Today’s card is an unusual take on the Page category. In this self-published deck, the artist renames her Courts. The Pages become Muses. Here we see a nod to the woman in the moon image. But this one, for me, seems active. She isn’t going to stay on that moon for long. She’s got a sword to take up. There’s action that needs to happen.
Pages are often the card for messages. Rather than taking a message, it looks to me like our Muse of Swords is having a message brought to her. Perhaps she is simply the go-between.
I often feel like that. As though the messages I bring to my clients were coming from something Other. I’ve called that Other many things finally landing on Universe as the best word to encompass what that is.
Another reader and I swapped readings. She told me that I was being called to be more open about my connection with Spirit. I told her that scared the poop out of me. I have been doing this work since 1980 when I first picked up the cards for real (I had a brief flirtation with divination tools when I was 11). I’m 51 now.
The moments in my life where I channeled someone’s dead relative have always startled me. But I’ve also come to know that I can’t not be the messenger. Who am I to judge what Spirit sends me?
My first incident of mediumship was pretty spontaneous. I was doing a phone reading (yes, I used to be a 1-900 psychic). The deep past showed Chariot Reversed. I blurted out that she’d lost someone in a car wreck on a mountain road early in the morning. He wanted her to know….
And she started to cry when I gave her the message. But it didn’t stop there. I described him along with her front room and patio area to her. I told her he had two messages. The one I didn’t understand was “Don’t move the big pots.”
Then she started laughing while she continued to cry. She told me that’s when she knew I was real. And she told me why.
Since then, I’ve lost track of the times I’ve gotten messages from the Other Side. It’s humbling really as much as it is scary. I mean, really, seeing people who aren’t there is the stuff they make movies out of. I really do see dead people–just not as often as the Ghost Whisperer.
But what about you? Do you get messages that you are supposed to pass along? Do you ignore them because you think you might be thought bonkers?
Yeah, I get it. It’s not easy. But think of the joy you will bring to that one person the message was meant for. Isn’t that worth it?
Seek joy, y’all. Pass it on.
Muse of Swords, Rainbow Traveller, Carmen Waterman, 2012
oh oh oh – Arwen this looks gorgeous and you know that I’m always on the look out for interesting court cardss. Yet AGAIN you have pointed me in a new and gorgeous direction!
Ali x
Ali, I really like this one so far. 😀
Heehee! Oh, love these kinds of stories. I rarely talk to dead people any more in my own readings, but sometimes, they are persistent and I’ll forward their messages on to their loved ones. I only allow the loving dead folks to come through, heehee! 🙂 I’m selective, I’ll admit.
I loved that deck above. It’s gorgeous 🙂
I’ve never had a non-loving member come through. I’ve had a few who were pretty upset with their loved ones but it wasn’t meanness…always a warning.
I am intuitive and flirted with the idea of doing more with it. Wondered even if I am supposed to do something. But I don’t know if I want to. For instance, I have encountered spirits. They seemed to like to come to my apartment and hang out. So I just kept telling them they had to go. Then someone told me how to create a barrier around my home so I would only have invited guests. But I wondered for a while if I am supposed to do something with it. Give people messages. Tell them information that comes to me. Etc. But I am kind of a reticent hermit. Feels like more energy than I want to expend. More involved than I want to be. And that matters, right? Are there some people who are sort of intuitive lite? Who aren’t necessarily called to be involved?
Jeanine, I have turned it off at times. I needed to because I couldn’t control what was coming in. Lately though, it feels like I’m being told to make it happen. I love the idea of intuitive lite. I think when you are called, you can’t ignore it. I’m sure there are those who aren’t called yet. Maybe it’s the Universe’s idea of a deep bench?
I love the idea of not being called yet!! And the deep bench. Maybe that is what’s happening and I can revisit it when the kid is mostly raised. 🙂 But there’s some little idea at the back of my mind about merging it in some way with the work I do with personal style. I have made it more spiritual already by bringing in fashion feng shui. But I wonder if there is more, of an intuitive nature, that needs to get in there and be a part of the consultation process. Thanks so much for your response!
Great post, Arwen! Gorgeous card as well!
Patricia, I’ll bring this to our next Meetup. Really gorgeous.