I had an idea at the beginning of the month and finding myself at the end of October and the idea still unrealised, I sat down and made it happen. It’s not much of a thing but having visualised it, I needed to make it real. So here’s a little audio card for the season….
Author: Kate Laity
All-Purpose Writer & Arcane Artist
Conduits of the Unseen
Let me urge you, since there are a few days left, to do what you can to see Conduits of the Unseen: Women Artists Imagine Other Worlds at the Andrew Edlin Gallery just south of Canal [but do avoid Canal at all costs — ugh, the gauntlet of hawkers that fill the pavement!]. To the…
Animal Mummies
I headed up to the Berkshires on Friday to meet up with fab gal pal Stephanie to catch the Animal Mummies exhibit at the apparently newly-renovated Berkshire Museum. It seems like ages since I’ve been up that way but it’s always a lovely drive and not that far. Still haven’t made it to Edith Wharton’s…
Be Surreal, I Beg You
I am still snowed under with October work: Bridging the Invisible this weekend and How Tarot Became Magic next week, but I want to pause to recommend some reading to you that will give you 1) power 2) political resistance and most importantly 3) joy. Okay, some pain, too, just to acknowledge where we are…
Recommended *Free* Reads
I have a bunch of things to post — including certain tarot exhibits! — but trying as ever to do many things all at once and not wanting to neglect things here for too long, I thought I might share a few new reads that are free and interesting. If you’re following my witterings, chances…
How The Tarot Became Magic
HOW THE TAROT BECAME MAGIC with Dr Kate Laity Saturday, October 24, 5:00-6:30 pm Of course you know that Tarot is full of magic — but that wasn’t always known. The card game invented in fifteenth century Italy only developed an occult tradition in eighteenth century France. Why then? Who started it? What kicked it…
Monsters & Gentlemen
Quite at random — because we seldom agree on anything to watch — Bertie and I watched Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story after we finished the second series of The Gentlemen. Both have a lot of blood flowing, or rather spattering. The screen and characters are frequently awash with red. Very wince-worthy! Ryan Murphy and…
Vicarious Tarot
There’s still a little over a week to see “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions” at the Morgan Library in NYC; if you can get there, I strongly recommend that you do if you have even a marginal interest in tarot. It’s a fantastic exhibition with both the original fifteenth century cards from the Visconti-Sforza deck…
Finding Balance at Equinox
I’m not really much of one for balance; I tend toward obsessions. I wouldn’t say I either love something or loathe it. But I am more than happy to put my blinders on and ignore a great many things as long as they need not have an impact on my life. Unfortunately, there’s a lot…
Spooky Sunday: The Drummer
Joseph Addison: THE DRUMMER, or THE HAUNTED HOUSE A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty’s servants: 1715 I believe I hunted this play down because of Doug Skinner’s Music from Elsewhere which I have been reading for a while and quite enjoying but progress through it has been…