Author: Scorpio “What name is it?” asked one of the Pentacles on reception. “Fred.” “Just Fred? Isn’t there a family name?” “Fred,” came the stolid reply. “We don’t have a Fred with no family name on the list……” “Oh, just give me one of them sticky labels and I’ll do it meself.” The stocky man […]
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Court-ly Hospitality: Open House with the Wands
Author: Scorpio As it was a pleasant summer morning I was sitting in my conservatory with my morning tea when there was a loud banging at the front door. I sighed. Perhaps they would go away. The banging became more insistent so I reluctantly went inside to open the front door. A young person in […]
Court-ly Hospitality: Cups
Author: Scorpio The Cups family had invited me to an evening meal with them. I had never been to their house before although I had seen it, whitewashed and perched on a hill facing the road and overlooking the beach at the rear. There was a low white picket fence separating the garden from the […]
Mercury Retrograde 24 March to 16 April 2018
Written by: Scorpio Mercury moved into the self-starting though sometimes impetuous sign of Aries on March 7th. The Sun joins Mercury in Aries on 20th March at 16.17 GMT, the Spring equinox, and the start of the astrological year. Mercury turns retrograde four days later. Aries is a Fire sign that likes to get things […]
Court-ly Hospitality: Pentacles
Author: Scorpio I was invited to afternoon tea by the Pentacle family. The King and Queen of Pentacles run a well-regarded catering and hospitality school at Pentacle Manor and the family live in a large house in the grounds of the manor but shielded from it by a well-kept beech hedge. I found my way […]
Court-ly Hospitality: Swords
Author: Scorpio I was invited to lunch with the Sword family. Their front garden was rather untidy with a few brambles about the place and some stray thistles among some badly-pruned rose-bushes with sharp thorns. The path to the front door contained some sharp flints which were painful to walk on. I banged the sword-shaped […]
