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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

that great sale ends at midnight going into Saturday April 6 of this year

Published April 3, 2024 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

If you were contemplating trying a session/booking another session for the very very good price of US$35.00 for up to 30 minutes, that price will stop at midnight going into Saturday April 6 of this year. It is sometimes not clear when midnight of a certain day is–that day, the next day, toMAYto, toMAHto–but for our purposes, it’s the minute it starts–so great price up til 11:59 pm Friday, then the usual higher chichi price as of midnight into Saturday (with the understanding that I am unlikely to be unkind on the picky details if someone shows willing and misses by a short time).

The sessions can be booked and paid for now and scheduled for later, just like the rest of them, but they will be the usual price of US$54.00 for up to 15 minutes and US$108.00 for up to 30 minutes from that time onward.

best wishes

Donnalee

Random price for ‘dance of spring’–US$35.00 for up to 30 minutes on Zoom, for the next couple-few weeks

Published March 21, 2024 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

I have been getting some really fun and deep dancing folks and energies through me lately, and am happy to do it for US$35.00 for up to 30 minute Zoom sessions for the next couple-few weeks. (Usually it is US$54.00 for up to 15 minutes and US$108.00 for up to 30 minutes–this current offer is once per person for now please)

Please email me for appointments ( 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 spend less to have meaningful fun.

And I still love honest endorsements, so if you promised me one…you can send it along anytime! Eventually they get posted…

thanks and best wishes

Donnalee

Special bargain price for readings will be offered soon–

Published March 13, 2024 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

When my health and circs etc. feel up to it, I will offer the Zoom readings at a discounted price (once per person this time around) for a little while–just so people know to expect a nice little surprise.

It’ll happen ‘when it’s supposed to happen’ and all that cosmic blahblah, but just saying that if you’re interested, the chance to try it out–or to do it again–for an even better price will happen soon.

best wishes

Donnalee

NEW: up to 30 or 15 minutes Zoom readings available now

Published December 20, 2023 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

I am now offering a sort of combination ‘dealer’s choice’ personalised readings on Zoom for up to 15 or 30 minutes. A recent client called it ‘spiritual life coaching‘ which seems apt. 

These are the only types of sessions and services that I am offering right now, other than the free prayer services mentioned elsewhere on this blog. (Those with gift certificates/other prepaid appointments can of course have those honoured for the services specified on the gift certificate, and if they want to choose among the new options for the time specified on the certificate, that’s fine too: the duration/minutes of the session do not change, but the activities within them can be switched to this current offering instead of the specified ‘tarot’ or ‘mediumship’ only.)

These sessions are spontaneously customised and different every time and include whatever best helps your situation and promotes the best outcome and highest good. The clients tell me if there are areas of life they wish to examine, or just all of it in general, and if there is a preference of techniques used.

The readings might include mediumship, psychic, tarot, me revisiting a past life of the client and offering advice about how that might affect current issues, advice from the client’s spirit guides or helpers (not all of whom I can perceive all the time but some of whom readily come through), and/or ‘soul readings’ where higher energy gives you best advice for your spiritual growth and expansion of wisdom and ability etc. (YES, there has recently been spontaneous singing of old pre-war blues and disco and classic rock songs and some rockabilly and some New Wave, and individual prescribed dance moves that come through me in sessions for clients which I do and then teach them with instructions. NO, that can’t be guaranteed to happen but they’re pretty fun and specifically useful to the client when they happen. I secretly love it when that happens but give no guarantee of vocal quality since it often isn’t mine.)

Usually all of these sessions involve higher energies communicating through me, as opposed to me simply blabbing personal opinions.

There is no guarantee of a specific loved one in spirit (meaning they passed away) being present, for example, especially if the person has recently passed, since it can take time for beings to understand that they are dead or other factors may affect them. I have been really reluctant to charge for straight mediumship sessions, since it feels like some of those spirits need to come through whether or not the living sitter can afford the session or comes to me here, but those folks have a way of finding me through other means or the spirits will show up during these paid sessions and be happy to be there. 

What I am charging for is my time, abilities, experience with a wide range of seriously diverse clients from various backgrounds, age groups, and parts of the world, understanding and experience of trauma on many levels, and willingness to be open to these energies for your and their sakes.

These readings are listed as ‘up to’ 15 or 30 minutes because sometimes what needs to be said and done happens in a shorter period of time and the client and energies and I are satisfied that it is done and we all let it go a few minutes earlier than the 15 or 30; now and again the reading goes a few minutes longer and is not charged extra except if someone is trying to take advantage. There will be no refunds when the session has begun except if for some reason I feel I cannot read for the client. 

This all works best when the client brings an open mind and good attitude and WANTS to have a session and is open to seeing that it might be fun and worthwhile. Otherwise, please don’t bother to sign up for one. It would be like an unwanted uncomfortable first date that goes nowhere for any of us, and you would have more fun elsewhere doing something else! If you are thinking of giving gift sessions to someone else, they really need to know about it and want it. Thank you.

Payment is to be prepaid at time of making the appointment, via Paypal at laughingdakini at twc dot com and is US$108.00 for the ‘up to 30 minutes’ session and US$54.00 for the ‘up to 15 minutes’ session. 

24-hour notice of cancellation must be given for refund (and if there’s no reason that makes sense to us both, it’s unlikely you’ll get another appointment since I prefer clients who really enjoy and appreciate the services offered and there are not many open appointments available most of the time). 

The Zoom camera must be on for the duration of the reading, and the client should be alone in the room, since others being present can be distracting and a waste of good money and better opportunity. If pets come in that is usually completely fine if the client is not distracted by it.

As usual, these readings are completely confidential (with the firm clear have-to-repeat-it-a-lot statement that I do not help to do nor solve crimes, so don’t even try thanks) and I never tell anyone the names/concerns of clients without their permission. You will note that even some of the endorsements here may have nicknames or initials only as per the client’s wishes and that’s fine with me. 

IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO THIS, PLEASE FULLY AND INTENTIONALLY CHOOSE TO DO IT.

It is so so so much more fun and worthwhile that way.

My schedule is very busy, varying each week, and sessions are most likely to be offered for afternoon and evening hours eastern time zone–please note the time zone and adjust accordingly.

If interested, please read the page about ‘mediumship and what to expect from a reading with me’ to get a better idea of my approach. 

As always, feel free to contact me below or through laughingdakini at twc dot com with questions and to make the appointments. NB: Wordpress often decides not to give me messages or comments since it’s rather computer-run and their comment-censorship device, Akismet, is not adjustable. Direct email works much better for making and confirming appointments.

If you had a reading with me that you loved and are willing to write a recommendation or endorsement, please let me know. I love when people are really happy with their readings, and they are so diverse that it helps others get an idea of what may go on, in the broadest sense. 

Thanks and best wishes

Donnalee

“Lunatic, Street Person or Vagabond Hippie?” by Mary Greer

Published April 29, 2015 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

Here is a timely post by Mary Greer, whom I met this weekend at Readers Studio 2015 and got a chance to chat a bit about The Fool with. I am very pro-Fool these days!

Mary K. Greer's avatarMary K. Greer's Tarot Blog

Beggar - 4 views - Version 2Jester, pilgrim, mendicant or child?

Will the real Fool please step up?

Does the Tarot Fool bring up the rear in a long parade of triumphal figures, a warning about what will happen if one fails on the spiritual path? Or does he appear at the beginning, full of trust and hope, setting out on a new adventure?

Is the dog his faithful companion or a wild beast that threatens to tear him apart or ludicrously expose his privates?

What dangers does the Fool face?

Fool - Blind man 17th c - Version 2

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When the Fool turns up do you feel excited and ready to venture forth? Or do you fear your decisions are stupid and that others will think you ridiculous?

At the end of the 19th century, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn turned the Tarot on its head, depicting the Fool as a small child and putting it at the head of the Hebrew alphabet. The Waite-Smith card, published in…

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More Readers Studio 2015

Published April 28, 2015 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

IMG_2835Me and The Devil (played by Richard Melendez): I am not falling for it.  This might be the Devil reversed if it were a card–

Had a great time at Tarot Readers Salon 2015 in New York!

Published April 27, 2015 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

I spent a fantastic quite-long weekend (Thursday morning through Sunday afternoon) at the Tarot School’s Readers Studio ( http://www.tarotschool.com/RS15/index.html ) and Tarot & Psychology Conference, both hosted by Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone in New York City.  What an excellent time and great chance to meet many folks interested in the subject, including those who taught classes, or brought the tarot decks they had designed, and/or books they had written.  I learned so much, and met so many wonderful people, that it really cheered me up and improved both my mood and my reading skills perceptibly.  I’ll add more as I remember more!

Laughing Dakini Tarot

Published November 6, 2014 by Donnalee of Laughing Dakini Tarot

FLASH SALE!!!

WILDCARD SPECIAL: "TL;DR" ("too long; didn't read")/BRIEF EMAIL READING ON YOUR CHOICE OF SUBJECT FOR THE BEST OUTCOME JUST $10.00 UNTIL I DECIDE TO GO BACK TO THE REGULAR PRICE OF $18.00!!!

If you want brief, to the point, come-on-get-to-the-good-part insight about what to do for the best outcome of your situation, this reading may be for you. Right now only $10.00, it will give you a good idea of what my style is and give you ideas if a longer reading will be of interest to you, and will tell you meanwhile right up front the best actions to consider for your situation. Try it! Click the button below for this wildcard flash sale special! This offer will disappear sometime, and this brief reading will go back to its usual price of $18.00.

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Intuition and support, not prediction.

A longtime psychotherapist and negligent meditator, I first read tarot cards in 1984 and have been involved with them on and off ever since. I took highest tantric vows with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in NYC in 1999 and in the years afterward have been fortunate enough to study with many of the highest Tibetan Buddhist teachers, and sang some four or five million mantras over those years as a practice. For a few years I saw people as a medical intuitive very successfully (in addition to being a psychotherapist) until my getting electrocuted in 2007. After that event and its aftermath, I stopped or slowed most of these activities to focus on health and recalibrating. As health and circumstances have improved, I have expanded my work in the last few years to consult for a number of folks on their life issues, to study and hang out with some of the great 70s/80s rockstars and other musicians of all sorts, and to work as Stage Manager and Assistant to the Directors, and even in-house psychotherapist, on various musical shows. Specialties in psychotherapy include buddhist psychology and working with old-fashioned multiple personality/DID folks and other survivors of trauma, as well as working on the musicals. I have begun to offer tarot readings to the public again, and I am delighted at the reception of this service–I missed it!

I am excited to be able to offer readings on the themes of “What is best for me to be aware of and to do for the highest and best outcome of this situation?” These readings can apply this question to any area of life, including work, relationship, career, general wellbeing, spiritual direction, life planning, unfinished business, etc. I do not ‘predict’ specific events or specific timelines, since these are so variable and depend upon what each of us does. I also do not do readings about personal details of third parties without their permission (such questions as “Is s/he involved with someone else?”, “Is s/he gay/straight/this or that?”, “Is s/he my religion/race/whatever?”, “Does s/he have a lot of money?”, etc. are best asked of the person, not of me!). As a member of ATA (American Tarot Association), and member of TABI (Tarot Association of the British Isles), I additionally abide by their codes of ethics.

For the moment I am doing readings by email primarily, with in-person appointments available one day a month on the Upper West Side of New York City on a Saturday, as well as readings in Central NJ on a regular basis for individuals and small groups. Please email me about availability and fees for these services, or use the comment form at the bottom of the page..

The “best outcome on single theme” email readings are $35.00 each for one question category on the above theme of best outcome, and generally take about half an hour for me to do. They are ordinarily done and sent to you within 24 hours and most often much sooner.

To request this type of email reading, send US $35.00 payment via Paypal for the “best outcome” spread to laughingdakinimusic@yahoo.com in advance with your question (example: “What do I need to know for the best outcome for my job situation?” or “What do I need to know to help me figure out if I want to stay in this relationship?”, etc.). Please mention your choice among the following decks for the reading, if you have a preference of which deck you would like me to use for your reading (click names to see deck images via Aeclectic Tarot site):


Universal Waite, Universal Fantasy, Pagan Tarot, Harmonious Tarot, Hanson-Roberts, Mystic Faerie, Paulina Tarot, and Tarot of the Old Path, plus some of the newer small-batch decks including City Mystic and The Fountain are currently available. If you do not specify a deck which you would like me to use (or a preference of which not to use), I will choose what seems best for the reading. I make custom spreads for each “best outcome” reading, so each one is a little different depending on the situation and on the person who requests the reading. Click the button below to purchase this “Best Outcome” reading.

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The larger readings, on serious issues that explore the possible gifts of a usually-difficult situation (most often relationships with parents or other longterm relationships, living places or jobs, or other traumas such as accidents or illnesses or severe losses etc.) are $125.00 each and take me considerably longer to read, although they will be sent to you within the 24 hours in most cases. The layout was devised by me specifically for this and I have used it with great success for myself and others. It explores the crux or status of the situation, how it affected you, what gifts can be gained from it, and what has to be done in order to receive those gifts. Many have found it very powerful and felt real shifts in their situations and ability to accept, allow, and receive the benefits of their situations, even those from the past, and this benefit has been seen to extend to other aspects of their lives. I am really excited about this spread and keep seeing positive results in my own life from having done it recently on some key areas.

Specify the larger reading and the area of inquiry with the appropriate Paypal payment of US $125.00 to laughingdakinimusic@yahoo.com . The larger reading is done with a combination of two decks. Click the button below to purchase this larger “Gifts Of A Situation” reading.

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You will receive a confirmation via Paypal and from me directly, with an idea of when the reading will be finished, so be sure to allow this email address to be received by your provider: sometimes AOL and others can exclude certain other providers if the addresses are not specifically accepted, so emails are never received by you. Gmail also sticks unfamiliar email into folders that are sometimes never seen by the user, so it’s good to be aware of that too if it applies to you. Thanks for helping with this!

There are no refunds possible once readings are completed, since each one takes time and effort. Thank you for your understanding of this.

I DONATE 10% OF ALL INCOME THAT I GET FROM READINGS, DONE IN PERSON OR ONLINE OR ANY OTHER WAY, TO CHARITIES. I WILL SOON HAVE SOME LISTED AND THEN CLIENTS CAN SPECIFY WHICH GROUP THEY WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT THROUGH THEIR READINGS FROM ME.

Thank you for letting me help you gain some insights into your own life and the most direct ways to encourage and allow the best possible outcomes. I am open to hearing requests for many types of readings, not just those very few listed here so far, so please feel free to contact me with requests. Best wishes, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Donnalee

If you have comments, questions, or simply are happy with the readings you have received from me, please let me know using this form, and let me know also if you would allow me to print your recommendations or endorsements (with whatever name or nickname you choose) here on the “endorsements” page. Thank you again!

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