Daily draw for today, a transparent plant again

well I had such fun yesterday I decided to draw another three TT cards and play with the image of that and the DPO.

So, what do I need to know?

Gift - Queen of Swords
I've had a really nice day to put some thought into some of my intutive stuff, and intuitive stuff into my thoughts and 'book' learning. I had such fun this morning playing with the Elemental herbs of Fire, and really got into it. I moan to myself that I need to learn more about plants and then lots of stuff flows once I start typing.

As, there was an opportunity that open to me yesterday that I need to spend some time on, but my intuition doesnt want to do that today, so Im listening. It might change its mind in the middle of the night (as so happens!).

Also, I think she reflects that sort of 'tough love' aspect that I had to struggle with this morning. We have mice and last night I managed to capture 2 rather humanely. However they either got back in or we have a bigger problem than we anticipated, but I then gave in and had to set down the traps and I found 2 more dead mice in the traps this morning. Now, how druidy ethical is that? BUT, they carry disease, and if we have a big problem we are just circling the mice round and about. So this morning i was a brave girl, warrior womanesque and respectively picked them out the traps, and put them in a hedgerow for some other creatures dinner. Cycle of life.. detached and cruel? Yes I am be, but Im protected my family, my dog and my tarot decks in my room! Gotta bring the 'swords' out when it comes to saving the decks LOL.

Challenge - 8 of pentacles
Trying to find time for everything? LOL to integrate it all and getting everything to harvest at the same time. I have lots of continuing studies but I dont feel overwhelmed by it at all like some people might do. Its like Ive got carrots, potatoes and parsnips in the same field growing.
But I do like to make everything FIT into a box. The shape of the pentacles remind me of the Kabbalah.. maybe its challenging me to fit THAT in with everything else all in one day.
Crazy TT! But I like it!

Goal - King of Wands
Interesting how we have air/water and now fire/fire the reading. Along with the pentacle we have a very balanced set of cards for the day! Intriguing.
So, I dont think the King is reflecting anyone in my particular day today.. so it must just be a card to reflect my happy, relaxed, inspired and confident aspect of me :) OH ive just had a thought about who he could be, but I dont want to say, hehehe OK TT Ive got a hint, I might have to change my plan of action to weave what you think will be good for me today :D
Sorry to sound mysterious, but hehe.

Today I decided to pull the cards together in a filmstrip, but I'll scan them as a composite as well as you can see how a layout might bring a different interpretation.

My blessed DPO card of the days is Comfrey, and the first thought I had when I saw it was my friend wanting the dead mouse bones to add to her collection of DEAD THINGS!! Bloody ovates eh? ;) Theres an essence of doing whats necessary with Comfrey, like to fix broken bones you have to cause more pain to get the brake to align properly so the bone fuses in the right place.
Hmmmm heres an idea in the reversed bit of comfrey it talks about something interesting "To live happily and effectively in the world we need to somehow tread the path if both surrending to something greater than ourselves.... [whilst] sensing ourselves as unique, seperate and responsible individuals."
Now is that the DPO telling me to get a life?! LOL But Im so inspired and loving all my current 'workings' plus its the last proper day of my holidays. Tomorrow I will be in my revelry watching /shouting at the Rugby :P

So heres looking at the TT on its own as a filmstrip

Now see, its like the 8 of pents is nestling in between the two.. that the Gift and the Goal are all part of the Challenge. Although the figures are facing away from eachother, theres a sense of working together, like they have 'got my back' as im busy doing the 8 of pents thang..

Now the composite image, which I didnt feel drawn to day looks like this...

Now that to me says the same sort of thing as the filmstrip, but its really clogged up and busy and it could almost show that the Queen and King are actually overwhelming the worker in the 8 of pents. And that isnt how I feel at all.
Also, comparing the filmstrip to the composite, and theres a very different flow of energy. In the filmstrip its like the 8 of pents is in the protective energy, in the womb ready to be born, the fusion of ideas and action into something physical and productive.
Whilst the Composite looks like its trapped, stuck inbetween the two, like a prisoner... and not going in the right direction at all.

Hmm pondering..

So what happens when we add the filmstrip and Comfrey together...

how fab is that! That the comfrey plant seems to be like the 8 of pentacles, that the fusion of the Queen of Swords and the King of Swords will happen.Now that is funky!
What really stands out for me in this, is a fusion of Above and Below, of intellect and the mind and deep instinct and energy, of the Queens upward sword, ready to fight and the Kings Wand that he uses casually, but you know his weapon isnt to be sneered at ;) (Too much beltane energy LOL)
Theres a Sacred Marriage type feeling looking at it like this.

Ive been having a few God and Goddess type encounters recently, and looking at this I can see that Goddess and God energy supporting, nurturing, and then Comfrey showing that Im fixing something that was lot 'fractured' and needing to be put right. It means my brain fries at the moment but there is a feeling of union and unity that is flowing
I did an overlay of the composite and Comfrey, but it looks crap, in comparison to that wee piccy there.

And to think I'll get the TO in on the act as well soon!

Squeeeeee

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 :)