my description:
A whitish grey dragon's claw holds open a book labeled "The Grimoire of Life" with the inscription "The Wheel Turns. Learn to ride with dragons." Below the inscription is a Celtic trefoil made of dragon heads. On the facing page is a wheel in eight sections, each section showing a different shaped dragon, all facing inward to the center, which is a small square. enclosing the circle is a braided knot.
Below the book is a feather quill and a bottle of ink. The etchings on the bottle aren't clear but they hint at a lunar goddess design (full moon with crescents to the side), and the ink reflects light, reminding me of a scrying bowl...images almost surfacing in the murk.
The book that comes with this deck attaches the trefoil pattern to the Norse Fates, and the 8 sections of the Wheel to the Wheel of the Year. Karma seems to be highlighted here... as you write it, you live it. The feather, described as Truth by the book is what is used to write, and the ink seems to me to be a scrying bowl... if you have the eyes to see, what will be written is already being shown there.
I think I like this card - there's such a good focus on blending acceptance of what is (Learn to ride with dragons - not fight them... not get dragged away by them) and the truth that we write our own Fate to a large extent.
A phrase that is coming to mind is 'Life is not a mistake" - this isn't a roulette wheel spinning randomly... there are no hapless creatures clinging desperately to the Wheel. Rather, each phase has its own nature. Riding with dragons... we don't always know why things are the way they are, but we can experience it as a spiritual event, ride with it not be ridden by it...and know that we hold the pen and can, by our response to today, begin writing the next chapter.
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