Quiet Mystic

06/02/2023

Hi everyone, I've noticed that this page has been getting a lot of views lately, but I haven't been updating it. If you'd like to follow the page and wish I would update it, please comment below! Thanks!

05/20/2021

Nothing will elicit a blog post from me faster than things that p**s me off: https://quietbonnie.com/2021/05/20/hey-scientific-american-be-less-dismissive-and-more-thoughtful/

Another tarot reader shared this blog post from Scientific American with me (it will open in a separate tab if you’d like to read it and then return to this). In it, SA blogger John Horgan co…

04/23/2021

Finally a post (actually, it looks like I have forgotten to post a few recent posts here). This one is another "Bonnie defends astrology to science" post. https://quietbonnie.com/2021/04/23/why-i-always-listen-to-astrologers-theyre-surprisingly-scientific-and-systematic-they-do-math-and-read-history-then-they-ask-will-history-repeat-itself-whats-wrong-with-that/

It suddenly occurred to me today to think about what I was telling clients back in 2019 and even the latter part of 2018. I remember telling any number of people to be careful about money, to keep …

11/07/2020

https://quietbonnie.com/2020/11/06/did-the-dead-vote-not-the-way-you-think-they-did/

The photo above is of protesters from sometime between 1909 and 1923. It’s from the National Archives: I keep seeing these claims, “dead people voted.” First of all, no, they didn…

10/09/2020

Cat of the day instead of cards. Don't forget to look up.

10/06/2020

A post in which I quote a good chuck of FDR's inaugural address. If you miss the days when presidents talked like presidents, you might want to read this one.

https://quietbonnie.com/2020/10/06/cards-for-the-day-10-6-2020-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-in-fact-maybe-just-stop-wishing-and-do-the-work-to-change-the-society/

I haven’t managed to post these every day. Sorry. But if you want daily cards, you need a reader who doesn’t have ADHD! Likewise, if you don’t want to read a long, rambling, post,…

10/03/2020

https://quietbonnie.com/2020/10/03/cards-for-the-day-10-3-2020-apply-humor-and-perspective/

“Perspective! Perspective is thinking that parallel lines meet!” – Jane Smiley If my thoughts could influence the cards I pull, I would have thought these were influenced by Katie…

10/01/2020

Cards for the day: 10/1/2020. Numinous Tarot: Five of Bells, Death, Ace of Tomes, Six of Tomes.

Back away slowly before the Internet eats your brain (or before the incessant online bickering gives you a headache). Start over! Go offline. Read a book. Do your homework.

09/30/2020

Cards for the day from the Wild Unknown Archetypes: The Queen, The Sword, The Healer, Kairos.

Leaders fight to heal.

09/29/2020

Maybe your aspiration looks loftier and harder to attain from a distance than it does when you get there. You don't need a blueprint to become someone you're not, you just need to widen your vision enough to notice that you're already the person who can do this and the doing of it is so comfortable not because you're not there but because you are already there.

In other words, your enjoyment of your work, your lack of discipline in approaching it, your disorganization, your messy workspace, your whatever you think is not worship-worthy about your work, is not proof that you're not doing the work.

That tower you think is unattainable has fallible humans in it, with pots of tea and coffee, and disorderly bursts of color. It has a kitchen and that kitchen has dishes in the sink that need to be washed. There are cryptic notes and drawings taped to the wall. The people inside have been known to pick up a book, open it to somewhere in the middle, read a page or two and then put the book down and never pick it up again. They stay up too late and oversleep. They go for a walk and get lost because they were paying attention to their thoughts and not their surroundings. They miss deadlines. They use circular logic way too much. They make mistakes and forget stuff. They are not the pinnacle of perfection that you may think you need to be to join them.

And that is true whether the tower you have in mind is a school, a job, a place, a family, a movement. Your aspiration occurred to you in the first place only because you already belong there because you are already doing whatever it is you aspire to be doing and you are more than capable. So go keep doing it in the way that you aspire to. If you're not supposed to be there, let the gatekeeper try to stop you, but don't gatekeep yourself--open the gate, go in, do it.

09/28/2020

https://quietbonnie.com/2020/09/28/cards-for-the-day-9-28-2020-weave-your-web-carefully-its-stickier-than-you-think/

I’m not picking the cards on purpose to make them look spooky, I promise, but these definitely do! A spiderweb named after a Greek god of death, a bear, and a snake. Looking at these cards, I…