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Are the Zombies Next?
Yesterday, I was leaving the Reading Terminal Market, as I do probably at least once a week. The Reading Terminal is a block from the courthouse, as well as the train station, and while it may be a great spot for tourists, it’s also the best place to buy fresh produce (and of course, the occasional Amish donut – oh my! The sugar just melts on your tongue!). What I’m saying is, this is a habit, a routine, a weekly occurrence – so you would think that this giant art installation right across from the entrance/exit to the Market would have caught my attention before yesterday: This giant sculpture is in an alley…
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Getting it Wrong
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be wrong on the internet. I don’t mean spreading fake news; I’ve been worried about my “collective” readings on Instagram, some of which, must be “wrong.’ This worrying about wrongness all started with just play. I like to practice Reading like the Devil with juicy questions, so on Instagram, I love when @twisttheeleaf posts their monthly tarot challenge for the discord group DiscordTarotHolics. The challenge always contains fun philosophy questions, like this one, “What’s the point of life?” i.e., “What’s it all about Alfie?” I posted this is in response from my favorite Majors Only decks, Sergio Toppi’s Tarrocchi i Universali: “What’s the…
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No Safe Bets Here – Predicting the Sixers v. Celtics Game 6
I am terrible at predicting events with Tarot. Of course, it’s always a 50/50 shot – you’re either right or you’re wrong. But, I tend to see what I want to see, because I generally throw cards for things I have a stake in. For instance, when the Eagles were in the Super Bowl, I posted these cards, and predicted a win for my hometown team, the Eagles: And this is what I said, “My totally nonobjective Super Bowl prediction! Will the Eagles win the Super Bowl? I didn’t bother to do a row for the Chiefs because to me they are irrelevant. So yes, the Eagles are headed towards a win. The…
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Sheep Whispering
I had a really light hearted weekend, so I thought I’d do a lighthearted post to get the week started. And, when I say light hearted, I mean exactly that. An incredible weight has been lifted from my chest. And, this weekend marked the true return of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, the High Holy Day of Knitters. Oh, the festival returned last year after a 2 year hiatus due to Covid, but it rained mercilessly, and was frankly, zero fun. This year, the sun was out, the crowds were back, the yarn was awesome, and the sheep were chatty. BAAAAHHHHH! So what were those sheep saying? This guy took a second…
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#OneDeckGoneWild – The Wild and Wonderful Anonymous Tarot of Paris
I spent the last two days waiting for a jury verdict, and I thought cool, I’ll do something easy peasy like one of those VR tags that the youtubers do. The first day, I started working on Lisa Papez’s #21 Questions. I answered the questions while I was slouched in my uncomfortable courtroom chair, waiting for my phone to buzz with that “they have a verdict” text, but I ran out of gas pulling out my decks and photographing them when I got home. Sitting around doing nothing is shockingly exhausting. Especially when you’ve spent the last two weeks breathing in nothing but crime and mayhem, which is how the first Detective who…
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Getting Back on Track with The Stunning Tarot
When I started this blog, I had such good intentions. I’m going to post twice a week! I’m going to have a planner and schedule my posts! I’m going to keep a journal, and keep track of my post ideas! I am really going to commit! Sigh. Life gets in the way sometimes, my friends. I’m really busy at my real world job, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I should be free and clear in two weeks, and hopefully back to my well intended regularly scheduled program. One of the posts I have in the brain hopper (yep, I haven’t even had time to put it in…
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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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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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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…
