There are spirits and spirit guides everywhere. Some are currently living in bodies. Get to know them - make friends and mentors of them. Others aren't. Get to know them, too. I can't tell you how to tell if they're around - it's different for everyone.
I've never thot much about spirits, tho as i've indicated I did see the spectre of a lady one time when I was looking thru the mirror above my dresser, and lo & behold I saw her standing a short distance behind me. & As she was also standing in front of my antique china cabinet, which has bevelled glass all across the front, and which was directly across from & otherwise behind my dresser mirror, i've always thot in terms of her appearing as a reflection.
Tho thing was, she startled me, so I took one look & then left the room. Or in otherwords, I never really checked her out, because the look in her eyes was terrifying, not to mention that she had cropped hair which made me think that she was mad .. kinda like a text book case of someone who loses it & cuts off all their hair. So my take was that she was not a friendly sort. & The other thing that struck me was the absence of colour, in the sense that altho this all happened within a space of a few seconds, i did distinctly see the full figure of a woman, but her overall appearance was dark, in the sense that she was completely devoid of colour. (dark dress, dark hair, very dark eyes, and limbs that appeared gray).
So given my one & only experience with a spirit, i'm not sure whether i'm keen to try and initiate contact, tho if I thot a friendly spirit was trying to make itself known by coming across in a reading with
the intent of guiding the reading, i would be open to this and otherwise welcome this kind of mentor.
I've never heard of spirits that live in bodies. But i'm wondering if this would tie-in with reincarnation &/or how you view "spirit"? In any event, i don't have an opinion in this regard, given that I don't have much experience with these types of things. & Tho i'm aware that some people on the forums do "past life readings", i don't read this way.
But I do alot of open readings, where I simply ask the cards to show me what I need to know. So i tend to focus on the message the cards have for me. & The more I think about this strange occurence, something you said has got me thinking:
... what Tarot cards are you referring to here?
The more I thot about the 9 & 10 of Wands, (which were the two cards that were originally missing), it dawned on me that
my birthday is coming up Oct. 9 (9th day of the 10th month).
Furthermore, as I may go a month or more without reading, i'm beginning to wonder if the disappearing Queen was intended to catch my attention & otherwise designed to draw my focus to the numbers of the missing cards. Especially considering that I sometimes read with non-scenic pips, and was looking forward to doing so with this particular deck.
So perhaps the new deck was simply trying to catch my attention by 'wishing' me a happy birthday? Leastways, the more I think about it, its not such a stretch given that my birthdays just around the corner, and as I don't read with any frequency perhaps the deck (spirit guide) wanted to catch my attention & otherwise indulge my penchant for reading non-scenic pips, by showcasing the "missing card numbers"?
Also as far as showcasing the missing card numbers, as i've mentioned the 9 & 10 of Cups also appeared to be
marked in some way. So as a whole, this deck seemed to be highlighting the numbers 9&10.
& As far as the disappearing Queen, as I say, she may have gone amiss to show me that there was more to the deck than just missing cards. OR perhaps my mom came thru, given that she passed away a few years ago. Not to mention, that if the 9 & 10 relate to my birthday, then it would make sense that my mom would use the missing numbers as a means of flaging my attention.
Hmmn, my mom and I weren't close, and she didn't know I was into tarot. Tho we did love one another, and the whole mother/daughter bond has significance re: my birthday.
Burning myrrh resin on charcoal is a pretty good way to get the attention of people who are not currently in bodies, whether you want to call them ghosts or spirit guides or lost friends or whatever.
Thank you for the tip, i may use this sometime, just depends on whether i experience anything else along these lines.
I do believe you have a spirit guide (I believe we all do)
I don't know if what happened with your cards was spirit, but I believe spirit tries to get our attention in various ways, so it would certainly be possible for them to try and make contact by using your cards.
This is what I wanted to know. Or rather should I say, i'd wondered if a spirit could try and make contact thru the cards.
Tho i was also wondering, if the
role of the spirit would be to guide the reading? &/Or if it would only make it's presence known, when it wanted to participate in the reading?
I also want to thank you for the link. I'm still not sure if I want to go there, so to speak. Indeed, i think i'll wait until I get the replacement deck I have on order, and maybe do some kind of new deck interview to see what's up.
REGARDS/jenessa
