Come Camping with Me July 7 to 9 2019

Hello and Welcome
We have room for six more people at this small camping retreat in Eastern Ontario July 7 to 9, 2019. We will be playing with crystal spheres, tarot and lenormand cards. And we will listen to Nature to hear what she has to share with us. Here are all the details. Hope that you can join us.
http://www.kingstonpsychic.net/camping-retreat-2019.html

Look forward to camping with you,
Marilyn

Kingston Tarot Lenormand Conference November 17 to 19 2017 Join Us!

Have you ever wanted to work with Joanna Powell Colbert creatrix of the Gaian Tarot and the Pentimento Tarot? But getting in to one of her retreats is difficult and its all on the west coast! We have a solution for you. Joanna Powell Colbert is coming to Kingston Ontario Canada and will be teaching Tarot, Nature, Spirit from the heart all day November 18th.  We will each be making our own elemental necklace. We can each wear home our personal treasure from the conference.

Have you been mesmerized by the Lenormand and maybe who you are when it comes to Tarot? How does it all fit? Another west coaster is joining us in Kingston for the conference. Carrie Paris will share her magical intuitive way of meeting your ancestors and yourself in Tarot and Lenormand. Carrie shares this with us all day Sunday November 19th. You will receive the award winning Sirens' Song Lenormand deck and the Relative Tarot both by Carrie Paris as part of your registration.

We have a magical intuitive weekend lined up for you. Here are all the details and the links to sign up. http://www.kingstonpsychic.net/  There is even a monthly payment plan to help you get here. We are very excited that Carrie Paris and Joanna Powell Colbert are visiting us in Eastern Ontario. We invite you to sign up today.

Wondering what we do at a conference? Here is a link to an interview with Carrie Paris where we chat about her Sunday morning workshop:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb_mXyJgn8M&t=2s

Tarot & You October 24, 2016

Welcome to the blog!

We will be studying our Birth cards in the Tarot on Monday October 24th 2016 here in my home in Kingston Ontario at 6:30 pm Cost is $30. Classes are about two hours long. You will find out which cards in the Tarot are yours by birth. These cards are as intimately related to you as family. We will work with these cards individually and in pairs. By the end of the evening you may have changed your mind about which cards (like relatives) you really get along well with, which ones support you in times of trouble and which ones are much more than they appear to be most days.  No prior Tarot experience is needed. Bring a Tarot deck if you have one or borrow one of mine.
To contact me: my email and phone number appear on every page of my website. Friend me on Facebook and private message me. I am sorry to be so secretive but when I post email addresses on the blog the junk mail is horrendous. We are a friendly group who love Tarot and Spiritual things. If this sounds like you, please join us.
Marilyn Shannon

Fall Courses 2016

All are welcome at these classes. Email me at info@kingstonpsychic.com for the details of my address.

1. Psychic Roundtable is the Second Tuesday of the Month at my place at 6:30 cost is $10. NO ROUNDTABLE IN OCTOBER. Sorry I wasn't paying attention and have to be in Ottawa that night. Dates: November 8, December 13, January 10 2017, February 14, March 14, April 11. May 9, June 13. No roundtable in July and August.  

2. Classes will be the fourth Monday of the month: September 26th, October 24th; November 21st, No class in December. We start at 6:30 for about two hours. Classes range in price from $20 to $30. 

September class is how to find the starting point in a reading and how to deal with those tough cards. $20

Supper out: Monday December 5th-details to follow

3. Cogeco TV Psychic show is the third Monday of the month. If you live in Kingston and Napanee you can watch the show and phone in with your questions. We answer them on the spot. You can also email your questions to Cogeco TV Kingston.

4. Classes: What would you like to learn more about this year? I am as always open to suggestions.

5. If you have just found this information for the first time and want to stay up to date, join me on Facebook. That's where I post up to date information. 

Come and join us this fall. Share with other intuitive people and develop your skills.  Is it time to start out on your path? 

Tarot + Fearless: The card of the day

Fortunately, I was driven to help people and get out there with my tarot deck. I believed that I had something to offer that would help people when other methods were not enough. And so….drum roll please: I donned my imaginary Miss Fearless Technology suit. This suit comes complete with cape and tights. When I put it on I am about six feet tall and fearless.  I can do anything. 

Eventually I overcame technology challenges and became simply Miss Fearless. Whenever I feel that something is impossible or too much effort Miss Fearless helps out. We begin by acknowledging the fear at the root of the problem and then ask if it is necessary or wise to be fearful of this thing. For this tarot cards are absolutely the best tool out there. A simple two card reading can help get the issue on the table rather quickly.

As I prepared to lead a discussion on the topic of “Using Tarot to be fearless kind and happy in life and business” at the upcoming Readers’ Studio’15 in NYC I pulled three tarot cards. The first was for: “what does fearless mean to me now?”.

The Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell Colbert called me to use them for this exercise. Fearless looks like this beautiful Nine of Pentacles. Fearless looks like: taking the time to enjoy nature and beauty, abundance and the gifts that I have been given. Fearless looks like: standing on my own two feet and dealing with whatever comes gently and confidently. Fearless is asking for help when needed. Fearless is belonging to community. Fearless is trying new things. Fearless is hosting a monthly TV show and standing up and presenting new ideas at conferences.

Heron often stands alone as does the woman in this picture. Fearless is knowing when and how to stand alone and when to be with others. Fearless is being comfortable in my own skin. Fearless does not require the cape and the tights very often these days. Staying grounded, dealing with endings and trusting that life will evolve just as it should is fearless. It is in short a beautiful thing! I encourage you to pull a card and see what fearless looks like for you today, in your life. Please pull a card and share in the comments if you feel so inclined. 

Humpback and The Four of Fire

Humpback and The Four of Fire


Thursday August 18, 2011 with reflections to January 1, 2012

The humpbacks may have eluded us yesterday but nothing could prepare us for Thursday’s events! We began the day paddling through a network of small islands in pretty deep fog. Today, I paddled with Gillian, co-owner of Pacific Northwest Expeditions at http://www.seakayakbc.com/main.html and was very grateful for her sharp eye and chattering biology lesson. I would have missed so much had she not shared so willingly. The highlight of the morning was the plump mauve starfish clinging to the wall of the cliff waiting for the tide to return. We saw many seals resting on rocks that were almost invisible to the untrained eye. Their colouring matched the rocks so well.


A very mature Starfish, clinging to the cliff as the tide recedes. Looks like she is walking to me!

 And birds! Ducks with horns called Rhinoceros Auculets that are native only to this small region of Canada. The paddling was misty and yes mystical. We had lunch on two large out crops of rock called White Cliffs with a few trees and lots of salal, Indian paintbrush, false lily of the valley, heather, stonecrop, strawberries and Eagles! This is where I received my Eagle feather. A pair of Eagles entertained us by flying in and out of the tree on the adjacent outcrop of rock. It was right about here that the battery on my camera died. The fog finally burned off and we could hear loud booms in the distance that no one could quite explain. After lunch we set out to return to camp. Here we were in much more open water than any of our previous paddles. There were many whale watching boats, fishing boats and our three kayaks. Talk about feeling a tad vulnerable. Suddenly, a humpback breeched about four times. Wow! It happens so fast that you really have trouble taking it all in. One Humpback slapped its tale as it dove. Slap is a huge misnomer. For this was the source of the sound we heard earlier. It sounded like thunder aided by dynamite. BOOOOOM!


One of the breeches we witnessed by the local Humpback whales. It is important to study sound and breath when receiving messages from whale.





There were at least a dozen or more whales evident all across the strait. It was so exciting. Finally Brian suggested that we paddle a little closer to shore to get out of all the traffic and for safety reasons. It sounded like a very wise idea to me. The Minke cruised by us again. And as we were getting close to shore a humpback surfaced not far from us. OH! Wow! And it was swimming right for Gillian and I. Had this happened on the first or second day, I think I would have panicked. By now I realized that these magnificent creatures were quite happy to avoid us. In slow motion the whale dove. Its magnificent tail tipped up and slid silently beneath the waters. That same tail that shook the strait could disappear without a sound and barely a ripple! At about the same moment Gillian was telling me to look over the side to see the whale’s footprint or shadow. I did in stunned silence. Here we were in a twenty foot kayak with a forty foot forty ton whale beneath us. We did not speak. The magic of the moment slid past as the whale continued on her way.


After surfacing just in front of us, this huge creature slipped effortlessly beneath the surface and swam under our kayak. That is my shoulder as we wait in our kayak to see what Humpback is going to do.


The card for what does Humpback want me to know was The Four of Fire, from the Gaian Tarot. It shows a woman in a ceremonial ring of candles. She is feeling her power as she receives energy from the earth and the sky. Her jaw is extended much like a whale as it feeds. She is. I am. If I am to know the beauty of my own power, passion and ability to love, I must be open to its magic. The affirmation for this card “I am strong and courageous, and have the power to accomplish anything I choose to do.” I met the whale and it gave me courage to dive deep within my soul and heart and ask for what I want. Whales show us how to find balance and to breathe in life. Whale asked me to listen to the sound of my own life and find its rhythm. What do I want to breathe in at this stage of my life? What is my power now? How am I meant to use it? Questions from my magnificent quest stir within me now on the first day of 2012.



The color orange catches my eye in this Four of Fire from the Gaian Tarot. I am aware more than ever of the need to be very careful of what I create in thought, word and deed as it influences all around me and beyond.







She Who Watches and Western Red Cedar Healing

She Who Watches and Western Red Cedar


To say that each day out was full of surprises really does not do justice. The second morning we awoke to Brian owner of Pacific Northwest Expeditions calling us before breakfast “Orcas”. Rushing down to the water’s edge we could see them coming down the strait. They swam past right under our feet. One young whale rubbed itself all along the small rocks as it swam past. We heard them singing and chatting to each other when the hydrophone was lowered into the water. Spectacular!

This day was perhaps my favorite day of all. The weather was perfect. Whales were plentiful. Everyone was relaxed and playful in the kayaks. At noon we hiked up through the rainforest to see an 1100 year old Western Red Cedar. This tree is a stalwart to the native cultures here. Its bark strips off easily and can be woven into water proof hats and clothes. Those tall trees stand true and do not warp or rot. These are the trees that totems are carved into. These trees provided homes, canoes and protection. They have powerful medicine.

A rainforest is an interesting place to hike when you are the eldest of the group to say nothing of being the shortest. Slinging a leg over a downed tree that is higher than your head took great ingenuity and strategizing. Though it took me a little longer than the others, I made it.         

 

This 1100 year old Western Red Cedar dwarves all around it, especially us!

I don’t know where the top of that tree really was. I could not see it. I stood in awe of nature’s magnificent old wisdom. I love trees. When they widened the road where I grew up they took down all kinds of trees and blasted rock. I cried for days. I asked permission of this great tree to leave my pain in its care. I felt the reason for me being here was to leave pain behind. I stood on the other side of the tree as the others chatted and performed my ceremony, gave thanks and offered what I could. The offering turned out to be a teaching. One of the young engineers on the trip came around to see if I was okay. When I explained what I was up to he said let’s do it. He was solemn and respectful and seemed appreciative of the effort. Somehow, it feels like I was there to offer this young man a few words about honoring Gaia and keeping her well. For an engineer in Calgary inventing new ways of extracting resources from the earth it felt like an important teaching from my perspective. 

 

This card turned up when I asked "What does Red Cedar want me to know?"

When I pulled my Gaian Tarot card for the day I was moved beyond words really and cried a few tears. To me it appeared that the woman deep in grief is hugging a tree. Apparently, she is leaning on a standing stone to release her grief into the compassionate healing of Gaia. The petroglyph of She Who Watches appears in the clouds above her. We are never alone in our grief and must not lose sight of that even as we weep our tears. People often say to me, I have done all the work. I have let that all go. Why is it coming up again? It is because we are human and afraid; because we are human and rarely weep and feel grief to the deepest releasing level. Because we feel emotions that remind us of what is gone and we miss those people and feelings of joy. We need to release, express and feel our grief so that it evolves into something softer that does not keep us locked in fear and pain. And so on this day with this 1100 year old Western Red Cedar I let go of another layer of grief and pain. The young engineer offered a healing of his own, by being compassionate enough to check on me and join me in part of the ceremony. We really do not know when or who is there for us until we let compassion into our life. And from the Gaian Tarot text “I allow the Mother to heal my sorrow as I open my heart in compassion to others”. And I would add receive the compassion of others, something I found very difficult to do for far too long.

 

An old stump full of life! Death giving way to life and renewal as always.

Why am I here?

That seems like a very huge question as I look at it today. When I asked it I was in Port MacNeill British Columbia on the eve of my big kayaking adventure. Each day during the adventure, using the beautiful Gaian Tarot created in the Pacific Northwest, I asked the Tarot a question. So the question that day was specifically about Why am I here on this trip today? Looking at it a few weeks later, the card and the trip actually answered the question on a much larger scale. Today, I see that this whole adventure somehow answered the proverbial question "Why am I here?"
I laughed out loud when the Nine of Water turned up! I happen to know this is a picture of Joanna Powell Colbert the creatrix of this amazing deck fulfilling a dream of her own. The picture is full of light and mystery and magic. Exactly what was filling me on the eve of the great adventure! The affirmation that goes with the Nine of Water is "True happiness is my connection to Spirit". Indeed! Sitting in my hotel room that night watching torrential rain sluice down the streets I was full of wonder at what was to come. Continuing to chuckle at the Gaian Tarot's very concrete realism my pen and soul flowed. I am here:
Because I want to be!
Because it is a dream of mine!
Because I manifested it!
Because I wished it!
To Be in Awe!
To Pray!
To see the light!
To go with the flow!
All of this was true on Saturday August 13 about the trip and my life in that moment. As I sat down to write this today, it occurred to me that this also answers why I am here period! Each and every day I am here to experience the awe and wonder of life. It is up to me to manifest, wish, pray and see the wonder of life before me in each day and moment! Essentially, we are all here because we have chosen to be. We choose each day how we see what is before us. At any moment in the day we choose to see it with potential or loss. Even better as the rain pouring down showed me that Saturday night, we can choose to believe that all is as it should be and enjoy it! I chose not to let the weather forecast or torrential rains that evening dampen the wonder of what I was feeling. On this trip I was introduced to so many new things, creatures, people and experiences that it is still difficult to take it all in. That is what the trip and life itself is all about isn't it? From the very lovely book that accompanies the Gaian Tarot specifically for the Nine of Water card: "When you get this card in a reading: This is a time of emotional fulfillment, of dreams manifested, of mystical experience and connection to Spirit. What song of praise fills your heart at this time? You are overflowing with joy and peace. All is well." No wonder I have always loved and trusted Tarot as a tool to guide me in times of awe or fear.
Today's pictures: Nine of Water from the Gaian Tarot; Me at my own waterfall after a more than rugged trek through the rainforest on Vancouver Island!
Your homework should you choose to accept it: In what ever manner that is meaningful to you, be it Tarot, Oracle, Crystals or silence: sit with the question "What am I here for?" Start with what you are doing now and see over the weeks what that answer reveals to you.
Next blog: Day one of paddling:What does dolphin want me to know?