Victoria LaPointe
Bio
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 Mandala
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 LaPointe4 years ago in Futurism
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #28
This should be a busy week. The Chariot card shows an abundance of movement and change, the Princess of Wands bright new ideas and the 5 of Swords the deconstruction of obstacles whether they're comforting or not. The amusement ride is still underway but with the reins in our hands, we have the power to direct its trajectory. Emotions and excitement (or anxiety depending on how you look at it) are high, though not beyond our control. Feelings this week are likely to resemble those of an accomplished sky diver. The risk is ever present but with training and safety protocols, the ride is like no other you could imagine.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #27
The Center card this week is the 7 of Wands. This week we find success through our feminine attributes. The Seven at the center flanked by The Priestess and the Queen of Pentacles shows that the week will revolve around accessing and connecting with our strengths and winning strategies by working from our feminine side. Using the gentler and more emotion/compassion based responses to challenges or opposition we’re able to “kill ‘em with kindness”. What we’ll need to keep in mind is that kindness and gentility are not concessions nor are they a show of weakness. The courage and valor required to face aggression with understanding is considerable, not to mention it can be quite surprising to those who seek to control through manipulation and force. Often when we are strong enough to meet ferocity with a calm response the force in action, finding no opposition has no power. It’s in the confrontation that we find the target of the oncoming energy and when that target is removed by refusing to engage the energy has nothing to enforce its power on. In many martial arts practices it is the ability to use the force of your opponent. To move with that force so that it is dispelled without connecting to the target is the key.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
MIrror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #26
Reading for 6-8 thru 6-14-20 The Center card this week is the 4 of Cups. It seems that this week we are riding the waves of deep emotions, so much so that they could become a real distraction from our daily lives. As with all the fours, this one signals a time for reevaluation and reconnection with the Inner Self. When we’re given a gap in the “normal” flow of life to take a step back to try to see the bigger picture I think it’s important to take that chance, to put on the breaks and look. The suit of Cups gives us a clue as to where to explore to find who we are and where we stand emotionally in any given situation and how best to respond. We’re likely going to feel all the feels during the week and taking any opportunity to step away will allow us to regroup and decide whether we’re acting out of a particular emotion and, more importantly, whether we want to be. Introspection is the key. It’s likely we will be drawn even compelled to delve deep into our feelings and this is a great chance to renew the connection with our own truth. We’re going to be feeling everything this week with our emotions up front and center. So the need for introspection will be obvious and inviting. With a strong sense of the need for emotional self preservation we can use the time we grab for ourselves to consider what needs to be done to either stay aligned or realign with that inner truth. Try to find the time, even though life demands so much, to give yourself a chance to think and feel. When we avoid looking within we cheat ourselves of the beauty and integrity of self expression. Even if the Big feels are anger, fear, sorrow or confusion embracing them as part of the whole of us heals the tears and bruises. On the other hand, if the Big feels are joy, love, excitement or expectation embrace and accept them too. Pull in that wholeness and integration, embrace all of You. When we can do that the connection we feel and express with the world grows exponentially.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #25
All three cards this week are Lower Arcana and of the numbered, non-court level. What this tells me is that this week is one of implementing what we’ve learned and watching the progress of what we've put into practice over the last couple of weeks. We’ve spent time testing our theories and experimenting with new tools and talents so this week promises to be a calmer space in which to evaluate how things are getting on.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #24
The Center card this week is the 8 of Swords. The Swords being representative of the mind, cognitive thought, speech patterns and memory show our ability to bring order to what we perceive with our senses. How we think and interact with our world with “left brain” intention. There are times when the energy of appliances in a home, or office can negate a radio signal. It’s the same with our ability to focus sometimes. Say you’re cooking a meal that requires timing or writing a report or fixing a lawn mower and you’re interrupted (or writing a weekly reading and your retriever drops a tennis ball in your lap). Sometimes it’s near impossible to get back to the flow. This is what the influence of the eight of Swords sets up. There are also times when we’re so in sync that even interruptions become part of the flow and this is where we can find mastery with eight swords of thought criss-crossing in all different directions. Head and feet; thought and action. When we find the right alignment we can be unstoppable.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #23
Reading for 5-18 thru 5-24-20 The Center card this week is The Fool. The number above the Fool’s head is the zero. The zero represents the Void, that into which all things are created, and signifies the Beginning. The Fool is the first card in a Tarot deck and the master of the Void. Since, in the Void, there is no-thing, all things are possible. In the Void there is no judgement, there is nothing to judge. There is no expectation, no preconceived ideas. There has been nothing to have had ideas about. As the image of the Fool on the card suggests, a young person, full of promise and energy strides forward, eyes wide open with the spiral of life swirling out from and back to his heart. All the elements are at his fingertips and even the tiger, who has clamped his jaws onto one thigh is no distraction. He has not yet learned that there are such things as distraction and so the Fool walks blithely towards the edge of a cliff with no fear at all about what might happen if his next step takes him out over a bottomless chasm. That first step, that first awareness that nothing inhibits you, nothing holds you, opens the window of thought where all things can take shape and become. The infamous “they” say watch that first step it’s a doozy! And it is. And because it has no foundation, no supporting evidence, it can be a very frightening first step. It requires a leap of faith. I’m reminded of a scene from “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” where Indiana Jones is asked to make a leap of faith over a bottomless abyss. He knows he can't go back so he takes a deep breath and a big step and his foot lands on a ledge that couldn’t be seen from his position on the lip of the precipice. Once he gets to the other side, he tosses sand and pebbles back onto the ledge so he can see it again. This, to me, is a perfect Fool moment. This is the energy that will likely dominate our interactions for the week.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #22
Out of the flames and into a balance of three. After facing the fire that burned away the shrouds and fetters of unrealistic and unnecessary actions, expectations, perceptions and more, we now face a week of thoughtful panning and the planting of seeds for new growth. Here in Maine, the blueberry fields are burned clear every other year, a practice learned from Native Americans, to increase crop yield. Burning, or thermal pruning, eliminates insects, diseases and other competitive plant species and allows the blueberries' underground runners to thrive. Now that the energy of last week’s fiery Wands has uncovered the fertile ground below we can see where to nurture and encourage growth.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free Weekly Reading #21
Reading for 5-4 thru 5-10-20 This week we’ve got fire. Three Wands to spark our curiosity, creativity and our passion. After the three heavy majors last week it’ll be nice to have a fire lit under the detritus of any chains we were able to untangle, rip apart, slash, unlock and generally remove. After coming face to face with last week’s Devil and our own duplicity there are likely a few old habits and recriminations to toss in the fire pit and send back out to the ethers to dissipate.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free weekly Reading #20
This week we have quite a powerful triad, three Major Arcana cards with the Devil at the center. The Major Arcana cards help us look at the “big picture”. They represent the overarching life lessons to be found within our daily experiences. When we take the opportunity to look back at pivotal times in our lives with the wisdom of hindsight we can find lessons underneath the multitude of experiences, fears, joys and confusion that combined to create that vital event. For instance; I held a very good job for many years, I made good money which allowed me to live comfortably, even more than comfortably. After years of striving, growing and finally reaching a top management position, the business I worked for merged with another and every management position that had been held by a woman was either terminated or retitled and given to a man. Needless to say, I found myself without the job that paid the bills. I lost a house, 2 cars and a boat, not to mention my self esteem, and was reduced to moving “back home to Mom” at 40 years of age. When it happened I couldn’t see through the frustrated tears a lot of the time. I felt defeated and quite worthless. I packed up and moved from the west coast to the east and started over. Single, in a job that wouldn’t have covered my car payment only a few months before and feeling like I’d lost everything that determined who I was, I was forced to begin living a different way. I learned a lot about being frugal and I hated it. But when I began to find a new sense of who I was that wasn't tied to the amount of money I made it felt good. I began to like myself for different reasons. Reasons that were not determined by what other people thought was the right way to live. It took five years, a lot of self recrimination and soul searching but at 45 I found myself out of debt, in a loving and fulfilling relationship (now marriage) and finally able to do a job that I love and feel passionate about full time without the fear of being terminated. I promised myself I would never terminate me. The reason for this rambling intro is so I can approach the impact of Major Arcana lessons and, in particular The Devil, in a roundabout way. As I look back, I see that the woman I was before the “crash” would never have found the happiness and comfort I have now. She would not have known to look. The Universe thumped me on the head and knocked me onto a far better path than I would have found with the mindset I had 20 years ago. That said…
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free weekly reading #19
The energy for the week is focused on how we deal with emotions; sympathy, empathy, shielding, mask wearing, all the triggers and all the “feels”, all the responses we go through as a result. In these past few weeks we’ve been tied together and apart through no choice of our own and, as a result, we’ve had the unique opportunity to uncover emotional tangles, snarls, desires and curiosities. Until recently most of us have been able to sweep uncomfortable or confusing feelings under the rug “to be dealt with later”. ……...And now? It's Later. Until we’re knocked out of our routine we can become complacent with the feelings we don’t want to acknowledge so being obliged to spend way more time with, or without, the people we have those feelings for has brought them bubbling, screaming, wafting and giggling up to the surface. Without the usual escape routes; work, shopping, school, sports, restaurant and pub visits, meeting friends for ...well anything, we come face to face with those feelings. It can be a scary time, an enlightening time, a creative and fun time or a time used to resurrect and explore good or bad times passed. Whatever this enforced closeness or absence sparks in us, here’s the chance to find the truth at the center of the tangles and the feels.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Free weekly reading #18
Word for the week: Implementation. The Center card for this week is the Prince of Swords. Moving forward from the Princess of Swords at the center last week, we advance to the Prince of Swords as the central card. If the princesses represent the first step along the experiential journey of their suit, made with the innocence of an open mind and a willingness to acknowledge any and all information on a given topic, the prince has made some decisions about which bits of information work within his paradigm and which do not. This is not to say he has given equal consideration to all options, he surely has not. I see the princes of each suit as the adolescent boys of the Tarot. They’re full of conviction. They’ve found new ways to get things moving - in the case of the Air element of the Swords with thoughts, information management, planning and figuring out whatever puzzle they’re faced with. The scary part about the head-on, no holds barred attitude of the princes -in all the suits- is that they often don’t make certain that they have all the facts before diving into the project at hand. Much like a teenager watching an extreme skateboarding video and then grabbing his own board and heading to the skate park to try it out. His mom’s left behind calling out “wait!! don’t forget your helmet/knee pads/elbow pads!”……. to his quickly receding back. The beauty of this pioneer attitude is that the teen will either hit the wall or the gravel or the edge of the rink and come back for the pads, OR he will blow right by whatever obstacle dares to get in his way. This is how we broaden our horizons. Without the daring, impulsive attitude of this young energy, that wall or gravel or edge would have just been a limit and we wouldn’t know that it was an illusion. The impulsive audacity and boldness of the princes shows us ways to overcome things we didn’t even realize were limits.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity