Wow. I’m pretty stunned at the card I drew this morning, and for a couple of reasons. I’ll start at the beginning.This morning, I woke up out of a dream in which I was on the phone with a very dear friend of mine. I was telling him to take his Jeep and drive out to visit me and my kids. I suggested we could all go to Disney World...it would be so much fun. We talked about it for awhile, chatting about all the fun we would have, in great detail. I told him he could stay with us. Just as he was about to tell me if he could come or not, I woke up. Then in my groggy-just-waking-up-out-of-a-dream state, I wondered to myself why I hadn’t thought of that before, why I hadn’t invited him yet, as it was such a great idea. It took a couple of moments for me to remember this great friend of mine had died a year ago. Next week it will have been a year since he passed. It was such an indescribably sad and strange feeling to wake up intending to call him, forgetting in that moment that I couldn’t.
About an hour later, while I was shuffling the oracle cards for my daily draw, I had Halloween on my mind, and all the things I am going to do with my kids today. I thought how cool it would be if I randomly drew The Hallowe’en Witch card today, but out of 52 cards, what are the chances? I decided I would just write a second post for Halloween, and feature that witch’s card separately from my daily draw. I shuffled three times, then shuffled a different way another few times. Cut the deck twice. Turned the card over. The Hallowe’en Witch! Wow!!! I was so delighted! I really, truly love when things like that happen with the cards.
To be honest, I didn’t have any special intuitive meaning that I saw in the card, other than it appeared on Halloween, which is pretty self-explanatory. I guessed that was all I needed...that the card confirmed the holiday and proved itself a good little oracle deck!
I was curious about what the book had to say about this card, since I wasn’t getting any extra meaning out of it. In my first post this week, I wrote about how I wouldn’t be consulting the accompanying book, because I didn’t think much of it, and it seemed to me to be a bunch of fluff. I have to eat those words now, and I’m not too proud to do so! Here is what the book has to say...the words in bold are my doing, as I wanted to point out how eerily and accurately it connected with my dream this morning:
Mysteriously, a new year begins for you on Hallowe’en, October 31st. A door opens into another world. You may see or dream of those you love who, although having passed from this world to the next, still want to help you. A potential lover will be thinking of you before being driven to open their heart to you. Patience, spurred on by ambition, makes waiting easy for you.
Wow. When I read that line, I got teary again about my friend, and was truly amazed at the connection. This oracle deck has proved itself twice this morning with a single card, and I am very impressed.
I also have to add a third meaning behind this card's appearance today, as I will actually be taking on the role of this particular witch tonight after my kids go to sleep! Our tradition is to go Trick or Treating, collecting candy for the Halloween Witch, as my kids don't eat candy. (This explains why the witch's teeth are rotten!) The Halloween Witch comes at night, takes all the candy the kids have left for her, and leaves behind healthy and fun goodies for the kids (books, toothbrushes, healthy snacks, toys, etc.). And on a tarot-related note, a little birdie told me that one of the goodies the witch will be gifting the kids with is the Whimsical Tarot deck and book set...as well as an extra set for Mama also! ;)
Deck: Good Witch, Bad Witch
Ah, the first “Bad” witch of the week. Surprisingly, most of the bad witches in this deck don’t have negative connotations. I view them rather as being the “Intense” witches of the deck.
This morning I drew The West Witch. What immediately came to mind is my family out west. I have a lot of catching up to do in correspondence, and I intend to take the time to write to them today.
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 
My last card of the week is the Two of Cups. While I was shuffling, I asked for guidance on how to approach the project I need to work on today. The project that the cards have been urging me to take action on in my last two daily draws. I need a little incentive because I don't feel thrilled about doing what needs to be done.
Today I drew the Two of Swords. The sword hilts in this deck all feature differently designed dragonflies. It adds a nice beauty to the image. In this card, there is a blindfolded girl, standing in a garden, and behind her waves are threatening to crash around her. They aren’t high enough to sweep her away, but rather I get the feeling that she is standing there passively, letting whatever happen as it may, allowing the waves to take their course. She isn’t taking an active roll in what is happening.
Seven of Cups. This is such a dreamy card. The castle reminds me of Cinderella’s castle at Walt Disney Word or Disneyland...and with the surrounding stars, the song, 
Today I drew the Three of Staffs (Wands). I usually look at this card as being one step closer to your goal...waiting for your ship to come in, which is definitely on its way. But in this deck, I view it a tad differently. The purple dragon ship appears to me as if it’s sailing away, rather than towards the reader. I feel like it’s something I have created, finalized, and am sending it out into the world, as I wait for news of its success. Sort of like a message in a bottle. Or a science project in grade school. You work for weeks (or if we’re talking about me, you waited until the last minute and worked frantically the night before)...then you put it out there for the world to see, hoping you get a ribbon because your project was so fantastic.
The Six of Pentacles...I’m not making this stuff up. The cards seem to know it’s my birthday week! As I was shuffling this morning, this card popped right out onto my lap. Three days of Pents so far! Yesterday I received a monetary gift from my mom. Of course, all the tarot decks on my wish list began swimming around in my head. I thought about it for awhile, debating on what to get. Then suddenly, I knew. I would get the one on the very top of my list. The expensive one. The one I was saving to buy on a special occasion. Is the celebration of the day I was born not the perfect special occasion? Of course it is! So before the day was through, I had ordered the 
Well this week seems to be off to a great start, with the Page of Pentacles yesterday and the Nine of Pentacles today. It's my birthday week, so that’s a good sign! When I think of the 9 of Pents, I hear the Frank Sinatra song, 
The other night I ordered a pizza and decided to grab a chair and go wait outside for the delivery as it was a nice night. I wanted to sit and shuffle my 
Today’s card is the Page of Pentacles. This deck features my favorite illustrations of pentacles of any deck I have (or have seen). The pentacles are iridescent bubbles. The page has just caught a bubble, and it seems to me as if he is saying, “
This morning as I was shuffling, I asked the cards who wanted to be the last card of the week. I asked the card to jump out. Right after I asked that, one card did just that, falling out into my lap. The Hierophant, reversed. I usually don’t read reversals but when a leaper escapes the deck, I sometimes will. In this case I definitely will because I don’t care for Mr. Hierophant. The first thing I noticed was that he actually seems to be answering my question about who wanted to be today’s card by holding up his hand as if to say, “Me!”
Every night, my kids and I take turns choosing a 
Today I drew the Seven of Pentacles. This is the 
Ah, the Queen of Cups! I'm back! This is the court card I relate to most, and having it show up today must be the deck's way of recognizing that I’m back to my old self again, after having a sick day yesterday. The queen in the card is holding a humongous cup and I’m reminded to drink plenty of water to maintain my good health!
I spent all day in bed. The first half of the day, I felt sick and the second half I was just tired from laying around all morning. I literally got up only to fix my kids’ meals and visit the bathroom. Somewhere in between my many naps, I managed to pull a card. The Page of Swords. It’s supposedly a male, but it looks to me like it could also be a girl...very beautiful. It reminds me of my son. Though he is totally a “Page of Cups” boy, my son has long hair like this, and a beautiful face, and people are always mistaking him for a girl.
This morning I drew the Ten of Rods (Wands). My second “10” card this week. I feel that I’m soon approaching the end of a long, challenging journey. In a lot of decks, the Ten of Wands has a somewhat negative connotation to it, featuring someone heavily weighed down. This card gives me a different impression. It has a more positive tone to it. While the guy carrying the rods is hunched over with the burden, the rods themselves are beautiful and flowering, tied with decorative ribbons. I feel that they are a gift for someone. The heaviness he carries is a sacrifice for someone else, someone he loves. He carries the load with loving intention, and his mind isn't on the heaviness, but rather on the end result, the joy that will surround his arrival.
The Queen of Rods (Wands) is my card of the day. I’ve noticed lately that I have been very calm and easy going and not very motivated at all to push past being content with the status quo. Last night I was thinking that I need to add a little energy to my life. So this morning when I drew this queen, it was confirmation that I need to light a fire under me to get that added enthusiasm.
Okay. This marks the beginning of my week. The Ten of Swords. When I pulled this card, I was reminded of the crash I heard last night outside my window. So this morning, I went outside and walked next door to see a car smashed to smithereens. I’m guessing the person was okay, because there was no ambulance, and a very minimal amount of blood on one piece of glass on the ground, so he/she must have just called someone and walked away from the accident. The car had crashed into an industrial sized bin used for scrap garbage (the house next door is in the process of being built). If that bin hadn’t been there, the car would have gone right into the house.
Well, I started the week off with The Chariot, and have come full circle, ending the week with the same card. It’s funny, when I drew it last Sunday, the meaning of the card didn’t manifest until almost midnight of that day. I wonder what’s in store for me today.
This morning I asked the deck what I needed to be aware of today. I pulled The Moon. Hmmm….for the past two nights I have had similar dreams, bad ones, about a fear I have. I have tried not to think of it much, because I don’t want it to be a self-fulfilling prophesy. But it must be sticking in my subconscious mind lately if I keep dreaming about it, because I rarely have bad dreams. I love sleeping, and I love dreaming, so when I have bad dreams, it’s a huge let down. I hate waking up feeling crappy.
The Six of Cups features a young girl drinking pink lemonade. I never cared much for pink lemonade, always preferring the good old fashioned yellow. This card is about nostalgia and things from the past coming back into your life, whether in reality or through memories. I’ve been thinking a lot about an old flame lately, who I have recently been in contact with again after almost a decade of no communication. But he’s a lot like this lemonade. Pink. Not my favorite, but still refreshing on a hot day. Better than nothing. Yeah, I know, not the greatest sales pitch for the guy. He’s great, really, but I’m pretty sure not The One. 
While I was shuffling the deck this morning, I asked spirit to lead me to the card that I needed to apply to my life in a practical way today. I heard my inner self say, 
Six of Pentacles today. It’s a cute card, very timely for October, featuring trick-or-treaters in costume. This card is about giving and receiving. Last month I was on the receiving end of great abundance, and it seems this month I have been doing a lot of giving and spending! I’m hoping this card is indicating that the cycle is coming around again soon, as I’m ready for the receiving part again. :)