Happy Friday! This week feels like it’s flown by. I’ve been traveling and visiting family, but I’m eagerly looking forward to returning because I have a ton of cool stuff that I’ve got planned for new videos and all sorts of things for the Conservatory. My music video for The Magician is Madeon’s Gonna Be Good. I got to see him perform this live at Coachella (had never heard of him before) and it blew me away. Both the stage production and the music video evoke the sense of a solitary creative being envisioning a new world of their own design, and everything that comes with turning that vision into reality. Any music videos that resonate with your understanding of The Magician? Post them in the comments!

A friend had moved here from Italy. We went for coffee one day, he had been here about 3 months. I had a deck with me so I did a bit of a free throw from the stack he chose, and we discussed what what showing up. I told him 'this will be the last card' and I threw the Ten of Cups. He said that he is homesick. A week before he was to return to Italy, we had coffee and did another free throw. The last card was the Ten of Cups. We both let out a bit of a scream. He was going home to be with his family. It was a wonderful moment, both of us in touch with the Universe. Very cool. 💙

I just met with a friend today who had been previously stressing out about her big clients being slow to pay their invoices, putting her whole business at risk. Today, she woke up to find that multiple clients had paid their balances in full all at once, saving her business. She decided to pull a card to help interpret the moment, and she drew the Ace of Pentacles! (from the Circle of Doors Tarot, where we call it the Ace of Shells). She also remarked that it was a card that she had never pulled in any reading before after 2+ years of owning the deck. This is what I love so much about Tarot, how it can show up in such powerfully and unambiguously synchronistic ways. Honestly, sometimes cards just “don’t land”…but sometimes (shockingly often) they land in a way that is so potent that it makes you question the very nature of reality. Would love to hear other peoples’ stories on Tarot creating memorable uncanny/synchronistic moments like this 😊

Another great coffee hour today :) Thank you to @Jens Boje and @Joanie Jackson for joining! I was able to record this one, so I'm experimenting with the options it gives me with the recording. Here's the whole thing. I'm going to see about adding links to the particularly interesting parts.

Today I talked about and walked with The Hanged One, and the words of Audre Lorde echoed through me all day: “To feel the consequences of who you wish to be.” The strange part wasn’t what The Hanged One represents, it was when it showed up. On a day when the weight of responsibility and consequence felt heavier than usual, this card surfaced as if it already knew what I was carrying. In the current political climate — here in the United States and across the world — this feels more true than ever. We are being asked, both collectively and individually, to decide who we are willing to be when it truly matters. More and more, I feel the call to stand for justice. To stand in the way of harm. To stand up for our neighbors. To speak against wrongdoing. To vote for leaders who can help correct the path we are on. This is not abstract for me. I am a human rights advocate. I am part of the LGBTQIA community. I am part of the BIPOC community. I am neurodivergent. My life exists at the crossroads of systems that demand awareness, courage, and perspective. Because of that, I work intentionally to see the world from many angles, because perspective is power. But perspective alone is not enough. We must also do the work of thinking for ourselves. Reading. Researching. Questioning. Refusing to follow blindly. Refusing to stay comfortable inside inherited beliefs. It is okay to sit in the liminal space, that in-between place where certainty has not yet arrived. It is okay to feel uncomfortable there. In fact, it may be necessary. Growth does not happen in certainty. It happens in disruption. And if guilt arises in that space, I believe it can be a teacher. Not a weapon, but a signal. A sign that awareness is waking up. That the path toward responsibility and awakening has begun. This is what The Hanged One represents for me today. Not passivity. Not sacrifice without purpose. But the willingness to pause, to see differently, to let old ways of thinking die so something truer can live.