“ My late husband Robin who was always joking around, told me he was beaten by nuns in Australia for disrupting class by making the others laugh. It didn’t deter his wit or his love for comedic farce. Even in his last days, he got relief and strength from watching films of Charlie Chaplin, Norman Wisdom, The Three Stooges, The Goons, Spike Milligan, and also Jack Black in Gulliver’s Travels, one of the last DVDs he watched and enjoyed.”
What a beautiful memory you must hold close to your heart. Sending you much love Dwina! Well written, thank you! ✨💖✨
Loved all of this. Also familiar with the cane on the hand (and everywhere else!) from primary school with Irish nuns and secondary school with Christian Brother. Much empathy!
Thank you Caitlin. I earned myself some pain in the back from sitting at the computer for too long to enable finishing it in the wee small hours. Labour pains for sure. My mother used to say: "It takes a lot of looking to see." Now, I know what she meant. xxx
Hope needs to change to Faith.. and the power to endure.. wonderful to read your insights and supporting information. Your Tarot deck is going to be amazing... Your vast knowledge and inquiring mind links wonderful facts and shares them in your delightful writings
Thanks Dwina for this in depth consideration which has enriched and widened my knowledge of the 10 swords, I'm also really looking forward to the deck. I love the illustrations ❣️
Marika, Thank you for taking the time to read it... I wondered if I should have included some details, but decided to do so in the wee small hours as I thought it might give more understanding. I have a great love for St. Brigid anyway, since the moment I discovered her. as a young teenager. I visited one well in Donegal, and had nothing to leave there.... people had gifts galore for her. I only had a hair band for a ponytail so I left that. ***
Great way of looking at that card, Dwina. Can't wait to receive my deck. And I never knew until right now that there were differences between the male and female sperm!
So they say, Beth, but I did look it up and it seems to be a medical fact. I remember my friend had just found out she was pregnant and wished to know if she was carrying a boy or girl. It was too early for a scan. I used the old Irish way of holding a threaded needle over her tummy with the needle pointing down, The needle spun round and round and then went back and forth, so I told her either the baby cannot make up its mind yet if it is a boy or girl, or you are carrying both a boy and a girl. Sure enough, she had twins, a boy and a girl! So there is definitely a magnetic difference.
Although I am familiar with the tarot, I am by no means an expert. I am just now reading my second post. They are so informative, and very engaging. Your posts are a great resource. I am going to make my way through all of them, slowly. Slowly as I do not want to miss anything. I think the most interesting thing I got out of this one is "The entire Minor Arcana in the Tarot has to do with changes and the cause and effect of everything in one’s life, levels of karma from one to ten in each suit, and then the hierarchy of the court cards, the ultimate movers between the material and spiritual realms, the seen and unseen, what we suffer or not, being in the world of action." That is new to me and makes so much sense. I used to get this ten of wands a lot during a certain part of my life. I had my own ideas what it meant just by looking at it, but never considered karma. Very enlightening
The 10 of Wands is another very interesting card and has very much to do with finding the right will power to make changes. If the power of the full stop is not placed on the past, the burdens are carried in front of one, blinding the way forward. Obstacles appear in the same shape as past oppressive events preventing the sight to see past them. it takes courage to put the weight behind and not face these things repeatedly. there is no need to take a backward step, but propel oneself forward. Determination is needed to shift consciousness so that the will power can be free of past habits and not cause repetition. Inner sight is important to attach to the mind to the original pure soul power to cleanse any thoughts that may attach to old habits or styles, and surge forward to with clear will not to cause stumbling blocks. Adopt an easy nature and be more co-operative with others, lending your knowledge to them but also hearing them, so that the lesson to pack up repeated control is absorbed. Wasted thoughts of the past waste time and waste effort. One determined thought is all it takes to rip the blindfold off, and say: "I will do it!" Make any mountain into a mustard seed. My molther used to say: "You can't plough a field by turning it over in your mind" There is joy that comes with accomplishment, after overcoming obstacles, the first step out of self-induced bondage. New thoughts that produce new learning is always ahead. This is the 10 of wands as I see it... all the 10's are crisis points in karma that force us to make changes.***
Dear Joanne, True words. It is the strength taken from endurance that gives us first despair and then resilience followed by wisdom and the need for survival. ***
My own father had a broom broken over his back as a 13 year old boy because his lovely singing voice changed from a high range to a lower one. He kept singing, and sang in church choirs his whole adult life.
I also sang in choirs. Your father must have had a beautiful soprano voice as a young boy. Poor child being punished for growing! I am glad he kept on singing. After I left Ireland,then met Robin, I sang only alone or with kids in cars, belting out folk songs, pop songs and making up operatic arias when I was driving. Great fun.
LOL! I know what you mean, and your husband has a great voice! Can't compete with angels! Strange thing is that if I am travelling the same road again, often the same song will end up coming into my head again! I love the fact you do the same! xx
Thank you, Dwina, for your insights. I found this passage worth pondering further: For survival, Hope needs to change to Faith, the only dispeller of doubt, to change the way to look at the present, and what is looked at in the present will change.
I think at present, many people see faith as weakness, as a crutch when no logical solution is found, yet I observe people with that frame of mind miss the points of light that shine from such complete and intrinsic belief.
I agree, Luna. When Pandora opened the box and the devils came out, there was Hope coming out behind them to give us hope, but unfortunately Hope had been in there giving Hope also to the Devils....one of the first esoteric lessons I learned. Hope is only half-way and clouds clarity but the only thing that dispels doubt is Faith and Faith has to be imbued with Love.
Dwina, I loved your tale of The Ten of Swords! Your message is very timely and full of introspection and wisdom! I am looking forward to receiving my deck...it's arriving next week!
Brigid is on the first page of my own herbal book volume one. We call it "gallows humor", and all EMTs ( emergency medical services personnel) use it all the time. it is a coping skill related to joy. remembering that life is joyful at the darkest moment is essential. You have to train yourself to do this, or, you will not last.
I agree, the Light shines brightest in the darkest place. There was a great Austrian herbalist called Maria Treben. Your book sounds really interesting. Is it on Amazon?***
Thank you for your interest, I will check out Maria Treben. My mentors were stephen harrod buner, and hulda b. clarke, dr. john christopher, of course rosemary gladstar, other local herbalists and medicine people. Mostly the plants themselves tell me. i am a published poet, but that is nothing, anyone can do that if you do not mind being unpaid. but, i am saving most of my books for just family. i draw, write by hand. i know very well, it is too obscure and in a way too broad, for most people, fairies and plants talking to me and tree encounters. some of it is here for free, since i have no cell phone. swipe or switch whatever does not work for me.
I admire that.... I also have a great love for herbs and plants and have healed myself many times with them. I have grown a wonderful oak tree from an acorn.... in fact many trees in two different countries. I had Irish wolfhounds and noticed how as puppies they went around the garden smelling every flower, every herb... and when they were ailing they would go to those plants and eat from them. When arthritic they would stand in water that had algae in it until their legs were green. They ate plums and spat out the plum seeds, and I suddenly noticed I had twelve new young plum trees! ***
I I don't like this card. I simply don't like the image. I perceive it as betrayal and punishment. I still remember this dream I had. I was looking from above. There was a man lying down, prostrated, wearing an office outfit. He was at the bottom of a pool, and the water was so blue.... ! Who knows what my mind was telling me.
How interesting the Schrödinger's cat paradox is! Once you observe the state of whatever you're observing, it changes!
Most people do not like this card, but it is a card that definitely leads to an initiation that takes us to another level and has other aspects to it if seen in a different way... like Schrodinger's cat definitely... my son is a quantum theoretical physicist ... his knowledge is extensive and I love his theories. They make sense to me because of meditation only. We have physics teachers, mechanics and engineers of all sorts in the family, so it is impossible to escape it. ***
Absolutely wonderful! The best summary of the 10 of swords I have ever seen. It would be wonderful if you could do the other 10s. As ever, I look forward to the Vedic Tarot, which I predict is going to become a classic.
The other 10s in the Vedic sense are most astonishing. Especially the Cups!
As i do each of these cards and add the little stories that go with them, I can see another book that could go along with the cards....maybe the one that has my original drawings and notes.
Absolutely. The more you write the clearer it gets and the easier people will find the deck to use. I suggest a workbook style text with ways to work, meditations, stories and the ever developing content of your work. **
“ My late husband Robin who was always joking around, told me he was beaten by nuns in Australia for disrupting class by making the others laugh. It didn’t deter his wit or his love for comedic farce. Even in his last days, he got relief and strength from watching films of Charlie Chaplin, Norman Wisdom, The Three Stooges, The Goons, Spike Milligan, and also Jack Black in Gulliver’s Travels, one of the last DVDs he watched and enjoyed.”
What a beautiful memory you must hold close to your heart. Sending you much love Dwina! Well written, thank you! ✨💖✨
This really deepened my understanding of the ten of swords. Karma. It makes sense.
Loved all of this. Also familiar with the cane on the hand (and everywhere else!) from primary school with Irish nuns and secondary school with Christian Brother. Much empathy!
Thank you for looking at 10 Swords head on, and finding the mercy implicit within it.
Thank you Caitlin. I earned myself some pain in the back from sitting at the computer for too long to enable finishing it in the wee small hours. Labour pains for sure. My mother used to say: "It takes a lot of looking to see." Now, I know what she meant. xxx
Hope needs to change to Faith.. and the power to endure.. wonderful to read your insights and supporting information. Your Tarot deck is going to be amazing... Your vast knowledge and inquiring mind links wonderful facts and shares them in your delightful writings
Thank you Niccola. That particular card has been feared by many, but here are two sides to any endurance and I wanted to share thoughts on it.
Thanks Dwina for this in depth consideration which has enriched and widened my knowledge of the 10 swords, I'm also really looking forward to the deck. I love the illustrations ❣️
Marika, Thank you for taking the time to read it... I wondered if I should have included some details, but decided to do so in the wee small hours as I thought it might give more understanding. I have a great love for St. Brigid anyway, since the moment I discovered her. as a young teenager. I visited one well in Donegal, and had nothing to leave there.... people had gifts galore for her. I only had a hair band for a ponytail so I left that. ***
Great way of looking at that card, Dwina. Can't wait to receive my deck. And I never knew until right now that there were differences between the male and female sperm!
So they say, Beth, but I did look it up and it seems to be a medical fact. I remember my friend had just found out she was pregnant and wished to know if she was carrying a boy or girl. It was too early for a scan. I used the old Irish way of holding a threaded needle over her tummy with the needle pointing down, The needle spun round and round and then went back and forth, so I told her either the baby cannot make up its mind yet if it is a boy or girl, or you are carrying both a boy and a girl. Sure enough, she had twins, a boy and a girl! So there is definitely a magnetic difference.
That is VERY cool!
Although I am familiar with the tarot, I am by no means an expert. I am just now reading my second post. They are so informative, and very engaging. Your posts are a great resource. I am going to make my way through all of them, slowly. Slowly as I do not want to miss anything. I think the most interesting thing I got out of this one is "The entire Minor Arcana in the Tarot has to do with changes and the cause and effect of everything in one’s life, levels of karma from one to ten in each suit, and then the hierarchy of the court cards, the ultimate movers between the material and spiritual realms, the seen and unseen, what we suffer or not, being in the world of action." That is new to me and makes so much sense. I used to get this ten of wands a lot during a certain part of my life. I had my own ideas what it meant just by looking at it, but never considered karma. Very enlightening
The 10 of Wands is another very interesting card and has very much to do with finding the right will power to make changes. If the power of the full stop is not placed on the past, the burdens are carried in front of one, blinding the way forward. Obstacles appear in the same shape as past oppressive events preventing the sight to see past them. it takes courage to put the weight behind and not face these things repeatedly. there is no need to take a backward step, but propel oneself forward. Determination is needed to shift consciousness so that the will power can be free of past habits and not cause repetition. Inner sight is important to attach to the mind to the original pure soul power to cleanse any thoughts that may attach to old habits or styles, and surge forward to with clear will not to cause stumbling blocks. Adopt an easy nature and be more co-operative with others, lending your knowledge to them but also hearing them, so that the lesson to pack up repeated control is absorbed. Wasted thoughts of the past waste time and waste effort. One determined thought is all it takes to rip the blindfold off, and say: "I will do it!" Make any mountain into a mustard seed. My molther used to say: "You can't plough a field by turning it over in your mind" There is joy that comes with accomplishment, after overcoming obstacles, the first step out of self-induced bondage. New thoughts that produce new learning is always ahead. This is the 10 of wands as I see it... all the 10's are crisis points in karma that force us to make changes.***
If I recall, that time in my life did force me to make changes. Without a doubt.
You grow through the hard times!
I liken it to a rosebush, dry and barren in winter and beautiful blooms in summer… not to despair.
Everything is transitory and moves with the seasons. I always think...things change in three months so don't waste time with worry. xxx
And the rosehips make good tea!
Dear Joanne, True words. It is the strength taken from endurance that gives us first despair and then resilience followed by wisdom and the need for survival. ***
My own father had a broom broken over his back as a 13 year old boy because his lovely singing voice changed from a high range to a lower one. He kept singing, and sang in church choirs his whole adult life.
I also sang in choirs. Your father must have had a beautiful soprano voice as a young boy. Poor child being punished for growing! I am glad he kept on singing. After I left Ireland,then met Robin, I sang only alone or with kids in cars, belting out folk songs, pop songs and making up operatic arias when I was driving. Great fun.
Ha ha! Living with a professional singer is intimidating! I never sing around Michael. I too belt one out in the car when alone or with my kids!
LOL! I know what you mean, and your husband has a great voice! Can't compete with angels! Strange thing is that if I am travelling the same road again, often the same song will end up coming into my head again! I love the fact you do the same! xx
Thank you, Dwina, for your insights. I found this passage worth pondering further: For survival, Hope needs to change to Faith, the only dispeller of doubt, to change the way to look at the present, and what is looked at in the present will change.
I think at present, many people see faith as weakness, as a crutch when no logical solution is found, yet I observe people with that frame of mind miss the points of light that shine from such complete and intrinsic belief.
Thank you!
I agree, Luna. When Pandora opened the box and the devils came out, there was Hope coming out behind them to give us hope, but unfortunately Hope had been in there giving Hope also to the Devils....one of the first esoteric lessons I learned. Hope is only half-way and clouds clarity but the only thing that dispels doubt is Faith and Faith has to be imbued with Love.
Yes! That last statement is so true - Love must imbue and inform Faith!
Dwina, I loved your tale of The Ten of Swords! Your message is very timely and full of introspection and wisdom! I am looking forward to receiving my deck...it's arriving next week!
Brigid is on the first page of my own herbal book volume one. We call it "gallows humor", and all EMTs ( emergency medical services personnel) use it all the time. it is a coping skill related to joy. remembering that life is joyful at the darkest moment is essential. You have to train yourself to do this, or, you will not last.
I agree, the Light shines brightest in the darkest place. There was a great Austrian herbalist called Maria Treben. Your book sounds really interesting. Is it on Amazon?***
Thank you for your interest, I will check out Maria Treben. My mentors were stephen harrod buner, and hulda b. clarke, dr. john christopher, of course rosemary gladstar, other local herbalists and medicine people. Mostly the plants themselves tell me. i am a published poet, but that is nothing, anyone can do that if you do not mind being unpaid. but, i am saving most of my books for just family. i draw, write by hand. i know very well, it is too obscure and in a way too broad, for most people, fairies and plants talking to me and tree encounters. some of it is here for free, since i have no cell phone. swipe or switch whatever does not work for me.
I admire that.... I also have a great love for herbs and plants and have healed myself many times with them. I have grown a wonderful oak tree from an acorn.... in fact many trees in two different countries. I had Irish wolfhounds and noticed how as puppies they went around the garden smelling every flower, every herb... and when they were ailing they would go to those plants and eat from them. When arthritic they would stand in water that had algae in it until their legs were green. They ate plums and spat out the plum seeds, and I suddenly noticed I had twelve new young plum trees! ***
Oh yes, animals know. it is too bad so many humans have forgotten!
Love the knowledge you have shared with all of us. Can't wait till the next one I wait for them like a child waits for a treat.
I I don't like this card. I simply don't like the image. I perceive it as betrayal and punishment. I still remember this dream I had. I was looking from above. There was a man lying down, prostrated, wearing an office outfit. He was at the bottom of a pool, and the water was so blue.... ! Who knows what my mind was telling me.
How interesting the Schrödinger's cat paradox is! Once you observe the state of whatever you're observing, it changes!
❤️❤️❤️
Most people do not like this card, but it is a card that definitely leads to an initiation that takes us to another level and has other aspects to it if seen in a different way... like Schrodinger's cat definitely... my son is a quantum theoretical physicist ... his knowledge is extensive and I love his theories. They make sense to me because of meditation only. We have physics teachers, mechanics and engineers of all sorts in the family, so it is impossible to escape it. ***
Absolutely wonderful! The best summary of the 10 of swords I have ever seen. It would be wonderful if you could do the other 10s. As ever, I look forward to the Vedic Tarot, which I predict is going to become a classic.
The other 10s in the Vedic sense are most astonishing. Especially the Cups!
As i do each of these cards and add the little stories that go with them, I can see another book that could go along with the cards....maybe the one that has my original drawings and notes.
what do you think? xx
Absolutely. The more you write the clearer it gets and the easier people will find the deck to use. I suggest a workbook style text with ways to work, meditations, stories and the ever developing content of your work. **