https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/1729112778675-784D9TCGJ1F5Q4YTFY7Y/tarot+blog+header.jpg https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/all-pages-are-brave-but-which-is-the-bravest monthly 0.5 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/22967980-81f1-4ce8-8cb7-ca7885855b11/IMG_7002.png Notes from the Wild Edge - All Pages are brave, but which is the bravest? With high school upon us, I’ve been thinking about the power of the Pages these past few weeks. Each of them represents a somewhat naive, but persistent and curious archetype that has both strengths and weaknesses. They are all courageous in their own ways, but I got to thinking: Who is the bravest page? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/46688ca3-14d2-4e2d-a887-5ffb5aa646ad/IMG_8855+%282%29.JPG Notes from the Wild Edge - All Pages are brave, but which is the bravest? - Make it stand out The Pages in any tarot deck have a lot to remind us about the power of being a beginner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/cbeec5a6-15b3-4dde-b17a-8c95558e831f/IMG_2270.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - All Pages are brave, but which is the bravest? But the cards tell me that this isn’t true. The Wands exist as a suit in the first place because we all have this fire energy inside that drives us to explore and grow and learn and make. And not everybody is going to understand what makes your fire glow. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/patience-doesnt-grow-on-trees monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/9fef3e2d-cb8c-4fa1-a9b4-115d5cd9dbd2/62135548685__36A75993-4C25-4ADD-BD08-829C927EFD04.JPG Notes from the Wild Edge - Patience doesn’t grow on trees - The garden metaphor is a good one with the Pentacles. The seeds you plant early in your journey might not all come to fruit. Some of them are zinnias that will die at the end of the summer. Others are trees whose shade you’ll never know. No matter if this garden is growing for a season or a reason, it’s in your care and you get to decide how you want to proceed. Do you want to buy fertilizer and try to make it grow faster? Do you want to work on other projects so your baby can have the space it needs to grow on its own terms? Can you search within yourself for the confidence to trust what you’ve learned so far? You know that the gift economy is available to you. You know that we can’t get what we don’t give. You know that what is for you is for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/fdb88c62-a580-415f-a558-38e4d179572f/IMG_7191.JPG Notes from the Wild Edge - Patience doesn’t grow on trees But that’s where the Seven of Pentacles comes in. There are some days when we cling to our coins and others when we fling them, and now we’re trying to find the steadfast patience it takes to grow the kind of wealth that’s worth passing on. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/like-78-notes-on-a-piano monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/d55476c9-e6b9-430a-9592-0f50c05d2a28/IMG_9346+%281%29.JPG Notes from the Wild Edge - Like 78 notes on a piano What a gift to sit with these women and hear the songs they made with the notes they were given. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/97d1ccf9-226e-4cb7-9738-5820a1d4511d/IMG_7304.JPG Notes from the Wild Edge - Like 78 notes on a piano Playing this song opened my mind to the power of all the notes on the keyboard. Not just the familiar ones. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/absence-is-not-emptiness monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/b9648ef4-1fdb-40b4-829e-096cadf35d70/IMG_2163.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - Absence is not emptiness. As we enter this precious time of year, when American society — and many other cultures around the world — start to slow down ahead of the new year, many of us become reflective, if mournful, about what has been. As the days pass after the winter solstice and the days start getting longer, we often shift to thinking about what might be. It's a contraction and expansion that is shown in the tarot cards, again and again. The Hermit is the 9th card in the major arcana, and all nines remind us of what happens when we can stop focusing so much on completion and bask in joy of (and perhaps even find peace in) anticipation and reflection and satisfaction. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/ejk5z2hqvrda8ai6romlcgprmcs9uy monthly 0.5 2022-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/6e3c7396-d388-4d84-bde3-ca1a9c5bb2e3/Screen+Shot+2022-07-29+at+3.02.02+PM.png Notes from the Wild Edge - The Ace of Cups and starting on the right foot - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/4c29f9e9-1a9d-4cbc-9391-64abc18d6d27/IMG_7985.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - The Ace of Cups and starting on the right foot Halfway through the month, I pulled the Ace of Cups as the first card in my birthday reading, so I was on heightened alert for this new relationship energy. I didn’t have to look far. All month, I was up to my elbows in paint, putty and IKEA cabinets getting my house ready to rent to what I hoped might be a sweet family who would enjoy living in my home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/e525f711-344f-44a8-a254-820d3cad279f/IMG_7784.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - The Ace of Cups and starting on the right foot Could I open my heart to being transformed by this experience, no matter what the outcome? Could I use what I’ve learned about being in healthy relationship (clear communication, detachment, boundaries, watching my own over-functioning) with this family who wanted to live in my house? Could I uphold my end of the deal — to provide them a safe, stable, steady place to land, while also taking care of my own needs of feeling stable, steady and safe? https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/feeling-the-pain-of-separation-with-the-3-of-swords monthly 0.5 2022-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/8fcc9363-0660-46b3-abdd-364c09005fd2/IMG_4970.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - Feeling the pain of separation with the 3 of Swords - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/cca614f4-3258-4ba5-bd7e-f363511b7157/IMG_5295.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - Feeling the pain of separation with the 3 of Swords - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/2019/3/11/the-hierophant monthly 0.5 2022-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/0d6078a4-5baf-4907-9e8c-8d4f0aaa851c/CE4DA014-03B0-486D-B190-24C8856E2DA0.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - Revealing what’s sacred with The Hierophant - When I pull this card, I ask myself: To whom have we given this power in my life? What is the structure or framework that I have built my life around? Where can I question that authority? How is it serving me? What is my part? And finally: How can I reveal my own holiness and my own sacred self? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/c548ff85-493c-4760-aff7-9a7f1b1159a8/IMG_3995.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - Revealing what’s sacred with The Hierophant - The Hierophant card was once called “the Pope,” and it is usually depicted with a powerful, persuasive person carrying a staff, two keys at their feet and a crown on their head. Some expressions of this card show two figures sitting in their audience, but this deck from Tarot of the Holy Spectrum, the figures are whispering in the center figure’s ears. I think this card asks us to question the spiritual gatekeepers in our lives, and it encourages us to find our own doctrine, our own church, our own set of values and principles that we use to fight fair and to fight for fairness. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/2022/02/02/rest monthly 0.5 2022-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/b87783de-dc58-46c5-b844-a2809cb9421d/IMG_0768.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - Four of Swords and the 7 types of rest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/52d89f8c-3d4b-4572-b9e9-b7831fb2db07/IMG_0723.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - Four of Swords and the 7 types of rest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/5aa3451a-f7ab-446e-b5b0-502d5af14574/IMG_0824.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - Four of Swords and the 7 types of rest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/blog/what-is-spirituality-to-you monthly 0.5 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/791c07fa-e147-4f5f-ab15-4eb46620bbcd/unnamed+%281%29.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - ‘What is spirituality to you?’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/4b3e981a-b4db-4aa5-9d3f-9bdf62f95251/unnamed+%281%29.jpeg Notes from the Wild Edge - ‘What is spirituality to you?’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/a7c346d6-0a7a-47f8-a0cc-b66f55336189/unnamed.jpg Notes from the Wild Edge - ‘What is spirituality to you?’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/home daily 1.0 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/1618625357535-0BTMD7YEWX0B28URSDKD/Addie+Broyles+Don%27t+Fear+the+Death+Card Home - Death is what gives life meaning. I hated this idea when I was younger. That we should embrace death as a way to embrace life. And then I met Grief, a guest who came but never left. Everything changed when I decided to make room for loss in my life. That’s also when I started reading tarot cards. Now, I share this work with others through tarot cards and Swedish death cleaning. https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/about daily 0.75 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/35dfa2ae-8048-41b0-a3b8-6b34d447366f/IMG_4662.JPG About If you’ve never had a tarot reading, this process might surprise you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607a3f98380d80024d6e529d/4b3e981a-b4db-4aa5-9d3f-9bdf62f95251/unnamed+%281%29.jpeg About For more than twenty years, I was a newspaper journalist and food writer. In my weekly column, I explored community, connection, and personal growth through the lens of food. Healing my family roots and ancestral wounds became the “why” of my work. And then I found tarot. Tarot cards have been used as a form of folk psychology for more than 500 years. With a long history in Europe, particularly among the Romani, who have suffered greatly to carry on the practice, all 78 of the tarot cards have medicine, including the Death card, which is one of my favorites. (And thus the name of my business.) https://www.dontfearthedeathcard.com/stayintouch daily 0.75 2025-04-17