Playing Card Divination by Stephen Ball

Author:Stephen Ball
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: CVR09042019;divination;divination with playing cards;playing card divination;fortunetelling;fortune telling;fortunetelling with playing cards;stephen ball;steven ball;how to tell the future;tell the future with playing cards;CVR04012020
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2020-04-22T14:18:02+00:00

Six of Diamonds:

Singer’s Gambit

“The Lady of the Forest”

Performance, Outward Appearances, Being Seen

When the world was younger than it is now, the Lady of the Forest strode through the woodland singing her song. As the breezes carried her sweet melody, the flowers around her opened and trees unfurled their leaves. Sunlight sent gentle slanting rays through the ranks of oak, elm and ash. The Lady placed her feet carefully along the sides of sparkling streams and ponds, tending to weeping willow and fiery alder.

She raised the note of her song to cause delight, and bright daffodils heard the call. From the busy undergrowth golden buttercups rose up in her steps and a carpet of bluebells covered a clearing when she passed.

Turning her voice to darkness, the Lady sang nightshade and holly and monkshood. She created shadowed groves of long-lived yew and quiet mounds where mushrooms slept.

All along her path the creatures of the forest gathered to listen and to peek out in wonder. Deer and wild horses, badgers and owls, beetle and squirrel and bat. They heard the music in their blood and were lifted by it, enchanted as the pure voice rang out to the stars and down to the mosses.

The Lady walked alongside a waterfall, and for the first time a tiny shiver entered her voice. It sang of caves which had collapsed, swamps fallen to rot. Those listening were confused, wondering how the Lady could fear that her work would not be perfect. Surely one so divine would have the power to guarantee her notes remained clear and life-giving? That changed when they saw her pass by, for her glamour was such that it was impossible to imagine this being as anything but perfect. And yet the tone of sadness and caution in her voice remained.

When she finally went on her way, leaving all observers behind, the sun seemed to dim and the streams quieten their splashing. But the forest itself and all life within it could still hear the piercing notes of her song, and it remembered them.

The Gambit cards are always the actions a Role takes. For the Singer, it is (unsurprisingly) to put on a performance but what this means in the modern day is quite complicated! We live in a time where the picture we would like to show of ourselves to the outside world is often different to our real life, especially on social media. This is also true of singers who find it useful to craft a persona for the stage and transport us to a world where glamor is possible (compared to earlier the same morning when they were half asleep with bed-hair and couldn’t find their keys). A performance is an artificial time created to have maximum effect, but its artificiality doesn’t make it bad. All the deliberate effort does succeed in making a performance more effective.

Another aspect of performing is being seen and judged. It can be a scary experience, whether you are speaking in public or using your charisma to convince just one person of something important.

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