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Addendum to step one of Dave's
The cards didn't answer the question of "Who am I" in a direct way, more like "What's going on." Thursday was the day we sold our summer cottage which we had acquired in 1973--34 years ago. We had raised our children there in the summers and, recently, our grandchildren. We are now looking at another place north of Cape Cod, in the state of Maine. Also near the shore.
The Fey Queen of Cups pictorially represented the process of watching the essence of what one held floating away. We had been using the cottage less and less as the kids reached teenage years and took up part time jobs and made friends in surrounding towns as they attended regional schools.
The Fey Tower pictured a structure floating away from its foundations, its occupant entirely unconcerned with this change. The ancient birds signified something old being left behind. This seems to have represented the actual "letting go" and signing the sales papers.
The Fey Knight of Pentacles represents our journey today to start our actual search for another place near the sea. The darkened castle represents the cottage we are leaving. The journey on the large rabbit would seem to suggest that several short hops (trips) will occur before we settle on a choice. We have one or two places in mind and know that we can acquire what we have in mind.
Isn't this so "tarot?" We are told the obvious, the needed message, not necessarily what we asked. Last evening I had been tired and the obvious message just wasn't getting through to me, it didn't answer "who I was." Now, in this exercise, without regard for book meanings, the pictures on the cards were explicit in themselves. The Fey is like that for me. In the past, I might have gone back to the Fey book or the standard books to find an answer instead of trusting what I saw. This has been a process of learning and experience, enhanced by our last spring's work with Mary's book. We can trust ourselves to use any of many tools, not be slavish to a more rigid process in approaching the cards. I'll pick up on the next step when I get my assistant (granddaughter, 14 years old) back to draw a card. She is now studying the tarot on a casual basis. Dave
The Fey
The cards didn't answer the question of "Who am I" in a direct way, more like "What's going on." Thursday was the day we sold our summer cottage which we had acquired in 1973--34 years ago. We had raised our children there in the summers and, recently, our grandchildren. We are now looking at another place north of Cape Cod, in the state of Maine. Also near the shore.
The Fey Queen of Cups pictorially represented the process of watching the essence of what one held floating away. We had been using the cottage less and less as the kids reached teenage years and took up part time jobs and made friends in surrounding towns as they attended regional schools.
The Fey Tower pictured a structure floating away from its foundations, its occupant entirely unconcerned with this change. The ancient birds signified something old being left behind. This seems to have represented the actual "letting go" and signing the sales papers.
The Fey Knight of Pentacles represents our journey today to start our actual search for another place near the sea. The darkened castle represents the cottage we are leaving. The journey on the large rabbit would seem to suggest that several short hops (trips) will occur before we settle on a choice. We have one or two places in mind and know that we can acquire what we have in mind.
Isn't this so "tarot?" We are told the obvious, the needed message, not necessarily what we asked. Last evening I had been tired and the obvious message just wasn't getting through to me, it didn't answer "who I was." Now, in this exercise, without regard for book meanings, the pictures on the cards were explicit in themselves. The Fey is like that for me. In the past, I might have gone back to the Fey book or the standard books to find an answer instead of trusting what I saw. This has been a process of learning and experience, enhanced by our last spring's work with Mary's book. We can trust ourselves to use any of many tools, not be slavish to a more rigid process in approaching the cards. I'll pick up on the next step when I get my assistant (granddaughter, 14 years old) back to draw a card. She is now studying the tarot on a casual basis. Dave
The Fey