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Category: ChrisChat Reviews

REVIEW: R.A. Scott’s Relics from the Underworld

October 15, 2026 christinesteevesspeakman Leave a comment

I wasn’t prepared to finish this book today, but here I am and here’s the book’s information and my thoughts…

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Posted in: ChrisChat Reviews Filed under: ChrisChat, ChrisChatReviews, Christine Steeves Speakman, Crystal Lake Entertainment, R.A. Scott, Relics from the underworld, Torrid Waters

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  • Writer’s Story Questions…what’s too old? October 16, 2026
  • Stories from my window: silence does the mind good October 15, 2026

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What are these cards

The (some version) cards I share, some have been in existence for eons, some people wouldn’t make a decision without their use, and some are affirmations and reminders to/for myself. I use these pulled cards as a starting point, a push to what I may need to remember for/about myself. I have nothing to profess about what is in reality an universal randomness of a shuffled counted out pick. I can say there are days the randomness is too on the nose.

Daily Little Frog…

Insights: Celtic Tree, Celtic Spirit, Celtic Goddess, Spirit Animal, Sea Soul, Mystical Shaman, Chinese Zodiac, Zodiac, Numerology, Tarot, Celtic Elemental Tarot, Chakra, 7 energies, Tree of Life, Druid Wisdom…

Blessing: Blessed Be…

Empath & Manifestation: Empath Empowerment and Manifestation…

Extras: Archetypes, Map, Herbal, Crystal…

Creativity: Mantras, Story Oracle, and Writing Down the Bones…

Night Ends: nightly manta, Moonology insight, Moonology Messages, Archangel, Shaman Dreams, and night dream thoughts

Notes from Today

October 16, 2026

  • Wondering…what now
  • Overcast, colder

 

October 15, 2026

  • A trap I willingly opened
  • Leaving it now

October 14, 2026

  • Overcast
  • Slow start
  • Heaviness

October 13, 2026

  • Warm temps
  • Fall colours
  • Pulling self out and up

October 12, 2026

  • Overcast
  • temperatures heading to late summer mix
  • Trying

October 11, 2026

  • First Thanksgiving without

October 10, 2026

  • Woke in bad mood
  • Temps colder
  • Will try

October 9, 2026

October 8, 2026

  • Cool temps, bright sky, keeping quiet

October 7, 2026

October 6, 2026

  • Sunny fall day
  • Finding my own way
  • Holding on one section at a time

October 5, 2026

  • Cold temperatures are making their way in
  • Blue skies seem brighter, clearer
  • Grasping for the known past

October 4, 2026

  • Sun after rain

October 3, 2026

October 2, 2026

  • Rain
  • will try moving with direction

October 1, 2026

  • emotionally drained
  • rain

September 30, 2026

September 29, 2026

September 28, 2026

  • catching up on the simple things
  • steps in some direction

September 27, 2026

  • Creativity awakening

September 26, 2026

  • slow

September 25, 2026

  • Stress and down

September 24, 2026

  • first emotions wearing off into true depths
  • does it always get harder before it eases
  • what’s worse the sunlight or darkness of night

September 23, 2026

  • still waking too early
  • mood all over the place trying to fill in the new silence
  • bouts of disbelief

September 22, 2026

  • the weather matches my mood or my mood matches the weather…dulled

September 21, 2026

  • Would have been 64 years, there’s going to be quite a few would have beens

September 20, 2026

September 19, 2026

September 18, 2026

September 17, 2026

September 16, 2026

  • Continuing the paperwork
  • weighed down

September 15, 2026

  • Finalizing

September 14, 2026

  • No words

September 13, 2026

  • Happy B-day, Marianne

September 12, 2026

  • 63

September 11, 2026

September 10, 2026

  • The long pain-filled wait

insights

blessing 

empath and manifestation 

extras 

creativity 

night ends 

September 9, 2026

  • Remembering wise words

 

September 8, 2026

  • Start of school year, start of the year…do we ever out grow this
  • Up too early?
  • Sunny blue skies; temps cool
  • Mood? Not sure

insights

blessing 

empath and manifestation 

extras

creativity 

night ends

September 7, 2026

  • Labour Day holiday
  • Cooler temps

September 6, 2026

  • Cooler temps
  • Still unsettled

September 5, 2026

September 4, 2026

September 3, 2026

  • Right now most everything sucks
  • Fed up with stress
  • Fed up with loss
  • Fed up with being Fed up

insights

blessing 

empath and manifestation 

extras

creativity 

night ends

September 2, 2026

  • Lousy
  • bad mood
  • Bad weather

September 1, 2026

  • Feeling rough
  • Heat

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