell, and I am really, really happy. And here are tears on my cheeks, some psychic pain. I ask my body 'What's up?' and it replies it is deeply sad. At that moment, I would attach that sad feeling to what is going on around me, and conclude my job is depressing. But I know my body chemistry is out of whack: The doctor told me my estrogen level is 800 times normal. Is it that knowledge that leads me to delve into the experience? - because I am catching a potential reframing of my reality in progress! Some eureka realizations hit me that that never leave me:

Primary topic: Tarot

2,942 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Take the Lid Off

Small stresses lessen ability to focus on the meaningful stressors. They operate just below the radar of consciousness because often we deal with them by suppressing them so we can focus on important things. The problem is: a myriad of these gnats are as large a drain on us as a 'real problem' would be. The very fact a small thing annoys us compounds the tension as we feel we shouldn't be annoyed: a double whammy. Here is a process you can use to take the lid off:

Primary topic: Tarot

2,939 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***HERE’S HOW YOU FIND YOUR MEANINGS OF TAROT CARDS

Yes, the books are nonsense. I remember one that had ‘a melancholy youth’ for the Rider Waite Page of Swords, which clearly depicts a person in the grip of paranoia. (I did find one book that was mostly all right.)

Primary topic: Tarot

2,874 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***How Tarot Works; Learn Tarot by Listening to Tarot

The more things change, the more they are the same especially when it comes to human behavior. So many things appear to be happening...and they are...and yet there are templates that overlay the events, patterns and sequences that the events fit into. The question is: Where in the pattern, the sequence, are we? What template are we in?

Primary topic: Tarot

2,860 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Ducks' Capacity for the Enjoyment of Life Surpasses Humans'

Here is a picture of ducks who have been slimed by the latest oil spill. They are doomed, and the water they float in is doomed. But here they are doing what ducks do, up until the very last minute of their lives. They have no horror on their faces, just a relaxed but miserable expression. They know. They are resigned.

Primary topic: Tarot

2,762 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

December 21, 2012, Doomsday or Ascension Day, Whatever

December 21, 2012, Doomsday or Ascension Day, Whatever Breaking my custom, today on my blog, I ask a question, "Tell us all about this doomsday or big day thing?" Our overall message is that since you don't really know about it, and since there's nothing you can do about it, just let it happen however it happens in its own cycle. The perspective is very lighthearted. I like it so well, I'm sharing it here. The blog has one-sentence literal interpretations of four Rider Waite Tarot cards. Here are the cards' meanings and illustrations from which the meanings arise:

Primary topic: Tarot

2,736 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***The Placebo Effect: Claim It

The laws of random distribution are not some theory; they are principles written in the same stone as the laws of physics. Actuaries, persons who calculate chances of things for a living (Really!), base your insurance premiums on the FACT that, when there is a hazard that could cause a disaster, the disaster actually happens only once in ten or eleven times. Risk management applies the same principle with an eye to preventing the disaster. This placebo effect is always there, reliably operating in the background.

Primary topic: Tarot

2,710 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Changing Your Ways, Keeping that Resolution You Made

Changing Your Ways, Keeping that Resolution You Made to Change It is one thing to decide to change something about yourself, and quite another to do it. There is a concept that holds me back: that I relate to the current "I" that has to change. You, too? As if a parent needed to be defied here. Reflexively we do what our usual routines are. Pulling out of that gives me the same feeling of being pulled back that I get when I walk out of the ocean and part with the warm supportive water.

Primary topic: Tarot

2,667 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Diet You Can't Cheat On!

Spend two weeks deep in thought about what your favorite foods are. All your favorite foods. Including junk foods, alcohol . . . think, think, because we don't eat our favorite foods just like we don't live the life we would prefer. Example: You love canned pineapple, but classify it as a dessert, and you seldom eat desserts. So pineapple isn't on your grocery list. While you are thinking, eat up what is in the house and buy favorite foods, putting the ones you don't have to cook AT EYE LEVEL.

Primary topic: Tarot

2,631 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Exactly How to Find Your Meanings for Tarot, and Your Meaning for Life

Here’s how - without any instructions - you find your meanings of any deck of Tarot cards if it pictures scenes of social situations. *Make a list of questions you know the answers to. The question should be something you are sure of because your answer is the unknown in the equation. *Think of that subject as you choose three or four of your Tarot cards. The fourth card can be on a second tier over the middle of the other three.

Primary topic: Tarot

2,529 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Making the Best Mistakes - A Recipe

Simmering just below most people's awareness most of the time is an instinct for not making a mistake, not being wrong. It can be a quiet but steady unease that makes a person less comfortable in his own skin.

Primary topic: Tarot

2,502 views

By Emily Erickson-SandstromRecently published1 topic

***Putting up with Torina the Terrible

What Was in it for Him? Everyone wondered how this sweet-natured good-looking man put up with Torina the Terrible. Torina owned this huge clubhouse on the golf course with its restaurant and bar, spa and the works. She reminded me of Catherine the Great – same dull and powerful look, same bombastic overbearing personality, and the voice of a drill sergeant, to complete the picture.

Primary topic: Tarot

2,502 views

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