Connecting with the Tarot

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 When I was preparing my April "spread" (I don't really do "spreads"), I decided to try and work to strenghten my connection with Tarot. I wanted to take out my Tarot decks - or one of them, or some of them - and work with them a little everyday. Or every other day or something like that.

You see, I started with one Tarot deck, and then I was pulled into more and more and more. I have been working softly with my decks and usually just pulled one card from the deck and thought about it. But then, when I've got to five decks - and I always pull out all of them - it was taking me minimum one hour just shuffling and pulling one card, because I normally record my readings in my Book of Shadows, or now in my Tarot Journal. Yes, I do that because I like to keep track of what my impression of the cards is, and when each comes up in my readings.

However, I do have been feeling like I want to connect more with the practice of Tarot, and with my decks, but it hasn't really happening. I'm too tired, I'm not feeling it and so on. Or I feel it, but then the time it would take me discourages me. I was thinking that maybe I should pick a deck and work with it, but then I usually feel like asking all of them about "what they think". So, the idea wasn't working. Then, what should I do, because I really want to connect more with them.

Then today, after work, I've got a thought? What if I pick one deck each day at a given moment of the day, and do a spread. I want to give myself a chance to connect with the message of each deck more deeply, not just in a one-card depth.

In my practice, I don't use any kind of spread, and definitively I don't use any of those complex spreads like the Celtic cross or the Tree of Life, and I usually tend to do a 4x4 spread - or I used to in the past - or just go with the flow. I guess I will try to follow this one-deck-a-day plan, and see where it leads me.

Getting Settled

Property of Stormberry

It's been more than two weeks since I moved into my new home, and I'm slowly but surely I'm getting settled. It hasn't been as easy-breezy as I thought at first - I have moved a couple of times in the past - but I think I'm getting there.

Building a house isn't as fantastic as one would guess, though in our case there has been a lot of issues because our contractor and the foreman were not the best, and made a truly sloppy, incompetent job in many areas. I would definitively not recommend them to anyone. However, issues are getting ironed out slowly, and many decisions had to be made on "next steps". This is how I'm still using my old laptop instead of having bought the MacBook Pro I wanted to buy, as I planed. If you ask me, that plan has been pushed forward a couple of months more, as I want to fix my laundry room and get some issues fixed from the building process.

One thing I thought I would start sooner was my witchcraft practice, and though I've meditated and cleaned the space a couple of times with sage, it wasn't until yesterday that I did a spell.

I guess this is a process, and not only for the house, but for me as well, as this is a new way to live. One thing are the things we dream about, and aother is how we ease into them. Slowly, a thing here and there, it's perfectly fine.

Just get a go and savor the process.