A Full Moon Card Draw

[wyld_dandelyon]

With the current state of politics, I'm feeling more need for insight and inspiration than usual, and I'm thinking my friends might also be feeling the same. So I'm going to try to schedule card readings more often this year, hopefully at least once a month at either the full moon or then new (or possibly both

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Taitin the Sylph

[wyld_dandelyon]

We sit down for tea, and you look over the various teas I have, thinking about what you'd like. There's no hurry. My grandmother's old water boiling pan is on the stove, a flame under it, the Lake Michigan-cold water will take a while to heat.

As we chatter sleepily, a tiny, bright figure flies between us, scattering a fine, gleaming dust over us. Instantly, we're wide awake, ideas flitting in our minds as brightly (and quickly) as the sylph herself. She pauses on one of the teacups and peruses the boxes. "These are boring!"

I pull out an old craft box and open it to show bottles and baggies of different herbs. "You can mix your own, if you want." I offer her a metal tea ball, though it's larger than her head.

"Oh, this is marvelous!" She takes on large rose petal and places it in one half of the ball, adding a pinch of thyme and a handful of chammomile petals, a fragment of hibiscus petal and some tiny mint leaves and sniffs. "Close--what do you think?" She waves it under our noses and asks what we'd add, then rummages around, adding a bit of this and a bit of that and topping it off with more fairy dust.

I pull out the pottery tea pot my daughter made me. It's low and almost resembles a genie's lamp. Taitin closes the tea ball and places it inside just as the old metal boiling pan starts to whistle. I retrieve the boiling water and pour it into the tea kettle and then rummage around in the kitchen cabinet to find the smallest mug I've got, a souvenir from a holiday dinner with my family.

"Now, then, what were we talking about?" None of us is really sure but in a moment we're talking about everything and nothing, hopping from topic to topic nimbly and naturally. We turn to creative projects and brainstorm for a while, then start to study the different ideas, trying to find the most suitable one for each of us. We voice our opinions freely, feeling safe to change our minds--or not--depending on what we can learn from each other.

Finally, we have tea and cookies, but we keep talking until it's time to move on. Taitin's fairy dust brought energy and creativity and logic, all at once. Before she goes, she gives you a glittering vial, so you will have more when you need it. "Call me any time! This has been fun."

Re: Taitin the Sylph

[magenta_girl]

Thank you so much for this!