Dear Lady Diana, I'm So Grateful For Your Blog And For You. I Just Bought My First Deck (Rider Waite

Dear Lady Diana, I'm so grateful for your blog and for you. I just bought my first deck (Rider Waite 😍) and I'll be performing your tutorial on how to learn tarot in one day. I'm so excited but I'm a bit insecure about the keyword part. I'm not a very intuitive or visual person and I might end up choosing totally wrong keywords for the cards. 😢 Could you please give me any pointers please? Thank you so very much. 🙏

Key Meanings for All 78 Tarot Cards

Frankly, that method will never work unless you choose the keywords yourself. If you do not assign your own meanings, the exercise will be no different from memorizing random words from a book or the internet. Your mind will never retain them within a day. But here is a list to give you an idea anyway.

NPs with a crush

ENTP: *online* Eyyy the stars are beautiful but you’re lighting up my world the most tonight *cringes, throws phone, dies inside*

INTP: *muttering when alone* Apparently I’m intoxicated with chemical miracles and the overindulgence of hope, so that’s fucking fun, fucking thank you very much.

ENFP: Oh god. Do they like me?? Do they not??? Just give me a sign! Shoot, talk to them. Uhm, uh – “what’s your favorite color?” Damnit! Think, think…

INFP: *writing* …and when I am captivated by the light in your eyes I again lament how love is humanity’s greatest double-edged sword. *IRL* “Hi” *cries inside*

one of the best pieces of writing advice i’ve ever gotten:

if a scene isn’t working, change the weather.

it sounds stupid, but seriously, it works. thank u to my screenwriting professor for this wisdom

this month, I am am trying to start and complete “the compendium” - a catalogue of thirty outfits for thirty different characters from original worldbuilds.

be sure to follow me on twitter @ sabattons to catch them as they go up

Practicing the Art of Letting Go

You’ll Need:

1 white tea candle

1 fallen leaf

Sea salt

An amethyst

A pen

Procedure:

Create a ring of sea salt and light the tea candle

Write the full name of the person you wish to let go of on the fallen leaf

Use the amethyst to trace the salt circle 3 times while repeating the phrase: “I will let go of those who are not meant for me.”

Trace 3 circles on your forehead with the amethyst repeating “I will let go of (their full name).”

Take the fallen leaf and begin burning it in the tea candle. Feed all negative emotions associated with that person into the flame. Focus on your intent as the leaf burns completely.

Take a deep breath, then with the utmost intent say “I am free” and break the circle.

“Grief and rage - you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die. There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you - may cleanse you of your darkness.”

Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Give me blood and rage and / a heart for horror; teach me to be / tough enough to face this world / still standing. Make a Fury of me.”

Elizabeth Hewer, from “Finding Ariadne” in Wishing for Birds

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”

Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Mumford & Sons, “Lover’s Eyes”

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself,”

Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“…is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape.”

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“We, hurt by ourselves, keen / to be hurters and keen / to be hurt back deep inside. / We, like weapons laid / beside anger asleep.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poetry of Rilke; “Antistrophes” (tr. Edward Snow)

“…she did not allow herself tears. When she did cry, she would explain her tears in this way: ‘I am not weeping, I am bursting with rage.’”

Gabriella Fiori, from Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography

“Isn’t all that rage so ugly? / And isn’t it mine, still? / Good god, isn’t it mine?”

Ashe Vernon, from “Buried,” Not a Girl

Ada Limón, from “The Good Fight”

“What are we made of but hunger and rage?”

Anne Carson, excerpt of To Compostela