Victoria LaPointe
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I'm an intuitive Tarot card reader. It's my day job and I love it. My journey began in 1977 when I had my first card reading. I was astounded and inspired so I bought my first deck, began to learn and I'm still astounded and inspired.
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Lupine Dreams
Lupine (Lupinus) I’ve always loved lupine flowers. Named for the wolf because of a mistaken belief that the Lupine depleted or “wolfed” down the nutrients in the surrounding soil, plus some species of lupine are toxic to livestock, they’ve had a sort of love/hate relationship with humans. They do not deplete the soil but enrich it by fixing nitrogen from the air into soil form which helps support other plants. However, there’s that whole poison thing so as beautiful as they are, it’s really best not to eat them.
By Victoria LaPointe5 years ago in Futurism
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Reading #35
This week all three cards are from the Minor Arcana which means that the major life lessons we’ve been dealing recently with have settled out a bit and this week we’re looking at how the decisions and changes we’ve made show up in our daily lives. A lot has changed and continues to change but this week will be a chance to lighten up, take a breath and look at what’s taken place up to this point and how we want to communicate that to those around us.
By Victoria LaPointe5 years ago in Longevity
Mindful Chores
Mindful Chores Yep, it seems like the world’s gone mad. And for all intents and purposes it has. Monetary systems, healthcare systems, travel policies, governmental wrangling and tangling, so many of the institutions we'd gotten accustomed to, no matter how much we disagreed or struggled with them, have been soundly shaken and we're left with big, empty spots where a sense of security once lay. Now, as we're forced to look more closely at those things we’ve been mindlessly trusting, we see the cracks and fissures we weren’t paying attention to until now. So here we are in a new and unsure reality with our faces covered, separated by a virus that has claimed the lives of so many, often without a job and wondering where to turn to pick up a thread of constancy to hold tight and pull ourselves onto whatever path we can find to settle our lives back into some kind of normal.
By Victoria LaPointe5 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #34
Reading for 8-10 thru 8-16-20 This week looks like one of gratitude, acceptance, compassion and release. With The Empress, Death and the Sword of Truth --the Ace of Swords-- we find ourselves in a unique position. One where we realize there are some things, no matter how familiar, how dear or how woven into the fabric of our lives, that no longer contribute to our happiness, comfort, sense of self or ability to embrace who we are at the depths of our being. This is a week of gentle honesty with ourselves in which we can see what needs to be released for us to regain a positive sense of self. We also see a determined honesty that allows us to speak our minds in a way that’s simple, direct, and understanding of those who will be impacted by our decisions. Though the Ace of Swords often urges us to use its sharp edges to make a point, the Empress adds the compassion needed to be honest without anger or retribution in mind allowing understanding to soften the edges and still make the point.
By Victoria LaPointe5 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly reading #33
The Center card this week is The Aeon. With this Major Arcana card we look at our journey through this lifetime in many different ways and with as many different viewpoints. As our lives, here in physical form, can be seen as a journey of experience from the first bright, loud, cold awakening of birth through our slow, meandering and wizening progress as we cross through life, ageing and into death. This movement and change can be found in each moment we experience. As we gather experience and growth we find comfortable habits and sometimes become comfortable in familiar inadequacies. This card allows us to view each of these things with an eye and a determination to settle out and balance the things that work with those that don’t. That balance and a true joy comes when we embrace those things that foster a whole, centered, loving experience and accept, honor and release those that don’t. There are many things in this life that we may rue now but were necessary in the moment we embraced them. Growth is about recognizing when old patterns and behaviors have served their purpose and continued reliance on them has shifted from assistance to interference. Much like the release we feel with confession, allowing our old selves to fall away drops a burden we may not even have known we were carrying.
By Victoria LaPointe5 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #32
Today while shuffling the cards for this week’s reading, one card popped out on the very first shuffle so I decided to keep that one and started shuffling again. One more popped so I kept that one too and wouldn’t you know it, one more popped so I thought I’d just roll with them. I love when the Universe gives me a tap or a shove or knocks the cards out of my hands.
By Victoria LaPointe5 years ago in Longevity
What's On The Other Side Of The Raindrop
What’s on the other side of the Raindrop When I was about 10 or 11 years old and in 5th grade we were learning about molecules at school. What they looked like and how they worked. The teacher showed us models of the nucleus surrounded by the orbiting atoms and told us that everything on Earth was made up of these teeny tiny bits that we couldn’t even see. The idea really caught my attention. It’s probably the first experience I’ve had of actually contemplating something. I have a very clear memory of standing in the produce section of the grocery store with my mother one day and thinking about whether the oranges were actually tiny galaxies and if “people” lived there, to them we were great awesome god-like creatures. I thought of the tiny bits of pulp. Were they oceans or other even tinier universes? What would it be like to be that small? Then I began to think about our universe. Maybe we were a miniscule part of some other being’s orange. I remember feeling at the time that it probably went both ways, from vastly tiny to unimaginably huge. The idea of never-ending was there but the imagining of it was hard, though I still kept turning it over and over in my mind. That night as I lay in bed I started to rub small circles on one spot of my bedroom wall thinking about all the little molecules I must be rubbing off and wondering how long it would take me to get through the wall. Then I realized that if all things on Earth were made of those little bits then I was also wearing away my finger. I quickly stopped rubbing.
By Victoria LaPointe5 years ago in Futurism
Trip to the Farm x2
Playful dust bunnies rolled around on the floor under the sofa as I reached under and tried to trap them with my broom, when I heard the phone ring. This was in the eighties, so cordless phones were the new big thing. Not wireless, not cellular (a smart phone would have been seen as straight up magic) but cordless, meaning that they still had to be near their base to work and if the power went out they went with it. One of the cool things about them though, was that you could wander around and do things while you talked without pulling the ever-tangling, extra-long phone cord into the next room with you to drag things off tables and catch on your favorite lamp. (I still miss that lamp.) The freedom to move around unencumbered was great but, inevitably when the call was done you just laid the phone down where you were and continued with what you were doing when it pulled you away to answer it. Thus, the phone was anywhere but where you were the next time it rang.
By Victoria LaPointe5 years ago in Wander
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #31
Reading for 7-20 thru 7-26-27 We are under the influence of two cards of the Major Arcana, The Moon at the center and The Fool in the west position with the 9 of Wands to bring in a sense of personal strength. As always, the Major Arcana cards signify the Big Picture. They denote the lessons we can use to broaden our awareness and wisdom in the mundane, 3D, human world where we live. The deeper understanding triggered by higher influences gives us a more intricate and varied experience of everyday tasks and interactions.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #30
The Center card this week is the Lovers. Another one of the Major Arcana, this card gives us a view of the overreaching aspects of the week and has a more powerful influence than the other two -Minor Arcana- cards. The Lovers is about honesty, communication and true partnership. To the degree that we seek to fill holes, imperfections or feelings of lack in ourselves with the attributes of another we cheat ourselves from becoming our best and most complete whole. Conversely, if we choose to partner with someone who needs or expects us to fill spaces within them that they haven’t learned about, healed or maybe even recognized, we aren’t able to interact in a balanced and loving way or receive the love we deserve. As long as we look to fill our lacks and imperfections with someone else we fracture ourselves and remain unfulfilled. This week, with the 2 of Swords and the 8 of Pentacles bracketing the Lovers, it seems that we’re at a point where we have begun being honest with ourselves and, at least recognizing, if not completely embracing, some of what we may see as the “shadow” parts of ourselves. Whether the craziness of this time we’re living in or the necessary shifts in our lifestyles have forced us to pull down the veils we’ve used to hide those dark parts of us, those parts seem to be clamoring to get out. The loving, compassionate and (most of all) accepting influence of the Lovers encourages us to be kind and gentle with the stunted, injured or closeted parts we hold hidden away from ourselves and others. It is in the light of love that the broken, fractured or unacknowledged aspects of who we are can heal.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
Quiet Comfort out of COVID Chaos
Outdoor Shots Challenge July, 2020 Back in February when we first began to hear about a deadly virus that spreads easily and quickly I paid attention. At that time the problems seemed to be centered on the other side of the world so my anxiety levels weren’t tweaked to any degree. But in the weeks that followed as this new and unexamined threat flew around the globe carried by its human vehicles via air, sea and land it began to occur to me that the world as we know it was under a siege that we hadn’t prepared for. I decided to keep my very small business to the internet rather than offering my services person to person and kept myself voluntarily quarantined.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
MIrror Dragon Tarot Free Reading #29
Reading for 7-6 thru 7-12-20 This week we have the Knight of Pentacles augmented by the 10 of Wands and the 6 of Pentacles. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been dealing with our fiery creative side and letting our passions guide us. That fire has been terrific at opening our eyes to new ways of doing things and new options. As a result of stepping out of the familiar and comforting “normal” we’ve been able to see that when our response to why are you doing it that way? is “it’s always been done that way” is not completely true or effective anymore. We’ve stirred things up and now we settle in to get down to the nuts and bolts of making our new systems align with our day to day interactions and projects.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
