Fifteen for Thirteen
by Samantha ~ January 4th, 2013. Filed under: miscellaneous magic.New Year’s Eve isn’t my favorite holiday. It’s not even in my Top Five. It’s just an excuse to get super drunk and party and be a general nuisance to the rest of us. I do, though, love a good list, and I love getting to make a list of Things I Want To Get Done in the new year on the first page of my fresh new Moleskin!
- Learn to speak French
- Take more real photos, with real cameras
- Read at least 50 books
- Learn the Tarot
- Pay off all of my credit cards
- Go to Paris
- Stick to eating healthy
- Do some yoga & actually use my gym membership
- Come up with more content for the blog
- Complete a 365 Photo a Day project
- Have a social date at least once a week
- Send more snail mail
- Ride my bike around the park
- Listen to one new (to me) album a month
- Keep being awesome with Ryan !!!
What are your goals for the year?
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January 4th, 2013 at 2:36 AM
Hell yeah
January 4th, 2013 at 10:23 AM
I never bother with goals for a new year as it feels forced to me. I come up with them randomly.
January 4th, 2013 at 6:33 PM
I would be interested to know if that tarot guidebook is any good, I’ve also recently got a new deck myself (after at least a decade) but haven’t a clue about guides.
January 4th, 2013 at 11:46 PM
what tarot deck do you use?
January 5th, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Meghan & Jtrrrash :: Both the deck & the guidebook are from The Wild Unknown. I received them as a holiday gift, and couldn’t be happier.
January 6th, 2013 at 7:53 PM
hey sam! for tarot, i recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Tarot-Book-Beginners/dp/1578630487/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357523008&sr=1-4&keywords=tarot
but mainly its important to just go first and foremost with your feelings about each card, and really read the illustration. i see that you have a beautiful deck, but you may want to use a rider waite deck as well for reference, as i think the images are a little more straightforward (i have a rider-waite but mostly use the bea nettles mountain dream deck http://www.beanettles.com/works/tarot/).
if you learn a little bit about the qualities that each suit brings up (wands, swords, cups and pentacles), you’ll be able to read the pictures more specifically.
also, i think that the best way to learn tarot is probably to pull an individual card each day. i normally do larger spreads for myself (mostly celtic cross), and i find that i have such a strong connection to certain cards and those cards always come up for me, but other cards never come up (ever.) so i end up ignoring them. i am going to start pulling a singular card each day to try and learn each one.
good luck!
-sam
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January 8th, 2013 at 1:49 PM
Flashes of Her :: I actually have that beginner’s Tarot guide! I have found it very helpful. As a teenager, I used the Rider Wate deck, but after pulling it out of storage and trying it out again as an adult, I didn’t feel I had any connection to it at all. The readings I was doing for myself were all off by a longshot.
I’ve been doing a daily card for the past few weeks to acquaint myself with all of them individually and really like the method.
I wrote a little bit more about it on Haute Macabre a few weeks ago ::
http://hautemacabre.com/2012/12/tarot/
April 5th, 2013 at 8:05 PM
Hello, I read today some of your recents posts. I take a look some times, but not often (just because I try not to be on the Internet too much time). I “know” you from SG (I’m Pseekaal).
Your 2013 goals are exciting ! Why do you want to learn french ? How do you learn it ? Do you have some lesson ?
Have you already been in Paris ? (I love and hate this city, I live in few meters of Paris).
My boyfriend offers me his Tarot de Marseilles cards at new year eve, I try to learn it. This is great you have a regular practice with it. I’m interested in the runes too, so I wanted to let you a comment because of these similar things.
I wish I could read so much books like you.
M.