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The Bridges Healing Arts, Belfast, ME (2026)

02/10/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

The Sun

You've got this.

Today, wherever you are on your journey, you are surrounded by light. Whatever peace you are working toward obtaining, you are on the path toward it. Your prayers and intentions have been heard. You are strong and steady.

And ready.

You've got this.

The Bridges Healing Arts

02/09/2026

💦 Water Is Life..💦

Did you know...

💦In ancient Greece, homecoming soldiers would shout "Thalassa! Thalassa!" which means "The sea! The sea!" Distance from the ocean implied isolation from civilization and vitality.

💦In 1800s France, Joseph de la Bonnadiere began practicing thalassotherapy, the therapeutic application of seawater, ocean algae, and marine mud as a way to heal the body.

💦Saline nasal irrigation, called jal neti, began in Ayurveda practice in India with seawater--it is where the neti pot originated.

💦Misogi is the Japanese practice of cold-water immersion for vitality and purification.

💦Craig Foster, author of "My Octopus Teacher," first coined the phrase "amphibian soul" to describe our "land and water" natural state of being.

💦Seawater contains significant levels of magnesium, potassium, calcium, and sodium chloride--and transdermal absorption is a way that seawater (on the skin) can help balance and heal us.

The Bridges Healing Arts

02/09/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

Knight of Swords, Reversed

If you find yourself with a Backseat Driver today, it's this knave.

He knows every stop sign (he warns you in advance), every pothole (he warns you in advance), every congested intersection (he warns you in advance), and every wrong turn you're about to make (followed by "I told you so"). At some time in life he had the good intention of saving you from trouble and inconvenience, but now it's all about power and control.

And this nitwit is an expert at those.

No matter the situation--driving or otherwise--you'll need to fend him off with a giant "harumph" and a glare reflected in the rear view mirror. If that doesn't stop the nonsense, you may need to pull over and invite him to walk.

And if you are entering into delicate situations today filled with potholes and stop signs...make sure the upside-down Knight of Swords isn't you.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

02/08/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

Three of Wands, Reversed

I have three new personal goals, and every day I end up thinking about them. Just thinking. The upside-down Three of Wands is here to tell me quite directly that I am wasting precious time daydreaming while looking out the window, and I need to get my ass off the chair and START.

Frankly, and not an excuse but an explanation: February does this to me. It's easy to sit back, dream, do nothing, and feel like a giant sack of s**t the longer your nether regions stay firmly planted in the La-Z-Boy. It's cold and it's easier to dream than do.

Today, however, is a good day to dream AND do. I'm going to put the beginning touches on a project I am excited about...I'm going to actually open the first of nine modules of a course I've signed up for...and I am going to go fish that friggin' walking pole out of the back of my car in preparation for NatureWalkTok's February 21st hike facilitated by Jay Richards. Mainly to make sure I still own it.

So take an opportunity today to NOT give away so many moments dreaming and take a couple of minutes to do something you'vebeen dreaming about. You'll feel a lot better.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

02/07/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

Materialism, Reversed

Disclaimer: difficult topic, and it applies to us all about SOMETHING, so haul up your knickers:

If you have been struggling with addiction--and we're not talking the physiological struggles, we're talking the mental strain of "I need to stop, I want to stop, I don't know if I can or really want to stop, but this sucks," this sort of Reversed Jesus figure is telling you: today's the day to quit the indecision.

If we're being completely and utterly transparent here--whatever you're doing over and over and over again is the end result of immense pain rolling in daily waves inside you. You're either doing what you're doing to allay the fear of feeling the pain or to allay the pain itself. ALL of it.

20+ years of working with people in immense pain has well-informed my conclusion, believe me.

Did you think I was not going to confess my own fear and pain? For me, it's two-fold: worry about my livelihood and thus filling my gut with rotten stuff made up primarily of sugar and salt like it's an emotional dumpster fire, and down underneath that mess is the fear of not measuring up (to mostly impossible expectations), and the colossal pain of not fulfilling my life's purpose of being a decent, loving, and productive human being (as opposed to fundamentally being a walking, talking piece of s**t).

There. I said it.

Today's message from what is essentially the Devil That Makes You Do It is: your indecision about your frailities and fragments is making you more unstable than actually taking action to turn it around.

Another way of peering at it: what if you took all that indecisive internal angst and channeled that energy into...action?

So just for today, simply imagine yourself free of these self-imposed chains that may have a history far longer than your physical presence on this earth, and then imagine moving forward on a path of a simpler, more loving, less fearful life journey where you actually like yourself.

Just imagine it.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

02/06/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

Judgement

I awoke this morning to someone on my feed spreading blatantly false information about Tom Hanks. 🤷‍♀️

Now listen. In this state we're in, ever-y-body is turning over stones and making accusations because this is the culture now. I do it, you do it, we're ALL doing it. We glance around and cast our eyeballs at any Tom, Dick, or Harriet meme or "headline" from any source and wonder if it could possibly be true, or react instantaneously with a gasp and the "share" arrow. It's difficult to know if anything is real because we have a colossal smoke-and-mirrors system at the top of the enchilada making up the most preposterous tales and fully believing them, just like the Wizard of Oz.

Frankly, I'm entirely weary of the constant Judgement. I am weary of precious time spent in my day debunking ridiculous farces and taking hateful, nefarious people to task. I bet you are, too. I bet you, like me, wish these slithering forces of darkness would be finally smited by a giant sword-wielding hand from the sky. Off with their heads. Just get it done.

The Judgement card suggests that all the wriggling and wrangling going on, to the degree that it is doing so, can only be handled properly via the test of time. Like, in the end the comeuppance shall arrive by whatever Force Be With You you'd like to believe in: God, Hell, Karma, Law of Selection, Eternal Strife, Spontaneous Combustion, whatever.

Because ferreting through all this unending bulls**t and hysterical contemplation is like pawing your way through a giant sticky spiderweb, around and around and around.

And we're sick, and tired.

Here's the Clifnotes: Let It Be. Step back today, stop folding your arms in Judgement and giving the hard stare, stop peering under rocks and behind curtains. Just let it roll out in good time under natural consequences. Let go of the outcome and allow the story unfold on its own, to an exonerated or tragic end.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

02/05/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

Ace of Pentacles

A beginning to new abundance, a start for filling up the tank as opposed to draining it to E. Things will turn around. You've been careful and frugal in many capacities...so now is the time for growth.

Don't think this is just about your wallet. It could be about filling your head with good information, filling your heart with love, or filling your soul with self-care and soothing rituals. If a few extra dimes come your way, too, all the better.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

02/04/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

Eight of Swords

Like Freddie Mercury, I want to break free. I'm tired of being patient and meek. It's time to break out of these societal and emotional and mental chains and just...run.

Tear off the mask and that dumb outfit. Be your wild and true self, let your imagination soar. The sun is at your back, pushing you forward. Evict yourself from your cave.

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The Bridges' Wisdom Center

02/03/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

Ten of Swords

I can't sleep, and for the last three nights when I actually do sleep, the dreams are horrific. Maybe that's why sleep is elusive--because I don't want to dream. Same for you? From what I'm hearing: yes.

This card is grim, but it is a 10--and that means we are coming out of a vast and ugly mentally challenging period of time. Let's just be real: we can no longer trust our country's leadership, the entire government feels like a demented and distorted Wizard of Oz set, and the world thinks we are a bunch of weapon-crazed dumbos wanting to exterminate this planet. The cognitive dissonance right now is unbelievable, the craziness unbearable...and getting through the day in our personal lives is super difficult when you don't know what's coming next.

The Ten of Swords is about crawling out of our self-imposed and self-preservationist box of familiar and safe things, regardless of fear, because we know this cycle just HAS to end. We must come out despite it all. We must CHOOSE TO LIVE. That means in this fractioned state, this zig-zag world. We must go on and through and ultimately above all this instability. We must survive.

I posted a video clip in The Bridges' Wisdom Center this morning from an astrologist who is insistent that THIS S**T IS GOING TO END. Looking at the charts, she says that the end of 2026 is going to look vastly different, in a healing way, than this bulls**t beginning--and that Aries is going to usher in the end to this cataclysmic insanity in April. Hold on to your knickers, people--Aries will lay this s**t FLAT. We will be left to crawl out of the rubble and begin to recognize ourselves and each other in a way we may never have before in this country, and in this world.

So begin your ascent today from the NetherWorld, even if it is just standing outside blowing on your hands to keep them warm and looking skyward. Do that, and that alone, and you have begun.

The Bridges Healing Arts

02/02/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

The Emperor, Reversed

Those run-away thoughts again. I feel you. Even in my dreams I'm switching gears constantly lately. In daylight or nightlight, it's not a fretting, worrying, emotionally-driven thing--it's more like a train on consistently alternating tracks. You're thinking all the damn time. If you have seen Wanda Sykes' comedy bit about a woman's menopausal mind, you will recognize yourself immediately.

Sometimes this madhouse thinking can turn ruthless. We'll do anything to shut it the hell up.

Yet the problam is not solved by shutting down--the problem is lack of focus. There's not a single pinpoint of focus, nothing we can laser into. And if we don't FORCE our ruminating noggins to FOCUS sometimes, our thoughts can really go off the rails.

Now is the time to consciously choose a focal point. And time-honored techniques of doing so are all around us: meditation, a walk in the woods, a hands-on project requiring strict attention, a drive on a lonely road, painting, writing, doing math, focused breathing, following a recipe, teaching a dog (or yourself) to sit and stay.

Today's the day to quiet down your monkey mind, no matter what setting you're in and get back in the driver's seat.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

02/01/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

Seven of Wands

Last night and into today, in the midst of a giant Full Moon, I perceived someone attempting to threaten my sacred space.

We had a brief go-round this morning that did not end well for her, unfortunately, and left me a bit shaken. And perplexed--after all these years I am still taken aback when someone thrusts a sword adorned in wreaths of roses at me. At the tip are all the pretty flowers...but as you look down the blade you see how lethal it really could be.

Today you may also be faced with a situation where someone or something is going to try to rattle your peace. Don't allow it. Nip it, slice it, sledgehammer it, or let it go lovingly, but do not allow the tip of that blade to slide any further toward you. This is your sacred ground, so defend it.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

01/31/2026

Your Daily Tarot...

The Queen of Pentacles, Reversed

I spent $119 at Hanny's yesterday, and where my money went is beyond me. I moved through the store like a friggin' zombie, just throwing random stuff in the cart--a package of olive and feta mix, a random box of crackers, a canister of decaf (we drink it like fiends over here), and a s**t ton of deli meat and cheese. Like I was going full-out Mediterranean or something. When the total came up, I just stuck my card into the doohickey and paid for all this stuff like the world was going to end anyway so who cares.

There were donuts in there, too--so that's something.

The Queen of Pentacles in her upside-down position is not having a manic episode of spending--this is not the clearance aisle at TJ Maxx type of thing--but instead a robotic trance-like trip through an entire functioning mall of stores and just accumulating bags and bags of stuff she doesn't even remember tossing on the conveyor belt of capitalism. She's disorganized, tapped out, bored, cynical, and resigned.

She's gonna make your wallet really hurt to look at when you finally wake up.

To turn her rightside-up, you must stay away from, for now, homegoods, hardware, antiques, vinyl records, crafting items--whatever array of things running by your eyeballs tickles a remote fancy--and USE WHAT YOU'VE GOT. Get creative with that box of gourmet food Aunt Hildy gave you for Christmas, or finally put together that shelving unit so you can put your previously accumulated stuff on it. Dig into the craft s**t you already have. Spin some Miles Davis and chill.

You can awaken your spirit, make something cool and new, and spur on some internal motivation while you're at it. And celebrate with coffee and a donut.

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