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Empowerment Cartomancy Reading

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Empowerment Reading with the Bo-Hwa Playing Cards

How can I be more empowered in my:

Thoughts? – Eight of Clubs – Don’t sit still for so long. Instead act. There is too much time spent thinking and not enough time spent doing.  This causes you to have doubts and stall out, when you could be moving forward.

Words? – Ace of Diamonds -Speak up instead of remaining silent. Stop thinking that people are looking at you negatively when you open up and speak your mind. Don’t worry about that so much, as what you have to say is new to most and more well said than you think.

Deeds? – Six of Spades – Remember that it’s you who chooses when to engage, or when to walk away.

And then:

What will be the outcome if I take this advice?

A stronger sense of (the cat’s eyes are closed) emotional harmony (Six of Hearts) and physical well-being (Six of Diamonds) surrounding a well grounded nurturing of self (Queen of Diamonds, with emphasis on the box in the imagery).

By not indulging in the things that poison your roots and cause imbalance, you allow yourself to build upon a stronger and more solid foundation. A foundation that will allow you to more easily make the choices that are best for you, rather than allowing other’s judgements and influences effect your process.

DECK USED: BO-HWA PLAYING CARDS

Cleaning House Cartomancy Reading

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Essential Playing Cards Lavender Edition

What must be cleared out to make room for this coming cycle?

Queen of Diamonds and Four of Hearts – Be ruthless in purging yourself of your current draw toward stagnancy. That draw is your depression talking, and it doesn’t need any encouragement or given a place where it’s allowed to grow and flourish unchecked.

What would benefit from a pause to let the dust settle?

Ace of Diamonds and Ten of Clubs – Don’t add any new brilliant ideas right now, you already have enough on your plate. Just concentrate on what is before you instead.

What opportunities can grow in the stillness?

King of Hearts and Six of Clubs – “Happy wife, happy life.” No, the phrase does not entirely fit, but that’s exactly what we have here. These cards indicate that the opportunity given is more time with Gideon, and thus more harmony in your life over all.

When new energy arrives, how can I direct it for greatest effect?

Ten of Diamonds and Three of Clubs – Go for the gold. You want these projects on your plate done. Times of stillness allow you to plan, so that when new energy comes in you can bolt off the starting block full speed ahead with your target in focus.

How can I prepare for the next cycle when it’s time?

Four of Clubs and Six of Hearts – Enjoy the rest and time in harmony with others. Don’t worry about what’s coming, just live in the moment and let it come at its own pace.

DECK USED: ESSENTIAL PLAYING CARDS LAVENDER EDITION

Show and Tell – Heritage and Inheritance

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The Topic for the Week of 12/9 from the Pagan Perspective YouTube channel is not a question at all, but rather, it is an encouragement to “Show and Tell”.

I thought for this I would like to show what my mother gave to me when I went to visit her over the week of Thanksgiving.   She really took me by surprise and I was hugely honored to be given the gift that she gave to me while  I was there.

The box of cards pictured in this post are my great-great-grandmother’s divination cards.  Or, rather, the last set of divination cards she owned before she passed away.  In her lifetime, she had gone through a number of decks, but if I understand correctly, she always burned them when they were replaced by a new set.   This set was the set that she used in the decade or so before she passed.

Interestingly enough, there is a spell of some kind cast on this deck.   I could feel the energy of it when I held the box in my hands, and the shift of that magic in my sliding open of the box (which works like a drawer) and found the two cards concealed in the bottom.

I asked my mother what she knew about it, but she didn’t know anything.  She has never even opened the box. This means that my sense of that energy was correct and those cards slid underneath the box’s “drawer” are indeed a part of the spell cast upon them.

While going through the drawer where these cards were tucked away, my mother came across an old deck of the Gypsy Witch Fortune Cards.

Interestingly, she thought this deck was mine, as it was the first deck I was ever given.   But, I have my deck already.  And L has hers as well.   This mystery deck was tucked deep in the back of the drawer, under the box of my great-great-grandmother’s cards, and also contained a small lock of hair.    These were given to me as well.

I have brought both of them home with me and carefully wrapped them up (boxes and all) in a silk scarf that used to belong to my grandmother.  At the moment, that bundle is sitting on my altar in place of the hand mirror I had been using as a representation of my ancestors.   I feel extremely honored to have been given these gifts and I cherish them more than I can possibly express.