The Playing Card
-Oracles-
Secrets of the Regular Playing Cards Revealed!
Join with other pioneering individuals in uncovering the esoteric treasures encoded
for safe-keeping centuries ago in the deck we know as Playing Cards. NOW is the time
ordained for their re-emergence as WE re-awaken to our true nature and purpose.
Meet Author Ana Cortez in Santa Fe, NM
Saturday, October 3rd, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., $25
To Reserve Your Space Call Blessings at: 505-629-1136
There is a time and place for all things. Including the dissemination of truth.
Recently I have been asked to keep a secret. No, I’m not telling.
Now I recognize that I actually keep a number of secrets on a regular basis. It is a greater part of my occupation as a card reader.
“Keeper of Secrets” might be a better job title.
Complete strangers take a seat across the table from me and within moments we are addressing their innermost concerns, the secrets held in their heart.
Very little small talk.
How refreshing.
Then the person leaves my table and so with them leaves my memory of our conversation. No ties to anything.
Having a safe place to divulge a secret provides great relief in itself.
In service only do I seek the loving response from a place of non-investment in your personal situation.
Such a place of honor.
Thank you,
--Ana Cortez
The Five of Hearts
Choosing the card for the subject of The Ana Cortez Newsletter has become part of my practice of listening to the world and receiving its messages. Finding the perfection in that which is given provides me a great feeling of peace. Last month’s selection, the King of Spades, was not chosen by me, but rather brought to my attention – likewise with this month’s choice, The Five of Hearts. This is a card I have personally grappled with since the beginning of my time as a reader of playing cards, ‘round about 1982. This undoubtedly corresponds to the complexity and layers of dream like experience this card represents. (To read the remainder of this article please email me at ana@anacortez.org and I will reply with the full newsletter attached) Image © C.J. Freeman, The Playing Card Oracles
Healing and… Chocolate!Receiving a position at Kakawa Chocolate House in Santa Fe, NM I count as one of my more recent, larger sized gifts from Spirit. Kakawa is owned by a chocolate historian and serves up the past daily in the form of drinkable chocolate elixirs. One could forget where one is - ingesting thick, earthy, Mesoamerican elixirs dating to 1000 B.C. or sipping Marie Antoinette’s favorite orange blossom, chocolate, and cinnamon brew.
Daily I observe as customers are transported by chocolate infusions, stirred by the experience of that magic brown substance.
The people that work here are the priests and priestesses of “the bean” (or Kakawa, the Mayan word for chocolate), not only making all the chocolate served, but consulting with each customer to find just the right blend of soul medicine. It is an intuition building experience, choosing among the myriad of recipes available on any given day: flowers, herbs, chilies, nuts, oils, milks, and nectars…. parallels in history…
As my manager (head priestess) so aptly put it… Kakawa is at the center of the universe. The transformation ensuing for each person who mingles with the energy of Kakawa is truly something to behold… not always comfortable. At times I have felt that here in this little shop we are processing the history and stories for all humanity and that ultimately we will all be carried into a place of new understanding and peace on a river of drinking chocolate.
Chocolate lifts us into a multi-sensual euphoria supported by the love chemicals it arouses in the body - and lures us to remain. I have conceived my role here as healer - reaching across time and blending all with pure brown love. Even The Playing Card Oracles have found a home here on Friday afternoons with readings by Ana Cortez. ©
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