I'm back! For those of you who haven't heard, last week my sweet little 6 year old daughter had to get seven stitches in her leg. (It was my first ER visit as a mom.) So I have been taking a blog break, needing to spend my time taking care of my babe.
This week I'll be working with the Heart of Faerie oracle deck. This is the newly published sister deck to the Faeries' Oracle. I'm a huge fan of Froud's Faeries, and was thrilled to find that this new deck is every bit as enchanting as the first.
This is a reading I did for my daughter last week, the night she got her stitches. We had gone to the emergency room in the early afternoon, and got home in the evening. It was a horrifying day, and everyone was emotionally and physically shaken up (including my daughter, myself and my two other children). When we got home, and I settled my daughter into her new role as Queen of all Goddesses, I asked if she wanted to hear from the faeries. She said, "Yes! They always tell me the truth. I want to know if I will be feeling pain tomorrow."
As I was shuffling, I was thinking to myself that there is a Queen in this deck that deals with physical healing. I didn't remember which Queen it was, but wondered if she would appear. And sure enough, she was the first card we turned over. The Queen of Owls. I told my daughter she was the Queen of healing, and she smiled and was very happy to see that.
The next card was The Maiden, who I saw as my daughter. Although she would be more aptly represented by The Child, since she's still so young and small... she handled the whole emergency situation with a great deal of maturity. My other daughter and son were crying, and she was trying to console them. She asked the doctor a whole bunch of questions, and although she was nervous, she was still very strong in her inquiries.
The third card, Hope, shows a moment of quiet, dark despair. It was indeed a dark day for us. I can still hear my daughter's chilling and heartbreaking screams of pain when the doctor injected her wound with the anesthetic. That pain was like a dagger straight into my heart. It was the longest 30 seconds of my life. But after she was numb, she was fine, physically. But the trauma of the day was still palpable for all of us. It's interesting that this card shows a female faerie holding one knee to her chest, while her face is turned to her right. My daughter's injury was just above her left knee. While the doctor was stitching her up, I sat on the bed with her, holding her hands and reminding her to look to her right, towards me, instead of seeing what the doctor was doing. The faerie's leg that is down is the same leg my daughter had to keep still for the doctor to work on.
The faerie in this card is sitting on a creature of darkness, whose face is hard to make out clearly, but it is definitely not a happy face. The faerie has her head down, in the direction of this darkness. So she can't see the Faerie of Hope flittering right above her. It looked to me like the emotional aspect of the emergency would still be with my daughter the next day, but the physical healing would begin, and although she might be a little sore, the worst of it was well behind her.
The next day, her stitches were a little sore, but not too bad. She also had a tetanus shot, and oddly enough, that left behind a more painful aftermath.
This week I'll be working with the Heart of Faerie oracle deck. This is the newly published sister deck to the Faeries' Oracle. I'm a huge fan of Froud's Faeries, and was thrilled to find that this new deck is every bit as enchanting as the first.
This is a reading I did for my daughter last week, the night she got her stitches. We had gone to the emergency room in the early afternoon, and got home in the evening. It was a horrifying day, and everyone was emotionally and physically shaken up (including my daughter, myself and my two other children). When we got home, and I settled my daughter into her new role as Queen of all Goddesses, I asked if she wanted to hear from the faeries. She said, "Yes! They always tell me the truth. I want to know if I will be feeling pain tomorrow."
As I was shuffling, I was thinking to myself that there is a Queen in this deck that deals with physical healing. I didn't remember which Queen it was, but wondered if she would appear. And sure enough, she was the first card we turned over. The Queen of Owls. I told my daughter she was the Queen of healing, and she smiled and was very happy to see that.
The next card was The Maiden, who I saw as my daughter. Although she would be more aptly represented by The Child, since she's still so young and small... she handled the whole emergency situation with a great deal of maturity. My other daughter and son were crying, and she was trying to console them. She asked the doctor a whole bunch of questions, and although she was nervous, she was still very strong in her inquiries.
The third card, Hope, shows a moment of quiet, dark despair. It was indeed a dark day for us. I can still hear my daughter's chilling and heartbreaking screams of pain when the doctor injected her wound with the anesthetic. That pain was like a dagger straight into my heart. It was the longest 30 seconds of my life. But after she was numb, she was fine, physically. But the trauma of the day was still palpable for all of us. It's interesting that this card shows a female faerie holding one knee to her chest, while her face is turned to her right. My daughter's injury was just above her left knee. While the doctor was stitching her up, I sat on the bed with her, holding her hands and reminding her to look to her right, towards me, instead of seeing what the doctor was doing. The faerie's leg that is down is the same leg my daughter had to keep still for the doctor to work on.
The faerie in this card is sitting on a creature of darkness, whose face is hard to make out clearly, but it is definitely not a happy face. The faerie has her head down, in the direction of this darkness. So she can't see the Faerie of Hope flittering right above her. It looked to me like the emotional aspect of the emergency would still be with my daughter the next day, but the physical healing would begin, and although she might be a little sore, the worst of it was well behind her.
The next day, her stitches were a little sore, but not too bad. She also had a tetanus shot, and oddly enough, that left behind a more painful aftermath.
Deck: The Heart of Faerie (by Brian and Wendy Froud, published by Abrams Books)
~ Kiki
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3 comments:
OMG! Man oh man. Must have been traumatizing for everyone to have her hurt. And needing to get stitches.
Ouch!
Glad the faeries were able to help ease her mind.
Sending healing energy to her and calming energy to her Mama. ;)
Much love to you and the kids.
You're a wonderful mama and your kids are wonderful, too.
<3
Spirity... Yeah it was hard on all of us, for sure. Thanks for the healing, calming energy. I'm finally rid of the anxiety... a week later. lol. I'll be taking her stitches out in a few days.
Celeste... Thanks so much hon, as always, for your love and support! xoxoxo
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