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Readings by Phone, too – just so you know!

January 11, 2016

Hello again, dear friends,
Yesterday I sent the following suggestion about considering a New Year’s Tarot reading with me. I have gotten enough responses from folks saying they wished they lived closer so they could receive one that I decided to clarify – I do these by telephone regularly. I should have made that more explicit. For those who want it, I take a picture of the reading and send it so that they can see the images. Otherwise, I can describe the messages and meanings quite well by phone.

Just saying so you know! Call any time if you’d like to look into a question or issue – or for New Year’s, your birthday, or any occasion that might warrant tapping into this kind of perspective.

Again, love and blessings,
Tayria

Here is yesterday’s letter:
Happy New Year dear friends and colleagues,

I hope your year is off to an encouraging start. I do find the turn of year brings a sense of fresh hope, potential and possibility. First day, first month, a new number of the year and I start projecting ahead, making plans and attempt to inject conscious intention into the inevitable changes a year brings.

I would like to offer you an idea as you begin your 2016 endeavors. Most of you are familiar with my deep interest in and study of the Tarot as a tool for self-reflection and revealer of very useful insight. People on every continent and in every culture, from ancient times to the present, have devised ways to bring in practical information from the matrix of life and the helping spirits that sheds light on issues and questions in daily life. The Irish use tea leaves, the Celts use the Runes, the Orient developed the I-Ching, Native Americans cast sticks and stones reading the patterns into which they fall, Africans use cowry shells, and for the Western psyche the Tarot became a prominent method. Such things don’t cover the globe and stick around for thousands of years if they don’t work.

For nearly three decades I have used these symbols personally and have read them for others. I find the information that arrives has been unfailing in offering insight, encouragement and guidance. The information seems to come from the same realm as dreams do. A reading is like looking into a mirror of the soul; it helps you see that which can be very difficult to see without that mirror.

Countless times persons have told me that information they received through a reading I had done for them has been increasingly useful and never forgotten even many years later, a consistent source of wisdom and guidance. For myself, I cannot overstate how healing and sometimes even salvational, especially through very challenging times, the readings have dependably been. Physicist David Bohm remarks that “Insight is an active substance that re-creates the brain.” These insights have shifted perception and thinking in a healing direction continuously. The meanings work with, strengthen and validate your own intuition.

Maybe you would like to have a reading as you launch yourself into the New Year. Whether you have a specific issue to address or just want to say “What might be helpful for me to know now about myself and the coming year?” we can take a look together at what the symbols will offer. If you have never had such an experience and you are open, I might suggest you give it a try. And for more seasoned investigators, I would love to help you.

Call, write or text me to set up an appointment if the idea appeals to you. 828-329-0853. And keep this idea in mind through the year as things arise. If you have a significant or fascinating dream, working the dream along with a reading will amplify insight inevitably.

My fee is $90 an hour. I can slide the scale when that is a need.

I send you love and many blessings for 2016 and beyond,
Sincerely,
Tayria

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A Reading for the New Year

January 11, 2016

Dear friends,

I would like to offer you an idea as you begin your 2016 endeavors. Most of you are familiar with my deep interest in and study of the Tarot as a tool for self-reflection and revealer of very useful insight. People on every continent and in every culture, from ancient times to the present, have devised ways to bring in practical information from the matrix of life and the helping spirits that sheds light on issues and questions in daily life. The Irish use tea leaves, the Celts use the Runes, the Orient developed the I-Ching, Native Americans cast sticks and stones reading the patterns into which they fall, Africans use cowry shells, and for the Western psyche the Tarot became a prominent method. Such things don’t cover the globe and stick around for thousands of years if they don’t work.

For nearly three decades I have used these symbols personally and have read them for others. I find the information that arrives has been unfailing in offering insight, encouragement and guidance. The information seems to come from the same realm as dreams do. A reading is like looking into a mirror of the soul; it helps you see that which can be very difficult to see without that mirror.

Countless times persons have told me that information they received through a reading I had done for them has been increasingly useful and never forgotten even many years later, a consistent source of wisdom and guidance. For myself, I cannot overstate how healing and sometimes even salvational, especially through very challenging times, the readings have dependably been. Physicist David Bohm remarks that “Insight is an active substance that re-creates the brain.” These insights have shifted perception and thinking in a healing direction continuously. The meanings work with, strengthen and validate your own intuition.

Maybe you would like to have a reading as you launch yourself into the New Year. Whether you have a specific issue to address or just want to say “What might be helpful for me to know now about myself and the coming year?” we can take a look together at what the symbols will offer. If you have never had such an experience and you are open, I might suggest you give it a try. And for more seasoned investigators, I would love to help you.

Call, write or text me to set up an appointment if the idea appeals to you. 828-329-0853. And keep this idea in mind through the year as things arise. If you have a significant or fascinating dream, working the dream along with a reading will amplify insight inevitably.

My fee is $90 an hour. I can slide the scale when that is a need.

I send you love and many blessings for 2016 and beyond,
Sincerely,
Tayria

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Gift Certificates for Dreamwork or a Reading

December 16, 2015

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Holiday Greetings, my friends,
It occurs to me to remind you that should you have loved ones in your life that might enjoy the opportunity to work with an experienced dream analyst, I do offer Gift Certificates. I’ve been working with my own and other’s dreams for 40 years. Also I have used the Tarot for some decades and have discovered this to be a powerful tool for helping us to investigate meanings and messages of the inner world. The information is much like dreaming – always timely, healing, deeply personal. Both dreamwork and oracular work are ancient and always new, sacred and ever practical.

Please let me know if you would like to give an hour session as a holiday gift. My current rate is $90 an hour, but I will give as many certificates as you might like to purchase now for $75 apiece. I work by telephone or in person in my lovely office in downtown Asheville.

I hope this note finds you well and enjoying this season, no matter how you celebrate it. I am enjoying it particularly this year having a three-month old grandson living in Asheville, lighting up my life in a way I never could have imagined. The joy is profoundly deep and sweet. I do wish such joy for you, in whatever form it may come.

I wish you great blessings now, in the New Year, and always.
With love,
Tayria

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Dreams, Oracles and Mandalas

May 27, 2014

Dearest blog readers,

A favorite client gently pointed out to me recently that I haven’t posted a blog since February. I winced. I think the last one I wrote was an announcement and description of the book that I am committed to writing this year. The challenges involved in finding time for that project have caused me to shy away from spending time with my blog, which for me involves a different style, intention and satisfaction as a writer. I intend to regain the rhythm of writing about more daily and current insights describing my depth psychological insights into life and dreams, as I value the regular articulation and interaction with readers.

Since many of my blog readers aren’t on my mailing list I’m going to insert here the newsletter I sent out today. It is a sort of post for this day, but more blogs will come soon.

Hello dear friends and colleagues,
 
Warm greetings to you. It has been awhile since I have written a newsletter.  After the sale of my Mountain Retreat Center a year and a half ago, the work of Bridging Worldshas been mostly private sessions with individuals. In my sweet office in downtown Asheville I offer sessions by telephone and in person for dream analysis as well asoracular consultations. Please take a moment to read the following short descriptions of the work. I composed them hoping to elucidate their profound value and to pique interest. Call me if you want to discuss or to make an appointment, and please pass along this information to others who may like to know.
 
I am also offering a six week course, along with Marie O. Davis, on Dreams and Mandala Making from June 15-July 20th in Asheville. See the description below for more information. Or use this link: http://www.tayriaward.com/home/events
 
I will be teaching a workshop on Reviving the Indigenous Mind at a Journey Conferences event in Stoneville, NC, October 30th to November 2nd. The main presenter at this conference will be Dr. Michael Conforti, Jungian Analyst and Director of the Assisi Institute. Dr. Conforti is a pioneer in the field of psyche-matter studies, and of investigating the relationship between the new sciences and Jungian psychology. Use this link for information about the conference:http://www.journeyconferences.com/conferenceinformation.htm
 
There was an op-ed piece in the New York Times recently about sleep and dreaming that I just loved. I wanted share the link with you. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/opinion/luhrmann-to-dream-in-different-cultures.html?ref=opinion
 
I send love and blessings to each of you and would love to hear from you to know how you are.
Sincerely,
Tayria
 
Why do Dreamwork, Consult the Oracle, or make alchemical mandalas? Read on.
 
Dreamwork:
Our dreams are nightly visions whose symbols offer the conscious mind necessary information coming to us from the vast terrain of the not-yet-conscious, or unconscious, realm whose wisdom is both personal and transpersonal. For millennia, in every culture and religion on every continent, in every scripture and mythology, messages in dreams are considered to have essential guidance for waking life. How modernity managed to step away from this resource and become dismissive of it is a study in itself. Recovering the forgotten language and potency of dreams has been a passion of mine during my entire adult life. My waking life has been actively informed and guided by dreams for 40 years.
 
I help persons to understand the valuable information in their dreams both in telephone sessions and face-to-face in my downtown Asheville, North Carolina, office. Some of the people I work with prefer a regular schedule for dreamwork to keep a steady connection with their dreaming psyche. Others call when a life event or a particular dream activates the desire to take a deeper look.
 
Oracular Consultations:
Oracles are messages that come to us from the matrix of love and intelligence that sees and knows us more intimately than we know ourselves. More than two decades ago a dream lead me into the study of oracles, and from that I experienced a sense of being consistently seen and cared for by an invisible “other” beyond anything I had ever imagined. It has assisted me since then in daily practical as well as mystical ways. The meanings have shown themselves to be reliable, non-judging, deeply compassionate, clear-seeing visions regarding what will be most helpful for me to know in the present moment.
 
I worked with oracles by myself for about 10 years—verifying, validating and calibrating their uses—before offering to use them to assist others. Over the last more than a decade of reading for others, for the most part using the symbols in the tarot, I am consistently grateful and amazed at the right-on-point clarity of what comes through. People leave the experience sometimes saying thing like they feel a foot taller, or like they are breathing rarefied air. The sense of realizing that we are utterly known and cared for is as useful as the specific information supplied.
 
Dreams and Mandala Making:
This endeavor has been created in collaboration with Marie O. Davis, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Asheville, NC, who has a graduate degree in Expressive Arts Therapy. Marie uses a method of alchemical mandala-making that is a collage process. Found images expressive of soul processes are placed in representative sections of the circle. Powerful transformative and healing energy is activated as the mandala is created. Using this technique in combination with the images presented in dreamwork with Tayria promises invaluable curative experience and revelation.
 
The next six-week series is offered on Sundays, June 15-July 20th in Asheville. For detailed information use this link: http://www.tayriaward.com/home/events, or call me to register.

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Reflecting the Interior of the Mountain Out to the World

October 14, 2012

When I was living in California, after having visited North Carolina to find the mountain property that I have been living in for the last 8 years, but not yet having decided to buy it – several dreams occurred that convinced me to jump in, buy and move. Some of them had Eagle in it. Eagle is the animal of the East in Lakota cosmology, and I am an East person in the Lakota personality-type structure that is based on that cosmology. East is the direction of the visionary. I knew the Eagle dreams were coming to guide my vision.

In one of these dreams, a friend from the mountain who helped me find the property gave me a silver ring that was a sculpted head of an eagle. It was placed on the middle finger of my left hand, feeling very numinous and powerful. When I woke up I felt the ring there, but it wasn’t there! It was almost disorienting, and somewhat dismaying. My beautiful daughter, Arlene, went out and found such a ring that fit that finger perfectly. She gave it to me on the morning when I defended my dissertation and became a doctor. I wore it sacredly from that day on.

I was also having very numinous mountain dreams. In one of them, I was riding in a truck with some friends. We arrived at a mountainous place. They all went one direction after we parked and I wandered off in another. I came to the foot of a mountain that I saw was shaped like the head of an eagle. Eagle and Mountain melded in this dream. As I looked up, under the beak of the mountain, where the heart of the eagle might be, I saw a cave. It was too high up to see straight inside, but from where I stood I could see rich, gorgeous tapestries on the wall, sconces of fire to light the cave, and mirrors carefully situated to reflect the interior of the mountain out into the world. I was flooded with insight and a sense of wonder. I saw that this is a calling in life, choosing to live in such a way as to reflect the wisdom held in the interior of the mountain out into the world. I saw it as a vocational calling, like a monk’s life, and knew that it required that kind of commitment and sacrifice. It felt beautiful and very compelling.

Such dreams as these were too hard to ignore. I had to come. I have lived somewhat like a monk or a nun during this time, taking the time here very seriously, sacredly, thoughtfully. At some point, some years in, a friend who could see that I was struggling in certain ways convinced me to remove the Eagle ring from my finger. I called it a wedding ring, the ring of my commitment to the mountain. She said, “at least place it on the other hand.” I did so. I knew I was having to shift but it was hard for me as I am a stubbornly loyal person. I placed a different ring, a silver ring with 4 pearls, on that left hand middle finger as a ring of continued commitment to the vision, while offering the possibility of switching the vision from how I held it in my heart and mind. I have worn this one continuously since.

And now I am moving from the mountain. I have an office on the 5th floor of a charming old building smack in the middle of downtown Asheville, with big tall windows facing out over the town and well into the mountains. Maybe this, then, is my cave, the place from which I will be reflecting the interior of the mountain out into the world. I know the actual cave is my heart, but this location may be an external dwelling place and manifestation of it.

And so the vision moves, like eagle, like wind, like water, like love. And I reflect. And will continue the commitment. I commit to stay true. True to the heart of the mountain that has held me in her love and who has given much to each one who has come on retreat, vision quest and sweat lodge over the years I have been here. Mountain who gave me true-hearted friends to love for a lifetime. Mountain who found the husband for Josi my first-born daughter, Eli, the man she calls “the love of my life”, a man who we all adore. Mountain who is helping me now to release her comforting embrace as I pack up my belongings and prepare to be out by October 31st, a sacred day in some calendars. All Souls Eve.

Come visit me in my new cave. I invite you.

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The Other Side of the Wall

February 10, 2010

Recently I read in one of Rilke’s poems the following beautiful words. The image has stayed with me hauntingly. Talking to God who Rilke imagines living in the room next door he writes:

I know you are all alone in that room.
If you should be thirsty, there’s no one
to get you a glass of water.
I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign!
I’m right here.

As it happens, the wall between us
is very thin. Why couldn’t a cry
from one of us
break it down? It would crumble
easily,
it would barely make a sound.

The picture this put in my mind has caused me to listen differently, especially as I am waking up in the morning. Just on the other side of these walls, who stirs? Are you there?

To add to the power this held for me, just a couple of nights ago I watched an extraordinary movie directed by Jane Campion, Bright Star. Her movies regularly contain images that come out of the screen and take up residence with me. This film is about the poet John Keats and his love affair with Fanny Brawne. When Keats was ill and staying in her family home, she would go to bed at night knowing he was just on the other side of the wall. Woven through the story, Campion keeps going back to shots of Fanny touching the wall lovingly, putting her ear to it with a tender and seraphic expression on her face.

Then tonight we had an especially strong experience in our dream group. Driving home, these images spoke again to me. Dreamwork is like listening through the wall, as Rilke listened for God, as Fanny listened for any breath coming the one she loved so strongly. The wall of the dream can feel so thin, the murmurings so intelligible. Other times the wall feels thicker and we have to hold the posture of listening more intently, waiting for a flutter of meaning to flow through.

It is a posture to hold for living. I want to keep a mental picture of the actress, Abbie Cornish, listening through the wall as she did to remind me that it isn’t always having of what we long for that matters, it is the longing itself that keeps us vibrantly hopeful and alive.

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Lucky Me

February 6, 2010

I have recorded my dreams since I was 24 years old, and since that time I have also been blessed with having someone in my life who knows the language of the dream to help me interpret them – until a year ago. Financial constraints made it impossible for me to continue. Until then, even in the face of really not having any money, I had found a way to keep this in my life as I saw it as a lifeline.

I work with other people’s dreams on a regular basis, both privately and in dream groups, and of course I have continued to work with my own as best I can. But, as Marie Louise von Franz says, trying to interpret your own dreams is like trying to see your own back. You can’t. I will say that working with one’s own dreams is 100% more valuable than not working with them; there is tremendous information that can be garnered from the dream. But there is also a limit to how far we can go by ourselves since dreams come from the unconscious. We need an external guide to take us more deeply into their meanings.

I am very fortunate though, as today I had my first session with a very gifted dream worker who is going to trade sessions with me on a weekly basis. Finally. At last. This last year without such help has been disorienting for me. Today I worked a dream which I had thought was rather straightforward and simple; however with assistance it unfolded a treasure house of much needed insight. The rest of the day I have felt as if I had been breathing stale air and suddenly have fresh air! Dreamwork, aahhhhhhhhhh.

A lovely woman who wrote to me recently to inquire about my work mentioned that her dreams seem to be nonsensical, with no meaning. I explained that dreams are like a foreign language; until you learn a language it all sounds like nonsense. When you learn it, a whole world of exchange opens up. I encourage anyone who hasn’t tried it to begin to record your dreams. Look at each image as a symbol, a code that comes for a very specific and important reason. Alice in Wonderland is the story of a dream. Gulliver’s Travels was a dream. Einstein got the theory of relativity in a dream! It is a whole world to explore.

Also I wish for everyone the benefit of someone to talk with about their dreams. I feel rich suddenly today. I am very grateful. Lucky me.

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