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    Court Card Guardians for Putin and Zelenskyy

    In my last blog post I shared the Major Arcana birth cards for the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine. We saw that Putin is governed by 16 The Tower and that Zelenskiyy is governed by 6 The Lovers. When I looked at the Majors who would go on to be Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 12 months12 months ago
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    President Putin and President Zelenskyy | Birth Cards | Year Cards

    It’s been an awful week where the much-dreaded invasion of Ukraine by Russian Federation forces began and the world looks on in horror. This is not a blog discussing the rights or wrongs of either side, but a look at the birth cards and year cards of the two Presidents Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 1 year1 year ago
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    Bianco Nero Tarot | Deck Review

    The first time I saw the Bianco Nero Tarot ‘in the wild’ was on a facebook post by Serge Pirotte. Immediately smitten by this monochrome deck, I messaged my son with a link to the deck and asked him to get it for me for Christmas. Which he did! The Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 1 year1 year ago
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    Reading Fortune Telling Cards | Gypsy Witch Cards | Fabio Vinago

    I have tried so hard to get to grips with The Gypsy Witch deck (US Games Systems Ltd) I really have. I took a beginner’s course last year with Brant Williams via the WDA which certainly got me off the blocks, but I still couldn’t read with any degree of Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 2 years2 years ago
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    The Vernal/Spring Equinox

    What’s the difference between the Vernal or Spring Equinox and the actual day when hours of light and hours of darkness are about the same

    By Alison Cross, 2 years2 years ago
    Words to live by in 2021
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    Words to live by in 2021

    As the year draws to a close and sinks towards the horizon, we turn our hopeful faces towards the rising year of 2021. It’s a time for new beginnings and plans and, for the first time in almost a year, our hopes for the future!

    come and read some more!
    By Alison Cross, 2 years2 years ago
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    Total Tarot| New Magazine

    You may already be familiar with The Esotoracle (UK-based) and The Cartomancer (US-based) magazines but there is a new Tarot mag kid in town, Total Tarot. What sets Total Tarot apart from the other two marvellous magazines is that it has exclusive links with the well-known publishing house, Lo Scarabeo. Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 2 years2 years ago
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    Sharing Images on Instagram?

    The other day I spotted that a new Tarot deck was in the making from those fine folks at Three Trees Tarot and I gleefully reposted their lovely image of the cards being painted, on Instagram. Unfortunately, when the image shared to my instagram feed, there was no attribution to Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 2 years2 years ago
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    Tarot Thrones on Instagram | June 2020

    I have got an instagram account, but not really put much effort into it to date. But at the beginning of June, I decided to focus my Tarot court card efforts there. By the way, are we friends over there? No? Let’s get that heckin’ SORTED asap. I’m @alisoncrosstarot so Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 3 years3 years ago
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    Tarot and Self Care

    Sometimes in a reading, the subject of self care can come up. This might be as straightforward as a positional value within the spread called ‘self care suggestions’ or it might be when you are summing up the reading and giving your client some suggestions on what might be useful Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 3 years3 years ago

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    My love of Sgt Catherine Cawood remains undiminis My love of Sgt Catherine Cawood  remains undiminished! Bought a bracelet to ask myself:  what would sgt Cawood do? In any tricky situation ❤

#happyvalley #catherinecawood #lunagillespie
    working on my desktop, so no way to share this oth working on my desktop, so no way to share this other than to screenshot it and tag @rebeldeck because this is such a MASSIVE FREAKIN' PROBLEM. 

I get at LEAST 3 emails a week saying the equivalent of 'bought the Wildwood Tarot deck but the download url isn'T working, please send pdf of lwb' 

Mostly there is no 'please' 🤣

Just stop it. Do your due diligence as a buyer. Buy legit decks. If you don't, the whole tarot deck creation matrix will splinter into a billion bits. 

#counterfeit #fake #tarotdecks #cheaptarot
    Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Pentacles. Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Pentacles. Ah this is a lovely image to have at Imbolc, the first of the year's fire festivals (I think that ALL the festivals were fire festivals. Can you imagine ancient Celts passing up the chance to have a fire?!) The Queen plays on her bodhran with a long bone. Behind her a hare pauses in its winter white. At her feet snowdrops blossom. The Taurus bull decorates her throne.

Today it's all about music and song - make time for music so that it can work its weird, restorative magic on you. Don't believe me? A 2013 study in the Journal of Positive Psychology found that people who listened to upbeat music could improve their moods and boost their happiness in just two weeks (thank you Google!)

Start today!

#queenofpentacles #druidcrafttarot #bodrhan #tarotcourtcarddna #celtictarot #wiccantarot #paganwitch
    Today's tarot court card: The King of Wands from t Today's tarot court card: The King of Wands from the Druidcraft Tarot. What can I say about this King, purely from the image? His ears are decorated - we can see them and his head has only a circlet, so he's open hearing and thinking about other people's thoughts and opinions. 
His heart area is covered and highly decorated with his collar (salamander biting its tail), so he's not someone who dwells much on keeping good relationships - action is where it's at! 
What he holds in his hand is his Wand. His shield is by his side, he has no other obvious weapons. We cannot see the tip of his Wand - he's not much interested in fighting or even defending himself. Although that left hand is a bit of a fist - could be roused to a punch maybe? 😃 
As far as his passions go, well, look at that belt tail hanging down his leg and - if that is't enough, look at the marks the edge of the throne makes on his robe between his legs - this guy is PASSION in action. He's got the Aries ram's head decorating his throne - head-strong, fiery and determined.
Although he looks out at us from the card - engaged, passionate and open - he is still inclined towards the past (that right foot pointing left). I feel that he is saying 'Tell me what you want to do! Let's get it done together!' 
So that's his message today - what do you really want to do? What is the passion that sets you ALIGHT? Today's the day for embarking on whatever makes you feel alive! 
And yeah, damn the consequences - this guy is not looking ahead 😃 You've been warned 😃

#druidcrafttarot #kingofwands #pagantarot #celtictarot #aries #tarot2023 #dailytarotdraw
    Today's tarot card: (forgot to do one yesterday - Today's tarot card: (forgot to do one yesterday - sorry lol!) Another Princess today, the Princess of Swords. Surrounded by signs of Spring (instagram won't let me resize the card - apologies for cutting the top off her head!), she is a lovely card to draw as we celebrate Imbolc tomorrow.

Barefoot, our young Princess wraps a ribbon around the blade of her sword. The wind whips at the ragged edges of her clothing. 

As a 'Page' equivalent, she is about beginnings - small things, minor things, open-hearted approach to life. 

As a Sword, her family traits are about head-centred traits - thinking, logic, study, lists, communication, truth etc. 

Smooshing these two sets of keywords together we get small thinking, minor communication, beginning study ... 

And tomorrow I start wrangling a year-long tarot study course into the Wildwood Tarot (those courts to come next lol!) and I will be surrounded by Princesses of Swords (and a good few Knights, Queens and Kings as well, I hope!)

The Princess says: 

Got a problem? Create a list? 
Got a big mental task you can't get your head around - break it into small pieces.
Begin a course of study.

#tarot #tarotcourtcarddna #princessofswords #druidcrafttarot #divinationtools
    Last call for anyone wishing to study along with A Last call for anyone wishing to study along with A Year In The Wildwood over in the facebook wildwood study group! 

First post for #imbolc goes up at 4pm uk time today! 

You absolutely don't need to buy my book to take part - the prompts will be in the group. But it will help keep me afloat while I work in the group :D 

See you there! 

#wildwoodtarot #yearinthewildwood #tarotstudy #pagantarot #celtictarot #divinationcommunity
    This is me. The fake account sliding into your DMs This is me. The fake account sliding into your DMs has blocked me. Instagram says that the person pretending to be me is doing nothing wrong. I don't know how that can be the case. May these scammers reap the whirlwind. #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram
    today's tarot court card: The King of Pentacles - today's tarot court card: The King of Pentacles - Fire of Earth - what a perfect guy for me to remind you to DO YOUR TAX RETURN TODAY as they have to be in by the end of the month.

This character is very confident and competent. He's asking you to take a look at your finances today - every penny saved is a penny you don't have to earn! What subscriptions can you renegotiate/cancel? But it's not just about cancelling money obligations - it's about adding savvy ones too. 

#tarot #kingofpentacles #winter #robinredbreast #BoarsHeadforDinner #tarotcourtcarddna #druidcraft #divinationtools
    Went to see #heilung in Glasgow on Sunday night. F Went to see #heilung in Glasgow on Sunday night. First gig I've ever gone to on my own in my life. 

A mixture of shamanic, ancient and ecstatic sounds and ritual. I absolutely loved it.

Seeing Maria's antlers appear through the smokey stage sent shivers down my spine. The Deer Mother.
The whole experience was superb! 

#heilungtribe #glasgowgigs #paganmusic #tribal #deermother
    Over on Facebook, in the #wildwoodtarot study grou Over on Facebook, in the #wildwoodtarot study group, I will be starting the yearlong journey from A Year In The Wildwood.

You don't need to buy my book because the prompts will be made in the group (but obviously, if you DO buy the book, it helps keep the wolf from my door and I get some £ reward for a truckload of effort lol!) 

First post goes up on 31 January for Imbolc. Head on over there and join (answer all the membership questions please!) to get ahead of the curve! 

#yearinthewildwood #wildwood #tarotstudy #divinationtools #celtictarot #pagantarot
    Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Cups from t Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Cups from the Druidcraft Tarot. As Water of Water, she is fully engaged with her relationships - they are her Kingdom. She is not the sort of person to chat with one eye on the door to see who else will arrive. She'll make you feel like you are the only person in the room.

Give each person you interact with your full attention today.

#tarotcourtcarddna <- my tarot court card book :D 

#tarot #queenofcups #druidcrafttarot #fullmoon #celtictarot #celticdesign #divinationcommunity #tarotcourtcards
    Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Wands from Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Wands from The Druidcraft Tarot. Sure of herself, passionate and assertive, the Queen of Wands urges us to remember and be kind when we're pressing forwards. Live with passion, light a couple of fires and don't be afraid to use that Wand!

#tarot #queenofwands #druidcrafttarot #wildcats #fire

#tarotcourtcarddna <- my tarot court card book 😃
    Today's tarot court card: Prince of Cups (Air of W Today's tarot court card: Prince of Cups (Air of Water). This character seeks emotional connection - romantic, idealistic, he is our Grail Knight. The Grail is already in your hands, do you recognise it? Today the Prince of Cups suggests that instead of LOOKING for love, you FIND it in all the relationships that connect you to others - your family, your partner, your siblings, your kids, your colleagues, your friends, your employees, your pets, the girl that walks past you in the street with her head down. 
#tarot #knightofcups #princeofcups #tarotcourtcarddna #druidcrafttarot #willworthington #dailytarotdraw #kightonhorseback #grailknights
    While deciding what #tarotbook to write next, I've While deciding what #tarotbook to write next, I've been painting some #tinylandscapes. Hopefully the next book will not take as long as #tarotcourtcarddna 😄
    I have not been on Instagram for the longest time I have not been on Instagram for the longest time because I was starting to feel discouraged  and overwhelmed.  Yesterday I was reminded of what a marvellous community it can be with so many lovely people not only taking time to let me know my account had been spoofed, but also to help report it. Have a photo of Loki as a thank you 😁

#loki #rescuedogsofinstagram #blackdog #greyhoundsofinstagram #thankyou
    This is not me. Please report the account that has This is not me. Please report the account that has my name spelled this way.
    At last I have the fair copy of court card dna in At last I have the fair copy of court card dna in my hands! Self published on Amazon and as a paperback only! I hope it helps people work creatively with #tarot #courtcards #divinationcommunity #tarotbook #tarotlife
    At long last! My tarot cort card book manuscript i At long last! My tarot cort card book manuscript is loaded up! #authorproof ordered. Almost finished- after years of tears, sweat and more tears lol!

#tarotcourtcards #tarotbook #selfpub #courtcards #divinationcommunity #tarotlife
    I had about 40 tiny landscapes that I had built up I had about 40 tiny landscapes that I had built up over 2022. I sold them for £10 each to my friends via Facebook and raised over £300 (£340 to be exact) for DEC Ukrainian Appeal and a small boots-on-the-ground animal charity in Donetsk.

#art #charityart #decukraine #tinylandscapes
    Yes, I know that I have a book to finish writing, Yes, I know that I have a book to finish writing, but painting takes me out of my head and into my body. 

#tinylandscapes #watercolor #amateurart #groundingtechniques
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