Under the Surface

I promised everyone I would show you how I do a Litany Against Fear tarot reading once I got my Dune Bene Gesserit Tarot Deck , and I'm here to keep that promise! This is a reading I created a couple of years ago to use the Litany Against Fear as a map for analyzing one's own fears. Each line has something assigned to it to look at.  My usual approach to showing how I do this would be to create a temporary imaginary friend who wants a reading. I did this before to give an example of what to expect from a personal three card reading. I never share readings I've done for other people.  There's nothing to stop me from sharing a reading I've done for myself, though, and life has given me a perfect situation for this! My family just found out a few days ago that we're going to have to move. It's unexpected and overwhelming, and nothing is certain yet other than we have to move. There's a lot of fear right now. I'll show you the cards, then break things ...

I got a new deck of cards! It's the Dune Bene Gesserit Tarot Deck , and time spent getting familiar with them has shown me these will be cards I want to use often. I created a reading a couple of years ago that is based on the Litany Against Fear, and I now have the perfect cards for doing that reading! I promise I will share it here, but we're just doing three cards today.  These weekly readings are quick general readings to give something to focus on or think about for the week. If you want a personal reading, I have spots open . There are tarot, tarot and oracle cards, and dice divination readings for you to choose from. Readings are emailed to you as a detailed pdf report that walks you through my whole process. I can tell you now that I'll probably use the Dune deck often for the Life Journey reading.  (Three tarot cards laid out in a row. From left to right: Five of Crysknives (Swords), The Fool, and Justice. The rest of the cards are face down in a nearb...

We're back to using cards for our weekly readings, and I'm using the Wildwood deck today.  (Three cards from the Wildwood Tarot laid out in a line on a very colorful cloth. From left to right: Eight of Vessels - Rebirth, Four of Bows - Celebration, Four of Vessels - Boredom.) In this deck, Cups are Vessels and Bows are Wands. A time of rebirth is not comfortable. It may be something you want, like getting a new job and moving to a place you've wanted to live for some time. It still comes with a lot of tearing things down so you can rebuild them, or build new things from them. That can seriously wear on you. And some rebirths just are not a happy event at all. When you've made it through, the new life on the other side can be exhilarating! Or maybe you're assuming it will be since you're still in all the joy of "YES! I made it! I won!"  You might want to make a plan, though, to make sure you keep going. You deserve the joy, but it will burn ...

We'll be back to using cards for weekly readings next week. Right here, right now, it's our last dice reading for celebrating my Roll for Divination! book having been out for a year! All of the weekly readings this month have been samples of what the book teaches you about working with the dice divination system I developed. You can find options for where to buy the book here , and all the options that are not Kindle offer both epub and pdf.  I've been using dice that match for all of these reads, but I just poured my dice bag out and grabbed d6s from three different sets today. We're doing the reading to shine light on a possibly overlooked detail about something, show the key for handling the situation, and give guidance on which path to take. We've got a 5 on the brown piece, and I promise you the strange symbols on the blue and purple pieces are both 6. Each piece in those sets has a symbol in place of the highest number. The 5 tells us to look at h...

I wanted to show everyone how the Platonic Solids reading from my book Roll for Divination ! works, but there's a lot of explanation for that one, and I don't think it would work well for these general readings. If you want a personal reading, I can do that one or readings with cards . You'll get a detailed pdf report emailed to you.  I can do a reading that draws inspiration from the Platonic Solids reading, though! And if you want to learn how to do that reading and the others I've been showing you this month, choose where you want to buy the book . We'll have one more week after this that I do a dice reading to celebrate the book having been out for one year!  In the Platonic Solids reading, each of the dice is a different shape and aligns with things like elements. I'm taking some inspiration from that and looking at d6 (Earth) as what can ground you, and d4 (Fire) as what can inspire and drive you. (A purple d6 landed on 4, and a purple d4 lande...

We're on our third dice reading celebrating my book Roll for Divination! being out for a year! I'm doing a different type of reading than I've done the past couple of weeks, and it's also one I teach you how to do in the book. The book has much more in-depth explanations than I give in these quick weekly readings, and this will take you to all the available options for buying it .  We're looking at what a yes/no/maybe reading for the coming week. The focus is on success in what one is working on this week. These are general readings for advice, so I can't look at specific things that only apply to maybe one or two people.  We've got two d10s, one being percentile (10, 20, 30, etc instead of 1, 2, 3, 4 etc) and having landed on 20, the other having landed on 2.  My first thought was, "It's a follow-up to last week's reading !" It already stood out last week that all three dice landed on 2, so it was a surprise to have it happen ...