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This week’s Minoan Tarot cards offer some helpful advice for navigating these Interesting Times. This deck is my creation, made the old-fashioned way (ink on paper) and available at bookstores everywhere.

Seven of Labryses: This is the card of cooperation and diplomacy. You mustn’t order people around, but you can’t achieve what you desire alone. You’re going to have to speak softly and be willing to compromise. This may take more self control than you think you have, and it will require reigning in your ego, but it’s a necessary step to achieve your goals. This also means working with what you have at hand in terms of people and skills. This card is saying you have what you need to achieve your goals but you must be willing to work with what’s there, even if it’s not what you really wish you had; you must accept what you cannot change.

Two of Horns: This is a card of motion in the physical world, of short-term changes in fortune or in the material arrangement of life. Because the number two cards always represent a balanced duality, there will be gains to offset any losses, either literal or figurative. But change and motion are real, and this card calls on you to join in the dance, skip along with the parade, go with the flow. The changes are for the good, even if the upheaval is hard to handle at the moment. Be flexible, focus on the positive, and you’ll make it through this period before you know it.

For those who are new to these card draws, each week I pull one card from the top of the deck and a second card from the bottom. The top-of-the-deck card (the first one, on the left) gives us some helpful hints about how to navigate our week. The bottom-of-the-deck card (the second one, on the right) is the “secret treasure” that can help us find joy in these Interesting Times.

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What does the Minoan Wheel of the Year look like? How can we celebrate life's passages via Minoan ritual? Discover all this and more in Ariadne's Thread! Book details, including a full list of the seasonal rituals and rites of passage and plenty of places to buy the book that aren't named after a South American river: https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/ariadnes-thread

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It's almost time for the Feast of Grapes! My muscadine vine is gearing up for harvest, and I'm getting ready for the Minoan celebration of Dionysus and his gift to humanity.

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I created this coloring book (by hand, no clipart or AI) because I wanted a historically accurate Minoan coloring book, and there wasn't one available. Yes, I've colored the pages in it myself! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. Details and sample coloring pages via link below. And yes, it's available elsewhere besides that place named after a South American river.

https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/minoan-coloring-book

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Every card in my Minoan Tarot deck was inspired by a Minoan artifact or work of art. In this case, a single work of art - the Bull Leaper fresco - inspired two Major Arcana cards. I made this deck the old-fashioned way, with ink on paper.

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Time to update my #introduction -

I'm a #pagan #polytheist #animist #queer #author #artist and spiritworker. My specialty (obsession) is all things #Minoan though I do also have interests in other practices and traditions.

I'm the founder and Temple Mom of #AriadnesTribe inclusive Minoan spiritual tradition (there's a link in my bio). Yes, we're fully inclusive. All means all.

I've written pagan and magical #fiction and #nonfiction and created an adult #ColoringBook and a #Tarot deck.

I love #gardening and #LivingHistory (which in some places is called Heritage Interpretation) and preindustrial skills like #weaving #spinning #knitting #crochet #quilting #HearthCooking and I love learning new skills as well.

As an author and artist, I'm a small business trying to make my way in the crowded marketplace. Once a week I share one of my creations with you. Maybe one of them will ring your chimes. Up this week: Labrys & Horns, the how-to guide for inclusive Minoan spirituality. Meet the deities, set up an altar, invite their energies into your life, do some sacred crafts and other fun stuff. Ariadne, Dionysus, Rhea, the Minotaur, Therasia and so many others await you...

https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/labrys-and-horns

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#Minoan religion and arts are profoundly not interested in the self-perpetuating, power-hungry ego. What they celebrate is the opposite: the ritually-induced release from individuality, and an ecstacy of being that is overtly erotic and spiritual at the same time (ek-stasis, or “standing beyond oneself”)—a cosmos that both nurtures and ignores the individual, that vibrates with inseparable sexual energies and spiritual epiphanies.

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Minoan spirituality is for everyone! Get to know the Minoan deities (Ariadne, Dionysus, the Serpent Mother, the Minotaur and more) and discover the Ariadne's Tribe sacred calendar and ritual format. This book is your all-in-one starter kit for inclusive Minoan spirituality.

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The Serpent Mother says hello.

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