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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Death & Judgment represent either side of major shifts in our personal timelines. Death asks us to come in close and honor that timeline’s close. Judgment asks us to keep our eyes towards the future, towards the big new yes. And drawing them TOGETHER? Well, shit, dude. Cards from The Brady Tarot.

Two Tarot cards stuck into the earth, old leaves and mulch surrounding them at the foot of bushes of Blazing Stars. There are no flowers down here, just beautiful green stems and leaves. On the left is Death, depicting a human skull with amaranth blooming from its eye sockets, a beetle taking a sip of water dripping from one of them. The skull sits atop soil, just below it, a saber tooth tiger skull, and below that, buried deep and emerging from the bottom of the card, the skull of a tyrannosaurus rex. On the right is Judgment. A massive flock of little brown bats bursts forth from a cave in the mountains at high noon, led by an enormous golden eagle.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The Page of Swords seeks high ground to gain a better vantage point. He’s inexperienced, but he’s confident despite his nerves, and he knows he’ll learn. As he practices, his nerves will disappear, his mind will quiet, he’ll feel more stable on the earth below him, and he’ll grow into the Hermit. 💕

The Hermit and the Page of Swords from the Smith-Waite Centennial deck are nestled amongst leaf litter in the top of a decaying log. The Hermit depicts an elderly man with a white beard, standing against a teal background and wearing a hooded cream-colored robe. He is holding a lantern with a six-pointed star inside. To his right is the Page of Swords, a young man standing atop a hill, blue sky filled with fluffy clouds behind him. The Page wears a pinkish tunic over a yellow shirt and leggings with red boots, and holds a sword up and off to the side, with his long chestnut hair whipping in the wind.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

MNEMOSYNE 🫧 While reflecting on the Moon card I reread my dream journal, and found frustrating excerpts from a setting I had not realized had been recurring for months. The plot might be different, but the house was always the same.

A tiny, cream-colored book lies open on the floor, propped open by a white apophylite crystal and leaning on a pale blue celestite. It is mostly out of focus, the edges of everything appearing slightly blue in the pale sunlight.

A large piece of paper titled Mnemosyne Dream Spread and marked by creases lies open on a wooden floor. A sketch of the moon graces the top right of the page, and atop the paper lies a pyramid of Tarot cards from The Fountain Tarot. The left side of the paper is held down by purple fragments of lepidolite crystal, and a white chunk of sparkling apophyllite. Laid open over the bottom right of the paper is a small zine open to a spread depicting dream fragments and a drawing of a blueberry bush over arched windows, a humpback whale swimming in from the right.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

astro bisky, I present unto you: my toddler’s first poop in the potty 😌

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

peregrine falcon at pictured rocks national lakeshore munising, michigan, june 2022

a photo from below, looking up at the belly of a peregrine falcon coasting across a cloudy sky. their belly and the undersides of their wings are cream, heavily barred with a deep brown, and their bright, thick yellow feet are clasped below them.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I've just opened bookings for the second half of January, through the end of February! Cartomancy sessions with me are an hour long. Come with a particular question or project in mind, or just as you are, and we'll open with a chat to decide what kinds of spreads will suit your needs.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

belated scene report (today was a good day)

a view up the slope of my steep and green-filled garden, bright red bee balm popping out of the top, the sky bright blue full of strange whiskery clouds and lens flare.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

late summer stonecrop is en route!!

amongst a sea of light green buds, a few pale pink tiny flowers begin to open

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I SAID NO PICTURES YOU MOTHERF—

The carpenter bee hops off the hyssop, hovering in midair

and flies straight up into my camera, getting so close she warps out of focus

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

the more we get together the happier we'll bee

two small, fluffy bumblebees climb pale purple hyssop flowers, a tall full garden fading out of focus in the background.

a shiny black wasp with iridescent wings climbs through mountain mint flowers

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I don’t need to be looking at that but thank you

a screenshot of my phone’s Lock Screen with a notification from Sky Guide that the Moon and Mars are in conjunction, and the best viewing time was at 8:42pm

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

my Guinevere, may she rest in peace, probably has some ideas

a fluffy white Guinea Pig enters from the left to inspect Tarot cards arrayed on the wood floor

the Guinea Pig places her paw on the 2 of Pentacles and perks up

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and in the hour of our Death.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe

a tiny green inchworm nibbles on the petals of a bright yellow coreopsis flower, nestled in a bed of thin green leaves

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

like please be so serious with me right now

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

annuals are truly fuckn bananas (coupla Common Evening Primrose going buck wild)

a huge bush of 3-4 feet tall spiky green evening primroses emerges next to my patio wall, getting ready to flower

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is the matriarch of the pride I met in the Maasai Mara three years ago. Our guide told us that by their count, she had an unheard of _ninety percent_ hunt success rate. In this photograph she's presiding over one of her pride's one-year-olds playing with one of that year's cubs.

An enormous female lion with a lightly scarred face sits, relaxed in the grass, next to a small cub and one of his older brothers.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

OMG they look just like mine!! this was two weeks ago at this latitude hehe

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Pick up your own little copy in my Ko-fi shop. 💕 ko-fi.com/s/b78a6ec6e7

A small green fly perches in a sun spot atop a cream-colored zine lying in shadow in the grass, scattered about with pink peony petals. The zine is titled Death & the Coffin: Divining Endings through the lenses of Tarot, Lenormand, and Nature.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I'm using my zines to cultivate a sense of visiting a marsh witch to trade a piece of string or a berry for some knowledge. The inclusion of something special that's not in the public essay is deliberate, while still being designed to be relatively low cost and able to be popped right in the mail.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

bonus: here comes my new Bee Balm 🥹

A deep magenta-red flower bud unfolds from green leaves tipped red

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

this specific Anise Hyssop bush in my yard is one of my favorite people in all the planet and it is nearly their time to SHINE!!

a tiny lavender-colored hyssop bud emerges from a circle of yellow-green pointed leaves

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Do you like mail? Get this essay as a zine! Unfold it to reveal a spread for interpreting the Death card in any Tarot reading. ko-fi.com/s/b78a6ec6e7

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

sample choreography that has lived rent free in my body for nearly 20 years

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

he sang a lil song into my house today

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Today I am relaunching eightofpentacles.com, and with it, a project that has been near and dear to my heart for many months: Eight of Pentacles Press. With more details to come, my availability opens in mid-July to create work for lovers, artists, mystics, and makers. eightofpentacles.com/press/

Over a deep green image of moss dripping from slim trees, text reads "Introducing Eight of Pentacles Press."

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