I'm hard at work finishing up the companion book to our Snowland Deck, and I thought I'd share a few card excerpts with you--Oracle (aka High Priestess) and Quester--Emoting (The Snowman, aka Knight of Cups).
(When you order the deck, you gain automatic entrance into the secret, password-protected Snowland Explorers blog where you'll be able to download the entire companion book in full-color digital format).
Oracle
Description:
A mysterious igloo sits under a flashing Aurora Borealis. Six divination
symbols surround the entrance: coins for the I Ching, cards for Tarot, a hand
for Palmistry, Futhark stones for the Runes, a book for Bibliomancy and a pendulum
for Dowsing. An eye representing Clairvoyance (“clear seeing”) gazes from the
top middle. Inside, a crystal ball sits on top a table covered in a green
cloth. A warm glow emanates from within. On top of the igloo flies a flag
bearing the symbols of the Sun, Moon and Stars. (Note: The runes are Mannaz, meaning “human” and Perthro,
meaning, “casting lots”, “chance”, “pawn”, “the unknowable”, “secret” and
“fortunetelling”).
Description:
In the story “The Snowman” by Hans Christian Andersen, a wise, old dog
tells a snowman why he’s chained outside. One day, as the dog was eating a
bone, the child of the house took it from him. “A bone for a bone”, he figured,
and bit the child’s leg. From then on, he was chained outside. The dog told the
snowman about the warm stove, remembering how lovely it was to crawl under when
it was cold outside. He urged the snowman to see for himself “you’ll be able to
see it from where you stand”, and the snowman began to suffer from “stove
yearning”. He gazed at her through the window—he concluded she must be a
female—and exclaimed, “It’s more than I
can bear! See how beautiful she is when she sticks out her tongue!” It
became warmer and the snowman became smaller, but he didn’t utter a complaint
(Andersen notes this was a “telling sign”, implying that his unrequited love
caused hopeless resignation). One morning, the snowman fell apart, and his head
rolled away. The dog noticed a poker sticking out the top. “It was what the boys had used to help hold the snowman together and
make him stand upright. ‘Now I understand why he longed for the stove’, said
the old watchdog. ‘That’s the old poker he had inside him. No wonder.’” The
implication being that the stove tool inside the snowman caused him to yearn
for the stove. As is the case with many Andersen stories, “The Snowman” ends on
a sad note. The snowman melts away, little girls sing a song celebrating Spring
“And no one thought about the snowman.”
(From Hans Christian Andersen: The
Complete Fairy Tales and Stories, translated from the Danish by Erik
Christian Haugaard).
Keywords:
Infatuation; Adoration; Unrequited Love; Fervency; Ardent Affection; Yearning;
Admiring from a Distance; Knight in Shining Armor; Romanticism; “Puppy Love”
Intuitive
Questions:
When was the last time I felt
infatuated?
What am I yearning for?
What do I tend to romanticize?
What consumes my attention?
Who is worthy of adoration?
In what way am I feeling “on the
outside looking in”?
What unrequited desire needs
examined?
Writing
Prompts:
Re-write the ending of “The
Snowman”
A dog will do anything to get his
bone
A furnace burns with unusual fire
Tell the story of Romeo and Juliet
in a new way
Use the following words in a story
or poem: Stove; Dog; Rug; Snowman; Poker
Affirmations:
My expectations for love are
realistic.
What I admire in others, I look
for in myself.
When I love someone, I tell them.
Secret:If you can’t have what you want, then want what you have.
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Excerpts from the Snowland Deck Companion Book
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