Draconian Oracle

The theme of this one is practicality, I didn't even know what to think when it came to my oracle cards lol.  Giger For shadow self reading 1. Practical- Where can you be more practical?   The Hierophant This is the card for taking care of the whole of the world and piety before the self, likened to nunnery over being swept off your feet. Being more practical here would be less tending to the faith and loving the rest of the world and more towards loving self and allowing my partner to love me as a woman (allowing femininity to blossom). Be more woman, less reverend and counselor/healer.  2. Patience- Where can you apply more patience?   Judgement The future is rooted in patterns of the past. I should be patient with myself over repeating past mistakes, esp important having just faced Saturn retrograde and Pluto retrograde beginning.  3. Perseverance- What requires you to just keep going?   The Universe Awakening the conscious...

This is the first of the last 9 cards to be expanded. Through going through the test reads I have been noting where things could use expanded and what deities I didn't have a good handle on. Some of the added cards are simply pulling apart the meanings that have "could be good or bad, or maybe something else." For Uridimmu I had not fully understood his meanings when I was in a rush to get the deck done during Inktober. He actually had 6 aspects; I compacted down into 4 cards, resulting in 3 new cards to be done. These I took my time on and didn't use sharpie/pens, I had liqutex acrylic ink and nibs.  Protection and Healing Here he is a guardian and heals the sick. Kusarikku is added in the back because together the guard the sun god Baal Shamash. Funny thing about Shamash, he has intuitively made an appearance in the art of my tarot cards a few times through the liver added in the "oracle title" (which is how they divined answers back then...

This month's moon is in Libra and the spread is about relationships.   (This seemed to ring more about relationship to myself than relationships with others) Sumerian Oracle 1. How can I tend my relationships in a healthy way? Bašmu (protection) His fire comes from within you, up out of your shoulders, and wraps behind your head like the great naga protectors like Vasuki. This is a protective shield that burns from within outwards.  I often pray to this visage (Vasuki protecting Buddha, but sometimes speak to Bašmu instead of Vasuki) for protection of my family at temple; did so just this last week in fact. This could be viewed as "I heard you" or maybe "do this more." Hell maybe "defend yourself."  2. What area in my life needs more love? Mušuššu (necrophilia) This visage of her is vampirism through necrophilia.  I haven't really fleshed out meanings for it as of yet, as she has a few vampirism forms for o...

I have created a tarot mat to go with my oracle deck. It was two fold in meaning. One on hand I wanted to try one possible version for tarot cloth art. On the other it was to honor Ama-Tiamat and her children for Akitu (Nowruz). It is traditionally celebrated as when Marduk defeated them and killed Mother, but in my home we celebrate it in a manner to rise Ama.