Diary of a Psychic Healer

The past two months I have been taking tarot lessons with the incredibly talented Avril Price . After five years of self-study, it’s been loads of fun interacting with other students and learning from Avril. Class ends next week and our end of term assignment is due. As you may already know, the tarot is divided into the Major Arcana which looks at a Fool's journey through life, and the archetypal life stages he travels through time and time again. The Minor Arcana which looks at struggles and joys of daily life in the suit of fire (creativity), cups (emotion), air (thought) and earth (stability).  The Minor Arcana are easier to grasp and more common in our lives. Our homework is to bring the more elusive Major Arcana to life with a creative project. I opted for movie metaphors, looking at films or characters that match up to the cards. I'm still on the fence with a few of them, so please comment below with your suggestions. In some cases I couldn't think of a singl...

The past week I have been experimenting with tarot layouts to access the cards from different angles. I thought it would be fun to use my birth cart as a spread, so I pulled cards for each of my planets and  lunar nodes , then laid them out as you would find them on my birth chart. If you have never seen a chart, think of a big pizza with twelve slices, each slice representing a sphere of life that you may choose to focus on, whether its family, school, fun activities, relationships, career, civilisation building, spirituality etc.  You then have 10 jalapeños to toss onto the pizza, the first one is your Sun, the second the Moon, the third Mercury and so on through the rest of the planets. Finally there are 12 flavored cheeses to sprinkle on the pizza (for each of the Zodiac's signs), and where they fall may not correspond exactly with the way the pizza is sliced.  The cheese (Zodiac sign) flavors our experience of those ...

A few weeks ago I went to a massive bookstore near Piccadilly Circus looking for titles on green business and environmentalism. Most of my healing work so far has entered on energy and emotions and it's time I turned my attention to physical matters like food, or our relationship with the planet.  The book that grabbed my attention was called  Farmaggedon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat . I flipped to a random page and came across the story of a town in India that has high incidence of cancer, thanks to the pesticides used in nearby cattle farms.  This struck a chord as my first published book  is on energy healing and cancer, including risk factors to watch out for. Diet and exercise may be the easiest to change, and the World Health Organization tells us that lifestyle factors are responsible for a 1/3rd of cancer cases so it's a great place to start.  A part of me realised this book could mean the end of my meat-eating days and ...