Happy New Year, friends! Welcome to 2024! How is it 2024? Time is fake, I guess!
Today I’m bringing you a couple of exciting things: the Magic Pantry Tarot suit of Wands and… a huge multi-author queer book sale! Let’s start off with the cards:
The Suit of Wands
The suit of Wands in the Magic Pantry Tarot is represented by herbs and spices! A crucial part of cooking that adds so much flavor and creativity to the dishes we eat. It’s one of the broadest categories I tackled in this deck, and it was difficult to narrow down which spices and herbs I wanted to showcase out of dozens if not hundreds available. Spices are also heavily dependent on culture. What I ended up with is based on what I personally learned to cook with and like to use.
Here we go:
Which one is your favorite? Mine is definitely the Garlic card.
Because of my IBS and GERD, I can’t really eat garlic anymore (or onions… curse you oligosaccharides) without triggering one or both. I can tolerate small amounts of dried garlic in foods, but raw is absolutely out of the question. I know, I know! I used to be one of those people who tripled the amount of garlic cloves in any given recipe. How do I live??
The truth is that after avoiding garlic for over five years now, I find it overpowering in both taste and smell. I don’t miss it as much as I did initially, because my body’s response to it has changed. Wild! That’s the main factor behind my depiction of garlic in this deck, aside from its use in protective magic and its antibacterial properties.
Now, onto another exciting thing.
Kraken & Friends Queer Book Sale and Personality Quiz
I’m pleased to announce that I am one of the “friends” in the Kraken and Friends book sale, which starts today, January 17, 2023, and goes through January 22nd.
Thirty indie authors with queer SFF books gathered in a single fun sale! On the special page set up by author Claudie Arsenault, you can browse these 99¢ books by identities, genre, and other filters, or take our fun personality quiz to find out which of our queer protagonists you are!
The Thread That Binds is included in this sale, so if you’ve been looking to pick up the first Eternal Library ebook, now’s a great time to do so. You can find links to different places to get it here.
One of The Thread That Binds characters is featured in the personality quiz, of course! If you take the quiz and get Rhiannon, let me know in the comments. I got Heron from Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin!
Yep, sounds like me, haha! I’ll have to check this book out and see who Heron is…
Once again, Happy New Year! Here’s hoping that we can do our best to work towards a better world in 2024. <3