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It's time for the one-card draw!
The Rules
1. Cards are drawn from sun-up to winter sundown (4 PM), EST US time. This deadline is firm, or I will turn into exhausted spotted rags.
2. Anyone can ask for a card, Friend, friend, stranger or unfriend. No matter who you are, I will shuffle the deck with a honest prayer to the Universe to give you what you need. If you think you're on my bad side but still want a card, ask. I will do my best by you--I promise.
3. You may repost your results anywhere you like as long as you point back here so that people reading can get a card of their own.
4. When you talk about the cards, remember to call them by their proper Name: they are Balance cards, not Tarot, not Psycards, not I Ching cards, not runes or anything else. Names are important!
5. The One Card Draw happens biweekly. Tune in then for another draw.
Suggested Use
1. As a theme for meditation or exploration.
2. As a reflection of your past two weeks.
3. As a reflection of your coming two weeks.
4. As inspiration for a poem, story or journal entry; or as a way to break a story deadlock.
Warnings
1. I do not cherry-pick the card for you. What I draw is random. You may get a bad card; be prepared.
2. My one-card reading for you does not constitute legal or medical advice, or any other formal form of counsel. What you choose to do based on the card is your responsibility, not mine.
How do I get my card?
Comment on this entry. If you feel comfortable, tell me what you're planning to use the card for. I'll reply to you with your card for the day. You may get the same card as someone else, since I re-shuffle the deck for every querent--if this happens I will pay extra attention to the mental image that accompanies the card to paint you an individualized picture.
Once I'm done, either later tonight or tomorrow, I'll post an answer to more of your questions about the Balance cards; you can read former answers and other one-card draw days in the Balance Card memories. Suffice to say for new passersby that this is a personal divination deck I created myself.
All right, my friends: the booth is open! Ask and receive!
EDIT: It's now 3:17 PM. I'm going to wrap up around 3:45, simply because the volume I've received is really beyond my expectations and I'm going to need time to clean up early. If you have needful requests, you have only about twenty minutes left. :)
THE BOOTH IS NOW CLOSED! It's 3:56 PM, and I need time to wrap up. Future card inquiries should be deferred until the next One-Card Draw in two weeks. I thank all of you for your participation and your understanding about not burning the jaguar to a crisp. The cards and I need rest.
Final count for this one was 128 people, counting the privately emailed requests. If it keeps growing this exponentially, we'll have to figure out a better way of doing this. :)
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April 30 2004, 04:50:11 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 04:03:20 UTC 8 years ago
Seed my imagination, balance cards. May inspiration strike & the devil get his due.
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Lost Dragon
April 30 2004, 04:51:31 UTC 8 years ago
She looks angry.
April 30 2004, 04:06:52 UTC 8 years ago
And thank you, in advance. :)
April 30 2004, 04:53:55 UTC 8 years ago
This is a reminder that things are ephemeral, arii... most of all mortal concerns. Your car will be fine or not, but it will get taken care of and it's not worth the worry. :)
April 30 2004, 04:45:50 UTC 8 years ago
Getting in line...
I'd like a card, please.I'm looking at my work-situation. In the next two weeks, we're facing some temporary staffing, (lack of) training, and workflow/teamwork issues, and I've been very stressed while trying to deal with it. Does the Universe have any counsel for me in how to cope?
Thank you again, my friend, for this kindness.
April 30 2004, 04:56:57 UTC 8 years ago
Re: Getting in line...
Work is anodyne for most ills, arii... and so the cards offer you the Plow, the card of action, of taking the handles and setting to the field before you.Perhaps there is some act you can do to make yourself feel better. If at work, perhaps tackling things that are piling up because of temporary staffing, or finding a way to organize those tasks better might help. Or at home, put yourself to work as a way to vent some of your more intense energies--that distinction is important. Simply relaxing won't help. Do something that will make you feel accomplished, productive or helpful. If there's a thing around the house you've been putting off, an improvement or a project, now might not be a bad time to do it. :)
In times of stress, sometimes we need to act to feel we have some control over our destinies; which we do. Take up the Plow,
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April 30 2004, 04:51:07 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 04:59:55 UTC 8 years ago
So, vehemently the Universe offers you the Fortress, the card of walls, of shutting things out. Inside the Fortress no one can harm you... but no one can touch you either. You are safe but lonely.
What Fortress is in your life today, arii? Someone else's, someone who is keeping you out? Or one you're building right now against some wound someone dealt you? Beware!
April 30 2004, 04:56:07 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:02:20 UTC 8 years ago
Your card for consideration,
*hug*
8 years ago
April 30 2004, 04:57:59 UTC 8 years ago
Should I follow my head or heart?
April 30 2004, 05:05:08 UTC 8 years ago
Not all self-sacrifice is good or warranted. To do good for others and in the universe, we must maintain ourselves as well. Sometimes in our quest to be more, do more and give more to others, we use up all our "spares" and become people who need help ourselves. Sometimes that's needed; sometimes it's not.
This card suggests it's time for you to do what you must to preserve your own energy, so that you may use it later to best effect. Whichever course you choose, take care of your needs, for they are perilously close to overwhelming you.
8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:14:43 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:29:25 UTC 8 years ago
Yes, isn't it lovely? The forest! Not just any forest, mind you, but a forest full of secret glades and copses and fallen trees for us to perch on. The leaves are still glistening with dew, but they're all a-glitter because of that fresh and lovely morning sun. It's not too hot yet. Isn't the smell intoxicating? The flowers are blooming. The climbing vines smell like honey... here's a flower for your hair.
So sit with me here on this fallen tree that juts from the ground like a grand stone bench, all pebbly and sturdy just for us. Let's eat.
Look all around you,
The Forest is the card of gradual, continual, joyous rebirth. It is subtle and grand. It requires patience and rewards it richly. This is your card for the day, arii... breathe deep and be glad!
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April 30 2004, 05:26:06 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:33:13 UTC 8 years ago
But we are standing here, at this Path, the Path... a card that suggests that the way before you is delineated and easy to follow. Perhaps your heart already knows this Path and your mind doesn't want to follow; or perhaps the Path isn't clear to you yet. But search for it. It's there. And it looks like a pleasant journey, if long.
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April 30 2004, 05:34:00 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:42:27 UTC 8 years ago
Do you know what phase the moon is today? Have you noticed that the moon is up during the day, and shines like a brilliant silver disc just before it falls over the bright blue horizon? Have you talked to the Moon lately--gone for a walk beneath its beams, perhaps escaped to a place where street lights are fewer and you can truly see just how much light the moon sheds all by herself?
The Moon is the card of feminine influences, of getting in touch with subtle emotions and energies within yourself and around you. A good way to do this is to actually court the Moon itself. Go into the dark--or the early morning--and see what there is to see, and pay close attention to the murmurs of your secret heart. :)
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April 30 2004, 05:34:14 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:47:29 UTC 8 years ago
First the Elder Tree... the fat, nodding oak grown so large that when the wind shuffles her crown she makes the rustle of a dozen smaller, younger trees. The shade beneath her eaves is dense, and standing beneath her and looking up you see only pinhole bits of the sky between the multiple branches, the heavy foliage, the shawls of moss. This card is the card of patient and wise old age, and from the feel of it I almost wish to send you to find an old tree to sit beneath for a while. A connection to a deeper, more ancient thing might be beneficial to you now.
Perhaps while there you might consider the other card that fell out, the platonic Unicorn, opposite of the carnal Beast. This is the creature who lays his head in the laps of virgins. This trusting, gentle creature is not necessarily the doe-delicate picture of fragility; it can also be as solid as a horse of the Shire, with hooves like dinner plates and a neck too thick to be hugged. There is strength in purifying one's thoughts. Have you thought much of unicorns lately? What do they mean to you?
Something to consider. :)
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April 30 2004, 05:35:36 UTC 8 years ago
I would like a card, please.
April 30 2004, 05:52:12 UTC 8 years ago
This is the Sibling, the card of non-romantic relationships. It indicates everything from family to friendships of the most enduring kind. Perhaps there's a person in your life who needs you now... or simply would like your attention, someone in your family or among your friends. It wouldn't be a bad time to reach out to them.
8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:44:02 UTC 8 years ago
Thanks!
April 30 2004, 05:55:35 UTC 8 years ago
Okay, ready..? *flourish* Here, my favorite mirror, a little hand-mirror large enough to see your face but small enough to lift with a hand. What do you see in the polished glass? Do you see your eyes? They are steady, it seems to me, and clear. Do you see your face? Your face has been touched by all your life's experiences, and shows your character.
Do you see yourself? Do you know yourself? Do you trust yourself?
You can always count on yourself and that Power. All you need to get through anything scary... is you.
*hug*
8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:46:21 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 05:58:57 UTC 8 years ago
The Survivor does not distort himself to gain what he needs. If you acquire something at the cost of who you are, you have not survived. You must be who you are, and be wary of anyone who demands you change the fundamental You--the good You, the eternal You.
My reading on the Survivor... yours may be different. :)
April 30 2004, 05:49:11 UTC 8 years ago
Thanks much!
April 30 2004, 06:03:33 UTC 8 years ago
The alternative to the Murderer is not the Vigilante, the Policeman or the Judge in this deck, but the Mother, the nurturer and giver of life. I offer you the Mother as a card to meditate on, someone to emulate if you encounter the Murderer. Mothers need not be gentle and weak; they can also be powerful in defense of their children. The Mother reminds us that to be the creator and nurturer of life is difficult, and requires active protection against those who would take away those things as well as tender care to keep those things alive and growing.
Be the Mother,
8 years ago
April 30 2004, 06:04:43 UTC 8 years ago
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April 30 2004, 06:23:45 UTC 8 years ago
Your first card is the Cuffs. This is the card of willing imprisonment; they are leather cuffs of bondage, ones you know the safeword to gain release from. They are the opposite of the metal Shackles, which were put on you without your consent and which you cannot gain release from until someone choose to let you out.
This card suggests you need only ask to be free and you will be released, breathless and flushed, from your chains.
Your second card is the Engine, the card of powerful and purposeful action, yoked to a cause. It is the opposite of the blinding and stultifying Fog from which one can neither see nor reliably navigate out of.
This card suggests that you loop yourself to a purpose, turn the key and go.
Together,
April 30 2004, 06:22:15 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 06:28:16 UTC 8 years ago
That card was the Plow, the card of action and the opposite of the receptive Cup. Perhaps you're normally very good at the Cup's wisdom; to be still, to receive, to accept, to encompass. The Plow calls us to act, to take initiative, to dictate rather than to accept, to speak rather than to listen. Both are needed... sometimes one is needed more than the other.
The Plow was running from you--perhaps because you are no friend to it. Take it back,
8 years ago
April 30 2004, 06:37:59 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 06:55:09 UTC 8 years ago
You've waited a long time for your newest cards, so perhaps this narrative of cards is no surprise. These three refuse to cut back into the deck, in a particular order.
First the Plow, the card of initiative, of taking action, of working your fields. The opposite of the Plow is the Cup, the card of listening, receiving and stillness... this is the card that calls us into the light of early morning, to the wet scent of new turned soil, that reminds us that we are personally responsible for the fruits of the field that we sow.
This card, which started out so high, sunk lower than the Bomb, which is the card of destruction wrought by men. The Bomb destroys, and it is a human destruction, willful, thoughtful, planned. What Man can make, through the hard work in the fields, the Bomb can take away in a single day.
There is a Bomb awaiting you. You probably already know what it is... more of a mine than something falling from the sky. I think you're just waiting for it to go off and make a mess of everything you've built.
The final card is the Wheel, the card of eternal go-arounds, of lessons that return and return again. This is the card of that most joyous and sorrowful of human wisdoms: "This, too, shall pass." The Bomb's destruction will pass. The Plow's good work will pass. They will come again. But I think the key in this reading of the Wheel is that what lessons come to you again, you can plan for and perhaps change. You know that something's going to mess with your plans, and it probably will. But you can, through the Plow, act to block that Bomb from falling on you again.
April 30 2004, 06:39:30 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 06:59:52 UTC 8 years ago
The second card sheds light on the first; it is the meadow lit by twilight's generous mysterious light. Herbs grow in pockets; fruit trees bear their burdens. None of it is cultivated; no hand of man planted these things and no hand of man tends them. This is the card of the wild, of things beyond your control but which might also offer goods nonetheless.
Together, these cards suggest that some things are out of your control, and that trying to hard to order them or force them does no one good, least of all yourself. You are on a path, set there for a purpose, and the things you do will order themselves. Don't try to force them into an artificial frame... instead, take the attitude of one who seeks in the wilderness for the gifts that might be hiding there, already ready for you to pluck.
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April 30 2004, 06:42:45 UTC 8 years ago
(Hey, I'm open to any possible aid on that score, at this point.)
April 30 2004, 07:01:36 UTC 8 years ago
My reading: Wherever it is, it's out of your hands. It'll come back to you when it's ready. ;)
8 years ago
April 30 2004, 06:43:47 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 07:03:57 UTC 8 years ago
While cutting your cards, two of them did a belly flop out of the deck, one on top of the other.
The first: The Tornado, the card of violent decay.
The second: The Womb, the card of new potentials, new possibilities.
Are you shocked if I tell you that before you can advance to a world full of new potential, new life and new creations, you must first experience a violent and painful period of deconstruction and decay?
A storm shelter would seem to be in order. And also fortitude, to outlast the storm.
*gentle hug*
April 30 2004, 06:51:17 UTC 8 years ago
Friend of a friend
I haven't had the time or emotional energy to do a layout of my own and felt no need to do one because I know that it will only reveal what I am feeling/experiencing inside myself. I was thinking last night that I need someone outside of me, or better--my situation, to give me something.
How will I use it? I am at a cross-road. I know this. What I need to know is if I am acting out of love or fear? I can't tell if the fundamental force behind the distance I have created is flowing from love or fear.
So that is what I would hope to understand better.
April 30 2004, 07:06:47 UTC 8 years ago
Re: Friend of a friend
Dear Heavens.I'm shuffling quite innocently, when the cards spring out of my hands. I grab at them to keep them from falling on the floor, but I have two on my lap, one hovering at the edge of the desk, and one flopped on the desk itself.
Your cards: The Priest, the card of cloistered purity. The Unicorn, the card of platonic purity. Peace, which is literal. And the Wheel, the card of the Eternal.
If that is not a strong message in favor of Love, I don't know what is.
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April 30 2004, 06:53:58 UTC 8 years ago
Hello.
I'm a bit curious for a draw, since my life seems to be rather chaotic and a bit of guidance or outside perspective wouldn't hurt.M.P. Reyart would be the name (none like it elsewhere that I know of), and I'm sitting in Eugene, OR. My life in this city is crumbling, but this doesn't bother me, as I'm preparing to move. Where and why is up in the air a bit, and travelling is expected to be a bit heavy in the next few weeks.
-M.P. Reyart
April 30 2004, 07:09:48 UTC 8 years ago
Re: Hello.
Your card for the day,This card is a call to action for you. You asked for guidance in a life of chaos, and the deck asks you to create order--for others. Sometimes helping or protecting others outside ourselves gives us back a measure of order and stability in our own lives.
As you begin your journey, keep in mind those who are in need of help that only you can give--people close to you, people not so close, strangers. Don't forget them.
8 years ago
April 30 2004, 06:54:20 UTC 8 years ago
April 30 2004, 07:12:03 UTC 8 years ago
If you don't have a Rogue yet in your story, there might be one missing... or someone you thought you knew might be hiding a Rogue-ish inclination. If there is a Rogue in your story, he isn't happy with his place in the story--he doesn't want to cut back into the deck with the cards you've dealt him. Talk with him a while and see if he spills you any new secrets. :)
8 years ago
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