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Based in Belfast, Maine ⚜️Bridging the gaps between who we were, who we are, and who we are becoming

⚜️Holding the space in the present, between the past and what will be

⚜️The Bridge Between Breathing Out and Breathing In, and Breathing Out Again

12/27/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Eight of Wands

You've got all kinds of opportunities before you, and all have some impact on your life's path. Right now, you are calmly considering them as opposed to feeling crazed about choosing--and that's a nice place to be.

For the moment.

Fairly soon you are going to have to prioritize and cull. Because the Eight of Wands is about movement, not stagnation. Your next step will open a door to greater understanding of where you are and where you are going--not so much a new beginning as a clearer way forward. Distractions will need to be culled. Vision will need to be sharpened. And steps will need to be more sure. So gaze carefully now, and choose wisely.

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12/26/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Knight of Cups

Watching girls go passing by
It ain't the latest thing
I'm just standing in a doorway
I'm just trying to make some sense
Out of these girls that passing by
The tales they tell of men
I'm not waiting on a lady
I'm just waiting on a friend

Mmm, a smile relieves a heart that grieves
Remember what I said
I'm not waiting on a lady
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
Just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend

Mmm, don't need a w***e,
I don't need no booze
Don't need a virgin priest
But I need someone I can cry to
I need someone to protect

Mmm, making love and breaking hearts
It is a game for youth
But I'm not waiting on my lady
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
Just waiting on a friend
Waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
Just waiting on a friend
Waiting on a friend
Waiting on a friend

Songwriters: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards

12/24/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Five of Cups

It is super easy to feel despair at the holidays. For those of us of "a certain age," we face changing family dynamics--losses, adult children making different choices, older family members flying off to warmer climates before the holiday season even begins. And why is it that every year I miss my grandmother even more--her calm, loving, steady presence as we navigated the Christmas chaos...

But let us not forget the blessings we have sitting up there on the hearth, where the home fires will continue to burn. Yes, you'll need to light the kindling, and then the warmth will come. And you'll need to keep feeding that fire, even if it makes you sad--because memories are what we can hold onto, the sweet and the bittersweet--to get us through the darker times.

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The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/23/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Materialism, Reversed

Whatever you keep opening your wallet for: staaaaap it. Right damn now. That little idiot with the horns who resides on your shoulder telling you that you have not given enough is tee-heeing in the background with all his little demonic minions about how gullible you are. Knock his ass off and know the truth: You HAVE given enough. In fact: You ARE enough.

So unchain yourself from the commercialized BS of the "season of giving" and sit back with a cup of cheer and your favorite peeps. That is where your riches lie--and theirs.

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The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/22/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Ten of Wands

This card is an ending and a beginning. You cannot carry a certain piece of baggage into the new year. You know what it is. You must plant it and leave it, and wait for wisdom to grow from it--you will never learn anything from it unless you drop it now.

This is the end of you carrying it around like a martyr and a victim. This is the beginning of your lighter journey forward.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/21/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Seven of Cups

This card reappears in the upright position, so apparently we've made some sort of movement! Alas, it is movement into a dubious fretfulness, wondering if we've made a wrong move, chosen an empty cup, or hesitated too long.

Understandable, as we move from one season to another, from a somehow comforting darkness into the light that can shine on every misstep or dumb decision.

But it can also illuminate the next step like you haven't seen clearly in months. If you've been stumped on what to do and thought you'd just as well settle in for a long winter's nap--this card pokes a ray of light through the curtains to show the way.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/19/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

The Hermit, Reversed

The "bushel basket" Bible verse is in Matthew 5:15 and part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. He says, "No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but on a stand, so that it may give light to all in the house," or something like that depending on if you are translating from Greek, Latin, Aramaic, or if you are King James with nothing else to do in the middle of the night. The ultimate deal being, "Why are you hiding your shine?"

The Hermit in the upright and locked position is about coming out of your little hiding place beneath your bed and sharing your wisdom and Light with others. It is about passing that lil' Light around so that others can see and not stub their toes or inadvertently breaking Aunt Hildy's good china by ramming into it in the dark.

Maybe you are still percolating. Maybe you are feeling dusty, dumpy, and dreadful after being under the bed for so long. Maybe you lost your Bic lighter or the candle rolled out and the dog carried it off. Whatever it is, you're just not ready to crawl out of there and into the curious glances from others.

So go ahead and curl up a bit longer, then. Don't fret and don't "fake it until you make it." Come out when you're ready. The important take-away here is: you DO have a lil' light to shine. And if you shine it into the eyeballs of just one person in this life and that person receives hope--that's the miracle, right there.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/18/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Ten of Wands, Reversed

There are a number of things I am impatient for RIGHT NOW, and I bet many of you are feeling that stressy, fitful feeling as well. For the love of GOD, can we please remove that thing not serving us well (fill in your own blank), that thing that seems ceaselessly irritating, that thing we are trying to make come to fruition, to manifest as it sputters. Annoying.

The exasperating lesson here is: you cannot force it. There are things in motion about which you have little knowledge and zero control. The ending (and a new beginning) will come around in perfect timing--not yours. Frustrating. But it is what it is.

So I've decided to slooooow down, give space, and turn off the chatter, the voices, and the running-around. This takes conscious effort and artful determination. Perhaps that is what you need to do as well. Unplug.

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The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/17/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

The Moon, Reversed

I could *easily* make this card about the State of the Union, but let us not dredge up hate and discontent this morning and instead focus on what an upside-down moon means for you personally.

It means that things are becoming clearer from a place that was as dark as Zip's ass.

According to my great-grandmother Mildred, Zip was a mangy, disagreeable, possibly rabid black dog that roamed the local bayfront neighborhood terrorizing children and garbage barrels. Zip apparently reached urban legend status at one point in the early 1900s, but his entire story has been lost and all we are left with is that Zip's hindquarters (and his dark heart) were definitely very, very black.

And a situation that was this dark and murky is finally clearing up--and you can see a bigger picture than the microscopic and unsettling one you saw before. Ah. So *that's* what is *really* going on. Whether it has been hidden out of someone's self-preservation or out of deceit, it's being hit with a big Hollywood spotlight that could make you go blind if you stare at it too long.

So stop peering at it and decide to call it out or walk away. Your next step depends on how important this thing is to you.

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The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/16/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Seven of Cups, Reversed

Many distractions. And yet, somehow you are not deterred from your path. You may have to step back and take a breather to clear your head from all the chatter--but you are still very clear about the road you're on and your intention to stay on it. This is what you'll be taking into the (artifical) new year-- reaffirmation and breathers to realign and rejoice at your resolve. You've got this.

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The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/15/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Judgement

This card is not really ABOUT judgement. Or being judged. Or being Judge Judy. This card is about stepping back and looking at the things, situations, and people you have invited into your life and whether they have helped or hindered your progress down life's path. And if they've hindered, what lessons you've learned from that. And if they helped, how you have emulated them.

You have a chance here to move, change, evolve. You'll need to think about what matters to you RIGHT NOW, and if you are going to fight the path or learn from the path. The judgement here is about how well you've developed your character to move forward--and what lessons you may have skipped over to get here which could bite you in the keester later on. Tread carefully.

The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center

12/14/2025

Your Daily Tarot...

Materialism, Reversed

I strolled through TJ Maxx yesterday, which I generally do every year around Christmas because I love their holiday displays and goodies. I usually end of buying a crap ton of international foods, funky decor, holiday stuff that is kitschy and cute.

This year, I basically looked around.

I ended up with Scottish shortbread cookies for my soiree tomorrow with Cathi Seraph and Beverley Shores-Hayward, a bag of biscotti, and a Korean rice water facial cleanser that was $5.99. Waited about three minutes in line behind a bunch of chatty friends with cartloads of stuff--one even had *two* carts full--and got out of there.

This time of year we may become entranced and mesmerized by "all the things that could." That could be a great gift for Uncle Don, or that could be a great addition to my wooden kitchen spoon collection, or that could solve all my organizational problems. Maybe, but really? What I have found this year, as a consumer and as a small business owner, is that many of us have scaled waaaaay back on the temptations and expectations, and are choosing a simpler and less cluttered and far less chaotic way of life.

Our card today reaffirms this. The Devil of More, More, More has been cut off at the knees by a lot of us, out of necessity AND choice. We are returning to the roots of our lives. Remember this today if you are out and about finishing purchases you may think you need to purchase...but do you?

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