Any time I find myself getting down with the state of the world or some other random thing (yes, random crap can kill my buzz), I count my blessings. I try to be grateful. On really dark days, that’s not always easy to do.
But I still find something, some person, or some way that I am blessed.
Focusing on your blessings shifts energy.
For example, recently, I messed up my foot. Bad. This is the same foot that I had previously hurt when I dropped a full keg of beer on it during my bartending days. (Yep..a FULL keg.) My foot turned a light purple and it hurt for weeks. But I was grateful that I could still walk on it, limp and all.
Grateful, not hateful.
A few weeks ago, my daughter was robbed in Spain. I was grateful she was safe and coming home soon. Blessings, blessings.
Two weeks ago, my unofficially adopted daughter Jessica was robbed at gunpoint. I was grateful that she didn’t get assaulted…or worse. She lost a phone, her ID and a favorite purse but we didn’t lose her.
So grateful.
It’s easy to stay in wallow land, to give dark stuff a prominent place in your mind. But, in the long run, it does nothing except take away the beauty that surrounds you every single day, even if that beauty is only the wondrousness of being alive.
Count your blessings today – even if your own blessing is that you are here for another day.
Get a load of that catittude above! TaoZen is NOT pleased.
Other stuff:
Good to know: how to behave at a male strip club.
Hey New Yorkers – Eater has a list of the 38 essential restaurants for you. (Keeping this list on hand when I hit the Big Apple in April.)
Underwear with cat heads? Why not?
From TMF: two gorgeous ways to say no in business.
Emails habits from highly successful women such as Nina Garcia and Stacy London.
I love these old photos of Chinatown from the turn of the century.
How cute is this: woman knits tiny sweaters for her rescued chickens!
Jams keep jammier hams keep hammier – old Tupperware commercials!
On the Numinous: how to protect yourself from a psychic vamp lover.
From the Dreaming Bat: a prosperity and stability candle spell.
Why one doctor in Alabama provides abortions: you go where the crisis is.
True story: how the National Enquirer breaks stories that aren’t bullshit.
What it’s like to get harassed by protesters when you’re just trying to get a damn IUD.
From astrologer Dena DeCastro: Saturn Square Neptune – Creating a Spiritual Practice. LOVE this!
My job requires that I sit…a lot. Looking forward to this new book: Don’t Just Sit There
Top o’ my Christmas list is this standing desk: Techni Mobili Mobile Laptop MDF Cart with Storage, Woodgrain, 22-Inch W by 16-Inch D by 44-Inch H
This looks beautiful: The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale’s Lost Manuscript
I love Lidia Bastianch’s books! Here’s her latest: Lidia’s Commonsense Italian Cooking: 150 Delicious and Simple Recipes Anyone Can Master
I really want this book: The Art and Science of Hand Reading: Classical Methods for Self-Discovery through Palmistry
The Ghetto Tarot will be available for the mass market in two weeks! The Ghetto Tarot
New from Pam Grout and Colette Baron-Reid: The Oracle of E: An Oracle Card Deck to Manifest Your Dreams
Curious about the Thoth Tarot? You might want to check out this new book: The Ultimate Guide to the Thoth Tarot
What I’m Grateful For:
Everything
Soundtrack for 11/21/15: “Devil’s Whisper” by Raury – because I’m still obsessing over Raury this week.
Blessings,
Theresa
© Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady 2015
pictures from stock photography and personal collection
I’m Theresa Reed (aka, The Tarot Lady). I’ve been a full-time tarot reader for 30+ years — which, in my industry, makes me pretty badass.
I’m definitely not your average Tarot expert — I drop the F-bomb, I quote rappers, and I’m obsessed with pop culture + reality TV. Folks come to me for straight-talk + tough-love — without the woo-woo fluff. 
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