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Saoirse Graves
Ireland
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 2 พ.ย. 2019
Welcome! I'm called Saoirse ~ I'm an artist and history nerd as well as a sewing, witchcraft, tarot, and oracle enthusiast. I am also #autistic. I like to show process that's creative, analytical, historical, folkloric...maybe even gnostic. Follow me 'down among the weeds and thorn'...
WEBSITE & BLOG ~ saoirsegraves.com/
ETSY SHOP ~ saoirsegraves.etsy.com
🃏 The Dreams of Pantagruel Oracle (on MPC) ~
www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/dreams-of-pantagruel-oracle.html
◇ Priced at €53.45 for 123 cards.
#gothic #artist #witch #darkacademia #deathpositive #slowfashion #slowfashionmovement #homemade #historybounding #victorian #corsets #medieval #renaissance #folklore #indieartist #artvideos #arthistory #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #introvert #tarot #oracle #artwitch #artmagic #vintagefashionnotvintagevalues #pagan #themorrigan #goddess
WEBSITE & BLOG ~ saoirsegraves.com/
ETSY SHOP ~ saoirsegraves.etsy.com
🃏 The Dreams of Pantagruel Oracle (on MPC) ~
www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/dreams-of-pantagruel-oracle.html
◇ Priced at €53.45 for 123 cards.
#gothic #artist #witch #darkacademia #deathpositive #slowfashion #slowfashionmovement #homemade #historybounding #victorian #corsets #medieval #renaissance #folklore #indieartist #artvideos #arthistory #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #introvert #tarot #oracle #artwitch #artmagic #vintagefashionnotvintagevalues #pagan #themorrigan #goddess
Tarot Collection 2024 & #witchy chat about deity, reading style, & clairsentience
It is what it says on the tin.
Correction! My partner's second deck is called "The Crimson Eye Tarot" (I mistakenly called it 'red eye'.) ;P
Various links mentioned in the body of the video:
*Discussion of colour perception with deck comparison* ~ th-cam.com/video/yHSEroou_Co/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Hush Tarot & Arthur Rackham* ~ th-cam.com/video/HkF-We6Djd4/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Does the Morrígan give me nightmares?* ~ th-cam.com/video/BG8ZIXxQgpY/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Secret Gardens, Sulamith Wulfing, James Christensen etc.* ~ th-cam.com/video/iIVr-4rvaag/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Magicae Daemonibus Tarot Analysis & Sources* ~ th-cam.com/video/x935KCJu92k/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Altar makeover with Visconti-Sforza reference* ~ th-cam.com/video/CnhdR_IRXO4/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Tarot cards for bibliomancy* ~ th-cam.com/video/ny-_oT6gzTM/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Pagan Otherworlds Tarot PLAYLIST* ~ th-cam.com/play/PLZI9UTKRbQvEcHVkjKAYmShBfeS05_hhB.html&feature=shared
*Art Witch Chronicles PLAYLIST* ~ th-cam.com/play/PLZI9UTKRbQvGFLlXz-idodKEYDe3aDkx3.html&feature=shared
Time Stamps ~
00:00:00 Intentions, collecting, & what you can expect from me...
00:13:05 Decks ~ "Reference" (Shelf 1)
00:29:37 Decks ~ RWS-adjacent & narrative pips (Shelf 2)
00:48:12 Decks ~ Pips & Bespoke systems (Shelf 3)
01:02:08 Decks ~ Oracle Decks ('Shelf' 4)
01:26:18 Talking numbers, collecting, tarot publishing, etc.
01:37:52 Reading style, clairsentience, numinous worldview, & deity
Dreams of Pantagruel Oracle deck on MPC ~
www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/dreams-of-pantagruel-oracle.html
Dreams of Pantagruel PDF Companion 'book' ~ saoirsegraves.com/home/dreams-of-pantagruel-oracle/
My website ~ saoirsegraves.com/
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Hi, I'm Saoirse. I like exploring art, history, tarot, and various aspects of witchcraft. This channel is a space for working through ideas, using the imagination, and sharing the creative process. With any luck, it will get a bit wild and weedy here...
Correction! My partner's second deck is called "The Crimson Eye Tarot" (I mistakenly called it 'red eye'.) ;P
Various links mentioned in the body of the video:
*Discussion of colour perception with deck comparison* ~ th-cam.com/video/yHSEroou_Co/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Hush Tarot & Arthur Rackham* ~ th-cam.com/video/HkF-We6Djd4/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Does the Morrígan give me nightmares?* ~ th-cam.com/video/BG8ZIXxQgpY/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Secret Gardens, Sulamith Wulfing, James Christensen etc.* ~ th-cam.com/video/iIVr-4rvaag/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Magicae Daemonibus Tarot Analysis & Sources* ~ th-cam.com/video/x935KCJu92k/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Altar makeover with Visconti-Sforza reference* ~ th-cam.com/video/CnhdR_IRXO4/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Tarot cards for bibliomancy* ~ th-cam.com/video/ny-_oT6gzTM/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
*Pagan Otherworlds Tarot PLAYLIST* ~ th-cam.com/play/PLZI9UTKRbQvEcHVkjKAYmShBfeS05_hhB.html&feature=shared
*Art Witch Chronicles PLAYLIST* ~ th-cam.com/play/PLZI9UTKRbQvGFLlXz-idodKEYDe3aDkx3.html&feature=shared
Time Stamps ~
00:00:00 Intentions, collecting, & what you can expect from me...
00:13:05 Decks ~ "Reference" (Shelf 1)
00:29:37 Decks ~ RWS-adjacent & narrative pips (Shelf 2)
00:48:12 Decks ~ Pips & Bespoke systems (Shelf 3)
01:02:08 Decks ~ Oracle Decks ('Shelf' 4)
01:26:18 Talking numbers, collecting, tarot publishing, etc.
01:37:52 Reading style, clairsentience, numinous worldview, & deity
Dreams of Pantagruel Oracle deck on MPC ~
www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/dreams-of-pantagruel-oracle.html
Dreams of Pantagruel PDF Companion 'book' ~ saoirsegraves.com/home/dreams-of-pantagruel-oracle/
My website ~ saoirsegraves.com/
...
Hi, I'm Saoirse. I like exploring art, history, tarot, and various aspects of witchcraft. This channel is a space for working through ideas, using the imagination, and sharing the creative process. With any luck, it will get a bit wild and weedy here...
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Beautiful ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for taking the time to do these videos. The chattier the better!
Omg "oracular library" -- you just blew my mind. What a wonderful phrase! I'm adopting that immediately, thank you 🖤
Haha glad you like it! ^_^
I don't count duplicate copies of the same deck either. I love your new natural approach to videos. 🖤
Actually, it also just occurred to me now that (for example) I didn't mention which decks I have a backup copy of (it's like ... two?) Not quite the same as duplicate with colour variants or size differences but less organically acquired as well, which is interesting! Just shows to go that tarot collection videos are like subjective whack-a-mole when it comes to accessing 'the truth'. ;) So glad you enjoyed the video, Grace!
Responding to your end questions, I always have a mini marseille and a mini oracle in my bag. Marseille: mamanmiyuki mini. Oracle: an argentinian indie called El oráculo del gato. I have a lot of minis and have been thinking I could rotate them, but the mamanmiyuki is still the one I always carry.
Yes, a good pip and portable oracle really does the trick! I took a quick look online at the Oraculo del Gato - so cute!
I really loved this video! I loved hearing about all the super specific things you need and adjustments you’ve made to accommodate those needs. I have a lot of very specific needs as well due to different neurological issues so it’s always a struggle to find bags that work for me. I actually don’t like my current bag aesthetically but it’s super functional so it’s the one I have. You’ve inspired me to think outside the box and think about adjustments I can make to bags I like so I can make them functional! 🤎
So glad you enjoyed it Mariana! Yea it took a while for me to realise that I could just customise things too! Super fun doing it though ^_^
Ahoy Matey Im Enchanted to witch you
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I so love a chatty collection video! I think most of the value in a collection video (for me, at least) actually in hearing what people THINK of the decks and how relate to and use them, rather than in just seeing the cards. I think these kinds of conversations are just as much an exploration of practice as discussions of reading style, systems, etc. I also consider it to also be intrinsically related to those things, as well as a great vehicle by which to actually, you know, talk about *art*? Which I think is pretty much always a positive! The Oracle of Black Enchantment is fantastic. 🧡 That woodcut-style art is everything. I find it to be so evocative and intuitive for me that the pdf guidebook is not necessary. I managed to get all three colorways in bumped-box sales over the course of the last year or two, and I have no regrets because it's one of my most used oracles. And yes, I count them as one deck! I have been using Dreams of Pantagruel with the Earth Magick Tarot (by Daniel Martin Diaz), and wow, do they speak to each other! It brings such a sense of humor and outside-the-box perspective to a tarot spread, and it works great with an open-reading style. It's a lot of fun, but can also really effectively draw the attention to things that might be overlooked otherwise. Anyway, I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on collecting and the insights into the way you use your decks in this video. Your videos are always delightfully thought-provoking!
Tarot is a great vehicle to talk about art! You are absolutely right! (also, eeee! I'm so glad you're enjoying Pantagruel!) ^_^
I love the term oracular library!
It even SOUNDS mysterious ^_^
I don’t want to talk about the deck you don’t want to talk about and I hope this doesn’t count because I just needed to say that I’d love a Bruegel tarot! I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. 🤎 Awesome video as always, I love any topic you choose to do a video on. (I agree with you about citing sources! I hate that so many art decks don’t cite the art!)
You're fine! Ooooooohhh I'd love a Bruegel deck too. Yum! So glad you enjoyed the video!
I enjoyed this! Loved how you described your thoughts on practice & reading as well. "Just your imagination" is a saying that just grinds my gears. Also! That's incredible that you were able to translate the guidebook to the Oracle Medieval et Merveilleux! I have managed with google translate for some of the French decks I have, but I always wonder what I miss. The art is too tempting, though. 😅 As always, I love these chatty videos, tarot-related or no!
I feel like if I was able to let myself be a little bolder, my standard reply when people say "that's just your imagination" would be like "I don't see that as a barrier to experience." It's the kind of quashing stock phrase that fits right in with when people say to anyone who likes dark things that "It's just a phase". It's like... if it is, then I'll find out & you don't need to tell me. And if it's not, then you're insulting something about me ....& you also don't need to tell me. (Also, humans go through all kind of growth phases and developmental phases, are we supposed to skip them just because they might be temporary!?) Either way, totally unnecessary! :P Glad you enjoyed the video!
🖤 Excellent, I love the colour of your lipstick 💄 😍 very dark and mysterious ❤. Very interesting styles of decks I like the jewel toned decks the most . I have a Tarot and Oracle deck Library too 😊 . I also love reading 📚 and historical fact and fiction books . You look fabulous on video don't worry f I appreciate your lip reading point getting older and dealing with hard of hearing issues I need to see someone's face when they are talking .
Glad to hear the lip-readability is helpful! (And it's a little hard to tell in this video but the lipstick is a dark purple!) Yes, jewel tones are just soooooo scrumptious. ;)
When you showed golden tarot, I was looking through pagan otherworlds, and when you showed pagan othersworlds, I was looking through golden tarot *lol* This was the perfect video for me to watch and take out my all of my tarot & oracle decks to see which ones I am feeling drawn to using more for some time. I have been into tarot for years but my collection has grown and dwindled multiple times, and I never quite figured out tarot being a deep interest of mine, and being part of my life (especially since only this year have I truly discovered my own spiritual / mystical / magic path). I get so easily overwhelmed with it all (as I have had to recover from several bouts of burnout); what deck(s) to currently use, why I have a collection in the first place, why I bought these decks specifically and not the plenty of others I have seen but have no interest in, why I still want to add to my collection, how I read the cards, how I experience tarot, etc. It is a lot to figure out and it is a slow process that I have tried to rush in previous years, only to (of course) fail in the end (and I have grown to love the slowness of it) I currently have 21 in total (16 tarot & 5 oracle) and I also have to take my time with diving deep into them, but my limit is 50. I have never had 50 before, so I am not sure if when I get there if it'll be too much, though I feel that is truly my limit (the touching of the ceiling). I was going to go with 30 ideally (3 being my favorite number since I can remember), but there are still decks I have been wanting for months and years that cause me to reach pass such, so 50 it is 👌🏻 All of your collection videos through the years always make me think about my own use of tarot, because I do not like reading about the future or doing things like shadow work (actively seeking it out) or just having the focus be too much on my mundane reality. I am currently in favor of simply pulling a card or three and sitting with the experience of them; becoming part of the art or the art expanding into my reality, taking it all in sensory wise, understanding how it makes me feel and just allowing the art to communicate to me then either sitting with it (contemplation that I integrate) or journaling about it. But tarot is for sure *more* to me. It is a map, an embodiment of so many facets / aspects of reality, it is embodied mysticism (something I am so heavily & innately aligned with), it *is* supernatural / the otherworlds, it *is* astral, it *is* prayer & communion with deity / the divine (which I have the same view with you on; how much larger the divine truly is), and more. There is honestly more for me to think about and flesh out in regards to everything you have said towards the ending of this video (which I have written down to ponder), and I am just so appreciative of the videos you create. They never fail to offer fresh perspective, interesting ideas, insight, magic, understanding, expansion, the experience of someone else's unique self / how your self is actualized in all that you love and do, and overall just awe. Thank you for choosing to still create any / all of the videos you upload 💐🤍 (I look even more forward to reading the Earthsea books as well)
So glad you enjoyed the video ^_^ Three IS the best number. I'm always tempted to say 9 is but that's mainly because it's 3x3 (and 27 is even better.) So really, it's 3. A great number for mythic and magical workings ^_^
@@SaoirseGraves I am reminded of how back in elementary school, it was the 9 times table I remembered soooo easily and I have always preferred it over the others 😌 9 & 3 for sure goes amazingly well together (and 27 is a nice sweet spot ✨). I agree with 3 being great for mythic & magical workings too!
I love watching your Tarot collection videos because not only are you very passionate about your decks but you explain the connection they have with you…. It’s always interesting to see someone else’s perspective on why they prefer which decks they prefer. I’ve always noticed that we have similar interest in decks for different reasons entirely ! What you said about the ravens prophecy today was so understandable even though it’s one of my absolute Home decks but that’s what I enjoy the most about watching your videos because you see how the thing that you love can interact with another person vibration and where they’re at in their practice. Thank you as always for sharing!!!!
Thanks! That's a lovely comment ^_^ Yes, it is so cool how people like things for different reasons and there are just so many beautiful decks out there it's important that we get to celebrate the agency in our choices! ^_^
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This is so relatable! Thank you for sharing! I tend to prefer soft abstracts, like maybe one colour but different textures in that colour. Or gradient from one colour to another but more blending like water colour. I love the texture of oil paintings, pencil shadings... nature landscapes. My eyes find that style of sameness and yet something to focus on soothing... not high contrast most of the time.
Oh I like the way you've described that! 'Finding different textures in soft abstracts and gradients of colour'. That even sounds calming ^_^ It is really nice to be able to identify what our preferences are and how to articulate them.
I too hate the colours on the invisible disability lanyard. It makes me grimace! I really enjoyed this video. Thank You ♥︎
Ooooh! I'm not the only one! 🧡 So glad you enjoyed the video.
I love the Salmon Advice cards!
Honestly, such an amazing deck. 🥰
That fan is everything 😂 This was such a fun video, it kept me company and made me chuckle and I appreciate you and all the awkwardness, it makes me feel seeeeen.
Eeeee! So glad you enjoyed it. Awkwardness galore over here... did it again today. How does the saying go? "Once more into the breach... or some shit" 😝
Love this video! Firstly, lmao at "They make me hungry". So relatable. Being an "alternative" looking person is so funny because while a lot of people will be very nasty to you, it's almost easier to deal with than the other percentage who will comment on the most random aspects of your appearance that you would never think to prepare a response for. 😅 I had green hair for a bit last year, and the amount of unexpected comments I recieved was astonishing. Also, this is such a valuable conversation to have. Because I think we neurodivergent people can unintentionally end up in a place where we just DON'T go out anymore because it's such a burdensome thing to try to make that a bearable experience. It's a lot to plan for. The mental load is a lot to deal with, especially for those of us who have a chronic illness to plan around on top of it all. I know I have gone through those periods. I'm working toward getting out of one right now. All this to say, I enjoyed hearing about all of your work-arounds. It prompts me to think about what I could do to make it easier/more enjoyable for myself as well. Also, I share your problem of getting VERY overheated pretty much in an instant in those situations, and it sucks so, so bad!
Burn out is so hard to work one's way out of... and certainly illness, fatigue, pain all make it that much harder. That can be part of what makes people's comments (or their stares even) more difficult to navigate too. It's good to find solidarity out there though! ^_^
OoooOoo yes! Excited for this one! I was looking for something to watch on TH-cam (couldn’t find anything) and got your notification ❤️
This one's a doozy! But I hope you enjoy it ^_^
have such a deep need for the immersiveness of these kind of movies, that does me so good. love them. and the new wednesday surprised me! i think it toys with shallowness? which i don't mind if it is then unravelling into depths? also just love when immersions change on me with time. oh i've lived those in a material sense! anything about time, yeah the stackup! the old intro song i loved! i'm real weird about carsounds sometimes, i don't like the thought that people at night see out in a forceful machine, bit dramatic but. i appreciate trains on tracks! think learning to drive would ease my mind on this i'm just real spooked by cars insideandout! not chariot-ing em out. oh i attracted biters! lovely type, no? bit feral and tough in touch! interesting the doubling of places+spaces! feel for the nighmarers, i've found i'm good at stripping them off of me if they bunched for a while. never an american city! where the words of "suburban gothic" used to trail me i've felt home. but our highrise buildings around the fashion streetsdown feel very glass window on glass on glass on glass all see-through, feels to me new yorkean when all i've known of it is onscreen. have a pull toward that somehow. i feel my nearest vibereacharounds feel so suburban but the city isn't far and i ache for other cities sometimes: suprised me to at some point. and twas the brits? city-elements of architecture do get me! didn't catch onto the loci! oh amazing!
I love when movies and shows hold up to rewatching and change with us as we grow ^_^ I also feel not-good about cars and can't drive. I've learned twice and hated it each time. :P
It really does give medieval Tom Baker Doctot Who vibes, and it's beautiful to see. Well done!
Renaissance, I should say, sorry.
@@shinymarigold9782 I mean, it's a medieval coat so both work! Eee thanks for the lovely comment! :)
This sense of conceptualized genus loci and the spirits of the liminal spaces. Abandoned, rustic areas hold such magic. It's like the spaces themselves become portals. I dont have these decks, but I feel certain similarities with your Pantagruel deck (although it doesn't have a timelessness like Somnia). Some decks hold that 'from any time' magic and it is beautiful. Lovely hearing your thoughts as always. ❤✨️
I mean, there are many reasons I love the Pantagruel imagery and I totally see it as an extended part of this 'Honorary Addams' kind of world... And yes, liminal spaces!!!! 🕯
There is so much to process and digest in this video, that I cannot elaborate in the frame of a few lines. I too moved from a city environment to a country town. I guess in italy the general feeling of a city can be quite different from the United States; what I noticed though is that, until I was immerse in that environment I wasn't aware of the ways it affected me and my perceptions. In contrast, now everytime I go from the country to a city somewhere, I feel the shift and I see more clearly the energies infoming that place. Sometimes I can respond accordingly, sometimes not. But improving.
Oh, I love your emphasis on learning (continually) to respond to the differences! I think the same can be said for things like 'urban fantasy' and so on. A lot of people also think folklore is just a rural/agrarian thing but urban folklore is incredibly rich. And it wasn't until I started putting some of these ideas together a year-ish ago that I realised why urban witchcraft is also so potent. The world's cities need their witches! Thanks for your thoughtful comment ^_^
I am not sure where to leave this comment but perhaps I might leave it here and on your blog (for the purpose of engagement ✨). Before I begin the of my thoughts because , I just have to say you look so beautiful and gorgeous! Your makeup is breathtaking! The dark tint of the colors you used is so enriching and it stands out soooo amazingly well! 🌹❤ Before I clicked to watch, I was using Somnia tarot myself, inquiring about its essence and the truth of the place and realm it resides, and though I am not in full understanding (struggling to translate what I feel from the cards into words), I felt its liminality and it being a sort of hidden place, a place in the back of my mind, a place I dive into, a whole bodily and spiritual experience only for it to be sooo deep that when I journey back to the top (of the ocean's surface), it all seemed to be a hyperrealistic dream, something that resides deeply within my psyche, only being able to experience it again once I choose to dive in repeatedly (inner changes moreso than outer). Now onto what you talked about within this video; I have a very similar experience about the emptiness of New Jersey, the remnants of buildings, the scattered places of such and wetlands, being able to see the New York City skyline (which has always amazed me as a kid, the way everything is colored in blue, but still so clear). I thought it was only me that was aware of the emptiness of NJ (not that I have people around me that pay attention in sensory ways that I do), and I never thought much about it either, how prevalent the emptiness is, from having and still living and traveling places within NJ, especially the seemingly forgotten about, avoided/ignored places where people still live, or don't. I have seen so many buildings remain as shells of themselves and the mixture it creates with seeing people walking about and living as if those buildings are truly gone is such a strange feeling, a deep melancholy that I am not even sure how to express. There is also the sight of long railroads that have always left me wondering about where they would take me, where the last stop would be, and if they are still operating (I still have such curiosity and a desire to ride a top of one of the trains, being able to be closer to the trees that gather on each side of the tracks). And I of course cannot forget about the permanent dull, foggy, light gray colored scheme (too cool toned for my liking) that seems to follow wherever I go. Life was brighter as a child, but even back then, the gray was present. (I should also mention that I was surprised and filled with an interesting excitement when I found out you lived and grew up in NJ when I read that one blog post of yours. The being close enough to a mall, coming up from a highway is what settled it lol) Thinking about it now, I the color scheme of Somnia, but it also sometimes feel a bit dull to me because it is so familiar and reminds me of my desire to escape NJ one day, because it reminds me of the places I live and have been in NJ, especially since I grew up and still live within the less fortunate part of NJ. I am now wondering if Somnia is tapped into the liminal of this trip-state area, the seemingly spiritual veil that seems to be so easily accessible to me as well, ever since I was a kid. It surprises me too that both Nicolas Bruno and Patrick Valenza are from around here! That gives a lot of merit to this curiosity and exploration of nightmares, tarot, and the tri-state area especially when I can relate so much! I have struggled with sleeping since I was a kid (insomnia), have had my fair share of nightmares (mostly religious in nature), sleep paralysis, spiritual attacks that has been with me ever since I was a teenager until a month or two ago, from traveling (without my will/wanting to do so) to a darkness realm (a spiritual version of my childhood home that I am still living in) that is always dark (no lights or electricity of any kind works there) and being endlessly stalked, attacked, bothered by shadow/all dark beings who I can feel in my body when they touch me and rush at me (a sensation I do not believe I will ever be able to describe because it is so non-human and a sort of coldness that is painful/sharp). (Continued in replies below)
But thanks to Somnia tarot, I stopped visiting the darkness realm for the most part (only have once since then). During July this year, I asked Somnia how to break free from the realm (because at this point, I was tired of being scared to sleep/travel there and being endlessly attacked), and I could not make sense of the cards I pulled (which included 9 of Swords) but that day, when I went to sleep, my reading/Somnia me to being in the spiritual version of my bedroom where light and electricity worked, though things there are always a little wonky; I can tell it is my bedroom though some things seem and are out of place. And outside my bedroom was just darkness, the darkness realm, in which a being approached me to attack and kept trying to get into my bedroom to also make it dark too, only for me to offer a peace contract of some kind that I cannot remember (though I remember every thing else that happened) and the being was gone, then all of the darkness was painted white, and I woke up after that. The first ever experience/nightmare I have had of the dark beings was when I was a kid, aged 9, sleeping in my parent's bed, and for several days, I kept dreaming the same "dream"; me as a kid, holding onto my stuffed bunny, in a vintage nightgown, in the middle of the street in front of my childhood home, only being able to run again and again in the same distance (I could not leave the street at all), and a dark being would chase me endlessly, stretching its hand out to get me, and every day I dreamt it, the closer and closer it got, until one night, it almost got me (or perhaps it did and I never realized because it ended so abruptly). It was the closest it ever got. I never had nightmares before moving to this area and into this childhood home (though I lived in NJ still before moving here). And ever since moving here, I have been afraid of being downstairs or in the hallway at night, especially in the house, but anywhere I go, in the night time, it frightens me deep within.
There is more I have to say but TH-cam won't let me comment the rest but I sent the whole of it to the comment section of your blog post! ✨
@@wombofthevoid I wonder if it might also be comforting to read some of what Patrick Valenza has said about his experience of nightmares... because at a certain point, he got them to stop!
I also found the Somnia kind of greyish or washed out which is why I trimmed it. The white borders made it feel like it was backlit or something. It pops a bit more without the borders. :)
@@SaoirseGravesI actually was thinking that I really do like the trim you did of it, it really does stand out more, but I'd only trim it if I have another copy 😅 (any time I have modified a deck, it ends up being given away)
You look so beautiful……
Thank you, that's very kind :)
I was thinking of getting this deck and came across this vid and I can totally relate to your viewpoint throughout. So ty for walking through this and now, I’m about to put in my order lol✨ -Nisha
Ah that's lovely! Yes, it think it's a fantastic deck. I don't really aim to convince people but I do really like digging into imagery. You're reminding me I have yet to make the catalogue of the card images available properly. I'll have to do that soon!
Do you still have the Gostave Dore tarot?
I still have it in the house... in a drawer where I have a small number of decks that I don't want any more but want to move on. The 'to be gifted' drawer, as it were. :)
@@SaoirseGraves oh goodness, I understand I have one of those boxes as well, but I actually never give them to anyone. I just hold onto them forever but the intention is there.
"Fucking nothing" sent me! I extremely enjoy your thoughtful commentary on pretty much everything. Thanks for sharing! I've never heard Mixtress Rae refer to the 7S as that, but I think it's an interesting concept and will have to find the video where she mentioned it.
Thank you! I can't remember which video she mentioned it in - Mixtress Rae has a lot of valuable and diverse material so I'm sure it will still be worth exploring 😁
This is exceptional! So evocative, so satisfying, so invigorating, so inspiring. Give us more of your perfected magick, sorceress!
Haha thank you! That's very kind! I'm so glad you enjoyed it 🤗
Thanks for talking about you hair. I've got fine hair too and a lot, but it doesn't get dry. This is so cool! I've been doing beauty and magic.
So glad you found it interesting and relevant! And yes, it takes SOOOOOO long for my hair to dry too!
@@SaoirseGraves I can't even imagine. Mine stays wet for a long time too, but yeah! You got some hair!
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Great double exposures and poem 🙏🏼
Thank you! It's fun to play around with! 😊
PURE PERFECTION!! Now these are the types of videos I love to see!! Artistic, witchy, shadowy, powerful, mesmerizing, tempting, poetic and magical all in one video!✨🖤 👏🏻 truly one of a kind! So refreshing! Ok, I’ll stop yelling now 😂 this video just has me excited.
Haha thank you! That's really lovely to read! ^_^ So glad it's got you feeling all witchy and excited!
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I relate so hard to what you were saying about circumnavigating time blindness and executive function and personal care. It's such a challenge but the ideas and practices you have sound so clever. Hoping you get a good kitchen for both of you to cook all the delicious and medieval foods! Oh my gosh the Supra card 🤣 The cover of the Raven Ring does look a bit like the artist just discovered that they could draw hair shadows on the face and got REALLY EXCITED about that (i mean, relateable). I havent read it but this makes me want to. Truly could listen to book chat for hours.
Yes! I hear you on the 'artist has decided hair shading is cool' look... also the sort of knotwork against black. But it is an old cover so we'll forgive it ^_^ Patricia C Wrede is usually a good time 🎃Also, yea, that reading kicked my ass. 😅
❤ Jumper looks LUSH on you , you suit the colour very much . Hope you feel better soon , our bodies usually tell us loudly when we need to slow down 😅 . I love your room so comforting and original.
Thank you! And yes the jumper feels lush too! 😁
Gorgeous video 😍! I thoroughly enjoyed
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it ☺
Ahhhhhhh yes!!!! A new video! ❤
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Wonderful. I love your videos. Much depth and inspiration.
Thank you so much! :)