Riding the cusp between imagination and reality…
Mental health has been THE hot topic over the last few days… suddenly anyone and everybody has something to say about it… And to be perfectly bloody honest… I’m sick and tired of hearing about it… But before you get on your high horse and tut tut your disapproval let me continue… I have spent […]
Read More Tears of a Clown…When it comes to Family of Origin vs Family of Choice… I think I’ve made my preference more than clear in Confessions of an Elective Orphan… Though as a brief summary…. well I’ve said this before and I’m sure I’ll say it again… Blood may be thicker than water… But which would you rather swim in… Yes… […]
Read More Welcome to The Ex Files…So… I open my email today from the Spiritual Badass Blog Challenge and I read… Today’s topics: 1) Your favorite Tarot deck and why OR 2) A card you REALLY like or REALLY dislike, and why So option 2 is not quite working for me as I’ve never REALLY disliked any card… and as for […]
Read More Warning! Imbibing Mystereum May Cause Serious Creative Side Effects…How can you exist in that mess… That’s a common refrain that I hear in my house… Poor old Mr S the neat freak that he is… is often driven to distraction by what he calls my mess but I call my circle of chaos… And I’m pretty used to hearing him chuntering away in […]
Read More How can you exist in that mess…Much to the long suffering Mr S’s chagrin, I often wake up of a morning singing… yeah… before I’ve even opened my eyes, noises leak from my lips… And often I am unaware of this and later Mr S will remind me of it… So… apparently this morning, Mr S instead of an alarm call, […]
Read More Don’t try to change me baby…So… A good Tarot reader always carries a deck… I hear this all the time… I sat down with a bunch of Mystereum misfits and asked this trio what they thought… The Empress said to me… Hey Karen, you’re the mother of 4… don’t you already carry enough junk around? Do you really want to […]
Read More There’s a Tarot rumour going around…It’s amazing how time flies… It only seems like yesterday that I was contacting Lyn Thurman to talk about writing for Soul Path Magazine… Yet a couple of days ago I was submitting a piece on Hsi Wang Mu for the forthcoming issue… which will be my 13th… Here are the faces I’ve met over […]
Read More A Year with the Goddesses…Words are curious things… they possess strange powers… A few days ago, I was taken on a sudden diversion from an ordinary chit chat filled with observations about the weather… you know the sort of small talk that the English excel at and what was pretty much what I expected on a day that was […]
Read More Confessions of an Elective Orphan…Free association football… Something about forgetting… though I forget what it is… FROM: TO:
Read More From 5 of Pentacles to Kurt…I spent yesterday performing my first borderectomy… I know it’s a practice that is fairly common but I’ve never really felt the urge to take blade to border with my decks as… well… it takes me a long time to actually decide I like something enough to buy it… and I’m not likely to buy […]
Read More Angels got the chop…
The pure and blessed way 