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  • TABI’s Tarot Conference 2015 | Court Cards

    Saturday saw the return of TABI’s annual Tarot Conference in Birmingham.  Here it is, in court cards:

    So we checked in to our rooms and the speakers and organisers had been presented with a li’l hand-made bar of chocolate and a welcome card. Everyone was thrilled and posted photos like this:

    © Viv Kacal 

    As Page of Pentacles, my first thought was ‘Thank God, something to eat. So my photo was like this:

    *wipes chocolate smears from mouth to take photo*

    We met up before dinner on the Friday.  My inner Queen of Wands became my Outer.  Are you digging the leopard print cardi and the gold high heels?

    I’m working my Bette Lynch vibe like mad here.
    © Viv Kacal or Ania Marczyk (I wasn’t looking)

    Our meal on Friday night was very tasty indeed.  I barely stopped eating to look up for photos.  Look – I’m not even drunk.  But my head can’t do that Linda Blair 360 degree thing….

    © Ania Marczyk

    On Saturday morning I was the first speaker on the floor – the warm up act for our wonderful head-liners – Jane Struthers, Andy Boroshevengra and Caitlin Matthews.

    I attended dressed as the Druidcraft’s Queen of Swords:

    © Viv Kacal (I think)
    That’s me in the spotlight! That’s me as the Queen of Swords 🙂
    It’s me! No, it’s not – it’s the Queen of Swords!

    I didn’t do the bare feet thing though.  Sometimes you can take something too far …. I wore the gold high heels though. See? My outer skin at the Conference was the Queen of Swords, but my feet are forever the Queen of Wands.  Until about lunch time and then they morphed into terribly unflattering running shoes and I went all Queen of Pentacles 😀

    And also managed to double up as Queen of Cups in Ania Marczyk’s forthcoming Meniscus Tarot too.  Tha’ Queen of Swords outfit is VERSATILE!

    Queen of Cups Meniscus Tarot Ania Marczyk
    © Ania Marczyk

    I brought home a throne – as you do!

    And brought home one of Moti’s beautiful prints!

    Moti’s original painting was there for us to see too – what a talent!

    So, only one question remains ……Why have I not posted pix of the speakers as Court Cards?

    Because they were all complete STARS!

    Coming along next year?!

  • Queen and Kings of of Tarot! | TABI Conference | 25 July | Birmingham, UK

     This is me (well my HEAD at any rate), cunningly photoshopped onto a slender body, and a throne that comprises entirely of court cards – isn’t it clever?

    Caroline Blackler did all the high tech jiggery-pokery for this.

    And you might wonder just WHY I have included it here on m’blog.

    Well …… pull your chair a bit closer to the screen because I want to whisper something in your ear ….. But not THAT close …. edge back just a smigeon *drops voice to conspiratorial whisper*

    I’m one of the Tarot workshop Queens at TABI’s 2015 Tarot Conference in sunny Birmingham!

    Yes, on Saturday 25 July at Conference Aston, I kick off the whole day’s Tarot mischief with a session on techniques for reading reversed Court cards.

    From there we go straight into our next session – Tarot and Love – with the lovely author Queen Jane Struthers.

    From there we break for lunch (and lunch is included in the day attendee ticket price, folks!)

    And then we dive headlong into our next session, all about the Lenormand Oracle with Lenny expert, King Andy Boroshevengra.  If you’re coming along and you are a bit panicked about not having a Lenormand deck, worry not – there will be enough to go around!

    A 30 minute coffee-injection break and then our final session for the day, my fellow Italian Tarot Tour traveller Queen Caitlin Matthews explains how to get to grips with those pesky unillustrated pips of the Marseille deck.

    I *know*!! It’s going to be a splendid day of Tarot shenanigans!

    And TABI has a few places still available – so if you can get to sunny Brum on the last Saturday in July, I’d absolutely LOVE to see you there! Or even if you can come down the night before, there’s a package available that includes overnight accommodation, a group dinner, the quiz AND attendance at the Conference.

    www.tabiconference.co.uk