Non-LARP post

My studio's hafla is just around the corner and I am so excited.  This year I am 3 dances!

I am really hoping we have a good turn out again this year.  Last year we raised 1300 and hope to do even more this year!

Eventbrite Tickets

Hafla For Humanity

Dame TyeDye

This weekend my Amtgard family is traveling to remember a good friend.  Dame Tyedye ( Sarah Budai) passed away a week ago.  It was shocking and threw us all of for a great loop.  She was a force in our park.  The first few years she was a guiding light  right along Avi.  She became a friend and mentor to many people, myself included.

Going forward will be a bit different.  I know she and I had drifted apart. Yet, at any event I knew she and I would hug, smile, and work well together.  To know that I will not walk  into another kitchen and see here there is very sad.  Sad...That word does not seem like enough but it is accurate.  Sad, sad is when you lose a necklace, sad is when you lose your shoe, not when you lose someone so special to our world.

Favorite Card

If you have spent time reading Tarot in public.  Someone will eventually ask you "What is your favorite card?"  This is such a hard question for me to answer.

Honestly, it depends.  It depends on the deck (or decks) I am using.  It depends on how well my cards like me that day.  It depends on the flow of the readings.  It also depends on if you are asking what is my favorite card based on artwork or meaning.  This is not a simple question!  It does vary deck to deck (especially the artwork question).  I hate to pin one card down.

I have 3 decks that is primarily use and one that is an alternate.  I then have 3-4 decks that I just collected and don't use for readings.

I will answer for artwork for each primary deck.  That card seems to change the least.  I may pull a card from my collection decks to show off as well. Most often The Strength card is my favorite card. Both in symbolism and artwork.

From left to right: Celtic Dragon; Arthurian, and Rider Waite.

Bonus card:

Amy Brown Oracle Cards

SKBC 2016

Deryk, Sethrial, and I  had a wonderful adventure visiting SKBC this past month.  There was so much for them to learn.  I roamed around to take pictures the whole time.

It was fun to see all the different classes.  I picked up on little tidbits from each one.  I know Deryk and Sethrial are looking forward to passing on their newly learned skills.  We hope that this will allow us to build up our park skill so we can allow our seasoned warriors more challenges.

Sadly, I was feeling poorly and my loving family agreed to leave the event early.  They did not miss any class time, but Deryk did miss the night time ditching with the sword knights.  In the end it was a wise idea to leave so i could rest properly.

~Mararee

We are ever growing

I am forever neglecting my correspondences.  I have not written in what appears to be a coon's age.  But loads has happened!

Top of the news is that Deryk is no longer a Man at Arms but instead a SQUIRE!  I am very happy for him.  He is still working on his new belt.  Yep, this time he has to make his own belt.

Our little family has grown some more.  I am going to try and list this off logically.

Squire, Viscount Deryk MacCoill

Man at Arms- Sethrial
    Page- Kaas
    Page - Lexicon

Man at Arms- Linara

Page- Awolf

Man at Arms,  Lady Mararee MacCoill

Page - Lilith

Awolf and Lexicon are our newest family members.  Both are decent and rising fighters.  We may even have more artists soon too!

Next month will be the first time in ages that we should have all of our family at one event.  I am looking forward to seeing everyone meeting the others.  

~Mararee

Fortune Telling

For those not aware (and there are many), I am a novice fortune teller.  I actually really love the tarot.  I collect decks and I give decks as gifts so my collection is always growing and shrinking.  Tarot has been a part of me since I was a teenager.  I read in college for my friends, I read in England also for my friends, and I have read for charity.  I do not find the cards evil. I do not see them as demonic.  I see them as a line into the unknown that guides me to the past, the present and the future of my reader's soul/psyche/river of life.

I have not been upfront with my passion, in fact I have been known to hide it in the shadows.  This has made the currents angry.  Yes, you read that right.  I believe in life currents.    I believe items have power beyond what we see.  Thus when I say the currents are mad, I mean my cards are mad at me.  They refuse to answer questions or do so in the most infuriating manner.  So, to make them happy and to return to our balance I am bring them back into the light!  I will hide "my wicked ways" no more!  There I have said it, and it feels so very good.

I do have many decks (current count is about 7) but I primarily read with only one deck.  I love her, she speaks to my soul so easily.  Yes, my deck is a girl just ask her yourself.   She is an Arthurian Legends deck published by Llewellyn's and art by Anne-Mare Ferguson.  She was given to me (as all great decks are) by my sisters who understand me better than I do myself.  She was with me in England, in fact my best friend there had the same deck!  She was also the deck that I used to first read my husband, which is how we met.

Sample of the artwork

My hope is to spend some time posting tarot card studies, linking articles on fortune telling, and may be even digital readings.

This series will be cross posted in my mundane blog as well.

Photo Entry

I feel like sharing photos this week.  :)