DPO meets the Deviant Moon, when my significant others meet

Having a wee moment wondering about this PDR business and the DPO. I feel that Im missing working with Tarot so much for my own reflections. I know the beauty of the PDR is that we can play with other decks, but, as the DPO is an oracle its just not tarot - even though its wonderful.

So... today I thought Id mix it up a bit. I want to know more about woad, about why it keeps coming up, what am I missing about this card?
Heres the 2 sides of woad.. the plant and the dye, the yellow that becomes the blue, the thought the becomes creativity, inspiration and Awen. I think these two pics are really powerful of what Woads energies are..


And I figured I could use the Deviant Moon to help me do that. DPO and Tarot fix all in one :P Using a Recurring card spread

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Card 1 - the recurring card, in my case Woad
Yes I see the familiar face of the boar in the rock, the spear head, the ivy and holly, and the curl of a rams horm in the tree.
And of course the plant itself - that strong energy leading to so many things...
I know all this!! But I feel Im missing something, something more.
Last night whilst I was at a friends house I caught a glimpse of wild boar on the tv, and their CUTE tiny little piglets. Now, I dont really do 'cute' as such, but with their stripes I couldnt help it! But I wouldnt want to get caught in the line of fire of a wild boar.
Actually, maybe thats what people think of me? Small, cute sezo with a dark twist? Oh, Ive never thought of that before!

Now its time for the Deviant Moon to play (oh boy Im excited!).
As Im shuffling I can feel this world is a bit bemused by all this. 'I mean,' says the DM, ' plants are plants, they dont talk, they dont walk, they dont DO anything. Plus its dark in our realm, plants look like shadows, and not really interesting, until the moon shines on them and they sparkle in the frost. But they are ONLY plants', I think they will learn :D

Card 2 - what's underneath, the root cause - Sun
Oooh thats nice to see! Im doing a lot of work to bring out my potential, and so this is what Woad is about. The process isnt just one of kicking and screaming, but its like a mindset that is always open and ready for battle. Like old warriors that keep up with their training even in peacetime.
The Sun in the DM is about unity also, so Woad is highlighting how all my goings on are joined, steamlined and forming one path, one road :D

Card 3 and 4 - the past influences or fading energies - Queen of Cups and The World
The queen I think reflects how I try to keep so many plates spinning because I love them all so dearly. And sometimes, it can feel disjointed. Like now I feel the DPO and Tarot are two different things, yet with Woad I've worked a way of unity and bringing them into something new! Sometimes I do feel its an either/or situation, like if I start one idea I am 'betraying' the other (yes how daft is that!). I care so much for all that I have in my life, I love to have it yet loathed to put it to one side if I need to. And so I sit, reflect like the Queen does, worrying about the drop that is to be spilt and not the ship that is crashing into the rocks. I focus too much on the detail and not on where the undercurrents want me to go.
The World is showing that I'm processing this, that Im coming to an understanding of absorbing and doing, feeling and being that is part of it. I can see it all as part of me, of what I do, and not just one or another. No matter the label I give myself I am me that weaves all this together, and its all good. My opposing beasts of doubt and inaction have been tamed (mostly!) and I can now just go with my flow.

Card 5 - what the person knows or wants with regard to the card's issues - 4 of Swords
The figure looks like an angel, like a fairy thats been squished into the ground. But shes not, shes sleeping, shes in that process of fairy rebirth and will be even more beautiful than before.
And I think this is the really long term part of woad. Of forging things together, of making a mindset that is open and 'can do' about it all so that there will be a tiny yet significant change of mindset, of perspective.
When I first drew this card I thought I would need to drop something, or I will do something to force me to stop and I thought NO! I like this momentum, i love this bustling energy all around me.
So I drew another card to reflect what I now want, after looking at Woad some more, and drew the 9 of cups who says in a dodgy foreign Genie type accent Ah I have you now little one! You asked and wished and now I have you! Your wish is my command! The momentum will not stop, it will carry on, it will grow and burst like stars!
Ta Dm - I hope I wont regret that wish lol.

Cards 6 and 7 - what's to come or what will flow from it - 5 of Wands and 9 of Swords
AH CRAP I HAVE SO MUCH GOING ON IN MY LIFE, IN MY HEAD, IN MY BEING! HOW THE F*** AM I GOING TO FIT IT ALL IN? WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF? WHAT SHIFTS AND FAN SPREADING 'FUN' WILL IT BRING?
Those are the DMs words on it exactly. But then the Sun comes out and says.. hey, its all good, its for a reason, you love it, its part of you. Of who you are... now stop worrying and just dance and let it flow!

When I stop and think, I panic, I freeze, I doubt and that is not what Woad is about. It says now is the time to just focus and do - it works, dont work out how or why, just accept and learn.

Dancing Bear did a DPO reading for me, and I think her Chamomile/Bramble advice is really imporant here too. To pick the fruits you have to go through the thorns, yet sometimes you need to sit back and drink some tea to work out how to do it, with a plan :D

DM base card for this was the King of Wands Oh yeah , he looks like he needs woading up, the 'just do it' man of the deck, the seducer of the pack to make you do it and love every second of it, even the odd twinge of guilt, because you've done something thats made you alive. How many people are alive with their eyes wide open?

Too true Sire!

And because its the first day of my holiday, and I want to, heres a piccy of the reading :)

A night-time reflection - Agrimony

Ive had a BUSY day, but one of my own making. Being ill with flu meant I couldnt do a load of jobs that I had planned to do, and then kept putting off before I got too ill to even think about doing them. I suppose theres a lesson there, do things when you need to do them and not put them off in the first place LOL.

I've had a whale of a night this evening, a glass of wine (I know, most unusual for me to drink at home), funnies on the TV and my Deviant Moon. Yes, its siren's song was too much to resist and Ive spent a few hours doing quick back to back readings with it for people on AT. I've had such fun with this deck this evening. Its got a real wicked sense of humour, deliciously macabre and yet deeply endearing and loving. Its got the spirit of the graveside about it (and a lot of the samples used in the deck are from graveyards and old lunatic asylums) and will make you laugh with misery and cry with joy and all in between. I could wax lyrical about it all evening but I wont.

Im just glad that my DPO isnt the jealous type. Plants aren't like that, its too druidic a deck to get jealous and also, plants work on a totally different time frame. But after the highs and madness of the Deviant Moon, I knew I needed a card to just sit, pause, reflect and ground myself before thinking of bed time. So Im using my PDR for a reflection on the day, a reflection for a good sleep I hope!

Agrimony fell out the pack whilst I was shuffling. And I did what I normally do and put the card back in my shuffling pile. I dont 'do' fly aways or special meaning in a dropped card, its just bad shuffling IMO. However, tonight I couldnt carry on shuffling after I had put it in the pack, so I had to hunt for it. Now I feel better seeing it on my spread cloth.
So, in the essense of reflection and bringing energy down for sleepybys Im just going to read the book and agree/disagree with it. No deeply intuitive stuff tonight. Although I do know I've seen this plant in the wild inner Garden.



The Birch in the card is interesting too. Today ive been spring cleaning. I know on a dark moon, but Ive been banishing the dust bunnies under the bed, the old unloved books off the shelves and donating them to charity. Thats all darkmoony stuff! (justifying it to yourself, on your own blog, you are a loony, ok I'll shhh now).

Purification, liberation, dispelling sorrow or lethargy - all right! Today I really put the nails in the coffin of this flu. Sorted stuff in town, hoovering under the bed and everything. I really needed to do this during this moon. Chamomile being a cleansing, calming herb and I spent most of it too ill or busy to do the cleansing or calming bit, now I have and so I can :).
I like what the book mentions also about how it aids sleep! Well its even more interesting how I couldnt shuffle it back into the pack.

I even like the opening flowers on the card, those bright yellow stars just starting to come into bloom,energy awaking but not fully just yet. Im not back to being 100% after the flu, but after being so productive today I feel like Im 90% there.

Ive got a sense of wiping away with this card.. a gentle wipe to cleanse the negative, a soothing touch to send you to sleep, a peaceful sigh that puts the world behind you at the moment infront of you - either for ritual, or for sleeeeeeeep.

Blessed sleep.

Bon nuit!

ETA - I had the best nights sleep Ive had in a long time! I usually have disturbed sleep, waking up once or twice in the night, but last night I was asleep and dead to the world. Blissful :)

All is groovy

Had some fabulous next day! Got a letter in the post and its made me very excited about what lies ahead for me. Its one of those mystical magical things that will diffuse throughout all your life and bring you all sorts of groovy stuff !

And theres project X and even project Y possibly happening on the horizon :D

BUT tonight is a time to really appreciate the full moon in all its glory. After finishing my shift yesterday, having a shower, having something to eat and just settling back to reality, I couldnt do what I had planned. But I did have a good look at the moon as mars chased it around the place. Reminds me of those Beltaine ritual plays of the God chasing and trying to capture the Goddess, only it was when the Goddess wanted to be captured that they met. hehe.. Mars really did try to have the moon :P

So.. tonights plan is to get down and magical and cleanse my bag and cloth that Sulis made me! Hopefully I'll get time to do some sort of reading with it.

I do have a confession though - my Deviant Moon came today and I am in total love. Its so 'bonkers' and twisted and I really love it, especially with its one of a kind wrappers :D I feel TORN.

I guess this is why we have a primary reading deck and not just a one deck wonder! But this is good, it means I get time to re-evaluate the experiment and see where I want to go with the DPO and this blog.

And coz I cant write here without having a quick shuffle, my thoughts at the moment point to Fern.
Im really drawn to the edge of the waterfall, there is that placid pool amongst the ferns on the top of the hill/mountain, and suddenly the water falls down the hillside. Its like that long trek on the rollarcoaster, straining to reach the top. Theres a moment of peace, of utter stillness as your cart is balanced on the apex, and then woooooosh your down and up and looping the loop! Like the eerie calm before the storm because its charged with energy for what is to come.
Thats how I feel, happy yet charged for all the stuff thats about to happen or even not happen. But I know that what happens is meant to be and what falls at the wayside will be deadwood.