Hey, all

After a long absence, I'm back in the saddle, albeit still at a flying gallop!!! Aren't holidays meant to be relaxing???
Firstly, Promise, can I just echo everyone's thoughts and prayers for you. What a horrific shock for you to go through at such a young age. It's okay for you to be a bit uppity with the doctor - you're right, what would he know?? and you have to vent somehow! I hope that you've got some loving, supportive people around you to help you move past this blow and onto a more positive phase.
At the other end of the spectrum - birthday wishes to Rodney!

And I hope that puppy's not causing too much havoc - yet

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Well, I started to move through the 21 Ways exercises, and tried to keep in my mind that there's no "right" or "wrong" way to do these things . . . but my puter didn't have access at the resort and it was too much hassle to get on their internet kiosks, so I didn't have access to the peace of mind and support and reassurance that you guys can always give. I got the the ?fourth? exercise in the book, where you have to tell a story using the image on the card (I'm using Strength) . . . and my story started to become more like a novel! It took me ages and ages and pages and pages!!

! I think that I got a great sense of the card and its meaning, and through writing that story I really brought the card
into me, if you know what I mean, but still . . . I thought it was supposed to be brief. *shrugs* I dunno. I think I got a lot out of it, anyway.
I've got a few decks in the mail recently, namely the Universal Marseilles, Pagan, Thoth and Liber T. My brain is snagged, well and truly, by the Thoth and Liber T - and despite my attachment to other decks and my wish to move into something less esoteric and more accessible than my Wheel of Change when the IDS is officially over, I think I'll be going into a bit of a Thoth/Liber T phase. Heaven help us all

. . .
But it's strange, the way that, like some of you, I'm comparing cards now to the Wheel of Change cards, not the RW meanings. The Wheel of Change is so radically different to the RW, so completely off the wall, that I'm feeling very "at sea" about Tarot at the moment, and very reliant on the WoC as my touchstone. Mind you, once you start exploring that deck, its bottom drops out from under you and you don't have a stable base anyway!

It's certainly been a journey and a half - and I don't regret a moment of it. It's had its ups and downs, but I think I'm starting to level out now. It's powerful and potent, this discipline, isn't it?
\m/ Kat