Author: Madame Ximon

Madame Ximon is an astrologer, Tarot reader, and visionary artist living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Daily Divinatory Drawings – Matching Intention With Practice

July 23, 2015
Madame Ximon
Art, Astrology

Once again I am back to this blog after a long absence, ready at last to start posting my “daily” divinatory drawings. I finally got my new scanner a few weeks back (after the first one got lost in the shipping black hole of New Jersey and I had to have a new one sent out), but I have found that the process of both cultivating the daily drawing habit and getting new drawings posted has been more daunting than I originally anticipated. Perhaps...

Renewal, Return, and Rebirth

I’ve been away from this blog for a while. Which means this post is likely to be a long one. Better sit down with a cup of tea and get comfortable… 😉For those who don’t know me, since 2005 I have been the Creative Director and Logistician of the TempleCon retro-futurist gaming convention, which eats up vast quantities of my life between September and the actual weekend of the convention in early February. This year was the convention’s tenth anniversary,...

Temet Nosce (Know Thyself)

November 28, 2014
Madame Ximon
Astrology

Temet Nosce – “Know Thyself” One of the reasons that it can be frustrating to read horoscopes is that predictive astrology that doesn’t take into account the aspects made by transiting planets to your natal chart or progressed chart can seem really off-base – for example, telling you how much good fortune you are supposedly experiencing when you are in the midst of serious disaster, or vice versa. And even when an astrologer...

“Two Doctors” Scarves

November 7, 2014
Madame Ximon
Art

Spider Stripe “Two Doctors” Scarf by Madame Ximon A couple of years ago, when my step-mother’s health began to decline, I took to knitting extensively every time I visited her, in part as a coping mechanism to help me respond patiently to the repetitive questions sparked by her memory loss, and in part because it made her happy to have me completing her unfinished knitting projects and using her yarn remnants, which were gorgeous. One...