wyld_dandelyon | New Year Card Draw

Happy New Year everyone! In honor of the new year, I'm doing a card draw. One card draws from the following decks are free (though a tip is appreciated). You can ask for a reading from one of the other decks I use for a tip, and a tip also entitles you to a clarifying card if you want one. If you want a longer reading, send a direct message so we can agree on the type of reading and rate.

I've written before about why I do readings and some of the decks I use here, feel free to hop over and check me out. I'll wait.

Today, for free one card readings, you can pick from the Brian Frouid's Faeries Oracle, my combined Susan Seddon Boulet Animal Spirits and Goddesses cards, or a deck that's new to me, the Heart and Soul Angel Cards. You can ask a question, ask for a Guide, or just ask for a card.

You are welcome to ask about your creative endeavors as well as posing more traditional questions. This might be asking for a card or Guide for one of your own characters, advice about fixing a plot problem, getting past writer's block, or whatever it is that you need.

Please consider dropping something in the guitar case below. Readings take time and energy, and I am still paying off the house repairs the City ordered last summer. Signal boosts are also appreciated, and also earn you the right to ask for a clarifying card. If you are tipping, please include that in your reply here, so I'm not guessing when I sit down to do your reading.

I understand all too well that sometimes people don't have cash or spoons, and it is generally during those times when people most need inspiration! Don't be afraid to ask for a card if you can't tip.

Tips should be at least $1 (Paypal charges fees). Alternatively, you can tip in Torn World/EMG credits. If neither of these work for you, drop me a message and we'll work something out.

You can get a private reading if you tip; I'll send the reading to the e-mail you use for tipping or you can send a private message to make other arrangements.

I will reply to all requests. If it's important to you that I draw the card today, New Year's Day, please mention that. I'll do those first if necessary. If the number of requests nears my limits, I'll close this One Card Draw rather than risk leaving anyone without a response.

Thank you!

As always, these readings are for entertainment and inspiration only. See my "Dandelyon's Readings" page if you have questions.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I start to assure you that it's all right, we don't have to know each other, but suddenly he's here, wandering around, looking under things, finally picking up the computer mouse and sniffing it gravely with his very long nose. "It's a bit hard for me to make a prediction if this is the only mouse around. It has no fur! No whiskers! I can't even stare into its eyes! But still, it's connected. Everything's connected."

He strokes his beard and looks deep into your eyes. "But you know that. In fact, what you need to know is readily available to you, if you let yourself look at the details clearly. Don't let that Gloominous Doom critter steal all your energy or distract you from the beauty in the world." He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a handful of tiny, grey mice. "See? See how beautiful they are?" He sets them on the table where they start to play tag, and reaches into his pocket. He pulls out a slip of paper, which has been thoroughly chewed on. "Of course, it helps to pay attention to the right details, you know? It's a good thing this is just a copy. If I'd let them at the original, I'd have to write this all over again." He scoops the mice and the tattered poem back into his hand. "I don't expect that you need us, but if you do, you can call on me or the mice to help you sort out those fascinating details. We'll make a party of it, right kids?" He smiles, tucks the mice safely back into his pocket, and vanishes.

I'd have expected a Mycomancer to be someone who performs divination with mushrooms (and I'm allergic to mushrooms, and find them loathsome). Much to my delight, though, he turned out to be someone who performs divination with mice! I wonder if his mice are any relation to the "Aeslinn mice" (sentient, and able to talk and sing) in Seanan McGuire's Incryptid books?

His message of paying more attention to details is more relevant than I'd like it to be - but I'll accept it, and take it to heart as much as I can. His other message, of delighting in the small beauties that are all around us, if we'd only see them, is pretty much a description of the way I approach life. I may need to borrow some mice, though - how are they at organizing data structures? ;-)

Thank you! And thank Myk, and his mice!

I'm sure if it was Aeslinn mice, they'd have no trouble at all organizing data structures. However, they might be more trouble than they're worth.

Thank you for the tip--that was you, right?

Aeslinn mice would get too involved in turning my work into a religious occasion :-)

Little grey mice, however, are very good symbols for the kind of stuff I expect to be working with - small, independent, and seemingly chaotically disorganized... until you get to know them. (Yes, my icon is related, in a way.)

And, yes, I threw a virtual dollar into the virtual guitar case :-)

New Year Card Draw

Myk the Mycomancer (who happens to be card 42)

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