Dr. Alexis Turner
@surliertexan
Taking the scenic route through life. Formerly: Harvard PhD in the history of science. Currently: beekeeping in Wales Tarot, historical research, writing & editing, tutoring & consulting at drturners.com
Here is a picture of us earning our balls on passing the class. See if you can guess which one is me!
For K: Trust yourself and go for it! You wouldn't have been eyeing it for this long if it weren't the right choice.
Today's featured deck is the Dreams of Gaia Tarot deck by Ravynne Phelan. I like how it makes the elemental underpinnings of the Rider-Smith-Waite deck explicit by rendering pentacles as earth, swords as air, cups as water, and wands as fire. Plus it's just a damn pretty deck.
If you could use a little extra abundance at the moment, the divine feminine's got you covered! Put your faith out into the universe and keep your eyes open for unexpected gifts.
For 🌸 who requested that I draw a card for their shadow: Overthinking + anxiety can lead to an overly critical inner voice, especially when it comes to judging your own actions.
It's been far too long since I've done witchy stuff on here! For the next few hours, I'll be offering cards, blessings, and magic for those who request it. Drop a tip in USD$ to Paypal or Venmo (@surliertexan) or in £GBP to revolut.me/drturners and let me know what you'd like me to send your way.
I have decided that laverbread is a good food Britain has given the world.
Do you think Susan Sontag would cry and scream and throw up if she knew her words were being used in an eat pray love style advertisement for a cheap hotel chain or nah
Please enjoy the only cursed picture of me in existence in which I am wearing a dress
Hot take: bibliographies are superior in every way to modern search engines. Yes, this includes search engines on modern library catalogues.
Fairfields Farm "Bacon and Tomato Flavour." Literally just tastes like sweaty, cheap BBQ sauce. I have been robbed.
Being a bitch on Wikipedia as I eat my Lincolnshire sausage for breakfast.
This was not intentional, but the three herbal wines I'm making are a very pretty array of colours!
If you had asked me as a child raised by a rabidly dogmatic anti-theist whether I would be wholeheartedly agreeing with the Pope as a middle aged hippie dirtbag, I would have assumed you had lost your mind. And yet. Here we are.
Several new bee sightings today. IDs were a little tricky, but I think we have: An unknown cuckoo bee(?) An early bumblebee A brown banded carder bee A white zoned furrow bee
This one was so eager to get the nectar that it booted this thick legged flower beetle out of his spot as I was standing there.