this house of cards

I'm spending way too much time with these cards and i'm re-learning playing cards. The meanings are different than what I know of playing cards. I like learning lenormond, but reading with a regular deck. I'll never be without cards wherever I go.

I've learned to read them in the houses, much like my old deck of LUCK cards. I use two decks for this as i did with the old cards. Again, the meanings are different. In that deck, house was Ace of hearts.

I've learned to knight and mirror and count them off by threes and pair them and set up new cards outside the perimeters of the nine-spread for the court cards.

I'm getting amazing results, practical direction. I'm recording all my exercises as well as my readings in a little blank book with Paris on the cover.

August 19 -- Stork, clover

Stork, clover -- lucky changes, good move

Business is picking up a bit since we bit down hard on those who were using us and disallowed the tricks they were playing. Today, we got an email on the garage -- a woman changed her mind at the last minute a few months ago and now it looks like we have a new buyer. Today is the last day for one man to make good on empty promises of the last three months. Change occurring there as we are putting the place up for sale.

Since the reading was for today, let's see what else may come in the way of lucky changes or prosperous changes.

the trail of the cards

August 9, 2014:

mice, dog, child
woman, house, stork
sun, heart, scythe




Will business improve?

Here is house -- we make our living with houses, buying them old and decrepit and fixing them up or flipping them to those who want to do so. In some cases, we have fixed and rented them, but that business is not great, with only minimal success as we've found few good renters.

House is the center card. It is my natural tendency to want that card to be the center of the reading. It is the first card I drew and I laid it in the center. Next came the cards above and below the center card:

dog, heart (as concerns house): A house we care about, where we have friends --

Woman, house, stork -- Here, we are talking of traveling and this house. Woman signifies home owner. (Man could have done as well).

Our loyalty (dog) to a home may be influencing us to fritter away time and money on one problem after another -- there may be hidden problems, one thing after another breaks down. (as in the home in which we are living now -- or possibly the one we are about to inspect). A friend's child may have an interest in one of the houses.

mouse/house/scythe -- You may want to cut your losses and give someone else, who may have more resources, the opportunity to make a profit from an investment on one of the houses that needs more than you can give.

child, house, sun -- You may find that a child of the previous owner is interested in the house. Check this when it comes to the house that is up next on your work schedule.

mice, child, scythe, sun -- compare this to the cards yesterday, which also included mice, child and scythe. These are the perimeter cards. A lot of minor problems that fritter away time and money, the child (of a friend), clearing away what is not needed, good results and recovery.

Looking to the very next project that we have lined up. Two are simultaneous. We have this house where we live now. We made minor repairs and have others slated for the coming weeks. We are also traveling to assess and make repairs in a house we own and get it ready for possible sale. Since I asked about business, I believe the reading addresses the second. We will find there are many little things needing repair. The woman next door, a friend to the old owner may want to purchase the place for her daughter.

We have hired a fellow to go and cut the grass (scythe). There may actually be mice to deal with. Sometimes the cards are that direct.

The deck

I finally got my first deck: Mile Lenormand Cartomancy deck. I don't order things on-line all that much and it's not something you can buy locally. Even our trip to Asheville didn't produce a Lenormand deck, so I finally ordered this one. My first deck. It won't be my last.

The cards:

Rider, snake, fish
book, scythe, child
tower, boquet, mice

A dangerous secret involving a child ?

Here is the reason I should ask the question, not just say: "What's up."  "What's up?" is good with Tarot which tells you the matrix, the energies afloat, gives advice about intention and attitude as well as practical tips about possible actions to take.  All that, I'm sure, can be found with Lenormand, as well, but the question must be asked.

Another reading I did this morning suggests being vigilant in a new venture, (done with Tarot cards -- in a "what's up" reading), so I take it this addresses the same situation. In which case, I would read the foundation sentence: Danger in things you don't yet know and must learn about the new venture you are birthing.

I see in the rest of the reading, indication of the same. We have Rider or Journey or what these cards call "Cavalier", and we have business in the card: Fish. Mice, frittering things away and nibbling at resources that are best spent making long-lasting changes. (We are, indeed, frittering away resources with a visiting grandaughter who likes to eat out and buy bling).

Going back to the central card of trouble, we see trouble coming from the past, as well. We've already suffered loss and are not out of danger yet, but (with diligence), we may yet have a harvest of good fortune.

Off the cuff:  I think that as we travel north to assess a house we purchased and decide what to do with it, we will discover there has been damage or theft there. We purchased it in February, but other things arose that needed immediate attention -- and yes, we were, at time, frivolous with both time and money.  Now, we need to keep an eye out to mitigate the troubles and see that we reach a good harvest.

Not so bad for my first reading with the new deck.

heart, clouds, coffin

Jack of hearts, King of spades, 9 of diamonds

Ominous.  The experts tell me that pairing heart and clouds means there is a dishonest relationship. I would say confusion about a relationship. Isn't there always? Not me and Honey, though. We've figured ours out, pretty much in these many years since 1976 when we first say "I do" and then did.

But other relationships -- with friends, community, are ever in flux. Who likes us, who decided no to. Who is gossiping and who listening?  We've been together with people before and going along, doing fine, only to find we weren't so fine, after all. As my grandaughter said recently, "I don't know who to trust."

a year ago, we got knocked pretty hard -- but that can't happen again. Haven't given anyone that kind of power since. Nowdays, it makes me smile to watch the wheels turn as someone decides: for? against?  Are they good enough?

It looks like some cloudy relationship is about to end.  I don't know in what direction. Or how it hardly matters.

Cross, Mountain, Child

Gah!  So incredibly not true.  I'm such a baby at these new cards, I am, of course, turning to the experts to tell me what is being said.

Today I got Cross, Mountain, and Child as the outcome card. Cross is the subject, mountain the adjective.

The question simmering in the back of my mind these last several weeks is "where in the hell is my devotional focus?"  I can go by rote, but I'm not feeling it. I'm looking at these books I've collected so long and thinking... what is this? These people don't know any more than I know -- they're making shit up.  Well, a few of them I still look to with deference -- the big guys, Dion Fortune and Doreen Valiente -- those guys. But the dozens of pagan cookbooks I've got on my shelf with rituals and rhymes. They are beginning to irk me. I have loved these for a long time. But now, I'm wanting to send them on to whoever should need them, except I expect no one needs them. Things have shifted. Not only for me, I think. I think we've grown up and we don't need Reclaiming giving us rhymes or Silver giving us spells.

I recently fell head over heels for Arthurian legend. I mean, baby, I FEEL it. But it's not a religion is it?  Anyway, it was a distraction and I think it was to keep my mind busy a bit with other matters while something took shape. As one book of Merlin said, I  need to know which God is calling me.

May I digress and say, Frigga and Forsetti are my Goddess and God. Or have been. Lately, it's been more about the Ancestors than anyone else.

But the wheel is in spin.

It's THIS the cards was addressing. Lenormand experts tell me differently. But I know what I know. And I'm not into experts at this time.

What it is telling me and reassuring me with -- "you have built this devotion over many years, and it is taking a new turn, but this does not discard what has been built, it only takes it in new directions. Allow...."

on this story I am writing

Fox, ring, path
9 of spades, Ace of Spades, Queen of diamonds.