Author: Madame Ximon

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

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...

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...

“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...

New Magic Card Alteration – Prime Speaker Zegana

October 21, 2014
Madame Ximon
Art

Here is the most recent of my card alterations, commissioned by the same person who commissioned the “My Little Titans” set I posted about previously. Needless to say, I had a much more enjoyable time working on this card, since its subject matter is much more closely aligned to my usual style of work. Not that it was completely without hiccups – I tend to work on multiple card alterations at once, and for a while this one was my biggest...