środa, 17 lipca 2013

What should I do to feel comfortable?

Because of the previous reading I asked the cards, what I should do to feel comfortable around my husband's family when I'm staying at their place. There is a language barrier.
1. What should I do? Page of Pentacles
2. What should I avoid? II The High Priestess

I should try to accept everything with openness and humour. I should avoid trying to be an ideal of wisdom, I should accept my being not able to communicate perfectly.

Going abroad

We're going for a week to my husband's family, to attend his cousin's wedding. I pulled the cards to ask how our trip will go.
1. Travel there. IX The Hermit
2. First place where we stay (family on his father's side). Page of Swords
3. The wedding. 8 of Pentacles (Rx)
4. The second place we stay (family on his mother's side). Page of Wands
5. Travel back. 5 of Cups

It's possible that there will be a delay on our travel there. At the first place I won't be very relaxed, because I don't speak their language, I will feel a bit off. The wedding will be a party of plenty, although probably wearisome to the body (I expect it to last the whole night till morning). At the second place I won't be allowed to do anything myself, because I'm a guest. Maybe the page also means my husband's uncle's blond children. On our way back we might feel new emotions, maybe discover something?

poniedziałek, 15 lipca 2013

Spirit of the Day - III The Empress

This time I pulled III The Empress.
The levels were:
physical level - I supposed I will have more energy than the day before and thus I will be more active. I have resumed my dancing training today.
creative level - I will create. It turned out I spontanously baked a redcurrant cake!
spiritual level - probably I will be less pensive today. I actively worked on my notes about tarot.

Spirit of the Day - XII The Hanged Man



It's basically a card of the day exercise, but with "levels" added. I found it in "The Way of Tarot".
I pulled a card yesterday (Majors only), it was XII The Hanged Man.
Physical level - a lazy Sunday, not doing much.
Spiritual level - doing a lot of introspective tarot readings.
Interpersonal level - not really meeting anyone.
Seems it fits :)

niedziela, 7 lipca 2013

I've made a Fool for myself

I'm really enjoying "The Way of Tarot" by A. Jodorowsky and M. Costa. I expected it to be harder to read, but when I started, I couldn't stop! It's very interesting, although I do not agree with every line written there - but again, tarot is a very personal thing. And this book made me appreciate Tarot de Marseille pictures more... I used to see them as ugly, but now I understand their sublime beauty. Also, the cards restored by Caimon and Jodorowsky are marvelous in my opinion. Maybe one day I'll buy them... I have a Fournier edition of TdM and in comparison it looks so stripped of details! And the lines are not as clean as those needle-sharp lines from Caimon-Jodorowsky cards.
When I read the "monologue of The Fool", I felt that the essence of this card is what I'm lacking right now.
"Do not be afraid of freeing the instinct, no matter how primitive. Going beyond the rational does not mean denying the mental force: be open to the poetry of intuition, to flashes of telepathy, to voices that do not belong to you, to words that come to you from another dimension...".

Although I'm reading tarot, although I'm trying to be open, the control of the intellect is very strong in me. So - on an impulse - I decided to redraw the card "Le Mat".
In "The Way of Tarot" there are reproductions of all the Major Arcana in large scale. So first I took tracing paper and traced the image by pencil. Then I turned it to its back to trace it from behind - so I could transfer it to a piece of paper. Of course I made a mistake and transferred the mirrored image instead, then the right way. But the lines were not very visible anymore. Thus I had to draw it very carefully...

Then I painted the image with watercolours, using the colour pattern from Caimon-Jodorowsky edition and with a nib and ink I drew the outlines.






Almost finished:


The result. All in all I drew every line FOUR times!