Lenormand Quick Draw

Postmark Lenormand, Melissa Hill

Today's draw from the Postmark Lenormand showed 'a message about money and work'. I then opened my email to find an email from a customer about payment through Paypal. So that was 100% accurate!

I wonder if this reading will continue through the day or if that was it.

The saddest cow in the history of cows

Book of Shadows, LoS 2012 

Wouldn't you know I would draw this card on the last day of our week with Book of Shadows Vol 1 by Barbara Moore. It's got to be my least favourite card and 'almost' a deal breaker for me.

The Earth suit of this deck is meant to embody the magic and wonders of the earthly realm, and the 9 of Earth is supposed to represent land animals. I cannot for the life of me figure out why 1) the deck creator chose domesticated animals to represent all land animals, 2) only cows and sheep stand in for domesticated animals, 3) the whole card is dominated by one huge cow, 4) this  cow has such a weird expression on her face; and 5) what the heck those gnomes are doing. But then to be honest, I don't even want to figure it out. I am so put off by this card that I don't even care what it means.

 But for the sake of continuity, let's have a go. Okay, 9 of Earth is the 9 of Pentacles. The 9 of Pentacles is a card that represents security on the physical, material level. The LWB says, 'The wisest thing to do is nothing but savour the moment and all its sensual pleasures.' Right, let me get this straight. A cow with a completely gormless expression on its face, standing in an empty field chewing its cud, watched at close range by a gaggle of crouching gnomes, is supposed to make me think of 'the moment and all its sensual pleasures.' Sorry. So not working for me. If I turned this card over, my first thought would be, 'Oy, wake up! Stop standing there in a stupor like some stupid cow!'

However, the savouring of sensual pleasures I am happy to indulge in. It's Friday, and tomorrow is my actual Saturday off! (I only get two a month). So bring on the choccies and the movies, time to settle in with the Hubby for some quality cuddles.

Have a great weekend, everyone. :D

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side...

Lenormand Oracle Cards, LoScarabeo

A 5-card draw for today. This combination of cards suggests that stability in my community comes from positive attitude to change. Wow, that sounds like a phrase from a CV. In other words, it appears to be telling me, for a stable, happy experience at work today, have a positive attitude toward change coming from on high. Not easy, but I suppose it makes for a smoother day and a happier life in general both for me and those around me.

The cards play off each other. For me, Anchor stands for stability, Garden for community, groups, the public, etc. The Tower is always authorities, bosses, institutions. Rarely, it can mean isolation. The Stork represents change, new beginnings. Its associations with birth seem pretty obvious.  Then of course the Sun is all about positivity, good vibes, good outcomes, a sunny disposition, a positive spin, and all that sort of thing. Strung together, they give me the message for what will be most useful for me today. There's no use complaining of the changes on the way, so I might as well look for the positive.

Okay. 'My hands are small, I know, but they're my own', as Jewel has been warbling to me this morning. Let's go forth into the world and be sunny.

Dreams and hands

Book of Shadows, LoS 2012 

The Book of Shadows Tarot Vol 1, Barbara Moore, gives me Ace of Air today. It's timely I should draw this card today, as my mind has been in complete overdrive for the last few days. I'm completely stressed out and the overthinking isn't helping me at all.

The card here, Ace of Air, shows a sylph orchestrating dreams for the sleeping figure. These dreams might be happy ones, or they might be nightmares. The card is ambiguous. Is he dreaming of his bright future--a lovely house, a new car, a fulfilling career--or is he having nightmares about his mortgage, car payments, and failing investment portfolio? Could be either, depends on the surrounding cards, the querent, and the question. The expressions on the faces of the sylph and the sleeper are giving nothing away.

Because this card speaks so deeply to me of my current state of mind, I thought I'd draw two more cards: Do this. Don't do this. These are 'solution' cards to the current rather intolerable situation I find in my mind. What should I do and what should I not do to ease my mind about this situation, and about my general unsettled feelings and disturbed sleep of late?

The Goddess Suit

Book of Shadows, LoS 2012

We have a goddess on our card of the day from Book of Shadows Tarot Vol 1.

Sarasvati is the Hindu goddess of the arts: music, writing, painting, sculpture performing arts such as dance, drama and so on. She is called the Goddess of the Word and the Goddess of Learning and is identified with culture, language, speech, communication, creativity, intellect, and inspiration. As Six of Water, she is depicted here surrounded by six undines, water elementals that serve in this deck as pips. The Water suit in Book of Shadows Vol 1 is the goddess suit, each card featuring a goddess, an aspect of divine feminine.