We’re closing this blog and merging it with with the main Silver Path site. So, please update your subscriptions to feeds.feedburner.com/SilverPathTarot to make sure you still get our news and specials.

Kore is “out of commission” right now because she’s moving to another city but I’m still available for readings during this time.

You may notice a lot of changes here even from minute to minute. We’re in the process of reincarnating, part of which involves merging our blog with the main Silver Path site. Kore and I want to make sure that our new incarnation is the easiest to follow and the niftiest to use.

We hope that you’ll bear with us as we establish ourselves as a duo once more.

In the mean time check out our close-out deals on Etsy The Silver Path on Etsy and you can still order readings and tea from us at Our Cauldron.

We are thankful to each and every one of you who donates to acquire our tarot services at this time as it helps us to cover our collective outstanding medical and psychiatric bills.

You may have noticed there was no Guess What? Wednesday today. That’s because I was busy finishing transferring our jewelry items to Etsy and putting our tea products on sale.

We regret to announce that we’re closing this current incarnation. We’ve been unable to keep up with going to market and none of the partners have enough equity to keep plugging along with the business in the current climate. It’s our hope that we can get our existing products off the shelves at this time. I know I will continue to offer tarot services as I have done previously by myself after the door closes on our Herbal Tea and Jewelry line.

Our teas are being sold still through our shopping cart here at 25% off given the Etsy fee for multiple products would mean we’d have to actually raise the price which we don’t want to do. Jewelry is 25% off on Etsy if you use the coupon code: CLOSEOUT. I’ll be putting some of our jewelry supplies up on Etsy over the next week or so for those of you who are fellow jewelry makers who might make use of those supplies.

We thank you for your support over the past year.

P.S. tarot readings are still 10% off through the end of the year. Get your 2012 predictions!

To all. We’re back online! For real this time!
Finally, right?

So, take advantage of our 10% off readings before they run out at the end of the year. We’re happy to offer you a little guidance for what 2012 will bring for you!

Congratulations to Merna who won our Guess What? We’re Back quiz. Thankfully the connection was “with it” enough that I could sort all that out via Facebook. I’ll be catching up on the one-cards this afternoon once I’m done with some transatlantic catch-up for the holidays.

Keep those you love close-by and make sure they know how much you appreciate them. Enjoy the rest of the holiday season! Until next time!

Prefaced with: I won’t tell you how long I’ve been trying to post this for (four hours) okay, maybe I will ;_;

This week I’m going to do a bit of a quiz given it’s the holidays and we’ve missed a few “Guess Whats?” due to computer issues and holiday happenings.

So, here’s a five question quiz mostly holiday-centric a few just random things I learned this week.

Each one you answer correctly gives you an entry into a mini raffle I’m going to do.

Depending on the amount of entries I will draw one-three winners who will get prizes ranging from $5-15 worth of gift certificates or tarot readings.

Everyone who enters gets a one card tarot draw.

Mostly Yuletide Quiz!

Question 1: Who was Humpty Dumpty?
a. No one just a made up nursery rhyme
b. A soldier in the British Army
c. A cannon mounted on a wall
d. An egg-man from Alice in Wonderland.

Question 2: Who was Wenceslas?
a. An English King
b. A Bohemian Saint
c. A figment of a carol writers’ imagination
d. One of Santa’s reindeer

Question 3: The song Silent Night was written in…
a. England
b. Germany
c. Austria
d. Australia

Question 4: Speaking of Christmas Carols, who wrote “A Christmas Carol” featuring Ebeneezer Scrooge?
a. Lewis Carroll
b. Nicholas Nickelby
c. Charles Darwin
d. Charles Dickens

Question 5: Which is the most popular Christmas song of all time?
a. Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley
b. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer by Gene Autry
c. Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Bruce Springsteen
d. White Christmas by Bing Crosby

BONUS QUESTION: What are your holiday plans?

Spread the word and have fun!

Answers will be drawn next Tuesday!

So, many apologies for the continued quiet over here, between my family being in from out of town for a week and then the spectacular ISP provider cock-up of late 2011 things have been missed and are missing. I’m going to run an uber-special type quiz contest thing as compensation for our quiet provided the connection stays live for more than a few minutes. It will be a separate post.

It seems that while we were trying to switch from our previous really expensive and uncooperative on lowering the bill internet/cable/phone provider who shall remain shameless *cough* Comcast *cough* to the more affordable and economical DSL/phone provider Century Link it was discovered that our phone and DSL could not be speaking to the main office because the DSL line was severed somehow. Now, when we first moved in here we had phone through that line. The only thing which has happened in the mean time is that Comcast, a few months ago, had to run a new cable line from the exact same pole to our house because theirs had broken. It’s looking very likely that they cut the DSL line while doing so. I’m hearing from various places that this is something that Comcast’s people often do and I have to be wondering that this cannot be a coincidence, which is a very tragic thing for them to do, really.

Moving along, our 10% off tarot Yule special is still going on, any outstanding readings will be caught up on over the next couple of days provided our temporary connection holds *fingers crossed* and we’ll be getting along with that quiz for the Guess What? shortly.

All the best to you and yours!

As the countdown to the holidays begin we offer the Yule Special on tarot readings. All email readings are 10% off through the month of December. Take advantage and get a projection of what 2012 will bring! or just some insight into your goings on!

We also have a different take on the Guess What? Wednesday this week. Check out the post and place your guesses on the quote there and get a one card reading just for entering. The first person to get the most points is entered into the drawing to win a 4 card reading or a $5 gift certificate to the store, and everyone who has entered is put into a BIG drawing on our anniversary in October, prize yet to be determined!

Once we’ve sorted things out we’ll add another holiday deal but I wanted to get the tarot special on the go before I get swept up in family visit happenings once more. Best wishes to all and to all a good night!

Our guess what is a little different this week as I’m afc picking up out of town relatives and so have no photoshop access. So, instead we’ll have a quote question from movie dialogue.

You get a point for the movie, actor and character. Whoever has the most points wins. In the event of a tie we’ll draw lots for the winner any participants get a one card tarot draw.

Your quote is:
“He arrives exactly when he means to.”
Movie, character or actor/actress. Go go Godzilla.

Winner wil be announced on Friday.

It has become tradition among my husband’s family that I make a calendar each year. The past couple of years I’ve picked Norse Gods whose festivals match the months of the year. This year I decided to do legends and stories about the Gods, and thus came across the story of Thor marrying the king of the frost-gianst, Thrym. I thought I would share it with you. I read several versions of the story which are listed below and then wrote it in my own way.

The frost-giants were always scheming to find a way into Asgard, but so long as Thor had his hammer they were doomed to fail. Thor woke up from a long deep sleep to find that someone had stolen, Mjollnir. Quickly he went to Loki for help finding his precious hammer.
Loki took him to Freyja, “Thor’s hammer has been stolen by enchantment. Will you lend the falcon-guise that we may search for it?”
“If it were silver, or even gold, you should have it.” Freyja replied.
On his journey as a falcon Loki discovered Thrym, king of the frost-giants grooming his horses who asked why Loki was there.
“It fares ill since you stole Thor’s hammer. I have come to find where you’ve hidden it.”
Thrym laughed, “I buried it eight miles underground and no one shall take it unless he gets Freyja for my wife.”
Loki returned and told Thor the news and they went back to Folkvang and Freyja where Thor told her to put on her bridal dress and come to Jotunheim.
Freyja was furious and refused so they called a conclave of the Gods to find solution.
During the discussion it was Heimdall who could look to the future who came up with the idea, “We must have the hammer at once or Asgard will be in danger. If Freyja will not then let Thor go in her place with a woman’s dress, braided hair and Freya’s Brisingamen necklace, place a bridal veil on his head to complete the guise.”
Thor was angry at this idea pointing out the others would jeer at him dressed as Freyja. Loki reminded him this was the only way they would likely recover the hammer. So, Thor allowed them to dress him as a bride. Freyja much preferred loaning her necklace to her loins and Loki disguised himself as “Freyja’s” maid to go along and they rode to Jotunheim.
Thrym was so excited and pleased to see Freyja come to him that he ordered a great feast in celebration of her arrival. The tables groaned under the load of the great meal and Freyja sat modestly with her veil covering her face. Soon the guests were amazed by Freyja’s appetite she ate an ox, eight salmon and drank three tankards of mead.
“Did anyone ever see such an appetite before a bride?” Thrym declared.
Loki fearing the giant had suspicions leaned over and said, “Freyja was so happy upon hearing news of her nuptials that she could not eat for eight days.”
Thrym was so pleased at this affection that he raised the veil as gently as he could but was repelled by his bride’s terrible eyes, “Why are Freyja’s eyes so sharp?” he asked Loki, “They burn me like fire.”
“Oh,” said the cunning maid, “but she has not slept for a week as she has been so anxious to come here. That is why her eyes burn so.”
Thrym’s giantess sister went to Freyja to ask for a bridal gift, “If you would have my blessing give me those gold rings on your fingers.” But Freyja sat silent.
Thrym became impatient, “Bring the hammer.” He shouted, “So the bride may be consecrated and we shall wed.”
The hammer was brought and placed in the bride’s lap and everybody looked to see the ceremony. However, no sooner did Freyja’s fingers close around Mjollnir then the veil was torn off and Thor revealed eyes blazing and full of wrath. Thor swung his hammer around and rocked the giants house on it’s foundations. Then with a flash of lightning and crash of thunder he reaped his revenge on Thrym and all the giants there until everything was a ruin. Thor and Loki returned to Asgard where Mjollnir would keep the Gods safe once again.

SOURCES:

http://www.timelessmyths.com

The Eddas
The Children of Odin by Padraic Colum and Will Pogany

Thanks to the entries from the previous five contests we have the following people that we are doing the drawing from:

Laura A., Skeeterbess, Huushi, Huushi & Cassandra.

I put the entries into random.org and here is the result.

Our winner is Cassandra! Congratulations! Let us know if you would like a $5 gift certificate or a 4-card tarot reading!

Next week we will have another Guess What? Picture for you. So, stay tuned to the blog!