Here are the decks i am using this week
and this is my first draw
the focus for the reading is belline - card no 12 - départ
the oracle belline has 52 cards, divided into 7 sections of 7 cards each (wow, this is right up my alley, my sacred shuffle is 7 x 7.....) plus three separate cards (the key destiny, the man’s star and the woman’s star)
card 12 is the second card in the second section, with the keywords: emotion, psychism (is that even a word?) mystery, night, water
the keywords for card 12 are: the birds, departure, absence or abandon.
but i think the image speaks for itself, with 10 birds flying upwards to the left in a v-formation, from a landscape with 5 rocks.
the first word that comes up for me is: release (as in: set free, liberate, letting go)
i read the three tarot cards with this focus.
ace of cups, seven of cups, nine of wands
first thing that ‘hits’ me is: three ascending uneven numbers (1, 7, 9) implying upwards (ascending)movement (uneven, where even numbers imply stability), just like the birds in the belline card.....
what do i see in the cards?
a beautifully ornamented cup with a lid on it.....release would mean taking off that lid and letting the cup run over.....
three cups in the bottom, a cup in the middle, surrounded/adorned with a garland/ plant, with two flowers, reaching/growing upward, trying to get past three more cups that seem to form a kind of barrier, stifling that growth... release would mean removing those three cups so the flowers can freely grow and bloom....
a single wand, crossed by a solid structure of 8 intertwined wands. release would mean the uncrossing of those 8 wands so (the energy of) that single wand can come forward
with the ace of cups i would release abundance, with the seven of cups i would release creativity, with the nine of wands i would release ambition
if i translate this into a personal message it would be something like: listen to your intuition, remember your dreams, and make them come true
yay!
