Lil bit of a shocker...I have been exploring a new tarot deck, first electronically, as it is out of print, and now with a deck I paid a great deal for. It's called the Greenwood Tarot, and is pre-celtic shamanistic, according to its creatours. All I am personally sure of is that it feels very organic, very centered, to these fairly experienced hands. Runes have always been more my style, but this deck has the possibility of becoming integral to my continued learning and teaching.
The title of this piece is about a card I just "drew" on the electronic system. Heron/Queen of cups.....heron apparently is consider a gateway between the here and the hereafter. I have long called myself a walker between the worlds. I was taken aback by this card being so predominate in the reading. What I mean by the name I gave myself is that things - mortal things- come to me to die. The veil is thin for me; I know what is on the other side, and how to get there. To my own dismay, for many years I noticed that creatures seemed to come into my life, only to pass away not long afterwards. I was in my late 20s before I started to understand that they saw in me someone who could make their passing easier. I even aided my own grandmother in her passing over, as I would have for my mother, had circumstances let me.
Slowly, I came to see this bizarre attraction as a gift, not a burden. Too many people are terrified by death and dying, failing to understand that it is just one more step in the dance.I have the ability to teach them that dying isn't hard.
And I am a bit freaked out that a tarot card sees this.
Okay, well not the card, but it seems I am reminding myself of something that gets put on the back burner now and then when living gets too rough. I am a loner, and this appears to be one of the reasons why. Not too many people are understanding when you say things like this about yourself, ya know?
Going over the rest of the reading,I am not so certain of what my intent was with it. Think I wasn't really whole-heartedly into what the reading was for. At this hour of the AM, after being up 20 hours, I suspect I know why! Anyway, I do recommend using the online readings for those who like to explore this sort of thing. It is a shame that it is such a collectible that most will not be able to afford it. May you find a nice spinster aunt/witch to leave a deck to you later in life!
in the meantime:
www.greenwood-tarot.com
and thank Mark and Chesca for the wonderful deck!