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Tarot Tales - Tarot for help in Travel
Bam-Bam
the Bold has recovered, though frail. After some days on
a back- to- basics diet she last night devoured with
appetite a small piece of ripe avocado.
The Page of Wands did not let us down, making the
330 mile return trip yesterday afternoon, from the
Lancashire coast to Tewkesbury services and back.
There was a horrendous jam on the northboud M6 just north
of Stafford, the length of two junctions. There had been
an accident and someone appeared to be were filming a man
and woman sitting in the front of one of the 'accident'
cars. They looked reasonably cheerful, but I understand
others were hurt, some seriously. Fingers crossed for
them. Uruz or Auroch, is the closest rune equivalent for
Tarot's Strength card.
I had asked the Tarot if our journey would go smoothly if
we left at 1.30.
This was a single card reading and produced the Page of
Wands.
I have found before that the Tarot can help with planning
journeys.
At Christmas we went down to London for a night. I asked
the Tarot to select the departure time that would give
the best journey and laid out a row of cards to represent
the time slots, from 6.30 in the morning (nooooo, please
don't say we have to go at 6.30!) - through to an 'after
9.30' card. Each card reprented a half hour block.
I drew the Ace of Wands in the 7.30 position and it was
the only upright card so that was what we went with.
Spouse was happy with this as it accorded with his own
judgement and preference, so this was serving as an
endorsement, and the card did not let us down.
The page yesterday being a shorter trip - maybe that was
why we didn't get the Ace. Maybe also because London was
a 'discrete' event with a more distinct beginning, middle
and end.
If you draw the Moon when planning a journey, you'll know
to double check the plans.
Also, I'd suggest pack Tums or similar and electrolyte
powders, and maybe beware of salads.
Be paranoid, says the Moon, but here maybe it is trying
to help you. I have seen that the Moon can warn of
traveller's tum.
I have been asked to consult the cards on behalf of
someone who recently did a bit of a daft thing and has a
traffic worry involving the Police - aherm. I shall look
later and hope for the best for all concerned, as I know
them ordinarily to be an asset and indeed ornament to
society, rather than the reverse.
It is easy to drive on 'auto-pilot' when deeply
pre-occupied - we can arrive and not remember the
journey.
For luck in travelling I may also invoke help through the
rune symbols or Rad or Raitho (Riding) and the Horse,
Ehwaz as a protection for my own travel or other
travellers. My police officer brother has one, for his
car and his motorbike, and my daughter, on her car's
dashboard.
My experience of these is such that I would prefer not to
discount them.
'The mind wll trust the body, the body will trust the
mind, Then the spirit of a thing can become greater than
one thing.'
I don't know who said it, but for me, it says it all.
True
Tarot Tales- a hamster 'tale'. Death card to the rescue
The
Death card, understandingly has an undesirable 'rep.' and
is the least 'PC' of cards to talk about in its original
sense.
It has been reinvented to some extent in recent years,
rehabilitated with an emphasis upon its power and value
as Transition. or Tranformation.
And I agree. Death is not the enemy per se. It is
needfuil, it can be 'good,' it can be merciful and
liberating. It is part of Life.
But I don't wanna be tranformed quite yet, please and nor
do most of my clients.
In my own experience, it's not the worst card as a
predictor of human physical death. I personally tend to
look out instead for multiple and repeated combinations
including the Fool Reversed, Tower, Judgement dignified
or reversed, 4 Swords, 6 Swords, Ace Swords Reversed,
Strength, Star, Sun reversed.
But it is true that when I have seen the Death card in
readings, it HAS sometimes referred to or presaged a
physical actual human death. Tackling these discussions
in readings requires all our resource and care as other
readers will fully appreciate.
That however is another conversation...
This blog is about 'personal' tarot as opposed to my more
business-like tarot activities.
Yesterday, with no clients in the afternoon, I was
talking with the cards about this and that, with no
particular objective, when I pulled the Death card. It
related to home and family.
It made sense to me, with my dear father's estate
currently going through probate, but I didn't think it
was that.
Our hamster, Bam-Bam the Bold, Beautiful and occasionally
Bad (a toe nipper in her youth) had a mystery bout of
illness two weeks ago, and we thought she was going.
Hankies at the ready, spritzing the air with Rescue
Remedy we sat holding her for three hours. Then the
little personage decided she was better and tried to
scramble off and was bright as a button next day, trying
to climb the wine rack (that's my girl) and chomping my
Gombrich's History of Art on the lowest book shelf.(Hard
back, naturally)
We were delighted of course, but puzzled. She is the
tenth hamster I have kept and I'd never seen this
miraculous recovery. The little things don't tend to 'do'
illness.
I felt she might have sustained an injury, somersaulting
on the sofa the previous night. She had had a soft
landing but at 18 months old, she might have cracked a
rib, say. because her breathing was laboured and still
is.
So, seeing the Death card yesterday I headed straight
upstairs to the hamster palace and found her in obvious
distress, stumbling restlessly about. Being sexist, as
animals often are (lol) I knew she preferred my husband's
smell, I mean, SCENT, and fetched his pyjama top to hold
her cuddled in.
I held her two hours and she slept, and later in the
evening was sufficiently recovered to eat a small square
of very well done brown toast with acacia honey (good for
a rodent with diarrhea if you ever have that problem)
though she refused the cooled chamomile tea, and I don't
blame her. I hate it myself, but I was thinking of stress
relief.
I am waiting for a phone call from the vet but don't
imagine there will be much to be done that I would want
done to her at her age. I wonder if she has a hernia of
her diaphragm. When it pops out, she struggles to breathe
and becomes prostrated. When it pops back in she is
almost herself again. That 3 of swords from the other
night is still there so that's a possibility if not a
cracked rib.
We will see. She is in her nest box and looking at her
just now in the cards I got the Knight of Cups so I hope
her sleep is comfortable.
She's getting ready to go, but I am grateful to the Tarot
and let's not forget the Angel of Death : ) for the
forewarning, and sending me upstairs when she was having
a bad moment and needed company.
For tomorrow, the Wheel of Fortune. Well, I know what
that's about! Driving down to Strensham services to hand
over a new car to senior daughter, who works at a vets in
Devon. I say new, I mean newer. Hers failed its MOT. But
the Wheels' not reversed and with the M6 and M5 on the
cards - that's a bit of good news.
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Tarot Tales 4
Yesterday I drew the 3 of Swords and looked
forward, without much enthusiasm as you can imagine, for
any sign of its manifestation throughout the day.
We know of its associations with break-ups, rifts and
heart and chest problems - to this we can add a sleepless
night with tummy upsets.
I had personally linked it with a minor heart problem
which just needs a little watching. But yesterday was a
good day and I had gone to bed thankful for no sign of
the card's sweet joys.
Then it got me- at 3 in the morning. A sharp bout of
tummy pains was the start, and it marked the end of sleep
for the night.
The 6 of Wands Reversed has been central in two
recent readings for others. This card of riding high, has
in in these recent instances of its reversal flagged up:
- loss of career owing to a lady's life threatening
illness, and fear of the ultimate 'defeat.'
Though death is not a defeat, in some circumstances it
would be natural to view it as such - eg as in this
lady's case, with growing children.
- it also announced the loss of the diamond ring detailed
in earlier blogs. I couldn't work it out - but the clue
was the Ace of Pentacles Reversed (lost ring) associated
with it in the problem position.
Why didn't the Tarot make THIS the central issue card?
Maybe I was not on form or maybe an explanation lay in
the finding of the ring later that afternoon. The 6 of
Wands reversed, reviewed with hindsight (not much help in
the reading!) told a story of 'when the horse has been
and gone, then there will be a victory connected to the
Ace of Pentacles Reversed.
The 'horse' would have been the step ladder required to
access the lost ring so that its absence/its not yet
having been used was the cause of the 'defeat' -
inability to find the ring.
Make it easy, Tarot, why don't you? I am sure all we
Tarot readers customise our cards through use. Study is
essential - but there are always gaps to leap in a face
to face situation, and the Tarot continues to teach me
new things with every reading.
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Tarot Tales 3
I'm
going to see my rheumatologist later. I've drawn the 3 of
Swords - booo- so he may have a bit of a grizzle about
heart and BP - it's to be expected, a by-product of long
standing systemic inflammation, but we're on the case. I
prefer not to alarm myself.
Here's a poem I once won a tenner for in a competition in
the Literary Review magazine.
The theme was AWE and I thought, what an AWFUL word.
Unwieldy in the mouth, what can one do with that? I see
Liz is also very interested in words and for Charles,
this will be very much his department.
AWE...I couldn't get my mind off it, and came up with
this bit of doggerel.
Compute Awe
God at Pearly Gates dot com
Designed a World in RAM and ROM
The Programme's called 'Till Kingdom Come.'
No virus has quite crashed it yet
Devised by Devil at Hell dot Net
Old Nick the Hacker means to win.
So far he's failed, we're still plugged in.
And hear the Godcomputer hummmm
The Universal Sound of Ommmm.
Creation real and unpretending
With countless files and files still pending
From here to nebula most far
From single cell to giant star
And all a Life from birth to death
And in-between its every breath
Our highest inspiration
And spirit's destination
The ROM, His Universal Laws
The Ram means chances, choices, flaws
And Life that cannot be destroyed
Its bits and bytes just redeployed
In awe we stand
In hope we pray
The Programme runs till Judgement Day.
I also drew The King Of Wands as a card for today. It
made me post this blog as for me, amongst his other
meanings, he means writing and Aries, a Wands month,
always like us to get on with it.
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The
lady left at 12.30 and I cooked lunch.
I did not 'know' whether she would find it.
The story told in the cards had been so odd, almost as if
the ring had been in another dimension. The Death card
when asking for its location, and the Nine of swords, for
grieving.
But I didn't have long to wait.
She rang at 2.55 to tell me she had found her lost ring,
after a year of searching.
She had gone home, thought what I had said about the
Death card and the sitting room - and, though telling
herself it couldn't be possible, how could it have got up
there, she fetched a step ladder and found the ring on
top of the wall unit in the sitting room.
It was beside the jar in which she keeps her husband's
ashes.
On the hearth nearby was a vase containing white roses,
as seen on Death's banner in the Death card.
I am in awe.
How strange the Universe is and its workings.
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Tarot Tales 2 -18 Apr
Last
Monday my 14 year old daughter had lost her mobile phone.
She had lost it the Thursday before.
'Ask the Tarot,' she said. 'I can't think where else to
look.'
I wasn't in the mood just then, following an intense
reading for a lovely lady wrestling with a serious
illness.
''Not before I've had a cup of tea,' I said, 'and a few
minutes peace and quiet, and the Tarot wants a cup, too.'
Ten minutes and a cup of tea later, one for me, one for
the Tarot, the first question was, is the phone in the
house?
Three cards out of three drawn upright indicated that
yes, it was (thank goodness for that!)
Madam thought it might be somewhere in her bedroom.
'Is it?' I asked the Tarot, and laid out another train
track of 3 cards (vertically, though I am sure it doesn't
really matter)
Yes, the cards said - all three cards were upright again.
Thank you, Tarot and can you tell me where she needs to
look?
I drew the Magician Reversed.
Help, was one thought.
Her phone has been nicked.
No, it's all right was the next thought. It isn't saying
that.
The Magician's finger appeared to be pointing undeneath
something.
A table, or if we were talkiing about her bedroom, a bed,
maybe a drawer unit.
Looking at the red and white flowers on the card, I
thought of her new curtains. They weren't red and white
but they did have pink metallic stylised flowers. (The
Tarot can't cover all the possibilities. Let's be
reasonable about this.)
'Look down the back of the bed, beneath the window
ledge,' I said, and she ran upstairs and found the phone
beneath the radiator below the curtained window,
underneath the bed. I nearly fell off my wheels.
I've used the Tarot for practical dowsing before, and
with success. Last week I found same daughter's lost
boots, they were on the landing under clean laundry
awaiting distribution to respective bedrooms (do it now,
thank you!) and the Tarot, while it was at it, told her
off by showing her the Fool reversed (quite right too,
for being a lazy lummock and not looking hard enough)
But why can't it always be this easy?
In my own home it's easier making practical connections,
linking spots in the house with the imagery in the cards,
I suppose.
This morning's client wanted help in finding a lost
diamond ring, and dowsing/remote viewing is not part of
my professional service. It's an interest, sometimes used
'in-house' on personal matters. i explained this to my
guest but she asked me to have a go anyway. The ring had
been missing nearly a year and the loss was preying on
her mind.
Tarot said it was still in her flat, using the approach
mentioned above, but I haven't been in her flat and
couldn't 'see it'.
Not having my quartz pendulum handy, I removed and used
my neck chain with pendant as a pendulum that would give
yes and nos to try and pin down an answer shutting out
all the other impressions coming to me from the cards.
Bedroom? No. Kitchen? No. And so on. It selected the
sitting room as the place to look, the pendulum swishing
around clockwise and with increasing vigour. The
appearance of the Death card was a puzzle. All I could
think was that the lost ring was somehow in the keeping
of the lady's husband, who died three years ago. Possibly
it had got put with some possession of his.
My client was adamant it wouldn't be in the sitting room,
she was so clear about it that she hadn't looked there.
She was sure it must be in the bedroom. She remembered
dropping it.
(I had drawn the 9 of Wands earlier, which can warn of
thinking in a rut. Well, we all do it sometimes.)
Justice reversed suggested logic would not come into the
finding of the ring.
If found it would come to her 'out of the blue' just
where to look.
I'll let you know if she finds it.
She left with advice to focus on the sitting room and
look for a physical association with her husband, and
with a small Tiger's Eye, chosen for luck in looking. I
wondered whether there might be a white rose nearby,
because of the card.
Check out dowsing on Google and UK Dowsing Associations
and Societies if you've ever wondered if you have oil in
your back garden, or want to know more about it in
general.
Now where the beep did I leave my cup of tea?
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Tarot Tales 17 Apr
This
morning's reading was for a lady who'd been before, about
a year ago, but I didn't remember what we had talked
about- or not consciously, anyway.
When I'm reading for others I usually use the Universal
Waite.
I've met Tarot readers who ask what decks you use, then
sniff or even tut if the answer is a Rider Waite .
What works- works. What helps, helps, and that's for our
clients/querents to say.
So many decks to choose from now...
I like pigs. It's a shame about bacon sarnies.
One of my sisters used to work on a pig farm and the boar
crept up and ate the back of her welly off one day while
she was feeding the piglets.
One of the sows always stood up to bark like a dog at the
tractor as it drove through the farmyard past her pen,
because it had nearly run her over once when she'd got
loose.
Maybe a Pinky and Perky tarot....
I have various decks but find the Waites inclusive.
Clients who don't know the Tarot at all can still respond
with their own intuition to the images and be active
participants, if they like.
I'll agree the Thoth is more elegant and beautiful but
the Rider Waite is an accessible picture book with the
archetypes so many of us know at first glance.
I have a Golden Tarot deck and a Renaissance Tarot and a
Tarot de Marseilles and a Botticelli deck.
(Blame this selection on Art History interests in days
long gone- my first job was in a museum and I was
mistaken for an exhibit in the costume display. Yikes.)
Yes, the Botticelli is lavish and was a lovely gift but I
can't stick its Knight of Pentacles, trotting through the
woods with his sneaky little face. I won't deal it. The
Knight of Pentacles is no sneak!
The key issue card this morning was The Page of Cups
reversed. When I checked this against the foundation
card, which was the Ace of swords Reversed, and the free
floating 'comment' space in the spread, which was the Ace
of Cups reversed, then looked at the Problem card, which
was the Tower, I saw - oh whoops- we were looking at an
acrimonious relationship breakdown, with loss of money,
possibly of home etc. I also felt a child involved was
feeling upset about the split.
Coming up imminently, we had the 4 of Pentacles reversed.
This told me that news was coming up very soon re: the
house and other material considerations, and my client
said she and her partner were going to be meeting on
Monday to discuss the mortgage.
The 2 of Swords in the destination/outcome position
indicated change and progress with a clearer view to the
best wat forward, but not dramatic improvement yet. It
would be by stages but starting soon.
The card might have indicated a breakdown in truce but
there was no truce, and additional cards laid on top were
Justice and the 9 of Cups - glad to see these for her.
We talked at length about the relationship. The Tarot
said that the man had left because he felt unappreciated,
though he went to work, came home at night, helped pay
the bills and played with the children, who were not his
own. He had seen himself as The Emperor and had felt hurt
and overlooked. He needed to be appreciated as The
Emperor for his sense of dignity and maybe better
relations to be restored.
They also worked in the same place and she was senior to
him, besides having chief say at home, which she freely
agreed was the case.
To get what she needed from the meeting, the Tarot
suggested she adopt the tactics of
The King of Wands (and she was a Sagittarius and so was
her partner) friendly but not intense, focussed on good
communication as an objective in its own right, and on
the problem of the property.
If she could maintain Justice, the Tarot said, a friendly
objectivity because it was a problem for him too -the
result might well be the 2 of Wands - agreement about the
property or even a renewal of the relationship- and
possibly even the 9 of Cups.
This was a hard thing for her to try and take on board
because she had been so upset, but it wasn't about right
and wrong, only communication styles.
At the end of the reading, she reminded me of the earlier
reading a year before. The Tarot had suggested a holiday
and said there was life in their relationship still. They
had gone to Greece and had a good time, and now this
morning the Tarot showed the 3 of Wands twice, so it
remains to be seen whether a journey might help
again...because one is in the offing.
This lady was an independent minded person, who had
become used to looking after herself and the children.
Her challenge as the Tarot saw it, was to learn to make
space again, for a man in her life who wished to
contribute.
The partner had worried about not being up to scratch in
her presence (the 9 of Pentacles reversed)
She needed to slow down a little for others (Knight of
Wands reversed) and rein in a tendency to impulse just a
little more.
She said it was spot on and she chose a citrine to take
away for luck. Hope it works out. Fingers crossed...and
for him too.
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