21 Ways -- Step Two
Step TWO: Mystic Dreamer, 6 of Wands.
I am wearing a suit of black armour which covers me completely apart from the rears of my thighs which are clad in blue trousers. I am looking out through the slit of my closed visor. On the back of my helmet is a plume of greyish feathers. I am seated facing forward on a brown horse which is also wearing black armour around its face and neck, and has a display of large white feathers extending upwards and forwards from its forehead. The chest, flanks and hindquarters of my horse however are covered by cloth, black or possibly purple or deep blue with white trim forming a cross on the rear section. A black raven with folded wings is perching on the back of my horse, behind me, facing the same direction and looking down. In my right hand I am holding a tapering straight black pole about seven feet long, the bottom, thicker third of which has been carved to form sections of differing diameters. The narrower quarter of this pole holds a circular wreath of leaves or flowers and from the very end, plus from a point near the middle of the part holding the wreath, elongated green leaves emerge. To my left a further five poles stand with their thick ends on the ground, identical apart from lacking a wreath and having leaves sprouting at only one point, towards the thin end but not from the tip itself. Two of these poles are located at the rear of and behind my horse and stand absolutely upright. The other three are level with my horse’s head and neck, the foremost standing upright, the middle leaning slightly backwards and the one nearest me leaning noticeably back towards me at an angle of roughly 15 degrees. We are standing in a meadow of long, thin, green, grass-like plants with small white flowers at the tops of their stalks. The only other colour really noticeable in this meadow is a very small rounded red object a little in front of me and to my right. Off to my left the landscape is misty but several steeply sloping, dark and bare looking hills can be made out, one behind the other. Above my head and to my left fly 18 birds in several groups, black looking against the clouds. A little in front of me and to my left is a large full moon, with one of the birds flying across its face. The tips of the foremost two poles also cross it. Among the clouds in the sky are also at least a dozen round white lights resembling blurry stars, although one of these appears in front of the face of the moon.