Daily Card Readings – 3.03.024 Today’s cards are from Tayabbah Lee McQuillar’s The Hoodoo Tarot (Artwork by Katelan V. Foisy). Our centre card is Aunt Caroline X It’s all about Fate. So today we are where we are meant to be, it’s no accident. We stand looking face on, direct, no turning away, no lookingContinue reading “Cards of the Day”
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‘Under the greenwood tree…Come hither, come hither, come hither’
‘ Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird’s throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy ‘Under the greenwood tree’, from As You Like It by WilliamContinue reading “‘Under the greenwood tree…Come hither, come hither, come hither’”
Harold
Meet Harold, who was once a young lad who found a ‘deserted’ copper mine. Legend has it, that the mine he ‘found’ had never really been lost. The miners fled when rumour that anyone who worked it would soon come into contact with the true owners, the Little People or ‘The Knockers’ as some peopleContinue reading “Harold”
Be Still My Beating ( and Bloody) Heart
I have a couple of new pieces in my Shop, with I thought you might like…and of course, we have a poem! NOW SOLD!!!!!! Be still, my beating heart, be still!There is no hope for thee to-night.The fading of the wintry lightHas made a blackness of the hill. Be still, be still, my beating heart!ForContinue reading “Be Still My Beating ( and Bloody) Heart”
The Bluebell*
A fine and subtle spirit dwellsIn every little flower,Each one its own sweet feeling breathesWith more or less of power. There is a silent eloquenceIn every wild bluebellThat fills my softened heart with blissThat words could never tell. Yet I recall not long agoA bright and sunny day,‘Twas when I led a toilsome lifeSo manyContinue reading “The Bluebell*”
Hymn to Aphrodite
Hymn to Aphrodite Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite!Child of Zeus, Enchantress, I implore theeSlay me not in this distress and anguish,Lady of beauty. Hither come as once before thou camest,When from afar thou heard’st my voice lamenting,Heard’st and camest, leaving thy glorious father’s Palace golden, Yoking thy chariot. Fair the doves that bore thee;Swift toContinue reading “Hymn to Aphrodite”
Forest of Life – The Four Aces
So this first week we have been asked to look at, meditate on and create withthe Four Aces. I decided as I mentioned in my previous post, that I am going to use the cards as prompts. Today I pulled out the first 4 decks on my table. If I’m being honest these are the onesContinue reading “Forest of Life – The Four Aces”
Forest of Life Calendar
Peter Duchemin, an amazing magical man and magician is the creator of the wonderful Meta Magic Matrix Forest of Life Calendar. His system is very unique and based on the Venusian Calendar. Each week he focuses on a card of the Tarot as he (and we ) journey through The Venusian Year creating as weContinue reading “Forest of Life Calendar”
Yule
The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. They lighted candles in the winter trees; They hung their homes with evergreen; They burned beseeching fires all night long ToContinue reading “Yule”
Our Lady of Rennes, 3rd November
Also known as Our Lady of Miracles LADY OF MIRACLES Since you walked out on meI’m getting lovelier by the hour.I glow like a corpse in the dark.No one sees how round and sharpmy eyes have grownhow my carcass looks like a glass urn,how I hold up things in the rags of my hands,the wayContinue reading “Our Lady of Rennes, 3rd November”
The Delightful Mrs P 