Monday, 02. June 2008
Shadowscapes Tarot

This is a must see tarot deck and a real eyecandy!


EMPRESS

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Meaning: Creativity, nurturing, abundance, fertility, experiencing the senses, and embracing the natural.

"Lady-Mother!" call the wandering souls. "We bring you gifts!" They fly near the Empress, dancing in the sky. They paint synchronized kaleidescope choreographies for her pleasure, and she smiles as she takes it in. Her mind and her thoughts are the conductor to this visual symphony.

Gently, they lay a crown woven of the first buds of spring across her brow. "Jasmine and Lily of Valley have graciously donated their first buds for your coronet," the spirits sigh.

"The Apple Tree Man has gifted you with his fruit, and the Lady of the Fields her grains." These they lay in her basket.

With a sudden flourish, the spirits whirl together, then spin off in an explosion of light and music. "Farewell, dear Lady!" they call.


THREE of PENTACLES

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Teamwork, functioning as a unit together, competence, achieving beyond the expected.


ACE of SWORDS

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The air element. Intelligence, reason, justice, truth, clarity, perseverance.


Since June 2004 Stephanie Pui Mun Law, one of my favourite artists, is working on that tarot deck!

These images are very detailed and flowing, and the colors are deep but soft; really beautiful! Unfortunately for us, this deck probably will not be available until 2009, as she states on her website, but I can wait...

Shadowscapes Tarot by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law with detail closeups of many of the cards and prints of each image. Stay tuned!
Category: Tarot & Oracles |




Ambient Music Guide

Sitting, listening, chilling. Music for background or foreground. Music for tripping, for relaxing, or for making us uneasy and challenging us with a new perspective. At the start of the third millennium music to chill-out to makes perfect sense. As the Western world becomes faster, more complex, more rife with nervous energy, the joy of listening to instrumental music that expresses both our external environment (both man-made and natural) and our inner spaces (both emotional and mental) is now more popular than at any other time in the history of recorded sound.

Such music has many names: ambient, new age, contemporary instrumental, experimental, spacerock, chillout, ambient techno, ambient trance, mood music, world music, new acoustic music. The protests of some musicians and A&R people notwithstanding, I believe one of these names in particular - ambient - is a perfectly useful signpost for the phenomenon. It points to music across a hugely diverse spectrum: from the gorgeous solo guitar of John Fahey to the environmental techno of Biosphere; from the minimal avant-pop of The Penguin Cafe Orchestra to the chilled-out Celtic ambience of Enya and her clones.

A history of ambient sound - take a short trip through the ambient universe.

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Further Essential releases & key artists with reviews of some of the best albums in the world of ambient, downtempo and chillout spanning the 1960s to the present day.
And of course an Audio Page, where you can listen 24/7 ambient music.

This and more you will find at the Ambient Music Guide - A Guide To Essential Ambient & Downtempo Albums by Mike Watson (aka Mike G)
Category: Music & Voices |


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