Name Change:Integration

After a few title changes, have settled on Orange Orb Tarot (and oracle), since my focus, I have discovered, integrates my eclectic experiences and perspectives. I realized I was compartmentalizing, which was not the thing to do! Not every reader is interested in or "believes" in the paranormal, Fortean realms and UFOs, but, since I do, and all these things are so much a part of me, keeping these separate was the opposite of the direction I should have been taking all along.

All of us who read oracles are different. From our choice in decks to style, opinions, and values. Obviously! This goes for what I loosely call the pagan culture; I've met many a pagan and/or witch/magick practitioner who does not "believe" in UFOs, or ghosts, or more paranormal aspects of experience. Many do, some don't. Especially when it comes to UFOs and alien or UFO related entities. I've been told it's all metaphor, spirits in disguise, misinterpretations of such, and a hundred other things -- except the idea that there just might literally, really, be aliens from outer space. It could be all these things, some of these things some of the time, who knows. But outright rejection of UFOs as physical craft from elsewhere has often been the case in my experience, as well as interpreting abduction experiences within one own's pagan perspective. 

I'm not arguing against those opinions, I'm only pointing out that following a path does not always mean inclusion or welcoming of other paths. 

And not all tarot readers have any interest or belief in following pagan paths, or even see tarot as a spiritual or religious system. I don't argue against these differing views either, respecting all. 

I'm only saying that for myself, to be honest and clear and focus and most of all, open to and genuine about what I have to share in terms of doing readings, integrating my experiences into this current realm I find myself in is the only clearly logical way to go. 

Since the Orange Orb has been the name I've used for many years; not only the name of this blog but the title of my UFO Magazine column, it came to me that I should also call my practice Orange Orb. (I'm still tweaking it a bit; for example, I'm not sure about limiting the name to "tarot" because the work I do includes oracles as well as UFO and paranormal/supernatural areas.)