Kyle is a foodie who loves Tarot. Theresa is a Tarot reader who loves food.
Together, we host Tarot by the Mouthful: a mouthwatering, multi-media culinary tour through the world of Tarot.
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This week: Nine of Swords
Nine of Swords: One look at this card and it’s clear what it’s all about: anxiety, worry, and sleepless nights. What are you losing sleep over? What nightmares are keeping you up at night? Are they real or a figment of your over-anxious mind? The Nine of Swords symbolizes mental stress, anguish, and sometimes a stab in the back. This card can also represent illness, rehab, or hospitals.
Kyle is out this week for Mother’s Day stuff – so it’s just me!
Theresa – Sick food
The Nine of Swords shows a figure sitting up in bed, head in hands, a picture of agony. That was me this week when I came down with a vicious cold. I’ve got a pretty strong immune system but this bug managed to get past my firewall and knock me clear off my feet.
I can safely say that this is the sickest I have been in years (other than two bouts of food poisoning).
I’m still dealing with a lingering cough – eight days after I first contracted this garbage.
When I am ill, my cooking goes on hold and there is only one thing that I want: Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup.
That salty, chicken-y broth with tiny slivers of chicken and slippery noodles. No other soup will do. I don’t want fancy Progresso or the even fancier “organic” stuff in cartons. I won’t even consider the “homestyle” Campbells. I want none of it.
I just want the old red + white can stuff that mom used to make when I was a little girl battling a cold.
Mom might have been the greatest soup maker in the world (she made homemade noodles for her chicken soup) but when a kid was home sick, she always pulled out the Campbells. It was easy for her and we liked it.
It’s the perfect “sick food” for a little kid – or an old broad like me who just isn’t up to the task of cooking and needs the kind of comfort that only comes in that can. As I l poured the soup into the pot with the requisite can of water, I knew that I would be feeling better as soon as that broth hit my parched throat.
I was right.
A few slurps and I was like a little kid, happy and feeling a smidge better. While a can of soup can’t take away the actual virus it sure can take away the misery a bit. Thanks, mom.
What do you cook when you’re under the weather or feeling blue? Share with me on Twitter @thetarotlady
Bon Appetit!
Theresa and Kyle
© Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady 2016
photos from personal collection and Jessica Kaminski
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I’m Theresa Reed (aka, The Tarot Lady). I’ve been a full-time tarot reader for 30+ years — which, in my industry, makes me pretty badass.
I’m definitely not your average Tarot expert — I drop the F-bomb, I quote rappers, and I’m obsessed with pop culture + reality TV. Folks come to me for straight-talk + tough-love — without the woo-woo fluff. 
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