Weekly TuneUp Details

Tarot Tune Up. Thursday October 7th. 5:30pm-7:00pm mst/pdt

Topic: New Moon / Inner Child and/or Invitation to a Major

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PREP: Choose a Major Tarot archetype that you want more of in your life, or have had a difficult time personally connecting with even though you want to, or that seems inscrutable to you and you want to understand it more intimately.

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There may be time for everyone to give and receive both spreads. Here’s the New Moon / Inner Child reading –
Here’s the spread we’ll work with tonight as you do readings for each other. If there’s time, we’ll do a second round with a randomly chosen Tarot Major

Invitation to a Major

Choose a Major Tarot archetype that you want more of in your life, or have had a difficult time personally connecting with even though you want to, or that seems inscrutable to you. Your reader will place  that card at the center of the spread.
Each person crafts an affirmation that feels right for their chosen card and their intent. Use ‘I’ statements in the present tense with positive verbs. Take your time with this. Two Examples: Wheel of Fortune: I will perceive and act on opportunities, intuitive messages and synchronicities. I say yes to help from the Universe and Fate.
Strength:  I accept and love all of myself – the animal body, emotions, thoughts and ego, memories, imagination and fears. I feel whole and confident.Here’s the Diagram, Card Positions and the reading Process:
 image.png Positional Meanings:
A in the Center:  Chosen Tarot Major laying face up
Card 1:  What might be blocking or diminishing (Major’s name) ie what needs to be released Card 2:  What is unknown or misunderstood about (Major’s name)
Card 3:  What does (Major’s name) need to feel respected and truly welcomed in
Card 4:  How may life grow, develop and change because of a closer relationship with (Major’s name) Process:
Place the chosen Tarot Major face up in the center
Choose cards 1-4, thinking of the meaning of the card, laying them all face down.
Then, turn them over quickly in succession. Notice how they look together. Then read each card as an answer to its position. Notice if numbers, colors or meanings are interconnected.
Clues to Interpretation
Card 1 and 3. Card 1 reveals what should be removed and contrasts with Card 3 showing what needs to be done or emphasizedCard 2 is important because it clarifies and may point out muddled notions or misunderstanding of the archetypeCard 4 can and should always be read in a positive way.

PAST
 
Thursday September 23rd. 5:30pm – 7:00pm mst/pdt
Tarot Tune Up Autumn Equinox edition
 
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Topic: Tarot TuneUp Autumn Equinox
Time: Sep 23, 2021 05:30 PM Arizona
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Autumn is here so this week’s Thursday Tune Up (Sept 23rd 5:30pm) we’ll do The Basket and The Sickle Equinox spread. I made 9 years ago. It’s a keeper for divining helpful hints and important info for the time between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice. It also gives a glimpse into the inner Civilized and the Wild persons – maybe they’re harmonious, maybe as different as night and day!
 
There are 17 cards and 3 shapes within it – A Basket signifying harvest, A Sickle signifying the wild, and the Bridge between them. This will be an interesting spread for you to do, as I think it’s unlike any other we’ve done. Because there are so many cards, most of the Tune Up will be devoted to doing these readings.
 
 
Description of Spread and Cards Explanations:
about Autumn
Fall is a season of harvest and temptation, enjoying the beauty of change as seen in the tree leaves, working hard to harvest your ‘crop’, and the temptation to over indulge or go wild during the many holidays of this season.

Autumn spans the astrological signs of Libra (balance, karma, beauty, justice), Scorpio (sex, mystery, desire, wealth) and Sagittarius (nature love, creativity, arts and socializing).

The Basket & The Sickle Tarot & Totem spread
This card reading was created specifically for Autumn and is most helpful if used close to Equinox when the season begins. This reading helps a person trace the energies that will be arising in their lives this season. It has stood the test of many years and proved to be accurate and very meaningful.

There are 3 parts to this spread:
The Basket
The Sickle
and The Bridge between them

The cards in the BASKET tell what one is likely to harvest this Autumn (gifts, fruits of productivity, positive or negative effects of actions, social ties) that are the result of their deeds, creative effort and labor. This is the Civilized side of Autumn – one understands how these things come about even if they don’t like some of them.

The cards that form the SICKLE reveal the Wild side of Autumn – how the strange, unexpected and the mysterious make entrance into one’s life in forms such as unexpected events, sudden changes of or bursts of emotion, chaos, mysticism, surprises both pleasant and unpleasant.

The final two cards form a BRIDGE that shows how the BASKET and the SICKLE influence each other.

GUIDE TO CARD LAYOUT AND MEANINGS

BASKET
Card 1, bottom of the basket (Animal/Oracle) is a personal gift or quality you’ve developed that helps you in the situations and events in your Basket
Cards 2 – 5, sides (Tarot) tell of people, situations, and changes coming up for you during Autumn. These have grown out of your choices and actions and non-actions and make sense to you.
Cards 6 and 7, handle (Tarot) suggest how you can / will handle, carry and deal with what is in the Basket
Card 8, grip (Animal/Oracle) reveals the quality that most helps you “get a grip” on what you are harvesting.

SICKLE
Card 9 grip (Animal/Oracle) points to something about yourself that is at the root of your Wild experiences this Autumn. These are both inward and outward Wild experiences.
Card 10 – 14  blade (Tarot) signify how wildness, chaos, the unexpected and “fate” intersect with you this Autumn
Card 15 fruit (Animal/Oracle) is a new quality that emerges in you as a result of these encounters with the wild.

BRIDGE
Card 16 and Card 17 (Animal/Oracle and Tarot) indicate how you can harmonize, co-ordinate or bridge between your Wild and your Civilized selves this season.

PAST TUNE UPS
Tarot Tune Up, Thursday September 16
The Four Elements Magician Spread
5:30pm – 7:00pm mst/pdt
 
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Topic: Tune Up – Magician spread, Mercury and Full Moons
Time: Sep 16, 2021 05:30 PM Arizona
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Prep: Read about The 4 Elements Magician spread and choose the deck you want to work with
Part 1: Do the Magician Spread for a classmate
Part 2: Mercury Tarot Astrology
Part 3: Intuitive practices for Full Moon in Pisces next Tuesday
 
*****
Here’s the spread we’ll work with tonight for the majority of the workshop, we will also look at Mercury in your natal chart via the Magician and other related Tarot cards and going inward to find suggestions for celebrating the Full Moon in Pisces next week, one of the most mystical of this year’s Full Moons.
The 4 Elements Magician Spread
Think of a project or goal that will take some organizing and clear thought and planning to achieve. If you don’t have one, then your reading can be about general confidence and planning and figuring out ‘how to make it so’. The reading a classmate does for you is based on your choice. You can tell them as little or as much about your project as you want.
    This spread is based on the 4 elements because their symbols are present on every Magician card because it take all of these to create success.
Fire = energy, enthusiasm and confidence
Water = ethics, heart, relationships
Air = knowledge, skill, language
Earth – practical resources
Process and Example:
* Choose a favorite Magician Card and place it at the center of the spread, and then use that deck for the rest of the reading.
* Ask the person you’re reading for whether they seek general guidance or about a specific project or goal. They can give as little or much info as they’re comfortable with.
 * Shuffle all the cards (except The Magician) together 10 times
* Pull cards from the top, until you have one card from each suit, laid out in diamond shape with
 
Air at the top (north)
Fire to the right (east)
Water to the left (west)
and Earth at the bottom (south).
 
* Discard extra cards in a pile to the side.
* Interpret the 4 elements cards as the energy the person has at this time to give to their project. If it’s a weak or disturbing card, pull some more cards until you get another one of that element that is a helper. Consider how the elemental cards can support each other, and where there may be conflict.

Here’s an example reading from the Gaian deck (see photo below):
The Magician at the center was chosen for the idea that rhythm, motion and sound can awaken the creative mind and call in helpers.
Cards pulled from the stack after shuffling 10 times
Fire – Guardian of Fire
Water – 8 of Water
Air – 9 of Air which is a weak air card, so an extra is pulled that’s the 4 of Air
Earth – Guardian of Earth
Brief Interpretation:
Enthusiasm and Confidence (Fire) Guardian of Fire. Ceremony builds confidence, something about the project is about building and nourishing community and leadership. Find ways to ‘sweat out’ the toxins or obstacles that may block their initiative. They already know how to do this, own their expertise. If they need to reconnect to this inner Guardian, they can seek help from an esteemed ally.
Emotional resonance and relationship (Water) 8 of Cups Determination to swim upstream aka go against the grain when needed to be true to the heart of the project, if others are disturbed by that, they will meet new allies on the journey. Resist peer pressure, be true to one’s own heart and spiritual development.
Knowledge and Skills (Air) 9 of Air. Fears and maybe even some paranoia are clouding their thoughts, maybe some insomnia or illness as well. Perhaps they’re afraid they can’t learn the skills needed. An extra card was chosen for assistance. The 4 of Cups comes up as the way to dispel false fears. A nurturing safe environment to think and learn in. Plenty of rest, sleep and good diet. Seek nourishing help if needed for any trauma or fear associated with the project.
Practical Resources (Earth) Guardian of Earth. Stay close and observant of the growth of their project, attending to it with love and skill. Be sure that all processes are aligned with sustainable earth-loving practices. This project can re-seed itself. This is the second Guardian, and a reminder that the goal needs to nourish others as well as self. They already know how to do this. If they’re doubting themselves, they can seek help from an esteemed ally.
Big Picture: The 2 Guardians can help the person stay strong and humble as they ‘swim upstream’ and perhaps have to leave some old relationships or groups behind. Lynx and Horse both show up in these cards, Lynx represents powerful intuition and psychic abilities and the need to keep sacred silence. Horse is a reminder to nourish a strong stable (no pun intended) body and to enjoy the journey. The handprints on the wall behind the Magician have a similarity with the fearful face in the clouds of the 9 or Air. Perhaps rhythm, music and drumming can be extra helpful for this person in dispelling their fears.
 
 
 

Tune Up Sept 2, 2021.  5:30pm-7pm
THE HERMIT, VIRGO, MERCURY & MAGICIAN

PREP:
* Please have your Natal astrological chart or send me your birth data and I can make one for you.
Your birth data is:  your birth date, year, time and location.
* Choose your favorite 2 or 3 cards form your decks of both Hermit and Magician

The Hermit represents Virgo and is the archetype of wisdom, deep thinking, contemplation, science, and a devotion to truth-telling and realism. The Hermit respects both the scientific and intuitive intelligence. Hermit also knows that without self-knowledge, one’s ability to truly learn is half-baked. Every thought is filtered through the individuality of the thinker. Awareness of your own preferences,  social conditioning and mental blocks is the first step in freeing your mind.  This depth of contemplation requires solitude and a willingness to question everything.
 

Part 1: You’ll contemplate a few of your favorite Hermit cards. You’ll explore this archetype of independent intelligence through studying the Tarot card and its symbols, then you’ll be led through some exercises using creative spontaneous writing, visualization and other modalities that allow you more access to the Hermit archetype.

Part 2: Virgo. You’ll use Tarot cards to intepret Virgo in your chart by house and any planets or sensitive points within it. Through journaling and responding to the images on your cards, you gain more insight into your gifts and challenges in the area of practical and successful problem solving, work ethic, modesty about success and ego, serving a higher purpose, skillful craftsmanship, perfectionism. organizational skills and criticism of self and others. Virgo in your chart will also reveal the how’s and where’s of the way you serve others in order to develop your soul and spirit and how you may get on a martyr trip or be overly critical of yourself and others.

Part 3: Mercury, the Magician and its sign.
Mercury is Virgo’s ruler and is represented by The Magician, the archetype that can conceive a plan and then figure out how to ‘make it so’. You’ll find Mercury in your chart and it’s sign, and by musing on their representative Tarot cards interpret how your creative problem-solving mind naturally functions and expresses itself.

Part 4: Readings for each other with cards for:
1 Your Inner Hermit,
2 the light of truth you carry,
3  intellectual curiosity,
4 a wise old guide or ancestor
5 courage to resist peer pressure
6 a key part of your life philosophy

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Topic: Tarot Tune Up – Virgo and Hermit
Time: Sep 2, 2021 05:30 PM Arizona

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Details for Tarot Tune Up Aug 26th. DREAMWORK & TAROT

5:30pm-7pm mst/pdt

PREP:
* Think of a recent dream you had that feels significant, or a dream from childhood or many years ago that is very memorable. This could also be a ‘waking dream’ where you entered an altered state with unusual dream-like experiences. Sometimes vivid childhood dreams speak of themes that will continue to come up in your life. The dream you choose will provide the meanings of the card positions and the shape of the layout. You’ll all do interpretative dreamwork cards for each other, and choose a few cards for your dreaming self.

* Choose a deck or decks that have a dreamlike or surreal quality. If you’re using Oracle cards, please be sure they have a wide range of feelings and meanings to them.

Part 1: (10 minutes or so) I’ll share with you the process of a recent reading I did for someone that ended up being guided by a dream they told me at the beginning of the session, and that helped the work go very deep. The recipient of the reading isn’t anyone who’s attended any TuneUps and the details will be general enough not to invade their privacy.

Part 2: Tarot Dream Interpretation
* Before the dream is told, you’ll choose a card that pertains to the dream and keep it face down until later (the hidden card)
* Each of you will go around and tell your dream in the shortest way possible that will still include the essential storyline, characters and details. As the person you’re reading for is telling their dream, take notes on the essentials as these will be the position meanings in the layout. See if any shape occurs to you, it doesn’t have to be elaborate, it could be just a horizontal or vertical straight line, an arc, a circle. or something non-geometric, just scattered.
* You’ll do a reading and receive a reading. (Stay loose, engage imagination, and have fun if it fits)
* Turn over the hidden card at the end and see what it adds to the reading
 

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Topic: Dream Tarot Tune Up – Aug 26
Time: Aug 26, 2021 05:30 PM Arizona
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Details for Thurs Aug 19th Tuneup.
Thursday 5:30pm – 7pm
 
Hello Tarotists!
This week we start our new time for the Thursday night tune ups. Yay! We’ll meet on Zoom from 5:30pm to 7pm AZ time (same as Pacific Daylight). The new time allows more folks in other time zones to take part and those in AZ and Pacific time to have time for adventures afterward. 
 
Thursday August 19th. 5:30pm – 7pm. 
Workshop Topic: WAR & PEACE Conflict, Peacemaking and War
 
Please RSVP ASAP. Thank you!
 
ZOOM LINK: 
Topic: Tarot Tune Up – War and Peace
Time: Aug 19, 2021 05:30 PM Arizona
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PRICE & PAYMENT: Sliding Scale $10 – $30 per week. Please pay by Zelle to merriewolfie@gmail.com, or PayPal.me/Merrie Wolfie or on the website here: https://merriewolfie.com/events-workshops-and-classes/tarot-tune-ups-zoom-version/
 
WAR & PEACE:
We’ll discuss cards related to these topics and do some readings for each other. You’ll find this very useful if you are a reader for others or plan to be. Many dilemmas clients show up with stem from conflicts with others such as family dynamics, work politics, neighbors and even inner conflicts.
 
PREP:
a) Select a few cards from your decks that speak to you of conflict, and a few more that speak of peace making or resolutions.
b) Think of a situation you want to receive a reading about that involves conflict, making peace and/or making war. Peace is a process.
     We’ll also discuss intricacies of doing these kinds of readings as they can bring up intense opinions or emotions in people.
    I’ll send you the spreads we’ll work with and more details by Thursday morning.
Blessings,
Merrie
past workshops
Details for Tarot Tune Up, Thursday August 5th and Wednesday August 11th
 
Everyone will be doing the Closure Spread for a classmate. As you do the reading, there will be particular breaths and color visualizations you can ask your ‘client’ to do. After everyone’s received and given a reading, we will focus on the last card which is the Guide for the Way Out. You’ll consult your intuition and draw a card if you need to, to give your classmate further insight into how they can connect to the helping energy represented by that card. It will be an Animal card or other Oracle card.
 
Prep: Give some thought to the subject you want your reading to focus on and pull a few cards that represent it and share at the beginning of class.
 
Here’s the Closure Spread:
The key to this spread is personal responsibility. Consult this spread when you really want closure on an old pattern, habit or unhappy situation that’s dragged on and on. When you’re ready to give up illusions and move on. At the center of this spread is a card that reveals how a personal illusion or self-sabotaging habit has trapped you.

Card 1 (center)– A self-sabotaging personal quality, attitude or habit that traps you  is identified through an Animal or Oracle card. You might already be aware of it, or this truth may be partly or completely subconscious. On considering  the information the card gives, a realization often surfaces. When you’re able to see it, you can own it. Once you own it, you can deal with it.
 
Card 2 (upper right) – Spiritual Support. A Tarot card revealing how you can connect to spiritual guidance and support that helps you change.
 
Card 3 (lower right) – Earthly Support. A Tarot card representing what you need emotionally, physically or in some other practical way to help you change.
 
Card 4 (upper left) – What You Gain. A Tarot card identifies what you gain when you are released from the trap.
 
Card 5 (lower left) – What You Lose. As unlikely as it may seem,  the situation you’ve been stuck in has been  serving or enabling you in some way. This card identifies what you will lose or surrender by changing.

Card 6 (outer center left)–  The Way Through.  A personal quality identified by an Animal or Oracle card that you can choose to develop that greatly helps you move through the closure process with success!
 
 

Wednesday morning July 28th Tarot Tune Up. 9am – 10:30am AZ time.

Here’s all you’ll need for tomorrow morning’s Tarot Tune Up. The 4 choices of readings are each rather short and snappy, intentionally so because we have quite a few attendees, so this will assure everyone will have time to both give and receive a reading. Please take the time to decide which reading you want to receive before we meet. Thanks!
 
Zoom Link:  Topic: Tarot Tune Up – Sex, Relationship & Pleasure
Time: Jul 28, 2021 09:00 AM Arizona
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LEO. FIRE. SEXUALITY. RELATIONSHIP

We’ll focus on Leo,
relationships,
sex,
the erotic,
pleasure,
playfulness,
and creative expression.
They all fit together and are important to the sign of Leo.
 
Prep:
* Before class, please choose cards that resonate for you with some or all of the above topics and share with the class. You may also share your Strength card which is astrologically associated with Leo.
* Choose one of your court cards from the suit of Fire that feels like it resonates with who you are romantically and sexually, or who you want to be. Share if you’re comfortable with it.
* We’ll also discuss some decks that are designed to be LGBTQ and kink friendly. If you find any of your decks to be so, please share and discuss with the class.
* Before class, please choose which reading you’d like to receive from these 4 choices –
Awaken Your Inner Sex Goddes;
Unleash Your Inner Sex Vixen;
Relationship Spread for Singles or
Leo Season.
 
Awaken Your Inner Sex Goddess or Unleash Your Inner Sex Vixen both by daily-tarot-girl.com
 
 
Relationship Spread for Singles from killingcupid.com
 
 

 

 
Past Tarot TuneUps
Wednesday morning Zoom Tarot Tune Up.

July 14th

ATTRACTION

Mars and  Venus become conjunct in Leo on July 13th. Astrologically, this is the merging of yin and Yang, fire and water, testosterone and estrogen, love and lust, and other dynamic partnerships. 
     During the Wednesday morning Tune Up we will look at the tarot cards for Leo (Strength and the Fire Court cards) and Mars and Venus (Emperor and Empress, Knight of Fire and Queen of Earth) and the energies and messages the symbols reveal to us about the magnetic attraction of ‘opposites’.
    You’ll also do readings for each other about romantic/sexual relationships or the inner marriage of inner opposites, whichever you prefer.
As usual the price is sliding scale $10-$30 per workshop.  You can pay  on the website here, or to PayPal.me/MerrieWolfie or by Zelle to merriewolfie@gmail.com
 

 

This Week’s Wednesday Morning Tarot Tune Up
June 30th 9am-10:30am AZ time
Topics associated with the sign of Cancer – Mother, Nurture, Foetus, Birth, Child, Emotional Bonding, Home, Emotional Needs, Emotional Security, Childhood ‘stuff’ both happy and unhappy, the need for touch and closeness.
 
We will:
Share cards that embody the above Cancerian concerns and do a reading related to The Great Sea Within
 
PREP:
Choose: What card best represents the kind of Mother you wish you could have with you right now?
Do the same, choosing the ideal kind of
Child
Emotional Nourishment
Domesticity
you would most want in your present life.
Note: These exercises help you expand beyond the typical meanings of individual cards, they stretch and feed your emotional and intuitive imagination, and that is key to what makes a deep and confident reader. They also help you soul search in creative way.
 
Part 1: You’ll share and discuss the cards you chose for Mother, Child, Emotional Nourishment and Domesticity
 
Part 2: Readings for each other exploring relationship to the Lunar self (the ruling ‘planet’ of Cancer is the Moon) and what you most need for emotional well-being at this time.
 
THE READING
The Great Sea Within
* Choose a deck with noticeable fluidity in the images and ease of seeing connections from one card to another.
* A recording of Ocean sounds will play in the background as you choose cards for each other. But not while you interpret them, that would probably be too sonically confusing
* I think this spread could be laid out in a spiral shape with Card 1 at the center and the other cards spiraling out from there, but if you feel inspired to use a different shape, go for it.
* In the interpretation, the cards should be read rather quickly and fluidly, flowing together – you can even sing them or say them in a sing/song voice if you want to but not pressure. After all this is a creative experimental Tarot workshop!
 
 
 
Card 1: Your Rhythmic Needs (what do you need a pattern or routine for)
Card 2: Rebirthing – Something that happened in infancy or childhood that can be recognized or healed now
Card 3: An emotional need or dependency that wants to be recognized, for it is valid and valuable (being vulnerable is a positive in this reading)
Card 4: The mothering you need to receive at this time
Card 5: The mothering you can give to someone else in need (this will probably be to a specific person or group, not a generalized vibe.Cancer is more personal than impersonal
Card 6: Your Sleep needs / sleeping life
Card 7: Your Dreamlife / Dream needs
Card 8: Whale Bringing gifts of the subconscious to the surface
Card 9: Dolphin A source of fun and joy
 
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For the workshop to occur, at least 3 people need to attend, so please rsvp yes, maybe or no. It will help everyone plan well and as soon as we have enough people I’ll send word that we are On!.
 
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Topic: Wed Morn Tarot Tune Up
Time: Jun 30, 2021 09:00 AM Arizona
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Love, Moonlight and Nourishment to you all,
Merrie
 
Wednesday, June 16 morning Tarot Tune Up.  9am-10:30.
 
This Week:
Morning Tarot Tune Up
Wednesday June 16th 9am-10:30am AZ time (same as Pacific Daylight)
Topic:  Card and Readings for Reinvigoration post-pandemic, getting free from entropy and atrophy
The intent of this workshop is to use Tarot and other messengers to gain insight into how to heal / release entropy and atrophy, how to shift away from them and into more fresh, positive actions and outlook.
ZOOM LINK:
Topic: Tarot Tune Up Wed Morning June 16
Time: Jun 16, 2021 09:00 AM Arizona
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Price and Payment:
The workshop is offered at sliding scale of $10 to $30.
If you haven’t prepaid please make your payment to
on the webpage
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In this workshop:
Part 1:  share cards chosen to represent particular experiences
Part 2:  do readings for each other about emerging fully into post-pandemic reality
– practice receiving psychic messages in a reading about the cards while they’re still face down
– then interpret the cards and other messages for your fellow student to support their emergence.
Prep:  See the 5 starred and italicized items in Part 1 details below. Please intentionally select these cards before class.
Topic:  Entropy and Atrophy: Many people are still feeling out of sorts, betwixt and between, or unsure about what new ‘normal’ to embrace now that there’s more freedom to expand and socialize. For many Entropy and/or Atrophy made inroads into their consciousness, emotions and body during 2020 and after and they’re hard to shake off.
The intent of this workshop is to use Tarot and other messengers to gain insight into how to heal / release entropy and atrophy, how to shift away from them and into more fresh, positive actions and outlook.
 
Part 1:
Entropy is a tendency toward chaos, falling apart and unpredictability, it can bring a sense of losing touch with a design or plan for your life.
* Share the one Tarot card, animal or plant guide you chose that encompasses the essence of entropy
Re-designing and Re-Organizing are energies that help you let go of entropy and allow new habits, patterns and life designs to arise so you can discover who you are becoming.
* Share one card or other tool that represents this will to re-design / re-organize something new after a period of chaos or no-design.
A False Normal It’s probably not going to work well to try to go back to a life exactly as it was before the pandemic and all the strangeness that accompanied it.  But it is human nature to seek that kind of security
* Share a Tarot card or other guide that represents the tendency to re-create the past and ignore uncomfortable changes or disconcerting truths.
Atrophy is non-action and non-movement and the loss of strength that can bring. Atrophy can make one feel older, weaker or more timid than they actually are. The many limitations of the pandemic gave way to atrophy for many – a frequent blah feeling, nothing is happening, boredom, or unable to exercise or move much, and for many depression. Sad!
* Share Tarot card / other intuitive messenger that represents the archetype of Atrophy.
Stretching and Energizing are good medicine for leaving the shell, husk or cocoon of atrophy and moving outward in your life, sprouting new leaves and buds, seeking new experiences. Stretching outwards, expanding your life and your inner sense of self can combat atrophy.
* Share Tarot card / other intuitive messenger that represents a way you actually want to stretch / energize / emerge
 
Part 2: Reading for a fellow workshopper
THE SELECTION PROCESS
You’ll shuffle all your cards together, then separate them into 5 stacks, one for each subject below.
Choose the top card off each stack and lay face down in this order:
Entropy
Redesign/Reorganize
A False Normal
Atrophy
Stretch and Energize
(I’m not yet sure of the layout’s shape, but will have it done by Thursday morning).
THE READING
– Before you turn the cards over you’ll lay your hand on each one and see what intuitive feeling, message, vision, body sensation or other sense/experience arises and describe it. Doing this helps you open to the Priestess/Seer within you and get ego out of the way.
– Then turn the card over and interpret with just one or two short sentences.
– Take a deep breath.
– Repeat for all 5 cards.
– Then speak of the overall story or gestalt of the reading.
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June 3, 2021 Tarot Tune Up
Topic: Resisting the Old Normal – Moving Onward from Covid-19
 
Hello Tarotistas!
Here’s what’s up for tomorrow night. 
Please RSVP ASAP
 
Zoom Info
Tarot Tune Up 
June 3, 2021. 6:30pm – 8pm
Topic: Resisting the Old Normal – Moving Onward from Covid-19
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Price & Payment
As usual, the sliding scale price is $10 – $30 per week.
However if you attended last week I’m making that one a freebie because of technical difficulties and you can use that payment for this week
Otherwise, If you haven’t prepaid, please make your payment at least one hour before the Tune Up begins.
3 ways to pay:
 
Subject:
  • There are 6 key words used in this reading (see them under Part 2)
  • The intent of the reading is to search for ways to resist going back to the old normal now that the pandemic is (hopefully permanently) waning.
  • First we revisit the difficult pandemic energies, and then look at ways of really moving on and thriving.
 
Prep: Choose just two of the six words/descriptions below and intentionally choose a Tarot card that resonates with that quality, it can be either:
1) it resonates in a general way
2) or specifically with your personal experience.
 
Part 1: You’ll show and share about the words and cards you selected.
 
Part 2: You’ll do readings for each other with cards ‘randomly’ chosen, with 6 cards in the below positions. Layout provided tomorrow before class.
 
1) Entropy (lack of order or predictability, decline into disorder) how this seemed to you during the intense 13 months of the pandemic
2) Atrophy (decrease in muscle mass due to extended immobility) how you dealt with the lack of mobility, closure of gyms or dance studios even park trails for a time
3) Release / Oxygenate (as Covid decreases and many are vaccinated, ‘normal’ social life begins to return) How have you responded to the option for less alone time and more social time
4) Regression (psychologically people have a tendency to revert to a normal that works for them, though it often prevents growth and evolution) Where might c eveyou be most likely to revert back to what you saw as ‘safe’ before the pandemic even though it may keep you from growing and thriving
5) Energy Source (something added to the mix to promote evolution) What could or is happening now that gives you the boost to go forward rather than revert to the old normal?
6) Evolution (Significant metamorphosis) What does the new energy source impel, propel or compel you to become?
 

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May 27, 2021. Tarot Tune Up email and details!

Topic: Back to the 22 Archetypes!
 
Zoom Link:
Merrie Wolfie is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Back to the 22 Archetypes!
Time: May 27, 2021 06:30PM –  08:00PM Arizona
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As usual, the sliding scale price is $10 – $30 per week.
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Topic: We’ll look at what makes for a powerful, evocative Major Arcana card.
Elements could be symbols, design, colors and moods.
How does the card get to the essence of a part of human nature that we experience individually (and sometimes collectively)? Every person who has lived into adulthood, has been host to each of the Tarot archetypes at some time or another.
 
Countries, civilizations and epochs may embody some specific Majors. For instance the 1960s and 1970s, especially in the US, intensely expressed The Devil (Nature God) and The Star archetypes and The Tower – the sexual revolution, drugs for fun and consciousness expansion that turned into drug addiction for some, anti-war and anti-establishment political movements, a turn toward spiritual experience and cosmic connection rather than sticking to the traditions of establishment religions. The assassination of so many world figures created shock wave after shock wave.
 
As individuals, some of us may only experience the Tower once or twice in a lifetime, others may experience it many times in a decade. Some may embrace the Empress whole-heartedly, others may feel she’s overwhelming or smothering. In the big picture, there’s no ‘best’ or ‘worse’ major.
 
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PREP: Please choose 4 cards that are Major Arcana, they can come from one deck, many decks or even 4 different decks. Choose cards you think communicate the Essence of their Major.
 
PART 1: Everyone will share their 4 Majors, round robin style. Let us know how you settled on your 4 choices.
 
PART 2: (No need to plan in advance for this) You’ll be randomly ‘assigned’ one Major. You’ll craft affirmations and ideas about how you would portray a Major if you were making a deck – it doesn’t have to be a picture, it could be video, poetry, music, costumes, etc. Be open to allowing others to add their ideas as you share, this could end up being a group vision for a few of the Majors.
 
PART 3: Worthy questions:
Countries, civilizations and epochs may embody some specific Majors. For instance the 1960s and 1970s especially in the US intensely connected to The Devil (Nature God) and Star archetypes and Tower – the sexual revolution, drugs for fun and consciousness expansion that turned into drug addiction for some, anti-war and anti-establishment political movements, a turn toward spiritual experience and cosmic connection rather than sticking to the traditions of establishment religions. The assassination of so many world figures created shock wave after shock wave.
We’ll have a group discussion – what Majors Arcana / Human Nature archetypes are most prevalent in world events now?
Are there any new archetypes arising that need to be added to the Tarot?
 
PART 4: Readings. You will pull 1 Major for a fellow classmate, it will be an energy or way of life that’s meaningful for them to contemplate at this time.
 
This should be a creative, deep and fun class. I look forward to hosting it for you!
 
Love & Light,
Merrie
 

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May 20, 2021.  Tarot Tune Up

It’s Tune Up Time again. Tonight we’ll investigate different ways / channels to pick up intuitive wisdom and insight during readings. Fun and fascinating!
Here’s all info, and this is also on the dedicated webpage.
 
If you haven’t prepaid, please be sure to make your payment at least one hour before we begin.
Each 90 minute workshop is offered at a sliding scale of $10-$30.
You can choose you amount and pay in any of these 3 way
c) Zelle to merriewolfie@gmail.com
 
Zoom Info:
Merrie Wolfie is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Tarot Tune Up – Exploring a variety of intuitive channels
Time: May 20, 2021 06:30 PM – 8:00PM
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PREP:
Two decks: Choose one deck that feels easy to connect to intuitively, also if you have one,
also choose a deck that feels opaque and hard to ‘get’ intuitively – you might find you have an intuitive connection with it through a different kind of channel than you’re used to
Please bring
  • a blindfold, scarf or thick veil that will completely block your outward sight. You’ll use this on and off throughout the workshop.
  • headphones, ear buds or ear plugs that block your hearing and are easy to take on and off or in and out. Cotton balls would probably work too
  • situate yourself somewhere comfy and wear clothes that allow free movement of your body as you may want to stand up and move around
  • if there are body positions, herbs or objects that help you connect to the Heart of Compassion please have these accessible
THE WORKSHOP:
We’ll work and play with quite an interesting variety of intuitive topics and all of them help you form a healthy strong foundation for intuitive work.
Though the following refers to your client or person you’re reading for, all this also applies for readings you do for yourself or for public affairs, such as about elections, wars, vaccines, the economy etc.
 
1 Getting out of your own way ie letting go of your ‘personal narrative’ consciousness and/or monkey mind so you can allow The Inner Seer to intuit, feel and speak without being interrupted by your personal preferences or reactions to the subject of a reading or about the person you’re reading for. This is a shift into Non-Ordinary Consciousness.
 
2 Ways to benevolent goodwill toward the client so that you do no harm
 
3 You’ll do cards for yourself and for others where you will keep the cards face down for a few minutes while you try a variety of methods to discern clues about what the cards are and/or something about their message.
We’ll continue most of the class doing this in ways that give you the chance to see which ‘channels’ flow best for you. It might even be that currently your body sensations deliver strong useful intuitive information, but a few months from now it might be the visual that’s strongest, or it might vary according to circumstances you’re in.
 
4 After a reading – how to release the reading/cards, release the bond to the person you’re reading for, release yourself from Seer mode and reconnnect to Ordinary Consciousness.
 
5 More ideas will probably arise!
 

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May 13, 2021. Tarot Tune Up

TOPICS: Debut new Tarot Layouts. And a choice of other topics outlined below.

If you haven’t already, please let me know if you plan to attend tonight! RSVP ASAP of course.
Payment: The price is $10 – $30 per TuneUp, if you haven’t paid yet please do so here or to PayPal.me/MerrieWolfie or through Zelle to merriewolfie@gmail.com. Thank you!
ZOOM LINK
Merrie Wolfie is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: May 13 Layout Designs etc Tune Up
Time: May 13, 2021 06:30 PM Arizona
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Tonight we’ll see Sara’s layout design and possibly Steph’s and Serena’s if they are able to attend! Lisa is still busy on a special work project and April’s on vacation and Carter’s busy. We may work a little further with the ones you did last week.

For the second part of the workshop, here are some choices:
a) Work with Venus transiting Gemini (May 9 – June 2) by looking at it as the Empress visiting The Lovers, you’ll pull those cards from your decks and see what the synergy looks like
b) Do a spread based on The Magician looking at what you need from each of the 4 elements to begin a project or new phase
c) Inner Child New Moon spread.
We might be able to do both a) and c) but b) takes longer.
What is your preference? Please email or text me your response.

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May 5, 2021 – Attendees’ will debut Tarot Layouts that they’ve designed based on a favorite shape or geometry.  We get to hear each other’s ideas and to try out the new spreads. This will occupy the entire time of 6:30pm-8pm.

If you didn’t design a Tarot layout, please attend anyway. You may get inspired and you’ll probably receive a reading.

Price & Payment:
Sliding Scale: $10- $30
If you haven’t prepaid, please do so at least 2 hours before the workshop.
Pay at PayPal.me/MerrieWolfie or on this page https://merriewolfie.com/events-workshops-and-classes/tarot-tune-ups-zoom-version/

Please RSVP ASAP if you haven’t done so yet, it helps me plan for flow of the workshop.

ZOOM link

Topic: May 6 Tarot Tune Up – Class Designed Layouts

Time: May 6, 2021 06:30 PM Arizona

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Here’s a preview of some of our topics for May 2021
May 5 & 6 Wed morn or Thurs eve. Attendees present the Layout and Reading they’ve designed inspired by a shape or geometry.May 12 & 13  Wed morn or Thurs eve. New moon Inner Child Readings. Experience a variety of ways to shift consciousness to the Inner Priestess when you do readings for yourself or others, includes finding your spirit guides, handling the cards, and more.
May 19 & 20 Wed morn or Thurs eve. TBD.
May 26 & 27 Wed morn or Thurs eve. Full Moon in Gemini Tarot interpretation and reading. A Variety of spreads and readings for different kinds of relationships and to improve communication skills (primary Gemini topics)

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PAST WORKSHOPS

April 29 Thursday evening. Tarot Interpretations of a Creative Work and Beltane Readings or A Guide for the Newly Extroverted.

April 29, 2021 – Beltane Reading and Interpretation of Creative Works

Part 1: Tarot interpretations of creative work
Part 2: Beltane Readings or A Guide for the Newly Extroverted

Price & Payment:
Sliding Scale: $10- $30
If you haven’t prepaid, please do so at least 2 hours before the workshop.
Pay at PayPal.me/MerrieWolfie or on this page https://merriewolfie.com/events-workshops-and-classes/tarot-tune-ups-zoom-version/

Please RSVP ASAP if you haven’t done so yet, it helps me plan for flow of the workshop.

ZOOM link
Merrie Wolfie is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Tarot Tune Up Beltane!
Time: Apr 29, 2021 06:30 PM Arizona
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PREPARATION for Part 1: As discussed at last week’s class, if you weren’t there and this isn’t clear, please contact me and we’ll chat about it!

Choose a creative work that you love by someone other than yourself. It’s preferable if you choose something most people would know, because the whole group will  ‘get it’, but if you’re strongly drawn to something lesser known, that’s ok. As usual, if you have a strong intuition or ‘hie’, please follow that.
The purpose of this exercise is to show yet another way you can bring and keep Tarot wisdom and archetypes in your consciousness, If you often reflect on how you’d interpret your interests and daily events with Tarot, then you’ll deepen your wisdom, intuition and understanding of the meaning and story of the cards.
TIME LIMIT for this exercise on sharing your interpretation so everyone has a chance to talk and share, and we also have time to do the readings in part 2. Time Limit is 6 minutes.


Some examples of what you might choose:  
Van Gogh Starry Starry Night.
A Sequence of Yoga Practices.
A favorite film.A theme album, like Tommy the first rock opera or Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
The growth of a social / political movement that created real change (this could be good or bad – Civil Rights Movement or the MAGA Trump movement)
Classic Books – Winnie the Pooh, The Secret Garden, Harry Potter …
Instrumental Music if there’s a lot of different movement or ‘personality’ in it.
A particular dance – Gangnam Style? Belly Dance?  Interpreting the different movements in the dance through cards.
If you have an idea and aren’t sure if it will work, just text or email me and we’ll chat about it.

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PART 1:
Share your Tarot interpretation of a creative work. Time Limit is 6 minutes per person.

PART 2:
The Beltane reading will focus on becoming more social / extroverted after a period of inwardness (and we’ve had that in spades!). Traditionally this mid-Spring holiday was associated with the May Pole dance during huge community celebrations, sweets, drinking, schmoozing and yes … optional orgies! Once a year you could taste of the forbidden fruit you’d been lusting after (if all parties were willing).
     The social world contracted, and was restrained, for most people for a long time in 2020 and part of 2021. It’s now slowly beginning to bloom into a new normal. The 2021 Beltane Tarot spread will focus on how to emerge and then merge into a more extroverted life, what you may want to revive from the past, what you are no longer interested in, and new ways of ‘normal’ that include joy, traveling, lovemaking or whatever you have been restrained from. Many people are discovering it’s not as easy to become social again as one would assume so please do this reading with a compassionate attitude and intent.
     The intent of the reading is to help the querent be true to who they have become and how they may have changed in the past year and to discern the kind of socializing and extroversion that’s authentic for them now.
     I’ll supply the layout and card position meanings tomorrow before the workshop begins.

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Past workshops

April 22, 2021 – Power Structures – Bullies, Victims and Advocates

As usual please RSVP via text or email if you’ll be attending!
Originally I thought this workshop would be about an Earth Day theme, but it’s become something else – still defending the Earth from species extinction and pollution among other things – would fit in with the theme of Bullying and Power Structures.

TOPIC: Tarot and Power Structures – Bullies, Victims and Advocates

Thursday, April 22nd 6:30pm – 8pm

Price & Payment:
$10 – $30 sliding scale. If you’re not able to pay at this time, please contact me and we can arrange a trade or payment plan.If you haven’t prepaid, please pay before the workshop at PayPal.me/MerrieWolfie or on this page.

ZOOM link:
Topic: Tarot TuneUp April 22
Time: Apr 22, 2021 06:30 PM Arizona
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This class will be structured quite a bit like last week’s. Given the spotlight on white power supremacists and police violence over the past year, and especially right now with the recent police involved killings, the trial of the murderer of George Floyd, and the mass shootings – power structures and bullying are issues that can’t be ignored, so let’s dive in. We will call in some spirits of protection before we begin. The purpose is not to bum you out, but to bring insight and the capacity to hold space for these issues within yourself and for your clients and community.Aspects of these issues often come up in individual readings you may encounter about work situations, family dynamics, recovering from childhood traumas, and / or having to deal with misogyny, racism, and other isms of cruelty and disempowerment. It will be good practice for you to deal with them in a workshop!

Look through your decks and choose some cards that could represent some of the following topics. Maximum of 6 cards because of time constraints so choose the ones that you either find most powerful or that you’re interpreting in an unusual way –

  • The Bully, Murderer, Enslaver or Supremacist
  • Bullying tactics
  • Policing
  • Political maneuvering to gain or keep power
  • Scapegoats that carry the burden of being deemed inferior.
  • Bullies who carry and act out the burden of unintegrated shadow stuff of the society
  • Mainstream culture that wants to ignore problems it is uncomfortable with
  • People who are victimized for just being who they are – by color, age, gender, sexuality, economic status, etc
  • Weaponry intended to kill or disable.
  • Compassionate actions to protect victims
  • People committed to changing an existing bullying power structure
  • A just and fair society
  • Reparations
  • Reconciliation possibility and/or reality
  • Non-consensual dominance/submission

Some examples:  
The Fool – the ‘weird’ one in K-12 school who is humiliated and made fun of and has had to learn to just amuse themselves and ignore others
10 of Swords – Use of greatly escalated and unnecessary forceJustice – advocate for the right of all beings, including animals! (as in the Wheel of Change deck, photo at end of email)
Princess of Disks as a young Sri Lankan woman as a farmer standing in her fields, the ‘tractors’ are oxen, the sower is her hand. She could represent the simple methods of farming (that are being pushed out by global agriculture corporations. (as in the Wheel of Change deck, photo at end of email)
Feel free to choose Majors, Minors and/or Court Cards.

Part 1: You’ll share and discuss the cards you chose. Maximum 8 cards per person.
Part 2: Using the whole deck you’ll do short readings for each other related to the themes of this workshop. Like last week, the readings will be short and lively!