Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

Let us commence with our reading, then, so that the best of what the Beehive State has to yield may be brought more clearly to our gaze. Here is your first card—the Eight of Wands. This is a card of ...