It’s time to try a simple three stone drop reading. It’s a little different than choosing three
stones and lining them up (as in the Arrowhead spread) because you can take
into account the relative positions of the stones as they land. I’ve noticed that I haven’t been considering
color connections much either, so I’m going to give that a try here, too.
The question is: What
can I do to help my son be happier?
Here’s the reading:
From top to bottom: 3-Empress-Malachite; 16-Red Jasper-Tower; 14-Temperance-Rose Quartz.
Even though I’m the mother, and Empress is here, my first
impression if that, with Empress and Temperance, this is a health reading. While my son is generally healthy, he could lose
some weight. He is actively working on
that, trying to eat right and going to the gym regularly. (He’s a vegetarian, like I am, and sometimes
that makes it difficult to keep the calories down. You end up eating lots of pasta, pizza, and
soy-based food!)
Empress is saying
I should quietly and unobtrusively nourish him whenever I get the chance. And that should include encouragement and
nourishing ideas and information on health.
Temperance means
I should also encourage moderation. (I
tried to explain that beer is probably the highest calorie content item he
consumes, but he isn’t hearing that!)
And, especially since we’re both vegetarians, I should encourage
moderation through example. That way, I’m improving the health of both of us at
the same time! I’m also worried about
him taking over-the-counter performance enhancing drinks before he works
out. They’ve got to be full of
chemicals, so I’m thinking they’re not all that good for him. So I might gently ask him about them and if
there are more natural alternatives.
So now the burning Tower
in the room. Maybe I should communicate
the obvious but often unnoticed old saw that if you don’t have your health, you
don’t have anything. When you’re young,
your body can withstand and bounce back from a lot, of both neglect and over-discipline. I am a prime example that if you wait to take care of your health after years of neglect, things
can get pretty ugly (or at least very creaky)!
As for relative
positions, the Tower might also be my worry about him, separating my
over-mothering instincts from a moderate, reality-based concern. I just hope it doesn’t take a health scare to
impress on him the necessity of moderation.
Even too much exercising is too much!
Color-wise, if we
read from top to bottom, the opaque stones lead to the translucent stone,
meaning that things will become clearer in time as I put into practice the
advice of the reading. The same with the
color tones: dark and definite green and
red lead to pastel, less defined pink.
Things aren’t as cut-and-dried as I think. More open-minded is where I should
end up.
Reading notes: In contrast with freeform rune readings,
to me, Arcana Stones are less definite and keyword based, so it takes a bit more
thought and rummaging around for a coherent reading with just three
stones. (Of course, that could just be
my relationship to runes as opposed to tarot.
I’m more familiar with the multitudes of meanings and associations of
tarot. I’m still in the keyword stage
with runes!)
Also, runes land face up or face down, and they are
directional (upright, reversed, or somewhere in between), giving further facets
of meanings to a tossed reading. Would
the solution be using more Arcana Stones in a reading, even though there are
more runes (24) than Arcana Stones (22)?
(Stay tuned for a post about my infamous 15 percent rule of thumb.)
I think I’m going to need more practice with my
freeform readings, so I will be posting more as we go along. Let me know if you would like me to do one for you!
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