on hiatus

I am sorry but I will be on a hiatus for the next few weeks.  I know it is early in this course of action to run away but something is happening in my life that is too distracting to avoid.  I will be back as soon as this issue is resolved in the next month.

Daily Tarot: Nine of Cups

Daily Tarot Card

Nine of Cups

The Healing of the Maimed King

I must be a cup person. I really like the imagery in the cups. This card feels warm to me, the main colors that you see are reds and orange light falling on the people in the card. Makes me think of the sunrise and a fresh start. The center of the card you can see a person tending to another on a stone bed in the forest. Normally that would make me think of end (the bed looks a great deal like a funeral bed) but the colors reminding of morning and starting fresh makes me reconsider the death toll to the card. If it was an ending I would expect cool colors of the evening. The title of the card also leads me to think otherwise, healing of the Maimed King. I am looking at healer working in the woods saving his king who was thought to be lost to his woods (my justification for the funeral looking bed).

I get a very different feeling when I see this card in the RW deck. I think more of greed and self satisfaction. A man sits in front of his nine cups looking very happy with himself.

I am hoping that this means today will be good day to start my new adventure.

AL/RW/CD

*recap*

Yesterday was a a good day.  I started a new adventure in my dancing and it went really well.  I was not as nervous about starting new things yesterday.

Daily Tarot: Eight of Swords

Daily Tarot Card
Eight of Swords
~Gwenevere at the Stake~

This card depicts the title perfectly. Center of the card is the fair Gwenevere being chained to her stake. She is scared and wildly pulling away from her fate. No matter how hard she struggles her hands and feet remain bound as the "monk" prepares her for what must be done. This card is the saddest card in the minor arcane for me. It fills me with hopeless efforts to change, bring trapped but desperately seeking freedom.

Other decks do have a figure trapped and/or bound but they are not in such immediate danger. Often they give the sense one is trapped by themselves and one's own mind. But in AL it feels more grim, death is behind her pulling her in. Where in RW she (also female) she is simply bound on a plain or beach unsure what is to happen but feeling trapped by what it may be.

I drew this card first thing this morning after bed dreams last night. I think the deck grabbed on to my unease of the dream and found the card to explain myself in the dream. Well played deck, well played.

AL/CD/RW/Phantom Wise (out of print)

My Deck

This morning I overslept and was distracted so I did not pull a card.  I remembered in the car as I was pulling out of the apartment.  So instead I am going to talk about my deck.  I read and pull my daily cards from the Legend Arthurian deck by Anna-Marie Ferguson.  This is a lovely deck that I have been using roughly for 15 years.  It was gifted to me by my sisters one year for Christmas.

I fell madly in love with this deck.  I have always loved the Arthur legends and have read multiple books on the legends.  Hence the reason my sisters picked it.  But it was not only the link to my favorite stories, the artwork is amazing as well.  I am apparently a fan of watercolors.  I seem to be drawn to this medium both in tarot decks and in general art as well.  This deck feels like you are peering through the veil into another time and reality.

What is really nice, is that I like the back of the cards.  I use the labyrinth on the back in multitude of projects.  It is comfort to sit and think about.  Everyone always talks about the imagery on the front of the card but I find the back to be just as important.  If you cannot stand the back of the card but like the front, avoid the deck.  There will be another deck that resounds more with you.

Daily Tarot: Six of Spear

Daily Tarot Card

Six of Spears (reversed)

~The Return of Ambrosius~

The victors return.  This card is a celebration, a commander returning home victorious.  But we see this in reverse, turned on it's head.  For today this is not a card of celebration.  I will not think it utterly devoid of happiness but it is not a celebration anymore.  Possible in reverse this card is more returning home by the narrowest of margins or at some loss.  The castle is happy for those that have returned but remembering at what cost.

Six of spears carries this image of a joyous triumphant return in the Rider Waite deck.  The Celtic Dragon takes another image.  It still gives the impression of achievement but not a return.  I like the idea of the returning triumphant.

This card feels like a warning for today.  With the good will come the bad.  Tempering joy with reality.

Athurian/Rider Waite/Celtic Dragon/Shadowscape

*recap*
I was utterly exhausted on this day.  Nothing out the normal occurred.  I am doing this update 2 days later so I may not be remembering properly.

Daily Tarot: Seven of Cups

Daily Tarot Card

Seven of Cups (reversed)

~The Questing Beast~

I love the seven of cups.  It always a whimsical card.  The Arthurian deck depicts the questing beast for this task.  A golden creature of wonder and amazement caught stretching in a beam of sunlight upon it's rocky outcrop ready to jump out into the forest beyond to seek the future.  The card brings about that sense of wonderment and bright aspects.  It just makes me feel good and makes me smile.  Oddly enough this card seems more realistic when reversed, all the creativity and whimsy but a good realism along with it.

As I said this is the card for whimsy.  All my decks depict something wonderful.  Typically it depicts a person choosing from six cups with wondrous or magical fillings.

Arthurian/Rider Waite/Celtic Dragon/Joie de Vivre Tarot 

*recap*
This was the day I auditioned for a dance troupe.  I did make the troupe.

Apologies

I am sorry for missing both Sunday and Monday postings.  Yesterday, I was very ill and did not do anything but lay in bed.  Sunday I had planned to do an oracle card of the week.  I drew a card on Sunday and quickly realized I needed to understand the Oracle card process before attempting to post about them.  I will be researching them for the next few weeks and I will bring them in later.  For now I think Sunday will be the weekly 3 card spread.

I will share the card I got on Sunday but there will be no discussion.

The Brat

Daily Tarot: King of Swords

Daily Tarot Card

King of Swords (upright)

~Mordred~

The artwork for this card is wonderfully detailed.  Mordred is depicted on his throne staring straight at you, intently.  HE is the center of this card.  You are drawn to his face where you see a man of intelligence and cunning.  But knowing the story of Mordred, there is a shadow of something dark in those eyes.  The room seems a bit darker as only one small fire in front of him is the light source.  My initial reaction is always male, intelligent, and tactful.  So to me this card represents a tactician,someone who is cunning and just a tad ruthless in his quest.

Swords always seem a bit menacing to me.  They are instruments of death, beautiful and deadly.  Rider Waite Kings all seem the same to me.  Celtic Dragon shows a King deep in thought with a fire drake, I still get that sense of intelligence and tactician but it lacks the menace and cunning.

Today I am going to spending time with my family which makes me feel like I am eggshells.  I will plan everything I say, do, and wear with them in mind.  This is not what I should be thinking about but that is how approach the day with them.  Today will be keeping my plans in mind.  yes, there is stuff unsaid and it will remain unsaid.

Daily Tarot: Ten of Cups

Daily Tarot Card 

Ten of Cups (upright)
~Corbenic~

I love this card. It just looks magical. It is a soft landscape with a castle on an island in a lake. It is a very serine and calming place. It brings to mind just being clam and finding a happy place.

Taking a quick look at almost any other deck I own and I see this happy theme continued on. I have seen said that cups are the emotions and I can agree with that in this case. Happy and clam is what this cards puts in my mind.

It seems appropriate that I get this card on a Friday. The last work day before the weekend. Today feels more relaxed already.

AL/RW/Goddess/Shadowscape (wishlist)

*Recap*
Yesterday was a nice happy day to end the week.  Nothing special but easy and comfortable.

Explaining Daily Tarot

So as you see I am doing a daily tarot card.  But I think I need to explain this a bit more.  Each morning I am going to draw a card while concentrating on "What do I need to keep in mind today?".  The entry (hopefully) will start of with my description of the card and my initial reaction/feeling about the card.  I will then move on to a comparison of this card in the Arthurian Legends deck (my reading deck) to my other decks.  Lastly I will give my reason why I think this card has appeared for the day.   The next day, I will come back and do a short recap of the day.

I will also be adding artwork of the card so you can see what I am seeing and also show how the card is depicted in other decks.

Please feel free to comment about the cards or my thoughts but keep in mind disrespectful and/or immature comments will not be published.

Daily Tarot: Seven of Swords

Daily Tarot Card

Seven of Swords (reversed)

The Sword in the Stone

This card confuses me.  A knight is pulling the sword from the stone in a lake, he is turned so we see his face and chest as he grips the sword with one hand and has other arm outstretched for balance.  I get all that but I never feel much when I look at this card.  Nothing really just pops in my head like the past 2 days.  My confusion is doubled when the card is reversed.  The card is meant by the book to mean new beginnings when upright and bad advice when reversed.  But I just cannot see it.  I just have no idea what to make of this card.

I think a lot of my confusion comes with that this card is so different from the Rider-Waite card.  Remember, I learned on the Rider-Waite meanings.  In the R-W it always felt this card was up to no go, that the man was stealing 5 swords out of the 7.  It is the same in the Celtic Dragon deck with a man creeping down a dark hall with the swords.  But this is not what you see in the Arthurian deck, here you see a hero pulling the sword from the stone.  Very Confused.

I am not sure how to take this card today.  I am dwelling on the card more today than normal.  I will see what happens and try to link it afterwards.

Shown in Reverse as card was drawn

*recap*
Well, yesterday was a nothing day.  No strong emotions, no new events, and just status quo.  Still confused on this card.  I will have to scour Acclectic Tarot forums to get some more ideas.

Daily Tarot: Six of Cups

Daily Tarot Card

Six of Cups (upright)

-In Ectors Keeping-

This card just makes me smile.  I love seeing it come up.  The card shows a swimming hole and youths taking time to enjoy it's cool waters.  I can practically hear the shouts and laughs filling the air.  The first thing I think of when this card appears is nostalgia and remembering happy times.

In my other decks, I do not feel that overwhelming sense of nostalgia but I still see that youthful carfree time.  It feels like this card is meant to be one of looking back to your youth or taking time to enjoy what is around you.

I am always living with one foot behind me.  I am always looking over my shoulder at what has been.  I think I will make more of an effort today to look at the bright spots, and enjoy the small things around me.  Smile to brighten my day all day.

Arthurian Legends/ Celtic Dragon / Rider-Waite

*Looking back on yesterday*

Again work was being trial.  It is silly I know and I know it will be resolved, I just hate having to remind others what they need to be doing.  I was trying to keep this card in mind today.  i was using it as my guide so to say.  So when things got to point of utter annoyance, I went for a walk to clear my head and enjoy a few moments in the sun.  When I came back it was much easier to adjust.  I also made more of an effort to smile and be cheery.  Overall I think the day went very well.

Daily Tarot: Five of Shields

Daily Tarot Card 

Five of Shields (upright)

The Wasteland

This card just sounds horrid to me.  I always feel despair when it is drawn.  The card depicts a bleak landscape that has seen battle or ruin but most likely both.  The book meaning is lost of resources.  I can feel that in the card.  There is nothing but 2 people slowly and wearily journey through the wastes.

In all the decks I have used this card always seems to depict lost and movement.  My thought is it should be a trail that one goes through.  The outcome may not be known and hope may be hard to see but we move on.  We always move on, looking for something better and something brighter.

Yesterday was a really bad day for me.  I had a horrid headache, I fell and rolled my bad ankle.  I had an altercation with a vile man on the phone.  Just over all the day was miserable.  I think that this card can up this morning cause yesterday was so rough.  My deck was reminding to push trough the bad and find that brighter spot and go for it.

*Next day looking back*

Yesterday was a good day.  I had a stressful and trying day at work.  After work I went and visited with Dad and had a mini photo shoot with the Sadie child.  My foot was pretty bad yesterday and I ended up just going to bed early to finish the day.