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Love Wins

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Love Wins

Today, no Tarot education, friends, or card stories. Just one very excited artist, so happy that yesterday, love won. Portland is a very LGBTQ-friendly town. Huggy. Love-y. Most of us want everyone to find joy and happiness in life. (There are of course the exceptions to the love-y Portlander rule, but, thankfully, I don’t know any of them personally.) We were happy when gay marriage was legalized here, but I can’t say just how thrilled I am to know that now folks can get married all over the U.S., even in my college town of Hattiesburg,...

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Creating “The Seven of Mugs” – The David Bowie / Thomas Jerome Newton-Inspired Tarot Card

Posted by on 10:30 am in Creative Journey, Minor Arcana, Stories | 0 comments

Creating “The Seven of Mugs” – The David Bowie / Thomas Jerome Newton-Inspired Tarot Card

A Great Start to Another Year of Art The card I last completed was The Seven of Mugs (traditionally Cups). I had a pretty ambitious concept for this one that has been stuck in my head for two years, and it ended up taking about seven cards worth of effort to complete. But, for me, it was worth it. It was the project that launched my year and showed me just how far I could go with my art. The Original Concept So, the concept. I had always envisioned that this card would depict a guy watching a series of televisions, in which each presented a...

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The Beauty of an Improvised Life

Posted by on 12:05 am in Insight, Stories, Tarot Ideas | 0 comments

The Beauty of an Improvised Life

The central tenant of improv is the phrase, “Yes, and…” I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how this powerful phrase can change our lives, and how well it ties to Tarot. I’m taking my second level of improv classes right now in Portland, at The Brody Theater. (If you don’t know what improv is, it’s a theatrical technique in which people basically make things up as they go, often with hilarious results.) If you’ve ever seen improv theater (think “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” for example), it may look relatively simple at first glance, but...

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How You Can Use Tarot to Write the Perfect Email for a Challenging Situation

Posted by on 11:56 pm in Business, Insight, Tarot Ideas | 0 comments

How You Can Use Tarot to Write the Perfect Email for a Challenging Situation

Here’s the scenario: You need to write a tricky email, and fast. But you’re afraid to hit send—something feels off. You’re worried about the repercussions if you don’t get it just right. Or maybe you’re not sure you’re being as clear as you can. Clear communication can be challenging! My major in college was Fine arts, with an emphasis in Graphic Communications. Communication is a big component of all the work I do, whether I’m communicating from a visual place or a content place. So, it’s not surprising...

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Heal Your Money Story

Posted by on 6:13 pm in Business, Insight | 0 comments

Heal Your Money Story

I think a lot about money and business. I work with people every day who are working to grow their business and reach their tribe. The thing I notice most, in myself and in others, is that we all have some work to do on healing our money story. I’m going to offer you a new way to live in your money story. I have to say, my own story has so much in the last year and I believe it can for you, as well. At the heart of business and work is our desire to express a passion, to help others, and to make a living doing it. It’s a pretty simple...

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Celebrating World Tarot Day… and Intuitive Arts for Everyone

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Celebrating World Tarot Day… and Intuitive Arts for Everyone

Are you ready for World Tarot Day? It’s right around the corner, on May 25th! For the longest time, I was clueless about this holiday. Funnily enough, the first time I found out about it was when I was contacted a couple of years back to be a subject for an article about Tarot and the holiday celebrating it that appeared in The Oregonian. You’d think I’d have been more aware of a day that celebrates such a huge passion of mine (and was a big event at Tarot.com, too, where I worked for about a year). I’m not generally a big holiday person, but...

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Pop a Deck in Your Briefcase: Using Tarot for Business

Posted by on 12:28 am in Business, Tarot Ideas | 0 comments

Pop a Deck in Your Briefcase: Using Tarot for Business

I was a budding entrepreneur from an early age and talking business has been a favorite topic of mine since I was itty bitty. I did a lot of kooky stuff to earn my own scratch as a kid: I created paid backyard carnivals for the neighbor kids, held regular garage sales for old toys I no longer played with in my toy box, and set up $.05 face painting days at the pavilion in the playground. I was always looking for ways to be creative, delight others, and earn cash doing it. That hasn’t changed for me. The Portland Tarot is a great project and...

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This is Not a New Year’s Resolution. (It’s an Artist’s Revolution.)

Posted by on 8:12 am in Creative Journey | 1 comment

This is Not a New Year’s Resolution. (It’s an Artist’s Revolution.)

Last year didn’t go quite as expected. Not bad, overall… Let’s just call it, “Beautifully tumultuous.” When I started this project, I was gung ho to finish it in record time. I mean, I did most of the work for the Majors in a matter of months. Leapt tall websites in a bound, ran two fundraising campaigns (honestly, much to the chagrin of my bank account as my passion project often took precedence over finding client work). Amazing things happened and everything worked out, even as challenges abounded. When 2014 rolled around, I was sure I...

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Embers of the Heart on a Cold, Wet Winter

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Embers of the Heart on a Cold, Wet Winter

Tonight I felt a strong urge to write. I have no art news at this time, and the only deck news I have is that it is now available in several stores, something that will matter little to people from out of town. (But if it does matter to you, I can certainly use some help convincing some of the bigger stores to expand to more outlets, which buying from one of the major retailers here would certainly support. You can still get it online, if you so desire to acquire it.) Even with scant deck news, I will write about what’s on my mind and heart...

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The New Deck is Here! (And Other Exciting Things.)

Posted by on 7:14 pm in Press, Readings, Stories | 0 comments

Wow, a lot has happened since my last post. I can’t possibly cover it all in one sitting, but let me touch on the important parts. First of all, if you’ve been here before, you may notice that the site has changed! Life and creative pursuits have been all-consuming, and it was about time that I refreshed the content on the site. I also gave the site a facelift in honor of… The new, 3rd Edition of The Portland Tarot Major Arcana deck! Now, I just did a 2nd Edition last fall, so why would I need to do a 3rd? (Wow, was it...

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