Daily Tarot Card Draw, August 9 2010: Page of Pentacles

Daily Tarot Card Draw, August 9 2010: Page of Pentacles
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This morning over breakfast, I pulled the Page of Pentacles from my Morgan-Greer Tarot Deck. For a second hand deck, is sure does still have new-deck smell and firm edges :)

Description: This card depicts a young man in a red hat and dark cloak, in profile. The sky is a golden yellow (dusk or dawn?). There is a body of water in the background with a tree and rolling hills (or small mountains). The page is looking ahead to a large pentacle.

Interpretation: As I was sitting to quickly write up this card in my diary at my desk at work while I sipped coffee before the day started, I got a phone call from a local organization looking for a voluntary position for a young man. Alternatively, the lads working in the restoration bay could feature heavily in my day, or most likely, JKP might be my page of pentacles. According to "The Only Tarot Book You'll Ever Need", this is the card of the student/scholar. This card could refer to JKP and his work on his thesis- his adviser frequently remarks that it is good enough to be published, and as his dissertation reaches the end of its cycle, he is thinking more and more of what to do after it. I think that the page in this card is looking into a pentacle at sun rise, thinking about his future endeavors. Really, this card has made me realize how many Pages of Pentacles there are in my life- one of which I am happily married to. I hope this card means JKP will have a great working day.

Weekly Tarot Card Draw, 8 August 2010: 9 of Wands

Weekly Tarot Card Draw, 8 August 2010: 9 of Wands
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New Deck! :) Over the weekend, I went to Little Mysteries in downtown Halifax. I picked up two new decks, Brian Froud Faerie's Oracle, and Morgan-Greer Tarot. Both are second hand decks.

So after flipping through the whole deck a few times, I decided to do my weekly card draw from the Morgan-Greer. I pulled the Nine of Wands. It depicts a man dressed in battle armour, holding a staff, surrounded by 8 other staffs. There are mountains in the background against a golden sky.

This 9 of Wands is pretty different looking from the 9 of Wands in the RWS deck and I found it hard to interpret. I googled for Morgan-Greer Tarot and 9 of wands and the first hit was tarotteachings.com's website on the card (http://www.tarotteachings.com/nine-of-wands.html). Some of the key symbols in the card are the man's armour and the mountains, symbolising protection, preparation and strength and triumph and challenge. It looks like I'm going to need to be strong and persistent in the face of a challenge this week- I can't think of anything in particular that I know to be an issue this week, so I'm not really sure what it's all about. I'm curious to see what will happen this week and what Morgan-Greer Tarot has to tell me! Most curious of all, my daily card today was the 8 of Wands from my Tell-Me Tarot deck.

Daily Tarot Card Draw, 8 August 2010: Eight of Wands

Daily Tarot Card Draw, 8 August 2010: Eight of Wands
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Happy Sunday everybody! Another outdoor tarot blog pic. This morning during Corrie, I pulled the Eight of Wands out of the Tell-Me Tarot.

Description: On this card there are 8 staffs floating in mid-air. They all have little sprigs of leaves on them. In the background, there is a small village on the horizon near a river or stream. The description reads: "Eight of Wands = Rain of Activity (+) Wishes and desires become reality. Your actions are focused and creative. Now is the time to act."

Interpretation: I think the Tell-Me Tarot is well aware that I have a busy day- Samba in Halifax, dance class in Dartmouth. The river reminds me of how Halifax and Dartmouth are on opposite sides of a body of water. Anyhow, it's a beautiful sunny day and I have to get out the door. Tonight I plan to pull a weekly card before I turn in for the night!

Daily Tarot Card Draw, August 7 2010: Four of Pentacles

Daily Tarot Card Draw, August 7 2010: Four of Pentacles
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Wow, it's hard to take webcam pics outside in the sun! It's a lovely Saturday morning, so I am blogging from my balcony. My apartment's on the front of the building, and people coming in and out the front door are giving me funny looks for sitting out with my computer with CBC radio blaring.

Anyhow, today I drew the Four of Pentacles from the Tell-Me Tarot deck. The card depicts a cloaked man holding 4 coins/pentacles close to his body. He is standing in front of a window in a small room or alcove. Keywords on the Tell-Me Tarot card read: "Four of Pentacles = Attachment (-) You are holding on to the past. Attachment blocks you. Release your fear of losing, so you can progress."

I think I probably do hold on to the past; history and heritage is my trade after all so it's a little bit to do with that. But, that doesn't have a negative connotation like this card holds. More specifically, there were two things that jumped to mind for me. One is that last night while browsing dvd's at HMV, I was telling JKP that there are certain television programs that I simply cannot watch anymore because a former friend whom I am no longer friendly with was really into them. The other thing that popped to mind was that this week I have been excited for Saturday so I can hit up Little Mysteries to pick up a new deck. Maybe Tell-Me is telling me that I shouldn't be that attached to this deck- it might not be there, or maybe there is another deck that is more suitable for me. I am going to approach all of these things with an open mind and without holding on to outdated ideas, so I can move forward unrestricted.

News Story Tarot Reading: "Backyard chicken fight heats up"

I'm going to try reading Tarot about current events and news stories. I find that I don't really follow up on anything when I'm reading for myself, so I don't know how effective my readings are. Of course, one flaw for this is that my "querent" isn't sitting here with me, so they can't hear my prediction and take from it whatever they need to get the result they'd like (of course, I shouldn't be so vain to presume that I'd inspire anybody to do anything!). Anyhow, here goes!

I have selected the CBC Nova Scotia news story "Backyard chicken fight heats up", last updated on Friday, August 6, 2010, 6:08pm. I did this reading at about midnight on August 7, 2010. This news article is about Fred Connors, who is currently fighting HRM city hall over keeping hens in his backyard. A local businessman and advocate for urban farming and buying local, this story has garnered a lot of attention. You can read the story here.

Deck: Tell-Me Tarot
Querent: JGP for Fred Connors
Question: What will come of Fred's Chickens?

..... 1.....
2.....3......4

Card 1: Outcome
Cards 2,3,4: Contributing Factors

Card 1: The Star
Card 2: 5 of Swords
Card 3: 6 of Swords
Card 4: The Hanged Man

When I drew these cards, they were all reversed. However, the Tell-Me Tarot Deck, which can read more like an oracle than a Tarot deck due to the keywords printed on the back, I decided to flip them all around rather than put a lot of thought into the reversals.

I see a favourable ruling for Fred and his chicken dilemma (card 1, the Star). I think that despite conflict with HRM council (card 2, 5 of Swords) the community and his supporters will rally around him (card 3). All he has to do is trust in his resources and supporters and let them help him (card 4).

The next card in the deck was the Nine of Wands, and the card on the bottom of the deck was the Queen of Pentacles (reversed). (I can't help but check!)

Anyhow, you heard it here first! Fred's chickens are here to STAY.

Daily Tarot Card Draw, Aug 6 2010: The Empress

Daily Tarot Card Draw, Aug 6 2010: The Empress
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This morning as I sat with my green tea and poppyseed bagel, I drew the Empress from my Rider-Waite Tarot. For reasons that I've expressed in past writeups, I don't 100% relate to this deck, but I've felt very compelled to work with it this week.

Anyhow, The Empress. The card depicts a lady in a flowing gown decorated with pomegranates (yum) and what looks to me to be a crown made of flowers. She is lounging on some luxurious pillows in a field, with trees and a stream behind her.

I got two reads on this:

I'm sure The Empress is my sister, who is expecting. Earlier this week, she had occasion to be in hospital (false alarm) and that day I got "The Empress", "The Star" every time I picked up my deck. I think sister is ready to have her baby.

I'm also wondering if The Empress is me, but not for baby reasons, just general lady reasons. I've been growing out my hair and wearing jewelery again for the first time in a long time. Heck, I'm wearing a skirt today. I wonder if The Empress represents my renewal in a more lady-like wardrobe.

Happy Friday everybody!

Daily Tarot Card, Aug 5 2010: Wheel of Fortune

Daily Tarot Card, Aug 5 2010: Wheel of Fortune
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This morning I took some time to get back into photo blogging my daily Tarot Card Draw. If I'm honest, I haven't drawn cards very regularly the past couple of months. That said this week I've been working with the cards a lot, inspired by some reading that my sister-in-law and I did on the weekend. This week I've done a lot of shuffling, and have been looking at the minor arcana. I hope to soon move on to the court cards, and I think once I'm past my court card block, I'll enjoy the cards a lot more- I am also considering a new deck (Morgan Greer or Robin Wood, would like to go to Little Mysteries and handle them both first).

This morning I pulled the wheel of fortune. Though it's only Thursday I feel this card actually sums up my week so far pretty good, the boss lady is away so we have all been taking initiative to keep everything on the rails to a variety of results*. I also think that the beasts in the corners, all reading, show my Tarot study from this week, and my belly dance class homework :)

*After I put my summary up and put this up to facebook already so sister-in-law could see, I realized that I didn't really speak to why it sums up my work week very well- I think the quantity of different figures/beasts could show all of us at work (I haven't assigned co-workers to any of them in particular, their variety eludes to the variety of experience and positions we hold, I think, and like us, they are hard at work) and since we're all working a little bit on things that don't usually have our attention, we're all doing a sort of balancing act like the sworded sphynx on top of the wheel of fortune. There now! That's a better write-up!