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Reality Hurts

Daily Draw: Secret Forest Tarot ~ 2 of Wands

Ever been in a fender bender wreck? You are going along, minding your own beeswax when WHAM your day instantly changes. Doesn't matter if you were stepping out for a quart of milk or going to a wedding, your focus is now on the immediate.

I haven't been in a wreck this week, but this card reminds me that I've had the same sudden forced focus shift. The owl, one of my three totems, reminds me I can work my way around this problem too, even if facing facts can be painful.

"Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality." ~ Andy Stanley 1958-

Looking back on the week that passed I seem to have pulled a lot of coins and so today too. 3 of coins shows a bird in the middle of a circle of branches, like an emblem, or like a brooch my grandmother would have worn. The bird clearly built it’s cage/nest but is also a part of it, tiny branches attached to it. It looks to be a work in progress though. In the upper corner of the image we see a bird in silhouette in the distance. Perhaps it’s mate?

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Autumn is when people up here start ‘nesting’ We look after our houses, insulate them, stock up on wood, change curtains to richer, warmer fabrics, lay out the rugs we took away for the summer. My nest is ‘empty’ too although of course I do not see it that way. This nest of mine is filled with books, blankets, cats, radio on in the kitchen, scent of cooking and baking, people passing by to say hi and come in for a coffee…

Oh I know my grandmother would have loved this brooch by the way. When I was 7 I once stole a brooch from her, I felt bad about it for weeks, well years actually. It was nothing fancy, just a little tuft of the softest thing I ever felt. I stroked it to my face. She said it was a piece of the fur from the tummy of a porcupine. I don’t know if she just made it up, but she made it sound real. I had to have it! Of course she must have known I took it but she never confronted me about it, I wish now she had. Then I would have felt awful a day or two and not guilty for being a thief for decades.

Daily Draw: Secret Forest Tarot ~ 5 of Cups

The decision to break off with someone is seldom an easy one. If we cared enough about them to form ties, then breaking off those ties causes pain. I broke ties with my mother at one time, for my own sanity; and with a few long time friends. And there are a few friends where there wasn't a breaking off so much as the ties rotted away from lack of use.

I'm reminded today of the pleasure of having two old and very dear friends come back into my life last week, a day apart. I'm going to make the effort to not let drifting apart happen again.

"A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and Time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely." ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873

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Today’s couple makes my mind spin. These are 2 beautiful cards but the associations for me today are not all pleasant. The buck with a cross and rose antlers, petals falling like drops of blood, makes me think (yet again) about sacrifices. And then the plums on the card next to it makes me think of this crazy cult I was in where they kept smirking and saying that the Lord’s servants with be known by their ‘fruit’ implying of course that their fruit was so much better then anyone elses.

So I have to make an effort to shuffle that away and just look and feel the cards for what they mean for me right now, right here. And then I close my eyes and think of my mothers garden, of her roses and her plums, of how they look today, slightly ruffled and just on the verge of wilting in the autumn chill. It makes me think of how she worked hard with her hand in that garden and how we all enjoy the beauty of it, the scents and taste of it.

Me, I am a bit too squirmish for garden work, I cringe at bugs and worms, I whine over having to dig into hard soil. I am a lazy gardener that likes to take shortcuts. My moms hands are welted and full of cuts, blood like the rose petals… I admire that passion and dedication and hope that one day I can be just like that with my garden.

Отправлено: 01.12.10 15:15. Заголовок: Корица не знаю наско..

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Корица не знаю насколько еще актуален вопрос, но тем не менее)
Олень же вообще очень благополучный символ, у кого не посмотри. Благополучие, плодородие. Впрочем, глядя как он преспокойно лежит, мысли о спокойствии и достатке сразу приходят в голову. Рога, кстати их часто связывают с символом древа жизни, цветут розами, что значит все ну совсем лучше некуда. Цветение в жизни, изобилие.
На перевернутой, обратной стороне, картинка казалось бы похожа. Однако розы будто облетают. Конечно лепестки летели и на той стороне, но темные тона говорят нам об увядании. Может ситуация уже "перерезрела", благополучие начало попахивать разложением. Олень выглядит уже не таки спокойным, смотрит то ли испуганно, то ли обреченно. Может он бы уже и рад был бы уйти, но не может, возможно прирос к месту от долгого сидения? И темные пятна рялом с ним, внизу, будто он сидит на снегу, а это весенние прогалины. Весна время обновления, все старое долно уступить место новому. Таким образо думаю обратная сторона нам говорит что яблоко изобилия начало подгнивать и необходимо менять все, пока запашок не отравил вам жизнь.

Todays couple gives two versions of the concept of giving out of yourself. One is the Hanged man – a sacrifice, a pin through the back, putting you on display, cruel but think a step further is there is wisdom and knowledge on display there. The second is Page of Cups offering his flower, open, grounded and secure. He is showing his heart without anticipating pain.

Coming from a long line of passive-aggressive women I often feel like the fey on display, pinned down by my own frustration. There is a willingness to sacrifice but will it ever be appreciated as I need it to be? Better then to just be open and frank and simply give what I can and not make such a fuss about it :-p

Today’s cards are 9 of Swords and 6 of Discs. The sentence in my journal is: My wounded armour prevents me from clearly seeing the the gifts I receive. For me it is a signal to stop locking myself in and just go out – look up and breath. Tonight the sky is dark but the air is crisp and clear. The stars falling in the right cards mimic the fallen swords/leaves to the left. It’s all about what I make out of it.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Burden

Daily Draw: Secret Garden Tarot ~ 10 of Wands

I've had acres of time to reflect this week on what a huge burden single parents and single caregivers carry. I have no idea how they manage and still survive. One day at a time I suppose?

I'm reminded by this card of our silent heroes.

"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it." ~ John Newton 1725-1807
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Это - моя тюрьма. Каким путем идти? Старым или новым?
"В здоровом теле - здоровый дух. Больное тело - тюрьма" - Фрэнсис Бэкон

Thursday, November 11, 2010
New Day, Same Old Song - Старая песня

Daily Draw: Secret Forest Tarot ~ 4 of Cups

I've been chafing at my commitments, pushing the envelope of what I'm able to do, setting things in order to go a new direction. Or rather recharge an old direction.

I'm reminded by this card of my wake up call yesterday. There are reasons I'm in the position I'm in and one of them has reared it's ugly head. I can not go in old directions, period. I'd forgotten why. So I'll sit and stare at my cups awhile longer, and try to see my prison as an opportunity, or at least in a fresh light.

"A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison." ~ Francis Bacon, Sr. 1561-16

Posted by Sharyn Mallow Woerz

Here's another way you can ask about how others find you sexy -

What about me arouses my lover?

The way I smell. My delight and affection for his magic caterpillar. How I tremble, as if owning wings when he touches my hidden flower...

Now it's your turn. What is irresistibly sexy about YOU?

With Love...

From the Tarot of the Secret Forest, the Page of Wands:

It seems I've moved from the Page of Feeling yesterday to the Page of Doing today. This fellow is so enthusiastic and daring, he has flames of fire on his head and all around him. In a forest, not all fires are bad. There are some types of seeds that only sprout when their coats have been cracked by a forest fire. But then there are raging fires that are so devastating, they burn up every living thing in their path. The Page of Wands hates to be bored and loves all types of escapades, but he must learn to be discerning in his choices of how and where he directs his energy. Not all "doing" is productive; some of it may be a complete waste of time and some may do more harm than good.

This fellow is a gentle soul who would never intentionally hurt anyone. Tender-hearted and soft-spoken, he gets pleasure from the kindnesses he does. He enjoys making people smile and soothing any hurts in whatever way he can. He doesn't keep tabs on what he's done and who may "owe" him - a sincere "thank you" will do. His only vice is that because he is so sensitive, he can easily get his feelings hurt; he takes everything personally. He could grow a thicker skin, but would that also change his sweet nature?

Two moth-like beings stare at the full moon as if spellbound. This card reminds me that there at times when I can come under the influence of certain people, places or things that cause me to act in ways I wouldn't normally behave. Like a drug, they skew my perceptions and cloud my ability to make discerning choices. Of course the first task for me is to recognize how my thoughts are being manipulated, then I can work on my emotional sobriety. When I move out from under their realm of influence, it feels like that first gulp of air after being underwater too long...

This person has been pushed to the edge of a cliff, and now a choice has to be made. He carries one sword in a scabbard on his back, while another he points upward, as if offering the hilt to some unknown starry being. It's as if he is saying, "Someone else must make this decision for me, because I'm overwhelmed and don't know what to do!" The evergreen tree growing beside him offers a clue. Like the roots that hold it firmly on the mountainside, he needs to be still and reach deep inside to his intuitive/higher Self. He might not like the answer he finds, but he'll realize it is the right one

This fellow sure is studying that stone he's carrying. I wonder what he sees in it? A fossil of some animal or plant from an eon ago? Or maybe some type of crystal buried in matrix that is shining in the sun? This is one Page who will not miss what is going on around him. He notices even tiny things that others are too busy to see. Inevitably they'll wonder, "How did he know that?" It's simple - he constantly pays attention with all of his senses

Mattioli sees this card as a sorting out of thoughts and emotions, so that work can progress. The cross on the buck's chest indicates a balance restored, and the roses denote the breakthrough that can happen as a result. I know if I have repetitive thoughts running through my head or have my emotions swinging from one pole to another, I'm unlikely to get anything accomplished. My focus will not be on the task in front of me. So my first priority will be to look and see if what I am feeling or thinking is based in reality, and if it is, to do what I can to resolve it. In some cases, acceptance might be my only option. Then it's time for me to get on with it...

видит эту карту как сортировка мыслей и эмоций, так что работа может прогрессировать.

Крест на груди показывает, баланс восстановлен, и розы обозначают прорыв, который может произойти в результате.
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Here is some serious jousting - fairy style. The "fives" often deal with conflict, either within myself or with other people. The Five of Wands card indicates a differing of opinions on the "who, how, when, and where" things should get done. The irony of this card is that sometimes I get so caught up in making sure my opinion is heard and believed, I lose sight of what I'm trying to accomplish. These two fellows on their insects are battling high above the forest canopy. If they would stop fighting for a moment and look down, they might be able to see the whole picture instead of only their small perspective

Sheer Velocity

Daily Draw: Tarot of the Secret Forest ~ Chariot Коленица

How can he stand upright with wings that big? Is that an enormous beetle carapace he is riding and is it alive or a shell? Is it upside down or right side up? Are those flies harnessed as pulling engines? With extra wings?

I'm reminded by this card of the cycle of mankind. We are born, we grub about, we finally get an idea, and begin using other creatures, usually in a manner which they were not intended. I hope his wings blow off from sheer velocity.

"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man." ~ Marshall McLuhan 1911-1980

Haven or Hell НЕБЕСА или АДDaily Draw: Secret Forest Tarot ~ 6 of Cups


Is he homesick and can't wait to get back inside, or sick of home and getting ready to leave the paddock? Is he waiting for someone to come back, or go?

I'm reminded by this card gates and doors go both ways. I often feel I'm on the outside looking in while I wait for the cancer to return or that magic five year mark. I often feel I'm on the inside wanting out when I look at the glacial movement toward my goals.
But I feel...and there is life and hope.

"because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day." ~ Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

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Savored Bounty

Daily Draw: Secret Forest Tarot ~ 2 of Coins

Is she or isn't she? Will he or won't he?
Who cares and who doesn't? Are they or aren't they?

We make decisions and choices every day weighted by the lives which surround and touch us. Yes, choices of the heart, but the suit of coins is much more, body mind and everything earthly is caught up in the suit. Free choice and the bounty thereof are gifts to be savored.

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900

The Secret Forest Tarot is an excellent example of Lo Scarabeo Publishing's willingness to step outside the Rider-Waite tarot box and offer something that makes the brain work...no rote fortune-telling here. Each card has two sides, a black and white rough draft, and the colored side, the finished card art. The humans in the art take a back seat to the setting and the natural and unnatural creatures who inhabit it. If you want to stretch and grow your reading abilities, this is a great deck to do it with. Published 2005, beautiful art by Lucia Mattioli. She is hard at work on a second deck, this one landscape rather than upright, with a double image on each. More thinking required!

The spread below was inspired by the Tarot of the Secret Forest but can be used with any deck. The Hidden Garden Spread helps us understand that the dark forest and hidden garden are one. Only by slowing down and carefully examining things with our hearts as well as our eyes, can we see this truth.

1. Trees

This is what you fear or don’t like about your situation, what you think is hiding your garden.

2. Faerie

Something you should believe in and accept in your heart in order to see the beauty around you.

3. Gnome

Something you can do to feel more at home in your situation and even to cultivate and to nurture it.

4. Wild flower

Something of beauty or value that you either don’t recognize as such or that you are overlooking.

5. Bramble

Something that you are obsessed about or fixated on in a negative way that is hindering you.

6. Garden

The garden you will find when you open your eyes to the wonders that are already around you.

Compare cards 1 and 5, looking for a common theme. See how cards 2 and 3 help change the focus of cards 1 and 5. Relate cards 1—5 to card 6 for a full picture of the situation. If you are using the Tarot of the Secret Forest, try also flipping over cards 4 and 5 to see a different view of them.

Republished courtesy of Llewellyn.com. Copyright © 2009, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.

Таро Луди Лескот


Elves Tarot

В мбк: Брат и сестра по-разному реагируют на переживания Фадонне: сестра успокаивает, брат злорадствует.

На этой карте внизу руна Хагал (буква N ) - Она со смертью связана...
Дерево, как кипарис и что-то с неба падает. Но днем падает. Своя звезда, значит.

Теневая перевернутая

Человек порыва. Он почти не задействует логику в совершении поступков, и порой последние вообще не поддаются логическому объяснению. По большей части им движут амбиции и желания. На обдумывание он не разменивается, о последствии шагов не задумывается.

Пример: человек все проиграл в казино и решил отыграться, поставив на кон деньги предприятия. Так же показывает человека, прущего по интуиции, на зверином чутье, абсолютно уверенного в дороге - сродни птицам летящим на юг.