Welcome to the second part of the audio unboxing of the My Friend Fire deck by Mari in the Sky - a companion deck to Mari's beloved The Gentle Tarot.
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Host: Gosia Rokicka of Las Vistas Tarot & More
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Episode 7: Part Three (and last) of My Friend Fire audio unboxing!
Hello, magical beings and creatures of the forest.
Speaker:This is Gosia, your host of the Tarot and More podcast.
Speaker:And today we've got the second part of the miniseries about my friend Fire.
Speaker:So if you haven't listened to the first part, please do so pause here and go back to one
Speaker:episode before this one where we start this adventure with this beautiful deck.
Speaker:My friend Fire is the companion deck, the first companion deck to the gentle Tarot.
Speaker:And it's been created by Mari in the sky.
Speaker:Marisa,
Speaker:before we start,
Speaker:I just wanted to mention that I didn't know how to call this type of episodes, like what
Speaker:are we doing here actually?
Speaker:And I was thinking that it's a kind of a flip through,
Speaker:but I wasn't sure about that.
Speaker:And Mari actually listened to the first
Speaker:episode in this miniseries and she called it audio unboxing.
Speaker:And I love it.
Speaker:I think this is it.
Speaker:This is audio unboxing.
Speaker:So, yeah,
Speaker:welcome to the audio unboxing of my friend fire, part two.
Speaker:So we finished part one with the card number 10 and now we are on the card number 11.
Speaker:And the card number 11 is the beginning of the next suit of my friend Fire,
Speaker:which is the blue suit and it's called Nourishment.
Speaker:So we've got some nourishing cards in,
Speaker:in front of us.
Speaker:And the card number 11 is actually.
Speaker:Yeah, it shows an animal and this time I feel super confident.
Speaker:I know the animal.
Speaker:I'm winning at this one.
Speaker:It's a cat.
Speaker:It's definitely a cat.
Speaker:I have no doubts, no,
Speaker:you know, no doubts about Alaskan nature.
Speaker:This is a house cat,
Speaker:a very much usual grey, lovely cat.
Speaker:And the cat is lying on their back and showing their belly and smiling.
Speaker:They have this beautiful cat smile and a soft paws without,
Speaker:without the claws drawn.
Speaker:Just really, really waiting for the belly rubs and they daisies around and.
Speaker:And that's it.
Speaker:Because the whole card is really taken up by,
Speaker:by this cat,
Speaker:this really purring cat.
Speaker:We can hear it purring almost.
Speaker:It's beautiful.
Speaker:The cat is grey and I'm very confident.
Speaker:And actually Mari's cat was posing for this
Speaker:picture because she has a cat who looks very similar.
Speaker:And the card is called Trust.
Speaker:And I think this is a fantastic depiction of trust because if you share your life with any
Speaker:familiars of feline kind or even canine kind, I've got familiars of canine kind.
Speaker:And when they trust you, they show you their belly to rub.
Speaker:If they don't trust someone, they will not put themselves in this position showing up their
Speaker:belly.
Speaker:So this is a fantastic depiction of trust.
Speaker:I really, really love it.
Speaker:It's very.
Speaker:You just have your.
Speaker:Just smile when you look at this card.
Speaker:Wonderful.
Speaker:Then we've got card number 12,
Speaker:which is called fill your cup.
Speaker:And,
Speaker:yeah, we are basically filling the cup in this one.
Speaker:It shows a woman.
Speaker:And again, this is a picture which is drawn with lines.
Speaker:So this woman is really very transparent.
Speaker:Translucent is just like a shape drawn with
Speaker:lines.
Speaker:And she is holding a rainbow, but the rainbow is like kind of a shawl.
Speaker:It's.
Speaker:She's naked, but she.
Speaker:She has.
Speaker:We see her from the back.
Speaker:She has long hair and.
Speaker:And this rainbow which.
Speaker:Which acts like a shawl around her body.
Speaker:And she has right hand raised and her head is a bit like, tilted back.
Speaker:And it feels as if like she was about to either reach the sky or perhaps pour
Speaker:something.
Speaker:Like.
Speaker:I just.
Speaker:It just feels like she's reaching for.
Speaker:I don't know, I just imagine as if she was reaching for some water to drink, so.
Speaker:To fill her cup with water, perhaps.
Speaker:But we don't see that.
Speaker:We see her reaching, reaching higher up and around her there's some plants.
Speaker:They look like slowberries,
Speaker:some flowers and the birds.
Speaker:And then we are in the realm again of birds, which.
Speaker:I'm not sure who they are,
Speaker:but they look a bit like partridges, I would say they are partridges.
Speaker:It's four of them.
Speaker:And they are eating those berries.
Speaker:Blueberries.
Speaker:Slowberries.
Speaker:Not sure.
Speaker:Some look like slowberries,
Speaker:but yeah, that's.
Speaker:That's.
Speaker:It's very colourful.
Speaker:Joyful.
Speaker:It's very, very joyful.
Speaker:So fill your cup.
Speaker:Very nourishing.
Speaker:And then we've got two cards with number 13.
Speaker:They both have.
Speaker:They both have number 13 and they both have
Speaker:play as medicine as their.
Speaker:The words,
Speaker:their tagline or whatever call it the name of the card players.
Speaker:Medicine.
Speaker:And they both have the same name, they both
Speaker:have the same number,
Speaker:but they have different pictures.
Speaker:And I love them.
Speaker:I love the variety that you can.
Speaker:You can choose.
Speaker:You can either choose which one speaks to you
Speaker:better or perhaps.
Speaker:Perhaps you can, you know, have double chance to get.
Speaker:Play as medicine when you shuffle and draw a card.
Speaker:So what's the difference?
Speaker:Well, one of them is play Animal play.
Speaker:There are only animals there.
Speaker:There is a baby bear,
Speaker:there is an orca, there is a salmon and they are birds and I have no idea what birds they
Speaker:are.
Speaker:They're blue and there is water and a rainbow
Speaker:and mountains and.
Speaker:Or maybe hills, not mountains.
Speaker:And orca is jumping and salmon is also jumping out of the water.
Speaker:And the bear is lying on the grass in between the water on its back and,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:just rolling in the grass with one palm, their belly and the legs up and smile on their face.
Speaker:And the orca is very joyful.
Speaker:Actually there are two orcas because I've just
Speaker:noticed there is a tail of another orca in the water.
Speaker:And the funniest thing on it is there are two raspberries.
Speaker:Raspberries.
Speaker:And they are above the bear and it kind of looks like the bear is playing with those
Speaker:raspberries,
Speaker:which is very big actually.
Speaker:Yeah, it's like just animal joy.
Speaker:And the other card players, Medicine has a human, although we don't see this human, we
Speaker:see only their thoughts because what's on this card is a tree and there is a.
Speaker:It's not a seesaw, it's the other one is swing.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:There's a swing on this tree and you can see
Speaker:that the swing is in a movement like as if someone just jumped out of this swing.
Speaker:It's a very basic swing.
Speaker:The plank of wood on two strings, ropes.
Speaker:And they are again those blue birds flying around.
Speaker:There is a bit of rainbows visible in the corner and there are leaves falling out of the
Speaker:tree, but it doesn't look like autumn, it looks like summer.
Speaker:It's very,
Speaker:very joyful and bright and there is a naked foot of someone who just jumped out of this,
Speaker:of this swing and is running out of the frame of the picture.
Speaker:And they flip flop, flip flops or sandals are left on the ground under the seesaw.
Speaker:So we've got human play.
Speaker:And before that we had.
Speaker:In the previous card we had animal play.
Speaker:So you can choose which one speaks to you more.
Speaker:Then we have card number 14 and number 14 is breathe.
Speaker:And it's such a beautiful card.
Speaker:There is.
Speaker:It's green.
Speaker:It's like mostly we see grass.
Speaker:It's like full of grass and a bit of leaves, like some bush.
Speaker:Yellow, little yellow flowers in this grass, like daffodils.
Speaker:Daffodils.
Speaker:What's the name of it?
Speaker:Oh, forgot the little yellow yellow flower which flowers in the, in the lawns.
Speaker:And I'm just blanked out the name of it.
Speaker:Anyway, you probably know which one that looks
Speaker:like this flower and there is a fox in the middle of it.
Speaker:A fox who is just standing and has their head up.
Speaker:The nose is very much up, like sniffing in the air, breathing in.
Speaker:And also around those little like white,
Speaker:like patches of white colour that look like a wind or look like Just moving air or the
Speaker:smells, the smells which are coming to fox's nose.
Speaker:And the fox is kind of chasing those smells and breathing them in.
Speaker:And it's.
Speaker:And the grass is moving a little bit.
Speaker:So it just feels like a lot of.
Speaker:It's funny because the fox is standing still, but you feel like there is a lot of movement
Speaker:in this card and it's like very fresh,
Speaker:really nice.
Speaker:Breathe.
Speaker:Now we've got card number 15 and it's called sending and receiving.
Speaker:And we've got two people who are sitting in front of each other and they are again, a bit
Speaker:of like shape,
Speaker:line drawn.
Speaker:They look like twins,
Speaker:have long hair and they are holding each other, they're kneeling in front of each other
Speaker:and their foreheads are touching each other and their arms are up together.
Speaker:So each of them is having their hands, the palms of their hands on the shoulder of the
Speaker:other person.
Speaker:So they look like they are kind of exchanging energy.
Speaker:And in them, within their body we see little hearts,
Speaker:blue, yellow and orange hearts.
Speaker:And they are touching those hearts.
Speaker:So like they reaching out to the shoulder of
Speaker:this person.
Speaker:But actually,
Speaker:actually they are not really reaching, not touching the shoulder, they are touching their
Speaker:heart.
Speaker:And. Yeah, and it looks like a perfect exchange.
Speaker:It's like sending and receiving, which is very reciprocal.
Speaker:It's.
Speaker:It's like they are both giving and receiving
Speaker:the same amount of energy, of positive emotions and whatever they are sending and
Speaker:receiving.
Speaker:But they are definitely equal in that you can feel that it's very.
Speaker:It's not like someone is getting more than the other.
Speaker:It's very,
Speaker:yeah, very equal.
Speaker:And behind them there is space, there is cosmic space.
Speaker:So, yeah, it's very powerful card, I think like a card of reciprocity.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Now we are on the card number 16 and card number 16 is called ecosystem.
Speaker:And it's very restful and very joyful.
Speaker:We see a face of a person with their eyes closed and a smile,
Speaker:like a gentle, gentle smile.
Speaker:Definitely someone who is very happy and joyful and calm.
Speaker:And that's just the face, face and neck.
Speaker:And next to this person there is a fox.
Speaker:And the fox is sort of cuddling to this person
Speaker:and just cuddling to their neck and their face.
Speaker:It's also the fox's head and the fox also has their eyes closed and very, very calm face.
Speaker:And it's just very sweet picture.
Speaker:And around them there are leaves and flowers
Speaker:and little pine cones and ladybird.
Speaker:And it's just very summery and very calm and restful picture of the ecosystem.
Speaker:And now We've got The card number 17,
Speaker:which is called My Body, My Earth.
Speaker:And it's very interesting.
Speaker:We've got hands,
Speaker:we've got two hands.
Speaker:We don't see a person.
Speaker:We have got quite realistically drawn hands and this person definitely belonging to.
Speaker:I mean, not definitely, but I think they belong to one person.
Speaker:There are two hands, right hand and left hand.
Speaker:And the right hand is touching the left hand, like massaging the left hand.
Speaker:That looks like that to me, like someone who is massaging their left hand with their right
Speaker:hand.
Speaker:And it is all on the backdrop of.
Speaker:It's like a greenish blue background.
Speaker:And on it there is like a splash of airs of
Speaker:soil.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:And,
Speaker:yeah, I'm just thinking now because I also noticed now when I'm just talking, I've
Speaker:noticed there are droplets of water around and a little bit of rainbow.
Speaker:And this rainbow is kind of coming out from this water, from the droplets.
Speaker:But I think maybe, maybe this person is just very thoroughly washing their hands.
Speaker:They've just finished gardening,
Speaker:perhaps, and they are washing off the rest of the soil from their hands.
Speaker:It's very,
Speaker:very unusual, I think.
Speaker:Very unusual picture.
Speaker:I really like it.
Speaker:And number 18 is roots.
Speaker:And this shows trees, three trees with the roots.
Speaker:We can see the roots and we can see light,
Speaker:a lot of light, and the light as if like fireflies,
Speaker:I think they are.
Speaker:I mean, I don't know, but I see them as fireflies being all around this,
Speaker:the trees and also their roots.
Speaker:And it's quite unusual picture compared to the others, because it's very.
Speaker:To me, it has a bit of a different style.
Speaker:It's like there is nothing realistic on it.
Speaker:Everything is drawn with lines,
Speaker:basically.
Speaker:It's lots of lines in orange and yellow and
Speaker:green and blue and sort of greenish blue.
Speaker:And they.
Speaker:Yeah, it's just all drawn with like thick lines.
Speaker:And there is a person, but it's not very obvious because this person's hugging the
Speaker:tree, the biggest tree in the middle,
Speaker:the person.
Speaker:We can only see their hands and a little bit
Speaker:line of their back and a little bit of line of their head,
Speaker:the back of their head.
Speaker:But this person is hidden behind the tree and
Speaker:is just cuddling.
Speaker:Like their arms are around the trunk of the
Speaker:tree.
Speaker:And the person is also drawn just with lines.
Speaker:So it's kind of, I think, quite easy to miss
Speaker:the fact there is a person on it.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:Roots.
Speaker:So that's roots.
Speaker:Now we've got number 19.
Speaker:And number 19 is fluid stream.
Speaker:And it's quite interesting because it doesn't look very much like a stream.
Speaker:It looks like a, like a sky.
Speaker:And there is a person who's.
Speaker:We just see them like a bit of them, a hair
Speaker:and the face from the.
Speaker:The Prof. Their profile and two arms and they
Speaker:do look a bit like.
Speaker:Like they're swimming or they are jumping into the water.
Speaker:They're quite, quite like.
Speaker:They are not lines.
Speaker:There's a proper person drawn there but they are just only like in the left side of the
Speaker:card.
Speaker:Like they just coming into the frame of the
Speaker:card.
Speaker:But what's in front of the.
Speaker:The most of the card is two shades of blue and
Speaker:white which could be.
Speaker:Well to me looks like clouds.
Speaker:And there is lights.
Speaker:Again this kind of firefly style lights.
Speaker:It does to me look far more like a sky than water than a stream.
Speaker:But on the very bottom of the picture there are stones, there are black stones which kind
Speaker:of make it look more like water, like a stream.
Speaker:Yeah, it's very.
Speaker:Not obvious.
Speaker:I think this cut open to lots of
Speaker:interpretation.
Speaker:And now we've got the last card of the nourishing suit and it's called Free to be.
Speaker:And we have a person.
Speaker:And again this is not a very realistic person.
Speaker:It's sort of a shape,
Speaker:the shape of a person sitting cross legged in the middle of the frame on the grass, on the
Speaker:green,
Speaker:like a green background and behind them the background is purple.
Speaker:So sort of purple sky and green grass and there are rainbows around and they are looking
Speaker:up, they are looking up, they're smiling.
Speaker:And what I find the most interesting is that above them there is a bird flying and it looks
Speaker:like a raven and I love it.
Speaker:I love the birds.
Speaker:The freedom is expressed through the picture of a raven because it's not an obvious choice.
Speaker:Like ravens are usually seen as something more ominous.
Speaker:Like a bird that brings maybe some bad news or.
Speaker:Yeah, something slightly scary or some.
Speaker:Maybe magic but like a very powerful magic as
Speaker:well.
Speaker:But here it feels like, yeah,
Speaker:it's a bird that is free.
Speaker:And the bird of choice which Mary drew is a raven.
Speaker:I think it's a raven but it's definitely a black bird, black big bird.
Speaker:And I think it's an unusual choice.
Speaker:And they had rainbows coming up from to their
Speaker:wings and it's, it's quite an unusual choice and I really love it.
Speaker:I like that it's in a raven and not some kind of more obviously positive bird.
Speaker:Like a bird that is.
Speaker:Has very obviously positive connotations.
Speaker:So I like, I like that it's a.
Speaker:It's a raven as freedom.
Speaker:And now we are getting into orange suit.
Speaker:And the orange suit is expansion.
Speaker:And we start with card number 21.
Speaker:And again, we've got two cards, number 21, two
Speaker:cards which has the words fire within.
Speaker:So two fire within cards.
Speaker:And again,
Speaker:same motif.
Speaker:One card is with an animal and one card is with a person.
Speaker:So the animal card has a weasel or a mutton or some kind of.
Speaker:Yeah, I'll go for either a weasel or a mutton.
Speaker:And this animal is holding a flame in their paws.
Speaker:They are standing upright on hind legs with the tail behind,
Speaker:looking sort of to the front and a bit up and holding a flame.
Speaker:And there is behind them, there is a little bit of a halo and some flowers around.
Speaker:And it does look like this animal has a lot of confidence.
Speaker:The weasel or a marten has a very strong confidence.
Speaker:And I think this flame is giving them empowerment.
Speaker:And there is a very similar vibe to the human card, Fire Within.
Speaker:There is a lady, a woman, naked woman, who is smiling and looking up as well, and stretching
Speaker:her hands in front of her.
Speaker:And in the hands there is a flame and there is a halo.
Speaker:The same halo as the weasel has.
Speaker:Same halo behind her and the moon and the same flowers.
Speaker:So it's kind of.
Speaker:They look like they are standing next to each other, really, when you look at these cards
Speaker:next to each other.
Speaker:And they look like they're praying.
Speaker:I think they're praying both of them to some God, deity,
Speaker:higher source,
Speaker:whatever they choose to pray to.
Speaker:But I think that's.
Speaker:That has this very, very spiritual vibe.
Speaker:And I think the weasel or the mutton is as
Speaker:spiritual as the lady.
Speaker:So we are now in the card 22,
Speaker:and it's a beautiful card.
Speaker:Card 22 is deep rest.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Yeah, and I was just thinking.
Speaker:I had to quickly look at the names of the suit
Speaker:because I was thinking, is deep does depress.
Speaker:Does it belong to nourishment more?
Speaker:But then,
Speaker:no, Depressed is actually expansion.
Speaker:We had pause in listening.
Speaker:Do you remember in the first episode we were
Speaker:talking about listening suit and there was a pause card with a bear?
Speaker:And now we've got depressed.
Speaker:And depressed is expansion.
Speaker:And I think when we pause,
Speaker:we listen to ourselves and we.
Speaker:Yeah, we listen to our needs.
Speaker:But deep rest is actually far more than pause.
Speaker:And I do think that it really, really belongs to expansion.
Speaker:And in deep rest, we've got a reindeer.
Speaker:And the reindeer is lying and sleeping and resting.
Speaker:And there is some kind of,
Speaker:I don't know,
Speaker:the ground around them is a Bit of snow and the night.
Speaker:There are clouds above.
Speaker:Above the reindeer and there is a crescent
Speaker:moon and there is a little fire within the belly of the reindeer.
Speaker:It's very restful card.
Speaker:The colours are very restful.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:And now we've got a card number 23 and it's quite interesting.
Speaker:It has a frog in the middle and the background is green.
Speaker:And through the middle of the background there is a rainbow going through.
Speaker:But it's again, this rainbow.
Speaker:Don't know if you remember from the previous
Speaker:episode when I talked about the rainbow that looks like a German flag with added purple.
Speaker:Well, that's another one of those.
Speaker:That colour is like very dark blue.
Speaker:That looks like black and purple and red and
Speaker:yellow.
Speaker:And I just can't unsee the German flag.
Speaker:But anyway, forget about that.
Speaker:In the middle of the card there is a frog and around the frog there is frost.
Speaker:And the frog also looks a bit covered with frost.
Speaker:And the.
Speaker:Oh, I forgot to tell you, the name of the card
Speaker:is Detach.
Speaker:And that looks slightly puzzling at the beginning.
Speaker:But I think I know the scientific background of this card because I remember a David
Speaker:Attenborough show in which he talked about those frogs.
Speaker:And I.
Speaker:I'm pretty sure they were in Alaska.
Speaker:Frogs that get frozen during the winter, they actually properly get frozen and their body
Speaker:temperature falls really, really low.
Speaker:So they essentially, like, if a human being,
Speaker:you know, got so frosty and.
Speaker:And so cold internally, we would have died.
Speaker:Like, that's, that's.
Speaker:We just died of exposure.
Speaker:But. And most animals would.
Speaker:But the frog,
Speaker:it's their.
Speaker:How to call survival.
Speaker:Survival mode.
Speaker:And something that nature gave them to survive in those harsh circumstances.
Speaker:And they just freeze for few months and then they thaw in the spring,
Speaker:like, they really thaw, like, and they are alive again,
Speaker:which is quite amazing.
Speaker:It's like one of the most amazing things I
Speaker:heard about animals in terms of what animals can do and their survival mechanisms.
Speaker:And it's just amazing.
Speaker:And I'm pretty sure.
Speaker:I don't know because I have to ask Marie about that because.
Speaker:But I'm pretty sure this is this frog,
Speaker:the frog who is detaching itself from life for a few months.
Speaker:It's wonderful.
Speaker:I'm pretty sure it's this frog.
Speaker:I think this card is gonna go definitely on the picture on the blog post which I'm going
Speaker:to write.
Speaker:So by the time it will be available,
Speaker:by the time the last episode of this series comes out.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:I think this is the freezing frog.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Number 24, number 24 is one heartbeat.
Speaker:And it's quite unusual because I think it's one of those cards like wood, like, you know
Speaker:those, those kind of pictures when you have to tell what you saw first because it's, it's,
Speaker:it's very, you know, it kind of contains different pictures in one.
Speaker:And this is one of those pictures.
Speaker:So what I saw first were two wolves who are
Speaker:howling together and there is this sort of fire colour smudge of.
Speaker:Of air coming out from them.
Speaker:So it's kind of this howl.
Speaker:There is this picture of powerful howl and they're howling together,
Speaker:you know, like one.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:And they are.
Speaker:There are mountains and there are trees and
Speaker:there is a.
Speaker:A star, a falling star.
Speaker:It's not called falling star.
Speaker:Forgot how they are called.
Speaker:Anyway, you know, in August,
Speaker:at least in August in Europe there's lots of stars,
Speaker:falling stars.
Speaker:And now I'm just bothered because I haven't checked how it's called in English, but I hope
Speaker:that you know what I mean.
Speaker:Or maybe it's a comet.
Speaker:Actually that could be a comet thinking now because it's kind of large and prominent in
Speaker:the skyline.
Speaker:So let's say it's a comet,
Speaker:like flying over the mountains.
Speaker:And this is what I saw first and then I realised that the middle of the mountain and
Speaker:something that looks a bit like part of the mountain, part of maybe some pathways in the
Speaker:mountain.
Speaker:It's actually a figure of a lying woman,
Speaker:but again, very.
Speaker:Not very realistic.
Speaker:Very, very.
Speaker:Just like an outline of a woman and she's got flames coming out from chakras with the
Speaker:biggest one coming out from her forehead.
Speaker:And that one is exactly the same as the howl coming out from the wolf's.
Speaker:So, yeah, it's very.
Speaker:Again, another one which is a bit ambiguous.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But I saw the mountains and the forest and the wolves first.
Speaker:Now we've got card number 25 and the card number 25 is.
Speaker:Joy is essential.
Speaker:And this is such a magical card because it has this sort of greenish blue,
Speaker:more green really background and there is not much happening on it.
Speaker:There is a big flower in the middle and it.
Speaker:Again, this flower came up on one of the first
Speaker:cards and it.
Speaker:I still don't know what it exactly is, looks a bit like a thistle, but far more gentle than
Speaker:thistle.
Speaker:Like, you know, thistle is difficult to actually handle.
Speaker:While this one is definitely softer.
Speaker:But yeah, the colours of thistle and.
Speaker:Yeah, and that's almost it.
Speaker:But there are little humans, the little figures of like blobby ghosty figures of
Speaker:joyful.
Speaker:Jumping around.
Speaker:Humans is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of them kind of climbing this.
Speaker:This flower.
Speaker:And it's just very, very unusual, very
Speaker:original idea.
Speaker:And the little white stars as well.
Speaker:But those.
Speaker:Those figurines of.
Speaker:Yeah. Look a bit like a jellyfish.
Speaker:Jellyfishy humans climbing a thistle, which is
Speaker:not a thistle.
Speaker:Yeah, that. That's. That's.
Speaker:I think that needs to go on the picture as
Speaker:well, because I'm not doing a very good job with explaining this one.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Number 26 is called perfectly In Place.
Speaker:And there are two otters who are lying on their backs in the water and floating and
Speaker:holding paws.
Speaker:They are like holding together next to each other.
Speaker:They have eyes closed and they are just drifting in the water.
Speaker:And the water is very calm and blue and purple and yellow.
Speaker:And there is a little sun which is either setting or rising on the horizon behind this
Speaker:water.
Speaker:And that's it.
Speaker:They are perfectly in place.
Speaker:They are where they should be.
Speaker:There is nowhere to be, nowhere else to be,
Speaker:nowhere to rush.
Speaker:There is just these two.
Speaker:These two alters in love.
Speaker:Wonderful.
Speaker:And now we've got number 27. 27 is.
Speaker:Oh, that is proper expansion.
Speaker:Yeah, we were in expansion.
Speaker:Yes, we are still in expansion.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Yeah, and that one is a proper expansion.
Speaker:And it's called First Step.
Speaker:And what we see is like an interior of a room and there is a person who is a bit, again,
Speaker:this kind of simple, outliney person with a little flame on their back.
Speaker:And we see them from the back,
Speaker:how they are like approaching the corner of the room which seems to have a little gap.
Speaker:So the room has black walls.
Speaker:They are not very oppressive because there is a picture with a rainbow.
Speaker:On one of the walls there are two plants, big plant pots, very pretty plants growing.
Speaker:There is a little rug and on the rug there is a cat sleeping.
Speaker:And there is a little cushion on which I guess this person was just sitting.
Speaker:And the cushion is smiling.
Speaker:It has a little smile.
Speaker:You know, the cushion has a face and a smile.
Speaker:And next to the cushion.
Speaker:Oh, I'll tell you in a moment.
Speaker:But yeah, the cushion, the cat, the plants,
Speaker:the rainbow on the picture.
Speaker:So it's quite a. It's a cosy room,
Speaker:but there is this gap.
Speaker:So maybe it's a doorway or.
Speaker:It feels a bit like they are not proper walls.
Speaker:They are like heavy curtains and there is a gap in between them and there is a light.
Speaker:So this gap is yellow and is definitely light coming out from there.
Speaker:And this person is going there.
Speaker:It's walking towards, like Like a bit.
Speaker:Looks a bit like a shy and doubtful, but walking towards this gap and, yeah, just going
Speaker:to the light and leaving the room.
Speaker:Although the room is cosy and I guess is their room.
Speaker:But, yeah, the time is time to leave, time to expand,
Speaker:time to,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:search for new horizons.
Speaker:But what else is next to the cat and the
Speaker:cushion?
Speaker:There is a deck of cards with a box.
Speaker:A couple of cards, like three cards are taken out and they are lying on the rug.
Speaker:And next to them there is a box.
Speaker:And this is a gentle tarot.
Speaker:You can tell there is like a tiny.
Speaker:Is the colour of the box of the gentle tarot, blue.
Speaker:And you can definitely.
Speaker:I mean, it's tiny.
Speaker:It's just a tiny detail,
Speaker:but you can tell there are these.
Speaker:These little lines that tell you definitely
Speaker:this is a gentle tarot.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:yeah, it's very meta.
Speaker:Very meta.
Speaker:But, yeah, that's a proper expansion card.
Speaker:The card number 28 is connection.
Speaker:And Connection is a hand of a person which is reaching up and it's like reaching towards the
Speaker:universe because we've got.
Speaker:On the very bottom of the card we've got
Speaker:trees.
Speaker:And you can tell they are tall trees, they are tops of like, tall pines.
Speaker:And the hand is reaching much higher and it's reaching through some blue lines which are, I
Speaker:guess, clouds, like reaching above the clouds.
Speaker:And then above that clouds there is a cosmic
Speaker:space and the rainbows.
Speaker:And on the fingers of this person there is a little fox.
Speaker:The fox is climbing the fingers and has its head up and the nose up and is not.
Speaker:Yeah, it's just staring up, but climbing really on the longest finger,
Speaker:you know, just to reach as high as possible.
Speaker:And their face is so cute and it's just,
Speaker:just looking up, climbing on this person's fingers and hand.
Speaker:So that's connection.
Speaker:And I'm just wondering who is connecting?
Speaker:Is it us connecting to the fox? Is a fox connecting to the cosmic universe?
Speaker:I don't know, but it's beautiful.
Speaker:And now we've got card number 29, which is called Receive.
Speaker:And receive is a woman standing in the river, I guess,
Speaker:or in between clouds.
Speaker:I'm not sure, but I think it's a river stream.
Speaker:And there is a rainbow coming out of there.
Speaker:And yeah, that's the same rainbow, yellow, red
Speaker:and purple and navy blue, almost dark,
Speaker:almost black rainbow coming out from this woman's body.
Speaker:And she's again, just a line, just, just, just line and transparent person, translucent
Speaker:person with this rainbow coming out and around her.
Speaker:There is a.
Speaker:There is A lake.
Speaker:And there are little green islands, like a
Speaker:hilly islands, and seagulls flying around.
Speaker:There are four seagulls that at least I'm sure
Speaker:there are seagulls, definitely.
Speaker:And it just very much reminds me of Scotland.
Speaker:This.
Speaker:I guess it's.
Speaker:I'm sure it's Alaska and it totally can be
Speaker:Alaska, but to me it just looks very, very much like Scotland,
Speaker:which is one of my absolutely favourite places in the world.
Speaker:Yeah. So that's that receiving.
Speaker:And I think what's.
Speaker:This woman is receiving something through the medium of this.
Speaker:Of this rainbow.
Speaker:I think that's the image.
Speaker:And now we've got the last card of the expansion suit and it's called Dream.
Speaker:And this is the picture which is on the box.
Speaker:So I told you in the first episode, what's in it.
Speaker:There are two hands and an outline of a person,
Speaker:of a woman, I think, who's standing like in those hands and reaching up with her right
Speaker:hand.
Speaker:And there are ferns around all around us, like in the background of these hands.
Speaker:And it's a dream.
Speaker:And I love it that the dream has ferns because like I told you,
Speaker:I absolutely love the legend about the fern flower.
Speaker:And that looks,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:it's a very good image of a dream.
Speaker:But yeah, the legend, the original legend of the fen flower is quite sad, really.
Speaker:It's a storey that is meant to warn you from wanting too many possessions because the idea
Speaker:is that if the first.
Speaker:The person who finds the fern flower is gonna
Speaker:get all the riches of the world.
Speaker:But the legend has different versions, but usually it ends badly for this person because
Speaker:they were just too greedy.
Speaker:But there are also other versions, more modern versions of this storey.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:And yeah, so.
Speaker:So the dream is a bit like.
Speaker:When I think about fans and dream.
Speaker:Dream is a bit like ambiguous to me, whether
Speaker:it's a good thing or bad thing.
Speaker:But I love a fans.
Speaker:So to me I just.
Speaker:I just choose this version where it is a dream that leads us towards.
Speaker:Towards expansion.
Speaker:Towards it.
Speaker:Not towards physical, material riches,
Speaker:but towards the richness of our internal life and our feelings and emotions and our internal
Speaker:mental and psychological and intellectual growth rather than capitalistic growth.
Speaker:So, yes, this is what this woman is reaching out to the sky for.
Speaker:Yeah, just expanding her world and fans are going to help her.
Speaker:So this is it for today.
Speaker:We still have.
Speaker:We have two more suits,
Speaker:many more cards to talk about.
Speaker:So there will be a third instalment of this mini series.
Speaker:But for now,
Speaker:stay magical and I'll speak to you in a few days.
Speaker:Bye,
Speaker:Sa.