Ah, there's so much water symbolism in this reading! Water symbolizes emotions, which I know are a big focus of your writing. It also can symbolize both physical and metaphysical cleaning.
For your physical circumstances, I drew Reversal, reversed. I find it interesting that this card is all about one's inner landscape, and yet it shows up in the spot designated for the opposite. The book says the womon is suspended in time, undergoing inner metamorphosis. The image is of a woman hanging from a tree branch over water, with her fingertips and long hair in the water. Reversed, it could mean that the changes you need are being resisted or that you are not taking the time you need to listen to yourself and make the changes you need. Remember, rest is required. Meditation may be helpful, or even just reminding yourself that slow changes are often more lasting changes.
The next card in your reading is the previous card in the major arcana, Maat. The image is a seated woman holding an ankh in one hand and scales in the other. She is seated in front of a mandala, which is in front of the rising sun. Eyes smile in front of the sun, and the sun's rays radiate power, warmth and light. Maat is all about justice and fairness, about cause and effect, about accountability and karma. She also embodies the virtues of kindness, love, and cooperation.
The third card is the six of cups, subtitled Compassion. The image is six women on a beach, one prone and being tended to by the others. This is a deck that pictures women as the default human, so the fact that it's women here is probably not significant, but the fact that a person in need is being offered care by her companions is. The beach is rolling in, with a cup on each wave and a cup in the distressed woman's hand. The tool that is needed is, somewhat obviously, compassion.
The fourth card, which symbolizes the unexpected, is the Mother of Cups, Nammu. The image is a voluptuous mermaid, holding a cup which is tipped to allow water to flow outward, filling the oceans. She is surrounded by dolphins playing and a whale is breaching behind her. She is a pleasure loving, laughing goddess of the sea, who brings the fullness of emotions, love and laughter. I don't see what is unexpected about this in your writing, so perhaps the card is there to help you deal with the unexpected in your personal life, especially in dealings with things having to do with your own childhood or your dealings with children. Or perhaps it is the child within yourself that will give you the key to solving unexpected difficulties in writing or in life.
And finally, the heart of the matter is the witch. Dressed in a purple robe and standing in the forest under a crescent moon, the witch stirs her cauldron, holding her wand aloft in a blaze of light. Flames leap around the cauldron, which is filled with water, or perhaps something that just looks like water but is more magical. Her cat looks on, as does an owl in its nest in a tree, and there are mushrooms and other tiny worlds scattered under the trees. I think in this reading, this is you, the person you have chosen to be, a force of concentration, focus, and creativity. You may feel off-kilter from time to time, but you have your tools all at hand, and you are the heart of all the worlds you create and share.
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Creative, Emotional Magic
Date: 2022-01-07 01:50 am (UTC)For your physical circumstances, I drew Reversal, reversed. I find it interesting that this card is all about one's inner landscape, and yet it shows up in the spot designated for the opposite. The book says the womon is suspended in time, undergoing inner metamorphosis. The image is of a woman hanging from a tree branch over water, with her fingertips and long hair in the water. Reversed, it could mean that the changes you need are being resisted or that you are not taking the time you need to listen to yourself and make the changes you need. Remember, rest is required. Meditation may be helpful, or even just reminding yourself that slow changes are often more lasting changes.
The next card in your reading is the previous card in the major arcana, Maat. The image is a seated woman holding an ankh in one hand and scales in the other. She is seated in front of a mandala, which is in front of the rising sun. Eyes smile in front of the sun, and the sun's rays radiate power, warmth and light. Maat is all about justice and fairness, about cause and effect, about accountability and karma. She also embodies the virtues of kindness, love, and cooperation.
The third card is the six of cups, subtitled Compassion. The image is six women on a beach, one prone and being tended to by the others. This is a deck that pictures women as the default human, so the fact that it's women here is probably not significant, but the fact that a person in need is being offered care by her companions is. The beach is rolling in, with a cup on each wave and a cup in the distressed woman's hand. The tool that is needed is, somewhat obviously, compassion.
The fourth card, which symbolizes the unexpected, is the Mother of Cups, Nammu. The image is a voluptuous mermaid, holding a cup which is tipped to allow water to flow outward, filling the oceans. She is surrounded by dolphins playing and a whale is breaching behind her. She is a pleasure loving, laughing goddess of the sea, who brings the fullness of emotions, love and laughter. I don't see what is unexpected about this in your writing, so perhaps the card is there to help you deal with the unexpected in your personal life, especially in dealings with things having to do with your own childhood or your dealings with children. Or perhaps it is the child within yourself that will give you the key to solving unexpected difficulties in writing or in life.
And finally, the heart of the matter is the witch. Dressed in a purple robe and standing in the forest under a crescent moon, the witch stirs her cauldron, holding her wand aloft in a blaze of light. Flames leap around the cauldron, which is filled with water, or perhaps something that just looks like water but is more magical. Her cat looks on, as does an owl in its nest in a tree, and there are mushrooms and other tiny worlds scattered under the trees. I think in this reading, this is you, the person you have chosen to be, a force of concentration, focus, and creativity. You may feel off-kilter from time to time, but you have your tools all at hand, and you are the heart of all the worlds you create and share.