Pagan Pompt: Which tarot card do you connect with?
pagan_prompt asks:
Which tarot card's imagery do you feel drawn towards or connected with (the card and its imagery may be from any deck)? What does the card's imagery mean to you and what thoughts and feelings does it provoke? Why do you feel that you are drawn towards or feel connected with this card?
Feel free to substitute any set of runes or any other symbolic system of divination for 'tarot card'.
I'm fond of the major arcana of the tarot, though I don't use a tarot deck for readings anymore. I think the card I identify with most is the Hanged Man -- the quest for knowledge, the self-sacrifice (I have a tendency to do a bit too much of that, and the card reminds me that it's important to sacrifice for the right reasons), and so on. The looking-at-the-world-in-a-new-way aspect of the card (symbolized by the fellow being inverted) appeals to me, as I love the way that the world shifts when I learn something new. I often get a new appreciation for the wonders and complexity of the world when I learn new things, and I love that.
When I do oracle readings these days I work with The Froud Faery Oracle. I don't really have a particular card that draws me in the deck anymore. I have cards whose qualities I aspire toward, of course (Arval Parrot, Faff the Ffooter, and The Master Maker in particular), but no one card that resonates more than the others for Me As A Person(tm). Lately, I mostly feel like the lucky faery at the center of The Faery Who Was Kissed by the Pixies. My life is so full of love right now, in a wide variety of flavors, that I sometimes feel like I'm being given a full-psyche detail cleaning. It's astonishing and frightening and wonderful and powerful and and and.
Which tarot card's imagery do you feel drawn towards or connected with (the card and its imagery may be from any deck)? What does the card's imagery mean to you and what thoughts and feelings does it provoke? Why do you feel that you are drawn towards or feel connected with this card?
Feel free to substitute any set of runes or any other symbolic system of divination for 'tarot card'.
I'm fond of the major arcana of the tarot, though I don't use a tarot deck for readings anymore. I think the card I identify with most is the Hanged Man -- the quest for knowledge, the self-sacrifice (I have a tendency to do a bit too much of that, and the card reminds me that it's important to sacrifice for the right reasons), and so on. The looking-at-the-world-in-a-new-way aspect of the card (symbolized by the fellow being inverted) appeals to me, as I love the way that the world shifts when I learn something new. I often get a new appreciation for the wonders and complexity of the world when I learn new things, and I love that.
When I do oracle readings these days I work with The Froud Faery Oracle. I don't really have a particular card that draws me in the deck anymore. I have cards whose qualities I aspire toward, of course (Arval Parrot, Faff the Ffooter, and The Master Maker in particular), but no one card that resonates more than the others for Me As A Person(tm). Lately, I mostly feel like the lucky faery at the center of The Faery Who Was Kissed by the Pixies. My life is so full of love right now, in a wide variety of flavors, that I sometimes feel like I'm being given a full-psyche detail cleaning. It's astonishing and frightening and wonderful and powerful and and and.