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 :)
