ash 🍃✨

damn, the fati do be fati-ing

the fence is so good!!

Omg what species of nuthatch is this?! It looks just like our Red-breasted in the US 🥹

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dark snow-covered trees, a white house with black shutters tucked behind them, beneath a pale blue-gray sky

scene report

3 goldfinches in their winter plumage eat seeds from a tree-shaped window feeder. Behind them in a snowy arborvitae sits another finch out of focus.

hashtag squad goals

I bring a sort of X vibe to the Y meme with a man gazing off over the railing of a porch, labeled "my toddler brings a sort of rotten food vibe to the car that people don't really like"

RIGHT. I wanted to be like I swear I didn’t round this 😂

Two goldfinches in their winter plumage, sitting on a tree-shaped window feeder, argue with a third who’s in midair having just jumped away from the feeder tray.

The offending goldfinch attempts to fly back up, receiving a smack in the face from another. The other goldfinch has briefly exited the scene.

A brief detente. All three goldfinches munch on seeds.

After getting knocked away in the interim, one of the three goldfinches glides back towards the feeder, wings outstretched. A fourth goldfinch is just visible towards the top right, out of focus and perched in the arborvitae behind the feeder.

scene report

It’s so textbook, I can’t even 😂

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the South Node is the dragon’s butt where he poops and also Virgo rules intestines so the poop node is ascending in the sign of the poop. Astrology by AshleyTM

astro bisky, I present unto you: my toddler’s first poop in the potty 😌

I'm too locked in. I need to deplatform from myself

hi mommy!!

this is the key to magic

a photo from below, looking up at the belly of a peregrine falcon coasting across a cloudy sky. their belly and the undersides of their wings are cream, heavily barred with a deep brown, and their bright, thick yellow feet are clasped below them.

peregrine falcon at pictured rocks national lakeshore
munising, michigan, june 2022

honey badger don’t want none if you ain’t got bugs hun

omg I had one who used to use his a pillow

it's not by any means the only type of reading I offer, but LOTS of my clients are going through career transitions, or are looking to kickstart an artistic, magical, or spiritual project of some kind. so I really love looking at a couple potential narratives.

1: we chat a little bit about what you want to get out of the cards and, if you're totally new to the cards, I can give you an intro

2: we get the lay of the land of the problem / question

3: we compare/contrast 2-3 options

and the hour actually goes really fast!

if you're like (rightfully so) Ash, what in the butts am I going to talk to you about for an hour with Tarot, my sessions usually (not always, but usually) go something like:

11/fin: the most critical thing in my practice is that I don't want someone walking away feeling unmoored or unanswered, and that's going to look different for every client depending on what they're seeking.

10/ I don't charge by number of cards / the spread I'm using, I charge by time, because part of my job is helping someone find the right question and/or sequence of questions to ask.

8/ Tarot is SO much fucking fun, but it's also really tender, and I need the space before and after to make sure I'm taking good care of my clients and myself.

7/ The other facet is, whether you think it "works" or not, creating a good reading experience is a lot of work. People naturally want to use Tarot to explore heavy questions. I'm providing an uninterrupted hour of vent time.

6/ the need for asking for that is important to keep it from being a free-for-all (ask me how i know) (don't)

5/ Divination is fun, but it's not a basic human need that requires accommodating. Which is not to say that I don't accommodate, because I do make space in my schedule for reduced price readings if someone's genuinely interested.

4/ If you're looking for divination from other people often enough that this is an issue, you should probably teach yourself. (there's a whole rabbit hole I could go on here about responsible question asking)

3/ There's two key facets of this to me and the first is this idea that Tarot spreads and "card pulls" shouldn't be expensive, but cost actually acts as a gateway from overuse.