Daily Tarot Card Draw, 16 August 2010: Queen of Diamonds

Daily Tarot Card Draw, 16 August 2010: Queen of Diamonds
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Whoops I missed pulling a card yesterday! Oh well, it happens.

This week felt like a week where I need to pull a card at the end of the day instead of in the morning. So here we are, 20 to midnight and I'm pulling my card. I haven't handled or thought much about my gypsy witch cards lately, so that's what my hands fell on to look at for my daily card.

I pulled the Queen of Diamonds, or Number 12 by the Gypsy Witch numbering system. The standard Queen of Diamonds card, pictured in the upper left, shows a card that looks the right way up either way. The queen has a tired expression, and is wearing a wimple. Her robe is very ornate, and it looks like she might be holding a flower in one hand. The Gypsy Witch illustration, buttom right, shows two children, a boy and a girl, playing indoors (either in a very plain house, or possibly in a barn). The girl has her back to the viewer, and she is holding a doll and flower. The boy is facing her (and us) and has both hands stretched out. The caption in the top right reads: "No. 12/Children signify friendly disposition - gentleness".

Interpretation: I don't think that the Gypsy Witch cards lend themselves well to a daily draw, so that makes them a pretty good challenge. I've been thinking about cartomancy since December, that's about 9 months now (!!). I've been reading a lot of threads at the Aeclectic Tarot forums about reading with playing cards, and there's a book that looks good on the subject in the SGR public library. But I'm dragging my feet here- what's the card mean? Well, we had a group visit from a local youth organization at the museum today. We have had some difficulties with the group in visits past and were apprehensive, but it turned out pretty good. Really, we had a lot of young visitors today. A less obtuse interpretation, picking up on the suggestion of "gentleness", when I got home, husband was very frustrated with some feedback he got from his advisor about his work on his writing. I hope that by being gentle and not prickly, I might have helped him a bit to talk it through. It was also a gentle kind of day for interacting with some of our museum visitors and other colleagues, too.