Flipping a Coin for a Quick Answer     When I need a fast answer, an easy answer, I flip a coin.  This is not something I do for serious problems or deep, probing issues.  This is for more superficial thing such as:  should I wear the pink top or the white top?  Should I prepare zucchini or broccoli with the chicken for dinner?   Should I ride my bike along the paved bike path in the park or go along the old railway bed?  Every few days, I am digging into my change purse or into the cracked cup in which I keep spare change to flip a coin to…

  Framing Your Question   Sometimes you come to a reading with a generalized sense of anxiety.  There’s no particular question, you just want an answer.  An answer to what?   You don’t really know.  All you know is that you need to know what you don’t know.   I feel like this quite often.  I don’t know what I’m doing or where I’m going.  I have had an argument with a friend and I feel frustrated.  I have writer’s block and cannot break through.  I have errands to run, but I am agoraphobic; I need to know if it is okay for me to leave the house.  I shuffle my…

It is my birthday today!  On my birthday, I have several rituals I perform.  One, I bake myself a cake.  This year it’s a yellow cake with a cocoa fudge frosting.  I also cook myself a special meal.  Even if I go out, I like to cook myself something special to eat.  I am going to roast a chicken later on, stuffed with lemons and rosemary and garlic.  I have fresh asparagus for a side, and I am going to make a rice pilaf.   One thing I always do is check my numbers for the upcoming year.  This is a combination of numerology and tarot.  I started doing this…