Yeah I like her as an actor and I think she was a pretty good doctor but she just didn’t get the spectacular moments and speeches that some of the other doctors have gotten, which I thought was too bad. And I just couldn’t get into a lot of the stories she got.
@@madwitch9977 the lists really are never-ending aren’t they. It’s quite a good deck but I need to stop buying decks now to use the ones I have because I haven’t used it enough! Though I am using all the colourful ones now that it’s summer. I’ll probably pull it back out this winter - I do enjoy meditations about duality and to what degree it even exists.
@@madwitch9977 I often feel weirdly unsettled when I don’t have much time to read. It’s like somethings wrong! I’ve been a bookworm since I was very young.
Great video as always. The Bones Fall in a Spiral … woah, looked into it and added it to my wish list. I read about a contemporary necromancer recently in ‘Witches of America’ and let’s say his practices were not ethical (if this dude was even telling the truth) so I’m curious to read this approach! I really need to get ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ I see it all the time in used book stores. Oh my GOSH Soul Cats! 🐈⬛ I’ve never seen this before ( I don’t think 🤔) Gathering Moss was one of the best things I’ve read this year, or ever, really, and you’re realllly making me want to read Ulysses again but WHY would I do that to myself right now with everything I’m trying to get through 😂😭😭😭
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ulysses is really a whole reading project all by itself. It’s actually paused at the moment while I catch up on some of the other things on my ridiculous TBR, but I’ll definitely get back to it. There are just too many things to read! Though as soon as I get Robin Wall Kimmerer’s next book, I’ll temporarily drop everything else! I don’t recall having any serious ethical concerns about The Bones Fall in a Spiral (just difference in preference but that’s fine).
@@NicoleACottageWitch I can’t remember how many years ago I read Ulysses, but so much of it stuck with me even though I didn’t take any notes, I have some more James Joyce in the house that I should read. Yes, definitely need to read more Robin Wall Kimmerer. The reviews I’ve read re: the Necromancy book claim it’s quite the ethical approach, but in the book which I read, the guy was actually robbing graves.
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission oh yeah, grave robbing is not the way to go. Ugh. And I should have started with other Joyce. Instead I read Ulysses first a few years ago. It seems like it flows more easily now having read his other books.
@@NicoleACottageWitch it’s a controversial book and I don’t have quite the energy to discuss it in a wrap up yet lol but yeah, as I was saying, there’s no actual proof this guy actually DID what he claimed to do. Ulysses is the only Joyce I’ve read, yet I own most of his work! There’s just so much to read, and I don’t get to read as much as I used to, but I can’t stop lol
Ooo I bet this is going to be good! I watched the first 5 minutes and I have to tell you I impulsively bought the Craft Decadence Oracle 😂 I’ve seen it before and could no longer resist lol But I have to go to my daughter’s little band camp performance so I’ll watch the rest later 😊
The ‘tour de fleece’ 😂❤ I love that! Your knitting/crocheting/weaving skills far surpass mine, (I crochet) I’m in awe! Beautiful work. I love your decks, really nice collage work, and omg I’ve been looking for a Doctor Who deck for years 😊 So much fun! That cedar chest is so beautiful ❤
Thank you so much for the video…. It inspired me to acquire some of this decks to review on my channel as well. I just subscribed to your channel so I will be watching!
Wow! I am really amazed by all your projects and arts and crafts that you have been doing! I have been thinking about creating my own deck based on my father‘s art. He passed away a year ago and was a prolific artist. It’s very personal as you can imagine. I am still at the stage where I am visualizing it in my head, but not have actually taken any steps to turn it into reality yet. Anyway, please keep us up-to-date on all your crafty projects. This is very inspiring!
Holy deck studies, Batman! No wonder you're studied out! I can't blame you one bit. I'm not too far from finishing my Hellenic Oracle study. Once that's done, I think I'm also gonna chill for a bit 😆I'm still salty about the Literary Tarot guidebook 🥴Makes sense that you'd wanna create your own, and kudos to you for reading several of the works you were unfamiliar with!
Yeah, I’m taking a break for a bit! I hope your Hellenic Oracle study is going well. One of these days, I’ll study the Runic Oracle, but probably not for a while!
I am so impressed at the all the things you got done in a month! I'm studying the Witch Sister at the moment, totally love it. I'm feeling the Thoth itch too.
It’s so cool you work with the opera. Do you have any favorites? I went to the Met to see Le Nozze and Don Giovanni, a dream come true, 2 of my happiest memories.
Moby Dick is probably my all time favourite. I’ve done several new operas like Everest and Filumena that are pretty cool. I like the music to Carmen but that and Butterfly kept trying to kill me whenever I stage managed them! Everything that could go wrong did! Mozart is pretty reliably fun though I don’t feel the need to do the Magic Flute again. It’s much less stressful just operating the surtitles. Oh and Dutchman was a lot of fun too.
All signs are pointing me to Moby Dick lately! 😂 honestly, I have to familiarize myself with the opera, that’s so interesting!! (I’ve been excited to read the book for a few years now and keep waiting for the perfect time, I think todays the day). Yeah … there’s some stupid librettos out there 😂 Love Butterfly, and Magic Flute and Dutchman are favorites too, saw productions of those here in Boston. It’s difficult choosing favorites, I also love the operas of Rossini, Donizetti, Monteverdi … my favorite from the ‘contemporary’ category would be the Philip Glass triptych: Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha and Akhenaten, (Akhenaten being my first choice because I listen to it constantly!)
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I should listen to some Philip Glass opera. I’ve only listened to his piano music and love it. I remember glancing at the surtitles during Lucia Di Lammermoor (also very good and based on the Walter Scott novel), and thinking “oh this is why it’s in Italian!” Some of the lyrics were so ridiculous in English! Oh and that reminds me, I also love the opera Manon by Massenet but I haven’t listened to it in a long time. And yes, the book Moby Dick is so beautiful! It is a bit meandering sometimes (I think he spends quite some time describing knots and types of whales and things like that), but it’s so beautiful I’ve read it twice.
I LOVE that someone finally did a VR to this tag! Been waiting & was quite shocked tbh 😂 thought it was brilliant. I absolutely LOVED your choices/truly appreciate how authentic deck(s) were to you & your native land & felt experiences (but of COURSE🥰)!!! Couldn’t agree more btw; life is indeed ‘weird’ 😜but hey! Thank goodness we got the plants as franndsss to sit through the ‘weirdness’ with 🙃 Side note: if ya haven’t seen the Green Planet yet, do itttt! Ha it’s just planet earth for plants and made my heart so happy so sounds like you’d enjoy 😉 Loved everything about this/thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
I will look into the Green Planet. I haven’t seen it. And I agree, this was a brilliant tag, though maybe a bit more intimidating than “lighter” tags! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully more people will do it sometime. Plant love always. 💚🌿
Hi Nicole. I am also trying to be more discerning in my deck purchases this year. I went through a period where I was seeing a deck review on RU-vid, then immediately buying the deck if it was a reasonable price. But now I am doing more research, and deciding if a particular deck is needed in my collection for a particular type of work. If not, then it just goes on my wish list for another time. I am also waiting for tarot of echoes to be available mass market. I would also love to have the Arthurian tarot in English. I don’t know if it will ever be published in English, so maybe I need to bite the bullet and just study it in French using a translator. Thanks for sharing!
That’s so sweet you found a copy of the Da Vinci Enigma at that book sale, for 4 dollars! The annotated Apocrypha sounds super intriguing. Can’t wait to watch your book sale haul vid, I’ve been so busy, I’m so behind!
Yeah I snapped that Da Vinci tarot up pretty quickly! Used book sales are so dangerous but so much fun - I usually go with certain subject areas in mind but then I’m bound to find unexpected things too. I’ve got a bit of a backlog of videos to catch up on too. Oh well!
I bought some James Joyce in May as well! Not Ulysses (im too scared 😂) but A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Dubliners. I'm so curious about Step By Step Irish.
Hi Nicole. Your voice was really clear Despite the rain and thunder. I thought the storm was really cool in the background. I’m curious about something… Do you typically plant vegetables and herbs in the same pot? Does that work well? Is there a rhyme or reason to how you pair varieties into one pot? At 6:58, I noticed a bunch of deep reddish/pinkish plants in your pots, but I don’t remember you mentioning what they were. Those are gorgeous! I love the idea of a native plant rescue. I have never been involved in that before. I will have to look into it in my area.
I do usually plant herbs and vegetables together. Usually some herbs like basil go with tomatoes because their roots don’t need as much space as the tomatoes and then chives go with strawberries to keep the bugs away but beyond that I haven’t gotten much into companion planting. Mostly it’s just a matter of necessity on a balcony! The reddish flowers were peony leaves from some grocery store flowers that now have a second life as mulch. Though I do have some purple oxalis out there, but it’s struggling. The plant rescue was a lot of fun and very interesting but also a bit sad because that land is about to get bulldozed.
Hello! Thank you for doing this VR! 🤗 I really enjoyed your choices, especially the DWT, the Witch Sister Tarot & the Sea Soul Journeys Oracle... L♡ ve those decks! 🥰☺️
Hello Nicole! What a treat to see your VR! 🤗 (For some reason, RU-vid didn't notify me & instead I stumbled upon your video in my feed) It was so lovely to get to know you through your deck choices. Thank you so much for doing a VR & for the shout-out & the kind compliment about my channel 🌸☺️ Happy weekend to you! ☀️
Thanks! It’s an incredible but bonkers show. I tried to explain it to my family once and they definitely think I’m nuts (I mean, they did before but they really do now!). It’s so much fun and has often pushed the boundaries of representation on TV, which I appreciate.
The pink is unapologetically there you're right, and I like the range of pinks used. Alas this collage deck isn't my vibe and I don't know what it is that causes collage decks to not sway me (except for one). The guidebook seems well made with good info. In any case thank you for the flip through!
Philosophy Bites Back sounds like fun, adding it to my list, you always have the best recommendations. The Jhumpa Lahiri books sound fascinating! The art of translation is one of my obsessions, and one of the reasons I’m so drawn to Nabokov (did you hear about the famous feud with Edmund Wilson over a translation of Eugene Onegin? Lol) I told my sister once, that I’d love to read Dylan Thomas translated in another language and then translated back into English again to see what we’d get!
Oh no, another beautiful deck 😫😫😫😂 I’ve never seen the Marea, what the heck?!? I loveeee Fortune’s Wheelhouse. Speaking of which, have you looked into M.M. Meleen’s decks at all?
I haven’t yet but maybe I should. I also saw that @rosehoneyritual posted about The Alchemy of Thoth deck, which is very tempting (and which I’d somehow never seen before)!
@@NicoleACottageWitch I love Annie Farrar’s Daydreaming in Situ. I bought the Marea this morning 😱 I wasn’t going to, but I was worried I would miss out and regret it. A beautiful deck and I love the emotions in the minors and courts. I love Thoth minors ♥️ thank you for showing it!
This deck is lovely! I love the art on the original but I have to admit that the atmosphere of so many cards in the Marea are unlike anything I've ever seen. Cant wait to see how you use it, if you end up showing it in your monthly wrapups!
It’s funny you mention Goth Lit November because I have been planning for it myself 😂 I had a bit of carryover from last year, so I definitely plan on doing it again! On the Epic of Gilgamesh: Have you ever heard of ‘The Forest’ by David Byrne (of the Talking Heads)? It’s music he wrote inspired by Gilgamesh and it’s set during the Industrial Revolution. How cool is that? I was planning on talking about it in an upcoming video actually. It’s soooo beautiful, and I know you like orchestral stuff too 😊 one of my favorite albums!
Ok, I’m back quickly to say I just started it and, for reasons I can’t explain, it reminds me immediately of Holst’s the Planets, so I’ll probably like it. I really need to learn to talk about music in even a slightly coherent way!
@@NicoleACottageWitch oh good, I’m glad you think you’re going to like it! I love David Byrne and everything he did with The Talking Heads … genius. And don’t worry; you’re fine! I feel inept myself sometimes because my partner is a professional musician and we talk about music a lot, but I’m familiar with some terms pertaining to classical music that he isn’t, and he doesn’t understand how it is I’ve read some of the books I’ve read (by Charles Rosen etc) because he wouldn’t be able to get through them lol
I had similar thoughts on Master and Margarita: I did really enjoy it, but I’ve read a bunch of Russian lit and I didn’t consider it the best of the best as the Russian who recommended it to me did (we are not friends anymore, but it’s not Bulgakov’s fault) 😂 love Chekhov but I haven’t read The Black Monk! Sounds like I need to get my hands on a copy. I think I remember reading that Oroonoko was based on a true story but I’m not sure. It’s weird I haven’t read Madame Bovary, but there’s so many books to read 😫 I read a bunch of Gertrude Stein a few years ago and I find her fascinating. I’m going to look up Blind Owl! 🦉
So many books to read! And I want to read them all! It’s an ongoing problem. I definitely need to read more Chekhov. I read some of his plays ages ago for my undergrad but I’ve been sleeping on his shorting fiction. I’d say Stein is up next but I’m also reading about 7 books right now and really need to finish at least one of them first!
@@NicoleACottageWitch it’s a definite problem for me too. I was reading 7 or 8 books recently myself … finished a couple recently so I’m making progress but yeah lol I read Chekhov plays for a theatre history course years ago and that’s how I discovered him, LOVED those courses. I forgot to mention: I think it’s cool you read the books which inspired operas. I haven’t read many actually; Eugene Onegin by Pushkin is the only one I can recall at the moment, but I read the librettos which accompany the operas I own. I love opera! 🥰
Omg I want to read everything all at once. Remembrance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time has been on my TBR for years… I bought a copy of Swann’s Way like … 10 years ago? Lol Thank you for the podcast recommendation; I don’t listen to those often but this sounds like a lot of fun. Much of Ulysses has stuck with me, and I read it maybe 6 years ago? Henry James is such an interesting person to me. I can’t say he’s my favorite either, but I’ve only read Wings of the Dove and some other short stories including Turn of the Screw, which I loved because it actually scared me, and I wasn’t expecting that. I think what makes it so scary is the fact it’s so elusive. I really want to read Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, I bought a copy after reading Death in Venice. Ok I’m still watching …. 😊
Really enjoying these videos. I always learn something new. I want to learn more about Iraq and Iran too. I added Stolen Harvest to my list … well, we’ll start there lol and yes: the Greeks are heavily sited in classic lit and that’s been one of the motivations for me too, when it comes to reading the works of the old, old blokes 😊
I’ve been reading a lot of the old blokes lately! Mostly because I’m studying Ulysses which references tonnes of them and it’s fun to get to know some of the connections-which writers inspired other writers, things like that.
Holy cow, you read so many books! I’m jealous! I have to watch this again and jot some titles down. I’m tempted to read the David Fromkin book again, because I read it ages ago. I’m excited for The Little Red Chairs. I think I need to read Dreams of Being Eaten Alive because woah … the Zambian space program? I’m so intrigued, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that. Also, chocolate mint sounds heavenly! I love mint in general, but struggle to make it thrive for longer periods of time.
I’ve listened to a lot of audiobooks lately. And I may have gotten more Edna O’Brien this month! I’ll start the Country Girls soon. I’ve tried to bring mint indoors over the winter and always end up killing it somehow so I’ll try to plant it outdoors soon and hopefully dry a bunch by the end of summer.
@@NicoleACottageWitch I think she’s fascinating, Edna O’Brien, I’ve read a handful, and own a few I have yet to read. I’ve never attempted growing anything edible outdoors; it’s not my wheelhouse, but I wish lol
This was great! Love the map! That would definitely motivate me to scratch everything off lol ‘Reading books about books’ made me laugh: that’s how I discovered Borges lol 😊 You know what’s crazy, I haven’t read Kite Runner? Definitely have to do that. I was thrilled to find Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘My Garden Book’ in a local thrift store, and I need more … she’s been on my TBR for ages! And I agree: I read 100 Years of Solitude some years ago, and I was like Holyyy … Wow. There are some passages I’ll never forget.
The Kite Runner’s rave reviews are well-deserved, in my opinion. Now I’ll have to look up My Garden Book. I didn’t know she’d written a book about her garden. And I think 100 Years of Solitude is one of those books I should reread sometime. It’s been too long since I read it.
Nice looking pen! All of the decks shown have been on my radar, especially Medieval Feathers, and I’m a weirdo who loves pigeons 😂 I can’t help it: I love their funny gait and the sounds they make lol
Haha, I get it! I’m sorry for your balcony. I don’t enjoy the mess left on our car either, although it’s not from pigeons lol Most people I know find them annoying too, so I’m not offended. I also love seagulls. They have so many interesting calls and dialogues with each other, it’s just endless entertainment for me, but my brothers call them ‘flying rats’ 😂
Oh WOW I love the study deck you made!! If you’d be open to sharing more of it and maybe explaining your process etc (unless you have already and I’ve missed it) , I would absolutely LOVE to see it 💛 your photos are stunning and would be so interested in how you assigned each herb/plant to a card ☺️
