New Moon Readings
Jan. 19th, 2018 01:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wyld_dandelyonI'm going to try something different this time around. ( Being a New Moon, it should be a good time to experiment.)
I have a Tarot post due at my Patreon, but between the work I'm doing to try to get better elected officials into office, some totally unnecessary interpersonal drama, and my head full of the work in progress, I open a blank page to write about Tarot and it stays blank.. I'm also getting ready to perform at the 19th Street Coffeehouse in their Midwinter Talent Contest on Saturday, I've got a Writer's Group meeting on Sunday, and a sick cat who needs extra care in his old age. So, I've lots of non-Tarot things cluttering my brain, and I'm finding that I don't seem to have any handy topic-hooks handy for a proper reasonable-sized post. (I know there's lots of possible hooks, they're just evading me.)
So, instead of free readings, I propose the following:
- Anyone who poses at least one question/topic about Tarot, writing, music, art, or some other creative thing I do can request a card.
- If you don't want a card, you can still ask a question or suggest a topic (or more than one), and receive my thanks for your kindness.
- All of my Patrons over on Patreon can ask for a card, and people who are Patrons specifically for my Tarot work get two. Just remind me. Please feel free to ask a question or suggest a topic if you want, but it's not required of patrons.
- Anyone who tips can also get a card whether or not they pose a question or topic hook. The guitar case below is my personal PayPal link, featuring my own artwork, which still inspires me even though it isn't Tarot-related.
- Patrons, people who have tipped, and people who have signal boosted (for this draw or for my Patreon) can ask a clarifying question after I do their reading, and I will draw another card for you.
- I am continuing to offer a five-card reading for $25, or if you want a larger reading we can discuss costs.
About the readings,
You may ask about real life or a creative project, even for a character you play in a game. I can draw a card for you to meditate on, to represent the Guide you need right now, or to get you unstuck. I can draw a card for your protagonist or villain, or can draw a card or cards for you to use as writing or art prompts, and I can modify a more-traditional five-card spread into a prompt for a story focusing on plot or characters or a little of both. Let me know if you have any particular request.
You can pick from my decks, including the Brian Froud's Faeries Oracle, the Daughters of the Moon Tarot (one of the round decks), or the Shapeshifter Tarot. If you want a Guide to companion you in the new year or the holidays, the Susan Seddon Boulet or Fairies Oracle both work well. If you don't pick a deck, I might pick from any of the decks available to me (I have a whole shelf of them).
I understand all too well that when people don't have cash or spoons that is generally when they most need inspiration. Don't be afraid to ask for a card if you can't tip--just let me know some topic or question you'd like me to post about.
If you're not a Patron, and I use your question for a patrons-only post, I will privately share that post with you as a thank-you. If I use it for a public post, I'll reply with the link.
I will reply to all requests, though with the contest and writers group this weekend, there may be a little delay, depending on when I see your post.
Thank you, and Blessed Be.
Status: Open! I plan to leave this post open through Sunday night.
As always, while I work hard to offer insight and inspiration, all I can legally promise is entertainment. See my "Dandelyon's Readings" page if you have questions.
NowNowNow - Spirit Dancer's Conundrum
Date: 2018-01-20 05:10 am (UTC)So I look around in wonder at the neat easels and bins of paints and pencils, at the set of drafting tools and the tall stack of kneaded erasers. As I look, I realize that this really isn't my space at all--there's a whole section for pastels, and another for glitter, and the illusion of walls is created by a delicate webbing which holds paintings and a calendar and reference pictures up all around us.
There, in the center, is the Spirit Dancer. She is whirling from one project to another, and it's beautiful whirling, to be sure, but I really can't figure out how she can focus on all ten or twelve or thirteen of them at the same time.
"Oh, hi!" She whirls past us, dusting us with glitter. I end up with a blue nose-tip until she whirls back again. "Oh, sorry, that goes over there!" She scooped most of it off my nose and darted across the room to add it to a painting. The glitter looks good there, but my nose now has abstract streaks of shiny blue.
She smiles at you. "I have so many paintings to do--look at all those canvasses I want to fill!" Behind one of the gossamer walls is quite a stack of canvasses in different sizes and dimensions. "I thought I'd bring you both here instead of going to visit, though it's ever so long since I visited anyone." Then she brightened. "But you're here now! Isn't it wonderful?"
And then she was off again, scattering paint and glitter across a dozen different canvasses.
A tall, thin faery walks into the studio, in between two drifts of gossamer. "Darling, sweetie--you're doing it again. If you don't focus on one or two or three things, at least long enough to get them done and learn something in the process, they'll all look like this poor human's nose--accidental and incomplete."
The spirit dancer pours a blend of colors onto a horizontal canvass and wiggles it around, letting the paint drip over the edges onto the flowering mosses below. A host of pastel frogs hop into the area and contain the mess, though one of them just sits under the flow of paint until it is quite covered, smiling as if it's getting the best extreme makeover ever. "Oh, Pook, I know. But I have so many great ideas--how can I possibly choose between them?"
"I know it seems like you can't work on all of them at once, but there's a paradox, a mystery here. All these things are connected, but they're not all equally easy. Some of them can help you learn to do the others better or faster, right? Like doing finger exercises before trying to play Bach."
She frowned. "So I should do this little painting before that big one?"
"Oh, it's not as straightforward as that. But look--if you are aiming to end up on the pinnacle of a figurative mountain, and there's lots of spots to visit along the way, well, you can make a map of sorts. Which things are you most ready to do? Which things are necessary or helpful precursors to other goals? Are there any things that won't move you toward that big goal, and that you don't need for other reasons? I mean, heading out to buy dinner might not be one of the milestones along your way, but if you don't eat, you'll collapse and get nothing done, right?"
"Oh."
"Am I right or am I right?"
"I--I'm hungry!" The Spirit Dancer says it softly, surprised. "Maybe I should have come to visit you after all. You always offer us food, when we visit, and food would be really great about now."
The Pook, on the other hand, is smiling at you. "Let the confusion go, and think about all of your goals. You have enough information to make a sensible plan, one where achieving one goal helps with the ones further down the road." She takes out some fine dust, and scatters it around us--all four of us, and the art studio fades from our vision. "It's a paradox, but all these goals are really one goal, just as all your moments are really one life. Ah, here we are."
We are in my kitchen, and I do, indeed offer food, which both the Spirit Dancer and The Pook accept with delight. I offer you food too, so we can continue the conversation as long as you want, but if you need to head off and take a walk in the peace and silence of a snow-covered garden to think through your goals and make a grand plan, we will understand.
Re: NowNowNow - Spirit Dancer's Conundrum
Date: 2018-01-20 05:39 am (UTC)Thank you.