These days, I'm not much for spiritual and\/or religious stuff. I suppose I have little faith in the nonmeasurable. Or I think I do.<\/p>\n
That said, I very much like to to do a card reading (Tarot and\/or other) each New Year. For focus, even if I forget it all by February (yep. has happened). This year, I did a 4-card layout with closed-eye cutting of four decks:<\/p>\n
North: Froud's and MacBeth's Faerie Oracle<\/a> Deck: Honesty Well now. I take away from this that inner clarity is possible, likely, but still have to work for it. Still, possible! A good thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These days, I'm not much for spiritual and\/or religious stuff. I suppose I have little faith in the nonmeasurable. Or I think I do. That said, I very much like to to do a card reading (Tarot and\/or other) each New Year. For focus, even if I forget it all… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193],"tags":[112,194,5],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natter","tag-magic","tag-mind-body-and-soul","tag-mythical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-4r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1983,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-another-reading-mouse\/","url_meta":{"origin":275,"position":0},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ another reading mouse","author":"Kir","date":"4 July 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I really like reading mice","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/7802ab34b1988bc4c21e9fab2c6aed16.jpg?fit=820%2C938&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/7802ab34b1988bc4c21e9fab2c6aed16.jpg?fit=820%2C938&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/7802ab34b1988bc4c21e9fab2c6aed16.jpg?fit=820%2C938&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/7802ab34b1988bc4c21e9fab2c6aed16.jpg?fit=820%2C938&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1624,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-reading-to-the-shroomfae\/","url_meta":{"origin":275,"position":1},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ reading to the ShroomFae","author":"Kir","date":"25 November 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A pencil drawing one evening while three of us were feeling a bit under the weather.","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4542-2-1.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4542-2-1.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4542-2-1.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4542-2-1.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1052,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-winter-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":275,"position":2},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ winter reading","author":"Kir","date":"7 December 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I guess in a way this is sort of like last month\u2019s sketch. 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\nEast: Bestiary Deck: Kyoht's Aye-Aye<\/a> (6 of diamonds)
\nSouth: Goddess Deck: Contemplation \/ Chang O<\/a>
\nWest: Rider-Waite: High Priestess<\/a><\/p>\n
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