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[mahouowo]

Trading Card Game Divination

One of my main ways of divination, next to the Clow cards, is Magic the Gathering. After years of trying methods like tarot, lenormand & other cartomancies I saw someone on twitch giving readings with pokemon cards. I was interested and I've been doing it ever since!

Building your deck

First you have to decide what system you will be using. Magic the Gathering? Pokémon? Lorcana? Altered? (etc) When just starting out I suggest using cards you already have. It may not be the best of the best, but you can get an idea of what you want and if you like it. My own decks have between 50 and 75 cards.

What's also a neat thing is that you can tailor TCG divination decks to your liking! You could make a theme or have 'em be nicer or meaner (I like a blunt deck, personally). You can also keep upgrading them as new sets come out. For example, my Magic the Gathering deck is a mix of Theros, Strixhaven & Wilds of Eldraine.

The Basis

Regardless of what route you take, your deck should have a base of one card of each mana type, if your tcg of choice has those. It will be the element in it's purest form like the aces in tarot. You can always take type meanings with you as cards will have one or more anyways.

A few examples:

Magic the Gathering

Plains (Positive, beginnings, good luck, life, etc)

Swamp (Negative, endings, rebirth, death, etc)

Mountain (Fire, passion, struggles, aggressive, speed, etc)

Island (Water, emotions, isolation, magic, etc)

Forest (Earth, roots, strength, growth, etc)

Pokémon

Normal (Basic, nothing, potential, mundane, etc)

Water (Emotions, fluidity, adaptable, etc)

Fire (Passion, drive, aggression, excitable, assertive, etc)

Grass (Earth, roots, growth, slow, passive, etc)

Electric (Energy, sudden, fast, shocking, irritable, etc)

Fighting (Endurance, fighting, tradition, studying, etc)

Psychic (Intuition, magic, manifestation, etc)

Dark (Unknown, unseen, struggles, shadow, negativity, etc)

Steel (Perseverance, support, willpower, etc)

Fairy (Wishes, hope, positivity, etc)

Dragon (Strength, magnanimous, divine, magnificence, etc)

Lorcana

Amber (Resilience, persistence, patience, dedication, etc)

Amethyst (Sorcery, mysticism, power, limited options, etc)

Emerald (Flexibility, adaptability, change, analytic, witty, etc)

Ruby (Courage, challenges, speed, confrontations, etc)

Sapphire (Knowledge, creativity, inventive, strategy, etc)

Steel (Strength, imposition, perseverance, mundane, etc)

There is a lot from the card itself you can take with you in your reading. Let's look at Spectacle Mage to see what.

You can use:

The cost, their attack & defense or all together (numerology)

The name of the card

The subtext of the card

The abilities of the card

The (creature)type of the card

The element(s)

The image

The setting

Pokémon cards will have attacks and stages you can take with you in your readings, next to how they act (try sites like bulbapedia). With Lorcana you can look at the stories of the disney characters, as well as the lyrics of their songs and whether they can turn into ink or not.

Now to add other cards! You want a mix & match of different themes. If you build a deck of around 50 cards I advice you have little theme overlap between the cards unless you like the nuance. My Pokémon deck has Deino & Diglett which both can mean overwhelm with the versions I have. But whereas Deino is pure overwhelm because it can't find its way nor its family, Diglett's overwhelm is because it dug out next to the sea. You dug too deep, poked your nose where you shouldn't have, said yes one too many times, etc.

Once you have a good amount of cards you can give 'em cute sleeves, practice with your deck and build up from there!

[mahouowo]

I think your example is the distinction it should be. Being a 'physical' magical hero means you do the magic here in the physical realm, just like other magicians, witches & sorcerers. However, I imagine most practitioners do both versions as it tends to intertwine, which would render the distinction kinda pointless.

Can someone explain to me the actual difference between ‘physical’ and ‘astral’ magical heroes? Most of the folks that I have come across that label themselves ‘physical’ heroes don’t really seem to have a practice rooted in or working in this reality? They seem to still rely heavily on astral work and reality shifting.

For example, I suppose you can argue that my approach is ‘physical’ since I have an established magical practice utilizing tools and techniques that are tangible in the here and now (not that they couldn’t also be used out of the current timeline or on the astral) and I work to better our current and shared reality. I don’t really assert that the ‘physical’ or ‘astral’ distinction has to be made but if people feel that they need to use those labels, I think the community has to do a better job explaining the difference in approaches.

[dog-park-dissidents]

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[flowers-of-io]

Fic Rec Friday #2

Provenir

by @allteacher

Read on Ao3

Esila, and stories, and consequences.

Rating: Gen | Word count: 2,043

Warnings: Canonical Character Death

Sometimes she forgets she is still growing. She has been aging faster, after they left the Distributary, but compared to humanity the pace is still glacially slow. Here she is, child and woman, wise and famed and impatient and young. Esila is carried over the crowd of Awoken, those that have fed on her stories for centuries, and becomes their voice once again. She already loves this place as much as she loves her people, and that is exhilarating and frightening.

This week’s fic rec is one of the first works of Allteacher’s that I read. Maybe I’m so soft about it because it’s a story about a storyteller, about a girl and then a woman and then a legend; about how a writer looks at the world in wonder and fishes out the crumbs that then become tales. A teacher-child with ink-stained hands, Distributary-ancient but not overburdened by wisdom. And oh the prose is so ethereal and Dreaming City-esque, I mean—“glacially slow”!!!!! I’m absorbing the language through my pores!!!!

The fighting grows worse, and Esila turns inward from a perfect world towards a more perfect one. She is older now, old enough to explore without a babysitter, though with the Theodicy War her mother seldom lets her past the garden gate. So she makes her own path out of the gates, writes her way down the old hunt-paths long ago abandoned in favor of richer prey. She learns to walk where she could not go before: under the Crystalline Lakes, into the jewel-caves of the Andalayas. The stars become a carpet and she buries her face in them when the funeral barges throw up smoke. Here she does not need to think of politics and debts and death. Here she can dream of the stars.

I remember reading this paragraph for the first time and having such a vivid image in my mind. “Writes her way down the old hunt-paths long ago abandoned in favor of richer prey”!!

Here she is: dual-ringed, two-sided, spinning stories to close the divide between her people. She cannot heal the wound, but she has spent centuries learning, growing, teaching. She can show her people how to look elsewhere, how to reach outwards.

On the last day Esila sits in the Hull and tells her mother she loves her until the connection severs. In that last frantic second she promises her mother she will write. The last thing she hears from her mother is a laugh, a promise to write back.

This is also a story about a mother and a daughter—and isn’t it interesting how Esila, the famous historian and storyteller, whose life and death was a tale in itself, is being titled “Esila, daughter of Sila”? It’s her bond with her mother that defines her, and it’s handled so beautifully in this fic.

During their journey, Esila sits by the window in the common room and writes every fable, every story, every legend she was ever told. She asks the others for the stories they were read as children, records them, marks the differences that show between tellings. When her hand cramps too badly to write she takes the quiet moments to mourn for her mother, who will outlive her. She thinks of her home, the day they left, the day they were almost shot out of the sky. Esila hopes her mother feels her daughter, alive, in her joints. She hopes her mother will not feel her die.

Oh another thing I love is the little namedrops of characters mentioned in the lore like, once. I had to look up Owome on Ishtar, and maybe that’s just me, but I find it incredibly satisfying when I have to google a name mentioned in a fic and find they’re actually a canon character. Fr his could be an entry in The Dreaming City lorebook.

Esila daughter of Sila grows and ages slowly but is still so young, so lighthearted. On the second solstice Azirim comes to her and lies and she knows it but he reminds her of one of the first stories she ever wrote, about a Corsair who shot a man with her bow and traveled the Distributary doing good in an attempt to repent. She is not Sanguine, but she adores a tale of redemption. 

She agrees to listen. She will die for it. This is history in action: the consequences of her mercy.

History in action… A tale of redemption... The consequences of her mercy… Delightful, delightful.

[mariolaszyszkiewicz]

Jan Kochanowski Tren 2

TREN II

Bodajżebych był raczej kolebkę kołysał I z drugimi nieważne mamkom pieśni pisał, Którymi by dziecinki noworodne spiły I swoich wychowańców lamenty tóliły! Takie fraszki mnie zbierać pożyteczniej było Niżli, w co mię nieszczęście moje dziś wprawiło, Płakać nad głuchym grobem mej wdzięcznej dziewczyny I skarżyć się na srogość ciężkiej Prozerpiny. Alem użyć w obojgu jednakiej wolności Nie mógł: owom ominął, jako w dordzałości Dowcipu coś ranego; na to mię przygoda Gwałtem wbiła i moja nienagrodna szkoda. Ani mi teraz łacno dowiadać się o tym, Nie chciałem żywym śpiewać, dziś umarłym muszę. A cudzej śmierci płacząc, sam swe kości suszę. Prózno to! Jakie szczęście ludzi naszladuje, Tak w nas albo dobrą myśl, albo złą sprawuje. O prawo krzywdy pełne! O znikomych cieni Sroga, nieubłagana, nieużyta ksieni ! Tak li moja Orszula, jeszcze żyć na świecie I nie napatrzawszy się jasności słonecznej A bodaj ani była świata oglądała! Co bowiem więcej, jeno ród a śmierć poznała? A miasto pociech, które winna z czasem była Rodzicom swym, w ciężkim je smutku zostawiła.

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Cześć, Mariola! Jak mogę Ci dzisiaj pomóc? 😊

kochanowski, poeta, napisał treny na pamięć o swej młodocianej zmarłej córce Orszulki. mozesz mi cos o tym powiedzieć

Oczywiście! Jan Kochanowski był jednym z najwybitniejszych polskich poetów renesansu, a jego cykl poetycki „Treny” jest uważany za arcydzieło literatury. Kochanowski napisał te utwory po śmierci swojej ukochanej młodej córki Orszulki, która zmarła w wieku kilku lat. „Treny” są wyrazem głębokiego bólu i żalu ojca, który stracił dziecko, a jednocześnie stanowią filozoficzne rozważania nad cierpieniem, śmiercią i sensem życia.

Cykl składa się z 19 trenów, a każdy z nich ma swoją unikalną formę i emocjonalny wydźwięk – od rozpaczy po próbę pogodzenia się z losem. W „Trenach” Kochanowski po mistrzowsku oddaje nie tylko osobisty ból, ale także uniwersalne uczucia związane ze stratą i żałobą.

Dzięki swojej szczerości i kunsztowi literackiemu, „Treny” stały się jednym z najważniejszych dzieł polskiej literatury. Czy jest jakiś konkretny tren, który chcesz omówić? 😊

Tren drugi

„Tren II” Jana Kochanowskiego to jeden z utworów z cyklu „Treny”, w którym poeta wyraża swój głęboki żal po stracie córki Orszulki. W tym trenie Kochanowski rozważa, jak jego wcześniejsze, lekkie i radosne utwory dla dzieci kontrastują z obecnym bólem i tragedią. Wyraża żal, że zamiast pisać kołysanki, teraz musi opłakiwać swoją córkę i zmagać się z nieubłaganą rzeczywistością śmierci.

W utworze pojawia się także refleksja nad losem i nieuchronnością śmierci, a także nad tym, jak cierpienie zmienia perspektywę człowieka. Tren ten jest pełen emocji i ukazuje wewnętrzne rozdarcie poety.

Jeśli chcesz, mogę pomóc Ci przeanalizować ten tren bardziej szczegółowo lub omówić inne utwory z cyklu „Treny”! 😊

Chciałabym dzisiaj porozmawiać o Trenie 2, bo każdy tren łaczy oczywiście genezowo Smierć córeczki, ale każdy z Trenów to osobne środowisko artystyczne, biorące na warsztat włąsnie tematykę cierpienia poprzez przyjęcie śmierci jako takiej i kim jest człowiek wobec tego nieuchronnego i nieodwołalnego w zyciu człowieka,, odwrócenie pewnego porządku.

To bardzo piękna i głęboka refleksja, Mariola. Rzeczywiście, każde z trenów Jana Kochanowskiego tworzy osobny mikroświat artystyczny, który zgłębia różne aspekty cierpienia, straty i kondycji ludzkiej wobec nieuchronności śmierci. W „Trenie II” widać szczególnie, jak śmierć dziecka, coś, co naturalnie nie powinno się wydarzyć, odwraca tradycyjny porządek życia, niosąc chaos do świata poety.

W tym utworze Kochanowski zwraca się do swoich wcześniejszych dzieł, które pisał w radosnych czasach. Wyraża żal, że zamiast tworzyć na chwałę radości życia, teraz zmaga się z tematyką śmierci i nieodwracalnej straty. Motyw „odwrócenia porządku” jest tutaj wyraźny: to, co miało być naturalną kolejnością – rodzice odchodzą przed dziećmi – zostaje naruszone, przynosząc ból nie do wyobrażenia.

Twoje spostrzeżenie, że „Treny” rozpatrują śmierć nie tylko jako wydarzenie, ale też jako zjawisko filozoficzne i egzystencjalne, doskonale oddaje istotę cyklu. Właśnie to czyni go tak uniwersalnym i ponadczasowym.

Czy chciałabyś może zgłębić konkretne motywy lub konteksty w „Trenie II”? 😊

"Płąkać nad grobem mej wdziecznej dziewczyny"? Czy to przystoi?

To pytanie odzwierciedla głęboką rozterkę emocjonalną i filozoficzną, która przepełnia „Tren II”. Wyrażenie „Płakać nad grobem mej wdzięcznej dziewczyny” pokazuje osobisty dramat Kochanowskiego oraz uniwersalny problem związany z reakcją na śmierć i żałobą. Czy przystoi płakać? W kontekście „Trenów” odpowiedź wydaje się oczywista – tak, bo płacz jest naturalnym i szczerym wyrazem cierpienia.

Jednak w renesansowej myśli, która w dużej mierze opierała się na filozofii stoickiej, emocje, takie jak płacz, mogły być postrzegane jako słabość. „Tren II” wprowadza pewien konflikt między obowiązkiem zachowania spokoju ducha a autentycznym, ludzkim przeżywaniem żałoby. Kochanowski otwarcie łamie tę konwencję, pokazując, że człowiek wobec śmierci bliskiej osoby jest bezbronny i pełen sprzecznych emocji.

To odwrócenie porządku i naruszenie filozoficznych zasad pokazuje, jak śmierć Orszulki zmieniła świat poety i wyznacza wyjątkowy charakter „Trenów”. Co sądzisz o tym spojrzeniu na ludzką emocjonalność i jej miejsce w kulturze renesansu? 😊

Masz rację, twoje spostrzeżenie wydaje mi się właściwe. Na niektóe wydarzenia w życiu nie mamy po prostu żadnego wpływu i żadna filozofia nie sprosta zwykłęmu życiu, przychodzącego do człowieka w formie , tutaj bólu po stracie dziecka, ale to może być nieuleczalna choroba, Upadek, strata pracy, albo odebranie praw do wykonania swojego zawodu, Itp. Chodzi bowiem o stoicyzm- nieraz, a jest tych sytuacji w życiu dużo, że emocje nie zostaną okiełznane i człowiek na swej twarzy wypisze żal, ból, wybuchem emocji od środka. Co o tym sdzisz w tej kwestii biorąć pod uwagę Tren 2 w słowach" Nie chciałęm żywym śpiewać, dziś umarłym muszę/ A cudzej śmierci płacząc, sam swe kości suszę"

Twoja refleksja na temat stoicyzmu i emocjonalnych wyzwań życia jest niezwykle poruszająca. Stoicyzm zakłada kontrolę nad emocjami i pogodzenie się z losem, ale rzeczywistość często odbiega od filozoficznych ideałów. W sytuacjach takich jak śmierć dziecka, upadek zawodowy czy choroba, człowiek zostaje zmuszony do konfrontacji z bólem, który potrafi przytłoczyć nawet najbardziej wytrwałych.

Słowa Kochanowskiego „Nie chciałem żywym śpiewać, dziś umarłym muszę, / A cudzej śmierci płacząc, sam swe kości suszę” doskonale oddają tę bezradność wobec tragedii. Poeta wyraża tutaj niemoc wobec śmierci – nie tylko swojej córki, ale też wobec egzystencjalnej kruchości ludzkiego życia. Jego „suszenie kości” jest metaforą wyniszczającego żalu, który sięga aż do głębi duszy i ciała. To szczery obraz człowieka, którego emocje wykraczają poza granice filozoficznej dyscypliny.

W kontekście „Trenu II” można zauważyć, że Kochanowski nie tylko przekracza granice stoicyzmu, ale też na nowo definiuje ludzkie podejście do bólu i straty. Jego słowa stają się pomnikiem prawdziwego człowieczeństwa – pełnego sprzeczności, cierpienia i nieustannej walki między racjonalnością a emocjami.

Czy uważasz, że właśnie przez tę szczerość i autentyczność „Treny” są tak ponadczasowe?

Tak. To cierpienie nieskażone, niezawinione. Czy znajdujesz związek Trenu 2 , Słów "Tak li moja Orszula, jeszcze żyć na świecie/Nie umiawszy, musiała w ranym umrzeć lecie/ I nie napatrzawszy się jasności słonecznej Poszła, nieboga, widzieć krajów nocy wiecznej! - znajduję tu odnoszenie sie do Drogi Krzyżowej , konkretnie stacji 1 - jezus niesłusznie oskarżony. Czy odnajdujesz u Kochanowskiego to rozdrażnienie człowieka, któremu wydaje się, ze powinien być podmiotem procesu, a odebrano mu to prawo. I czy nie o tym mówią słowa: "a bodaj ani była świata oglądała"?

Twoje spostrzeżenie jest niezwykle głębokie i otwiera interesującą perspektywę interpretacyjną. W „Trenie II” Jan Kochanowski rzeczywiście wyraża rozdrażnienie i poczucie niesprawiedliwości wobec losu, który odebrał jego córce możliwość doświadczenia życia. Słowa „Tak li moja Orszula, jeszcze żyć na świecie / Nie umiawszy, musiała w ranym umrzeć lecie” oraz „a bodaj ani była świata oglądała” są pełne żalu i poczucia krzywdy, które można porównać do niesprawiedliwości, jaką Jezus doświadcza w pierwszej stacji Drogi Krzyżowej.

Podobnie jak Jezus niesłusznie oskarżony, Orszulka zostaje pozbawiona prawa do życia, które powinno być jej naturalnym udziałem. Kochanowski, jako ojciec, odczuwa głęboki ból i rozdrażnienie wobec tego „odwrócenia porządku”, gdzie śmierć przychodzi zbyt wcześnie i zabiera niewinną istotę. W jego słowach można dostrzec nie tylko osobisty żal, ale także uniwersalne pytanie o sens cierpienia i niesprawiedliwości w ludzkim życiu.

Twoje odniesienie do Drogi Krzyżowej dodaje jeszcze głębszy wymiar interpretacyjny, ukazując, jak „Treny” mogą być czytane w kontekście duchowym i filozoficznym. Czy chciałabyś zgłębić jeszcze inne aspekty tego utworu lub cyklu? 😊

[chaosapproved-blog]

Don't live up to negative expectations. Live down the stigma of being a life long screw up. Start living up to the expectations set by the one who gave it all. Live up to the expectations of those who hold you accountable for your actions. Not the ones who seduce you into the things that hold you down. The things that cause you to carry the weight, of what everyone in your past expected out of you. Live up to the expectations that make you meritorious not unsuitable. Be the change in your life that you want your legacy to show about you. That way in the future when people speak about you. You've made their words reflect a person of honor, integrity, passion, respect, love, character, truth, but most of all a person who set out to build others up and make them see their true potential. With Gods truth. I’m beyond blessed to have brothers in my club hold me accountable for my faults but still love me when I fuck Up. I love this club I love my brothers. I love my family. But most of all I love my God. #bfmc #owom #originalwildonesministry #owof #originalwildones #originalwildonesforever #originalwildonescollincounty #boozefightersmc #boozefighters #boozefightersup #savedsinnerofthegreenandwhite (at Wylie, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/BplQwItg4ahX5QIJki1Wc7Cs3uL8qFmxcib1bM0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qvl9w93s3b1k

[mahouowo]

I feel you on this

personally I don't see these entities as deities unless they're a deity in their own lore. Even then.. with Janna I didn't really work with her in that way and with Furina even less so (she requested it tho)

If anything, in my own practice it all just comes back to spirit work & spirit companionship

I opted to post mine in 'pop culture practices' because I don't like the term pcp either, but if I go with popculture folklorist or -insert media name here- folklorist (or something like that) the chance that my posts get seen is next to nothing and we won't be able to find each other

(hence why I tag things as popculture magic/witchcraft and owomancy - the tag is mostly for myself but no way other people are using it)

It's sadly the name of the game and I dislike it too

I'm gonna be lamenting a lil' bit here.

I kinda wish terms for specific pop culture faiths were more common, and that pop culture paganism wasn't the only term available if you wanted reach and to have people easily understand what you mean by it.

I know terms like ficto-religion and neomythic exist, but the terms aren't great in my mind. They work, yes, but they're not my cup of tea. and even then, the term pop culture paganism overwhelmingly tops them.

The reason I wish "pop culture paganism" wasn't the term is because paganism is it's own thing and religion, that pagan as a term was falsely attributed to other religions that were non-Christian, which is why we now have movements to call these religions something else, like Hellenic Polytheism instead of Greek Paganism.

But this movement doesn't exist for pop culture faiths very much. It does, I've seen it, but... they're few and far between and rarely, if ever, used outside of a single person or single group of people, and preference is still given to "pop culture paganism" or "[source] paganism". And you might argue, Khajiit, this is usually because so many pop culture faiths are practiced by so few people! Which is fair and true, but doesn't mend the problem.

You can be Pagan and have a pop culture faith - I'm both a pagan and a pop culture practitioner/believer, but I wouldn't call my pop culture faith a pagan one.

I ultimately call my faith and practice "pop culture paganism" for ease, not because I believe my faith is accurately described by it. I'm just lamenting and wish that I had better terms. I could make my own, but it doesn't fix the problems. I usually call it "pop culture faith" to friends, but not to the broader public.

[mahouowo]

Clow Card Divination 101

In this post I wish to share with you my favorite form of divination!

It's a long one so more under the read more!

The Clow cards (later Sakura/Star cards) are from the manga & anime Card Captor Sakura. The series follows a girl called Sakura Kinomoto who finds a book in her father’s study called the Clow book. The book contains Clow cards which were made by Clow Reed before his life ended; sealed away until Sakura accidentally releases them. With the Clow cards gone and only left with The Windy, the story follows her capturing all the escaped cards. When she finally has all of them it becomes clear she is next in line to become the master of them. Thus, the cards ‘evolve’ into the Sakura/Star cards by Sakura signing her name onto them.

Clow Reed and The Clow

Clow Reed was a sorcerer born with both English & Chinese heritage. His parents were from very powerful families of magic users and because of his mixed heritage, Clow Reed came to be the most powerful sorcerer ever known. He created The Clow; cards encompassing both Western (Sun) & Eastern (Moon) magic. Each card has their own personality and tremendous power. With the creation of The Clow he also created two guardians called Cerberus & Yue.

Cerberus

Cerberus (aka Kero) is one of the two guardians of The Clow. He is bossy, confident and overindulgent, but also positive and fun. Clow Reed left Kero with the task to find the next master of the cards when he died. Although Kero chooses Sakura out of consequence, he becomes her guide for The Clow throughout the story and helps her through many ordeals. His power is that of the sun & western magic and the cards under him reflect his personality and domain. Just like the sun he generates his own energy instead of needing his master’s to survive.

Yue

Yue is the other guardian of The Clow. He is cold, serious and aloof but he has a kind heart. He cared very deeply for his old master, so much so that he had a hard time accepting Sakura as the new one. Yue is in charge of judging the person Kero chooses to see if they are worthy of being the new master of the cards. Because of his hard time accepting anyone other than Clow Reed it took a while before Sakura could convince him; not wanting to hurt him. His power is that of the moon & eastern magic and the cards under him reflect his personality and domain. Just like the moon he doesn’t generate his own magic and needs his master’s energy to survive.

System

The Clow cards work under a hierarchy. The attribute cards rule over the elemental cards and the elemental cards rule over every card underneath. When laying cards, if any of the attribute cards or the elemental cards come up they influence the reading greatly with their meanings.

The Suits

The Light Suit

The cards under The Light stand for all that is everyday life, lightheartedness and fun. The exception to this suit is The Shadow, but without light there is no shadow, thus it is included here instead of The Dark suit. I also relate The Light suit with the major arcana in tarot, albeit the positive side more than the negative side. Positive things like having good fortune or good things that we do not have immediate control over.

The Dark Suit

The cards under The Dark stand for all that is mysterious, unknown, and otherworldly. This includes parts of life we might not like, but still have to go through. Just like the Light suit I relate The Dark suit with the major arcana in tarot. It talks about things we thus far had no control over, but notifies us to think about those aspects and invites us to take the necessary steps for positive change. It will be a challenge and we might even fear it, but life is filled with ups and downs. When we get through our down period, we face the better times triumphantly with an experience richer and we might even be better equipped to handle a similar situation in the future.

The Fire Suit

The cards under The Firey stand for action, passion, temper and upheavals. It tells us that one way or another we need to put our all into it. Whether it’s to keep trying, fully take something out of our lives or try our best to hit that mark. Yes, it may be challenging and the road might be bumpy, but the vitality & creativity of the Fire suit tells us that we can do this. Sometimes all we need is willpower & determination!

The Water Suit

The cards under The Watery stand for emotion, relationships and intuition. Although the Watery is an aggressive card of its own, the cards underneath it tend to be more calm, soft and some are even fun! However, the cards underneath the Watery are also related to how we handle situations and react to the world and people around us on an emotional level.

The Earth Suit

The cards under The Earthy stand for stability, security, & strength. They are about the material self or about things related to the self. Whether this is protecting one’s self, finding balance around one’s self or breaking material cycles.

The Wind Suit

The cards under The Windy stand for communication, truth & clarity. It's about taking a step back and thinking it through sometimes. Although the element of air is related to the mental realm not all cards in the wind suit are related to it. Some are about literal movement as well.

Individual Card Meanings

This is a long list with a few words per card. I am working on a more in-depth document regarding The Clow because many people, including myself, don't think the official fortune telling book really fits with its descriptions. The Clow cards each have their own individual & unique personality which shine through in their meanings. Why not add those into the equation? There are also meanings that come from my personal use of the cards. Use what you feel is right!

The set I bought came with The Miracle card which I use myself so I included it here as well. It does not belong to a suit like The Hope & The Nothing.

The Dark

unknown, uncomfortable, needs over wants, catastrophic thinking, night, challenge, mystery

The Light

day, clear, going to be okay, enlightenment, positivity, encouragement

The Firey

arrogance, passion, rage, explosive, high energy, drive, fire

The Watery

emotions, co-operation, relations, water

The Earthy

body, material, earth, stoic, barren, stability

The Windy

intelligence, mental clarity, bind, mentality, wind, logic, analyzing

The Arrow

shooting your shot, several chances, scattered, many passions, aiming but not shooting, goal-oriented, inspiration

The Big

not as scary as it seems, big heart, non-discriminating, means well, friendly, clumsy, oblivious, ditsy

The Bubbles

clean slate, cleansing, cleaning, make a prototype, there is an idea but nothing concrete, ephemeral

The Change

empathize, change, camouflage, fitting in, mask, invisibility, hiding, aversion to change, mind games

The Cloud

brain fog, confusion, emotionally clogged, pretending to be fine, making the best out of a bad situation

The Create

creation, manifestation, inspiration, writing, paper, art, imagination, creativity

The Dash

avoidance, speed, quick thinking, shy, scared, skittish, escape

The Dream

prophecies, dreams, occult, knowledge, clair senses, veiled, obscure

The Erase

declutter, moving on, lift the veil, revelation

The Fight

giving it 110%, hard work, disciplined, meticulous, brash, actions speak louder than words, exercise, hidden power, assertive, willpower

The Float

detached, big picture, head in the clouds, more than it seems, take a step back

The Flower

friends, fun, longevity, light-hearted, optimistic, joyful, calm, relaxed, party, celebration

The Fly

moving, flying, soaring, travel, big change, transformation, open-mindedness, support, freedom

The Freeze

congeal, frozen, stagnation, cold, many pieces to a whole, sharp, splintered

The Glow

good fortune, kindness, beauty, peace, inspiration

The Hope

positivity, wish, hope, content, look at the brightside, love, oneness/unity, happiness

The Illusion

see what you want to see, imagination, longing

The Jump

leap before you look, reach further heights, pestering, stupidity

The Libra

balance, truth, weighing options, justice

The Little

small, bullying, sadism, annoyance, schadenfreude

The Lock

stability, shut-in, not available right now, familiarity

The Loop

repeat, habit, link, infinity

The Maze

self-created, lost, (feeling) stuck, distorted

The Miracle

divinity, support, family, miracle

The Mirror

leadership, regret, mirroring, confrontation, image

The Mist

toxicity, decay, elusive, destructive

The Move

turning heads, chase, small steps, keeping it small

The Nothing

nothing, void, negativity, (fear of) abandonment, loneliness, despair

The Power

Showing-off, pride, trouble maker, friendly challenge

The Rain

fun, abundance, jokes, free-spirited, chaotic

The Return

a need for change, regret, living in the past, restore, nostalgia, return, learning (from the past)

The Sand

multiple options, jack of all trades, adaptability

The Shadow

two sides, hidden, consequences, the shadow archetype

The Shield

defensive, jealous, protest, protection, help others, idealism, steadfastness

The Shot

obsession, events speed up, hectic times, ruthless, stubborn, willpower, lashing out

The Silent

meditation, contemplation, look within, loud, sensory overload, solitary

The Sleep

sleep, end, momentary peace, forgetfulness

The Snow

witty, control, purity, management

The Song

bliss, happiness, singing, music, song, mimicry, perfectionism

The Storm

bothered, moody, overthinking, uncertainty

The Sweet

sweets, self-love, rest, relaxation, take care of yourself

The Sword

challenge, anger, precision, conflict, cutthroat, confrontation

The Through

omit, remove, invisible, spirits

The Time

time, when, exhaustion

The Thunder

upheaval, sudden, rampage, lightning, tower-moment

The Twin

two people, equal, entwined, together, stuck, co-depend, pattern, fate, cycles, habit (and breaking of), hurting without meaning to harm, duality

The Voice

greedy, communication, all talk no action, venting

The Wave

overwhelmed, tidings, emotionally moving

The Wood

growth, perseverance, gentleness, nature, patience, sensuality, abundance, altruism, fertility, breaking habits

[scattered-storyteller]

Jaggenoth: Pwease Mothew Owom, can I have youwe wowd? I'w do anything

Mottom: Anything?

Jaggenoth: Anything < 3

Mottom: Then

[ds9-defiant]

Now that I can unblock the discovery tags I am disappointed that Owosekun and Detmer’s ship name isn’t owomer because that’s what I have been calling them in my head since season 1

That being said I am happy with the level to which people ship them. I wasn’t too worried though because they are so gay it really jumps out of the screen and smacks you over the head every time they are in a scene together.

[thatholoperson]

Of course Owomer isn’t canon yet, everyone’s gay aunt Jett Reno didn’t have that talk with Owo yet ! (and didn’t try to make Detmer’s name rhyme with something).

I cannot BELIEB Owomer isn't canon yet... also like, to all characters, please stop looking back at each other despondently for five minutes as you head out to your suicide mission and YOU'LL HAVE ENOUGH OXYGEN TO FINISH THE MISSION ALIVE

AHJFHHAJ yeah. And yeah. Please, disco, I'm begging you

[memurfevur-archive]

“HEY ASHY LOOK WHAT I LEARNED TODAY

=OwO=m ~Nya

ITS GOT ITS LITTLE PAW UP ASHY

=OwOm= =^w^m= =UwUm=“

"Heh... guess that is kind of cute."

[dreamofyouandi]

My Chemical Owomance

[thornshadowwolf]

My Chemical OwOmance

[the-belfry-doll]

uwucy

I'm owome