I have been under the weather with the Noro Virus and it has been ghastly. I freely admit to being a bit of a drama queen, but honestly I hate not knowing which end of my body to drape pathetically over the loo.
It is on the way OUT – if you catch my meaningful drift – so I thought I would take a look at a suitable Tarot Court to help get me back on track.
Because it’s a health issue, I’m choosing from the Pentacles family.
I’m going to go for the Queen of Pentacles because I am feeling pretty sorry for myself and want to some ideas about how best to look after myself. The Queens are all about nurturing, so the Queen of Pents should be the very gal to help me out.
I’m using the Queen of Pents from my new Tarot from Alexander Daniloff. Which I am luffing to DEATH.
Here she is:
All the Queens are presented in this ‘gallery’ format. I hope to be able to show you the Court Cards very soon so that you too can marvel at their sheer AWESOMENESS 🙂
Anyway, let’s take a better look at her. I am loving her earthy colours and her bountiful fruit – pears and grapes, two of my favourites. She looks relaxed and comfortable in her environment, with her hand lightly placed upon her Pentacle (which looks like a globe here), so she rules her world with a light and tender touch. She has luxurious clothes on too…. that appeals to the Leo in me like you wouldn’t believe!
So how can she help me with my health?
Why not try upping my fruit intake?
Relax a little more?
Treat my ‘world’ (in this case my body) with a light and tender touch – massage?
Get out of my slobby ‘sick clothes’ and into nicer stuff.
Would adding an Oracle card or two bring any further information that I could use?
Delving into my Dreaming in Colour deck by Mindy Somers (my favourite for this kind of exercise), I drew the Power card. I like how the colours are sympathetic to the Queen of Pentacles shades.
Maybe I could try some orange/bronze shades to make myself look a bit less corpse-like?
And of course POWER. I am loving the whirling spiral as it rises from the bottom of the card to the top. This is exactly what I need to do – I really need to be getting out and about again as I’ve hardly crossed the threshold since Saturday night. I also acknowledge that if I was a bit more active, maybe I wouldn’t be so laid low with this? In my house I am notoriously sedentary. My son did a portrait of me and it was basically the back of my head, sitting at the computer. I know. Scary.
I don’t want you to get sick of seeing the same sorts of cards on here, so let’s expand our horizon and end with a different Oracle card. This one is from the Celtic Animal Oracle by Anna Franklin.
He’s BADGER! I love badgers and the keywords for this card are Tenacity, Strength and Defence – which are appropriate!
Badger urges me to look after my home, my world, to be strong ….. and to infect cattle with TB 😀
What do you think of these cards? Do you have a spread or a card that you refer to when you’re feeling below par?
Stop being confused by court cards! Start being excited by the possibilities! Become a court card adventurer along with me 🙂 The Tarot’s Court Cards are my specialist area. They talk to me. Not LITERALLY though ….