I just did the Dream-Joy-Magic spread. I'm on my lunchhour at work; I prefer to read the cards at home, in the morning, but I was stressed this morning (spent a half hour on the phone with my cell phone company about a missing payment), so I stuck the cards in my bag and brought them with me.

I was doing a little research on the meanings of various stones that I use in my jewelry, and I had just read about Chrysoprase at Rings & Things, who have a wonderful gemstone index, and it said that, among other things, Chrysoprase enables the wearer to understand the language of lizards (shades of Harry Potter!), and if you hold a piece of Chrosoprase in your mouth, you will become invisible.

Knowing this made me very happy, and I felt in a good place to lay out the cards.

My reading was:

Interesting that they were all Cups -- I've used the deck exclusively for several months, and it's well-shuffled -- but maybe not so strange seeing as how happy I felt at the time.

The Page of Cups generally portents a message of love. The Pages are all messengers, but this one symbolizes love, emotion, intimacy, or the possibility of them, anyway. Joan Bunning says, "Sometimes the Page of Cups implies that your entire situation is suffused with the spirit of love and emotion." The "Dream" card represents our desires, and right now my desire is to create and grow a business creating and selling my jewelry; I think this card is saying that I desire to make this happen in a way that feeds my soul, and so far, it definitely does.

The "Joy" card represents "that for which we have reason to be happy." I've always thought that the King of Cups in my life is my friend David, who has been encouraging me and coaching me through as I'm working toward my goals. He's the one who is always encouraging me to "dream bigger." I have a lot of love and support in my life (my husband is the King of Swords, and my boss at work is the King of Wands, both of whom are supportive in different aspects of my life), but in this particular situation, I'm especially thankful for my King of Cups.

The "Magic" card stumped me for a moment -- the Nine of Cups is traditionally what I've seen called the "party hearty" card -- wish fulfillment, having everything you want or need, a feeling of accomplishment accompanied by a certain smugness. But the card in this position is supposed to represent the work I need to do to overcome my personal limitations. The Nine of Cups would indicate that my wish will come true, but I believe it also means that I have to do the necessary work -- it isn't going to come to me on a silver platter, there will be a lot of work that I need to do, but if I do that, I can be proud of my accomplishments (and my golden cups), like the man on the card.

Also -- thinking about the smugness factor -- maybe it's a warning that I need to remain humble, although that generally isn't a problem of mine. Certainly something to keep in mind, though.