CARD OF THE WEEKEND: April 23-24, 2022

 

Ivy

The Celtic Tree Oracle

by Liz and Colin Murray with art by Vanessa Card

April 23-24: From one of our kitchen windows, we keep track of the seasons of a neighboring building's wall of ivy. How lovely to watch and breathe in this gleaming expanse of green as it unfurls each spring.

Our Card of the Weekend, Ivy, comes from The Celtic Tree Oracle and reminds us of our hardy resilience and ability to adapt to the conditions of different environments. The labyrinthine spiral near the bottom of the image signifies an inner journey to the true Self.

For this weekend, set out or continue on that journey. Meditate on the many resources you have within. Perhaps, write a list so that you can see them in front of you, appreciate them, and not forget. There's powerful spellcasting in what you write.

See if you can breathe warm energy into those aspects of yourself that need encouragement, new life, new spirit. Make a good accounting of who you are--an invincible summer, as Albert Camus wrote:

"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible." (L'Été)

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Do you have a particular Tarot or other oracle card that you'd like to me explore and write about in the hummingwitch way?

Just email a good, clear jpg photo of your card to hummingwitch@gmail.com, and I'll incorporate its message, one way or another, into one of these posts. Let me know if you'd prefer your submission to be anonymous.

Thanks!

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CARD OF THE WEEKEND: January 22-23, 2022

 

Ioho/Yew

from The Celtic Tree Oracle

by Liz Murray and Colin Murray with art by Vanessa Card

 

January 22-23, 2022: This soulful deck, though technically owned by my wife, lives in my stash of collected decks. Although I had quite forgotten its existence, I can tell it's hers and not mine because she inscribed the side of its book with her name!

This series of CARD OF THE DAY posts has been a great excuse to revisit the many decks I've collected over decades--some bought, some delivered as review copies, some dearly loved, some regretted. (There are some you'll never see featured on this blog because...Tarot artists, what were you thinking?) It has also given me a longing for at least two decks I gave away years ago. I just bought a new copy of one of those, happily still available at a normal price, and we might take a look at that one next week!

For this weekend, here's a card--Ioho, or Yew--from The Celtic Tree Oracle, which pleases the tree-hugger in me. To hug this particular tree, though, you might find yourself mystically transported into an ancient cemetery where--authors Liz Murray and Colin Murray tell us--the Breton Celts of France believed these yews "grow a root into the open mouth of each corpse." A fascinating image I now cannot shake. Okay...

Ioho/Yew brings word of life springing from death and decay. In that way, its Tarot equivalent might be the Judgement card, number XX. Both are cards of awakening, rebirth, regeneration. The human figures in Judgement answer the angel's clarion call to arise. All hope is not lost.

Your contemplation for this weekend: 

What--in yourself, in your life--needs a wake-up call? What wishes to bring forth new life, a new beginning? What has been stuffed away--like this deck!--and wants a fresh chance out in the world?

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