Daily Card - The Treasure Witch

It’s time for a little Halloween fun! I’m going to stray from the tarot this week to work with an oracle deck I have recently acquired. I haven’t read with it much yet, so I thought Halloween would be an ideal time to see what the Good Witch, Bad Witch deck has to say to me.

For the most part, I have found the card descriptions in the accompanying book to be filled with fluff...extremely limiting and not very useful. So I will not be consulting the “traditional” meanings of these cards, but rather will just read from the images intuitively.

Today I was greeted by the Treasure Witch who is looking into a treasure box of jewels. I feel compelled by this card to take stock of what I really value in life. To be sure that I take the time to appreciate the treasures in my life. The other day we had to evacuate the house which was suddenly, rapidly and inexplicably filling with smoke. I rushed my kids out of the house, then the cat. And that was that. No wallet, no computer, no important papers. Some would say that wasn’t great thinking on my part. All I know is that when faced with an emergency, I took what mattered to me and got them out of harm’s way. It never occurred to me to go back into a smoke-filled house to grab “important papers”.

I do realize it would be wise to have a little emergency kit. Something kept near the door holding important things that I'd like to hold on to...which I could just grab on the way out. But I know I'll never do that. I'm not nearly that organized. I'll continue walking on the wild side, aware that my worldly treasures could go up in smoke at any moment. But as long as I have my family, I'll be just fine.

This lovely Treasure Witch reminds me that what’s really valuable in my life is that which cannot be replaced. My loved ones. Spending time treasuring them is important and should always be my priority. Maybe a little less computer time during the day and a little more time playing with my kids.

(I do write this blog for myself, and tend to forget anyone else might be reading it...but just in case anyone is, and wondering...the smoke was a false alarm. It was a test done by the county, checking the pipes. Apparently this house has leaky pipes, so the smoke quickly filled the rooms. It certainly would have been nice, to say the least, if someone had considered knocking on the door to warn me ahead of time before I called 911.)

Deck: Good Witch, Bad Witch