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NEW: SLIDING FEES for all readings

Published April 29, 2025 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

I have been continuing to get some really fun and deep dancing spirit folks, messages, and energies through me lately, and am happy to offer Zoom readings of up to 30 minutes for US$ 54.00 to US$ 154.00+ each (you choose the price anywhere along that line).

(It was US$ 54.00 for up to 15 minutes and US$ 108.00 for up to 30 minutes, with the usual brief grace period in case they ran over or under a bit.

Since times seem hard all over and a lot of my clients are in the UK or elsewhere overseas, those former prices feel just too high for too many these days and were higher than some of their locals charge. My hope is that everyone can choose what works best for them now.)

These are all custom, one-of-a-kind sessions, and can include tarot, mediumship, channelling, or a combination, whatever is best at the time for you and for your concerns.

You can request ‘maximum’ or ‘least’ whoowhoo, depending on your preferences and comfort level; all sessions are oriented towards helping you finding solutions and best outcomes. You can ask for what you’d like the format to be (tarot, decks used, mediumship, whoo level, etc.) during the session–no need to decide that in advance.

Payment is in advance by Paypal (and if you want to pay more afterwards, that is always fine and happens way more often than I had originally expected, maybe because of the ‘tip for services’ culture, but it is not expected at all. Thanks all).

Please email me for appointments and availability ( laughingdakini at twc dot com ) and if you don’t hear back within the day, try leaving a comment below (the appointments will be afternoons or evenings eastern time). The rest of the stuff still applies but it’s all been said here already.

If this feels like something that will really resonate with you, it’s a chance to have meaningful fun oriented toward the best outcome for you and for the big picture–when you do better, we all do better.

Don’t be fooled that ‘fun’ means merely ‘trivial’ (which originally meant ‘three roads’ and has an interesting history connected to the liberal arts and ‘grammar, rhetoric, and logic’ viz https://www.etymonline.com/word/trivial ) or is foolishness that doesn’t help–sometimes it’s the magic dance that can shake things up and help with needed breakthroughs and flows of healing love in your life and worlds.

And I still love honest endorsements, so if you promised me one…you can send it along anytime! Eventually they will get posted, despite me not updating this site in so very long!

As an aside, this is the only email address I am using. There was another similar to it that I can no longer access, so if anyone mentions being unable to reach me, please pass along this email as the current best one for me.

thanks and best wishes

Donnalee

UPDATE: DOING HEALING (FREE) FOR TERMINALLY ILL OR THOSE IN INTENSIVE CARE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE

Published September 30, 2022 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

I am spending the majority of my time doing healing for children and adults with terminal diagnoses or in the ICU, as part of a Spiritualist Church group online. The service is of course free and we are keeping anonymous/confidential case notes as part of a study on the sort of results that have been happening to those whom we send healing to (they are also under medical care, so no claims of us being fully responsible for it or anything, but a number of the doctors have said that some of the patients have shown unexpectedly great results in quality of life, length of life, general regaining of abilities, that sort of thing).

 

If you are in this type of situation and would like us to do dedicated distance healing for you for free, please contact me at my email and I will put you in touch with the right person. All they need is the person’s first name and last initial, and sometimes a photo helps but it is not mandatory. There are a number of smaller groups that meet throughout the week so a lot of healing gets sent.

 

thanks and best wishes

Donnalee

 

 

I am continuing my Spiritualist mediumship education and it never stops!

Published January 21, 2022 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

Long, long ago, about the year 2000, I spent a few years taking in-person weekly classes on and off with the respected Rev. Steve Hermann

( http://www.stevehermannmedium.com )

who was then living fulltime in Massachusetts. In the intervening years, although mediumship was not my main focus by any means, I took a few more seminars and advanced classes in the subject with folks here and there, including the recently-departed (and still very funny) George Koury

( http://www.spiritlovesyou.com ).

I was so happy to find that Steve is now giving online classes which I have been attending these last few years and am continuing to attend, and I would recommend his classes and his three books (available through his website above) to anyone interested in forwarding their mediumship skills in an ethical and capable manner. His focus has always been on the ‘highest and best’ energies available, and the results of the meditations and classes have been very good quality and of a genuinely healing nature, which is so valuable and not as common in my experience as I would like it to be. I can go to a class of his online and feel genuine *physical* and energetic improvement in my body immediately, plus gaining greatly-increased insight, and it has been so worthwhile and uplifting. It also helps that he enjoys my unusual style and is very supportive of my continued non-traditional and diverse learning as well as the traditional Spiritualist formats.

I have also been attending other Spiritualist mediumship classes, seminars, church services, and meetups online elsewhere with a diverse range of folks to continue to further develop my skills at communicating with those in spirit, and have been learning a great deal and meeting other fine teachers and fellow students. It cheers me that there is always someone there to talk to, so to speak, departed loved ones and teachers who were perhaps previously unknown, although it used to scare me at night as a kid to see and hear random who-knew-whats as I tried to get to sleep. Eventually it intrigued me at college-age to see some beings show up at the house of someone I was dating–their family home used to be a mortuary and a couple of ghosts, dark people-looking shapes of different heights, would show up and stand at the foot of the sleeping areas and look at me anytime I slept there by myself, whether I slept in beds or camped on the floor in different rooms. There was no real communication that I understood at that time, but it happened repeatedly enough that there was clearly something there, and no chance of trickery in a household of half a dozen people including parents who simply lived there and were not interested in pretending to be ghosts for the guest!

As an aside, and really importantly, I had a personal intensive healing session with the High Oracle of Tibet and his attendant in NYC, by what seemed complete happenstance, shortly after I got electrocuted in mid-2007. Also quirkily, I eventually spent some time in person with the High Oracle of Bhutan at a private lama’s home in NY state when he was here for teachings. As time has gone on, these exchanges and opportunities seem to have been helping my mediumship dramatically.

In my classes and readings, it is fascinating to me to see the long tradition of Spiritualist (and other) mediumship, the true and the fakes that arose along the way, and how to tell the difference.

To update, I keep reading countless books that I am not bothering to write here yet–oops. Maybe I will catch up someday. They include a ton of autobiographies by modern mediums, good and bad and iffy and obscure and famous and great, as well as the older volumes. Each has something to teach, even if only cautionary tales of what not to be or do!

It seems more important to include a list of teachers I have studied with and am studying with live in person and live on Zoom. I am not including videos or shows that anyone can see (although I have viewed many) but am limiting it to interactive mediumship seminars, healing and mediumship seminars, ongoing mediumship and channelling mentorships and classes etc. which I have actually taken. Those other teachers whose character or ‘skills’ did not impress me are NOT on the list. At least I have not made a naughty list like some might!

If the person is listed individually on this list, the teacher knows me by name and sight and usually has extensive experience of me and my work, and I have respect and appreciation for that teacher and the teachings they have given me.

Rev. Stephen A. Hermann, of the United States, in-person teachings around the year 2000 for a few years and now weekly online Zoom classes regularly since 2021, so far over 120 classes of an hour and half each and still ongoing, various online demos and services done by him, in-person several-day seminar in 2023. https://www.stevehermannmedium.com/bio/

Hazel Martin, of the UK, many many hours of live Zoom teachings, seminars, classes, mentorships, you name it, from about 2022 onward. https://hazel-martin.com

Diana Muenz Chen, first a classmate of mine and author/teacher in her own right for many years, who continues to be a delight and whose teachings I am attending more of all the time. https://www.dianamuenzchen.com/

Robin Hodson, of the UK, President of Seaford Independent Spiritualist Church and the ISF (International Spiritualist Federation), an excellent, ethical, and consistently proven medium and trance medium of many years; I have attended Zoom seminar on trance healing and many many online services and demonstrations which he presented or presided at etc. (approximately 20+ services and demonstrations each year for the last few years) https://www.seafordspirit.co.uk/teaching-groups

I have also attended and truly enjoyed and benefitted from live seminars/classes online of a few hours to full weeks etc. each by teachers including Gurdeep Bhogal, Colby Rebel, Leanne McDonald, Lou Ann Beecher, Sharon Anne Klingler, the legendary and enjoyable Stephan A. Schwartz, and others. More names will be added as they happen or as I fish through my notebooks about what I attended and when. There were and continue to be a ton of in-person teachings and seminars at various in-person professional tarot conferences etc. that I have to winnow and ‘name-drop’ too–!

Here’s my scrappy, incomplete, seemed-like-a-good-idea-to-list-them continuing reading list on the subject, and I have fallen far behind in listing books. Oh well. Most were written between about 1864 and the 1930s, and then a bunch in more recent times, and some day I may get around to putting the dates on them:

Stephen A. Hermann’s Mediumship Mastery and Mediumship Mastery II and his new Spiritual Mediumship: A Medium’s Adventures With The Spirit World. These are excellent guides for those interested in improving their knowledge and skills in the subject, and were written within the last half-dozen years or so. I recommend them highly and they can be bought through Steve’s site, mentioned above.

M. Lamar Keene’s “The Psychic Mafia”

Harry Houdini’s famous “Houdini: A Magician Among the Spirits”

Tina M. Zion’s “Become A Medical Intuitive” and “Be Your Own Medical Intuitive”

Darren Brittain’s “From Innocence To Inner Sense”

Viscount Adare’s “Experiences in Spiritualism with D.D. Home”

D.D. Home’s “Incidents in My Life”

Clifford Bias’ “Trumpet Mediumship and Its Development”

Mrs. Cora L.V. Hatch’s “A Discourse…”

Brandon Kim’s “Red Cloud’s Inner Teachings”

Sylvia Browne’s “Adventures of a Psychic” and other bits and bobs by her

“Silver Birch Anthology”

Best wishes to all–

Donnalee

‘Welcome Back To The Office’ HALF-PRICE SALE in September!

Published September 9, 2020 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

I am starting to see clients again  in my (small, 9 feet by 9 feet) Uptown Kingston office WITH MASKS and squishy stuff to put on hands and with me putting the cards down on a table after I explain them so people can look at them without us being jammed together or sharing cooties.  As a welcome back to the office, I am offering 50% OFF THE FIRST IN-PERSON SESSION FOR NEW OR HAVEN’T-BEEN-IN-A-WHILE CLIENTS–so, really for everybody.  There is a big waiting room downstairs for clients, so social/physical distancing can be maintained, and I will come down to get the next client after previous clients leave so everyone gets space.  This sale offer will be for September, so get it while it’s here.  If you feel ill or like the office is too small for your comfort, please consider a Zoom reading instead so that we can all stay safe and well.

 

These days the available in-person hours seem to be Sunday, Monday,  Wednesday, Friday, and maybe Tuesday, all noon to 4 pm, and there could be additional hours possible depending on the week, including some Saturdays.  The Zoom distance readings are also continuing, so please check with me for availability of those if interested.

 

Please email me at laughingdakini at twc dot com for appointments, and please read the page about ‘what to expect during a reading with me’ first, so that you know if it’s likely to be a good match for us.  I look forward to seeing real people in person again!

 

Thanks and best wishes

Donnalee

Isolated Hudson Valley folks howl at moon at 8 p.m. in solidarity

Published April 21, 2020 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

Isolated Hudson Valley residents howl in solidarity at 8 p.m. nightly

Mirabai in Woodtock NY needs financial help–details and link here

Published April 7, 2020 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

From Mirabai shop in Woodstock NY:

“Dear Friends,

Sometimes the hero is you.

Mirabai is currently in need of heroes. Legions of heroes. The sort of heroes that only Tolkien or Campbell or Rowling could imagine. Venerable souls drawn to the higher ground, to matters of spirit, to the power they see in small things, to idyllic spaces like our own. But like all such spaces, Mirabai is not only vital, it’s fragile, and at this point in the storm, our ship is sinking. This is an S.O.S. This is an emergency. This is not a drill.

Today Mirabai is launching a Gofundme effort to save the store: https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-mirabai-books-afloat-in-the-time-of-covid19?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

For those of you who’ve been ordering gift certificates from us these past two weeks while the store’s been shuttered, we are forever grateful for that essential infusion of funds and the moral support those sales provided us. But as we head into the uncertainty of the virus’ curve and with income now slowed to a trickle, a mountain of overdue and soon-to-be-due invoices, mortgage payments and fixed expenses for the shop are overwhelming us right now. Money is tight all over, but won’t you please throw Mirabai a lifeline if you’re able? No amount is too small. The size of your individual contribution does not matter. What matters is that the expansive energy of this community be ignited, collectively. That is what we are asking. Words cannot express how grateful we have been for all of your support throughout the years and how much your contribution now – small or large – would mean to us at this crucial moment.

We realize this is a hard moment for everyone, but it’s also a big meaningful moment. When we took on the pleasure and responsibility of Mirabai 20 years ago this month, we knew we were not only inheriting a mission, but also fostering a community of like-minded souls seeking to discover a path that tilts upward toward a better world. It’s been our honor to serve that community these many years. Together we have co-created the space we know as Mirabai, and now we ask you to help save what you’ve created – to come to the rescue. Mirabai needs a hand. Mirabai needs a hug. Mirabai needs a hero.

Sometimes the hero is you.

With deepest gratitude,

Audrey & Jeff

The Gofundme link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-mirabai-books-afloat-in-the-time-of-covid19?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

local Ulster County NY resources for covid-19 situation

Published March 28, 2020 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

A local (Ulster County, NY) nature-oriented group, Wild Earth, provides opportunities for camping and outdoor activities. They just sent out this list of their best resources for the current situation. It includes health links, policy links, hotline numbers, all that kind of stuff, as well as information on hiking responsibly and not contributing to the climate change problems. They also want to hear ideas for more links to share (their email is included on the page). Please check this out if interested, and consider following their emails if you want to stay in touch with a nice group interested in preserving outdoors for all.

 

COVID-19 Resources + Local Actions

 

Thanks and best wishes to all

Donnalee

Clarifying update to page ‘What to expect from a reading with me’

Published March 6, 2020 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

I made a little update to https://laughingdakinitarot.wordpress.com/what-to-expect-during-a-reading-with-me/ to address concerns that I might be ‘too psychic’ for some people, who feared I might have registered-trademark Special Powers that would know too much about them if they came to see me. Nope, I don’t. I’m more of a precision tool for certain things, and it would be foolish to waste that if it wasn’t wanted and didn’t benefit the client. So, please review that page, and feel free to ask questions here or at my email laughingdakini at twc dot com.

New office in Kingston, NY opens February 1, 2020

Published January 30, 2020 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

The new office in uptown Kingston, NY, will be open by appointment on Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Be aware that weather may affect the appointments–too icy or snowy equals ‘not safe to drive’, so I will not be there and will reschedule.

The office in Woodstock, NY, will be permanently closed as of January 31, 2020, due to the pending sale of the building it was in. It was a lovely place, but so is the new one, in a charming old Victorian house at a crossroads, interestingly enough loosely surrounded by handsome antique churches and some gorgeous big old trees.

The way to make an appointment is to email me at laughingdakini at twc dot com–I don’t use a voice phone for the business at this time. That is also the email to use for questions that are not addressed online–the website is incomplete and not fully as I intend, but life has been very busy. New clients will be expected to prepay the first appointment by Paypal  to laughingdakini at twc dot com to assure that none of the appointment gets spent fiddling with payment–it seems a waste of time, especially in a 20-minute appointment. The address will be given to new clients after appointments are confirmed.

Details are still emerging so this post will get editted–for example, there will be longer hours as the days grow longer, and I am trying to arrange a day once a month for pay-what-you-want–but I wanted to have this current information available for those who have been asking. I look forward to seeing you there! Please feel free to email laughingdakini at twc dot com with questions or to book your appointment now.

Thanks and best wishes
Donnalee

See new page about what to expect from a reading with me

Published December 30, 2019 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

I do not see that this sent itself out to the readers, so please forgive me if it did. I just wrote https://laughingdakinitarot.com/what-to-expect-during-a-reading-with-me/ to help people get an idea of what to expect from my in-person readings.

Check it out.