Doreen Virtue

Hello everyone and merry meet.

How are you doing in these days and I hope you are doing great. We are almost in the mid February and I always say this, but the time flies so fast.. I don't dare to blink because before I know it, it will be Easter/Ostara or Yule/Christmas.

Today I want to talk about Doreen Virue (I know I am very late to the party) and how she has made a shock and chaos in the community.
I must been living under a rock because I came across this topic few weeks ago.. I got this respons video to Doreen Virtue (I can't remember who it was) as a recommended for me. Many people are confused because D.V took the video down some time later. For those who did see this was like... "wow... okey..."  For what I could understand  She came across as judgemental against tarot community. I found a video of her where she talk about her journey and I wonder if this is the right video. I will link it below.

While I was watching this video I got a ooookeeeeyy- moment. At the end she are telling that she have found the real Jesus and there is a faux Jesus on earth. I don't know know how to respond to this, yet I have so much to say about this. To me it sounds like she is only one who has the truth and she is the light.. while everybody is in the dark. My first thought was my blog post about the Christian cash cow. 


She has been created her name for herself by holding courses, audiobooks, Tarot deck/Oracle deck and she is a published author. We can agree that she branded the hell out of her name!


I saw in a interview with her and she told her story where no one wanted to publish her first deck and she really had to work hard at it. Today her books and Tarot/oracle decks are tranlated to so many languages.
What I can understnad the spirituality so available as it is today. I mean it wasn't so open and public - I talk about myself, here in Norway, and the time I grew up in the 70/80's.

Doreen Virtue has 50+ books about angels, faeries, indigo children, ascended masters under her belt and that alone is impressive, She has built up her business and she have been very successful doing it. She have been doing this for 25+ years so she are no newbie at this.

Somewhere in 2016/2017 she changed her mind and she "discovered" Jesus all over again. Previous years she has been in YouTube with weekly reading and I must say that I wasn't a slave these videos, but I popped in every once and a while. She had upbeat message and some talk about angels and God.
She always talked about Jesus, angels and her christian path, butI wasn't so surprised when she came out as a reborn christian... But she has always talked about God and divine messages.

As she told the community that she found Jesus and wanted to devote her life  to Him and his work with the same breath she said that she didn't believe in tarot or oracle. She directly said if you have the ascended masters book/deck, donate it or better yet.. get rid of it. She is redoing the book and cards so it be in line of Jesus' work.

I have watched so many videros on You Tube where people are upset, confused and even angry, with good reasons. Many are confused because she has turned her back on her students, followers, the community and she goes so far to say that this type of devination are evil...

Her courses is on the pricey side, around $450 to $500 each course, and many people have paid hard earned money to her seminars, online courses and all that - she helped people to connect to their spirituality and these people (most likely not everyone, I think a good amount of them) has started their own business in line around her teachings.
So now what? Basically she tell every one of her students thank you for the money, but the courses is not worth it anymore - this is my opinion.

I do have two of her books which I will read sometime this year. I have the angel tarot which she did together with Radleigh Valentine. I have healing oracle, Past life Oracle, Butterfly Oracle. What I will do with them? I will use the Angel Tarot as meditation tool/card of the day. But I will use the Oracle cards in my weekly oracle reading.

We also have to remember that she have done a lot good in this community and she have beautiful decks out there. She have knocked down some doors for the rest of us...



 Like I promised, here is the link to video :

Till next time blessed be and merry see,

Love, Susann

Day 16 - Do you read reversals? Why or why not? 31 Days of tarot

Hello sweet pies and merry meet,

How are you doing today and I hope you are doing great.

Today's blog is about reversals and why or why not I read reversals.
My answer to the question is yes and no. When you do read the tarot, there is no right or wrong answer in the way you read it.

There will be some who say that this is one, the right and the only way to read tarot.. For some reasons I can't take these people seriously just because the are not open minded.

Normally I do read with reversals because I believe I get some extra clues in a reading and they will give me something extra.
When I don't read reversal is when the client don't want me to or if I do a private for myself reading and I read with my Doreen Virtue deck.




Blessed be and merry see,

Love, Susann

Weekly Tarot Cards for 29th of August - 4th of September 2016

Hello lovlies, 

I hope you are well and ready for this week and we are heading into a new month on Wednesday + it is a full moon on Wednesday as well.

This is just a general reading and it might not apply for all of you, take what speaks to you and forget the rest.

I am using Nicoletta Ceccoli Tarot for the main reading and I am using Doreen Virtue Healing with the Faeries for the oracle card for this week.

 The main energy for this week is celebration of some sort, maybe you got some good news, end of troubled times, new job or you have taken few steps in the right direction on what makes you happy. This week is time to celebrate.

You are independed person and you like to do things your way. Organizing is you middle name and when you set a plan you do do pretty much anything to make it work. Planning and organizing is half of the work and it is important to do it right the first time. You got this to your finger tips :)

What might hinder you this week is that you are so busy with your different projects so you forget to relax and take a timeout.

Remember that that no one will thank you when you are down. Take care of yourself and don't aplogize for taking "me time"

This week main theme is "peace of mind" and it means that you must remember to take some time off and just breathe. What do you for relaxing? Yoga? Meditations? Sit down and watch your favorite movie/series and drink of your choice. Play in the park with your family/dogs. Put your feet up and block out the rest of the world. Spend time with family, pets, friends or just alone. Take a clean out of your mind every once and a while can be a good idea. Is this important to me? Do I need this in my life? Does it concern me at all? It can be hard to let things go, but try your best because it it takes so much unneccesary space that should be for good memories that you make together with those who are important to you.

 I wish you all a good week and I wish you joy and happiness.

Blessed be

Susann

Review Angel Card Tarot by Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Hello Tarot angels and I hope you have a wonderful and peaceful weekend

I want to do a review of one of the decks I got in the mail few days ago and that is Angel Tarot Cards by Doreen Virtue who is a an American author and a "folk psychology motivational speaker". She is the founder of Angel Therapy, a type of New Age therapy based "on the premise that communicating with angels is the key to healing (from wikipedia) and Radleigh Valentine is a professional intuitive, speaker, author, spiritual advisor, and a recovering Certified Public Accountant (from radleighvalentine.com). The artwork is done by Steve A. Roberts who is an international fantasy artist. 

This tarot deck comes in a beautiful solid and durable box. Usually it come with a little booklet where it contains few words of the cards and often the booklet has several languages. BUT what Doreen and Radleigh have done is to include a guidebook on 135 pages. In this book they give you tips how to energize your cards, they give you a spread called the celtic cross and how you read it, as well as meaning of this card.

I found a clip of an interview with Doreen and Radleigh on YouTube that I will include in the end of this blog post. In that clip Doreen was explaining why she wanted to create a new tarot deck, she found herself uncomfortable with some of the cards so she removed them ended up with a deck with nine cards an that was one of the reasons she wanted to create a tarot deck was positive, up lifting with beautiful art.

I haven't felt any uncomfort with curtain cards or suits, but I do feel uncomfort towards a complete deck. I will write a blog post on this on a later time.

What she also did was rename some of the cards she was uncomfortable like for instance card number 0 - the fool has been renamed the dreamer, number 5 - the hierophant has been renamed to unity, the number 12 - The hanged man is awakening in Doreen's deck, the number 13 - Death has morphed into release, card 14 - Temperance is now balance, Tarot number 15 has become Ego and the judgement card has become renewal.

This deck of tarot also have different colour, like the major arcane has a deep purple color. The suit of

Earth (The Penticles) is green, like the earth and nature is green. The Penicles is often about finance and money and many associate that with the color green. The suit of Air (the Wands) have a dark bluish color.......... The suit of Water (the Cups) has an ocean blue colour and the last suit of Fire (the Swords) has a red color and what I connect with that is power, courage, fight for what you want, hang in there and you will get through it.

For those who don't have one of Doreen's decks, I can tell you that this is a bad ass deck! It is HUGE

cards. I can't shuffle all of them one go and I have medium to large hands for a woman. It reminds me of oracle cards. One other thing that I noticed is that the sides of these cards has this silver shine to it and it go so well with this deck. The picture on the right is the Sharman-Caselli Tarot deck (a review of this deck will be posted next few days) which is a more or less a stadard size of a tarot deck.

Each card has a written meaning that can be at help especially if you are a beginner at tarot and every card in the major arcana has an arch angel. Arch Angel Michael is presented two or three cards like the card number 21 - The World - in the major arcana is the same artwork that is on the back of the cards. Every time I spend time these angel cards I find something new and I learn something new. I have noticed I grab this deck more than other deck I own. 

I will end this post with Doreen Virtue and Radleigh Valentine and before I start rambling about all kind of things that hasn't nothing to with this blog post.

Blessed be,

Susann

P.S.. DISCLAIMER: I have bought this tarot with my own money or I don't get paid to post this review!