Guided reading: Pages of Shustah

Today I asked a question, specifically when we would hear about a new job for my husband.  Here is the draw:

red 5 - red 3 - green 8

The red cards in the Pages of Shustah are about adversity, trouble, severity and disappointments.  The green cards are about development, desire, growth and progress.

Red 5, The Black Cat – The card of alert attention.  Emotional threat, jealousy, treachery, danger.

Red 3, The Seperating Fence.  The card of severence.  Emotional seperation, release from a personal relationship.

Green 8, The Journey.  The card of progress.  A physical trip to another state or country.

The Black Cat has always looked to me like a wolverine.  Wolverines are fierce little creatures and can be deceptive as to how powerful they are because of their small size.  They have been known to go after bears to defend food and territory.  But I digress.  The message of the cat is to be alert to dangerous situations.  I found this to be interesting because of some of the issues my husband has been having of late with a client.

I was having some difficulty with the fence, so I consulted the very uplifting and informative blog of Ken Foorwhich is all about the Pages of Shustah. Now it makes more sense. The fence is diving two people, but it is a mesh fence. The people can still see and communicate with each other. So while we should be alert to potential problems (black cat) we should keep the lines of communication open, whilst maintaining seperation from our feelings on the matter.

The journey to me is the most interesting of the three cards. It is a card of progress, and specifically (according to the accompanying book) deals with long distance travel. So the turning point in our hunt will be associated with a long distance trip. We have one trip planned currently, but that doesn’t rule out my husband having to travel before then either – his business trips tend to be dropped on us last minute due to the nature of his job.

All in all I am very pleased with this reading. It’s very uplifting – yes we still have some challanges and barriers to overcome, but there is hope for progress. It almost makes my regular two day headache bearable, lol..

To ask or not to ask, a directing question that is…

If you have ever had someone read your cards, you may or may not have been asked a question regarding what information you seek.  Or, simply what you want to know about.  Why is this so important?

As you may note from reading this blog, it can be rather difficult to identify what the situation is that you’re reading after you throw your cards.  Cards are very often like words.  Some words have a definite meaning, while others can have several depending on the context the word is being spoken in.  If you are having a conversation with someone and miss part of what is said (only hearing a few words) it is easy to misunderstand, or worse misconstrue their message.

I am in no means suggesting that “it is impossible” to determine a situation in an open ended reading – I don’t believe that to be the case.  But for some people (such as myself) it can be a dilemma.  There are many people who are very comfortable with cards or whatever their oracle of choice may be.  It could be experience or it could be confidence in their gifts.  Or it could be something else entirely.

Does this mean one should not do an open ended reading?  No.  It is a wonderful opportunity to hone your skills.  Or just to attempt to solve a mystery.  You may make mistakes.  Mistakes are part of life though and are opportunities to learn and grow.  Even seasoned readers will admit that they are not correct 100% of the time (and if they claim to be unless in jest, I would be very wary).

I also think it is important that if there is enormous confusion, one should not be afraid to ask a question or two in order to better clarify what the message is.  Some people will not read cards without a well formed question.  This is a lot of the reason why.  It’s much easier to quickly answer a question when you know what you’re looking at/for.  Questions in no way diminish the quality of the reader or their oracle, and one is less likely to make a whopper of a mistake if they take the time to inquire about what they are seeing.

I thought I should post this mainly because I am often confused by what I am looking at – I tend to be very ambiguous in my questioning in addition to being a novice when it comes to reading these decks.  I do enjoy doing these readings and posting them.  Because as I make mistakes, I have every intention of learning from the experience and growing as a lover of oracle/fortune telling decks.