CARDS OF THE DAY: November 4, 2021

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

 

Page of Swords (reversed)

from Jerico Mandybur's Neo Tarot, 

illustrated by Daiana Ruiz

Page of Swords Reversed and Lenormand's Clouds

One thing that reversed Swords cards can suggest is sheathing one's metaphorical sword for a time. In this case, the young, studious Page of Swords is advising you to turn your attention inward, to "hold that thought!" Keeping one's own counsel and not being so swift (a characteristic of the airy, lightning-fast Swords) to let loose and verbalize one's thoughts might be the smarter (less impulsive, less aggressive) move for this particular moment.

Lenormand's Clouds card adds its own note of caution against impulsive action or speech at a time of fogginess and potential confusion. Wait until those clouds clear--as they will--and then make your informed, precise, properly assertive move.

In the meantime, settle in, rest, hang out with your Inner Self.

CARD(S) OF THE DAY: November 2-3, 2021

Queen of Wands 

from Jerico Mandybur's Neo Tarot, 

illustrated by Daiana Ruiz

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Queen of Wands, Neo Tarot: Tarot’s Queens have profound, 360-degree, multidimensional knowledge. Be assured that you are completely surrounded by a warm, powerful force while action is being taken on your behalf. The Queen’s got you.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

The Emperor. Appreciate the role of purpose, structure, and precision in all manifest things. Respect that when you see it around you--and within you, too.

The return of hummingwitch???

Eva Yaa Asantewaa

(Photo: selfie against white wall; Eva is a Black Caribbean woman elder with medium-dark skin, close-cropped grey hair, and rosy lipgloss. She's smiling broadly and wearing a black winter coat with a light-gold-colored knitted scarf around her neck.)

 

Hey, there, readers! 

This blog, hummingwitch, hasn't had a new post since 2015!!!! But I'm thinking of bringing her back!

In the meantime, I hope you'll visit my site here!

I hope your Samhain/Halloween was magickal, and I wish you a great late-year holiday season all around!

Many blessings,

Eva

Happy Beltane!

Bright blessings 

for a delightful Beltane!

Northern Mockingbird at Wave Hill
(c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Interview with Korean dancer-shaman Hi-ah Park

At the initiation ceremony, the minyong was placed leading onto the upstage portion of the house as a bridge between the heaven and the earth. To test my psychic ability and to determine if I could identify the deities who had descended on me, my Godmother and her assistant shaman, who serves as a messenger, sat at the end of the minyong, in a sense ending in heaven. A straw mat was placed downstage. Each question asked by the head shaman was repeated by her assistant. Instead of answering the questions directly, I began dancing. Then, kneeling down on the straw mat, I answered the questions orally. The dance seemed to heighten the trance state so that my answer came without thinking as if I know everything already.

The first question was, “If you become a shaman, through which gate will you enter?”

I started singing in an occult nature, previously unknown to me. Again I danced until possessed and knelt down to wait for the next question.

--Hi-ah Park as interviewed by Lauren W. Deutsch

Read more at:

Meeting With Sanshin:
An Interview with Hiah Park, Lover of the Mountain God
by Lauren W. Deutsch, Kyoto Journal, 1993

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