Mi-Shell Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 From my Tarot Blog: Returning into the Crysalis: Over the last few years I have been teaching a friend /student to read Tarot. To follow an old tradition, I gave her her very first deck, one that I had been reading with for years :) Since then she acquired a few more decks, both Tarot and Oracle. So now, we can swap decks, she picks something from my collection, that she is interested in and explores it for a while, but also has something to share, that I have not seen. This is, how I got the chance to look at and work with the Mystical Shaman Oracle. I quite like and respect the artist, Colette Baron-Reid, but am extremely sceptical about the other listed creators, Alberto Villoldo and his partner Marcela Lobos and their extremely expensive brand of shamanism and ways of teaching ....... Anyway. Since Colette Baron-Reid's images are quite “intense and evocative”(-as well as very beautiful ♥) I decided, that instead of my daily draw of 3 cards I would just chose one or two and work with them. So this morning it was this one: I was expecting clients with a lot of physical as well as emotional problems today, but a Soul retrieval is not, what they need – or are ready for today. However, as I was looking at the image, in a meditative state, one of my main Miahanits/ Medicine Guardian Animals “said” “Parkinson's disease is when a person is returning back into a chrysalis. At the endpoint of this path he will re-emerge in the Otherworld.” To me this is a stunning metaphor for this harsh disease process. It also turned out to be exactly the process, that one of my clients will have to witness, while guiding and caring for her young son who is afflicted with this disease. ...
Bodhiseed Posted March 5, 2019 Posted March 5, 2019 moonglow[/member] I had the Animal Lord's years ago and had a hard time working with it. I finally gave it away. I love animal decks, but that one was not my cup of tea! Emilija[/member] The White Sage Tarot looks interesting - hope you'll tell us what you think of it Mi-Shell[/member] The artwork in that deck is lovely, and your story about your client touching.
Bodhiseed Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 Thought I would add a post from my blog with the two decks I'm using this week. From the Stone Tarot, the Eight of Swords; from the Buddhist Quote Cards, Dhammapada 20:276 : We need not be limited by our stories. —Mark Epstein Last year, I wanted to plant zinnia seeds in three large terra cotta pots. Unfortunately, the army of gray squirrels in my yard will dig up anything I plant in pots. I ended up stretching chicken wire over the tops of the pots with a wire around the rims to hold it in place. The seeds, once planted and watered, grew through the holes of the wire without a problem. The Eight of Swords card is like the wire we think is trapping us. We get caught up in how things are supposed to be or not supposed to be, and we forget to look past our stories. There's a lot of open space there to grow in if we'll see beyond our mental ruminations. The Dhammapada quote reads: It is up to you to make strong effort; buddhas merely tell you how. No matter how many seminars I attend, what teacher I study with, or the number of books I read, nothing changes unless I make the effort to change how I think and act. As Henrik Edberg explained it, "...in the end, if you are an adult then no one is coming. No one is coming to save you. You have to take responsibility for your own life and what happens in it." The first thing I need to change is the stories I tell myself.
Mi-Shell Posted March 6, 2019 Posted March 6, 2019 <3 (((Bodhiseed))) <3 How lovely! THAT is exactly, what I needed to hear today! :)
Madame Squee Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 Thank you for sharing your beautiful story and interpretation of the 8 of Swords, Bodhiseed. I needed it today. <3 (That's a beautiful combination of decks, too.)
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 I got a number of kicks in the head from the animals this week, but have decided for sure I don't have a hidden agenda about anything. Cards make you think don't they?
moonglow Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 I got a number of kicks in the head from the animals this week [..] Me too! Immediately upon revealing last night's 2 cards, they seemed to be swearing at me! Can't say I was quite expecting that from them. :think: March 2: 6 of Swords & Knave of Chalices March 3: 7 of Pentacles & The Hierophant March 4: The Wheel & 4 of Chalices March 5: 9 of Cups March 6: Knave of Chalices again March 7: The Chariot March 8: The Chariot again & The Hierophant again! When I first saw the Knave of Chalices, I immediately thought of Brother Cadfael, even though I haven't seen the show or read any of the books. My husband thought that was who the card was portraying as well. Have placed a DVD on hold from the library. ;D Ahahaha moonglow[/member] it could be that this is just a strange deck! I feel like most of the decks out there, even the ones that are drawing on Thoth or TdM traditions, have meanings that are similar enough to the RWS that you can work with them fairly easily. This is..... weird. This almost seems more like a 4 of Swords card to me because he's arguably withdrawing from the world. I have no idea how the 4 of Cups would come into play here. Maybe there's an element of clinging to lost things, unwilling to move on, because he's clinging to the tree, unwilling to come down? Yeah, I am not sure here. There are a lot of cards I really like, but puzzled on this one. After reading some posts around the forum though, I have decided that I won't give up on this deck so quickly. I just need to relax a bit and take my time. :meditate: It could click yet! Perhaps the Knave of Cups really is based on Cadfael? There's a card that may or may not be Puss in Boots. There seems to be a not insignificant amount of giant swan riding going on in various mythologies. What else am I missing?? I just feel so... lacking, so I think there's potential here. I just do not understand how it ended up with the LWB it did. :o Bodhiseed[/member] <3 Loved your cards and thank you for sharing your reading here! I will have to read the others on your blog soon. The two decks seem to work really well together. Attached are photos of my three repeat cards as well as that of a lovely figurine of Apollo riding a swan that I yoinked from Amazon.
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