Hedera
This was the first card I drew from the deck (I'm drawing my daily cards from it).
A group of people, all dressed alike, both young and old, male and female, are dancing in a big circle. The sun is shining, the sky is blue with a couple of fluffy white clouds, and there are two sleeping green faces in the landscape behind them.
There are tiger lilies and a purse spilling coins, a pearl necklace and some kind of blue string that has me a bit puzzled.
On the ground underneath the dancers are more coins or pentacles, and around their necks they wear pearls with yet more pentacles.
It's a very happy, cheerful, sunny scene.
Everybody is wearing cloaks, and their clothes in general seem almost too warm for that sunny day (unlike the naked dancers, say, in the ten of Cups); perhaps they're taking part in a summer solstice ritual/party or something, and had dressed warmly because they were staying up all night?
After a while, I noticed that the ground they're dancing on has circles worn in it, a sort of path that they're dancing on. That seems to indicate that people of many generations have been dancing here, in the exact same place - perhaps every year for ages. They've worn a track in the ground.
I don't know the 'standard' significance of tiger lilies, but they make me think of the talking flowers in Alice in Wonderland, and of one of my favourite Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs perfumes, called Tiger Lily; it's sweet and golden and on the heavy side.
The whole card brings to mind safety and abundance, especially of the material kind, connections to other people (either in one's family or in another kind of 'tribe'), and celebrating the riches around you.
A group of people, all dressed alike, both young and old, male and female, are dancing in a big circle. The sun is shining, the sky is blue with a couple of fluffy white clouds, and there are two sleeping green faces in the landscape behind them.
There are tiger lilies and a purse spilling coins, a pearl necklace and some kind of blue string that has me a bit puzzled.
On the ground underneath the dancers are more coins or pentacles, and around their necks they wear pearls with yet more pentacles.
It's a very happy, cheerful, sunny scene.
Everybody is wearing cloaks, and their clothes in general seem almost too warm for that sunny day (unlike the naked dancers, say, in the ten of Cups); perhaps they're taking part in a summer solstice ritual/party or something, and had dressed warmly because they were staying up all night?
After a while, I noticed that the ground they're dancing on has circles worn in it, a sort of path that they're dancing on. That seems to indicate that people of many generations have been dancing here, in the exact same place - perhaps every year for ages. They've worn a track in the ground.
I don't know the 'standard' significance of tiger lilies, but they make me think of the talking flowers in Alice in Wonderland, and of one of my favourite Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs perfumes, called Tiger Lily; it's sweet and golden and on the heavy side.
The whole card brings to mind safety and abundance, especially of the material kind, connections to other people (either in one's family or in another kind of 'tribe'), and celebrating the riches around you.
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