✨Learn about The Empress✨ We are now on the third card in the Major Arcana bringing us to The Empress, an archetype of feminity, abundance, beauty, and nurturing, who offers us the wisdom of how to both give and receive. This class offers a focused study on the card’s mythic roots, spiritual symbolism, and psychological...
Considering this months’ Tarot at Touchstone event lies on April 2nd, a mere day from the “Ides of March” or “April Fools Day”, I figured it was appropriate to dedicate this class to the enigmatic and contradictory archetype of The Fool! Whether you are brand new to tarot or a seasoned reader, this class will...
Begin the New Year with clarity and intention! Join me at @touchstonebrewingcompany for an evening of tarot, creative exploration, and connection. In this workshop, we’ll learn together how to do a spread for the year ahead- a powerful tool for mapping out the themes, opportunists, and challenges awaiting you in 2025. Whether you’re new...
Shame is a silent and powerful force that, when unchecked, can rob us of authentic joy. Shame is covert and excellent at disguising itself as duty, fastidiousness, or reservation, when in fact it is an oppressive mentality that prevents us from pursuing what we really want, learning from mistakes, and being honest about our true...
Come join local astrologer and tarot reader, Sydney Jones (Seven Stars Holistics/Be Still My Stars) for a fun, low-pressure discussion based class on the tarot at Touchstone Brewing Company in Sacramento, Ca. If you have always wanted to get into tarot but found it too overwhelming, this is the perfect event for you to break the...
The Queen of Wands reminds us to be open-minded, inclusive, strong-willed, enterprising, and generous! On the other hand, it serves us to be cautious about being overly reactive, sensitive to criticism/rejection, or dominating others with our preferences. How have you been experiencing this energy?
The Queen of Wands, also called “the Knower of the Self” is a symbol of overcoming self-doubt and people-pleasing in the name of liberation and the pursuit of personal meaning (and the expression of it). When I think of this archetype, the character Thelma Dickinson comes to mind. In the beginning of the movie,...
Tarot cards can vary significantly in their meaning depending on the placement in the reading, the direction the card is facing, and the other cards surrounding or informing it. The six of swords is typically associated with a sense of renewal and hope after a period of fear or difficulty but it can also...
After a prolonged period of struggling or hardship, it can be difficult for the mind the believe that another pattern is being woven. The winds of change can be warm and spread seeds! The 6 of swords card reminds us that and important step in manifesting a different outcome is believing that an alternative reality...
As a hardcore nerd, I couldn’t help but notice the similarity in imagery between the 6 of Swords card and the scene in the Lord of the Rings when Aragorn passes through the bridge of Argonath with the Hobbits in his boat. In both images, vulnerable creatures who have endured danger and hardship are being...
