On Twitter, we’ve got a few things going – #amtarot, #pmtarot, and #3card. A morning card, a night card, and a 3 card reading. Well, this week, over at The Epiphanic Oath, Teo Bishop (the blog’s author) decided to give us a new idea. Instead of reading the cards for us and posting it, Teo decided to post the card images from the Alchemical Tarot on the blog and let us read the cards and comment on them. We could either read the Alchemical Tarot images, or we could read from our own decks if we preferred. The images on the site more or less demanded that I read them, so I did. 
I don’t have the images for the cards, but if you visit A Community #3card Spread you can see the images of the cards. So without further adieu, here is my take on those three cards.
K of Swords – 8 of Swords – 3 of Wands
(K)A regal being, filled with honor and tradition. May have always done things the traditional way, and always in an honorable manner. Focused on moving forward always, keeping to the one path before you. (8) Though you still guard the traditions & honor you’ve always held to in the past, you are also on a path towards breaking those traditions. There are many other ways to get to where you want or need to be, not all of them being traditional. Looking back, you see that you’ve taken just one road, while ahead there are many roads to choose from. (3) A new path has been chosen, a new journey begun. You look to the horizon and sail off in search of that which you seek. You’ve broken from your traditional road to find that other paths provide the honor you seek and the outcomes you desire.
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My favorite Tarot deck is missing a card. 
If I recall correctly, I am missing the Ace of Cups to my Tarot of a Moon Garden deck. This will not stop me *unless that card is pulled* from starting to participate in the #1card and #nightcard discussions on Twitter with @WeiserBooks, giving my insights from that deck. I did start tonight with the #nightcard discussion. However, if they pull the Ace of Cups I’m up a creek. I was missing both the Ace and Two of Cups but found the Two. Now if only I could find the Ace. I want my Tarot deck together! I don’t even know how the cards got scattered. I found them that way and was able to find all but 2 of the cards, now 1 of the cards. *sigh* I hope I find it soon. I can’t afford another deck and frankly, I’m afraid that a new copy of the deck may not “talk” to me like my current one does.
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I suppose you could say that I am suffering from an acute case of apathy at the moment. Blogging has taken on a rather boring quality for some reason. Part of it was the death of my best friend’s dad. (Previous post mentioned that he was on the verge of passing.) The hardest part for me with that was for the past 20 years, he’s been MY dad as well, as my dad passed away in 1987. So yeah – my surrogate dad is now gone as well, so I’ve been on the verge of crying half the time over the past 2 weeks.
Another thing is that lately I’ve taken up listening to all my old Christian CDs and listening to Christian radio stations. A lot of the songs I can actually manage to change the lyrics enough to suit being a Wiccan, but still. It’s been rather weird. Of course, I like a lot of the songs and just because they’re Christian doesn’t mean they aren’t good songs. I know that my best friend harbors the hope that I’ll “return” to Christianity and give up on Wicca, but that doesn’t feel like the right thing to do. While Christianity holds curiosity and questions for me, it doesn’t fill me with any longing to be one again.
However it does raise the question – what does one do when one has no offline friends who are Wiccan? My only Wiccan friends are online. I haven’t met anyone at work that is Wiccan (I changed jobs in December) or Pagan. Nobody I know offline is Wiccan at all. All of my Wiccan friends are online, and they’re not people I speak with on a regular basis. I may email them on occasion and we comment on each other’s blogs, but other than that, we don’t IM. Oh and we Twitter. LOL So what does one do when one is alone?
They think. A lot. About what they want. About trying to keep their faith strong in what they believe while others are trying to change them. While others are “witnessing” to them about how great everything is for them. Funny, I don’t see them having any less problems than I have. But that’s another story entirely.
And for the record – I didn’t intentionally drop out of the Weiser Book Club. I lost track of everything with best friend’s dad’s death and memorial service and was never able to pick it back up. In fact, I still haven’t finished the book. *sigh*
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