I’m Ann Keeler Evans — Peacemaker, Taroist, Priestess —
and you are welcome here!
AKE: THE DAILY for
- June 10, 2026
The road is compelling. It demands your getting on with things. During these next three days we’ll record where we’ve been, what the travel is like and make forays into unknown landscapes and cultures. Through it all, we offer deep gratitude for this journey. (and i forgot to change the date for today’s post… but the road calls… )
Notice how the times are changing far more slowly as we move toward the Solstices. This is the last day of adding Daylight at 40 seconds. Tomorrow we’re in the 30-second movement — and that’s only for 4 days!
Ann
I’m posting the times for the risings and settings of the Sun and Moon here for where I live (Sunbury PA, USA). This is a good thing to know about our day. One resource for looking up your own times is TimeandDate.com/astronomy .
Sunrise: 5:35 am Moonrise 2:06 am Sunset: 8:38 pm Moonset 3:37 pm
A Pilgrimage with
the Peoples, Lands, Waters, Skies
A Poetic Field Guide for Journeying
Across the Northern US
— Exploring the viewpoints of the people we encounter —
— Examining what we as a country have lost and gained —
— Wondering what is Possible; witnessing the Peace —
After my trip to Antarctica last year, where along with continuing to write my Dailies (see at right or below), I also wrote poems almost daily, I compiled those into my book Off To Antarctica – My Pilgrimage to Peace that got published last November. In the process I came to realize and understand that I am called to be an Investigative Poet.
And so, in June I’m exploring the northern swath of the country, seeking to understand more about what I encounter with the Peoples and the Lands, Skies, and Waters of these United States in this 250th anniversary year, and I will share what I find in poetic form in a Field Guide so that others can experience it as well.
This is a pilgrimage, a field study, a friendship journey, a love letter, and a lament. And it will become a book because you helped make space for it and will help me publish and publicize it. Will you accompany me on this journey? I would be honored if you could support me as I travel — to help me witness, listen, write, and return with stories and poems worth sharing.
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What started out to be an adventure of two friends exploring Antarctica, turned into a spiritual sojourn that took us far beyond our wildest imaginations. I am a thealogian by training, a Peacemaker by vocation, and a Poet by expression. My friend, Faye, is a spiritual educator and a gospel/choral musician.
Faye and I and our companions on this trip were stunned by the power and majesty of this place and became committed to this still barely known continent and its pristine surrounding waters. Antarctica has no citizens; it needs ambassadors to speak to the importance of its pristine beauty and promote the Antarctic Treaty, signed by 58 countries in 1959, that is dedicated to Science and Peace.
As a thealogian, I went with questions — what is it like to visit a place with no indigenous people, no gods, no wee folk? Maybe it’s the spirit of the orca and the penguins and all the other lifeforms whose home it is, that has shaped what the continent has become.
Antarctica transformed my life; I experienced a Peace so profound that 54 poems flowed from me, and I invite to share that experience through them.
Peace
As a Peacemaker and a Community Builder, I help people understand their gifts and strengths, while discovering the best ways for them to use them in to make Peace in the world. I have been working at being a Peacemaker throughout my ministry — and looking back, I realize that I have been working toward this for my whole life. It is a curious, confusing, and wonderfully rewarding way of life.
Peace matters. It matters enough that we are called to participate in building communities in which Peace can flourish. We are not Peaceful if we are not Peaceful in relationship, whether with Nature or Beings. Peace is so much more than a lovely concept. It is not simply an idea; it is a goal.
Throughout time, Peace has been understood far too often as either the opposite or the absence of war. That understanding severely underestimates the hope and potential of Peace. Peacemaking is an active verb that starts with a sense of wonderment about the Beauty and Abundance in which we live and leads us forward into community.
As a Peacemaker, I focus on finding the possibilities for connection and meaning, for creating rather than simply combating. As such, I am a student of Nonviolence, which is the use of peaceful means, rather than force, to bring about political or social change. Nonviolence is a challenge to those of us raised in the Western World, but without it, without the creativity and collaboration, there can be no Peace.
We all need support in our process of building Peace and your Sacred Village(s) of Peace. As a Priestess and a Peacemaker, my calling is to be ‘in’ here for you to encounter and engage with for support and inspiration as you become a Peacemaker too.
Most Recent Peacemaker Pondering :
- One of the ways I practice Peace is by being a hospital chaplain. Often my work is supporting the patients involved in traumatic events and their families. It’s work that I was surprised to find as rewarding as I do and at which I am quite competent. If you’re going to have a job after … Continue reading "Creating Safe, Peaceful Community that Includes our Soldiers"
More Peacemaker Ponderings
I highly recommend buying all three of Ann’s Peacemaker’s Tarot books, as I have done. Not only are they an interesting read on her creative process in developing this unique approach to the Tarot, but they also give insights into what humanity needs in our evolution to more conscious living.
Laura Rose Gatley, Spiritual Mentor
Peacemaker’s Tarot
for the 21st century
“Not your grandmother's tarot!” ™
Tarot helps us to be more present and aware in the moment. We don’t know what will happen in Life, so it’s crucial to know where we are in our own lives. However, old symbols and metaphors no longer have meaning in a world that is longing for new and meaningful reference points.
Peacemaker’s Tarot for the 21st Century (PT21C) is not a parlor game and does not predict your future as a passive event over which you have no control. PT21C is intended to explore how you can actively create your future based on the values of Peace and nonviolence.
Peacemaker’s Tarot for the 21st Century is a powerful invitation for you to consider your strengths and the allies you will want to develop as you work toward being a force for Peace in your life and your world. The Major Arcana cards are designed to center your talents as you become the person you mean to be.
Peacemaker’s Tarot for the 21st Century helps us think about the moment with Peace and nonviolence at the center of our considerations. Read this and get curious about what comes next. Then come enjoy a reading with Ann — the Tarot Priestess is In for you.
* After purchasing your PT21C Major Arcana cards,
download your free PDF of Vol. II-C, Your Personal Journey to Wisdom
