Angel's Tree of Wisdom Studio

My studio Space is located at 65 Manchester Street, West Warwick RI.  I'm on the 2nd floor of an Artist Studio Complex inside of an old Lace and Dye Mill in Rhode Island.  I primarily use the Studio space for creating content in videos and blogs, hosting meetings and conducting readings for clients. I also have Tarot Students that meet  here.
#TAROT AVENUE

The Studio is a work in progress.  I am happy to share these before-hand photos because the plans we have to transform the space for my usage is pretty exciting actually!  This weekend I was visited by my exceptionally talented Designer from Creating Wonderland Designs.  https://www.facebook.com/CreatingAWonderland/ 

Giorgiana presented me with a personal gift and offering for my studio.  Please note the lovely detail in the way it was painted.  Both  sides have depictions of the Constellations for each Zodiac Sun Sign.  The knobs for each drawer were hand painted...and from top to bottom, represent the Phases of the Moon from New Moon to New Moon again. ***If you would like more information about Moon Phases, please schedule a reading with me and we can explore how the Moon cycles affect your life and outcomes!

 

 

After consulting for the weekend on how the New layout and redecorating will happen, I decided to start by placing the existing furniture into the general area where it will stay long term after the redec.  My table and chair had to move, and my desk too.  Slightly untidy at the moment, but somewhat functional, I decided to journal in my blog and include all my readers in the joy of this grand transformation. 

 

The Tarot Card associated with Transformation energy or the Transformative nature of life, is the Death Card.  See the image below:

 

 

Today is a Death Card kind of Day.  According to the Astrology of the day, we are entering the Moon Phase of the New Moon.  During this period, the moon is not visible,  This also correlated to the Death Card.  The moon is experiencing it's regular transformation from one month to the next.  It's wonderful how things are all connected.  We are all experiencing transformations that occur during the course of a month or a quarter of the year.  To ignore such a pattern is to be stupid.  To embrace it, experience it fully and feel our way through it, allows us to connect to a process that is centuries old. We have become so reliant on clocks, calendars and the TV schedules...there is no need to understand the changes of nature, as they are spoon-fed to us everyday by the demand of our over-scheduled lives.



 

 

I created this studio at the most UNLIKELY time. I had been practicing as a Tarot Card Reader already for years....working from home, and mostly reading at home or in the homes of my clients.  But in August of 2016, as the rest of my world felt as though it were unraveling at rapid speed, I took a leap of faith and created this space.  There have been, and still will be obstacles to overcome so that I can earn a full living working for myself from this space.  But I now see the possibilities and believe that they are within reach and that I can achieve them.  #Transformation.  #Death card. #New Moon.

 

It is my intention to launch this as a business in the future.  And by "in the future", I mean now...but there will come a day, when I will have a great party and we will celebrate that the Studio is officially launched and that day will be wonderful.  It's what I am working towards now as I develop my brand and my message and all the bells and whistles that go with it.  I have operated other small businesses and so I know that these are a great venture and adventure.  I have had a small Child Daycare in my home.  I have operated a very tiny Music Studio where I taught Private Music Students to sing, play French horn and Beginner piano.  I even had Speech Clients who I coached as Vocal students.  This helped them be able to be better public speakers.  And then I ran a very small business that struggled against much market competition, and that was an Event Planning/Wedding Planning Business.  That one was my favorite.  I truly love to host parties and large events.

 

I am learning that entrepreneurship is in the blood, or it is not.  For me, it has always been there.  I cannot escape my desire to be at the top of my work, top of my profession.  And so now, After years of struggling to settle into an industry where I feel connected to my soul journey and also where I can be recognized as a professional in my field, I have chosen my direction and set my sails.  Now we wait for the optimal wind.  Don't mind me if I am being slightly cryptic, but when you are creating your business, you want it to succeed, and so this requires some amount of private work that you can later detail how you got there...and I certainly will.  Many of you will be a part of that when the day comes.

 

 

It is NOT enough to simply be good at something.  To succeed as a business where you can thrive while serving your Divine Purpose and your life path, you must plan, pray and execute fearlessly.  Preparation is key.  I have hoped, dreamed and envisioned and that has gotten me far.  I am a skilled healer already, in that I am a Clairvoiyant and Clairsentient and Intuitive person with Psychic abilities and Mediumship abilities.  Therefore, I can conduct effective Tarot Card readings for clients...and help them.  But without a clear path toward my customer base, I am no more than a part-time hobbyist as a healer. I know I am worth more than that title.

Some of the other modalities that I am interested in learning more about are:  Reiki, crystals and precious gems for healing;  color and aromatherapy;  herbal therapies;  teas;  essential oils;  organic gardening and homesteading;  Ancient Runes and Astrology.

If these interest you too, please follow my blog and also my facebook page where I will create quality short video content, literature content and be easily contacted for Readings in person and over Facebook Messenger. https://www.facebook.com/Angels-Tree-of-Wisdom-Tarot-834044466638153/

I hope to hear from you.  Stay well. 
Love everybody and Be Blessed

Namaste
~Tree of Wisdom Angel



My Favorite Tool

Every decent Tarot Card Reader/Angel Card Reader has a few favorite decks.  The RADIANT Rider Waite Deck is my favorite deck and probably always will be.  I guess I am slightly old-fashioned for preferring the endearing and memorable, easily identifiable imagery of the Classic Rider Waite deck of Tarot Cards.  The Radiant part is that some additional images appear on various cards, and the colors are enhanced.  I also like the shape, size and weight of the deck as well as the plastic coating that they seal the deck with.  You see...all Decks are not created equally!

A few years ago I sat with a Card reader for what I assumed would be a Tarot reading.  She used a deck I recognized as Spanish Playing cards.  I call them "Bricas".  They are sort of a midway between regular playing cards and Tarot.  Their images on the Court cards was very tarot-esque, being they show cups and coins and sticks. There size, more like regular cards.  Anyway....that was the woman who turned me from reading Angel Cards to reading Tarot cards more exclusively.  I know you are dying to know why!  I'll tell you.

My name is Angel (AngelMarie if you please)...and growing up with a name like Angel has not been easy.  As an adult I strongly prefer AngelMarie, AM or Mrs. Carroll.  My husband, close friends, mom and sisters/cousins call me Angel.  No one else.  Somewhere along the lines, I feel like I was brainwashed into the "Angel" mindset.  I mean...I was a good person right?  Angelic?  Wouldn't want to ruin that image by say...gee, I don't know...identifying yourself as a witch? Well, what if I were both?  Maybe my Mother was from a long line of witches and my father was a nephilim?  Maybe he and she created a unique offspring, only one.  Me.  And maybe....just maybe....I am both Angel and Witch.

I was uncomfortable the day she told me I was a witch.  She told me to stop using those Angel Cards (nothing wrong with Angel Cards, by the way...just not the right tool for me).  She addressed my worst fears that day.  It would take me months...maybe a year...before I could say it out loud and not feel like something was wrong with me.  I am a witch.  Am I an Angel?  I don't know.  But I am a witch.  And Tarot cards are one of my favorite tools of divination.  I teach everyone I meet.  I teach them to use runes, tarot cards, crystals, oracle cards and more.  I always encourage people to look inside themselves and use these tools for understanding their true nature, connecting with it...embracing it.  Give yourself a big hug.  You are special.

So it turns out that there is nothing actually scary about being a witch....being intuitive, clairaudient or clairsentient.  Many of you may have heard of Clairvoyance....it's similar to that.  I smell things a lot...hear them...feel them coming before others do.  Sometimes something stops me dead in my tracks to alert me of danger or to whisper a message in my ear.  Sometimes while people are talking to me I hear their words and their hidden thoughts both at the same time.  I usually prefer being alone because having gifts like this makes me sometimes despise having to deal with other people.  I truly appreciate the sincere, real, open...honest people.  They are easy.  Animals, children....easy.  Them I love to be around all the time.  They are a breath of fresh air. 

Do you share my experiences in this way?  Maybe you have gifts too.  If so, what are you doing to learn how to work with those tools to have the best life ever?  You can you know.  You can even use those gifts to help you more easily navigate the toughest times in your life.  You can channel, meditate...trust in your own true north.  Be your own compass!  How about manifestation?  Would you like to manifest your desires?  You can you know. 

It all starts with being willing to hear the truth.  Ask for your mentor.  Ask for your tools.  Meditate on this.  If you need help, let me know.  I love to teach.

~Namaste
Angel's Tree of Wisdom

How is it that I wrote a wonderful Blog about my Feng Shui Tarot Cards and then I never wrote again for another year?  It's shocking to me...that I can not write for so long.  I deliberately keep myself away from my laptop and away from my cards.  I opened a Tarot Studio this past August (August 2016).  It is now January 20, 2017.

 

Well...2016 was incredible for me.  A year ago- so January 2016....I was in WalMart with my fiancé.  We were grocery shopping.  And technically, we had broken off our engagement and only recently had started seeing one another again.  We hatched a very bold plan at that point and it was that we should get Married!  We spent January, February and March planning the wedding...which took place April 10th, 2016! 

 



SOOOOOOO.....life has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you think everything's ok....

We went on a sweet honeymoon to Canada directly following the Wedding.

 

 

We returned to our "normal lives" in late April.  My husband suddenly lost his job and then we sold his house over the summer.  During that time, he and his dogs moved into my Apartment with me and my Children.  We spent many months learning how to live all together.  On Father's day I got a terrible phone call.  My Father's cancer was back.  This time....terminal.  No way to cure.

 

It was sad watching my father deteriorate through the summer and fall.  He passed away on December 8, 2016 at age 64.  Here he is with me and my husband and Father-in-Law:

 

 

 

THROUGHOUT....all of these times....my cards were with me and were my Faithful guides and friends. 

I started working with a new Tarot Deck on Valentines Day, February 14, 2016.  Those are the Radiant Rider-Waite Deck.  I will be very pleased to introduce them in my next Blog Entry.

 

In August 2016, I found a Studio Space in Evolution Mill.  It's basically and Artist Studio where I have a large studio room.  I meet clients and students there for trainings and readings.  Also, I can read, practice, meditate, write and practice my craft there.

 

I hope you are happy to finally get a new blog entry and I am looking forward to writing more.  I marked my calendar to remind myself to write a new blog weekly.  Let's see if we can accomplish better consistency with this blog in 2017.

 

Many Blessings and Happiness to you all :-)

 

~Angel's Tree of Wisdom





Feng Shue Tarot Reading

The Feng Shue Tarot Deck
created by Peter Paul Connolly and Eilleen Connolly

Welcome back to my 
"All in the Cards" blog.  
Last night I was part of a bachelorette party and met 8 women.  Each person unique and searching for different things.  Some were not searching for me or for my message, but were open to the idea of Tarot Readings and AngelCard Readings.

Every Tarot Reader and Oracle/Angel Card Reader takes a unique approach.  Some are more comfortable delving into the darker inner workings of the mind and psychy.  I personally like to have a Lighter and Brighter, more encouraging manner as I read for my querents.  I observe that many people are reluctant to WISH and to ASK for what they are wanting.  I infuse my readings with an urgency for the querent to seek to use their inner strengths in combination with the Law of Attraction, in order to achieve their desires.

This morning, after having read so many other people, I sat to practice with my newest deck- the Feng Shue Tarot.  The major difference in this deck from Traditional Tarot Decks is that the Minor Arcana (which are divided into four suits, much like regular playing cards), are based on Mythical Creatures such as the Red Phoenix and the Green Dragon.  There is also the White Tiger and the Black Tortoise.  For example, the White Tiger in Feng Shue correlates to SWORDS in the Traditional Tarot.  Swords signal sharpness of wit, thought and even aggression.

Below is my reading:

What does my spread tell me about my current situation?

• How can we interpret this reading?
• Is there more than one interpretation?
• How much do we depend on the direct meanings of the cards vs the implied meanings?
• Where do we inject personal self-knowledge as we attempt to interpret the message?

BREAKING IT DOWN

The first two cards out of the deck are the two center cards that form a cross.  In this case, I layed out the (reversed, which means the card came out upside down) of the GREEN DRAGON KNIGHT.  the second card out, crosses the first card, representing a challenge.  In this case, THE STAR.

I have highlighted the STAR card here as it is a major Arcana...thereby representing a major life situation or major life learning. THE STAR means a destined and blessed situation.  When the STAR appears, good fortune is certainly shining upon the receiver of this card!  For me...the CHALLENGE is the Good fortune.  The KNIGHT card that came out first indicates my impatience with a current life situation.  We can divine from this that I am struggling under a challenging life situation, lacking in patience to get beyond it...and the greatest challenge is that I be able to see that what appears as a "not so good" situation", is actually a blessing in disguise!

The next MAJOR arcana card is THE MOON, seen here:

THE MOON in this reading appears in the position (to the right of center) that indicates an influence in my past...and not the recent past but further back.  The guidebook for this deck truly explains the meaning of this lovely card in such eloquent terms.  To summarize it's meaning in this position, is simply to recognize that in the past I developed my Intuition.  THE MOON is the sign of the creative types who delve into the dark places and mystical consciousness...the ones who experiment with psychedelic drugs and then create master works of art, literature and music.  The Moon Walkers are the Jim Morrisons and Edgar Allen Poe's of the world.

Prominently noted in the OUTCOME placement, is the TOWER...THE TOWER REVERSED.  Very iunteresting.  Here is a photo of the Tower upright so you can have a better look at the illustrations:

TOWER is a major arcana.  Many people feel fearful when the TOWER is in their spread.  The TOWER is a symbol that what was built is now unstable and needs to be broken down...and in the future placement, it would indicate that this is coming...in the future.  So let's explore what my TOWER means for me as it was reversed.  With a card like the TOWER, reverse or upright mean something similar.  LET KARMA take it's course...it will do as it wishes.  Don;t try to hold something together that is meant to disintegrate.

The reversed WHITE TIGER THREE alongside my reversed TOWER suggests that I need to improve my outlook as I stand to make the situation worse with my "stinkin thinkin".  Good advice...and advice I will take.

THE SPREAD

This Spread (layout), is called a 5-card spread.  It can be enhanced with several additional positions and thus becoming what is called the CELTIC SPREAD.  I love the Celtic Spread because it casts a wider view and you can elaborate more with clients (Querents).  For the Bachelorette last night I did a 5 card for each woman with several ANGEL CARDS to offer direct answers to questions or advice on how to heal, help themselves or improve their situation.

LETS GET ANGEL ADVICE....on my reading.

AUTHORITY.  This card is from the INDIGO ANGEL DECK by Doreen Virtue.

A simple message.  I completely get this message.  The situation I am struggling with is that I was fired by a Bully of an authority figure.  It was the second job loss for me in a matter of less than a year.  I am struggling to believe that I am worthy of a GREAT JOB.  I have a real DISLIKE of people in AUTHORITY right now.  As I gaze upon the image of this card, I am DEEPLY moved by the humility of the Angel who is staring upwards...up through the beam of light. He is a powerful being himself, right?  He is a powerful Angel with wings!  But look how he stares upward to the Caster of the Light and is modest and humble and receives the Light.

I want to be like this Angel.  And I can.

I hope you found this "walk through" a reading to be helpful in your own learning process.  If you want a private reading with me, you can reach me via my facebook page:

www.facebook.com/angelstreeofwisdomtarot

~namaste

Lilac

Warm Welcome

Blogs are amazing! 
Back in my school days (graduated high school in 1992), we had no computers in schools...no internet...no cell phones and no Facebook.  Blogs did not exist.  Those of us who were writers, healers and sharers of any kind, had to use other methods to get the message out.

 

I was friendly but distant in school...preoccupied with deeper existential thoughts.  I always saw myself as "on the outside" of all the cliques...never actually fitting in.  My friendships were often one on one.  Remarkably, in the tenth grade, my high school participated in a revolutionary project where they surveyed the whole school (9th grade through 12th grade).  The survey asked kids to name a person in school who they could turn to- to talk to, get advice from and who they found supportive when in times of trouble.  They chose the top ten nominees and named them "Natural Helpers".  These Natural Helpers were assigned to work alongside the School Psychologist and Counselors and were asked to use their "natural" abilities to help in the situations that troubled students.

 

That was the first time I knew I was meant to be a "Natural Helper"....later I followed the path of religion thinking that Service to God was my calling.  Many aspects of Christianity did not fully make sense to me.  It seemed there were many contradictory conclusions one could make about the scriptures.  But the community was a place where I did learn and grow...I learned about selfless service to others in a new way.  I learned about thinking about choices in how they affect the group and not just the one person (the self).  So this experience did groom me for many to come.  I learned Leadership there in church.  We had "Discipleship Groups" on our campus.  These women needed someone to organize them and create a structure for how we met, prayed and served.  Someone had to maintain accountability and reporting. Naturally I was good at this and I got better over 5 years.

 

My next role as a Natural Helper was Childcare.  I was a Natural Leader in my Classroom.  I created and implemented strategies; utilized staff;  cared for children; increased the enrollment in the classrooms.  When my brother died suddenly in Iraq, it was so hard to face the classroom...the parents...it was so difficult to be there for the staff.  I opted to work from home and perform my duties in a smaller setting.  It was less stressful and there were fewer people to interface with daily.  This made the healing process easier for me.  I had 4 children in my home childcare, 4 sets of parents.  This was a lot easier than 32 students and 32 families with 6 staff.  After several years, my child was a school ager.  I saw that I was a bit stagnant from performing the same tasks day after day and week after week and year after year...with the same people.  I realized I needed expansion but I had no idea how much it was needed.

 

Being a creative person, I started party-planning and event hosting.  I did these things in my spare time.  I had fun again...it was challenging.  I met new people and remembered I used to be more confident.  By the time my second child was 3 years old, I had studied and explored and became very masterful at many things that were once completely foreign to me.  I had learned about Universal Consciousness and the Law of Attraction.  I studied Kabbalah, meditation, yoga...so many "new age" concepts and practices.  I learned about what Buddhists believe.  I gained an understanding of what Muslims believe.  I learned about "Spiritual Awakening" by personally experiencing it.  When your consciousness truly shifts...when the Spirit really opens up...you are changed permanently.

 

At that point in my life I could easily see that my relationship of 16 years no longer suited me.  We were not growing...not headed in the same direction.  We did not have the same viewpoints or beliefs.  In fact, there were even many darker and more sinister things happening under the surface of the relationship.  We were unhealthy.  We were incompatible.  It was time to move on. In addition to the Spiritual Awakening, I had also been shown by my Spirit Guides that I was supposed to seek a partner who shared my Spiritual beliefs.  I began to research the idea of people who were a mirror of each other.  This beautiful knowledge was also given to me during my Spiritual Awakening.  I realized that we WILL recognize that reflection of our soul in another person...but only if we seek that in our TRUTH.  You cannot lie to your true self.  Your SOUL will not accept the lies.  A truly Spiritual person will only be able to seek truth and not tolerate the lower vibrational stuff of the world.

 

So...a journey.  I began a new journey around 2010.  That was when I was presented with my first personal deck of Tarot cards.  I had always gone to other readers and believed in them and hoped I could cultivate a way to be a Healer myself.  A dear friend who is a True Healer herself, had advised me to seek out a way to heal people with my special abilities.  It is really mysterious...healing.  I mean, what works for one person does not always work for another  Some things work for most people but for those few others, the symptoms will persist.  For example, I cannot use Aspirin.  I used it once when I was around 14 years old and we ended up at the ER.  My stomach is too sensitive to aspirin.  So I cannot benefit from it the way others can. 

 

Reading Cards

 

 

I began to practice reading in 2010.  I worked at this daily for two years.  One time I doubted my own abilities and went to a card reader who I had never met .  This woman put some cards out and then sat back and stared at me.  Her first words were this:

 

"Why are you here?"

 

I was confused.  I asked her what she meant.  She bluntly stated that her cards and guides were telling her that I was LIKE her...able to see for myself and KNOW for myself...and for others.  So again she queried, "Why are you here?".

 

Every path is challenging.  Reading and believing and trusting and using it are all part of the journey for me.  In High School I was booed off the stage when I auditioned for a Musical Production.  I was told my voice did not project.  I was not a singer.  Two years later I was touring South County as a front-liner for a band...and that lead to many other gigs with other groups and as a Soloist too.  So I guess that one time was me lacking confidence.  Because clearly...I can sing...rather well.

 

I have now read cards for hundreds of people.  There have been so many times when a Client has come back to me to tell me how the reading positively impacted choices they were making, or freed them of emotional ties...or in a few cases, just the fact that things I told them later happened.  Sometimes I meet people and I am urged to reach out and share something, ask something or give something.  I just obey the calling.  I try and judge when it is possible to share and when it is wise not to.  This is not so easy.  I recently attempted to reach out to someone who I felt really needed some support.  It was a mistake and I feel I really offended them.  no one is perfect.  We are all learning. What I learned from that experience was that sometimes it is not MY HELP that is needed...in other words, they needed help, Yes, but not from me.  It is difficult to know that someone needs something but not from you...and not be distracted...and not try and be the ONE that fixes it...these are Spiritual issues.  All people have these experiences, but  some don't know what to do with it.

 

So this is me- the real me.  I am a Tarot Card Reader and Intuitive.  I am an Angel Card/Oracle Card Reader.  I love to meet with people and spread some cards and see what the cards offer to other people.  I use my accumulated years of Spiritual and Emotional Wisdom to teach, guide, advise and support people on their journey.  Thanks for reading!  Keep up the good work.

 

Love Everyone...and Be Blessed,

 

Lilac~