Reading for BlackMoon
Bridge Over Troubled Water Reading
I am using the Hidden Path and Well Worn Path oracles by Raven Grimassi. I have attached a photo of your reading so that you can see the cards I drew for you....
Card one is the path (area)
Card two is the bridge (advice)
Card three is the trouble (troubled water)
Card four is the outcome.
The Path - Lughnasadh
Lughnasadh is the festival which celebrates the beginning of the harvest, this card is ripe with anticipation, the cornucopia of produce and the fruit and flowers around the Goddess.... signifying the ripeness of the womb of the Mother. She wears red black and white witches cord around her waist, symbolic of the mystery tradition. Red is for the living blood of our ancestors, black holds all the enlightenment waiting within the shadows for those who are prepared to look hard enough, and the white represents the bone of our ancestors who have moved on and all their wisdom and knowledge that has passed on to us.
This card seems to show that something you have been working on in your life is about to come to fruition and you need to be receptive to your rewards. All that is left to do now is the actual reaping of the harvest you have worked for. Then it will be time to rest for a while as the light dwindles and the season of rest comes again. The word I feel most from this card right now, for you is grace.... Act with grace....
The Bridge - Otherworld
The card shows a figure in a boat , crossing what looks like a stormy sea to a calmer brighter and more hopeful looking place, where there is a building of some kind that could be a castle, or just a large rock but it seems to symbolise safety. It is rather like the visions of the mists clearing as the boat approaches Avalon in the Arthurian legends.
The advice of this card is that of looking towards new horizons. Something has come to a natural end, (maybe as in the harvest of the previous card), or it is no longer viable. Either way there appears to be a situation which you need to release and move on from. I would say this may be a spiritual rather than a physical move.. another part of your inner world. The transition or crossing is something to look forward to.. you are being shown that there is even more out there waiting for you.
Troubled Waters - Familiar Spirit
The story behind this card is that of how we have lost our connections with nature. You want to connect but you need a mediator as the trees and wild animals no longer trust us. We no longer understand the voice of the wind. So in order to get where you need to be you need an interpreter. This is where the familiar spirit comes in. This could be an animal, a familiar or something you connect with in nature and can understand, that also understand all those other voices. The familiar spirit is the bridge between you and the place you want to connect to. Look and listen for your familiar, and follow where they lead to reconnect the way our ancestors did.
The Outcome - The Key
One of the traditional symbols of Hecate, Guardian of the Gateway, the key is powerful. It represents a seeker of hidden truths and knowledge, tings which have been hidden in the dark and the shadows. That it shows up here, tells that if you have walked the path as in the previous cards, then you have earned the tools to gain access to the knowledge you seek
The door is waiting and you have the key to open it....use the key wisely and remember that you have earned this knowledge through a path of understanding. It is not a door that anyone can walk through unless they too have walked the path, so guard the key and treat it with respect.
I am not very experienced with these cards, and they are not quite as intuitive as some... not sure why, but maybe I will improve. However this reading seemed to have card follow card in a very natural progression! I hope this is so for you.
Thank you for being my partner... do hope you gain something good from this.
Blessings
Winter
