If you have worked out your Court Card for 2020, you will hopefully be factoring in their guidance for the coming year. I like to look at them as attitudes that can affect your every interaction – if you let them. (See tomorrow’s blog post!) I patiently worked out that Read more…
Forget the bare arms – pull on a sweater, woman! So, it was Sunday. I am alone in the house. I am luxuriating a la Queen of Pentacles mode on the sofa with the soundtrack from Gypsy playing discretely. Well, as about discretely as you can have Miss Mazeppa and 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…
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| King and Queen of Wands |
One of the side effects of living as Elizabeth Taylor for a week (other than really sore eyes from too much mascara and eye-liner) was an unhealthy interest in her many husbands. And bourbon.
Why not, suggested a friend, write about her husbands and relate them to various Tarot court cards? Why not, indeed.
Elizabeth Taylor’s love life is the stuff of legend – death, divorce, adultery – all seen through the lens of a newly born media merry-go-round.
Mine is exactly the same – apart from the death, adultery and celebrity, of course.
There’s a lot to get through – shall we just dive in?
Tartarus as he is today – Still clutching a motorbike wheel! So, I started dating my other half when we were at school. At that point he was a clever, bespectacled lad with a bit of a wild side. The specs were soon ditched for contact lenses and as soon Read more…
Count Lilac – Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty It has been half term here – now over, thank goodness! School holidays are not my favourite time because I still have the same amount of work to do, but only now with a small boy hanging over my shoulder telling me how Read more…
So, here’s a little whimsy to get us eased into Wednesday – there are two well-define characters in this song (and I am NOT apologising for luffing a bit of Kenny Rogers) *defiant face*. Which Court Cards do you think they might be – right-sides up or reversed?