New Moon Reading

Using Eowyn's new moon spread again, because it will be interesting to see the difference a turn of a lunar wheel brings to life!


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1.- What lays on your dark depths. What is unseen. What we stumble against in the dark nights. Burdock
This being a card I dont draw very often I have to think about its symbolism to me..
Hmmm I did wonder if I was going to be 'alone' on my path for a while, but it seems I keep being drawn to attachments. People keep reminding me that I am loved, want to spend time and sacred time with me. Its fabulous! When you think your all alone in the wood you realise all the attachments you have, the people that love you no matter where you float off to in life.
And its so easy to forget that. Of course its imporant to keep an eye on who we have in our lives, unnecessary and draining attachments are not good.. but love is love!

2.- What will begin to show, to arise. The Banes
The full moon in this card really says to me that this will happen close to the moon. Yet I admit I am stumped on this card and this reading. From Burdock which was so positive, Banes seem somewhat negative. Ive drawn a clarifier and got Fern so this is saying its something out of the blue, its a shock to the system... a surprise...
I dont tend to like surprises LOL.

3.- What will illuminate the dark path. The key in the night.Flax
Well, whatever the unexpected will be, it will be something that can be worked to create something of beauty, like the humble flaxplant that becomes linen, which becomes the shirt on your back etc. Hmm ok beauty is not the word but beauty in its simplicity, its earthiness.

Its like the attachments in Burdock are reflected in the Flax as a web of love, of deep connections. Ones that arent easy to break. I have these in my life but to think I will be blessed with more in life is wonderous!

0.- Yourself. Shadow card, from the base of the deck.Comfrey,Rx Was surprised to see it Reversed because I dont usually have reversed cards in the pack. In the book it mentions about being loved yet not consumed in love, of finding my-self, in all the interconnectedness.

With going back to school today I have wondered if I will have all the time for all the things I want to do this year. Camps, meet ups with friends etc, tarot work, spiritual work etc. So I feel that sometimes its about balance, of being bloody elusive and not commiting completely to one or two things or ideas to make room for the things that are steadfast in my life.

Hmmmm... ya know, sometimes these plants just dont 'give' a lot in readings.

I think Im having a realisation here with this humble deck that my PDR experience with it may be coming to a close... wow, is this my attachment? My blot out of the blue? My connection and that to love something sometimes you need to give it freedom...

Wow - I am going to end my DPO PDR. It has been a very deeply healing process, a great deck of reflection, but ya know, I think its time to move on, and its a process that has been happening although I didnt want to admit it aloud, as I have been playing more with other decks like the DM and the TT.
But I love this deck. I love the healing, the insight and power it has! Although its not my primary deck, I will keep using it when I need to draw on its magic in my life. And I'll keep doing my Elemental herbs when I feel drawn to.


Wow.. Stir the cauldron of the Goddess in her Darkness and awen spits out... inspiration that changes and brings chaos and in that awareness. Eyes WIDE open.

I feel sad.. but its not farewell, merely adeiu.

Monday's Daily Cards

OK, Monday morning before work I pulled three cards..

Borage, Woad and Mistletoe Reversed
The base card of the pack was Juniper

At half 6 in the morning I thought 'what the hell?' and thought nothing of it. Today I can reflect on those cards with something really interesting, which sort of follows on from the reading I did on Sunday.

Borage I feel relates to needing personal courage to deal with stuff on the inside. Lore comes to mind about people putting borage in their shoes to be safe and couragous on a journey, or for warriors to drink borage tea before going off into battle. It deals with our own inner wobble, that crisis of confidence, that insecurity, that voice that keeps nagging at us and stills it. It fills us not with outward artificial energy, but with our own vitality of who and what we are. Its so easy to forget!
I got so caught up in my bubble yesterday I did self implode (see previous posting if your that nosey!). I needed to stop hiding and deal with why and what I was upset and that had knocked my energy off centre. Not easy but had to be done. For me, true courage is me crying. Im rubbish at it, I feel like I shout at myself whilst I cry because Im meant to be brave and strong and keep it all in - well NO. Infact letting it out was far braver, far more couragous. I feel Borage did give me a bit of help.

Woad is then the next step. Once you realise you have an issue, you've confronted it in your head, you need to DEAL WITH IT. So Woad was that outward I need to speak to people, stand up for my truth and hear their truth and tell them what I think of them.
Not easy.... and very odd for me to do that in a place of owning and being open about my emotions, rather than just masking them behind anger and using the anger to bury my emotions.
So yeah, that was my 'body paint' to contact what had upset me and let them know, talk about it, discuss it and see what occurs.

Mistletoe Reversed shows that sometimes, what you think was one harvested tree, still has unexpectd fruit to grow. I thought I had process things and come to terms with stuff - but then a new stage in that process begins to unfold. First you have the wobble, then the processing, then the clarity :)
So yeah, rather than the very dire 'oh know whats going to be stripped and pulled out of my life now by Ceridwen's scythe' thought on monday morning, has now turned into something really postive that shows how I have stuff to learn still - and thats groovy!

The Juniper to me highlights that cleansing. I needed that emotional 'wash out' to just help with the processing. I needed to cry, to tie up loose ends and feel whole again. And I do feel Im on that way now.

I really do feel these plants are more than just an oracle.. they do offer their healing energies so much, as if their magic is helping you through your stuff! How awesome is that!