From my earlier post on Pages, we know that they can stand for: Small Minor (as in relatively unimportant) Playful Inexperienced Young Child at heart Curious Childish The suit of Pentacles is associated with (but not limited to): Health Wealth Hearth Physicality So when the Page of Pentacles arises in Read more…
So this technically isn’t a court card blog post, but I HAD to share the beautiful gift that arrived for me in the post this morning: a magnificent custom-made Tarot bag from AniaM. You may have twigged, dear reader, that one of my very most favourite decks is Alexander Daniloff’s Read more…
Has your biro just burst in your handbag? What about splashing out on this as a replacement? This is a fountain pen from the pen people at Visconti. To mark the creation of Lo Scarabeo’s Visconti Sforza Tarot deck, they created four designs from the Visconti Tarot for very limited Read more…
Welcome to the Summer Solstice Blog Hop! If you have arrived here by happy accident and are intrigued by this Blog Hop thing, you can find out more about it here. If you’ve hopped here from Olivia’s blog (our wrangler for this blog hop – thank you, Olivia!) or from Read more…
No, it’s not a trick question, but a genuine one because as of yesterday afternoon, I am guardian to a baby crow which is FAIRLY close to ‘black bin bag’ territory, if you catch my drift….. I was weeding in the greenhouse (in a foul mood actually because 24 hours Read more…
We find ourselves in a kitchen where a young woman stretches out on a chair as the Tarot card reader explores her fortune. It’s funny, isn’t it? No matter how many centuries separate us, the pose for expansive day-dreaming remains unchanged! This particular illustration of Tarot in art is by Read more…
If a court card coming up in a Tarot reading can present a reader with a tummy-flipping moment of panic, then interpreting a reversed court card can engender a fully-fledged head-between-the-knees (your own, silly!) brace position. But it needn’t be so! Any card coming up as a reversal is basically Read more…
So, I’m out having a totally 3 of Cups moment with two girlfriends – celebrating my friend’s 60th birthday and having a jolly nice time at a discreet and ‘spensive restaurant. We are just perusing the extensive menu when I happen to glance over the balcony (that’s how posh it Read more…
Not done one of these for a while and thought that this one by The Beautiful South would be a great tune to jump-start things again. Having a think about the behaviour of characters in books and films can help flesh out your court cards – so why not songs Read more…
Another Renaissance deck for you to drool over! The majority of cards in this deck have been lost and the surviving cards – 16 Major Arcana cards and a Page of Swords – can be found in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. There they are attributed to Jacquemin Gringonneur as Read more…