I'm so excited!
This week sees a wonderful event! From the very talented Readings by Arianrhod comes a fantastic weeks spread featuring the Mandala Meditations Oracle Deck and its absolutely AMAZING! So do yourselves a huge favour and pop over to Janines awesome site and have a look! READINGS BY ARIANRHOD Blessings and Love! Marg xoxoxoxxo My first video recording - all I had was my Samsung mobile phone - it worked ok but I think I'll borrow a real camera later lol - I had the phone sitting on a tissue box and it kept slipping down so I wedged it with blutack and a couple of towels :D Necessity is the mother of invention :)
So anyhoo - here is my first reading, from my card deck... More will follow... xoxox Love and Blessings in thanks and gratitude Marg After yesterdays little drama finding out that some famous people hold the IP rights to any likeness of them, I decided to start today by cleaning up my various sites around the world wide web - starting with my POD (print on demand) sites. I'd been a member of one particular site, RedBubble, since its very start and it was with a pang that I deleted the bulk of my work from two of my portfolios, leaving just a bare skeleton portfolio with redirections to this, my main website. It was challenging, deleting over five years of history. RedBubble was special to me in many ways, not the least of being the launch platform for fullcirclemandalas and later my photography and then my writing. It was a safe space to begin and the people I formed deep and lasting friendships with are still in my life today and I am grateful and thankful for such a wonderful group of supportive and talented and wonderful peers and friends. But like anything, there comes a time when you outgrow the nest. Your comfort zones become barricades barring you from development and progression. You look over the wall at what you could be. I've outgrown those fledgling beginnings and it's now time to take my work and my self to a whole new level. I don't know what that is yet. I don't really have any ideas. I just know that I need to clean up all the old stuff first, before I can step forward and embrace a new future. I drew this card after my morning walk: Dragonfly Kiss Shimmering dragonflies flit above rich waratahs, supported by a pyramid of sacred geometry. We have the power to circle and change direction at will, never stuck, never immobile, never lost. No problem is too great - we simply need to shift our perspective. Love and beauty surround us always. Excerpt and card from the Mandala Meditations Guidance Card Oracle by Marg Thomson
Today I was forced to take down one of my most loved mandalas. Why? Because the image on it contravened a copyright law. Apparently one of the greatest reggae musicians of all times (and I can't use his name either because that's apparently trademarked and copyrighted too) has had his face listed as IP and all likenesses drawn, photographed or reproduced in any way are deemed in breach of copyright and IP law...
I'm fucking gobsmacked. But I'm not going to fight a company that could bury me in a heart beat now, am I? Rolling over and giving in time... FFS! |