Wake Up Laughing

This week I'll be using the Shadowscapes book and deck set published by Llewellyn. The artwork is done by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and the book is written by Barbara Moore. I'll also be drawing from the Arthur Rackham Oracle, created and self-published by Doug Thornsjo (Duck Soup). Today's cards are Judgment and 'Devilment:'

          This angel's horn wakes the flowers and butterflies, heralding the end of winter and beginning of spring. Outside (for those in the Northern Hemisphere) there are signs that the season of renewal is here. Yet her call is also for the human folk to wake from complacency or apathy and see with clear eyes and an open heart. What needs to be transformed in your life or in the place you live? Being set in our ways, it can be hard to get off our comfy couches and chairs and do something different. Yet Puck (A Midsummer's Night Dream) shows up to prod us. Puck, who was a jester to the fairy king, loved to tangle things up. When chaos ensued, he had a good laugh, yet he would set things right eventually. His purpose was not to be mean but to grab folk's attention. Our family has its own little Puck in the form of a kitten that showed up at the library where my daughter works. Life has not been boring since she arrived!

Lia

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

~ Victor Hugo