New Moon in July - Get real!

For this New Moon I've drawn as usual two cards. The first one for the energy I am going to release and the second one for the energy which is beneficial for me to embrace. From the wildwood Tarot I pulled:

1 Release - Page of Vessels

This Page is depicted as an Otter, sitting on a slab of stone near the river. Otter is a very playful and joyful creature. He also represents being intuitive, brave enough to be vulnerable and open to share his feelings. I don’t see how I would want to release any of those qualities.

As a challenging card this signifies self-indulgence, living too much in your imagination and being absorbed by your own troubles. Now those are more likely aspects of my life I want to let go of.

2 Embrace - Ace of Stones

I was pleasantly surprised to see this card in the Embrace position. It is also the first card of my Tarot spell for a healthy life style.

Here we see a standing stone as a symbol that we can create changes in the material world if we set our mind to it; we can manifest our hopes and dreams but also our fear and anxiety. It is up to me what I chose to create. The potential of this Ace is limitless.

Together these cards tell me to step out of my over busy imaginative mind. I’ve spend more time thinking about a healthy lifestyle, than actually living it. Luckily I know myself and I am not going to beat myself up over this but I do love the fact how this reading is giving me a wake-up call to get real.

Page of Vessels – Otter: Going with the flow

Page of Vessels - Otter
Wildwood Tarot

After having drawn two aces from the Anna K Tarot, which felt very stimulating but also somewhat demanding,  I've chosen another deck for today: My Wildwood Tarot by Mark Ryan and John Matthews and illustrated by Will Worthington. How I long for the day I can say: ”My trusty old Wildwood Tarot” J

But let’s stay in the moment and focus on my daily draw: The page of Vessels (cups) aka Otter. Keep breathing Ellen: A courtcard depicting an animal! That’s something entirely new! What a way to start with a new deck. 

My first impression of this card is playfulness. If you've ever seen an otter in the water you know what I mean. They are also social and loving to their fellow otters. An otter can live both on land as well as in water. In both environments they feel equally at home. I love to see an otter floating in  the river stream. It looks  wonderful and so effortless.

Now let’s see what the guidebook has to say about this page of vessels

It says this animal can be seen as a mediator between the worlds. Of course they highlight the playful character and the intuitive, sensitive side of this page. For me he’s a welcome pause and reassurance after the aces. He can help me to intuitively know whether to focus on the ace of wands or on the ace of swords or…… to let the aces be for a while and contemplate the splendor of everyday life during meditation or just while pondering and doing nothing. Since “Going with the flow” is my theme of this month I am happy to be accompanied by this beautiful animal