Joanna Powell Colbert

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🌸🌸 Gratitude on May Day 🌸🌸 Thank you for your prayers while I was hospitalized + Gaian Tarot release is delayed

Happy May Day in all the ways! 🌸🔥🌸

Gaian Tarot Ten of Earth

Gaian Tarot Card of the Day: Ten of Earth (Pentacles)

On Earth Day, we contemplate all the ways that Mother Earth teaches us the cycle of life/death/renewal, seen here in the nurse stump that nurtures new life.

May new life always spring from the compost of the old.

#gaiantarot

Gaian Tarot Awakening (Judgment)

Gaian Tarot Card of the Day: Awakening (Judgment)

We stand together in community and lift our arms to embrace the Great Mystery. 

We’re not here to dominate, to amass a fortune, to force an agenda on other people. 

We’re here to love and be loved, to create, and to be of service to the world.

Gaian Tarot 5 of Earth

Gaian Tarot Card of the Day: Five of Earth (Pentacles)

Build a shelter in the storm for yourself, and another one for those who need a little help. When the storm feels overwhelming, remember you have the skills to take care of yourself as well as others. We’ll get through this storm together.

Gaian Tarot Guardian of Water

Gaian Tarot Card of the Day

Sometimes we embody the Guardian of Water and can access deep wells of empathy and compassion. Other times we’re the ones in need of a nurturing hug or the soothing rhythm of the tides. May we ebb and flow in turn, always.

#tarot #gaiantarot #cardoftheday

Gaian Tarot Gardener / Empress

Gaian Tarot Card of the Day: Gardener (Empress)

A celebration of the abundance of our ever-giving Mother Earth.

What creative project might you be gestating at this time? In what ways are you romancing the land?

And … can you find the small sculpture of Willendorf tucked into the harvest basket?

Gaian Tarot 3 of Earth

The RWS 3 of Pentacles shows a priest, an architect, and a mason working together to build a cathedral. It’s a card of creative collaboration. I chose to show three friends laughing and working together to make herbal medicines for the benefit of the community.
#tarot #gaiantarot #cardoftheday

Gaian Tarot 4 of Air

The 4 of Swords is a card of rest, recuperation, and preparation to meet the challenges to come. The Gaian version asks if it’s time to step away for a bit and create a quiet space to dream up new creative projects. 

#tarot #gaiantarot #cardoftheday

Gaian Tarot Wheel

Gaian Tarot card of the day. Here is the sacred wheel of life, death, and rebirth, as seen in the cycle of the seasons, the lunar phases, and the zodiac.

Whether we are waxing toward fullness on the Wheel or waning toward slumber, we always come back to center to find our equilibrium.

Gaian Tarot Nine of Water

A beautiful new edition of my deck, the Gaian Tarot, will be published soon! Posting cards of the day to celebrate …

In this card, I emphasized emotional contentment and spiritual connection with the natural world.

What does the Nine of Water say to you?

#tarot #gaiantarot #cardoftheday

Leap into Spring with Wild Hare

“May you sting like nettles and soothe like chamomile,” says the Unfurling One. So apt for this moment. ::
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New art, the Wild Hare, plus my favorite 3-card monthly tarot spread with images from the new edition Gaian Tarot. #tarot #gaiantarot

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I remember!! 🤣🤣🤣

Lady Liberty Lives

Resist

Rise up for humanity

A beautiful day in the neighborhood… to resist! (March 4th, Bellingham WA)

Protect Social Security Benefits ⭑ 5 Calls Social Security is an umbrella term for a social safety net program that provides monthly payments to older adults who have retired from the workforce …

🚨 The SSA has not missed a benefit payment in 80 years. But now, former SSA commissioner Martin O'Malley believes DOGE's workforce cuts will “lead to a total system collapse” and disruption of benefits within 30-90 days.

Call your reps.

🔥📞🔥- 5calls.org/issue/social...

73M Americans rely on Social Security.

People RELY on talking to customer service agents.

This is a DAILY occurrence for people on Social Security.

80M calls & 30M visits annually.

- Senator Amy Klobuchar

So glad you found the artist, thanks Lisa! It’s floating around uncredited. Appreciate @martharichart.bsky.social !

Don’t buy stuff, Feb 28th

Gaian Tarot Advance Copy Celebration

An advance copy of the new edition of the Gaian tarot showed up on my doorstep last week, bringing a lift to my spirits. With a bottle of wine to celebrate! Pub date is April 28th. More photos & a reading for the collective in my post. Thanks for celebrating with me! 💚

Thank you! And to you! ❄️🕯️🌱

Brigid’s Flame art against photo of snow

Brigid’s Day arrived on a whisper of snow ... and as always, She kindles a flame in our hearts.
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#imbolc #brigid (Art: detail of *Brigid’s Flame* by me.)

Herbcrafter’s Tarot cards

Turning to the wisdom of the Herbcrafter’s Tarot to keep our equanimity, whatever comes next …

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Advent of the Sun wreath. Art by @joannapcolbert

Blessed be the nurturing darkness. Blessed be the return of the sun. Happy Solstice, everyone! 🌟🎄🕯️☀️💚 (art by @joannapcolbert)

Fourth candle on the Advent Sunwheel

Last night, under an extraordinary full moon, we lit the fourth candle on the Advent Sunwheel. Pulling the nurturing darkness around us like a warm shawl, lighting candles to encourage the return of the Sun. These ancient rhythms never fail to center us, to warm our hearts, to give us hope. #yule

Yule tree and snow

Musings on the season on my Substack … May you be blessed by the nurturing darkness and the promise of the sun’s return. 🕯️🎄🌟

St Lucia crown

Gingersnaps in the oven, Yuletide tunes quietly playing … time to weave greenery into St. Lucia’s crown. Hail the Lightbringer! 🕯️🎄🌟

Just got here, Debbie. So happy to see you! 💚

And to you! 💚🕯️💚

Thank you Beth Owl 💚🕯️💚 @bethowl.bsky.social

Solstice Sun Wheel, Night 1

Lighting the first candle on the Solstice Sunwheel, embracing the nurturing darkness, awaiting the Sun’s return. Adding my prayers to all those spiraling out around the world. And so it is.