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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
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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!
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Pamela Colman Smith | Family History
This idea that PCS was bi-racial does the rounds from time to time and it’s something I’ve always wondered about myself. Time to do a spot of detective work on the ol’ intertubes. What do we know? From Pamela Colman-Smith’s wiki page, we think that her mother was from Jamaica Read more…
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Fake v Genuine Wildwood Tarots
So, I’m an admin for The Wildwood Tarot’s fb page and website. There are a lot of counterfeit decks out there. I made a video (8 mins?) to help you sift the fakes from the genuines. I hope it helps.
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Making your 2020 Court Card work for You Part 2
I find that one of the trickiest things in working with a card of the day, month, year etc is that I often forget all about it. Maybe it’s my age. I went into the fridge to look for tea bags the other day… The best way to remember things Read more…
Knights Technique Uncategorised Wands
Court Card for 2020
Just a bit of Tarot Court Card fun to start us thinking about what we want for ourselves in 2020. I’ve done this for the past four years or so and it’s just a bit of fun, not rooted in any deep and meaningful ancient system. Just my own 🙂 Read more…