Riding the cusp between imagination and reality…
The silence of 1am interrupted by a ringing phone could only mean one thing. The screen glowed into life a name who never calls with any good news… Never calls with any news really… Only contacts via messenger with predictable words of – Are you still up? Can you read me some cards? Time paused… […]
Read More One year ago…When I looked at today’s waxing, my first thought was – birth of a star. That came to mind in the split second before I looked at the shape on the left and felt like I was stood behind somebody watching this epic event… I remembered a time a few years ago when I was […]
Read More Waxtober 8Moving through the D. O. I’m down to, every croupier’s favourite words, “The last 3”. This card has always jarred me… The D. O. is in my eyes, artistically speaking, a pick ‘n’ mix of misfits that somehow seem to rub along and happily live together… Except for this one. Somehow the colours clash… There’s […]
Read More Ship Out of HarbourI previously mentioned the shelved image that stepped aside to let the Architect’s Hand slide into being… Working titles of dancers? Death dancers? (Though now officially named as per this blog post title). As I pulled this image out for the day, I smiled as I thought that it was number 13 to be written […]
Read More Carpe Memento MoriToday, Lyn Thurman posed an interesting question… Death, or at least little deaths, happen continuously. The world is in a constant state of movement, going from beginnings to endings in the cycle of life. Write about unfinished business you have. Is it time you buried it or resurrected it? See… that’s interesting for me […]
Read More Unfinished business…It’s fairly common these days to hear phrases along the lines of… Oh! Death… No… Death doesn’t mean Death… It means transformation… And whilst it’s true that it often does mean transformation… or transition… or renewal… or ha! my personal favourite… petite mort! The fact remains that sometimes Death does indeed mean Death… Though not […]
Read More When Death does mean Death in Tarot…So… I got a phone call a few weeks back from someone looking for a reader to entertain guests at a big party and after a couple of calls and some lengthy conversations and questions, I was told – Yes, we’d like to book you, but can you just have a word with my partner […]
Read More Death Takes a Holiday…Death… I love Death… Death makes me chortle… it makes me chortle as so often I sit with people to read and out pops the Death card and they say… Oh… yeah… yeah… I know… Death doesn’t mean Death… It means transformation… And I say… yeah… sometimes Death means transformation… unless of course it’s one […]
Read More 30 Day Divination Picture Challenge… Day 13So… I discovered this deck by chance a few weeks back when I was sat up way too late for most people, happily painting away and tuned into the radio, to keep me company… I was listening to Inner State Highways where Sherry Shone was a guest and in between her causing me to shake […]
Read More I’ve Been Sleeping with the ShadowFox …Free association football… Hop along… FROM: ‘From Winter’s death springs forth birth’ TO:
Read More From Death to Peter Rabbit
The pure and blessed way 