Faeries' Oracle (Froud) - Favorite Card

My fav: Solus

I just purchased my deck last night after anxiously waiting a month. As I went through the deck, before looking at the book at all, I was floored by Solus. I've seen him before in a meditation. I cannot forget those blue eyes!! My 2nd Fav is Himself, and it took awhile for me to decide between the two.

My emotions for Solus is safety, comforting, protection.

That's as far as I've really gotten though. I tried to spend some time this afternoon with Solus, but my DH decided today we're play musical computers and the house is torn apart. Any time I try to find time to myself, he or the children start asking me things or wanting my attention. Maybe that's why I like the solace of Solus!!

Glimmer

It's very hard to pick one, but I have a soft spot in my heart for Losgunna, the Frog Queen. For one thing she's quite watery, and I'm very much a water person. But it's mostly because of an experience I had with her when I first got my Faeries. I was at my parent's house in the middle of summer. They live out in the country, and have a pretty stream along one side of their property, with a dam that used to serve a grist mill.

On this night, there was a full moon shining bright enough to read by. Everyone in the house was asleep but me, the insomniac. So I decided to take my new cards out to bathe them in moonlight. I went down to the dam, and sat by the water with my cards all spread out soaking up the light. Insects were buzzing. Frogs were croaking all around... they were so loud, I don't know how anyone was sleeping through it. They were really going at it, those frogs.

Then I decided to pull a card to see what the Faeries had to tell me. I put them back together into deck formation and pulled one out. It was Losgunna, and as I looked at her, the frogs' croaking sounded just like deep belly laughs. I had to laugh, too. What a good joke!

That's so precious. I love how you and the frogs with the connection to Losgunna shared such a great joke!

My favourite card

I have to admit that I had picked my favourite card even before I got the Faeries Oracle!

I had been troubled by an issue concerning my autistic daughter. She will be leaving home in September to go to a specialist residential school on the UK mainland (a long way from home). She is autistic with severe learning disabilities and I was rather anxious.

A member of another board pulled a card for me and it was The Bright Mother which was a good sign. Even better, she pulled another card for me when I thanked her for her advice ... and it was The Maiden.

So there's my favourite card - The Maiden - because she and the Bright Mother brought me hope and reassurance when I needed it.

And besides, she is the image of my daughter when she was about three - all blonde and plump with that innocent yet knowing smile *lol*

Island Dreamer

For me, that close personal identification with an image on a card is a real sign that the deck and I will "understand" each other. I have it with the Robin Wood deck and a friend has it with the Spiral deck.

How hard it must be to let your daughter go to school far away, and yet knowing it is necessary. I send my good vibes and wishes for coping with the separation.

A big step

Thank you for your kind thoughts, Imagemaker.

We visited the school last month and she spent two half days and a full day there. Despite a bit of a bumpy ride (she was thick with cold, was sick, very unsettled and in a stormy mood), it was a great success.

In fact, so much so that when we went to say goodbye to the teacher and the class she will be with in September, she was waving goodbye to us and getting ready to go off in the minibus on a trip with the rest of them!

I shall be petitioning the Faeries to choose a very special Fae to keep watch over her when she goes away.

Island Dreamer

newbie favourite card

They're so much fun, and such thoughtful teachers even in all their playfulness

The favourite I picked for the first exercise is Iris of the Rainbows. Originally, I had thought it was Himself, but I didn't have time to do the exercise with him right away, so before I had a chance to do that, I found myself thinking about rainbows a lot and remembering Iris, and realized it was really she I had picked (or that had picked me) I still haven't looked her up in the book, so this is purely what I got from the card.

Here's what I wrote down in my Oracle Journal:

1. Emotional atmosphere?: It's a calm atmosphere, but active and purposeful. There are some gleefully grinning Gnomes around. Only the frog-girl looks pained.

2. Practical implications?: To me, it suggests an activitiy that will 'bring a rainbow' into something or other, because the arrows are dipped in rainbow, hinting that their target will end up nicer, brighter, more varied, diversified. At the same time, the soap bubbles suggest carefulness (or else they'll burst), and floating dreams or ideas. Iris's blue cloth marks the unknown, subconscious or maybe spirituality.
Iris's ceptre reminds me of the symbol for Mercury, as well as the wings on her feet (see also No.5), so maybe a messenger?

3. Complex or one-dimensional?: There are a lot of things going on in this card, many subplots, as it were. It's quite busy, but somehow still clear, especially the longer I look at it, the better I get it sorted.

4. Mental qualities?: I associate awareness, teaching and healing with this card.

5. What's most appealing?: I love that the picture has a watery, fluid quality, with the blue cloth, and the wings on Iris's ankles that might as well be fins of a sort. Also the rainbow bits draw me very strongly, and I love how mindful the little guy is who is just dipping his arrow in the rainbow-pool, as it were.

6. Anything that makes you uncomfortable?: There is a set of eyes to the right of Iris that I can't relate to a visible being, which is a bit unsettling, and also I don't know what to make of the pained expression on the frog-girl's face.

7. What else?: I wonder what they're aiming at? -- It almost seems like Iris is draining her surroundings of colour, nearly all else is quite muted. -- Might it be that Iris is holding the frog-girl down by pressing the bubble to her back? (Would suggest that frog-girl symbolizes a hinderance to the objective of the card and must hence be kept under control.)

I've never done anything of the sort before, hope it's not total nonsense I'm very curious to see if and how any of it relates to what Brian and Jesa have to say about her.

That was very beautiful Savoyali.
Iris is the card I pulled for my daily draw today.
I was just sitting here taking in all the images on the card when I saw your post.
You helped me see a few new things I've missed!

Why, thanks, lark, I'm glad it was of some use!

Incidentally, I pulled Iris today, too, which reminded me that I wanted to post this here

It's so wonderfully heartning to hear that even when you've known them for a while, there are still new things to discover.

46 - The Friends

I only had these cards a few hours when I answered the questions for my favourite card. I also had difficulty choosing between two, but decided on this one.

I'm not sure I have done the exercise correctly, but managed to write down impressions and words that kept popping into my mind. Here goes:

1. Friendship; joy; cozyness; contentment. Friendly; loving; harmonizing; mutually supportive. Appreciation of diversity, opposites and difference. Peaceful. Special. Merriment. Carefree. Bonding. Wisdom. Knowledge. Illumination. Celebration. The fact that the small guy can 'come out on top'. Success. Innocence.

2. Well-being. Emotion tempered by reason and good sense. Better relationships and better relating. Cooperation and collaboration. Mutual appreciation of and with others. Real partnership. Definitely more fulfillment. Activity. Good health. Order tempered with playfulness. More wisdom and clear-sightedness.

3. Honest, simple clarity. Multidimensional. Openness to new ideas and new wisdom. Confident. I think it was the light at the fingertips, hair tips, tail end and antennae that gave me this impress. The confidence was symbolized by the world being carried (tossed?) by one of the fay with its foot.

4. Compassion. Empathy. Postivitity. Joy. Support. Childlike understanding.

5. Its harmony. Its childlike wisdom like the sages of Taoism.

6. Nothing.

7. The hedgehog fay is very special. He reminds me of Yoda (Star Wars).

(The other card I also loved is Sol). Should I explore it in the same way, or should I keep it, and my attraction to it, for later exercises?