Furnacechant
Furnacechant said:
This was what I posted earlier, and, so as not to clutter the other thread with a lot of thoughts unrelated to it, I've started a new one. Someone suggested I pull these two cards specifically and see what they said to me, which I did do. In retrospect, I'm thinking it maybe was Nelys for getting things unstuck and moving, and Mikle to remind me it should be fun and not scary. Anyway, I had to look at all the cards to find theirs, and it struck me maybe that was kind of the point..."Yes, it is. Not enough though. Now shuffle the other cards and pull some out. 7 is a good number!" While I was doing that, Unity kept falling out, and I, like a dense human, kept putting it back, only to unexpectedly find it in actually my hand after the last time. I've never found this a very attractive card, for one thing it always looked to me like a roughly severed phallus with bloodied veins still attached( If I tried to think nice things I could make the veins be deer antlers, but didn't see what that was to the purpose), and moreover, though I'll probably get flamed to a crisp for this, I've never thought that "we are all one" thing was really so enlightened a concept as it purports to be( obviously I do believe in some kind of interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated things, or I'd not be bothering with tarot and oracle cards, but some people do get carried away with it). "Look AGAIN!! It doesn't mean what you think it does!". So I looked. And this time, first I noticed a central figure, which could almost be two figures with one standing behind the other, and then that there were actually two other tiny figures below that and two more above, and then many other figures, at least two in each branch, and that, finally, even the individual brush strokes of the artist could be seen as each representing seperate entities. "See? It doesn't mean everyone's got to be the same, all pursuing the same goals---they're not! But they're still connected to each other. Think about the name Unity---UN-IT-Y. You can't UNIFY just one thing (mental image of a single round blob of glue-paste), you have to have other things to stick together and make them part of something larger---but they're still themselves, too."
Then, perhaps to further illustrate this, my attention was caught by the Laume', only not by HER, but by the androgynous old person she's sitting on, who seemed to keep laughing at me until I realized that s/he, too, was actually made up of about four or five other faces.
Some of the other cards had small messages for me about things in my daily life, too, but I found this very interesting---I've had occasional conversations with my personal guides before, but this was the first time I've really used this deck in that way, as a means of opening a dialog and even kind of bringing in additional help so to speak.
I thought about posting in that thread to start with, but I wasn't sure about all the unrelated other stuff in it.