So as not to neglect this blog I thought it would be good of me to post the most recent video I did on the earth energy reading. I do these readings weekly and their focus is what we, as earth workers, gridworkers, etc need to know about the coming week’s energy and interactions.
Hope you find it enjoyable and that the Spring Equinox is treating you well!
So, in perfect timing with a large move, I got an assignment from the Universe.
It wasn’t a surprise. I had asked for it in the first place. About ten days ago, I realized that in my dumb, ego filled way, I had not asked the Universe/Powers That Be what THEY would like for me to work on. It was always on my time, always on what I wanted. It struck me it had been a very long time since I had stepped back and simply asked for advice.
Using the upcoming First Harvest Festival of Lammas as a marker I decided to see what I needed to work on up to that point. After Lammas, I would ask again and continue to do so. I sat in quiet meditation and was given the information I should use my new Wildwood Tarot deck. I set some time aside the next day and proceeded to download what I needed to know. The results surprised me with their accuracy and strength but what should one expect when they finally take the time to ask, “Hey, Universe, what would you like for me to do?”
Since picking up the Wildwood Tarot by Mark Ryan and John Mathews, I have been overwhelmed with the connection I have with the card set. I would venture to say it rivals my connection to the Faeries Oracle deck which is REALLY saying something. I’ve not combined the two in a reading just because I am a bit concerned a swirling portal will open in my new apartment and splay all manner of Fey and Wildwood denizens about the place. Although fun, I’m afraid the mess to the surrounding area might be a bit hard to explain! Regardless, I will give it a go in the near future and the neighbors will just have to deal with the noise.
I’ve always been very laid back about my decks and who touches or even uses them. It’s odd to hear myself say this when I am talking about the Wildwood Tarot but I find that this deck, and this deck alone, is the only deck I will not let anyone else touch; not at this point anyway.
If you have any connection to the primal pulse of Nature/Earth energy, work with any nature based religion, or just have a calling to Mother Earth’s Dreamtime then it’s in your favor to pick up a copy of this deck. Follow the links to the deck’s website so as to get a better feel. For now, I am going to be very sparse with images from this deck because I want to respect the fact it’s a new deck and the images are VERY different. If I gain permission to put more up, I most certainly will because the images by Will Worthington are absolutely stunning!
I used the Bow Spread from the included book. I intuitively felt it matched the question I was asking of the deck. My “aim” for the bow was to know what I needed to know leading up to Lammas.
I also used my L-rod to choose the cards instead of choosing them myself. I also used the L-rods to help answer any questions I had during the reading. I’ve started doing this more as a way to clarify any confusion in a reading and to help suss out answers to questions. Note – I’ve taken the numerous pages I wrote and parred down to the central essence of the reading.
1.) Significator – The Great Bear
(Also Judgement in a traditional Tarot deck.) The Great Bear is the sentinel of the Passage grave. A time of great change. An initiate waits to be reborn. Being reborn in the place of stillness.
2.) The Bow (The point in which to focus skills) – Knight of Stones, Horse
Healthy, physical activity. Physical strength will be important.
3.) Conscious Limb (How do you “think” about the question) – 7 of Stones, Healing
Healing and closure on the conscious level, on the thoughts and mental aspects that have wounded me. The deepest stages of healing is forgiveness.
4.) Spiritual Limb (How do you “feel” about the question) – The Wanderer
(Also the Fool in trad. tarot.) A juncture. A turning point. A time to feel some adventure and leap. No fear.
5.) String of the Bow (Energy of situation) – The Journey
(Also the Death card.) Leap into the dark. Do not fear change. Time to lay the past to rest with love and thanks. A shifting and transition to the next phase. Lots of momentum here.
6.) Fletching (What guides the solution) – 9 of Stones, Tradition
Lessons from the past. Guidance will come from traditional places and sources. Listen to the wisdom of past spirits for this is not new to them.
7.) Arrowhead (Intent of the reader. The Outcome) – 3 of Stones, Creativity
Creative energy manifestation requires a clean and open channel that, in this case, is about to be cleared by a powerful phase of transition. Be ready to not only listen but for your creativity to ramp up 100 fold. Be ready for creation to spring forward as the old burns away.
Overview
It was obvious, right from the start, Spirit wanted to talk to me about this move and to reassure me. The idea to move to our new place was concerning me a great deal and was, literally, a leap of faith (see the Wanderer card above.) It also wanted to warn me. I had already sensed this coming but this was confirmation this was more than just a move. Spirit wanted me to understand that this was a SHIFT and a MOVE. It was to not be taken lightly and it was an opportunity to leverage the move on the physical in order to make a shift on the spiritual. The spirit of the situation, The Journey or Death, made that VERY clear to me.
The new place would be a MUCH better place for our spirituality since it is nestled up, very nicely, against the woods and the ridge I have come to love since living in the area. In fact, it’s the woods where most of my Earth Energy videos have been shot. If you’ve followed my Youtube channel, you’re aware that I also recently stepped out of the broom closet and have been trying to walk my talk a bit more publicly. This move was my chance to purge the old, stifling habits and to really integrate my inner spirituality with my everyday, physical living environment. For instance, previousl,y my workspace had been down in a small windowless room of the basement. Now, the plan was to make the middle level into office spaces for my wife and I and I would be openly displaying my books and decks for my friends and family to see when they come to visit. A first for me and a fairly big deal.
The Conscious Limb, 7 of Stones, was spot on as well as over the past ten days I have faced many opportunities to heal from past mental wounds. For instance, I found a small box of old love letters from my first fiancee from high school. I think they had been dropped off by my mother who found them in an old storage place. She handed them off to me and I think in a rush not to deal with them I stuffed them in a corner. I found mementos of my past college days and had to sort out and deal with them. I discovered, with only a little difficulty this time, that in order to heal one has to open up, thank and release. I’ve released a lot in the past several weeks.
In addition, the 7 of stones shows a man lying in a stone circle and being healed by the Green Woman. I used this imagery several times as I drifted off to sleep in the evening. Each night, I asked for healing energy and the strength to get through this time.
I had to laugh about the Knight of Stone/Horse card since I would be the one doing most of the heavy lifting. How was I to know, during the actual move, that I would be lifting, carrying and struggling for four days in 100+ heat and humidity. Like a horse, indeed!
Every day since the reading I focused on my path as described in this reading and pulled a card to ask for advice for my path to Lammas. Imagine my surprise when on the morning of the first two days I drew The Great Bear twice in a row! On the third day I drew The Journey. Each day, more information, more aid in walking the path to Lammas. As I write this, I have The Mirror guiding me which reminds me to ease up today, to reflect, to surrender my will and be patient. The next few days are coming and Lammas will soon be here. (And, today, while I edit this before posting, I’ve drawn the Ancestor card for the day before Lammas. “The Ancestor stands before the gateway of nature which symbolizes another beginning…”)
All in all, it was a powerful reading that gave me a very clear path leading up to the coming holiday of first harvest. Several times during the move I could see how hard we were working and see similarities to a farm family working in the field so as to get in the first harvest. That was us and we were “reaping what we have sown.”
Sitting now in my new office space and looking out at the beautiful summer woods from my porch, I cannot say “thank you” enough and I’m curious to see what comes at Lammas with my next “assignment.”
I promised that I’d post a bit more on the Triskelion Spread and here it is! Please check out the video below. Apologies for the poor lighting and quality. I’m working on a slightly better camera in the future.
In the vid, I run through a sample reading and talk a bit more about how the different branches can interact to give a very integrated reading for three separate spheres in your life.
In working with this spread I’ve found something very interesting that happens during the readings. I guess you would call it, for lack of a better term, a sense of dizzy happiness. I think it comes from the spin and counterspin of the layout and the origin of the symbol upon which it is based. It’s important to mention the cards are always laid down in a clockwise or sunwise pattern. However, note the branches bend back in a counterclockwise way like a triskelion’s arms. When you get out to the third card and begin to analyze how it might be impacting the other two branches I think you’ll notice a nice, light spinning feeling starting to occur energy-wise as your eyes bounce visually over the reading. Of course, it could just be me and my love of the symbol.
If you’re not familiar with a triskelion, it’s one of the oldest symbols recorded and a general overview can be found here. I’ve found triskelions to be incredibly important when dealing with natural energy sites when I dowse . They speak to the incredibly swirling multi-banded energy that can come swirling off sites throughout the natural landscape. I think it no coincidence the triskelion is very similar to the Daoist yin/yang symbol.
I would very much like to hear your comments on the spread or more about the readings you’ve done with it. Feel free to make a response video if you’d like or just comment here.
Spirit can talk to us in many ways, offer many gifts. It can hit us with a flash-pop of inspiration or whisper quietly to us in meditation. It can, and often does, use both. Lately, Spirit honored me with information of a new spread and I’ve decided to share. I gave it a quick look on the internet to make sure I wasn’t duplicating anything and couldn’t find a match. It came to me during the flow of working with a client for a reading. While in the initial discussion of the reading, the client had three different angles in her life she wanted to cover. All of them appeared to me be equally important and carrying impact on her life. She wanted to get some general advice on each of them individually.
The twist? We only had time for one reading.
Of course, a simple three card reading is the way to go in this situation but as I spoke with her I literally saw this spread flash in my mind’s eye. I’ve gotten better about recognizing Spirit when it’s yelling at you so I described to her what I was getting. She agreed to go with the reading as I described it and the session was very successful. Later, I sat down with a notebook, some meditation and more information came to light. During that meditation, a triskelion appeared in my mind’s eye and superimposed itself over the card layout.
This spread works the best when you have three distinct areas in your life that you want to cover and discuss, all at the same time. It also works for a general reading if you simply name Mind, Body and Spirit as the three points of the question. You could also, of course, use any other terms or spheres that feel comfortable to you. Other examples could be health, career and romance or family, spirit and friends. The three areas are completely open for the reader and the querent to decide. Use your intuition and have some fun!
The Triskelion Spread
Total cards for the reading: 7 for short reading (see below). 10 for full reading
Decide which three areas or questions in your life you wish to cover. I typically prefer a balanced placement of the three branches but you can decide on a more upright pyramid style with one branch on top to signify an area of much more focus or importance to you or the querent. Feel free to place the branches any way your intuition tells you. Just make sure you decide ahead of time and communicate it clearly before starting the reading.
1.) Lay out three initial cards in 1,2 and 3; one for each area or sphere you are focusing on. During the reading, this is what I call the initial commentary, the overall wisdom that Spirit would like for you to know about and focus on regarding that aspect of your life. It encapsulates the past and the present.
2.) Lay out three more cards in 4,5 and 6. During the reading treat this as commentary and advice on “next steps”, things to be aware of, watch out for and, in essence, how to move forward in a beneficial manner. These cards link directly to the first round of cards and talk about how things will progress in each of those spheres.
Note – You CAN stop here with the reading if time is short or you are comfortable with the information given. If stopping here then move to Step 4.
3.) A third round of cards go down in positions A, B and C and once the reading starts create an extra level or lens in which to look at the overall problem or question. These cards, in essence, interlink with cards 1, 2 and 3 and show how those spheres interact. How does each sphere help or hinder another sphere in the querent’s life?
For example – Let us say one sphere is the client’s health and the other is career. In an extreme example, let’s say the Tower card comes down in this third round between the two. This tells us that the two spheres are about to go through a major breakdown of traditional roles or beliefs. Whether the career is about to cause a health issue or a health issue will be causing a career change will have to be determined by the surrounding cards in the spread as well as the reader’s intuitive abilities.
4.) Final card. This is a final card that is placed in the direct center of the reading and should be read last. It represents an overall commentary as to where things are heading as a whole. It’s a final punctuation to the reading and ties the three branches together. A final word, if you will, from the Universe.
Reading the Spread
In reading the cards simply read them as you have placed them. You may turn them individually as you go or turn them all over at once and go for it. This is up to you and your particular style.
First go through 1 – 3, then 4-6. Spend some time looking at each branch individually, analyzing the cards and what they are saying. Then, go through A-C and interconnect them to 1 -3. Look for connections, relationships, warnings and advice.
Finally, read the final 10 card and see how it ties the reading together. It will offer a large scale overhead view of the three branches and the client’s current situation.
Note, this reading with all 10 cards can offer a fairly complex analysis with lots of interaction and information. A full reading with this spread can easily take an hour. Make sure you have the time and energy available to get all the way through it.
I hope this is helpful to you and I’d love commentary on your thoughts.
The next post will be an example of a full reading with a video to help show how it all works!
I’ve been a bit lax in keeping things updated here. My apologies. Life has been a little like the proverbial “one armed paper hanger” around here! I just wanted to send a quick update saying that yes, there are more posts coming and yes, I’m still around! Also, I’ll be better about posting a link here to my youtube videos as they go up. See below for the latest Earth Energy reading for the week!
I’ve been doing readings lately at a local shop on Saturdays. Hello and welcome to anyone that has wandered to this blog from my business card. Doing public readings have been incredibly refreshing for me. They’ve helped me not only dust off the oracle skills but they’ve also helped knock down my own blocks of personal resistence I put up a long time ago. Thank you to everyone that has taken part in those readings. I hope they helped you as much as the chance to read for you has helped me!
All for now. Have a great week and make sure to get out and get connected to Mother Earth. It’s as good for her as it is for you!
I originally intended the Youtube channel to be a small addition to the blog but it would appear that, over the past few weeks, it’s actually a bit reversed. The blog has become an addition to the video channel! I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the amount of information that can be shared and communicated over the video format and will probably be doing a lot more vids in the near future.
For instance, I designed a three card spread for a quick personal reading I needed to do. It worked so well for me I grabbed the camera and in a short amount of time was able to share all the information. The vid is below.
I do hope to be getting more writing done VERY soon, including going off in a direction that I don’t think you will have seen coming. More on that later when I’m ready to talk about it. There are several projects I want to get moving again and one of those is the Leystone Project now that the weather is turning for the better. My largest hang-up there? Wondering how much information I should give and whether or not to even have pictures and video of the places I go because it could, within dowsing theory, be used as a target for negative influences.
I think at this point the best thing I can do is ask the rods themselves and permission of each area’s Genus Loci. Regardless, I want some protocol in place before I go broadcasting images out.
More to come on all of that soon!
This weekend was busy for me. I awoke both days with a pressing desire to do readings. Yet, I really wasn’t sure what I needed to ask both times just this need that communication needed to occur. Always a conundrum. What I did feel was that this new moon was particularly powerful for me and I needed to take advantage of it.
So, I did a whole bevy of readings and just let the cards answer any question that popped into my mind. Two pretty wonderful mornings that, in the latest crazy, I’ve not had for a while! I wanted to share one of those readings with you. It was a reading for personal information regarding my path starting with the current new moon and onward to the full moon. However, as it seems I am doing more and more lately, I built my own spread for the reading. Just a basic cross spread that touches on the high points most other readings discuss. It’s so basic it could be used for just about any query. The one layout variation I made was to have the 4 and 5 cards go vertical between the “right now” central card and the upcoming future card. I did this because it helped symbolize things I was moving towards.
I like to put some sort of time marker on my cards, a trick I picked up from using the I-Ching. By placing such a marker I can get a good idea as to when I should be keeping my eyes open for changes. For instance, since I’m using the lunar phase as my marker, the effects of the “in front of me” or future card should start to flow into being around the waxing crescent while “Where I am right now?” disperses. This way Card #3 will become my “Where I am right now” at the marker of the Full Moon.
The spread is below along with my own interpretation of the cards.
Question : What information should I know from the Fey for the cycle between November’s new and full moon?
Faerie Wisdom Spread
1. Where I am right now?
2. What is behind me?
3. What is in front of me?
4. Who is my ally? What should I keep in mind??
5. What should I look out for?
1. Where I am right now? She of the Cruach
A card of comfort and support. But, not just any ol’ comfort and support but that which can only be provided by the She of the Cruach. A time of nurturing, support and possibly pregnancy as new ideas and new inspirations charge up on within the inner space. The weekend alone proved this to be perfectly true. The days ahead should be mostly yin which is a much welcome break from the hectic pace of a few weeks ago. Time to recharge, gather and ground myself for the next few days.
2. What is behind? Green Woman
Ah, the Green Woman. One of my favorite cards mainly due to the attitude! This time the Green Woman is speaking to how I’ve come out of a period where I’ve found a growing sense of not only self-confidence but maturity. Because of what I’ve gone through I’m stronger for it and more experienced. Not to the point of being a jerk about it but I’ve noticed I’m carrying around a bit more chutzpah lately.
3. What is in front of me? Laiste, Moon’s Daughter
Learning how to take that newly found confidence forward into trusting the process. Following my intuition and being handed a few riddles along the way. Deciphering the oracle of the everyday which is the language of Laiste. Learning more with cartomancy but also I think this points more towards another project I’ve been working on. Something I’d been thinking about unveiling soon anyway. Laiste’s arrival gave me the bump I needed.
4. Who is my Ally? Master Maker
Whatever I do, do it with the pride and thoroughness of the Master Maker. There is a magic in perfection or the steadfast pursuit of perfection. Sand every edge, test every joint. Have confidence that whatever I am making is of the utmost quality. This also applies to the project mentioned above. That quest for perfection will imbue it with a magic all its own and something other people will, in time, notice.
5. What should I look out for? Singer of Initiation
(Whenever I have a “look out for” or “obstacle” card in my spreads I usually read their reversed meanings.) I should not block the process that is happening. I am in a passage from the old to the new and I must not sabotage it or resist it. I asked for this, didn’t I? I will need to look at things in a slightly different way and understand, with Laiste’s help, to decipher it and trust the process while listening to the Master Maker guide me in doing it as best as I can.
Next up? I’m going to do my best to interlace this into the larger Harvest Spread I did on Mabon!
