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The Tide That Remembers

Nevertheless, on a damp October morning, he found himself standing beside Sylvia and Lillian at the end of an old granite quay, watching fog settle over Falmouth harbour.
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Three Who Came to Build a Bridge

The bridge became whole without noise. For a long moment, the only sound was the river passing beneath. Then, as if remembering how, the church bells began to ring.
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The Creative Work Life Cycle Spread

“When our attention remains fixed on what wounded us, we’re still living there. The boat only begins to move when our attention turns towards where we wish to go.”
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The Quintessence Spread: Discovering the Essential Expression of My Creative Work

Recently I asked the cards about my present efforts to write and publish literary fiction. The resulting spread was striking.
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The Woman Who Tried to Catch the Sea

“And yet every sailor who has ever crossed an ocean has carried a little of it home.”
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Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on the Lost Land of Lyonesse, Robert Hunt, and the Hidden Foundations of Brindlemark

Hunt cites the Saxon Chronicle, which records that on the third before the Nones of November in 1099 — upon the first day of the new moon — the sea overflowed, destroying towns and drowning people, oxen, and sheep.
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Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on How Red Tree, White Tree Echoes Through Their Own Stories

Reading it, I found myself recognising many of the same concerns that gradually emerged in our own stories, though perhaps we arrived at them from the opposite direction.
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Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on Red Tree, White Tree by Wendy Berg

What impressed me most was Berg’s refusal to reduce the Arthurian stories to either naïve fantasy or dry symbolism.
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The Caledonian Sleeper

The sleeper train journey from London to northern England evokes a haunting atmosphere as characters Sylvia and Lillian encounter a mysterious woman in green. This woman, revealing her fractured identity linked to ancient rituals, confronts her past at a midsummer festival. With a delicate exchange, she reconnects with her original name, Anna, before vanishing.

