The Stone Nature Deck

[Mi-Shell]

On a quest for the Ogham meanings:

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IX Cumhach the Trickster card 5 (Hermit)

has what I am led to belief the sign for Willow. No idea why. The card shows me a Hazelnut in the foreground, but in the way back, there may just be a Willow.

Well Ogham – Willow: I am checking several sites and books about that and find out, that “Saille” may stand for

book 1: Night vision, lunar rhythms, female aspects, month no 4 =February of the Celtic Tree calendar, which seems to be an invention the ancient Celts knew nothing about – until ?? R.Graves came up with it and it all was picked up by the Pagan / New Age adherents.??

Please correct me, if I am wrong here! ♥

Book 2 Green Man Tree Oracle :

“From harmony comes inspiration”

Saille can be translated as “grows near water”

Willow branches are used by dowsers to witch for water.

It then goes on telling me about Demeter and the Gypsies.....

Book 2 about sacred Trees tells me that it is for the Moon Goddess, that harps are made from Willow, also wicker furniture and wattle (wattle and daub construction)

 

“Willow will bend” is a Siberian proverb I learned from my father who used willow branches to dipped in water to bless our Horses and the Rabbits in the barn, the barn itself and the hey and everything else including me..... It was one of the rituals he did every New Moon to ward of “Albis” = nasty Spirits bringing illness and misfortune.

We also used Willow branches in the Banyo/ Siberian sauna to swish them away, invigorate us and get the circulation going.

So although I felt the biting swish of Willlow on my very skin, I always have the feeling, that Willow is gentle and a loving, protective tree, giving us means to help with getting rid of pain from headaches and injuries and have a healing influence on body and soul.

 

Now it is YOUR turn to add what Ogham Saille means to you!

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

On a quest for the Ogham meanings:

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The 0ther Salmon has the sign of the Hazel with it!

The nut of immortality, the branch fit to be a wand for a wizard, is right now residing in a large vase on our family Altar.

The Celtic Tree Oracle says intuition, straight to the source, 9^th month = July. Well, we are having July and I would LOVE to find a way straight to the source of what the Ogham signs meant to the ones who used them. Was it a secret way of communication, that the Romans did not understand? Was it the way to give immortality to the ones, who's name was engraved onto the Ogham stones? Did Ogham transcend all the different dialects from back then and so help communication?

THAT I think is most logical. A people that can unite around a common cause need a common language.

Today, in the world of divination however,Hazel

- is seen as an invitation to seek wisdom and knowledge,

- to help with discerning true from false,

- The Hazelnut is seen as the fruit of the Gods, unintentionally or not swallowed up by the legendary Salmon.

- In the olden times to fell a Hazel or an Apple Tree was punished by death!

- Hazel was seen as a Faery Tree and they would also come and get the perpetrator.

 

Looking again at the cards of my I see, that the Ogham signs of the 2 Salmon cards are “facing each other”

It gives me a feeling of balance.

the Faeries sitting in my Hazel bush are commonly known as Red Squirrels.

I will leave this by adding a nice poster, found on the net, that shows yet another all in all similar interpretation of the Ogham signs:

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

Just a quick post for people that are interested in getting the Stone Tarot:

I am really not a picky person, but what bugs me with my deck, is, that about 20 cards do have a nick/ kink/ uneven edge on one side and it is sharp and irritating when I shuffle the cards:

 

Have any of you had this happen with a deck and how did you fix it?

Also, I noticed, especially with the backs, that the white borders of the cards are a bit wider on one side then on the other.

However, the "notched cards" are the ones, where the borders are even!

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

I had quite a busy week and could not write or post much, but today I have some time and I meant to share this deck interview reading:

Deck interview reading:

 

With this reading I always want to bring up the very first thing that pops into my mind. BEFORE my analytical compassionate mind or my knowledge/ training have a chance to kick in.

So it is just 1 sentence, 1 “mind popping” that is brought to bear.

Then, when the reading is done I go over these "mind poppings" again and write a few clarifying words, so later I can remember the feelings I had better.

1 The Nature of the deck:

VII CUACHA

Oh NO! The ugliest card in the deck! What is he eating!

 

With this deck the creator has bitten into a pretty messy and yet uncomfortable thing.

... and so have I.

 

 

 

2 What it intents:

IX BATAI

Running headlong into the forest (into the unknown) wearing THESE huuuuuge Antlers!??

 

It will be no wonder if I and others will get tangled up in a forest of unknown stuff.

 

 

3 my path of study:

XI BREITH

Now here he is standing at attention, seeing and learning something.

 

For a moment it felt, as if I am looking at the same Animal, first running headlong into some danger, then stopping to think things over and assessing the situation.

The deck demands my attention, but with all its Celtic and Ogham trimmings creating huge heavy antlers. 

Will I go on through this forest?

I am realizing, this is the Emperor, but this is not my country, my world my heritage, so he is no my Emperor!

What I am meaning to say, to me, this is yet again a foreign culture I am delving into.

 

 

4 My strength with it/ what I will learn?

XVIII GEALACH

Oh, my Wolves, The Druid pack which sadly now all live on the other side of the Spirit River!

Moon: illusion, dreams

 

The Wolves ♥ – Wolf in my paternal Clan Guardian and therefore VERY important to me.

But I am looking at an image of the Otherworld.= Do not get the beautiful vision of the deck creator mixed up with the product right before you. It has a ways to go before it will be a good addition to the world of Tarot.

 

5 Weaknesses of the deck:

III CLOCHA

 

little Frueschlinge! = Wild piglets beneath a huge Oak.

They first need to grow!

 

Yes, there is still room for lots of improvement in the system and the small piglets will have to do some growing to do. I too will have a steep learning curve ahead of me. So will anybody else.

But the potential is there!

 

6 outcome/ my future with the deck:

VII BATAI

 

A Robin in Spring!

This is the beginning of something, that still needs to grow!

We all loooove Robins, We all looove Spring!

 

I am not a fan of "pink and cute”

Although this card is pink, it is not cute.

Within my feelings I am at bit of a loss with this image.

I KNOW, what the 7 of wands represent and see, this Robin will have stiff competition , but I an dismayed, when I look at the meaning written in the LWB of this deck.

But the meaning now is clear.

To understand and work with this deck will be a steep hill to climb and clamber up.

And then?

I will be in foreign territory.

Oh Robin, where to has your sweet song lured me?

 

 

 

Edited August 2, 2019 by Mi-Shell

[Mi-Shell]

Oh! Looook!

Over 6 years have come and gone since I last held and worked with this deck.

So many things have happened.

The world is different now - for most of us.

My hair is grey.....

 

The BOX!

The box is to blame for me pulling out the deck again, as my deck of the week.

The box is just sooo pretty.

It houses both decks - the Stone Tarot and the Nature deck.

 

 

 

You also see the binder with more gathered info about the decks.

 

The years that passed are telling me, that A. E. Stone's attempt to create a whole new Tarot way/ tradition did NOT take hold.

Does that free me up from learning the Gaelic card names?

For this 1 week of honoring the beautiful images I will just read the cards intuitively and -Stone's  meanings and rules be damned - or left by the wayside. 

So, let's shuffle and see, what comes up 🙂

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

Ooooh bummer, the journey of the Black Birds is continuing!

 

For the last week my deck of the week was the Urban Crow Tarot

and here now are more Corvids – this time rather Ravens.

 

The subject card of the day: XIII Leig

Well No idea, what “Leig” is, but as far as Tarot goes, 13 is the card signifying Death.

In the evening light on a late fall day 4 Ravens are sitting on the rack of a Roe Deer.

They all face the same direction – what for me is forward. No looking back.

Endings

Change.

Currently I am facing more Endings than I would like.

Some are natural conclusions, others unfortunate situations.

No matter – Done!

I just have to “get over it.”

 

 

Advice/ a Guide:

5 Sceana

From a perch a Raven in croaking down to a ??Fox??

To me this one looks like a Coyote. He is booooooored and yawning to express this to me and the Raven, who obviously does not want to let this go and shut up.

Shut up is always a good advice.

Nobody likes it if someone goes on and on about something.

 

But what iffff this whole scene is seen the other way around?

If the Raven is trying to talk sense into Coyote and getting nowhere?

If Coyote turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to a concerning situation?

Either scenario could benefit from “shutting up”

Someone is not willing to listen?

Is that me? Right now I am ready to take any advice and any good idea to heart.

But the death card nonetheless says “move on”

 

Outcome:

1 Feartach - - anybody here knows, what that word means??

Help appreciated!

 

A Raven sits in a leafy Tree and yet again crows loudly to someone or something off to the side.

I think I am looking at the Magician here!

Confident, that his loudly crowed spell will do the job.

It tells me, that I am surrounded by green = growing protection and in my element (deep Forest)

The Magician has all the tools needed for a situation.

Yet again the Corvid looks right = future.

Raven is the teacher of ancient ways, of lore and legends.

I can not help but think, that 2 days from now I will have to do the opening Prayers and then give traditional teachings about Native American and Siberian healing ways to a large conference of Physicians and health care workers.

My given Medicine name is “Sings like a Crow”

I will do that.

May my voice reach hearts and minds.

 

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

 

 

1 Theme of the day:

3 Snatha – this suit is supposed to have to do with Spirit and Spirituality

 

An ermine is sitting on a snow dusted Pine branch.

Exactly right!

The first snow is dusting the Pines outside, all our Mustelides and Snowshoe Hares have turned white.

Ermine in Siberia is seen as Sable's little brother and stands for purity and graceful efficiency. Sacred items – like rattles and the shaman's coat are wrapped up in Ermine fur because that keeps Mice away. I too have wrapped certain items in Ermine fur.

3 to me stands for cooperation with others. At the conference, where today I did the opening and invocation Prayers, we taught physicians how to effectively and also respectfully communicate with young doctors in training.

 

Advice/ a Guide:

 

XVIII Gealach This word is nowhere explained and so I decided to interpret it as The Moon card.

 

I am looking at 2 Wolves standing at the edge of a thicket and howling. The full Moon is overhead.

Well, in the nature that surrounds us, this is exactly what was happening, although full Moon is past. The Wolves made a spectacular roukus outside the last few nights. It is hunting season and the hunters left all kinds of – what they consider offal in the bush. Moose legs, heads, gut piles the hide and oter horrible things, but a feast for our local predators and so the different packs are fighting with each other and our resident Bear over the stuff and – one hears about it.

 

Moon often points to our wild and untamed side- the realm beyond conventions.

This card and what I just wrote certainly is way outside any conventions.

I am Wolf Clan from my father's side and Wolves on card point me right back there – to who and what I am.

 

 

Outcome:

8 Snatha

Wouldn't you know it, 2 more Wolves on my image.

One standing next to the other one, that is lying down.

Mussels touching.

Wolf kisses!

Sweet!

Balance of Forces!

Peace and trust between bonded partners.

The image makes me want to check up on my bonded partner, who right now is plowing our road and deserves a nice cup of coco.

Wolf kisses are in order as well.....

 

 

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

Oh maaaaan! Can I EVER pick them!

Look at this:

 

Beautiful images – right?!

Card of the day : Disks 9

A Guide: Disk = Clocha 8

Outcome: Disks 7

Now read, what the booklet is saying:

Posting here exerpts from the booklet, cards Disk 7, 8 and 9

 

 

Why in all of this does a certain old fart with yellow hair, that messes up things for other Beings come to mind?

 

And actually, What is the deck creator thinking, to interpret the minors this way?

 

My thoughts are a bit different – and because these are Disks = Coins = wealth and security, property and so on, I better not be tooo speciffic....

 

9 of Disks: the wish card! One of my favourite cards in any deck!

Yes, a whole lot of stuff I dreamed about and NEVER thought they were even remotely possible for me have come true. The Snake for me a symbol of change, transformation and healing glides through a quiet pond. Even her reflection is clear and serene.

All is well!

Also, all is fluid – nothing is ossified or written in stone. And I do NOT need to find out what any enemies are doing. I do have no enemies.

Maybe there are a few people that are jealous, but I am not the master of their thoughts and feelings.

And no, nothing is taken personal and forget about prisons and armies and sh..t like that!

 

A guide: 8 of Disks

A Red Squirrel sits in a leafy Tree. It looks like one of our Maples in summer.

Squirrels are always planning and putting bye for the future – for the winter. Often they forget, where they buried something and this something puts down roots and becomes another Tree for a Squirrel in the future. If Squirrels see something they do not like, you will hear about it – sometimes for hours! How does that sound as a theatrical performance?

For me today it is a reminder of the imminent arrival of winter and to make sure all our outside resources are covered up and safe. Piles and piles of wood – containing the odd Squirrel nest that now can not be disturbed.

 

Outcome: 7 of Disks

theft and anti-social?? Envy, sloth and desperation????

That sounds like one of my mental health patient with paranoid delusions.....

 

In the very oooold tarot meanings the 7 of coins was/ is called “the Lord of success unfulfilled”

 

the Greenbacked Woodpecker is a European species – like most critters here.

He sticks his long tounge into a tiny hole in the tree trunk to retrieve a grub.

Maybe there will be success unfulfilled and the grub will grow, transform and emerge when the Pecke is long gone....

To me the 7 of Discs is more about having worked hard and now waiting patiently until a desired result develops. Maybe it will come to nothing – but I did my BEST and now have to let it go and see.

It is about stepping up and doing the work in order to eventually reap the rewards.

I / we certainly have done that and the rewards were more marvellous than we ever anticipated.

Now I can be the Squirrel in the Tree, that actually shares them with others, which was and still is a wish of mine.....

 

Talking about sharing:

Here, Woodpecker, is your dinner!

 

 

 

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

 

Today I have pulled my cards from the Anith Nature deck.

As mentioned before, the artwork is equally beautiful and some images are appearing in both decks, although in different positions.

 

This is the Muse of Cups = Prince of Cups.

Strangely the image seems to be off centre on the card. The circle surrounding the Plant is.... Is that intentional?

This seems to be a Plantain.

English Plantain is growing almost all over the world – as so called invasive species.

However, it is often planted for medicinal use, as it is helpful in combating colds and upper respiratory infections and as a polutrice against skin irritations. Here in Canada it is often used against Poison Ivy rashes. But like all Plantains on needs to be careful, ingesting its leaves, bulbs or roots, as it also is a laxative.

 

The Mosquito on the leaves seen in the image looks to me like a Crane Fly.

When her eggs hatch and her larvae eat off the plant, they become quite unpalatable to eventual predatory insects.

 

The description for the card to me at least also seems to be quite off centre – as far as a Prince of Cups is concerned.

Well, maybe he is a horny prince......

Hopefully not affected by the laxative effect of the Plantain......

 

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

So, what or how did the card resonate with me?

 

Muse is a messenger, so I have to listen to the message.

The unevenly centred blue circle = Something is "out of balance"

Plantain is not only a laxative but also an anti inflammatory!

The cane fly is not a stinging insect, but its carapas is YELLOW = danger (to me)

 

Well, I just got my flue shot and the imune response caused a flare-up of osteoarthritis and had quite a bit of pain. 

Luckily I know these things and also know, what to do about it.

So today I am much better! 🙂

 

[Mi-Shell]

Today I want to compare the Anieth deck's Muse of Cups - Prince of Cups 

with the same card from the Stone Tarot's Fior Na Cuacha - Muse of Cups or - here in the deck : Summer, blue, think, figure out, form 

 

 

How different they are!

 

and just as an asside: the LWBs of both decks are identical in text = meanings for the cards.

But neither one of these 2 are to me speaking much about anything to do with sex- as the booklet says

The poor lonely Fish! Where is his/ her mate?

 

 

Now the big question I haveis this:

Ifffff I had pulled the Fior Na Cuacha instead of the Anieth deck's Muse of Cups as my card of the day a few days ago,

would it have also led me to the same conclusion about inflammation and the need of an anti-inflammatory?

Well, hindsight is always 20/20 and yes, maybe I would have gotten a different card to point me towards the solution, but for argument's sake, let me see:

The Fior Na Cuacha is all blue - for me  not a colour of summer, but of truth

- deep dark blue = deep er laying truth of the matter

Moon - Intuition

rays of moon light illuminating the large fish = pointing to a fishy problematic situation deep beneath everyday reality.

The Fish is swimming above a tripple circle......

Well, this one thing would have put my nose into a completely different direction -  

A no less important one, bur far removed from the helpful advise I opened up to, when seeing the Anieth Muse of Cups.

What is it?

Well: 

I am leading an indigenous spirituality circle in my house.

We are investigating deeper truth and meanings of largely lost indigenous teachings and the next circle is centred around WaterSpirits.

The Fish and the circle would have led me into remembering to get stuff ready for our gathering..... which of course is true.