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Happy Solstice to you all, and also Happy Rose Moon*. May the turn of the seasons and the days (or nights) bring you the blessings you need and want.

*There are different traditions for naming the full moons, but since I still have hundreds of roses blooming in my yard, I'm sticking with Rose Moon. My yard still smells marvelous!

On to the card event:

I am still enjoying doing readings with [personal profile] ellenmillion 's beautiful Unicorn Key cards, so the free one card readings will be from that deck.  I have an actual, properly printed prototype deck, complete with gilded edges, in a lovely magnetic box (which she hopes she can offer as a stretch goal), and, to celebrate, you are welcome to ask for a free one card reading, or a paid reading using one of her layouts.

I have permission to post pictures of the Unicorn Key readings, so in addition to my reading of the card, you'll get to see a photo of your card, posed next to one or more of my roses, weather permitting. (If you ask for a multi-card reading, you'll get a picture of the reading with Ellen's art as backdrop instead.)

(If you might want your own copy  of this deck, go here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/ellen-million-graphics/a-unicorn-key-oracle-and-guide-deck )

If you tip, you can also ask for a card from any of my decks, but I'll have the following handy: The Dream-Weaver's Oracle (a very new-to-me deck), The Oracle of the Dragonfae (which I've used to prompt songs during FAWM), The Fantasy Showcase Tarot (the first deck I ever saw or heard of where the art for each card was created by a different artist), The Shapeshifter's Tarot (still one of my favorites) or the combined Goddesses and Animal Spirits art cards by Susan Seddon Boulet (particularly good if you want a Guide).

As always, New friends and old are very welcome.


Status: Closed to free cards.

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About the readings,

You can simply ask for a single card with no obligation to tip (though tips are very much appreciated, and tipping allows you to ask for one clarifying card if the initial reading is not clear to you).  You can also ask for a clarification card if you boost the signal, and help other people find this event.  Just mention where you posted!

I am offering Unicorn Key readings for $20. I can choose a random layout from the ones Ellen designed, or if you share your question, I'll pick a layout that suits. Most of these readings are 3-6 cards. If you want a different deck, Three-card readings are $25, or five card for $40. Again, some vague idea of what type of thing you're asking about will help me pick a suitable layout, though you don't need to share your question unless you want to.

Regardless of the length of the reading, you may ask about real life or a creative project, or 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.

Tip are always appreciated, however, 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.

When you tip, it's helpful to me for you to mention it here so I can connect your Paypal information with your request. Tips should be at least $2 (Paypal charges fees). If Paypal doesn't work for you, drop me a message and we'll work something out. The guitar case below is my personal PayPal link, featuring my own artwork, which does inspire me even though it isn't Tarot- or Oracle-related. Or you can use paypal.me/DeirdreMMurphy

I will reply to all requests. If I start to feel overwhelmed, I will close to free readings; in that very unlikely event, that will be in nice bold letters after the word Status above. I plan to stay open at least through Monday for free readings. After that, you can certainly ask for a paid reading, if you want one. (Yes, I still have the stupid long covid, though it's getting (oh so slowly) better, so if I'm too tired or can't focus at any particular moment, I'll rest and return later. I appreciate your patience when that happens.)

As always, while I work hard to offer insight and inspiration, all I can legally promise is entertainment. See my "Dandelyon's Readings" page for a little more about my readings.


wyld_dandelyon: (Rainbow Margay Mage)

If you haven't yet, come ask for a card!

I'm feeling better, more centered and focused, after doing a few readings. The one (or more) card draw is still open, if you might want a card. You are welcome to stop by!  It's interesting that doing things for other people can be so helpful  in getting my own spirit in better shape.  I guess that's part of what draws me to the cards.  There's magic in so many things, but the magic in community is, perhaps, the best magic I've found.  And doing readings helps me connect to people and to myself at a deeper, calmer level than a lot of the other things I do.

I have also gotten some painting done in the room that I bought curtains for mumble months ago.  The walls and ceilings needed more work than I'd hoped, and work involving high levels of dust (like sanding replastered spots) is not a thing I can be in the room for, so the work took a lot longer than I'd hoped.  However, finishing it up started moving faster after My Angel's doc put her on a daily asthma inhaler, and she started panting less and having more energy.  The walls and ceiling aren't perfect, but they're so much better than they were.

Before Omicron hit, we took the curtains I bought myself (again, way too long ago) into Menards and picked a paint color.  I'd been imagining using something like a powder blue, but the blues just didn't look right with the curtains.  At the end I was torn between two shades of pale purple, and finally decided on the "sleepy purple" for the name, as a good omen for good sleep in that room once we get it done.

We also did a bunch of cleanup in the laundry room, getting ready to put a table in there to make the room more comfortable to use. 

I have done a little writing and music practice.  Not as much of either as I'd planned, and I have plenty of other things on my to-do list besides, but paradoxically, spending time doing readings has helped me tackle all the other things that need doing.

I had plans to go grocery shopping yesterday, but looked at the covid numbers and decided it was a better idea to just make an order and have it brought to me.  I know it costs more that way, and that I'm vaccinated and boosted besides, but I feel for our poor doctors and nurses facing so many hospitalizations.  My mother was an operating room nurse and after that a public health nurse, and I know that that profession can be stressful in normal times.  I have the ability to stay out of the pool of people who can get infected and spread the disease, and with my asthma and allergies and other issues, I know I am one of the people who might get really sick if I got a breakthrough case.  So I'm staying at home as much as I can, except for the occasional jaunt in the car to park near pokestops and play the silly game.

So, if you want a card for the new year or for creative inspiration, please stop by and ask for one!  One card is free, though tips are always welcome. 

And Happy New Year, everybody!
 

 

 


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So, in my last post, over here, I'm doing a one (or more) card draw.  I invite you to come over and request a card!

But also, I wrote a little about my five-card draw over on my Patreon, Dandelyon's Five Card Circle Spread, I wrote a little about the layout I'm using for five-card readings and have a picture of the table I'm doing the readings on, with a picture of the altar cloth I've done so much applique and embroider on.

I made it public, for now, so you can check it out without subscribing to my Patreon.  I hope you'll feel welcome to visit me there.
 

wyld_dandelyon: (Cards)

Well, yesterday was frustrating.  It took the cable guy a lot longer than expected to change things out, and then we ended up with a new router too, so I had to figure out how to reset the password and tell all the devices in our world how to connect to the new internet source.  But enough of that. 

It's been too long, and I want to do readings for people!

As always, new friends and old are very welcome.

About the readings,

You can simply ask for a single card (with the usual option, for people who tip, to ask for a clarifying card if something isn't clear). The guitar case below is my personal PayPal link, featuring my own artwork, which still inspires me even though it isn't Tarot-related.

I am also offering a five-card reading for $25, or if you want a larger reading we can discuss costs. A signal boost for readings or for the Patereon will allow you to ask for a clarification card on some part of this reading, if you have a question after reading the reading.

Regardless of the length of the reading, 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, one to represent the Guide you need right now, or to get you unstuck. I can draw a card for your protagonist or villain, 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.

For free one card readings, 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 do have a lot of other decks, so any deck I've read from before is available if you tip.

The first card is free (though tips are always appreciated, and especially right now as buying a new boiler broke my budget). However, 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.

When you tip, it's helpful to me for you to mention it here so I can connect your Paypal information with your request. Tips should be at least $2 (Paypal charges fees). If Paypal doesn't work for you, drop me a message and we'll work something out.  (Hopefully the Guitar Case below will still properly link to Paypal.)

I will reply to all requests here unless a request arrives after I edit the post to declare the draw closed.  I intend to leave it open for several days at least, but in the unlikely event that I get more requests than I can easily handle, I will officially close it.

Thank you, Blessed Be, and may the new year be low-stress, productive, healthy, and joyful!

Status: Open!

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.

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I wrote a bit for patreon, released first to my patrons, but set to become public after a while. Now I'm putting it here because I'd love some conversation about the things I was musing about.

If you want to see things like this or excerpts from works in progress, you could follow (or even properly join) my patreon.

:)

I’ve been reading Tarot cards for a very long time, but the Tarot is still mysterious to me. It seems to work—but how? I’ve done readings for so many people who say the reading was spot-on, people I know, people I don’t, people online and far away. But it’s more than that. I’ve done readings in LARPs and role-playing games too, in character, and the reading proved accurate for the character (and not the player).

A character has no physical presence in the world, except insofar as it is embodied by the player or writer. If one follows the theory that someone’s aura, their physical or mystical presence, somehow interacts with the world, that would imply that characters, even casually created characters that have only been imagined for hours or days, still have a mystical presence that is strong enough to interact with the cards’ mystical presence.

It seems even more mysterious to me when I’m drawing cards for a story, where all the characters are only in my head (or some other writer's head) until words flow through fingertips onto the screen or page. I mean, if even their creator doesn’t know what the plot is or who these imaginary people are, how can the cards possibly interact with their mystical presence?

Yet I get good readings when I use the cards as prompts for stories, or for plot points in a story that’s stuck, and I've also had other people tell me they found readings I gave them were helpful

Doing readings over the internet also means the people I’m interacting with aren’t there to physically interact with the cards. How does this mystical presence thing work when there are hundreds or thousands of miles between the cards and the querant? If it’s a mystical presence thing at all.

Another theory, of course, is that the cards are truly random, and any meaning is created by the human mind. With that theory, it’s easy to explain why the cards work for writing: I’m using the cards to get me thinking, like any other set of prompts. Which doesn’t explain why the cards work better for me than a random plot or random character generator. I suppose that could just be that I’m more inspired by pretty pictures, or that the symbolism on the cards I use works for me.

That theory might explain how I can do accurate (or at least accurate-seeming) readings in person for people I know. My mind can, in theory, create meaning because I know the querant or because I can read their reactions as I talk.

It’s not a convincing explanation for how I personally do readings in person for strangers, especially since I’m not particularly good at picking up on body language, and when I started doing readings (and having them pronounced accurate) I was pretty abysmal at it. Not the cards, I was abysmal at reading people. That theory also doesn’t explain how I can do accurate readings for strangers over the internet.

Like I said, it’s mysterious.

The scientist in me is frustrated by the lack of explanations. The mystic in me, however, finds the lack of explanation, the fundamental mystery of it, quite satisfying. It says to the rest of me that we are finite beings in an infinite world. There should be things we don’t understand.

My approach to fantasy is like that too. The scientist in me wants to understand how magic works, and why, and for it to be predictable. But still, when reading or writing, I’m more drawn to the mysterious, the unexplained, sometimes even the unexplainable. Maybe especially the unexplainable. I find magic in stories most satisfying when there’s a lot of wonder, and very little “game mechanics.” Or to put it another way, when it feels magical.

And never mind that that other side of me never stops trying to find the explanations. Or maybe that’s a part of the attraction? Here’s a thing I don’t know yet. How can I not want to get to know it better, to find it in the wild (even if just in the wilds of my own imagination) and try to tame it?

Is it a kitten or a lion cub or something totally unexpected? With time, persistence, and patience, perhaps I’ll find out.
wyld_dandelyon: (Rage Dragon)
These cards are beautiful!  And, like all the cards I like best, the minor arcana is just as full of pictorial imagery as the majors. 

Look at the King of Wands.  and Judgment (oooh, butterflies), and the Nine of Swords, and...well, go look at all of them!

I don't even know which ones would be my favorites, if I spent some time with this deck.  But I don't need to hold a deck in my hand to know this deck would speak clearly to me in readings.

There's even a "happy squirrel" bonus card--a silliness that makes me smile, cold house or no. 

Did I tell you how much my niece, Spooky, liked borrowing my MTG squirrels deck and defeating a deadly dragons deck?  I would SO definitely use that squirrel card as a squirrel token, if I didn't just shuffle it into the deck to do readings. 

ETA:  Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] miintikwa for linking me to these.
wyld_dandelyon: (Rage Dragon)
These cards are beautiful!  And, like all the cards I like best, the minor arcana is just as full of pictorial imagery as the majors. 

Look at the King of Wands.  and Judgment (oooh, butterflies), and the Nine of Swords, and...well, go look at all of them!

I don't even know which ones would be my favorites, if I spent some time with this deck.  But I don't need to hold a deck in my hand to know this deck would speak clearly to me in readings.

There's even a "happy squirrel" bonus card--a silliness that makes me smile, cold house or no. 

Did I tell you how much my niece, Spooky, liked borrowing my MTG squirrels deck and defeating a deadly dragons deck?  I would SO definitely use that squirrel card as a squirrel token, if I didn't just shuffle it into the deck to do readings. 

ETA:  Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] miintikwa for linking me to these.
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There's a time limit; I believe as I write this there's about an hour and a half left.

Her words of wisdom for me:

miintikwa on January 8th, 2010 12:35 pm (local)
Thank *you!* :)

For you, the World! A project coming to completion, something you've put a lot of effort into, and you'll get appropriate recognition for this! You may also be coming into a teaching position thanks to something you've been working on, due to the recognition I see here. Much good is coming your way!


She also does longer drawings for individuals
.

I hope this bodes well in the search for the lost kitten, as well as writing endeavors and finding a day job or other reliable source of income.
wyld_dandelyon: (Default)
There's a time limit; I believe as I write this there's about an hour and a half left.

Her words of wisdom for me:

miintikwa on January 8th, 2010 12:35 pm (local)
Thank *you!* :)

For you, the World! A project coming to completion, something you've put a lot of effort into, and you'll get appropriate recognition for this! You may also be coming into a teaching position thanks to something you've been working on, due to the recognition I see here. Much good is coming your way!


She also does longer drawings for individuals
.

I hope this bodes well in the search for the lost kitten, as well as writing endeavors and finding a day job or other reliable source of income.

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