Even the Fairies Cry

Even the fairies cry
From missing you
Dewdrop tears
Flower petal kleenex
Bowed in sadness.

Drooping wings
Lost flutter
Sun no more
Only the rain
On Fairy pain.

Copyright 2009 G. Schenck, Do not reprint without written permission,

Card #1 Unity

Actually the 0 Card is the first card in this deck, it is a blank card designed for each user to created their own personal faery guide....mine is Dragonfly and I will need to take a picture of my 0 Card to post here. It is a simple black sketch of a Dragonfly but it serves the purpose well as my own faery guide. It is actually one of my favorite cards.....BUT on to Card #1 Unity.

CARD #1 UNITY My one word intuitive: ONE

The Unity card is what I think of as the God card or the Higher Spirit Card. It is the oneness we all came from the beginning, the creation. It reminds us that we are all of one body, like pieces of a puzzle that fit together to make the whole. The Unity card is full of positive energy and can promote real growth. In a reading, it remind us to center and become one with others and the universe.

The Faeries Oracle

Hi everyone...that is if anyone is still reading...blogging has taken a back seat lately to lots of other "stuff." Right now I am in the process of SEVERAL projects....and working with the Faeries Oracle cards intuitively is BIG on my list...The book is fabulous but sometimes there is so much there that I become befuddled. So since this is JUNE...and Faery Day will soon be here...I am devoting the month of June to the cards!!!

Here is the project....my quest so to speak....I have been reading the cards intuitively...trying as much as possible to ignore the book unless I am totally stuck...I have been working with the first word that comes to mind when I turn the card over...for example Faeries of the Future prompted....Promises....what a great word!! So between now and the end of the month...I want to intuitively assign one word to each of the 66 cards....I have probably about a dozen or so done already...THEN....I will be sharing each card and it's word here at Faery Dust and Faery Kisses....along of course with other ramblings...LOL

Of note to those interested in the Faeries Oracle...Brian Froud has a new oracle due out in ...hmmm I believe the Spring of 2010....Jessica Macbeth is not the co author this time but instead it is Brian's wife.....I am VERY anxious to get a peek at any cards and to actually get this deck in my hands! So for now I am learning the deck I have backwards and forwards as pre-prep for the new deck!!

Another Coincidence?

Okay it always amazes me when things just seem to pop up..in my mind or in my life and then later I discover some significance.

A week or two ago...I was writing a blog post over at Ginger's Journey....sort of just a rambling post about how sometimes the journey gets rough...how some parts of life are like a butterfly floating through the sky on a sunshine filled day....and then the rough spots...and how if you can weather them you can some out into the sunshine again...and maybe you'll get back the butterfly phase but more than likely not...and then I just started writing about how you could be a dragonfly instead...LOL...well....then

I was watching some friends get tattoos and I suddenly decided my next one would be a dragonfly...(I already have a fairy). Well afterward I was looking up symbolism...and I discovered the dragonfly is often linked to faeries...and is a symbol of transformation...and some other good stuff....makes me wonder if the faeries helped me pick that symbol...LOL...

Then since I still need to create my faery guide card...I decided it would be a dragonfly....now I just need to sketch it...and use some colored pencils to create it on my card.!! Wow...this world is a mysterious place!

The Faery Cards

Here is something interesting or at least mildly interesting to me...the faery cards. I had been getting really seriously about my study of the archtypes and history behind the images on the faery cards. I had been dialoguing with people about them, writing about them, etc. And I started feeling totally stressed and I was wondering about it.

Then suddenly it came to me (a message from the faeries so to speak). Trust your intuition. One of the main idea in the Faeries Oracle is that the cards are meant to tap your own inner self, intuition, etc So it doesn't matter as much about the history of a card, or what the book says about a particular card, etc...what matters is MY THOUGHTS about the card..what it says to me...that is the beauty of the whole process.

So for the last couple of days I have thought about things from my own intuition and while I might read the book's intrepretations I have stopped relying on it as the expert and started relying on myself....and guess what? The lighthearted mood and positive vibes that I first got when I started using the cards has returned!!