Odinsday? Odin (Woden) is the source of our name for Wednesday. Plus I have an irrational like for alliteration. On Wednesday (generally speaking, barring last minute squirrel rave changes) I’ll post a reading from an oracle card, or in this case, one of the unconventional or expansion pack cards from the Alleyman’s Tarot. I plan to combine the Alleyway Oracle cards when they arrive with this portion of the Alleyman’s deck. That will give me one huge Alley based RWS -ish Tarot deck and one huge oracle-ish deck. You’ll probably see both a lot because the Alley aesthetic that Publishing Goblin has created with all of the “alley” cards to day remain my favorite to date.
“Learn With Me” posts will take the place of oracle posts on Wednesdays if one of those series are in progress.
Today – back to the Alley. One of the many things I love about The Alleyman’s Tarot is the way Seven Dane Asmund not only gives broad permission for the deck to be customized by the purchaser, but it was intended for that, which perfectly fits the herd of cats that is Tarot readers at large. The whole point of the deck being mis-matched and eclectic from the very start is so cards can be added and subtracted and made into something entirely unique and intensely personalized to the reader using it. A master artist’s skill is evident in any medium, but the experience is synergistically and exponentially elevated for everyone when superior tools are used. It’s like the relationship between a master painter and superior pigments, a master chef and the freshest ingredients, or a master violinist and a Stradivarius violin.
My thing has been to separate the traditional-structure Tarot cards from the “Strange Suit” and “Other Arcana” cards. When they arrive, I’ll add the Alleyway Secret Oracle cards from the more recent Publishing Goblin LLC deck and use the sum total for our Odinsday Oracle posts. As always I’m grateful for permission to use the cards here and in social media posts.
This particular card is the “Traitor” from the mid-1800s Grand Etteilla deck in the French National Library.
The weird thing is that I’m in a little bit of an “I got nothin'” place with the card even though it speaks volumes to me on a personal extended family thing that I’m not going to talk about here because privacy (btw – I go just as hard protecting YOUR privacy, even with the ASK ME ANYTHING questions that are answered in the blog)
It doesn’t help that this is such a succinct, straightforward card. It reminds me of Corban Dallas’ one word answers in the Ruby Rhod scene.
The card is just what it says. Someone’s trust has been betrayed. Are you the betrayed or the betrayer? Where have you made mistakes and misteps either in placing your trust or allowing trust to be placed in you?
Today’s oracle Traitor resonates with Monday’s Five of Cups
No matter which direction it flows, disappointment and betrayal are difficult emotions to process. They are hard mistakes to learn from and all the more painful is there is choice or deliberate action as any part of the situation.
Sometimes you just have to sit with those feelings, experience the whole thing, maybe even wallow for a short while in order to reach a place where you can let the emotions go and things can start to change for the better.
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Queen of Bombs: Denying the darkness has never lit a candle.
I don’t know if it was Odin’s day, but it was a day.
Enduring comfort is an illusion. Nothing is certain. It isn’t pretty or pleasant, but neither is life. Not all of the time, anyway.
To deny the realities of life is as toxic and dangerous as any other risk or challenge life brings – perhaps more so because of its disguises. The most dangerous disguise of denial is that of comfort.
Tarot is labeled occult and evil, usually by those who wish to wrap us all in the paralytic comfort of their own delusions and desperation for control. Tarot has has dark and violent imagery representing the darker sides of human nature because darkness exists and Tarot is meant to help us cope with it, perhaps even thrive in it.
Denying the darkness has never lit a candle.
The Queen of Bombs comforts us not through glassy eyed and fanatical devotion to an impossible ideal, but by reminding us of the fleeting moments and reminding us of the endless human capacity to believe it just might be OK in time after all.
The Queen of Bombs card was created by Seven Dane Asmund for the Alleyman’s Tarot Deck. Deck used with permission.
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