Your Adventure Beckons- February 2024
Upcoming Course on Tarot- The Fool's Calling, Meditation, Writing Update, & so much more!
Are you ready for an adventure? Does your heart long to visit places steeped in history, to meet people different from you, to travel roads unknown? Are you excited to undertake a quest to find yourself, gently, kindly? Do you want to know what the quest for the Holy Grail, and a quest for yourself, could mean to you? If so, then come with me on an exploration of ancient pathways!
As a writer, I’m forever searching for metaphors and symbols in the world around me. For hundreds of years, Tarot symbols have been a gathering place for world beliefs and a source through which we can discover common ground among us and within aspects of ourselves. Tarot offers an exploration of myths and legends, and of cultures and beliefs, that are as old as time and as modern as this moment. For many years, the symbols of Tarot have guided my travel to the world around me, and to myself.
Tarot holds such beauty and such wisdom, and I am honored to share what I have learned over many years. You have asked me to take you with me on this journey through Tarot, and I’ve finally developed a way to do so (thanks to my cyber expert!)
Below is an overview of what’s coming! Details are available on my website: https://debbowen.com/product/the-fools-calling-your-personal-myths-and-archetypes-in-arcane-symbols/
The Fool's Calling:
Your Personal Myths and Archetypes in Arcane Symbols
This course launches on April 1, 2024.
THIS is the in-depth, self-paced Tarot course you requested me to create!
Venture deeply with me into the myths, legends, beliefs, and cultures of Tarot in this exciting self-paced 38-week course! Tarot wisdom guides your path to your deepest self, while this esoteric knowledge hides in plain sight on the 78 keys of traditional Tarot.
NEW to Tarot? No problem! This course lays the foundation for a deep exploration of the knowledge that supports the meaning of Tarot. This course is not a course in divination or using intuitive skills but rather grounds you in the underpinnings of the time-honored meanings of the keys.
Here are some questions this course answers:
Why on some keys do we see Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman symbols? How do they work together?
How does knowing the myths related to the keys enhance my understanding of symbols on the keys?
Why do some symbols, such as flowers, pillars, and feathers, repeat on various keys?
What do landscapes and buildings tell us about our journey through Tarot?
What do the symbols teach me about myself?
AND SO MUCH MORE!
Details and registration on my website: https://debbowen.com/product/the-fools-calling-your-personal-myths-and-archetypes-in-arcane-symbols/
Meditation Thoughts
I offer you this month my meditation entitled “Your Adventure Beckons.” I hope you enjoy it!
I’m so happy to connect with you and I’m grateful that you have taken a course with me and subscribe to this newsletter!
If you missed my last newsletter, you can read it here.
February: When It’s Time, It’s Time
Clarissa Pinkola Estes wrote that short sentence in Women Who Run with the Wolves, and it changed my life path. It gave me the push, the courage, I needed to make life-changing decisions. I will be forever grateful, even as I still second-guess myself occasionally.
The question, for most of us, I believe, is “How do I KNOW when it’s time?”
When is it time to make a change, to move forward, to take a leap of faith?
Conversely, when is it time to stand still, to wait?
One way the answer comes to me is to look at nature. To pay attention to the subtle shifts, or the bursting forth of new life, or the dying away. Here’s what I mean:
Where I live, early daffodils, hyacinths, and crocuses are beginning to push their way above the earth. Wrens are already scouting for the best places to build their nests. Dune vegetation is beginning to green.
I’m worried, however. Last year robins migrated into my neighborhood in late January. They have not returned to my yard yet this year. Friends in a nearby city tell me robins have visited their yards, but they aren’t in mine. I don’t know why. To my knowledge, nothing has changed in my area. I hope all is well.
Do the robins know something I do not? Is there something about time and the rhythm of the seasons I’m not privy to? All I can do is wait.
Even as I dream of starting pots of herbs and flowers, I know it isn’t time. It’s a waiting time, a fallow time. It’s time for me to stay buried in the rich soil of promise.
I hear words of Amanda McBroom’s song made famous by Bette Midler: “Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed, that with the sun’s love, in the spring, becomes the rose.”
I wish you time.
Writing Update
Click on the links below to read my most recent works in Salvation South:
“Takin’ Up a Poundin’”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/takin-up-a-poundin-christmas-story-deb-bowen/
“Tidal Wave Terror”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/ground-truth-from-the-climate-reckoning-janisse-ray/
“Where I’m From: Seven Decades in Seven Scenes”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/where-im-from-seven-decades-in-seven-scenes-deb-bowen-poem/
“Mending Nets”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/mending-nets-north-carolina-barrier-island/?mc_cid=c4bb217ffc&mc_eid=fae2a9a622
“A Talisman for Poseidon”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/a-talisman-from-poseidon-hurricane-donna-1960/
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Just One More Thing Before You Go
“Deeply examine what you really value, what brings joy and functionality to your life. Ask yourself what brings meaning to your life, and enhances your mind/body/spirit balance.” -From my May 2023 newsletter
Thank you!
You are a blessing to the world.
Oh, Janisse, thank you! Right back to you!
Peace,
Deb