So many blogs this month announce New Year New Me! While I have no intention of reinventing myself, I will say that things are very different here at Seer & Sundry and with me, December, since the arrival of our newest member of the family - our baby boy, Caleb. 
As a stay at home wife, entrepreneur, and, now, mom - I knew life wouldn't be easy and yet everything is exciting and like a new adventure. I won't go into detail on how rearranging our life and schedule to accommodate a small being has been for us but I do want to thank you all for being patient with us on our slow return to S&S website and blog. 

Now, without further ado, we announce that I am no longer on Maternity Leave and that Tarot Readings can now be ordered! 
Our online tarot readings are ordered via paypal and sent to you via email. Please remember that if you have an specific questions, to send those to us along with the email you want your reading sent to upon ordering. ​

​We are now offering package deals for our tarot clients!
​We have some long standing clients who order readings monthly. To make things easier for these clients, so there is no continuous ordering, you can now order multiple readings at one time for a discounted price! The packages are a 3 month package and a 6 month package and the discounts are as deep as $90 off!
If you are interested in ordering these package readings, please contact us via email.

Happy to be back!

December

​The Roman god Janus is known as the two-faced god that stands at the gates. He is a guardian that sees all directions, the judge that is able to see all sides, and the one who stands in the in-between places where decisions are made who sees both the past and the future.
This is the god of January, the month that is the first of the year and yet is still in the heavy darkness and snows of the winter that began in the year before. This is an in-between time when many people are drawn to set goals for the year ahead and wax nostalgic about the year behind.

​In this, my first blog post of 2016, I wanted to encourage you, dear reader, to do both - plan for the near future and reflect on the past. Janus’ lesson for all of us is that one cannot be without the other. We need to reflect on the lessons of the past in order to learn what to do in the future. 

​When I do tarot readings at events, I often read cards for past, present, and future. So often, people come to sit at my card table with interest in the third card, the future, but it is the first card, the past, that makes believers out of them and is the real reason for them being there. When I tell them where they are coming from, a stranger who hasn’t been there but knows them through the cards, then and only then do they believe enough to see what needs to be done about the future.

​Using some favorite tools, every December I begin a time of reflection and manifestation.

I then do a Release Ritual wherein I let go of that which no longer benefits me and accept those lessons as learned so I can move on and forward all the stronger. ​

​The workbooks have lots of amazing sections and exercises and I cannot recommend them more (I have achieved so many goals and doubled my income every year since using these books) but a section that I not only use yearly with joy but have also adapted to my own lifestyle is the 2016 Oracle Reading. This is a 12 card reading, one for each month, to help you intuitively prepare for the year ahead. This leads me to my new year’s tool number two…

​Every year I give myself a tarot reading. The first part of this reading is finding the new year’s card for me numerologically (for 2016 its #5 The Heirophant). The next step is laying out cards for the year to come*. This can be done a few ways - two of the ways I like to do them is by month and by sabbat. Lately, due to the Shining Year Workbooks, I’ve been sticking to monthly with 12 cards to give a glimpse at each month ahead.

​The last thing I like to do after writing out my goals and looking at the cards is I like to look at the astrology for my year ahead and write down key bits in a weekly planner. This includes New Moons (for New Moon Newsletters and beginning small steps towards big goals), Full Moons, eclipses, planetary alignments, retrogrades, etc.

​As we cross the year’s threshold and see all the new plans and goals, ideas and blessings, lessons and mischief of 2016 all ahead of us - look also behind and where we have come from and how our past year has helped develop our personality and dreams to where they are now. Use the tools in your personal arsenal to better achieve your dreams and try out some new ones.