Taexalia

wild.life

Three Card Reading

After a hectic day organising for something that at once fills me with anticipation and dread, I decided to stick my hand into my SoulCollage card box and withdraw three random cards for a reading. As the first card showed herself I immediately felt a sense of calm as if the message was "now you can be at peace"...

The second card also brought stillness and contemplation and I thought about stopping there and sitting with these still cards and calming my frantic mind.

But my hand sneaked into the box and withdrew another card, one that carries a much different energy to the first two and as I look at the card on my desk, the third card is shocking alongside the first two.

As I uploaded the images, I noticed the names I gave them when they were originally scanned. The image names remind me of things that were prevalent at the time I made the card - but the names do not define what the card means in this moment. I like that about SoulCollage cards - their imagery and meaning is fluid and changes over time...

Reading:

I am the one who needs peace and solitude
I am the one who seeks stillness
I am the one whose eyes are closed
I am the one who is undecided
I am the one who feels conflicted
I am the one who feels stasis
I am the one who is singing the flesh onto the bones
I am the one who feels exposed
I am the one who waits
I am the one who will stand even if I am broken
I am the one who rides the cycles of energy
I am the black white and red woman

I typed these words whilst gazing at the cards and I feel there is a deep message for me here, a strong symbolism about taking time out to rest, recover and think about things and also time to sit with Skeleton Woman and pay attention to what needs to be cut way as well as what needs to be drummed back to life.

It is obvious to me that each card contains a single woman, that the imagery is singular and striking, perhaps deceptive in their uncomplicatedness...

I'm going to leave these cards on my desk to see what else comes up in this reading... When Skeleton Woman appears, a strong archetype, pay attention