A Message of Love
A young woman smiles at her smartphone while hearts are surrounding her.
Today is Valentine’s Day. This holiday is fun for many, and not so much for others.
Modern Valentine’s Day has interesting roots. From Catholicism, we have St. Valentine, the patron saint of youth, love, and marriage. One legend says he was a priest who performed secret weddings against the edicts of the authorities. Another says that while imprisoned, he wrote notes of hope to his followers on heart-shaped leaves.
Lupercanalia, a Roman fertility festival celebrated in mid-February, was an early holiday that helped establish Valentine's Day.
However you do or do not celebrate today, there is always room to celebrate love. Love is so much more than romance. That we can love one another feels to me to be the surest proof of the existence of a higher power.
Love is an energy that we can pour into our tasks and our creativity. Love is all around us, even when we are all alone.
Today, speak a message of love to yourself or to someone you care about. Don’t do this because it’s Valentine’s Day, do this because love matters every day.
The StaarCon 2024 AfterGlow. Fairy for 2024 by Ciro Marchetti.
The StaarCorner
Here is the AfterGlow Lounge schedule through February 25.
On Sunday, February 18, at 5 p.m. ET, Join Benebell Wen in the Bell Chimes Lounge for an addendum to her headline presentation.
Join Brenda Elizabeth in the Charmed by Lady Lenormand Lounge for Yoga Nidra for Third Eye Development on Wednesday, February 21, at 8:30 p.m. ET.
On Saturday, February 24, at 6:30 pm ET, join Arwen Lynch-Poe in the Seek Joy with Arwen Lounge for a watch party for her session, Cocktails with Arwen.
Join Benebell Wen in the Bell Chimes Lounge for her office hours on Sunday, February 25, at 5 p.m. ET. Ask questions and chat about whatever you like!
If you don’t have a StaarCon ticket but want access to these sessions, you may still purchase tickets for virtual access.
More lounges are being built, and more events are being scheduled. Watch this newsletter, the Facebook community, and the Accelevents lobby for updates.
Ciro Marchetti, Callie French, Karen Winkel, Jen and Jay Sankey, Michelle and Roger Welch, at StaarCon 2024.
Tarot cards, chocolates, red candles for Valentine's Day.
How Tarot Talks About Love
Many people think that the suit of Cups in tarot, related to the element of Water, contains the cards that offer the most insight into romance. They may also believe that card Six of the Major Arcana, The Lovers, speaks solely of romantic love.
While it is true that those cards can speak of romantic love, they can speak of a myriad of other topics. Perhaps more importantly, every tarot card can offer insight into any aspect of life.
When we look to the cards to gain insight into relationships, we need to remember that each of the seventy-eight cards can offer information about a personality, an event, a thought, a possibility, or a bit of advice.
Very rarely have I seen the cards speak definitively about the happy future of a relationship. Love is a choice that we make every day.
Perhaps the best way to use the cards to guide us in relationships is to ask for better ways to process difficult things that happen, communicate with and support the people we care about, and better ways to identify the people we want to have around us.
Closeup of a hand holding tarot cards next to a candle and yellow roses.
The Week in Review
Join me tomorrow evening, Thursday, February 15, on my YouTube channel at 7 pm ET for a free tarot class. The Tarot Card Combinations Webinar will help you understand how tarot cards work together in a reading.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here is a post from my blog from 2022 about how to give a helpful tarot love reading.
From Around the Web
Do you pay attention to your dreams? Mary Ellen Collins shared some great insights on the power of dreams and what they might mean.
Women’s Health has an interesting article about using tarot as an alternative to mental health therapy.
This Valentine’s Day self-love tarot spread from Interrobang Tarot hits as well as it did when it was published in 2016.
A crystal grid with rose quartz.
Making Magic
Love magic is a natural and potent force. Virtually every tradition of magic and witchcraft has practices for attracting a lover, making oneself more attractive and confident, and revitalizing stale relationships.
Most modern energy workers agree that love magic should never be manipulative. We should never do energy work to cause a person to do something they would not otherwise do.
One sort of love magic we can all do is self-love magic. That is, the magic that helps us give grace and have confidence. There are many traditional ways to do this, yet we are all doing it on some level.
When we take special care with our dressing and put on special jewelry or make-up, we do that magic. We do that magic when we care for our body, mind, and spirit.
Whenever and however we focus our attention kindly toward ourselves, we surround ourselves with the energy of self-care and self-love. The more conscious we are of this, the stronger that energy will be.
When we include certain natural tools in our routines, the energy becomes stronger still.
For example, rose quartz is widely thought to attract love and open the heart. Rose oil and lavender oil are both good to use and wear for the same purposes.
If you research a bit you will find many ways to encourage love in your life.
Tarot Card Combination Workshop February 15 7pm.
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Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
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Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
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Clarity in Every Tarot Card
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What the Court Cards Want You to Know
How Spirit Speaks Through Tarot
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 7 Issue 7
February 14, 2024
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