Imbolc Spread: How to be a better candle

1) Purify: what I need to wash away, let go of, or make right

2) Prepare: what I can focus on and re-establish (or strengthen) in my life and that will serve me in months ahead

3) Shine: how I can gently shine in my everyday life and that will be of service or inspiration to others 

This spread is featured on Chloe's blog at Inner Whispers, and I liked it so I thought I'd try it out for myself. Apologies for a stream-of-consciousness commentary...

                                 

Hmm. The cards suggest that I need to stop seeing myself in an overly critical light and to be more objective and fair. I also need to stop looking so much at myself, and remember there are other people in the world, all just as 'important' as me. The three cards together seem to point in that same direction, even that last card, which is a whopper.

'Blu-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-e! ' (with apologies to LeeAnn Rimes)

And here's the deck. It's not finished yet, but I think it's going to look okay. I feel the need to serenade it.

Celtic Tarot, with super slow drying royal blue pigment ink

(Cue the music...)

'Three o'clock in the mornin'...
You're still not dry
I started this project
Now I'm wonderin' why
ohhhhh
Blu-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ue! Oh so inky from you
Why did you get bluuuue...all over...meeee?'

Colouring the Edges of my Celtic Tarot

I don't feel I need to go any further with the Gaian, as I've decided against trimming the borders. To me, it's a tarot. I'm also learning not to be too quick to take a whack at a deck. I have at least one trimmed deck that I truly regret trimming, Roots of Asia. Bless its little heart.

Now, about that Celtic Tarot, the one with the very grubby edges. I finally decided to have a go at colouring the edges to cover up the disgusting grunge (previous owner must have handled that deck a LOT).

Musings on the Gaian Tarot Fives

Fives for me represent something negative. A crisis, a challenge, instability, uncertainty, change. It could mean irresponsibility or being directionless. But it could also be versatility and flexibility, the old cliched 'opportunity for growth'. (I mean seriously. What isn't an opportunity for growth? What a bland thing to say.)

Musings on the Gaian Tarot Fours

To me, fours are resolutely about stability and security, either having it, or taking a break in order to find it. Its shadow side would be digging in one's heels, stubborness, awkwardness, and being argumentative.



I've used the images from Joanna's website with her watermark on them, so maybe it's okay to post them all, hope so!