Magic

The most amazing thing happened last week. Of course, not everyone thought it was as amazing as I did, but I thought it was very cool and almost magical. On Wednesday or Thursday I was walking in to work, and I noticed a couple of brightly-colored pieces of paper on the ground. I thought they looked like some kind of stickers or cards or something, and almost picked one up, but decided not to.

Then on Friday, when I was walking in, I noticed the pieces of paper again, and actually stopped to look, and what I was looking at was a tarot card. "Cool!" I though, and picked it up. It was a card from the Dragon Tarot deck. I wish I had noticed which card it was when I picked it up, but I didn't. Because I started looking around, and the cards were everywhere!

I started walking around the parking lot, gathering them up. I didn't know how many cards were in a tarot deck, so I didn't know whether it was a whole deck or not. I picked up as many as I could see, then went on in to work and counted them. There were something like 52, which sounded like a full deck, but then I went online and saw that there should be 78.

So I went back down to the parking lot and started really looking, and found more--I believe I have 69 now--but I'm still missing a few. Oh, and I found the little paper descriptive book that comes with the deck, and the two title cards, one of which has "Page of Cups" written on it, and the other one has "Ace of Wands."

I wrote to Misty about the cards (she was the only person I told about them who got as excited about them as I did), and she looked up the meaning of the Page of Cups:

Increased intuition. This card may represent a child or adolescent who is sensitive, loving and intuitive. Abstractly, it represents intuitive thinking and creativity coming to the fore in your life.

Cool, huh?

I also thought I should sit down and figure out which cards I have, and which ones are missing--maybe the missing ones are the important ones (in a "signs and portents" kind of way). There was also a tin in the parking lot--like a fruitcake tin--that I'm guessing originally held the cards, because it was pretty clean and not rusty like it would be if it had been lying out there for awhile.

Anyway, I thought it was very cool and magical, and I imagined a whole story around them, about someone who was reading the cards and got a really horrible reading, and then flung the cards out of the car window into the parking lot; but, oh! Maybe the cards that I don't have are the cards that were in the reading, and rather than flying out the window with the rest, they refused to go.

I'm sure it was something much more mundane, like leaving them on the roof of the car when they drove off, but I like imagining the more magical possibility.

The picture above is Misty and Sam. She sent me some pictures from their trip through the Grand Canyon, and I thought it might be nice to put one up so people can see what she looks like!

In other news, Anna Banana is home! That's what my sister Lynn came out of my parents' house shouting when I drove up with Ann in the car. Ann lives in Denver, and hasn't been home for a couple of years. She flew in on Saturday and I went up to the airport to pick her up. There was some confusion over airlines and flight numbers, but we eventually connected, and I drove her out to my parents', where she's staying for ten days or so, and had dinner out there with them.

I redesigned my web design site a few weeks ago. I've been sitting on it until I decided on a photograph to use for the sidebar; I found a free photo that I like almost as much as the $69 one I had my heart set on, and I decided I just couldn't justify the expense. I like this one pretty well