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The furniture is interestingly shuffled, right now. I'm gathering stuff in the living room to give to the Habitat for Humanity Restore. We'll see how much of the attic I can clear out before their scheduled arrival date. It should be a substantial declutter, if nothing else.
Outside, the roses are blooming. Oddly enough, this year they started blooming before the day lilies, which are just getting started. If you come by and don't see me right away, come around back and tell me I can stop weeding around the tomato plants for a bit! The weeds are quite tall, as I've been busy with indoor tasks and runs to the Geek Squad, glasses place, and other such tasks.
Computer follies have continued, the car acquired a large screw in a non-repairable part of one tire, and when I went in to get the replacement "temple" (arm) of my glasses replaced, they broke the still-functional old one, so my glasses are still kind of wobbly on my face (the spares they found to loan me in the meantime have a "spring feature" that, in my opinion, is a "spring bug").
But still, it's summer and nice out (here, anyway--no 100 degree temps this far inland so far).
I'm going to continue offering a five-card reading for $25, or if you want a larger reading we can discuss costs. As always, a signal boost will allow you to ask for a clarification card on some part of this reading, if you wish. Alternatively, you can ask for a Torn World reading and get an in-character reading in Affamarg or the Breidalam Mountains using that world's standard layout for the divination disks.
Or, of course, you can simply ask for a single card (with the usual clarifying card for people who tip or signal boost). The guitar case below is my personal PayPal link, featuring my own artwork, which still inspires me even though it isn't Tarot-related.
So, let's see if I can offer some some inspiration or spark some creativity for you. You can ask about real life or a creative project, or even a game. I can draw a card for you to meditate on, to represent the Guide you need right now, or to get you unstuck. I can draw a card for a character or can draw a card or cards for you to use as writing or art prompts, and I can modify a more-traditional five-card spread into a prompt for a story focusing on plot or characters or a little of both.
New friends and old are very welcome. The grass is shaggy, and weeds are keeping the tomato and squash plants company, but some of the roses have started to bloom, and I'm happy to have you visit.
For free one card readings, you can pick from the Brian Froud's Faeries Oracle, the Daughters of the Moon Tarot (one of the round decks), or the Shapeshifter Tarot. You can ask a question, ask for a Guide or for inspiration, or you can just ask for a card. I don't need to know what your question is, but you are welcome to share it with me if you like.
The first card is free (though tips are always appreciated). Tips (including requests for longer readings) also let you ask me to use any of my other decks, including but not limited to my combined Susan Seddon Boulet Animal Spirits and Goddesses cards and my Fantasy Showcase Tarot deck where each card was done by a different artist. Tipping can also be used to request a private reading, or to draw a clarifying card. If you want a longer reading, send a direct message so we can agree on the type of reading and rate.
Signal boosts are very much appreciated, and also earn you the right to ask for a clarifying card. I'd love to do a bunch of readings, under the circumstances!
I understand all too well that when people don't have cash or spoons that is generally when they most need inspiration! Don't be afraid to ask for a card if you can't tip.
If you tip, it's helpful to me for you to mention it here so I can connect your paypal information with your request. Tips should be at least $1 (Paypal charges fees). If that doesn't work for you, drop me a message and we'll work something out.
I've written before about why I do readings and some of the decks I use here, feel free to hop over and check me out. I'll wait.
I will reply to all requests. In the highly unlikely event that the number of requests nears my limits, I'll close this card draw by adding a clear note at the top of the post rather than risk leaving anyone without a response. However, I intend to stay open through the weekend, and longer for paid readings.
Thank you, and Blessed Be!
As always, these readings are for entertainment and inspiration only. See my "Dandelyon's Readings" page if you have questions.
The furniture is interestingly shuffled, right now. I'm gathering stuff in the living room to give to the Habitat for Humanity Restore. We'll see how much of the attic I can clear out before their scheduled arrival date. It should be a substantial declutter, if nothing else.
Outside, the roses are blooming. Oddly enough, this year they started blooming before the day lilies, which are just getting started. If you come by and don't see me right away, come around back and tell me I can stop weeding around the tomato plants for a bit! The weeds are quite tall, as I've been busy with indoor tasks and runs to the Geek Squad, glasses place, and other such tasks.
Computer follies have continued, the car acquired a large screw in a non-repairable part of one tire, and when I went in to get the replacement "temple" (arm) of my glasses replaced, they broke the still-functional old one, so my glasses are still kind of wobbly on my face (the spares they found to loan me in the meantime have a "spring feature" that, in my opinion, is a "spring bug").
But still, it's summer and nice out (here, anyway--no 100 degree temps this far inland so far).
I'm going to continue offering a five-card reading for $25, or if you want a larger reading we can discuss costs. As always, a signal boost will allow you to ask for a clarification card on some part of this reading, if you wish. Alternatively, you can ask for a Torn World reading and get an in-character reading in Affamarg or the Breidalam Mountains using that world's standard layout for the divination disks.
Or, of course, you can simply ask for a single card (with the usual clarifying card for people who tip or signal boost). The guitar case below is my personal PayPal link, featuring my own artwork, which still inspires me even though it isn't Tarot-related.
So, let's see if I can offer some some inspiration or spark some creativity for you. You can ask about real life or a creative project, or even a game. I can draw a card for you to meditate on, to represent the Guide you need right now, or to get you unstuck. I can draw a card for a character or can draw a card or cards for you to use as writing or art prompts, and I can modify a more-traditional five-card spread into a prompt for a story focusing on plot or characters or a little of both.
New friends and old are very welcome. The grass is shaggy, and weeds are keeping the tomato and squash plants company, but some of the roses have started to bloom, and I'm happy to have you visit.
For free one card readings, you can pick from the Brian Froud's Faeries Oracle, the Daughters of the Moon Tarot (one of the round decks), or the Shapeshifter Tarot. You can ask a question, ask for a Guide or for inspiration, or you can just ask for a card. I don't need to know what your question is, but you are welcome to share it with me if you like.
The first card is free (though tips are always appreciated). Tips (including requests for longer readings) also let you ask me to use any of my other decks, including but not limited to my combined Susan Seddon Boulet Animal Spirits and Goddesses cards and my Fantasy Showcase Tarot deck where each card was done by a different artist. Tipping can also be used to request a private reading, or to draw a clarifying card. If you want a longer reading, send a direct message so we can agree on the type of reading and rate.
Signal boosts are very much appreciated, and also earn you the right to ask for a clarifying card. I'd love to do a bunch of readings, under the circumstances!
I understand all too well that when people don't have cash or spoons that is generally when they most need inspiration! Don't be afraid to ask for a card if you can't tip.
If you tip, it's helpful to me for you to mention it here so I can connect your paypal information with your request. Tips should be at least $1 (Paypal charges fees). If that doesn't work for you, drop me a message and we'll work something out.
I've written before about why I do readings and some of the decks I use here, feel free to hop over and check me out. I'll wait.
I will reply to all requests. In the highly unlikely event that the number of requests nears my limits, I'll close this card draw by adding a clear note at the top of the post rather than risk leaving anyone without a response. However, I intend to stay open through the weekend, and longer for paid readings.
Thank you, and Blessed Be!
As always, these readings are for entertainment and inspiration only. See my "Dandelyon's Readings" page if you have questions.
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Date: 2017-06-21 07:40 pm (UTC)Crone of Cups: Hecate
Date: 2017-06-21 08:20 pm (UTC)Hekate is associated with the underworld, so this is perhaps the River Lethe, but I think in this reading it is simply a symbol that feelings often run deep, or at least that sometimes, to properly grok them, you must delve deeply.
I feel like the Crone is here to guide you, to help you shine light on things that need light, and to calm (or perhaps help you to calm) the rushing waters when that's needed. The water is disordered before the spot where she stands, and calm thereafter. It is possible to make a transformation in that energy. The water scorpion here might simply symbolize the danger in emotions, but while powerful things can be dangerous, emotions do not just act on you, they are a part of you, and you act on them as well, and there is a ripple effect from your emotions too. Water is very powerful--it gives so easily to pressure, but it carved out the grand canyon. Even a small change in how you handle your emotions could have big effects on you and on the people around you. Which isn't advice to change how you do things--it's more about being aware of that aspect of emotions, so you can be more in charge of that flow. There are always limits, most of them unchosen--a crone certainly knows that--but within your options, you can make a difference.
If you could ask, what would you want to learn from this Crone? The path deeper into the cave? The path out into the moonlight? How to calm the waters and use them for healing and strength? Something else? If you choose to take her up as a guide, I'm sure she will find ways to respond. The answers might not be what you expect or hope; Hecate is a teacher and guide, not a fairy god-mother. But she won't vanish at the midnight hour either.
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Date: 2017-06-21 08:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-06-22 12:05 am (UTC)Geeeeeooo the Slooow
Date: 2017-06-22 05:28 am (UTC)We talk for a bit, and then realize Geeeeeooo is sitting there, in the weeds, like he'd been there all along. Perhaps he had, or perhaps his arrival was so slow, like the growth of the weeds and the tomato plants, that we don't see change while we're watching, only when we look back. Geeeeeooo is the Gnome of slow processes. He smiles at us, slowly.
I offer to bring some cold water out for everyone, and Geeeeeooo leans back a bit, basking in the sun. He looks at you. "You should sit a while, set all those worries aside for a bit.
"What--ignore them?"
"Are you ignoring the tomatoes while they ripen? Or the tea while it steeps?"
"Well, not exactly."
"Precisely. You need to pace yourself, settle gently into doing what needs doing, and tend the garden of your soul patiently. When the plants there are large enough, you'll know which ones are flowers and which ones are weeds." He pushes his fingers gently into the soil around a bit of crab grass, and pulls it out by the roots. "Then you can deal with the weeds one by one, prune the roses where needed, and let the fruit ripen for harvest."
He hands you the crab grass, all green and fresh. It doesn't know it's time has ended, yet, but you do, and you toss it onto the pile of weeds that I've been accumulating. It will go with them into the compost, to turn into new, fertile soil--another process that you never see happening, but that happens, slowly and inevitably, while we're doing all the other things that make up a satisfying life.
When we look back, the gnome is curled up, taking a nap. Sleeping on it, perhaps. Or maybe he just likes sleeping in the sun.
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Date: 2017-06-22 12:09 am (UTC)Celebration
Date: 2017-06-22 05:51 am (UTC)The landscape around them is stylized, simple, gleaming in the light of the moon. It could be steep hills to either side off in the distance and two connected hills in the foreground, but the few details--the details suggest the image of a woman lying down, looking down at her chest, belly, and legs. Are the women dancing on Gaea, our one and only world? Or is it one person, celebrating herself?
I definitely see this as a card of creative energy, whether it's about starting a new project or celebrating the completion of one that started some time ago. It seems appropriate to me that celebrating with a rainbow happens in Pride month, though that imagery might have more to do with me than with you.
Celebrate yourself, your creativity, your friends, your family. Celebrate together or alone, noisily or quietly, with dance or with song or just in your heart--but celebrate.
Re: Celebration
Date: 2017-06-22 11:10 pm (UTC)Re: Celebration
Date: 2017-06-23 10:07 am (UTC)And you're welcome.
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Date: 2017-06-22 03:49 am (UTC)Would like a card to meditate on. Guidance is welcome too. The last reading with you was downright scary and the hurricane has only gotten worse, so I've been hesitating, but I know it's not cause and effect, so here I am.
The Singer of Healing
Date: 2017-06-22 06:19 am (UTC)Bees and butterflies flit by, and as the sun sets, the first lightning bugs fly past, their tails blinking as they seek mates. Some kids wander by, one on a bicycle too small for her, and another running along, laughing. They wave.
It's too early in the season, still, for crickets, but as dusk descends, the Singer of Healing arrives. She is hard to see, more glow than body, but she alights on your mug and smiles at you.
Healing is an odd thing--it happens on multiple levels at the same time, and much of the time we are both the healer and the healed, for opening to this Singer's energy lets you share her influence. If there's something that is blocking her energy, her presence here is a sign that you have a chance to set that aside, to turn a new leaf, letting old habits and old pain go to make room for a better future.
Soon after she arrives, I feel an unmistakable call of nature, and excuse myself, but at this point, I'm pretty sure that my presence isn't needed. I take care of that little bit of letting go, then check to make sure I've brought in all of the garden tools before it's too dark to see them. I take the time to make a new pot of tea, to give you some privacy before I return to the porch. You can sit there as long as you want, to moonrise or moonset, or even to sunrise. Head out when you're ready. The Singer's song will remain with you.
(no subject)
Date: 2017-06-22 07:57 am (UTC)One card, no preference as to which deck, no specific question. I just like getting this tiny bit of guidance at intervals, and you present it in ways that make me think (which makes me happy!). Thank you!
Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-22 08:30 pm (UTC)Was she called here because the Mulberry tree has the first ripened berries, or just for this, to point out the importance of evaluating the plants (real or metaphorical), pulling the weeds, and setting them to compost? Too many weeds will keep the vegetables from getting the sun, water, and nutrients they need, after all.
Are there things in your life that are acting more as bugs than as features? Are you hanging on to them, letting them grow and go to seed, taking up space and time and other resources that you could instead put toward something that would nourish you and enrich your life?
The Lady smiles at you, so you can see the laugh lines crinkling around her eyes, and offers to help you sort things out. But in the meantime, you're welcome to some mulberries and more than welcome to pull some weeds, if you choose. Or if you're tired, I'll take a break too, and make us some tea or lemonade or something.
Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-23 04:06 am (UTC)Removing weeds is a form of harvesting, even if they're not likely to do any harm to the plants you want to keep. You're making compost, so plucking up the weeds and putting them into the compost bin is as much an act of "harvesting" as plucking mulberries and making them into jam.
Honestly, I can't think of anything that's acting as "weeds" in my life - or else everything is. Lady, can you help me figure this out?
And while I'm listening to Her, I'd enjoy some iced tea - no sugar, no lemon, no mint, just strong black tea and ice. (The Solstice brought typical Summer weather to my corner of the planet.) Ahhh, thanks!
Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-23 06:11 am (UTC)I'm sure the Lady will be happy to hang out for a while and help you sort it out.
You're welcome to your black tea; I'd rather have mint! But yes, iced tea is lovely, and it's even better that people can each have the kind they like best.
Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-24 09:01 am (UTC)When people ask me if I want lemon and sugar in my iced tea, I reply, "If I wanted to drink something that tasted like lemons and sugar, I'd ask for lemonade. Right now, I want to drink something that tastes like tea." I do sometimes drink lemonade. But I've been drinking regular black tea, both hot and iced, almost my entire life. And I know that tea itself contains all sorts of nifty anti-oxidants, and by not putting sugar in it, I have a zero-calorie drink (with no artificial sweeteners either - they cause different problems of their own)! But mostly it's just what I'm used to, of course.
Now if I can just keep my mind from straying to "weed" jokes...
Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-24 09:10 am (UTC)Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-24 09:42 am (UTC)Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-24 09:43 am (UTC)Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-24 09:48 am (UTC)Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-29 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-06-30 02:49 am (UTC)Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-07-05 01:25 am (UTC)You can get brighter colors in a cotton/poly blend if you let them soak in the dye for a few days, but there are limits. depending on how high the polyester content is.
But it sounds lovely!
Re: Lady of the Harvest
Date: 2017-07-05 10:44 am (UTC)Yes, it does weaken the fabric, and the shirt will wear out sooner - usually it gets holes or rips where it was bleached. But tie-dyed t-shirts are sort of ephemeral to begin with, especially when they're worn by a kid who may outgrow them before they wear out :-)
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Date: 2017-06-21 07:59 pm (UTC)That sounds lovely!
Date: 2017-06-22 02:21 am (UTC)Re: That sounds lovely!
Date: 2017-06-22 04:37 am (UTC)Re: That sounds lovely!
Date: 2017-06-22 01:42 pm (UTC)I hve sent a Paypal donation:
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Date: 2017-06-22 07:02 pm (UTC)Myk the Myomancer
Date: 2017-06-22 07:01 pm (UTC)It starts to move into pouncing position, and suddenly Myk is there, rubbing the cat's ears. The cat leans back and closes its eyes.
Now we can see what the cat was watching for, because Myk is peering at it intently, even as his nimble fingers distract the cat. It is a young mouse, with a little dusting of yellowish pollen on its gray back. Myk smiles. "It's been a good summer so far."
"How do you know that?"
"Oh, you can learn a lot from mice, if you watch them closely enough."
I've run into Myk before. Mice are his crystal ball--or perhaps he's more a scientist than a magician, as gnomes go. His message is that it's all in the details, in watching patiently, in seeing the connections between the micro and macro.
If you listen longer to Myk, he will tell you how to scry the future from the patterns in a mouse's fur, or the footprints they leave in the dirt, but it's quite possible that you can scry better looking at little things that fascinate you as much as mice fascinate Myk. Good thing, that, since I'm allergic to mice! Myomancy would surely lead me to more sneezes than understanding.
Another mouse comes out, and the two play tag, to Myk's amusement. The cat still has its eyes closed, and is now curled so Myk can rub it's belly. The mice vanish, and Myk lifts his fingers from the cat, who licks a paw automatically and then falls asleep.
Myk walks over to us. "You've got the part about the details right, but there's another bit that matters--if you apply the details to try to answer the wrong query, it'll all seem like nonsense!"
And then he turns and walks to the day lilies, growing smaller as he goes. He waves and smiles, and then ducks into the lilies. We catch a glimpse of a mouse-tail exiting the back of his jeans, and then he is gone, following the mice, as always.
A card, please!
Date: 2017-08-08 04:02 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for this generous gift!