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Daily Draw (Joie de Vivre Tarot), 10/21/12

Five of Wands

Description: A walking tree crosses wands with an androgynous human figure (my first impression was that it was male, but upon looking closer I really can’t tell). Amid the tree’s branches are three more wands in a pattern that is clearly missing two pieces – the wands the two figures spar with are actually FROM the tree, and it’s an open question how they came off. A bird with a flower in its beak perches on the tree; a small argumentative creature is leashed to the human figure.Interpretation: I am not planning to go out today, so I suspect this battle is between me and myself, not me and another person. (The human figure, in high-heeled boots, certainly has my fashion sense.) The tree represents nature, that which grows organically, with the bird (inspiration?) offering a gift that is being ignored due to the struggle. The human figure may represent how I’m perceived or how I perceive myself – in fancy clothes, with those sharp boots – dressed up and no place to go? The small creature leashed to the human looks like it wants to bite, unlike the close-mouthed, flower-offering bird on the tree. I think my energy/creativity, represented by the wands (which COME from the tree) is going to have to fight my self-consciousness, the part of me that nips at my own heels and uses my creativity against me. I’ve been feeling like I want to start a new creative project and I haven’t been able to make myself do it; so who’s going to win today, the tree or the human? Can I accept the bird’s beautiful gift or will the toothy creature bite me back again?

Follow-up: This turned out to be very apropos! I was revisted by inspiration for my Avian Tarot work-in-progress (the bird is especially symbolic this way), had to beat back my self-doubts about my drawing skills, which card to start with, where the heck my reference images had gone and what to do when I couldn’t find them…the heck with that, though, I picked a new card to work on, found new reference photos, and got to work. Thank goodness, the tree did win today.

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Daily Draw (Joie de Vivre Tarot), 10/20/12

This is a brand new deck for me. I have the creator’s previous deck, the Paulina Tarot, which I like and have good reading results with. When I saw this new one in the shop last week, I had to get it! Then I read some less-than-phenomenal reviews – not saying the deck was bad, but that it was just a “more colorful, less detailed Paulina Tarot” – and second-guessed my choice. But I wanted to get to know it for myself and selected it at my Deck of the Week, and after going through the cards with the LWB, I shuffled it 7 times and drew…

The Star

Description: A dreamy-eyed young woman sits on an egg-shaped hill in the middle of a stream, pouring water from a silver moon vessel in her left hand and a gold sun vessel in her right hand, gazing up at a heart-centered star. A lovely little bird offers her a flower in its beak, a four-spotted lady beetle perches in her hair, and there’s either a moth standing in her lap or an embroidered moth on the waist of her dress. And also, she has amazing striped wedge-heel booties that I *want*

Interpretation: The first thing I noticed was the lady beetle – I’m a wee bit obsessed with them, and as soon as I saw it in this card, I knew I was in good hands for the week. The Star is about hope, but not just “wish-on-a-star” hope; it’s the kind you have to work for too, an active bringing into being of your desires. The egg-shaped hill may actually BE an egg; I wonder what’s going to hatch, and if the things I’ve been working on and hoping would come to fruition are going to do so this week. What I’m getting from this card, on this day, is that my worries about the deck were unfounded; that it does have power and can speak to me (the LWB describes the lady beetle as “whispering in her ear”; and if the woman in this card isn’t me, she is certainly a stargazer and bird/insect-/shoe-lover like me!); that my hopes weren’t misfounded and the next week has the chance to be a very positive and happy one if I wait for all my eggs to hatch and keep my focus elevated. A very good start!