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And the Wind Replied
Yesterday, I left my office to lug what felt like 10lbs of laundry to the dry cleaners, and was annoyed that I had to detour across the street because of construction. As I set foot on the opposite curb I noticed black Sharpie graffiti on the old marble building adjacent to ours. Really? Who would do this? It’s not a bathroom stall at the Walmart. I hate graffiti. But, I was curious. “Do yourself a Favore Heather Please Do Not Talk to the Wind Like it’s Something that Cases You Really Look Like And Asshat.” I continued walking to the dry cleaners, but at least I had now forgotten the 100 lbs bag…
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Oprah Book Club Tarot Style
Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, her 100th, is Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful. Hello Beautiful, the saga of the four Padavano sisters, working class Catholic Chicago girls trying to live up to parental and cultural expectations while at the same time pursuing independent lives, is an homage to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Little Women is still my favorite book of all time, so if there was an homage out there, I was going to read it. I can’t say I read it with an open mind. Indeed, I read it with a critical mind, the kind of mind Louisa May Alcott’s Marmee, who gifts her children Pilgrim’s Progress to guide their young moral…
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Friday Tarot Link Love
Happy weekend! The weather here is shite, and while I’d like to step away from my devices, it’s probably not going to happen. If you’re looking for some tarot goodness, here are a few things to check out: Camelia Elias has a new book. The talismanic version is sold out, but the paperback is available on Amazon. If you’ve never read Camelia Elias, you can read this essay to figure out where to start. In the mood to craft? Want to get your sew on? Sew silk tarot bags with Catomancy Tarot. Watch my friend Jess discuss in a completely genuine and authentic way how she does tarot in response to #Howdoyoudotartot? Don’t…
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Surrender Dorothy! My 2023 Mixtape
A few days ago, my husband completed his Van Halen vinyl collection with the arrival of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, a Sammy Hagar fronted 1991 album. Rounding out the collection was no easy feat since during the later Van Halen years, CDs were the rage, and vinyl albums weren’t being pressed. Walking to work, we reminisced about when the album came out, where we were in our lives (college), and I mentioned that I thought I had that album on, gasp, cassette tape. I had an extensive cassette tape collection. I would stay up late at night, with the lights out so my parents didn’t know, and I would record Rock Over London…
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Cranky McCranky Pants, or the People of the Tarot de Marseille
The other day, I threw some cards and asked if blogging was a good idea. I didn’t exactly get the answer I wanted, but that’s ok, I never listen to anyone anyway, one of my issues I suppose. But I enjoyed the process, and I particularly enjoyed using my Tarot de Marseille deck, Tarot de Marseille Jean Dodal 1701 restored by Jean-Claude Flornoy. Today, I thought I’d talk about the parameters of what I mean when I say “Tarot de Marseille” versus Marseille style tarot versus modern pip decks so there’s no confusion going forward. The oldest known Tarot de Marseille deck, the Jean Noblet of 1659 (ok, so there’s talk of an…
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My Tarot Story
When I was a teenager circa 1986, our local radio station, WMMR, hosted a somewhat annual parade, the Louie Louie parade. It was just what it sounded like – folks marched down Broad Street singing Louie Louie, over and over again. That was it. That’s what fun looked like in 1986. So, a bunch of us took the train into town from the suburbs, Louie Louie’d our way down Broad Street to South Street, land of record stores, bookstores, novelties and new age stores. Very arty compared to the strip malls of the suburbs, and we felt super cool. In one of the New Age stores, Garland of Letters, which is still there,…
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Hello and thank you!
Hello and welcome to my little corner of the internet! This isn’t my first clean, well lighted place on the web. I’ve blogged about knitting, about crafting, about life in general, but now I want to blog about my current passion, tarot. Right now, in particular, I’m fixated on Tarot de Marseille, and I was originally going to call this blog, Marseille All Day. The rhythm, the colors, the language, the images, the wordplay, the rhymes, the poetry – that’s where my head is right now, with the language of the birds, and Tarot de Marseille, Marseille style tarot, historic tarots and modern pip decks. But is that where my head and heart…
