The Court Cards ~ People & Personalities

These are short sessions introducing you to each of the tarot court cards, the Kings, Queens, Knights, & Pages. We’ll also be looking at these cards from an intuitive perspective, and thinking in terms of our “clairs”, with an impromptu look at what the cards are revealing in this moment.

Do you recognize anyone?  These cards may relate quite boldly to people and personalities in your life.  Do you recognize yourself?  Which court card is you?

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 16, Page of Cups

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 15, Page of Wands

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 14, Page of Swords

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 13, Page of Pentacles

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 12, Knight of Cups

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 11, Knight of Wands

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 10, Knight of Swords

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 9, Knight of Pentacles

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 8, Queen of Cups

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 7, Queen of Wands

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 6, Queen of Swords

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 5, Queen of Pentacles

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 4, King of Cups

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 3, King of Wands

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 2, King of Swords

PODCAST, Ultimate Tarot Tutorials, Episode 1, King of Pentacles

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My Book

The Ultimate Tarot Guide:
for Your Personal Tarot Journey

available @ Amazon

Earth, Air, Fire, Water… air

The element of Air: Where earth energy envelops the physical, air energy is purely mental. It encompasses that which cannot be seen, but which makes us who we are and gives substance to our existence– our intelligence, mentality, our ideas that lead to creativity, our assumptions, thoughts and spark of genius. All of this and more stems from the element of Air.

Air, the element, touches us whenever we pursue knowledge, seek answers, ponder the universe and our place in it, when we write, draw, paint, and compose. Because of the element of Air, within all of future humanity, resides unwritten novels, unpainted masterpieces, sculpture, music, medical discoveries, inventions, and creations as yet unperceived and unrealized.

And when the Elements dance their dance, when Air mingles with Earth, all of these wonderful things will be given a pathway into the physical world.

Correspondences for Air

  • Direction: East
  • Color: yellow
  • Elementals: sylphs and fairies
  • Season: spring
  • Time of Day: dawn
  • Ritual Tools: athame, sword
  • Tarot: swords
  • Angel: Raphael
  • Hermetic Axiom: “to will”
  • Zodiac: Libra, Aquarius, Gemini

SOURCE:

My book

The Gray Witch’s Grimoire

available @Amazon

From the Side Bar @ Every Cat Has a Tale

If you aren’t viewing this blog, Magickal Connections, in “view desktop site”, you aren’t seeing everything here. There is a slew of information, images, and links in the right sidebar. These websites just weren’t meant to be viewed on a phone in the trimmed down miminal mobile view — just my opinion, but it ‘s the truth, you miss so much.

This is a copy of the sidebar at my blog Every Cat Has a Tale, and as I say below, Blogger is better when you click on the “view web version” at the bottom of its mobile page.


If you haven’t been viewing this website, Every Cat Has a Tale, in the “view web version”, found at the bottom of its mobile page, you’ve been missing a lot, the entire right sidebar to start with.  And with blogger, you have to scroll to the bottom of the page on your phone and click on “view web version”, because the “view deskstop site” just doesn’t do it for blogger.

This is a copy of what’s in the sidebar at this website, and this is just a drop in the bucket:

YouTube Tarot Readings

YouTube Tarot Readings
with Amythyst Raine

Phoenix Rising
Tarot & Spirituality @ Youtube

Welcome to Arizona and my home. We will dive into a grid of cards and explore relationships, personal connections, decisions, and life. I have over 800 videos at my YouTube channel.

Please remember, these are general readings done with no one particular individual in mind. This reading may resonate with a wide variety of people in various phases of life and under uniquely personal circumstances.

I also wanted to note that I no longer give personal readings for individuals, and that all of these general readings, both at The Mystic Crone and at Phoenix Rising, are FREE readings, written and recorded on a whim when the urge strikes me.

If you enjoy these readings and videos, I would appreciate it if you would “like” and “subscribe” at YouTube. I have to say that it’s kind of nice to get some sort of feedback for the effort I put into creating them.

Bump In the Night

videos on supernatural, paranormal, & spooky stuff

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Tarot and Spirituality

Readings filled with:
*life experience
*situations
*problems
*solutions

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The Mystic Crone @ YouTube

Ths is my “other” YouTube channel, and yes, I am The Mystic Crone.

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From The Mystic Crone ~ an offer extended

So, will this offer be accepted?  What sort of hoopla has been going on, and what kind of  hoops has everyone been jumping through to get to this point?  Was there a little coercion involved in this process?   Follow this link to find out:

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The Mystic Crone Blog

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Mystic Crone Podcast ~ more questions than answers

Audio version, finally complete, and yes, I know I tend to go off-script, but that’s an advantage, new insights usually have come to me by the time I get ready to record. Ah, the beneifts of our sacred muse.

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Tarot & My Choice to Believe

I very recently and surprisingly heard another tarot individual, an author & deck creator, say something that left me somewhat taken aback.  They were talking about YouTube tarot readers primarily, and she had heard a tarot reader claim:  “Tarot readings are timeless.  If you have somehow stumbled upon this reading, you were meant to find it, this message is for you.”  But she said it in a short version, and in a not so nice tone.  Then she explosively says, “That’s Bullshit!” …How does she know that this is BS?  How does she not realize that the universe and Spirit may have many means to get a message to someone who needs it, whether this is through an older youtube video reading, or through an old written tarot reading on some random and obselete blog.

I was very disappointed, and her reaction made me very sad, as I love this author and deck creator and intend to buy her deck & book and explore all of its magical possibilities.

I had so enjoyed watching interviews feature this creator/author, and we were so together and on-point about so much of tarot and the way you look at it and perceive it and draw from it, until this last observation.  

I will respectfully agree to disagree.  Everyone has their own beliefs and experiences and theories and relationship with the tarot, and one person’s ideas and experiences may not reflect everyone elses’s, and that’s okay.

I’m still excited about buying her tarot deck and book, and I’m also sure that I will find there a zillion shared experiences and theories, as well as jewels of wisdom and inspiration that I will be able to connect with, to recognize, and to appreciate.

It’s all good.

From The Mystic Crone ~ more questions than answers

Good morning, World! Up way too early here, at the crack of dawn it was, a coffee and tarot morning, very relaxing for me. I have no idea who this reading is for, it was very cryptic. You’ll find it at The Mystic Crone blog…

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Cliques ~ you will never escape them

[excerpt]… But the truth is, you will never escape from the world of cliques, never.  I thought that this eccentric novelty would disappear once life raced past the halls of junior high and high school; but no, this strange phenomenon will follow you to college and on into the workplace.  It has also surprisingly followed me into the world of publishing, as well as the world of tarot.  Everywhere — everywhere — you will find a group of ramshackle people drawing mysterious boundaries, forming unnamed clubs, clinging to each other like Neanderthals in the midst of a dangerous stone age world.

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Sulking

Happy Sunday, you know what that means, coffee and blogging… today’s post is titled: “Sulking”. You’ll find answers to the following questions ~

Is sulking manipulative?
Is sulking controlling behavior?
Is sulking a personality disorder?
How do you deal with someone who is sulking?
Is sulking passive aggressive?
Why is sulking bad?
How do you recognize sulking?
When an adult sulks?
Is sulking normal?
Is sulking a form of silent treatment?
The dark side of sulking…

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Rachel True (The Craft) interview with Allison DuBois

I love these ladies together, what chemistry! Allison Dubois rocks once more on her podcast, The Dead Life, with her guest Rachel True who is an author and tarot deck creator in her fifties now (how can that be?!).  Rachel will forever be etched in our memory as “Rochelle Zimmerman” in the 1996 movie The Craft.  Enjoy this two part interview… I sure did!

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night ~ tarot inspired tales #1

  • 8/wands (R)
  • Princess/swords
  • 9/wands (R)
  • The Tower (R)
  • 2/wands (R)
  • The Chariot (R)

A terribly blustery and totally insistent wind tried with all its unearthly might to knock the man’s top hat from his head.  In spite of the dubious position of the Top Hat Man, he managed to not only hang onto his hat, but also to each and every individual represented by his nine wands as well.  He kept them all in line, he did, with the help of his wicked vengeful assistant, with her sharp-eyed observations and her vicious little tongue.  He had them all in his pocket, so he thought, he had so much on each and every one, what could they do, after all.

The man at the end of the harbor, sitting in dull solitude with his private thoughts and regrets, watched The Top Hat Man in apathetic silence.  He was too distanced from real life and action, and he was too disillusioned by his own catastrophes to give any comment, or make any movement to join the evil pair in their foray.  All he could do was hang on to his one familiar wand, afraid to let go, afraid to lose something, afraid to move on.  He sat as an eternal statue between the greatest calamity of his life and the greatest opportunity of his life, which was swiftly passing him by, galloping off towards better prospects.

And all this time, the cunning red-headed princess held her position, motionless as a statue, her sword raised and readied.  Prepared she was, to swing the deadly blow.  Though it appears that the gentlemen were the center of the story, the potential catalyst of this tale, this was not so.

She bided her time, patience was her virtue.

Natural Magick (the gray witch way) ~ What’s in it?

I forget how jam-packed this book is until I go back and revisit it, which I’m inexplicably drawn to do from time to time.  The oddest thing about writing books is that when you go back and re-read them, you don’t remember where these thoughts and ideas and words all came from. (Did I say that?)  Writing a book is kind of like being momentarily possessed.  Below, you’ll find the Table of Contents to Natural Magick the Gray Witch Way, and maybe you too will be inexplicably drawn to this book.  

How does real magick work?…10

Forms of Magick…13

The Mysteries of Magickal Manifestation…19

Creating Magickal Space…26

A Checklist of Magickal Supplies…53

Charging your Magickal Tools…65

Twelve Months of Magick…72

Seven Days of Magick…104

Animal Magick…115

Magick for Love n’ Money…144

·         Love Spells…151

·         Love Potion #9

·         Rose Spell

·         Smooth Marital Turmoil

·         Hot Sex Spell

·         Makin’ Tracks

·         Love Spells for Men…157

·         Make Her Behave:  Pubic Hair Spell

·         Magickal Male Enhancement

·         Love Spells for Women…161

·         Keep Him Faithful Spell

·         Attract Your Man

·         Irresistibly Spell

Money…166

·         Money Spells…169

·         Silver Coin Spell

·         Loose the Miser Spell

·         New Business Money Mojo

·         Sugar Honey Jar Spell

·         Home Money Spell

·         Pocket Money Spell

Mojo Magick…182

·         Poppets…184

·         Mojo Bags…207

Magick Oils/Potions/Powders…226

Crystal Magick…270

Candle Magick…297

Magickal Alphabets and Symbols…314

·         Runes…316

·         Witch’s Alphabet…325

·         The Pentagram…329

·         The Elements…334

·         Planets…341

·         Astrological Symbols…354

Witches’ Bottles…366        

Essential Oils…386

Kitchen Magick…392

·         Recipes…405

·         Strawberry Love Salad

·         Lady Amythyst’s Pumpkin Pie

·         Gingerbread

·         Litha Peach Cobbler

·         Full Moon Biscuits

·         Deviled Eostre Eggs

·         Lammas Loaf

·         Midsummer’s Night Tea

·         Garden Magick Soup

·         Green Man Cake

·         Beltane Bean Dish

Good Luck Charms…439

Questions and Answers…447

·         What is the difference between white and black magick?

·         Is it possible to dwell too much on a spell you’ve cast & ruin it?

·         Who can do magick?

·         What is a familiar?

·         What is neo-paganism?

·         Do All witches practice their religion the same way?

·         Who is the Wiccan Goddess?

·         When did you first know you were a witch? 

Magickal Substitutions…467

Terms and Lingo…473