tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27264795708989051312024-03-08T02:31:27.028-07:00Midnight TarotMy personal experience with tarot cards and other types of oracles. Whatever I like seeing other people sharing on the internet about their experiences, I'll post here.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-66710067811504457222011-09-20T10:11:00.002-06:002011-09-20T12:05:04.284-06:00My Card for the day - XX Judgement<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JMgZVOWnKS8/Tni7JGK138I/AAAAAAAAAVY/_8vaBwLEqFY/s640/blogger-image-571431872.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JMgZVOWnKS8/Tni7JGK138I/AAAAAAAAAVY/_8vaBwLEqFY/s320/blogger-image-571431872.jpg" width="213" /></a>I've been using the LWB app to pick my daily tarot card. Most days I want to look at the card from different decks.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This morning got off to a rough start trying to get my older son to school. So The Dagger from Madame Endora is right on the money. (He was being such little tool!)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I'm hoping the rest of the day reflects the Judgement card. "Heed the herald’s call. Deep satisfaction with what you have achieved. A current project will draw to a close, but an exciting new one will commence. A dramatic life-changing and positive experience. ". Minus the "dramatic" part, I don't care if it's good or not - I've had enough drama for one day!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I had a couple other decks in mind for this card. Since my mood was dark already Bohemian Gothic came to mind. In fact it is the image I've got as wallpaper on my lock screen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9TrvRhKT9UI/TnjUnkSKOUI/AAAAAAAAAVo/smOE0wvW-30/s1600/Card23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9TrvRhKT9UI/TnjUnkSKOUI/AAAAAAAAAVo/smOE0wvW-30/s400/Card23.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">One of my favorite Judgement cards is from Tarot of Trees. I'm thinking I'll put that card in my dresser top somewhere so I can see it all day. That should help brighten my mood. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vqjv4mlxWyU/TnjU9CRzllI/AAAAAAAAAVs/NVBjBZ34c6c/s1600/20judgement_lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vqjv4mlxWyU/TnjU9CRzllI/AAAAAAAAAVs/NVBjBZ34c6c/s200/20judgement_lg.jpg" width="144" /></a>I'm studying a card a week, using the same card from 7 different decks. This week it's The High Priestess. Today's High Priestess is brought to you by. "The Afro-Brazillian Tarot". Which features Nana Buruku; "Orixa of rain, she keeps the atmosphere clean and protects women during childbirth." I found this on wikipedia..."She is celebrated as Nanã in Brazilian Candomblé Jejé and Candomblé Ketu, where she is pictured as a very old woman, older than creation itself; as Nana Buruku, primordial swamp spirit in Orisha tradition."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FuY8nn7dCpY/TnjVSTmLIZI/AAAAAAAAAVw/zTHWtSWy9gM/s1600/abCard05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FuY8nn7dCpY/TnjVSTmLIZI/AAAAAAAAAVw/zTHWtSWy9gM/s320/abCard05.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Some updates: My month with the Vanessa Tarot was kind of a bust. I did one 10 card reading for myself that was really helpful and I carried her around with me everywhere in my purse, I love a deck in a tin! I was even shuffling her often, but I never had the urge to read with it. Not even one carders. </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It may have been more about the space I was in than the deck itself because I wasn't up for being very introspective. I knew what was going on with me (with all of us) internally and I had no desire to document it or peer too closely at it. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So I decided to swap decks and I'll revisit Vanessa next year. I spent my time instead with The Golden Tarot of the Renaissance aka the Estensi Tarot. It had been calling out to me and was just what I needed. Because it's not like any other deck really, I just spent the time memorizing the keywords from the LWB. It makes more sense than I thought it did when I originally bought this deck. I enjoyed making connections between the keywords and what's pictured on the cards. Still haven't read with it yet, but I'll keep you posted. :)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">About the reading I did with the mini Marseille for/about my husband going back to school. There was way more trouble and drama and obstacles just to get him registered and set up with books than there should've been. At one point we'd both figured it wasn't going to happen, at least not this year. But it all worked out. Now we're just going through the expected upheaval that anyone would predict. Even without a deck of cards!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-81660490316299274662011-05-31T19:38:00.002-06:002011-09-20T08:57:57.597-06:00A Reading with Tarot of Marseilles<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I actually had a successful reading for my husband the other night. Well, technically the question was "What do <strong><em>I</em></strong> need to know about P's. school career?" He was on the phone at the time leaving a message to schedule testing before the fall semester starts. I was watching Stargate SG1 and just shuffling my mini Marseilles deck. The show was paused so he could handle his business on the phone and out of boredom I asked the question and laid out a Celtic Cross. For a spread I don't like, I sure do use it a lot.</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w_tpztKJS8Y/TeVVX0Ju9tI/AAAAAAAAATw/qNkZ1ZSzCNo/s1600/TdM+Reading.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w_tpztKJS8Y/TeVVX0Ju9tI/AAAAAAAAATw/qNkZ1ZSzCNo/s320/TdM+Reading.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I didn't try to 'read' these cards differently because they aren't a RWS or Thoth clone. And I didn't just overlay the images of decks I know better, either. <em>(Except with the outcome card, I didn't do it on purpose - it just happened.)</em> Mostly I just looked up the meanings to see if they matched what I felt the card was saying.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a name='more'></a><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I don't do significator cards:</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. XVI The Tower</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">2. V The Hierophant</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">3. II High Priestess</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">4. Five of Wands</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">5. Seven of Swords</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">6. Nine of Wands</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">7. Four of Cups Reversed</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">8. Ten of Swords</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">9. Two of Cups</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">10. Five of Swords Reversed</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Part of my concern had been that he would never go back to school. We've been talking about it for years. I believe the first and second cards are assuring me that he will be going back to college (V The Hierophant), that it'll be soon, and it will be very disruptive to our lives. (XVI The Tower)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Another concern I had was that I was pushing him to do something he didn't really want to do. I have had to remind him to get the ball rolling. I had to call his old college back home myself to get them to send his transcripts. Because of the High Priestess showing up where she did, I'm feeling his hesitation has more to do with the upheaval and cost to our family. I need to make sure he knows that I'm willing to go through the hassle.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">When I took a look at the 4th card, one of competition and some struggles, I started thinking this might be information I should share with him. Which makes it a reading for someone other than myself! Yeah!</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The answer to my question is that <em>'This is going to happen, it's going to suck and it's going to be worth it.'</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rp0zlpvjePM/TeV0pRzFtJI/AAAAAAAAAT0/iLE3xJUu6GQ/s1600/XVI+The+Tower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rp0zlpvjePM/TeV0pRzFtJI/AAAAAAAAAT0/iLE3xJUu6GQ/s200/XVI+The+Tower.jpg" t8="true" width="114" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">1). The Primary thing I need to know is something is going to rock my world and it won't be pretty. <strong>XVI The Tower</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bCT9J2OhZkY/TeV08vbmaqI/AAAAAAAAAUY/o_blAiwfGR8/s1600/V+The+Hierophant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bCT9J2OhZkY/TeV08vbmaqI/AAAAAAAAAUY/o_blAiwfGR8/s200/V+The+Hierophant.jpg" t8="true" width="113" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">2). What's rocking the boat?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>V The Hierophant</strong> is a good candidate for Higher Education, so this is good.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3H2jgDMqKVc/TeV0xeka6rI/AAAAAAAAAUE/kGs134iciXs/s1600/II+The+High+Priestess.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3H2jgDMqKVc/TeV0xeka6rI/AAAAAAAAAUE/kGs134iciXs/s200/II+The+High+Priestess.jpg" t8="true" width="111" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">3). What's the deeper meaning behind our lives being turned upside down so he can go back to school? <strong>II The High Priestess</strong>: this card in this position confirms an inner calling to study and learn. (<em>That book on her lap caught my attention right away.)</em> I may not be able to be objective about this, but I see in this card that this is something he really wants, not something I'm pushing him to do. Also there is more to his desire to go back to school than just to get a different job. The keyword from the LWB that came with this deck is <strong>study</strong>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zNly_bP4EFw/TeV0uD2HeUI/AAAAAAAAAT8/8Bkfip76nLM/s1600/Five+of+Wands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zNly_bP4EFw/TeV0uD2HeUI/AAAAAAAAAT8/8Bkfip76nLM/s200/Five+of+Wands.jpg" t8="true" width="111" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">4). This is what's hovering above the whole situation. <strong>Five of Wands</strong>: Strife. LWB says, <em>"fatigue, long-term commitment, great effort."</em> Oh yeah, I can see that. But I usually take it as a competition card. (Officially it's Saturn in Leo, but I always think of it as Mars in Leo) <em>"Proving one's own abilities."</em> (From: <em>The Crowley Tarot: The Handbook for the Cards</em>, I refer to this book a lot for other decks.) Frankly I always think this card sucks, but under the circumstances I think his competitive drive will serve him well in a college environment. I'm guessing it's probably a competitive situation to start with, but I wouldn't know.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJF4x6GDgag/TeV01QdP0sI/AAAAAAAAAUM/3c-5yJ6NoXQ/s1600/Seven+of+Swords.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJF4x6GDgag/TeV01QdP0sI/AAAAAAAAAUM/3c-5yJ6NoXQ/s200/Seven+of+Swords.jpg" t8="true" width="109" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">5). I'm thankful to see the <strong>Seven of Swords</strong> in the past position! This card could be talking about his past school experiences or both of us thinking that we'd never be able to pull this off. The LWB says, <em>"Secrets, search for truth, discretion"</em> (which, strangely enough, fits his past school situation on a whole other level.) Seven of Swords: Futility - Inner doubt and indecisiveness.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sLokIacMJJE/TeV0zeR0s4I/AAAAAAAAAUI/UaF9R4wTH6s/s1600/Nine+of+Wands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sLokIacMJJE/TeV0zeR0s4I/AAAAAAAAAUI/UaF9R4wTH6s/s200/Nine+of+Wands.jpg" t8="true" width="106" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">6). And I'm equally thankful to see the <strong>Nine of Wands</strong> as the near future. This card makes me think of Temperance and The High Priestess, as a successful blending and balancing of contrasting forces (Fire and Water). Channeling combined energy like that can give you some serious strength. Nine of Wands: Strength - Intellectual and Emotional Harmony. I'm seeing here that his intellectual side and emotional side are <strong><em>not</em></strong> going to be pulling him in opposite directions making this harder, but are going to be reinforcing each other giving him the strength to see this through. Being about school, the intellectual part is obvious. The end result of school for him, is not a better paying job but an emotionally satisfying one. Work he truly wants to do.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">LWB says, <em>"experience, clairvoyance, intuition"</em> Still a nice future card in general. And I get it...this card is associated with the Moon (intuition) and Sagittarius (an adventurous sign that likes to travel, so experience would come from that). Combine <em>those</em> and "far-seeing" makes sense too. But I just don't <em>see</em> it.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bt4kVB7ejg4/TeV0vnTzLPI/AAAAAAAAAUA/0AKJsq8e-v8/s1600/Four+of+Cups.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bt4kVB7ejg4/TeV0vnTzLPI/AAAAAAAAAUA/0AKJsq8e-v8/s200/Four+of+Cups.jpg" t8="true" width="106" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">7). <strong>Four of Cups reversed</strong>. In this position it's telling me he sees himself as ready to do something different. He's been in the same line of work for over 20 years. The only needs his work is meeting now are rent, health insurance...providing a stable home life for his family.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">When it's upright I take the four of cups to reflect happy, comfortable surroundings, <em>(with the exception of decks where the image makes it more about abstinence or overindulgence)</em>. Usually home, but it could suggest any familiar environment that has been a constant, defining presence. (<em>Like a career path!</em>) It doesn't have to mean an actual physical place. For the most part, all needs are met and everything is set, safe and secure. <em>(Jupiter and Cancer.)</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">When it's reversed I think this is where the idea of boredom can set in. It's like a person who is ready to leave home for the first time, not necessarily because home is bad - just time to expand your horizons. It could mean needing or wanting to go outside known boundaries of any kind, really. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bkxUnGbJDeI/TeV04kUm4kI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/cMTNYOkwPQo/s1600/Ten+of+Swords.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bkxUnGbJDeI/TeV04kUm4kI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/cMTNYOkwPQo/s200/Ten+of+Swords.jpg" t8="true" width="111" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">8). What's P's outside environment like regarding him becoming a student? <strong>10 of Swords</strong>: Ruin. That's not good. I'm going to have to do something about this. It's not surprising that a man in his 40's with a full time job and two young boys wouldn't find his environment helpful for going back to school. I can't do anything about how people at work deal with it, but I can make life at home a little smoother than it is right now. The LWB says, <em>"affliction, psycho-physical instability, unreliability, hidden pain."</em> From The Handbook for the Cards:<em> "Destruction, desolation, depths of depression." </em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3sGpc6Fsj4/TeV06tPzFnI/AAAAAAAAAUU/5yG353_XOx4/s1600/Two+of+Cups.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3sGpc6Fsj4/TeV06tPzFnI/AAAAAAAAAUU/5yG353_XOx4/s200/Two+of+Cups.jpg" t8="true" width="113" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">9). Hopes & Fears: <strong>Two of Cups</strong> - Love, sensuality, harmony. I'm not sharing my personal thoughts on this one. It would be TMI. Here's more from <em>The Handbook for the Cards: <u>Instinct</u></em>: Union of man and woman. <em><u>Goal</u></em>: Emotional and physical exchange. <em><u>Light</u></em>: Harmonious emotional emphasis. <u><em>Shadow</em></u>: Disillusionment, separation, conflict of interests. <em><u>Quality</u></em>:Happiness of love (balancing of the polarities.)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yxCcYhUXIH0/TeV0sMPskeI/AAAAAAAAAT4/gf37-E0209Y/s1600/Five+of+Swords.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yxCcYhUXIH0/TeV0sMPskeI/AAAAAAAAAT4/gf37-E0209Y/s200/Five+of+Swords.jpg" t8="true" width="105" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">10). The Outcome: <strong>5 of Swords</strong> Reversed:?? I know upright it's Defeat, I sure would like to just tell myself that since it's reversed it must be the opposite of it's upright meaning. But I'm not really feeling that. I just started looking through my resources at various meanings of this card. Hoping one might give me that "Ah, that must be it," feeling. The first things that popped int<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LZvPRK_QItg/TeV5HDFeoVI/AAAAAAAAAUg/ZjTDLfB0q8Q/s1600/Swords05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LZvPRK_QItg/TeV5HDFeoVI/AAAAAAAAAUg/ZjTDLfB0q8Q/s200/Swords05.jpg" t8="true" width="123" /></a>o my mind were images of the Five of Swords, first from Vargo's Gothic Tarot and then from the Housewives. I had it as a card of the week not that long ago, dealing with understanding my limitations and time management. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cOogG4bP2wM/TeV5vDSJ0uI/AAAAAAAAAUk/VE-V-a7cKP0/s1600/Swords05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cOogG4bP2wM/TeV5vDSJ0uI/AAAAAAAAAUk/VE-V-a7cKP0/s200/Swords05.jpg" t8="true" width="141" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That Gothic Tarot Image is a real piece of work. It sends the message of Defeat and Humiliation loud and clear. Whenever I see it or picture it, my inner voice says, <em>"getting your head handed to you by an ass clown."</em> Not a good outcome card, thank you very much.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">From The Handbook: <em>"Passive endurance of the painfulness of a negative experience. Recognition of one's own limits."</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Joan Bunning's online tarot site gives <strong>Self-Interest</strong> as a keyword. As of now, that's what I'm going with. It's a card of self-interest and it's reversed to get my attention. The outcome that I need to know is that I can't be self-interested and I should expect P to be, even though that's going to make home difficult.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">From the <a href="http://learntarot.com/">Learn Tarot Online</a> website:</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Acting in your own <strong>self-interest</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Setting aside the concerns of others</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Looking out for number one</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Thinking of your own needs</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Knowing you must concentrate on yourself</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Encountering selfishness</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Indulging in power plays</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Gloating</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Going for the win-lose result</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><em>This is totally off the subject, but my six year-old has been peeking over my shoulder and knew that I was writing about his dad. Dad came home from work while I was running the spell check and I said to him 'Ass clown is two words?' Laughing he says, 'I don't even want know what you're writing about.' Naturally, the six year old pipes up with 'It's about you, daddy.'</em></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-85774577643582290212011-05-26T07:50:00.000-06:002011-05-26T07:50:24.247-06:00Kurt Cobain & Bohemian Gothic Tarot<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It would be way to hard to recount this dream in its entirety. </span>This small part of it is not even the weirdest. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From my dream journal December 2010:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have Kurt Cobain and an old boyfriend of mind in a tin can. I am carrying them around an indoor mountain hiking & climbing theme park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I hike up the trail I go around a bend to a part that is open air, no ceiling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Several queues have formed for the mountain climbing part at the end of the trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see others being helped up an almost 90 degree mountain wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are park employees attached along the wall to make sure everyone gets to the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the top are more employee-helpers pulling people up over the ledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Everyone climbing on the wall-mountain is strapped to one of several long red ropes hanging securely from the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a safe and easily managed climb, even for someone like me who is terrified of heights. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can’t carry the guys beyond this point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll need both hands to climb the wall and even the queue paths are so steep that people are holding on to a metal rail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shake the can and tell them they’re going to have to go on their own two feet from here on out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t seem to want to come out because I’ve really got to shake the can and pound on the bottom to get them to fall out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drop a couple drops of water on each of them so they can get back to their full size.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em>Notes from:</em></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Some key cards from my month with Bohemian Gothic Tarot December 2010</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Asking about Kurt Cobain – what did he symbolize in my dream?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">IX The Hermit</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G3MR_NOs5bE/Tcczrjp5C8I/AAAAAAAAAP0/bSdMkX3Bh48/s1600/Card12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G3MR_NOs5bE/Tcczrjp5C8I/AAAAAAAAAP0/bSdMkX3Bh48/s320/Card12.jpg" width="173" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[like the other random reading notes I didn't write any meanings down at the time. The following meanings are from the companion book to the deck.]</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Darker, shadow or more hidden meanings:</strong> <em>"Being rejected and isolated by society - Calling someone to the dark side - Being too isolated from others, this could affect your psychological well-being." </em> </span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I couldn't help but notice the whole vertical mountain Hermit connection even though the hermit from this deck isn't pictured that way.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">From Led Zeppelin IV</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C7UST5y699U/Tcc5Hgj2gqI/AAAAAAAAAP8/pr4WdQatciI/s1600/Hermit_led_zep_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C7UST5y699U/Tcc5Hgj2gqI/AAAAAAAAAP8/pr4WdQatciI/s320/Hermit_led_zep_4.jpg" width="158" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just as an aside: I was more of an Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam fan, myself. I'd never seen Nirvana live or listen to a whole CD. Just whatever was played on the radio and TV. When it comes to dead rock stars Jerry Garcia has shown up in my dreams more than once. I wouldn't be surprised to see Janis, Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix, but Kurt Cobain??? Yeah, I had to pull a card for that.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-46428424203352310822011-05-21T08:39:00.000-06:002011-05-21T08:39:30.883-06:00Dreams & The Boheiman Gothic<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“T” was my best friend turned nemesis back in high school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we were to cross paths in real life I think we’d both pretend not to see the other. It would be awkward if we had to speak to each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Frankly she was always kind of a stuck up B, and whenever she would show up in a dream she was true to her real life character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, around the time of the following reading, I’d been having clusters of dreams where T, (and other random jerkwads from my past) were nice, kindhearted people and wonderful to me in my dreams.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These weren’t just “nice” dreams, but dreams that left me waking up with a euphoric sense of peace. They also had me scratching my head going “WTF?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I pulled some cards. These are the notes, pretty much, as I found them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Some key cards from my month with Bohemian Gothic Tarot December 2010:</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Asking what help/usefulness T. was as a symbol in my dreams?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(How is it helpful to me?)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>XVIII The Moon – Six of Swords – XVI The Tower</strong></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8PuaoDblaB0/TccYOkJrc8I/AAAAAAAAAPw/yqG22LsFn88/s1600/BoGoDream.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8PuaoDblaB0/TccYOkJrc8I/AAAAAAAAAPw/yqG22LsFn88/s400/BoGoDream.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">[I didn't make any interpretive notes at the time. I'm taking these meanings from the book as I write this post:]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Mental disturbance, confusion; A shift in perspective, a change in the way you see things; Dramatic change</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Asking what does T. symbolize in my dreams?</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Page of Pentacles</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gHsZYG1krCs/TccQT74wI3I/AAAAAAAAAPk/D73kH7rNpFs/s1600/Card35.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gHsZYG1krCs/TccQT74wI3I/AAAAAAAAAPk/D73kH7rNpFs/s320/Card35.jpg" width="173" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[I didn't write any meanings at the time & I wouldn't know what to put now either. If I had to guess I'd pick the following from the darker, shadow or more hidden meanings from the companion book]:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Retreating over-much into fantasy</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Nothing about this dream was fantastical except how friendly and hap</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">py it was. Maybe I have deep-seeded wishes to be liked by everyone! :)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-37736468042014720382011-05-19T08:29:00.000-06:002011-05-19T08:29:11.851-06:00Notes on Random Readings<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>I mentioned in a previous post that I’d come across some old notes about tarot and my dreams while getting myself organized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were all together in the same place, but I’ll post them separately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That way I can give a short background explanation and then just post the notes as I wrote them, bad English and all!</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can’t remember if this first one was dream related or not, but it was with the others. At the time I wrote this my deck of the month was <strong><em>Robert Place’s Vampire Tarot</em></strong> and I was also working with the <em><strong>Mystical Lenormand </strong></em>deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I wanted to experiment to see how the cards of both decks might work together.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Q: <em>"Are there any ancestors or other spirits that want to work with me?”</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">1 Card draw – Vampire Tarot (Robert Place) & Mystical Lenormand</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WTVVN7QTbbo/TccBswG2eJI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/hjrNZcoauhY/s1600/Card57.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WTVVN7QTbbo/TccBswG2eJI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/hjrNZcoauhY/s320/Card57.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><u>Six of Knives</u></strong> (Swords) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Dracula sails in the Demeter <em><strong>“…going with the flow or being driven by a situation that is beyond one’s control.”</strong></em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Six of Swords is Mercury in Aquarius</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ivc4qg8_h-M/TccCIQpk4cI/AAAAAAAAAPU/oJIWS6U-NKo/s1600/01rider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ivc4qg8_h-M/TccCIQpk4cI/AAAAAAAAAPU/oJIWS6U-NKo/s200/01rider.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><img border="0" height="200" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4mflQmSDjc8/TccCLCMvPcI/AAAAAAAAAPY/6zZt4HCq4qw/s200/16stars.jpg" width="123" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Rider + Star = <em><strong>Work done/performed at night</strong></em> MdV [Mario dos Ventos; The Game of Destiny]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Star + Rider = <strong><em>Receiving messages from the spirit world (not directly but via other people).</em></strong> MdV</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">MdV Macumba meaning: Mystical & Spiritual Card Combinations:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The Rider + The Star = <strong><em>Astral Travel</em></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So we meet again...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">From the very first entries of my journal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>From my journal: 3/12/11</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Saturday 5:41 pm (at home with the boys)</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><em>"I am not having a good evening. P & I both think writing will help with my boredom issues. But since I'm alone with the boys I'm not just bored, but frustrated and agitated too. Don't want to fill this book with bitching & whining. So I pulled a card hoping it would give me something constructive to write about."</em> (It did, it was an oracle card, but that's another post.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Second entry from my journal: 3/14/11 Monday 3:06 pm (Sitting in the preschool parking lot waiting to pick up A.)</em></strong> <em>"This weeks Housewives card is more than fitting. 4 of Cups...so fitting it is scary.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><em><strong>'An intoxicated housewife stumbles back from a foolish binge. Another glass is offered to her, but she wisely refuses it. the Four of Cups warns of overindulgence...' </strong></em></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;">Change, not escape is the answer.' </span></em></div><em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">"I've chosen not to write about my almost perpetual boredom or the daytime drinking I've been doing (out of sheer boredom not stress) because I want this journal to be ...*Next day- </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">ran out of time, what I'd wanted to write was that I would focus on the "Change" aspect - wish I could've written it yesterday"</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The oracle card I pull on 3/15 was Oya - Change, from the Goddess Oracle!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Back to the Four of Cups. I had just asked P to pick me up a pint of Blue Skyy. Then I pulled this damn card. Phooey! Well, I got the Blue Skyy anyway. :) Pulling this card & reading my old journal entries was a good reminder of how much better writing, this blog, my cards, etc., is at fighting off the boredom than vodka is. Its fun, but offers a diminishing return.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-70186886817978408882011-05-13T19:25:00.001-06:002011-05-13T19:27:00.986-06:00Psychic Tarot Excersie: Light & Shadow Reading with the Celtic Tarot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(Some how this post got removed, after I'd posted it. I had to edit it before or I'd never have gotten it posted. I like sharing my readings, but not always my <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">interpretations </span>of them. They're either too personal or too-long winded.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I pulled these cards on 4/23/11</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UOFore4WaAs/Tb4ScSWavAI/AAAAAAAAAOI/cE2EbP714fI/s1600/IMG_1898.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UOFore4WaAs/Tb4ScSWavAI/AAAAAAAAAOI/cE2EbP714fI/s320/IMG_1898.JPG" width="282" /></a></div></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was scratching my head over this one when I first laid out the cards. The <em>Light & Shadow Reading</em> (chapter 4, page 31 of the book <em><u>Psychic Tarot</u></em>) has you draw 2 cards randomly from each suit. One card represents where I am <em>"strong, highly developed, and natural."</em> The other represents where I <em>"need more nourishment, awareness, or growth."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5 of Cups Ace of Cups</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">7 of Wands Ace of Wands<br />
2 of Coins Ace of Coins</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Okay, this <em>is</em> weird, right? Seems like the columns should be switched. What's with all the Aces in the needs column<em><strong>???</strong></em></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qZawtjbon6s/Tb4WPsrRtjI/AAAAAAAAAOM/WTFjP5wbUJ8/s1600/8ofSwords.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qZawtjbon6s/Tb4WPsrRtjI/AAAAAAAAAOM/WTFjP5wbUJ8/s200/8ofSwords.jpg" width="116" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><u><strong>Eight of Swords</strong>: As an area of strength.</u></em></span><span style="font-size: large;">An ability to filter superfuous information, and choose where to direct my thoughts? This feels right to me as a meaing for this card in this postion in general - but I would <strong>not</strong> have said this was one of my strengths. I have to work really hard to do that. I also sometimes take this card as one of self-restrictions; like quitting smoking or other compulsive behaviors. <strong><em>Such as buying too many tarot and oracle decks!</em></strong> Again not something I, or anyone who knows me, would really consider as a strength of mine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">It could be that I need to nurture my ability to recuperate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm pretty good at sitting on my butt and vegging out on the TV & reading bad pulp horror and fantasy fiction, but that's not the kind of regenerative rest the 4 of swords speaks of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no healing in the retreats I take.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only numbing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the book: <em>"Quiet pastimes such as reading or meditation."</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I need to nurture those habits more (maybe the pulp fiction isn't so bad after all?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Definitely taking time to clear my mind after troubles so that I can better handle future difficulties in is an area where I use a lot of growth!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here’s a note I wrote in the margin of my journal, <strong><em>“Feels more like psychotherapy than psychic tarot.”</em></strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked up psychotherapy on wikipedia when I first wrote this post. Words like <em>interpersonal</em> <em>relationship</em>, <em>dialogue</em>, <em>communication</em>, caught my eye before I’d even read the text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those words sound to me like what I want to have with Tarot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe <em>psychic</em>thearpy is a better word for what I’m doing with this book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, I’m enjoying it!</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Grief; loss, bereft, regret</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Emotional force; intuition, intimacy, love</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--aYAWlF_ohY/Tb4XDwImqfI/AAAAAAAAAOU/iE37CxI1UpY/s1600/7ofWands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--aYAWlF_ohY/Tb4XDwImqfI/AAAAAAAAAOU/iE37CxI1UpY/s200/7ofWands.jpg" width="116" /></a></div><em><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>7 of Wands:</strong> strong, highly developed, & natural</span></u></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Valor; strength, aggressive, defiant, convicton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Material force; prospering, being practical, proceeding with trust</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">You can see how this reading would spark a lot of journaling and self reflection! Here's another note from my journal, <em>"I know I'm not supposed to use the book meanings, but frankly I'm lost without them right now. I feel that I'm getting a lot personally from the exercises in this book and <u>very</u> quickly developing a working relationship with this deck."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So yeah, I'm cheating. I'm also not using the type of deck the author recommends either. My plan was to use Celtic Tarot to start learning how to read other non-scenic pip decks. Now I'm seeing that this deck was designed to be read more like a RWS. I'm alright with that. I think this deck is beautiful.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-54068309192878065172011-05-10T11:02:00.000-06:002011-05-10T11:02:43.497-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;"><strong>SPRING EQUINOX - REBIRTH</strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-knaBNS5PBTM/Tclq0KGyXQI/AAAAAAAAAQw/8ecfkwVziPI/s1600/Rebirth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" closure_uid_ygvvhz="559" height="320" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-knaBNS5PBTM/Tclq0KGyXQI/AAAAAAAAAQw/8ecfkwVziPI/s320/Rebirth.jpg" width="221" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I pulled this one this morning, right before posting here. Although the time of year is right, it feels more like I'm coming <em><strong>out</strong></em> of a very energetic and productive phase, not moving into one. My energy level has been really down. I haven't been feeling emotionally down, just less motivated. Before, I was staying up until the wee hours of the morning and still going the next day and last night I fell asleep on the couch at 8:30pm! I'm drinking 3 or 4 cups of coffee to get through the day and still I just want to sit and watch Stargate Atlantis. I'd rather read a book, <em>(or listen to an audio book)</em> than try to write. So I don't know...maybe as the week progresses this card will have more meaning to me.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-70148096608767759202011-05-04T01:28:00.000-06:002011-05-04T01:28:51.391-06:00Weekly Tarot Card - Queen of Swords<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>Sharp-Tongued – Stern – Mournful</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6IoOcXFqG0/TcD585fARRI/AAAAAAAAAOs/1rXvjc65Cvs/s1600/Swords13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6IoOcXFqG0/TcD585fARRI/AAAAAAAAAOs/1rXvjc65Cvs/s320/Swords13.jpg" width="198" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don’t see much of myself in the Queen of Swords from this deck. I’m not ‘<em>tough as nails’</em>, I don’t h</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ave a ‘<em>cast-iron will</em>’ or ‘<em>razor-sharp wit’</em>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I do tend to cry, not in the face of adversity, but certainly behind it’s back! Unfortunately, I <strong><em>can</em></strong> be a total bitch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m sure my boys see the sharp-tongued and stern Queen of Swords in me, especially lately. With the older one off-track from school, the little guy is really not getting why he has to go to school and big brother gets to stay home with mommy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’d think I was dragging him off to boot camp instead of a few hours of pre-school!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do need to check myself though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been pretty short with them this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With all these ideas floating around, I’ve been trying (<em>quite successfully!</em>) to get my thoughts organized and written down.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s one thing to be physically moving around doing stuff or running errands with kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They certainly don’t make it easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But to sit still for a while and try to think? OMG! It’s like that episode of Family Guy where Stewie just keeps going “Mom, mom, mummy, mummy, ma…ma…ma…”, and the moment he gets Lois’s attention – he’s got nothing to say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Right now I’ve got so much going on in my head it’s almost manic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to write a list so I could go to bed last night (3am!) and not feel like I had to do it all right away or I’d forget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And still after a lite doze I woke up at 5:58am, lit a candle and wrote some notes for my tarot journal that I’d been mulling over regarding a tarot-tribe podcast I’d listened to earlier.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some of the different ideas I started thinking about last week are now in the detailed planning and preparation stage. So I’ve been cleaning out old notebooks and day-timers to use.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I came across some good stuff to post about a couple of dreams and trying to use tarot to help me make sense of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just the act of getting my ideas together has given me more ideas. It feels great despite the fact that, I can’t get to most of the on my list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know when the time is right, the ideas won’t be lost.</span><br />
</div></div><object height="288" width="512"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/nW7h2k6D01GxiKEdENvISg"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/nW7h2k6D01GxiKEdENvISg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" height="288" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-79297747386893199212011-05-01T15:05:00.001-06:002011-05-01T21:09:11.689-06:006-12-6 Spread with The Fairy Tale Tarot<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm breaking all my own rules, and it's fun! I'm posting a reading I did three days ago from the deck I wasn't supposed to start using until today. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_OkuxasIdas/Tb2UTppDBWI/AAAAAAAAANc/lE2tMcucvJE/s1600/FT+Reading.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="189" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_OkuxasIdas/Tb2UTppDBWI/AAAAAAAAANc/lE2tMcucvJE/s320/FT+Reading.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used a three card spread that I started using to get familiar with an oracle deck, The Shaman Wisdom Cards. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I wanted to get a general impression for each card in the deck before I started asking questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I would pull out cards that had been drawn until I went through the whole deck.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It began as a standard daily Morning-Afternoon-Evening spread, where I'd find time during that part of the day to study or just spend a few moments reflecting on the card. This was so <span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">therapeutic for me I decided to keep using it after I'd gone through the whole deck. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It evolved to being a more specific time for each card. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">At night in bed, I would draw three cards for the next day. Two of the cards are for 6 hours of the day and one is for 12 hours. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Card 1: 6am-12pm</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Card 2: 12pm to 6pm</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Card 3: 6pm to 6am. </span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This spread motivates me to take a Tarot/Oracle Time Out. If I hadn't done it spontaneously, I'd make a point of it when I noticed the time. This spread also helps me get out of or avoid altogether a 9 of Swords type situation. Its like I’m using the card the way a woman would use a focus object during labor. It doesn't stop my nasty midnight thought-loops completely, but it does help me ride them out and break the self-perpetuating cycle that makes it so much worse.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>That's the reason I named this blog Midnight Tarot. Often I find myself awake in the middle of the night for various reasons. Instead of counting sheep, I play tarot games in my head.</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I didn't buy Lisa Hunt's Fairy Tale Tarot deck for doing predictive readings I thought it would work well for this spread. This is a beautiful deck and I'm fascinated with fairy tales and enjoy reading ones from different cultures. That's what this deck is all about. During the day I would stop and read the story from the book out loud to the kids. At times they would sit and listen, mostly they'd quietly play or draw while I read.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are the cards I pulled: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zOnteR36rmg/Tb2sXcDX47I/AAAAAAAAANk/1ro_C73bV18/s1600/Swords_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zOnteR36rmg/Tb2sXcDX47I/AAAAAAAAANk/1ro_C73bV18/s320/Swords_2.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Card1: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 of Swords </span></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Story: Snow Daughter & Fire Son</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Culture: Russian</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Keywords: Opposing Forces, Stalemate</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <u>Lesson I picked up from the story</u>: over-reaction to energy or ideas that conflict with mine (i.e. kids that want to run around and shout before I've had my morning coffee) will cause a complete breakdown in communication and nobody wins. For now a temporary truce is best.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--mHkrL-kY-g/Tb2scOxmu8I/AAAAAAAAANo/9rESGBljus8/s1600/Cups_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--mHkrL-kY-g/Tb2scOxmu8I/AAAAAAAAANo/9rESGBljus8/s320/Cups_10.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Card 2: 10 of Cups</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Story: The Girl Fish</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Culture: Spanish</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Keywords: </span><span style="font-size: large;">Dreams fulfilled, Peace</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Lesson I picked up from the story</u>: Take the afternoon to enjoy my life and the people in it. Sharing the things I take pleasure in with loved ones. And doing things they enjoy with them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_qyQGf_bhzg/Tb2se5Zi2jI/AAAAAAAAANs/4kxiTJ1cO8s/s1600/Cups_Queen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_qyQGf_bhzg/Tb2se5Zi2jI/AAAAAAAAANs/4kxiTJ1cO8s/s320/Cups_Queen.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Card3: Queen of Cups</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Story: Sealskin</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Culture: Irish</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Keywords: Loving, Intuitive</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Lesson I picked up from the story</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take some time tonight for myself, writing in my journal or playing with my cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to become cut off from my true nature. Being compassionate and loving to my inner self will <em>“strengthen my love and compassion for others.”</em></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5SPNMZIz5k0/TbmbvX9s5OI/AAAAAAAAALk/O1ckT5vHkvU/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5SPNMZIz5k0/TbmbvX9s5OI/AAAAAAAAALk/O1ckT5vHkvU/s320/11.jpg" width="162" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>#12 Porcupine - INNOCENCE</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>From the book "The medicine in this card is that of relief from seriousness and severity. Open your heart to those things that gave you joy as a child."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday was a rollercoster day for me. It went from bad to good, then worse to better. I like to post my oracle card on Wednesdays, but it just wasn't happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My card draws were as all over the place as my emotional state! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week I'm using </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Medicine Cards</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, but before I drew this week's card, I was about to write some final thoughts on <a href="http://midnitetarot.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-oracle-card-of-week_23.html">last week's</a> oracle card in my notebook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had to stop and pull my 4 year-old onto my lap. Out of the blue he starts talking in what I call his Austim Speak. He can be verbal <strong><em>and</em></strong> lucid at times. Other times, like this one, he's being verbal but its noises mixed with real words that are <em>(or seem to be)</em> completely unrelated to anything. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was saying something that sounded like <em>"What's that wild? I don't <</em>garble<em>> the wild."</em> He was looking at the end table next to me where the box for the Goddess Oracle was. On the bottom edge of the box there is a picture of a cat from one of the cards. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I asked him about it and it turns out that the cat was "the wild". </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zkWQFMxuYXk/TbmtJCpp0oI/AAAAAAAAAL0/bpX7C20-AAk/s1600/Bast-Play.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zkWQFMxuYXk/TbmtJCpp0oI/AAAAAAAAAL0/bpX7C20-AAk/s200/Bast-Play.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(He <em>knows</em> the word cat...he <em><strong>loves</strong></em> cats. Go figure!) So, I asked him if he wanted to see the card with the cat on it. Then little man got really lucid with the language. As I'm taking the book out of the box to get to the cards, he tells me <em>"You read the book out loud. I got the card."</em> It is rare that he requests being read to. It is even more out of character that it wasn't one of his books. The card is about play<strong><em>..."Bast bats at you with her paw to urge you to come and play with her. It is time to divert yourself with something that is amusing, fun, and totally recreational."</em></strong> Isn't that cute? I considered, for a split second, taking this as a sign that Bast should be my card of the week. This idea was quickly rejected and replaced with reminders that <u>the goddess oracle was last week, the medicine cards are scheduled for use on the 4th week of the month. I must stick to the schedule.</u> Rules are rules.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UeTVa5S1rrQ/TbhILxxXREI/AAAAAAAAALc/MHqxK1FqGv0/s1600/00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UeTVa5S1rrQ/TbhILxxXREI/AAAAAAAAALc/MHqxK1FqGv0/s200/00.jpg" width="101" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">When I was finally ready to draw my Medicine Card for the week, my 6 year-old wanted in on the action and asked to pull the card for me. As soon as I saw that it was <strong>Eagle</strong> I didn't think it was the <em>right</em> card for me. I didn't know anything about the card, it just seemed a little grand. Right away I pulled out another one and it was Porcupine. Again, a card I knew nothing about but rejected immedately! Porcupine looked like trouble so I wanted to stick with Eagle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">When I got a chance to read up on the cards I realized that Porcupine's message was right on point. (No pun intended.) Porcupoine & Bast have inspired me to start using May's tarot deck of the month early. It's Lisa Hunt's FairyTale Tarot, which looks like exactly what I need. There are some other changes to my deck scheduling I'm going to be making. I'll post more about that later.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-44460500520852360192011-04-26T23:18:00.000-06:002011-04-26T23:18:14.298-06:00My Tarot Card for the Week - King of Wands<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b0BuojSECRw/TbeU0ApaTqI/AAAAAAAAALQ/EKBbG2RZyYo/s1600/Wands14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b0BuojSECRw/TbeU0ApaTqI/AAAAAAAAALQ/EKBbG2RZyYo/s320/Wands14.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Charisma - Inventiveness - Encouragement</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>"Brandishing a multi-purpose, five-headed wand he constructed himself, he is full of bold ideas, and his magnetic personality inspires others to partake in his journey to the top."</strong></em></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been full of ideas for the last two days. From home made cleaning supplies to neighborhood nature adventures and projects I can do with our older son while he's off-track from school. I even had some ideas for my social life that I just took for a daydreaming kind of <em>"What if I could...?"</em> thing. I believe I might be able to pull off some of these ideas of mine. I don't think I'm heading to the top of anything, but I do have some interesting ideas that others might want to go along with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Funny thing is, I'd first pulled this card while we were sitting in the parking lot, waiting for my younger son to get out of pre-school. But the 6 year-old just wouldn't stop talking (<strong><em>and</em></strong> I'm not real fond of court cards) so I decided I was too distracted during my shuffling for the King of Wands to really count as my card of the week.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H7STDjW7R5U/TbeYK9PW9ZI/AAAAAAAAALY/oYdl4czC-Ik/s1600/Wands13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H7STDjW7R5U/TbeYK9PW9ZI/AAAAAAAAALY/oYdl4czC-Ik/s200/Wands13.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So when we all got home and I had a chance to light my candle and incense and still my mind for a few minutes...I pulled the Queen of Wands. <strong>Creative Energy - Ego - Passion</strong> <strong><em>"She is an attentive housewive, but still finds the time and energy to pursue her own interests."</em></strong> So I'm treating this royal couple together as my cards for the week.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-25391551232100723452011-04-23T00:06:00.001-06:002011-04-23T00:10:09.683-06:00My Oracle Card of the Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>VILA Shape-Shifting</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-luPPHtQMYoE/TbG8V1BeK-I/AAAAAAAAALM/Sc8bc4KXe7g/s1600/Vila.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-luPPHtQMYoE/TbG8V1BeK-I/AAAAAAAAALM/Sc8bc4KXe7g/s1600/Vila.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The book says <strong><em>"Vila (pronounced </em>vee'lah<em>) is the eastern European name for the Goddess energy moving through the earth as nature."</em></strong></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I usually like to do my oracle card draw the day after I do my tarot card for the week, but this time I did them the same day. At first glance the two cards seemed completely unrelated. Then I read the section for the meaning of the of card and this line jumped out at me, <em><strong>"Are you feeling stiff and stagnant, losing flexibility in your way of thinking and being?"</strong></em> I couldn't help but smile. It would be lovely if every week’s cards were this cohesive.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-88575265168522240362011-04-22T11:29:00.001-06:002011-04-22T12:06:36.854-06:00Practice Reading<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the follow up reading I'd mentioned doing for my friend in </span><a href="http://midnitetarot.blogspot.com/2011/04/reading-for-others.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">this</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> post. My placements of the cards in the Celtic Cross might be a little different so I'll list them below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. What Covers: Queen of Wands</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What Crosses: 5 of Coins</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. What Is Beneath: 0 The Fool</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. What Is Above: 2 of Coins</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. What Is Behind: XVIII The Moon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. What Is Before: 9 of Swords</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Self: VI The Lovers</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8. House: XIII Death</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">9. Hopes & Fears: Knight of Cups</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">10. Outcome: Page of Wands</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is my very brief interpretation. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think I’m seeing renewed good health as a final outcome in the Page of Wands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s basically a vibrant and healthy person with some health issues. (The Queen of Wands being crossed by the 5 of Coins) I didn’t know how to read XVIII The Moon as the recent past, so I looked to the book:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <strong><em>“There may be obstacles to overcome, and cycles of good fortune and bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Struggle through the darkness and glad times will return.”</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><em> </em> </span></strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>That works for me, I’m not that concerned with the past position for this reading anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She may have some fears about recurrences or relapses of ill health, but they’re most likely unfounded. (9 of Swords)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I won’t share my thoughts on all the cards to maintain some privacy. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3f7s8kz91pc/TbG43EbkpxI/AAAAAAAAALE/ywfXgJfMMig/s1600/IMG_1892.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3f7s8kz91pc/TbG43EbkpxI/AAAAAAAAALE/ywfXgJfMMig/s200/IMG_1892.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I thought I should add that I used Kat Black's Golden Tarot for this reading because it is the deck I'm working with this month. It also happens to be the deck my friend chose for the reading I did for her.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-2659143334696899522011-04-19T11:28:00.003-06:002011-04-19T12:04:41.615-06:00XIII Death - My Card for the Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JPPnT5bd6bs/Ta23ajn1E9I/AAAAAAAAAKs/BEVWrKnFSC4/s1600/Major13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JPPnT5bd6bs/Ta23ajn1E9I/AAAAAAAAAKs/BEVWrKnFSC4/s320/Major13.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>An Unavoidable Ending – Loss – Necessary Change </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Okay, my first thought is to deal with that stuff in the ‘fridge. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I’m sure this card has deeper meanings for me as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I wonder if this is related to the books I’ve been reading and ideas I’ve had about religion lately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are starting to change or at least challenge my beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way I look at things. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">There’s also the astrological connection I have with this card, me being a double Scorpio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s my rising <strong><em>and</em></strong> my moon sign. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">From The Book: “You may be reluctant to throw it away, and you may try to convince yourself that a little mold never hurt anyone, but only a fool would dare eat food riddled with botulism.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t think my religion is “riddled with botulism”, but it may be a little moldy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After reading from the little book for this deck I am almost sure this has to do with some of my core religious beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Sometimes I feel like I’m intuitive enough to <em>see</em> the writing on the wall, but not spiritually mature enough to <em>read</em> it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">For those who are curious; </span><a href="http://frimmin.com/books/cosmicchrist.php"><em><span style="font-size: small;">Matthew Fox's The Coming of the Cosmic Christ</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size: small;">, </span></em><a href="http://www.greenletterbible.com/"><em><span style="font-size: small;">The Green Bible</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size: small;">, <a href="http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738707181">Living Gnosis: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Christianity</a>, and the least influential to me, but still interesting </span></em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2JDT2UU9HKABA/ref=cm_pdp_rev_title_2?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview#RPGCWZW7V9LLQ"><em><span style="font-size: small;">The Jesus Papers</span></em></a><span style="font-size: small;"><em> </em>(<em>this links to someone else's review that I agree with. I'm listening to an audio version I got from the library)</em></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-40879060592751587692011-04-15T09:51:00.000-06:002011-04-15T09:51:10.902-06:00Reading for Others<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I cannot read for my husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve tried more than once and with different decks too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first time I used Tarot of the Saints. It all made sense and seemed like a clear reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what I saw isn’t at all what happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it was exactly the opposite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other times the decks were New Orleans Voodoo Tarot and the Golden Tarot. It was just gobbledie-gook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of the cards seemed to have any relation to the question (all 3 readings were work related) or to each other. Recently though, I have had some success with reading for a couple of my friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I don’t want to be a professional reader, but I’d like to be able read for somebody if they ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only time a person has asked me to do a reading for them I was so nervous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had been years since I’d read for anybody else and even then it was only a handful of times. I told her that I would try, but she’s a good friend and it would be hard for me to be objective. She’d need to take whatever I saw with grain of salt – good or bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question was health related.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">It was a pretty interesting experience because I felt…in the zone, I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cards were showing me things, good things. And they weren’t always in line with the keywords I'd learned long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I trusted it enough to tell her what I saw. With a repeated warning, since it was so close to what she wanted hear. I used my Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Then I laid out the same cards from Vision Quest because it was the deck I was studying with that month.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">A few months later events turned out according to the reading. I was so happy for her. But I wasn’t seeing this, in any way, as a reflection on my ability to read for others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did a follow up reading without her asking me to just to see how things would progress. I wasn’t prying, she’s a friend and I needed the practice. This time I was using Deviant Moon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I used the Celtic Cross spread – which was the one I’d used before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again the cards seemed to be clear as bells to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time though, it was the positions in the spread that…became more fluid. I don’t know how else to say it. Once again it was a good outcome predicted, so as a friend and reader, I could hope that I would be right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made my notes and waited to see what would happen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spot on again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially considering my spontaneous position interpretation. That’s what gave me the nerve to ask a different friend to volunteer. She agreed to let me practice my tarot reading skills on her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another health related question and again I saw a positive outcome from her cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The other day she told me she received some encouraging test results from her doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to do a follow up reading, like I did before, to see how things might progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll post it here for anyone who wants a reading to practice with.</span></div></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-73267321264354991722011-04-13T22:58:00.001-06:002011-04-14T07:42:25.394-06:00My Oracle Card of the Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K2TvrT4woJ0/TaUPtAhpXMI/AAAAAAAAAKE/hby5M3GQlj4/s1600/earthmag_rainbow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K2TvrT4woJ0/TaUPtAhpXMI/AAAAAAAAAKE/hby5M3GQlj4/s320/earthmag_rainbow.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Blessings</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><em>Now</em> I'm feeling the fluffy-bunny. :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><em>"The storm has passed, and it is time to enjoy the refreshing beauty of this cycle,..."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Not surprisingly, this card is about counting my blessings. The book says to..."<em>do so slowly and with genuine gratitude that is expressed up close and personal."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I like go back year after year and re-read my journals, leaving little dated notes to myself. Doing this had taught me that I tend to write more when I'm not happy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My journals had become garbage dumps, laundry lists of <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">grievances</span> I held against myself and others. It was so tedious to read through that to get to the gems that <em>were</em> there. Reading a note that my 17 year old self had left in the margin of 12 year old me's diary and 20-something's me's note to the 17 year old. Well...it was interesting to <strong>me</strong> anyway,but I don't know if others would find it so fascinating.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Using my oracle decks as prompts for writing in my non-tarot journal (okay...its 60% tarot related), is one of my favorite things about them. Not that they're not sometimes predictive. I learned that last week! I'll be able to take pleasure in re-reading what I write about this week. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w1IZfsTdQng/TaY4566W1bI/AAAAAAAAAKY/fbVOl2HYIfA/s1600/76.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w1IZfsTdQng/TaY4566W1bI/AAAAAAAAAKY/fbVOl2HYIfA/s320/76.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Seeing the rainbow on this card immediately brought to mind the XX Judgment card from Dark Grimoire. Different deck, but still my card for the week. The next image that popped into my head was of a bunch of pictures we tried to take of a double rainbow that showed up just as the sun was setting. The upper rainbow faded pretty quick, but we kept taking pictures anyway. The kids were having a blast. It was the first rainbow our youngest son ever showed a reaction to.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BK4-7OgIbQ0/TaY8jd3jnMI/AAAAAAAAAKo/hmLepKC1ncc/s1600/rainbow4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BK4-7OgIbQ0/TaY8jd3jnMI/AAAAAAAAAKo/hmLepKC1ncc/s200/rainbow4.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I2_1dyB2eME/TaY8T_DNhEI/AAAAAAAAAKc/EZpRi1wH_QU/s1600/rainbow1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I2_1dyB2eME/TaY8T_DNhEI/AAAAAAAAAKc/EZpRi1wH_QU/s200/rainbow1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1FfJFhbV9og/TaY8cXd-HuI/AAAAAAAAAKg/dLyAKnYWJ18/s1600/rainbow2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1FfJFhbV9og/TaY8cXd-HuI/AAAAAAAAAKg/dLyAKnYWJ18/s200/rainbow2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-41983552576825659722011-04-12T23:55:00.004-06:002011-04-13T11:05:48.152-06:00Tarot Card of the Week: Judgment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FND1G-l0sRc/TaSHAzAwzzI/AAAAAAAAAJA/Hq6XYJk9xxA/s1600/Major20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FND1G-l0sRc/TaSHAzAwzzI/AAAAAAAAAJA/Hq6XYJk9xxA/s320/Major20.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>Assessment – Acceptance – Harsh Criticism</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">This has got to be one of the top 5 empowering Judgment Cards.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’m so glad I finally pulled a card that’ll give me something thoughtful to write about in my journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aside from just looking at how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> card, from </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> deck reflects </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can spend the week reflecting on The Judgment card in depth.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></div><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have some tarot audio files I can listen to...one of them is a tarot meditation on XX The Aeon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Judgment...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> a</span>nd of course <em><u>Meditations on the Tarot</u></em>. It'll probably take me a whole week to get through the letter for one card.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">For today though, I’m thinking about using my judgment regarding my habits, mental & physical.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I need to drop some bad habits that I’ve recently picked back up. I think I mentioned in a previous post something about <em>Oreo Cookies</em>! Renewing some good habits that were put on the back burner last week is probably a good idea as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn’t been doing my yoga stretches (bad for my back) or taking meditation breaks (bad for my mind).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Being overly harsh towards myself about my recent lack of sound judgment isn’t going to improve matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a person who really needs to watch their internal dialogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some <strong><em>very nasty</em></strong> b*#ches in my head.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>After writing this post I later went and added this to my daily journal entry about this card:</em></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><em>As I was listening to a tarot audio track about XX The Aeon - Judgment the author (Suzanne Wagner, I think) mentions starting a Pilates or yoga practice in connection with Trump XX.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She associates the spine with this card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not an association I make, but in light of my journal entries today on yoga, it did grab my attention.</em></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-52910132583971989542011-04-12T09:33:00.003-06:002011-04-12T09:51:46.039-06:00Queen of Swords<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">At night I need to stay in the boy’s room for a while to make sure Anthony, the younger one, doesn’t get out of bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To relieve my boredom & stress, I’ve been listening to these weird brainwave mediation recordings that I found on rhapsody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of them are ocean sounds, but one that I really like also has something that sounds like wind blowing with a babbling brook kind of sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an Astral Trance OBE brainwave thing. It was so relaxing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love it!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8JIc-TCi0Fg/TaNJzE5VXTI/AAAAAAAAAIw/2ixshKoqa1I/s1600/62.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8JIc-TCi0Fg/TaNJzE5VXTI/AAAAAAAAAIw/2ixshKoqa1I/s320/62.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">While I was listen to this the other night, sort of dozing, the image of the Queen of Swords from the DruidCraft Tarot just popped up in my mind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The image was animated; I could see the wind blowing her hair and clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went with it and put myself in her place and enjoyed it until it was time for me to leave the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know if that counts as a full on out-of-body-experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it got me thinking about my relationship with the Queen of Swords and how much its changed over the years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a name='more'></a><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A7HTo2QJCtw/TaNKFtNNhLI/AAAAAAAAAI0/yBVuxR07w88/s1600/48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A7HTo2QJCtw/TaNKFtNNhLI/AAAAAAAAAI0/yBVuxR07w88/s320/48.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The first tarot deck I really started to learn with was the Thoth Tarot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s a pretty intimidating looking Queen. I’ve got another deck that also shows her holding a severed head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She always seemed kind of harsh to me and like she represented someone who’d faced a lot of trials in their life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wiser for them sure, but still not a pleasant happy life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ifg0rFnAZ-Q/TaNKWQktcvI/AAAAAAAAAI4/icxFKA6sqXU/s1600/Card65.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ifg0rFnAZ-Q/TaNKWQktcvI/AAAAAAAAAI4/icxFKA6sqXU/s320/Card65.jpg" width="173" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">At a certain point in my life I began drawing the Queen of Swords often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was using the Bohemian Gothic Tarot at the time and at first I still didn’t like her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looked like an old roommate of mine that caused me lots of grief. But she kept showing up in positive positions in my spreads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a while I began to warm up to her and accept that there may be something more than surviving sorrows and dealing with harsh critics I could learn from this Queen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This card became my favorite one in this deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><em>Still</em> had some issues with her uncanny resemblance to the roommate from hell though.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0INLVYGwnZ4/TaNKiu2kbUI/AAAAAAAAAI8/rBW47nQ2IbQ/s1600/13queenofswords_lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0INLVYGwnZ4/TaNKiu2kbUI/AAAAAAAAAI8/rBW47nQ2IbQ/s320/13queenofswords_lg.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I started working with the Tarot of Trees deck I had a wonderful experience with the Queen of Swords.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since there are no people pictured in this deck it opened me up to make my own, more pleasant associations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a strong, intelligent and very regal looking celebrity that came to my mind the first time this card came up in a reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing about her life or past is heartbreaking either. Hard at times, but hardly tragic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Ironically, t</span>his deck added a whole human dimension to this card for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Now I’ve got the astral realm to add to my associations with the Queen of Swords.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-90421423480283435672011-04-11T10:08:00.001-06:002011-04-11T10:11:27.814-06:00Last Weeks Tarot & Oracle Cards<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">7 of Wands</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Well, it looks like I might’ve read this one wrong, at least the wrong kind of bugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have been fighting with an irritating cold germ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No crawling bugs, no allergy attacks. Maybe because I took defensive position to start with, I don’t know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hasn’t been too bad, just bad enough to keep us from enjoying the weather over the weekend, and keep me off the computer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">As for my oracle card that I never posted about …</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-23OvjVFv2Xg/TaMkh8ZPB5I/AAAAAAAAAIs/-Pvk3W4WvVs/s1600/Card38.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-23OvjVFv2Xg/TaMkh8ZPB5I/AAAAAAAAAIs/-Pvk3W4WvVs/s320/Card38.jpg" width="169" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the <strong>Shaman Wisdom Cards #36 Nettle (Masculine-West-Mars-Fire).</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another not so happy-go-lucky card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This used to be a daily deck for me. It is an odd one, but I’ve bonded with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whenever the Nettle Card would come up there would always be more bickering in my family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naturally, I wasn’t too happy to see it pop up as a card for the whole week!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a name='more'></a><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Since I use nettle on a regular basis in a hair rinse that I make, I was hoping this time the card might have a more literal meaning for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just last week my husband had mentioned to me that when he was young he was extremely allergic to nettle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He might not be now but I should be careful as allergies can pass to children. I’ve been using this concoction for over a year now, but I was grasping at straws. I made a new batch of hair tea, leaving out the nettle just in case.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">In the LWB that came with this deck, the paragraph for each card is written in the voice of the card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<em>I am Nettle…If properly handled, I offer strength and healing…”,</em> etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for this one line at the end that is evidently meant to be divinatory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong>“Injury may result from problems or issues that are not properly handled.” </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I ignored this since I’ve <em>bonded</em> with this deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I <em>know</em> this card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><em>And I’ve had enough bad news cards!!</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I’ll just say this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re lucky the issues and problems were handled properly and no one was hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were sparks, several loud pops, and smoke. The school had to call an electrician to get the outlets in the classroom to work again, but no one was hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How my kid managed not to electrocute himself I’ll never know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our youngest son found a way to get around the barrier of a cement canal with plenty of Spring run-off water at the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His daddy caught him as he was trying to make his way down to the water. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Angels of the Tarot or whoever may be listening, how ‘bout throwing some warm, fuzzy, fluffy bunny cards at me this week, okay?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Related posts: <a href="http://midnitetarot.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-tarot-card-of-week.html">7 of Wands: Card of the Week</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-81898810151984867992011-04-05T17:02:00.001-06:002011-04-11T10:08:51.250-06:00My Tarot Card of the Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Seven of Wands</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7gP6UVtpdq0/TZuVQroMKnI/AAAAAAAAAIY/8MNm0_glD3E/s1600/Wands07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7gP6UVtpdq0/TZuVQroMKnI/AAAAAAAAAIY/8MNm0_glD3E/s320/Wands07.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Challenges - Fighting Back - Crisis</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where are all the warm and fuzzy cards!?! Oh well, this one <em>is</em> pretty fitting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I had a serious allergy attack this morning and nothing that I could take for it. It is time for me to find something that I can take daily. The season is upon me and if I don't take defensive measures I'll end up with ear infections and sinus infections. Ugh!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other seasonal battle to deal with is against the bugs! It was a losing fight last year, but I learned quite a bit about which essential oils repel which critters. Itsy-bitsy red ants were into the coffee, the peanut butter, the smallest food dripping. They hated the citronella. Big black ants would come into cool off every time we hit triple digits. They wouldn't cross a line of peppermint. I can't even talk about the spiders...<em><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Blech</span><span style="color: red;">!!</span></strong></em> This season I'm already armed and prepared with my own home-made Bug, Be Gone! In 2 scents mint & citrus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">My boys are like Hansel & Gretel with the crumbs, so vacuuming alone isn't going to cut it. I will arm the perimeters today.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-91405854699882763342011-04-05T13:34:00.001-06:002011-04-05T16:15:40.509-06:00Clearly, I have issues<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2WtRYbKulG0/TZttpLjSrCI/AAAAAAAAAIM/oBF2KWnfx8Y/s1600/IMG_1871.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2WtRYbKulG0/TZttpLjSrCI/AAAAAAAAAIM/oBF2KWnfx8Y/s200/IMG_1871.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went to Target just to get allergy medicine, but I couldn't stop myself. Yes, I know the notebooks are on the other side of the store. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These little spiral bound guys have those pockets that I love so much <strong><em>and</em></strong> they match my hardcover daily journal. Of which I have 3 extra. Two of those are in a different color combination that I did <strong><em>not</em></strong> get the matching mini spiral notebooks for. Let's see how long I hold out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I've added a <a href="http://midnitetarot.blogspot.com/p/tarot-journals.html">Tarot Journals</a> page with info on how I use my tarot journals. If you're interested in what tarot users do with their journals, like I am, check it out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">If you have a blog or something else where you talk about your tarot journaling or other tarot experiences, let me know by leaving some info in the comments so I can read about it.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2726479570898905131.post-72759588179210757822011-04-04T14:04:00.002-06:002011-04-04T14:15:41.246-06:00Another month – Another Deck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YkxNYMRgSRM/TZohmssELdI/AAAAAAAAAGg/ar8zcrefwvw/s1600/4-3-11+Reading.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YkxNYMRgSRM/TZohmssELdI/AAAAAAAAAGg/ar8zcrefwvw/s320/4-3-11+Reading.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This months deck is Kat Black’s Golden Tarot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did a 3 card reading with it yesterday.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’d like to be able to use my cards to do readings for <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">others</span> not just myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard to find chances to practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the little ones, I don’t get out much and most of the people I know aren’t into tarot readings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think its probably better practice with total strangers anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I like to see other peoples spreads they’ve laid out for themselves without reading their interpretations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just the question or situation and the cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I can read the cards (or lay out the same ones with a different deck) and imagine giving them the reading myself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I like to see others doing it, I’ll start doing it myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No need to tell me what you come with, but if you have a blog where you post your readings please let me know so I can follow it. <span style="font-size: small;"><em>If you want to see the reading follow the link</em></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><em>From my journal:</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">“I’m in a weird mood today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s overcast outside and very windy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me happy to listen to it blow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’m also feeling bored and compelled to do something – other than the pile of laundry that’s mocking me from the corner of the bedroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll get to that later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been bingeing on the boys snack foods & I’m trying to kick the habit starting today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I’ve complied, but I wonder if the antsy bored thing is about my compulsion to eat Oreos?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That should be my first reading with the Golden Tarot.”</span></em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Here are the cards I pulled. A 3 Card “no-spread” spread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re using this as a practice you can make up position meanings if it helps.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After quite a few days of sunny almost 70 degree weather – we got hit with a few inches of snow yesterday. When I looked out the window it looked a lot my Tree in Winter card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I half expected to see a coyote (no wolves around here) truckin’ past my kitchen window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No such luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did see a couple of bunnies though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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I'll post the reading I did with my Golden Tarot shortly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Preservation…I’m taking this as more about maintenance than conservation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just need to hold the fort for one more day then hubby has two days off in a row! (That almost never happens).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I continue what I began with the 5 of swords then it’ll be a more peaceful weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, then I’ll be spending the whole time playing catch-up instead of enjoying my family and some me time.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com