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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Free Weekly Reading Mirror Dragon Tarot
Looks like the feminine mystique dominates this week. All three cards for the reading are female court cards. Thought to ponder; What feminine aspects appear to be positive and which lead to discomfort? I naturally think of nurturing as a feminine characteristic and when employed with compassion, acceptance and understanding it’s a wonderful interaction between people. When it becomes driven by neediness, fear or greed, however, it can be as smothering and limiting as a very small padded cell with threads of guilt woven in. Desire/demand, emotions/manipulation, creativity/destruction, light creates shadow.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Free Weekly Reading Mirror Dragon Tarot #16, 2020
All three cards this week are from the minor Arcana plus each is from a different suit. What all that tells me is that this will be a week of focusing on the things we have full say in the outcome and control of and that are happening in our immediate sphere. Appropriate since that’s what most of us are dealing with at the moment.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Free Weekly Reading: Mirror Dragon Tarot #15 2002
Reading for 3-23 thru 3-29-20 The Center card for the week is Art. This is one of the cards that differs from the more common Ryder Waite Smith Tarot systems. In the RWS decks the #14 of the Major Arcana (or Trumps) is found on the card of Temperance showing us Divine intervention ie: the angel on our shoulder. Like the time your car wouldn't start and you were late for work but avoided a bad car wreck or the time when that slow moving line at the grocery store gave you the chance to meet an important person in your life which you would have missed if you’d gotten into the “lucky” fast moving line. Temperance asks us to recognize beauty between the shadows. Art, on the other hand, asks us to look at every aspect in a given situation - right, wrong, illuminating, blinding, devastating or ecstatic - and find the combinations that work together to create the situation or outcome we choose to have. The energy of Art puts us into a sort of limbo where we can see many aspects. Maybe what we were afraid of isn’t really as bad as we thought or could it even be useful if seen or used differently? Maybe what we’ve relied on up to now falls short and reaching for it only pulls us backward. Imagine being at the apex of a huge wave. While you’re up there time slows and you have a chance to see everything around you. You can see the storm, the wind and the waves and choose the best way to handle your next move. Can the wind and waves be used together to pull you through? Can being above the troughs allow you to see a better direction? We're in a rapidly changing and frightening time. We’re experiencing now something most of us have only heard about in "other" places or times and while we’re doing our best to stay safely distanced, not only for our own protection but, more specifically, to reduce the spread of this new threat this can be a very good time to reflect on how our sense of safety can and has lulled us into a mindless almost robotic sense of invincibility.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Free Weekly Reading by Mirror Dragon Intuitive Tarot
Since the world right now is laser focused on the serious issue of the COVID 19 novel Coronavirus and its spread, containment and treatment my own interpretation and perception of this week’s cards is colored by the intense global emotions and confusion that are so prevalent. There are many ways all the cards may be interpreted and I don’t want to skirt normal day to day experiences affected by their energy however I think this perspective is important.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Futurism
Mirror Dragon Tarot Week #13 2020
The Center card this week is the Princess of Wands. I see the princesses of the Tarot as innocent, open to new ideas and experiences. As the youngest of the court cards they begin the experiential journey of their suit as a blank canvas, ready to be painted by their encounters, challenges, triumphs and lessons. Perhaps through shedding the costumes of expected behavior and response under the energy of the Hermit from last week we’ve been able to see more clearly our own creative, daring and different ideas about where to place our energy and focus. This princess is full of the fire of her own ideas. She’s hands-on, determined and ferociously devoted to testing out her new plans. Admittedly she’s uninitiated, inexperienced and untrained but that’s where her passion shines. What she lacks in experience she more than makes up for with focus, prescience and intuition. Although we often don’t like to do things differently, there are times when we need to break boundaries and stagnant rules and try new things. This princess is your race car driver for this change in direction. She has a tendency to leap before she looks -she hasn’t run into problems before, she’s too new- but she breaks through more barriers than she allows to stop her. This week will likely be one full of new ideas and the passion to go after them.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot week 10, 2020
The Center card this week is the Hermit. The Hermit embodies our ability to recognize the materialistic nature of our daily lives and to find pleasure in the release of that superficial costume. As we make our way in this complicated world, we often find it difficult to hold on to ascetically pure intent, our simple unadorned truth. When we slip into our own, pure and honest expression of reality, dropping the weight of glittery masks, shiny facades or cold, thorny shields we discover the joy found in simply Being. While reveling in the experience of our inner lucidity and clear intent the whirl and buzz of chaos around us softens to a cool, ambient hum. The energy of the Hermit shows us the way to calm the center of whatever storm we may face and reminds us that the storm is not the only available energy. Once we find ourselves at the calm center we can see the storm for what it is dividing the important issues from the manipulation of egoistic wants or the diversion of angry (usually baseless) attacks. When we’re no longer working to batten down the hatches against the whirlwind and can access that calm at the center it allows us to think, to contemplate what action will be in the highest and best good for all involved rather than feeling forced into reactionary measures or an adversarial position. There is an old tried and true cliche that when facing the blinding influence of raw emotion, count to ten. I would suggest deep breathing to accompany the count and I find that when the number ten is reached cooler heads emerge and prevail. Embracing the energy of the Hermit allows us to remain in the peace found there.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot week 9, 2020
There are two sections in a Tarot deck; The Major Arcana and The Minor Arcana. The Majors are like a syllabus for the lessons we’ve chosen to master on this journey through the human experience. There are 22 Majors with numbers ranging from 0 to 21 which comprise a pathway of learning and experience. The Minors are the real life, day to day challenges and interactions we go through in an effort to follow the greater design set out by the Majors. If the Majors are the power station, the Minors are the wires, conduits, conjunctions and connections that give us the real life triumphs and challenges we can use to piece the lessons together.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Perspective
Perspective When I first got interested in photography I was in my teens. At that time photography was a complicated and time consuming vocation, not to mention a very expensive hobby. I learned about apertures/F-stops, film speeds, and focus fields, shutter speed and lighting whether ambient or created, composition of the subject, etc... and that was just in taking the photo. After that came the dark room work. Mixing chemicals, working in the dark. Literally. No light could touch the film before it was stabilized with a developer. Wrapping the film around a graduated spindle inside a wire cage so that it didn’t touch at any point and placing it into a small, light sealed tank where the developer could be distributed evenly. Any light and the entire film roll would be turned to a solid, uniform brown. Ruined. The film negatives created successfully were then run through an enlarger that beamed light down through the negatives onto photo-sensitive paper which then had to be run through a series of chemical baths to stabilize the image on the paper before being hung to dry. Phew! Just remembering that process makes me tired. Oh yeah, and that was just black and white. Color was a whole other beast and a lot more complicated.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Photography
Mirror Dragon Tarot Week #8 2020
This week we have an interesting anomaly. Two of the same cards from last week have come up and they’ve come up in the same spots they were in for that reading. The Knight of Pentacles at the center and the High Priestess in the east.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Week#7 2020
The Center card this week is the Knight of Wands. As with all the Knights, this one exemplifies the success and confidence of one who has accomplished the highest ideal of the suit. The Wands symbolize the element of fire and the curiosity, the will and sparks that inspire us to follow our own ideas and Knowing. This week we find ourselves feeling confident and dynamic. Fears that may have interfered with our intentions fade in the bright flame of our confidence and work that we’ve begun finds clarity and definition. This may not mean that everyone will be overjoyed with our directions and/or choices but we feel strong enough in our own knowledge and capability to stay the course.This week it will likely be quite difficult to knock us off whatever self initiated trajectory we’re on. Take this opportunity to run with your plans and choices, we have the self assurance now to succeed.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot Week#6 2020
Reading for 2-3 thru 2-9-20 The Center card for this week is the Hanged Man. The energy of the Hanged Man allows us to see things in a completely different way. In the card a man is shown hanging upside down by one foot. He symbolizes times when the world as we know it gets turned upside down. From this change in viewpoint it’s likely we feel out of place, out of touch or knocked for a loop by what we can see that’s been hidden until now. Although the position of being flipped upside down is uncomfortable and unfamiliar, from this perspective we can see the undersides and back sides of things. From here we can see the back channels and undercurrents that thrive while we’re focused on those “normal” things we’ve grown accustomed to. In having the chance now to look at bits of our lives that have perhaps gotten away from us or taken on a trajectory of their own, we’re being given the chance to approach them differently. Whether it’s a project that, in allowing it to grow at its own rate, has thrived far more than we thought it would or something we’ve been putting off because we don’t want to look at it. Health concerns? Money issues? Silent spots in relationships? There is a drive now to look past the surface and deep into the internal workings and underpinnings.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot week#5 2020
Reading for 1-27 thru 2-2-20 The Center card this week is the Knight of Swords. I see the Knights of the Tarot as leaders and way-finders. They stride forward to clear a path for those who follow. They’re confident, sure footed and fully aware of the prospects, pitfalls and possibilities of the suit they represent. As the suit of Swords relates to air, we find the focus of the week centering around our thinking and the ways in which we communicate with others. The electrical fluidity of our brain power is running high and ideas and thoughts flow easily. Perhaps too easily for those folks who tend to get confused or caught up in details, but if we’re able to accept and grasp the confidence of this smart and practical Knight we may find that the tangles of detail are easily combed through. As our thoughts and plans solidify we find ourselves in need of clear and understandable ways to communicate what’s important to us and why. This clarity can pop up in relationships, at work, in meditation and even dreams so it looks like we’ll have the chance to express ourselves clearly in whatever situations we face.
By Victoria LaPointe4 years ago in Longevity