PSYCHIC FAIR – SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY 2013

© 2013 - Reprinted with permission from Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter November 2013

NOVEMBER 30, 2013 – 10:30 am to 6 pm

at Shining Lotus™
$1 a minute Psychic, Palmistry or Tarot Card Readings
$1 a minute Chair Massage or Foot Reflexology
Every item in the store is 25% off
$5 meditation led by Mario C. Veo at 3:45 pm
ALL READING SESSIONS ARE $1 A MINUTE

Medium/Clairvoyant Readings. Patty Kemp will bring her clairvoyant and intuitive gifts to assist you in expanding your energetic health and advancing your spiritual growth.

Intuitive Readings. Norma Mitchell will provide very accurate intuitive readings that help clear negativity and invite peace, love, good health and prosperity into your life.

Tarot Readings. SuEllen Shepard will invoke the power and mystery of Tarot Imagery to help you reveal the possibilities as you move forward in your life during this powerful time of healing.

Chair Massage. Edna Garcia will add a relaxing, healing and therapeutic chair massage to your Small Business Saturday experience.

Foot Reflexology. Reflexologist Linda Davis will make sure your body and “sole” are perfectly aligned with a foot massage.

Palmistry. Mario C. Veo will give palmistry readings throughout the day, helping you find clarity and insights right in the palm of your hand.

Mario will lead a $5 meditation at 3:45 pm, designed to awaken your awareness, embrace your spirituality and align your abilities with the Divine. This is an entire day dedicated to  spiritual awakening and working toward enlightenment.

Save 25% on every product in the store, every book, every candle, every card, every gift. Everything is 25% off. If you feel guided to be with people of like mind on this auspicious day, please come to the Shining Lotus on Small Business Saturday, November 30, 2013.

DOREEN VIRTUE AND RADLEIGH VALENTINE

© 2012 - Reprinted with permission from Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter May 12

AUTHOR VISIT AND BOOK SIGNING

Monday, May 7, 2012.    7 – 9 PM.    FREE TALK AND BOOK AND CARD SIGNING

Celebrate with us, the long-awaited release of Angel Tarot Cards and Mary, Queen of Angels. Doreen Virtue and Radleigh Valentine will be discussing their new Angel Tarot Deck, rich with symbolism and imagery – including archangels, dragons, unicorns, fairies, and mermaids. They have created a very magical, positive and beautifully illustrated deck of cards that will provide you with inspiring guidance on your life journey.

Doreen and Radleigh will share some brief audience readings and important new messages from the angels. Doreen will also be introducing her newest book, Mary, Queen of Angels, which will help us deepen our own connection to Mary and the angels.

Doreen Virtue holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in counseling psychology; and is a lifelong clairvoyant who works with the angelic realm. Doreen is the author of Healing with the Angels, Archangel Oracle Cards, and many other books and card decks. Doreen has appeared on Oprah, CNN, The View, and other television and radio programs; and writes regular columns for Woman’s World and other magazines. Her website is www.AngelTherapy.com.

Radleigh Valentine is an internationally known speaker, author, spiritual intuitive, and radio host on www.12Radio.com. He has studied tarot for more than 20 years and teaches workshops around the U.S. He is also the creator of RadScopes, weekly horoscopes with an enchanting twist of tarot. His website is www.MagicalThings.com.

THE THOTH TAROT DECK IS BACK!!

© 2010 - Reprinted with permission from Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter Jun 10/Jul 10.

Shining Lotus is now stocked up on the new printing of the Crowley-Harris Thoth Decks.  ‘Out of Stock’, or between printings since Spring of 2009, it was only available for outrageous prices on the internet. Now the Thoth Tarot deck is back in either the large version in the green box or the small, standard tarot size in the purple box.

THE THOTH TAROT HISTORY

The Crowley-Harris Thoth Tarot is the deck of 78 tarot card images invoked by Aleister Crowley and illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris. It grew out of Crowley’s work to create a thorough text of the Tarot which incorporated the latest scientific discoveries, philosophy, mathematics and anthropology, and united these systems with the form of the Qabalah (Hermetic Kabbalah). Originally, he had planned to form a deck based on the Medieval versions of the Tarot, but Lady Frieda Harris convinced him to create an original work which would be the visual representation of the Book of Thoth.

The entire Thoth deck is designed to be a pictorial representation of the Qabalah and especially the Tree of Life, a system of ten spheres and 22 interconnecting paths that is used to organize mystical concepts. Each card in the Thoth deck is intricately detailed with astrological, zodiacal, elemental and Qabalistic symbols incorporated in each card.

Even colors are used symbolically, especially the cards related to the five elements of Spirit, Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Unlike the popular Waite-Smith Tarot, the Crowley-Harris Thoth Tarot retains the traditional historical order of the trumps, but changes the names for both the trumps and the court cards.

Creating such a symbolically rich tarot deck was no easy task, as some of the cards were re-imaged several times until they met with Crowley’s approval. The smaller-sized version of the Thoth has 3 versions of the Magus card, for a total of 80 cards in the deck.

The planned 3 months of work extended into 5 years, and was completed in 1943. Though it was destined to become one of the most popular Tarot decks of all time, the deck was not published for another 26 years, after both Aleister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris had exited this plane. It was finally published in 1969 by the O.T.O. through the efforts of Grady McMurtry X°.

Thus, both book and deck were born. They are like the Yin and Yang versions of the Book of Thoth, and both deck and book have been referred to by the same title. Either one, or both, can be the springboard for a lifetime of study. A little booklet does come with the deck.

But if you want to really understand the deck, you need the book–and possibly another two or three–since Crowley was known for a unique writing style which expressed extreme devotion to both his subject and his own intellect; and no regard for anything like a common reader.