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Spiral Tarot - Kay Steventon

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Happy Valentines Day! For the next week, the Steventon Street DLC is on sale for only $3.75 USD.

Get it here: https://peanutparade.itch.io/steventon-street-dlc

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"My website at www.recess.co.uk contains audio samples – one of which is a sample tune."

Quote randomly selected from page 237 of John Steventon's nonfiction book DJing for Dummies.

Quote was selected at random from a book chosen at random from my local library.

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Delightful Tropical Escape with Luxury Vacation Villa in Steventon Exuma

The Exuma Cays is a popular tourist vacation destination known for its stunning beaches, crystal-clear waters, and world-class resorts in the Bahamas. With over 365 islands and cays, Exuma offers a wide range of activities for tourists, from water sports to cultural experiences. One of the main attractions in the Exuma Cays is its pristine beaches. With miles of white sand and crystal-clear water, visitors can enjoy swimming, snorkeling, and sunbathing. The most famous beach on the island is undoubtedly the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, which has been rated as one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

The Exuma is known for its stunning beaches, crystal-clear waters, and relaxed atmosphere. It is a popular destination for those seeking a peaceful and picturesque escape. One of the main draws in this 2 bedroom villa rentals Exuma Bahamas isits comforting amenities, blend of luxury & privacy, situated steps away from famous Big D’s restaurant & Conch Spot & lighthouse restaurant & Ice cream parlor. With pristine white sand and clear turquoise waters, the island's beaches are some of the most beautiful in the Bahamas. Many visitors spend their days lounging on the sand, soaking up the sun, and swimming in the sea. Swimming with pigs and nurse sharks is popular tourist activity in Exuma. It is a wonderful vacation destination that offers a perfect blend of natural beauty, adventure, and relaxation.

Another popular attraction in Steventon Exuma is the Thunderball Grotto. These underwater caves were featured in the James Bond film “Thunderball” and had since become a popular spot for snorkelers and swimmers. Visitors can explore the cave's coral walls, swim through its narrow passages, and even jump from its cliffs into the water below. And well-furnished Steventon Bahamas vacation villa with Sea View Beach House can be your idyllic place to set base camp to explore top tourist sites and activities like Sea Aquarium, Warderick Wells, Pig Beach, and water sports, fishing, sailing, and more in the Steventon, Exumas.  In addition to its beaches, Steventon is also home to a number of other natural attractions. One of the most popular is the Blue Hole, a large underwater sinkhole that is popular with snorkelers and divers. The surrounding waters are teeming with colorful marine life, making it a must-visit for anyone interested in underwater exploration.

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#FebHUEary23

Scavenger Hunt Game

Hosted by GlitterbyInk & EllasEdge

Day 12: Sapphire

Celestial Tarot

by Kay Steventon and Brian Clark

Published by US Games

[expressions-of-nature]

Higger Tor, England by Dave Steventon

[thethirdromana]

I'm thinking about Dracula and standardised time.

Before the introduction of the railways, people kept time by the rising and setting sun. That meant that every town was effectively its own little time zone. The college of Christ Church, Oxford, still keeps what would historically have been Oxford time - five minutes behind GMT/BST.

None of that matters if your fastest means of travel is the horse; you just adjust to local time whenever you travel somewhere new. But it does matter when you have a railway connecting towns at a much greater speed. Early railway timetables carried notes on the adjustments needed:

LONDON TIME is kept at all the Stations on the Railway, which is about 4 minutes earlier than READING time; 5½ minutes before STEVENTON time; 7½ minutes before CIRENCESTER time; 8 minutes before CHIPPENHAM time; 11 minutes before BATH and BRISTOL time; and 14 minutes before BRIDGEWATER time.

By the 1850s it was - mostly - obvious that this couldn't continue, and the UK was (again, mostly, see Christ Church, Oxford) standardised on to 'railway time', based on telegraph signals from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. In the 1880s, global time zones were created.

In other words the standardisation of time was a process that was happening throughout Bram Stoker's lifetime and was in some respects still relatively new by the time of Dracula.

Dracula is a novel about the battle between the modern and the medieval. In that context, I think it's significant that it places so much weight not just on railways as an instrument for the Crew of Light, but very specifically on railway timetables, the instrument of standardised time.

Dracula is an opponent of ordered time, whether that's through unwinding Jonathan's watch so he can't track time any more, the way he interacts with night and day and drags Jonathan on to his schedule, and - above all - through vampirism itself as a means to immortality. Our heroes try to impose that order back on him.

Spoilers for the ending below the cut.

What I think is interesting is that it doesn't work. The railway isn't quick enough to get the Crew of Light to Galatz in time. They can't impose their notions on time on him; but equally, Dracula never manages to drag them entirely into his timelessness. And when it comes to the passage of time for all of them...

The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun.

Modernity can pretend to dictate and quantify the passage of time, and Dracula can pretend to have escaped the bounds of time altogether. But in the end, they're all equally subject to the power of the sun.

[elizabethan-memes]

Another novelist among the friends of the family was Jane’s favourite, Frances Burney, who had written Evelina and Cecilia, and who now was publishing her novel Camilla by subscription. A bit like crowd-funding today, subscribers got the privilege of having their names listed in the front of the finished book. The list for Camilla reads rather like a sisterhood of Georgian female novelists, because so many of them supported their fellow author. It includes a Mrs Radcliffe, and Miss Edgeworth (author of Belinda) and indeed a nineteen-year-old ‘Miss J. Austen of Steventon’, whose guinea must have been paid for her by her father.

Lucy Worsley, Jane Austen At Home

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

Symbols of Demeter: cranes, wheat ears, winged serpent, cornucopia, torches, crocus, myrtle, bees, the bull, the pig, honey.

Demeter arrives to her sacred Eleusis with her winged chariot carried by flying dragons, she will later on give this chariot as a present to the hero Triptolemus. This flying serpentine power seems wondrous; can we talk about a forgotten advanced ancient technology involved, or is it a symbol for the serpentine power also known as Shakti or Kundalini... From her realm that is earth the goddess seems to rise.

Art from the tarot deck: Ancient Feminine Wisdom of Goddesses and Heroines by Brian Clark and Kay Steventon.

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Migratory May Day 14: Western Tanager

Reference photo by Bob Steventon

Today's my birdiversary, one year since I started getting into birdwatching :)

[peanutparade]

Wyatt’s surprisingly sweet on his route. 💕

For the next week, the Steventon Street DLC is only $4.00 USD on itch.io, but if you become my patron, you can get the DLC for as little as a dollar. There’s also an exclusive extended demo of Promise & Prophecy over there, as well as a demo for the Aurore: Five Princes remaster, and early images of my upcoming VN, Stormrider, which will have a Patreon Exclusive demo sometime in January. Now is a really great time to become a patron!

[luhvelight]

🕯️Free Samhain/Halloween Reading 🎃

I embrace the deepest, cruelest, and most powerful parts of my soul. There is beauty in this recognition. In this pain, this loss and this grief. I not only welcome this darkness but I relish it.

Samhain is one of the eight sabbats that is celebrated on October 31st. It is believed during this time the veil is lifted in which spirits can interact with the living. Changes in weather, evenings getting dark sooner and our overall moods are heavily affected by the seasonal tidings Samhain brings. Although we are truly blessed by Samhain as it encourages us to analyze the deepest, cruelest & most darkest parts of our soul that can potentially lead to an intense emotional release…

In light of this celebration of darkness, I have decided to open up the opportunity for a small but hopefully significant Samhain/Halloween Reading 🖤

In this free reading you will recieve…

An affirmation card (from the Affirmations of a Fairy Cat set)

A special Halloween/Samhain representational symbol

One (1) tarot card pulled from my trusty Spiral Tarot deck by Kay Steventon

I will not answer to direct messages, ask only! Simply just reach out to me in my ask that you are interested in receiving this reading. Telling me your initials and sun/moon sign also is helpful aswell!

Recieving the requests as asks only, makes it easier to keep track of how many readings I have :) Please note, that I will try my best to be punctual as I work full time so that I can buy myself & my loved ones sweets & treats.

Disclaimer: Tarot does not and should never replace medical or professional advice. Your reading also cannot offer any advice regarding legal, business or financial matters. Nor should Tarot affect your ability to make decisions regarding your health or personal finances or business. Tarot does not predict the future or your future! Tarot is simply for entertainment purposes only and gives guidance regarding a current situation.

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