In the Maiden reversed, we find her virtues turned into flaws. When her energy is blocked, we don't allow ourselves to dream, to hope, even to plan a future that is anything but minimal and mundane. We live a cold, sterile, joyless life.
When we twist her energy we become impulsive, unthinking, gullible, lost in dreams that never get translated into reality. There is a tendency to live in fantasy and deny reality, and there is definitely a lack of grounding. Life in a floating soap bubble is perilous -- and that is where she is. When living in a dream world has become habitual, the addiction to fantasy is hard to break. It cannot be changed from the outside by others, and even from the inside, there is usually no desire to break through into an Unhappy reality until the fantasy world itself becomes too painful to live in any longer.
When the Maiden's energy is seriously reversed, this card can indicate crippling pessimism -- an attitude that when possessed means the possessor sees the worst in everything, expects the worst from life, and gets it. Such an attitude creates its own misery and denies one the possibility of joy
When such a powerful energy as the thrust toward joyful growth is inverted or twisted this way, it is still a powerful energy -- and usually requires an equally powerful experience to break free of it. But there is always hope, and those outside the fantasy need to remember that, even while being realistic about the difficulties of changing this state. Someone needs to be an adult here.
I’m in a bit of a situation at the moment. Due to some crappy circumstances, I had to move home abruptly. I’m struggling financially, and I’m trying to get the rest of my stuff shipped here. If I don’t get it here, I could lose it. Some of it is very sentimental, including items that were given to me by my deceased father. I’m currently offering detailed 5 card tarot readings for $3.00 each.
Thinking of trading my Fearies' Oracle for a tarot deck
I'm not really feeling a connection to it and I think I need something more straight forward for now. It's barely used and includes the box, bag, and book. If anyone has any tarot decks they're willing to trade, send me an ask and I'll let you know if I'm interested.
It's Choose&Reveal, Equinox style! This time around, we have the Faeries coming to give an autumn message to anyone who needs it!
Y'all know the drill - choose yourself a faerie-bundle from up there, reblog with your choice and check back later today - let's say 6PM (PST) - to see what the faeries have in store for you as the season changes!
Quick-and-dirty oracle reading for obiwankabrodie.
obiwankabrodie:
For me, oracle cards are really conversational, really loose. It came out as a plant-like spread that seemed appropriate for the whole seasonal thing. I look at this reading as a generalized sort of picture, so when we get into the multiplicity of branches, don’t look at them as choices, one path versus another. It’s all possible, it’s all real, so you’ve got to look at every part of it to see what Spring will be like for you.
Roots: Generally and essentially what the season will bring
53. Death. Release, change, but somewhat gently. Something ends when it’s supposed to do so.
Stem: What set you up for it last season
8. The Singers of Courage. Fortitude and the development of certainty. The knowledge that there are things more important than fear. It would seem that you’ve learned something, about the world or about yourself, and that’s given you a bit of strength. With Death, I think it also involves you discarding something, be it a belief or a habit or whatever, that you’ve discovered to be pointless-- which is appropriate, because that sounds like a wintry thing to do.
First Branch: A possible path or event.
43. Geeeeeooo the Slooow. (I shit you not, it’s spelled that way.) Patience in the extreme. Watching something unfold without worrying about what’s going to happen and when. You’ve got the opportunity to just relax and observe, to slow down for a bit without call for huge action.
Second Branch: A possible path or event.
61. G. Hobyah. Fear can fuck with you. This card not only warns of this, it also emphasizes the possibility that a person can learn to sort through paranoia and anxiety to find what’s really worth their caution. The trick is to not let it run the game.
A Broken Branch: A possible pitfall.
26. O! That Gnome. (The name of a sitcom that never really took off in the Faelands.) This card is meant to represent a trickster; chaos throwing a wrench into our plans just to show us how flimsy our expectations can be. It’s something to look out for, both in the sense of a pattern of order that can and maybe should break, and in the sense that the fuckupability of our lives is sometimes as dependent upon us as it is upon the people that mess with us. This gnome has eyes like one of my uncles, who was a smug motherfucker, so it makes me think that one of the hallmarks of this card is arrogance.
First leaf: What can be gained from the first branch.
35. The Faun. This and the next leaf card look a lot alike. I think it indicates that good things are likely to come from this season no matter how you slice it, if you take the lessons that are in front of you. The Faun itself shows an alignment with nature, and all the happygood energetic things that can come from it. Put this with the first branch card and it shows you that harmony can come from rest. It seems to give a nice, cliched little nudge to smell the roses, doesn’t it?
Second leaf: What can be gained from the second branch.
5. She of the Cruach. The book emphasizes the mother-goddess archetype of this card, and the “receptive, nurturing fertility” it heralds. That’s great and all, but it’s kind of reductive for me, so I don’t get much from that interpretation. I see this as more of a manifestation, a transmutation, or a becoming. The image on the card looks like it’s blooming, like it expresses the very moment of change and coming into being. Not what you were, not what you’ll be later, but the change itself. It would seem that the second branch gives you a chance to unblock things to make way for this.
I’m almost grossed out by how happy and uplifting this reading is. I side-eyed the cards for a second there, wondering if I was pulling positivity out of my ass. But hackneyed or no, it looks like Spring is going to be a season of becoming, of letting go. Keep that perspective in mind if you can, and good things are likely to happen.
When the shaky "get your tarot cards out right the fuck now" feeling happens and The Fee Lion p. much flings himself out of the deck followed by The Faun
Welp
There's that.
I need to get my shit together and write these papers ugh
