Solstice, Part 3
More links I hope you'll enjoy . . .
After writing yesterday about the two days of Solstice—I decided to take advantage of this year’s doubleness to share a few more ideas. Here are two newsletters I think of as “Tarot-adjacent,” meaning that they share a spirit of creative exploration.
And I’ll share a delightful tradition I’d never heard of til now!
Starting with my favorite newsletter of any kind:
If you haven’t given yourself the free gift of Clara’s daily notes, I hope you will subscribe right away. Nothing better could happen to your life in 2024.
Clara ends each day’s note with gentle words of encouragement, and a brilliantly selected quotation—like so:
The Art of Enchantment is completely different in style and intent from The Daily Respite—but Sharon Blackie’s focus on archetypes, fairy tales, and “the mythic imagination” will overlap with several approaches to Tarot study.
For this year’s Solstice, she shares:
Blackie’s eclectic reading list ranges from Katherine Mansfield’s Journal to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere to . . .
I don’t often read fiction—but I’m very tempted by this description!
If you love books, I think you’ll be delighted to know about jolabokaflod. I’ve just heard of it, via two of the writing newsletters I receive.
Jules Buono at The Literary Lifestyle explains:
Jolabokaflod is an Icelandic tradition that translates into English as “the Christmas book flood.” It began in World War II, as paper was not rationed in this book-loving country. Icelanders give book gifts to each other on Christmas Eve and read them with a glass of hot chocolate.
And Daniel David Wallace has organized a “communal Jolabokaflod” where writers on his mailing list can share links and a few notes about their own books or stories. I’d love to try something like that next year, with a place to share thoughts about favorite Tarot books.
If you want to know lots more about this appealing tradition—just click here!
I have some Yuletide thoughts queued up for next week. See you then! C