So, Thursday rolled around – the date that we’d all been dreading – the day that my mother was moving to an apartment in an ‘independent living’ complex. Why the dread? The flat is lovely and I expect her to be much happier living there with lots of people around Read more…
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For the past ten days or so, I have been feeling as though I am living through the looking glass – and it’s not good, with cake that says ‘Eat Me’. I’m not even an American. What a challenge it is to be a liberally-minded American at the moment, because:
YES, Trump wants to build an actual wall.
YES, Trump shuts out Syrian refugees from America (allegedly for only a set period of time. We’ll see) Dear America, what happened to ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore’?
How sad that it should come to this. (more…)
The March full moon has a lovely selection of names that speak of the quickening of the soil and the spirit of Spring: Sap Moon Worm Moon Crow Moon Lenten Moon I have chosen the Crow Moon to celebrate the full moon of the 23rd because I am surrounded by Read more…
Last year’s Mother’s Day Tokens Still unspent! Originally Mothers’ Day was when people returned to their Mother Church. These days, Mothers’ Day has become a Hallmark schmaltz-fest directed at Mothers everywhere. In the UK we have Mothering Sunday on the 6th. Yes, we know that it’s all a big commercial Read more…
I have purchased a companion for the beautiful Queen of Hearts that was gifted to me by Alexander Daniloff: the Queen of Swords. Isn’t she pretty and sweet-natured? A far cry from the unhappy profile and bolt-upright sword that we associate with the Rider Waite Smith Queen of Swords, below. Read more…
Queen of Swords You can never have too many owls! Amongst the presentations at the Tarot Museum’s garden parties was a display of four Tarot Queen paintings by Carmen Sorrenti. There was so much going on and loads of people interested in talking with Carmen, I waited until I Read more…
Just a bit of Tarot Court Card fun to kick us off into the New Year! Lots of tarot buzz on Social Media about THEMES for the year, as inspired by the Major Arcana card that your personal year correlates to. To find our what your personal year card is, Read more…
I first fell under the spell of Salvador Dali via his magnificent Christ of St John which was bought (amidst great public hooha – petitions and irate letters to the newspapers) for Glasgow City Council’s Kelvingrove Museum in the 1950s. I regularly visit the museum to visit the quiet and Read more…
The Fey Tarot published by Lo Scarabeo is one of my favourites, even though it’s jam-packed with fairies, I confess. I find that it’s a great deck to read with, especially if you’re a RWS devotee. Today I’m presenting the King and Queen of Swords to you *sweeps a long, Read more…
So far we’ve met the Wands family and today it’s the turn of the Swords – which is entirely appropriate given the recent Spring Equinox. As with the Wands, I find that taking a look at the rest of the Swords realm gives me good clues as to what I Read more…