Monthly Archives: August 2014

Evening Conversation With Cricket

Evening Conversation With Cricket

Life had been challenging of late. My latest challenge has been an unexpected trip to the Emergency Room with my husband. We are still here after a couple of days and will be for awhile more. While here I noticed a tiny cricket on the floor of the bathroom.

“Hello”. He didn’t respond at first, then “hello”. He said “remember your father in law used to fight crickets. He’s with your husband. Remember your Grandparents used to keep a ‘lucky cricket’ on their hearth. They are with you now. I’m your lucky cricket. I’m little and growing, like your luck. I’m still young, nourish me well so that I continue to grow. Nourish yourself too.”

 

Hello! An update from the green fairy.

Hello! An update from the green fairy.

This is an update by your wormwood queen webmistress – the site’s little helper fairy and Kate’s friend Beth. Right now Kate is with Ted who has been hospitalized for Meningitis. Thankfully it’s not the bacterial kind and he has been slowly showing some improvement with the medicine he’s on as his fever is slowly starting to come down. What they need right now is your prayers, good vibes, well wishes, or whatever manner of energy you believe in. I am in the process of installing a proper commenting system to the site so people can leave comments to Kate’s entries for just such a thing. (The WordPress comments function is kind of a hot mess for spammers.)

For those of you who know Kate and Ted there are other ways to offer them a little help. You know they work tirelessly from commission to commission, taught class to taught class and such to keep their wheels spinning. If you’d like to help them directly you can always give a new home to one of Kate’s wonderfully hand painted plates or tap her for a reading. You can find all of these avenues in her shop –Tea and Tasseomancy. Or help in keeping their current youth project going Good 4 Nuthin (which honestly has the best rewards entries right down to potato salad). Mostly, just letting Kate know you’re thinking of her and her family goes a long way. ;)

Isidore Tarot Card of the Day: Nine of Wands

Isidore Tarot Card of the Day: Nine of Wands

Nine of Wands

You’ve fought the good fight. You’ve won many battles but the war is not quite over. Exhausted and possibly injured, you must reach deep down into the reserves you didn’t even know you had and find the strength for one last push. Your goal is closer than it has ever been. Don’t give up the fight. Even if you have to lean your back against the wall, it will give you the appearance of standing up tall. Put the smile on, even if you must grit your teeth to do it. It won’t be much longer now.  On the one hand you know you shouldn’t care what people think, on the other hand you know that perception is everything and reality is what you make it. This card makes me think of the saying “fake it ’till you make it’. Sometimes we need to put on one last show and make it great, make it epic because this is the time when everyone is watching. How are you standing up to the pressure? Your actions now are the ones that will give you the push you need, make the connections you need to make, create the magic that needs to happen to reach that seemingly unreachable goal. DO NOT GIVE UP.  You are that close. Push on, fight on. The last battle is looming, but it IS the last battle…. For now.

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Wedding Day!

Wedding Day!

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Over the weekend my husband and I decided to tie the knot, well not exactly. We did have a wedding, but we were married almost 8 years ago now. When we first got together, we just signed the paperwork to make it official. We decided that now, after two more of our children had been born and we had accomplished so much, it was time to celebrate and to say thank you to all those who have supported us through the years. It was a magical day.