Janet Boyer's Blog

Talking Naked Tarot on Shift Happens with Cortana and GG

I had a blast talking Tarot and other esoterica with Cortana, GG and Jeana on the Shift Happens Radio Show! Cortana had me laughing so hard. Listen in below!

Listen to "Ep. 123 Shift Happens - Janet Boyer - "Naked Tarot"" on Spreaker.

-- Janet

Talking Tarot, Astrology and The Lovers Card with Kooch Daniels

Late Sunday night, I was on Psychic Talk's Tarot d'Amour with Kooch Daniels. We chatted about Tarot, Astrology, The Lovers--and did a few readings at the end for callers, too. Listen in below:

-- Janet

Marianne Williamson as the Queen of Cups in Tarot

In my latest book Naked Tarot: Sassy, Stripped-Down Advice, I list real-life examples for each of the Tarot Queens in the section The Queens as Healers.

Naked Tarot was written over a several-year period and was finished late 2017--publishing in Fall of 2018.

Before Marianne Williamson declared her candidacy for President of the United States, I pegged her as a Queen of Cups--with the personal mandate of "All You Need Is Love". As we can see from her interviews and Democratic debates, her life theme is more public than ever.

Here are the pages from my book about the Queen of Cups, the subsection of The Queens as Healers:

As you can see, several men are also listed, because in Tarot, Queens and Kings don't correlate to gender but energy--how a person conducts themselves on a daily basis.

What famous people (or characters) would YOU correlate with the Queen of Cups? Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

-- Janet

Win Naked Tarot, a Handmade Sun Bracelet and More at This Summer Solstice Giveaway!

Over on Instagram, aceoftarot is giving away lovely goodies to celebrate Summer Solstice right here. All you need to do is post an emoji, or memory, related to summertime. Last day to enter is June 15th, 2019.

Yep...I made that Sun bracelet! I have a few others (all different) in our Chez Boyer Etsy Shop here.

-- Janet

Becoming Chloris for All in the Pantheon

What does it feel like to be an actual goddess? Especially one that has been ordered by Zeus to get a human job so as to become "more relevant" to mortals?

I'm not 100% certain, but I'm getting a taste by playing the role of Chloris, Goddess of Flowers and Spring at the All in the Pantheon blog...and I'm having a blast! My fellow writers are so talented, too. We all met on Twitter, if you can believe it--are very active there. The All in the Pantheon Twitter account is here, if you'd like to follow along (and follow the gods).

Click here to read my introduction as Chloris. My first two posts--Save the Bees, You Daft Mortals and Doxxing Olympus Part I--can be found here and here.

Be sure to check out all the gods, goddesses, muses and monsters on this post. I guarantee that you won't be bored spending time with them! (By the way, if YOU would like to try your hand in voicing a god or goddess, click here for the application).

-- Janet

Introducing Flower Witchery

You could say I'm "into" flowers. Really into flowers.

I've started a brand-new blog dedicated to (what else?)...flowers! Click here to check it out. FlowerWitchery.com is the easy-to-remember URL.

Any other Flower Witches out there?

-- Janet

Evolve or Fry - My Interview with Sarah Buino of Head/Heart Therapy

I LOVED talking with Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF from Head/Heart Therapy in Chicago, IL, about healing, growing, the Enneagram, Chiron, Tarot, ChristoPaganism and more. Listen in below. 

 

-- Janet

The Harley and the Ivy

So I bought a few Harley Quinn charms last year but didn't do anything with them...until now.

Behold! My Harley Quinn bracelet:

I love plants and trees and the color green, so I thought I'd make some Poison Ivy bracelets--and a (mis)matching set of earrings, too. Ron said "Oh. It's a Gotham Collection".

HAHAHA! (Or, rather, HA...HA...HA).

Yeah, more like a Gotham Villainess Collection. But, I just may do some Joker, Riddler and Batman jewelry...

Behold--the botanical bijouterie!

Check 'em out at ChezBoyer.Etsy.com (as well as some other goodies we've been making).

Speaking of making, Ron's working hard and joyfully on a new Lenormand deck. Like our Snowland Deck, it's painted acrylic images on hand-gessoed boards. He says I can't show any images until he gets past, like, the ten-card mark. Boo! Hiss!

I CAN say it's unlike any Lennie deck out there. Natch.

Man on the Corner by Genesis

For the last month or so, I've been on a serious Genesis kick. They're often playing on our Smart TV or via one of our Amazon Echos or Dots.

"Man on the Corner" by Genesis has been one of my absolutely favorite songs for over 30 years (!). It's one that gets little air time compared to other Genesis/Phil Collins songs.

Isn't this song (as Will Ferrell as James Lipton would say about Alec Baldwin's Charles Nelson Reilly)--scrumptrulescent?

I'll share my second favorite Genesis song soon...

 

Log Off, Mute All, Carry On

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, Austin Kleon's newest book, arrived yesterday. As with his first book, Steal Like an Artist, it's fab.

I'm only on the third chapter, but it's already a balm for the soul and a boost to the creative mind.

I love his reversal on the hippie sentiment:

Yesiree...Log Off, Mute All and Carry On.

I'm doing that now. In fact, just a few minutes ago, Team Boyer deactivated all their Facebook accounts (which means even our pages--one, with over 3K fans--are inaccessible).

I've put a note on Twitter that I won't be tweeting (although posts from this blog will automatically be tweeted there, I'm not there).

Instagram? May still post some pics there. 

Unplugging isn't new to Team Boyer. You may remember my post from 2012 called No TV for 3. We went over a decade without TV programming (we had TVs, mind you, but only used them for DVDs and the occasional PS2 gaming). 

We got a shitload of creative work done during that time, let me tell ya! 

We ended up getting a Smart TV last year, so we're streaming--but to be honest, we don't spend a lot of time watching. When we do, it's usually documentaries, British mysteries (me and Noah), Gaia, nature stuff, cartoons, YouTube tutorials and Great Courses lectures.

Back to unplugging: deactivating all our Facebook accounts was so freeing! I'm feeling the "freed up computing space" in a big way.

I don't think we realize how much social media accounts function as a metaphorical "programs running in the background"--which means an unconscious (and sometimes, very conscious) drain on our "computing" energy.

I've also decided not to check any of my books' rankings on Amazon, nor the reviews.

My job is to create, not cater or monitor (which may go against prevailing publishing advice, but hey--I tried it "their" way...and it didn't work for me or my creative life). 

So this blog--and our Newsletter (you can subscribe here, if you're not already a recipient)--will be the primary ways we communicate to the world.

Notice I said "we". You may have noticed that my our blog got a makeover yesterday. 

Making this a Boyer Creations blog has been a long time coming--and I'm excited that we've consolidated our communication streams to basically only two channels. Really, I couldn't do what I do--to the extent I do it--without Ron and Noah. And they couldn't do their creative work without my help, either.

We're truly a team. And we're up to a lot these days! Visit ChezBoyer.Etsy.com to view or purchase our latest offerings for sale. BoyerCreations.com is still up and running, too.

So stay tuned to see what we're creating and what we're thinking (or reading or watching or listening to)--and if you'd like, leave us a comment. We're glad to have you, and would be happy to answer any questions you have for us--as a family/creative team...or individually. And if you love what we're about, feel free to "buy us a coffee" (aka the Tip Jar). See the symbol at the top left of the blog? Just click and caffeinate. ::wink::

Carry on! (We will be).