Tarot and Me

Three Hares

Three Hares

My time with tarot started in the early 80s in a Goth-phase when someone bought me the Thoth deck for my 18th birthday, I liked it but it never really seemed to fit.

Three years later I was reading tarot on The Mound during the Edinburgh Festival using the Thoth deck when a friend came with a new deck and told me that she felt this was much more me. This was the Sacred Rose Tarot and I’ve used this deck on and off since 1985 now and I feel a really good, deep connection with it.

During that period I was also reading palms, runes, astrology charts, and I-Ching, though over the years I’ve only really kept on the tarot as it seemed the most popular with family, friends, and the occasional client.

I’ve been using The Sacred Rose Tarot deck for over 38 years now and feel I really know it but I wanted to experiment with a few other decks and we all know how that goes… let’s start a new collection!

I’ll be writing about returning to my old witchy ways and exploring this pathway, there will be bits about everything that comes across my mind but it will mainly be tarot. There will be readings, explorations of different decks, book and deck reviews, and more.

First thing I’ll be doing is collecting old posts from other blogs and getting these all set up here.

You can also commission me for a reading on Ko-Fi, and watch here and my Bluesky for when I do a single card draw for myself.

A Gaming Life

Ice Age

Ice Age

I’ve been gaming since the late 70s in one form or other, starting with really basic RPGs and moving on to D&D when it was established properly in the Red Box.

Over the years I’ve played many different games, RPGs, board games, miniature games, but always came back to card games as they are so portable and had tons of great art.

The games I’ve spent most time with were Magic: The Gathering and the original Legend of the Five Rings before Fantasy Flight took it over, though I have played and collected several more.

Right now though my main games are RPGs and miniature games but whenever I get a chance to play in an MTG draft I jump at it but getting to one has been so difficult recently.

This part of the blog is mainly about a few directories, trying to list all card games, rpgs, miniature games, and board games that I can find any information about. It will also be following my take up of various solo gaming systems as it continues to be hard to find groups to play with.

It will also be about my return to gaming over the next year or so starting with RPGs, solo board gaming, and some card games (even some console gaming things). There will be some old stories and such and read throughs of old gaming magazines.

Basically anything that takes my fancy.

I’ll also be linking to my Ebay shop where I’ll be selling some gaming bitz, mainly for Warhammer but there could also be some card games stuff there.

Watch out for this part of the blog as it develops.

Introduction

A yōkai print by Kawanabe Kyōsai

A yōkai print by Kawanabe Kyōsai

I’ve always loved folklore and mythology and the creatures that inhabit them and our worst nightmares, both historical and more contemporary.

Whether it’s Grendel or The Creature from the Black Lagoon that creeps from the watery depths to terrorise the locals, I’m equally entranced by both.

Celluloid or scroll no matter where these beasts come from, they are there to hold a mirror to human behaviour and plumb the depths of the human psyche and I want to list (and listen to) them all.

I know there are other sites out there that look at these and explore them but they tend to be a bit advert heavy for my liking and it sometimes makes seeing the information difficult so I’m trying to make a site that is as clutter free as possible.

I’m going to put them in various lists. Alphabetical and geographical will be the two main ones, but there will also be lists for games, books, film, and others as I think about them.

All images I use on the site are in the public domain or are licensed under the Creative Commons BY License