Happy Halloween! Blessed Samhain!

Whether you're handing out tricks and treats, or celebrating the New Year, here's a little pastiche of fun for the season:

How about a "very Brady Halloween"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h2cGxsjeUiw

Or perhaps you'd like to listen to the Disney Hautned Mansion record from your childhood?  Well, here ya go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DMS_3Vro6Ls

Or maybe you just have the same guilty pleasure movie that I do?  Midnight margaritas, anyone?:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Ihb6FLSh64

But really, what's the day without a little "Bewitched". specifically Serena?:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4_Mxe25aJvI

The enchantingly beautiful (inside and out) Elizabeth Montgomery.

Elizabeth Montgomery has been a long-time hero of mine.  Not only for her work on "Bewitched" but her other endeavors, as well as her support for the gay community.

Please take some time to view this great little tribute to this wonderful actress:

 http://www.afterelton.com/2012/10/29/bewitching-elizabeth-montgomery

Calgon! Take me away! It's almost the Taurus moon...

Do you remember this classic commercial?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVLzkTuVmrw

It's 11:33 AM on a Tuesday.  But I have the strongest desire to run a bubble bath, slip into it, and sip on some Limoncello, while listening to bossa nova.

Just read that the upcoming Full Moon on October 29th will be in Taurus.  And that pertains to earthly, sensual pleasures.  Its effects are starting to have their way with me. 

This is no surprise; my Moon is IN Taurus.  I'm quite the fan of comfy, sensual, tactile, aromatic things and places.  I've also had a lot of Taurus men as friends, and sometimes as more.  I'm hardwired for this.

So please pardon me right now, while I prepare that candlelit bath, pop on Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights", and bliss out,  not moving for a delicious 15 minutes or so.  I have lots to do after that, lots of clearing and cleaning and organizing, but for that quarter-hour, nada.

Oh, let's not forget the limoncello.  Just a soupcon...

Lose yourself in luxury.  I'll be cleaning the house while wearing velvet.  And some Chanel No. 5.

 

Monday is Tarot Day: Celebrate good times, come on!

See these happy folks?  Well, although they're wearing togas and not early 20th-century attire, they resemble our cast and crew of "A Little Night Music."  You see, alhtough we had a rather disjointed rehearsal process, and the space is tiny (so much so that we're essentially a human Jenga game backstage, moving deftly out of each other's way to necessitate correct and timely entrances - and so we don't inadvertently kill each other), and we have one-third the musicians we thought we'd have, we have a GOOD show.  A solid show.  one that I'm proud to have folks pay money to attend.

We went into opening night not really expecting much in the way of enthusiasm or kudos.  We weren't really sure how the piece would land.  But we had a standing "O" on opening night, and solid, enthusiastic responses since then.

Thursday will mark the start of our second weekend.  I'm looking forward to donning my crimson Desiree wig again and stepping valiantly into another "weekend in the country".

Monday is Tarot Day: Desiree Armfeldt and the Queen of Wands. And me.

I rarely use significators IN a reading.  I always keep them in the deck so that they might be pulled for any card position in a spread.  But I do have a significator, who I meditate upon from time to time.  She is the Queen of Wands and She.  Is.  Awesome.

And I'm basically portraying her in a musical at this moment.

I've written about her before.  But I'm going to take the liberty of doing so again, under the rosy-sensual lens of the character I'm playing in "A Little Night Music."  Because, although my character and I don't have THAT much in common, we're still alike in some ways.  Only in some.  I'm certainly not as flighty as she, and I have but one love, but when I'm playing full-out, I know we share the same Queen of Wands attributes of independence and sense of play.

I'm Desiree Armfeldt: actress, mother, daughter.  Lover to many, but love to only one.  Sometimes not someone you can trust your husband to. Doing character work for Desiree, I've decided she's a glass of champagne.  She's flighty, like the wind.  She's a whisper, a child, rambunctious and fanciful.  And she's happiest when bubbling, even when she works that bubble into a slow simmer.  She likes to indulge herself, likes to touch, to sip, to sniff.  She's fire, buoyed on by all that airiness, energetic and creative: much like the Queen of Wands.

But remember what I said about not trusting her around your husband?  Yes, that's there, but she's extricating herself out of that world - and thanks heavens for that!  She's wielding her magic Wand, creating a new life for herself.  Okay, so she's manipulating things to her advantage, but that's what she's learned in order to survive.  But she's realizing she's grown beyond that and she wishes to create a "coherent existence" for herself and her daughter - and for the man she loves.

Thanks for letting me share a little about Desiree and her twin soul, the Queen of Hearts.  If you're interested in seeing the production I'm in, it runs Oct. 19 through Nov. 10, 2012 at the small-but-mighty Village Theatre Guild in Glen Ellyn, IL.  http://www.villagetheatreguild.org/

Monday is tarot Day! Even though it's been a while and you might have forgotten..

 

But I haven't forgotten.  Even though life got me sidetracked and distracted; I got cast in a lead role in a musical, work's been either non-existent or heavyburdencrowdedbusy.  Yo-yo world.

But when I finally sat down and realized I hadn't blogged here since September 4th, wooEE!  That's just shabby.

And that's one word that simply does not describe me.

So, back on the horse again, riding into an October that proves to be a full and varied one.  Lots of things to choose, some distractions - gee, there's that word again.

I think I'm aiming to ponder what distractions are entering my universe.  I get the feeling that it would be a really great lesson to take some time, perhaps in meditation or my nature hikes, and contemplate what the distractions are and why they have such a hold on me.

Like this shadowy figure in the Seven of Cups, I've had a lot of "pretty-shiny" recently and have had to take the string that I hold onto that's attached to my head and pull it back down to earth so my head doesn't simply float away.

Pretty-shiny.  So many directions to go in, what to choose?  Decisions, decisions, and even more decisions.  An octopus-shaped array of choices.

Girl needs a long bath in a soaky, warm tub.  Or does she really?  Or is it jut another bauble?