Ogham Readings on Saturdays
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kimberlysteele
I am happy to read your Ogham free of charge -- that's how I hone my divination skills. Please limit your reading request to four or fewer Ogham cards: though this can take many forms, here are some common ones (all of them are basically combos of 4 cards):
-a single three card reading for the week or month and a one-off, one card reading
-four questions about four separate items that require one answer (card) per item
-a one card reading to answer a specific question and a three card for a more nuanced question
-Two separate readings, two cards a piece exploring the positives and negatives of two different choices
-a one card reading to answer a specific question and a three card for a more nuanced question
-Two separate readings, two cards a piece exploring the positives and negatives of two different choices
I am happy to do Ogham readings confidentially via email -- just email me at k steele studio at gmail during the allotted time/before deadline. I cannot answer health questions. If you have a question about health or another sensitive, private matter, provide a bunch of non-identifying information and the Ogham will be able to figure it out even if I don't. I'm serious... the Ogham actually tend to "know" things without me being privy to what is going on.
Please note I take time off during Solstices and Equinoxes for Druid stuff and because sometimes I simply need a break.
My next planned break is the week of Saturday, September 21.
My next planned break is the week of Saturday, September 21.
I take reading requests from whenever this post goes up on Friday night until 8pm US Central Time the next day (Saturday).
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Date: 2024-07-20 03:49 am (UTC)1. What do I need to know to make the best of this week? I've had hints that it may involve financial difficulties, but that may refer to another issue I face (not discussed here).
2. What does your Ogham say I most need to know to correct myself on my spiritual path? Frankly my performance is far short of expectations and it’s the grace of the Divine that I’m still on it, for which I’m grateful. I already accept misfortune and lost dreams is baked into the cake of my life - it's in my chart. Therefore I should be acting henceforth with the idea that I have nothing to lose and will endure and try everything to succeed.
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Date: 2024-07-21 03:39 pm (UTC)You drew three cards for this week.
For the You position, you drew Onn or Community ill-dignified. You may feel withdrawn (or that you need to withdraw more) and unfairly treated by your circle of acquaintances. Obviously the only remedy for this is to treat your own community as fairly as possible in the Do Unto Others sense. Another possibility is that you are asking too much of your community and/or they are asking too much of you.
For the Situation, you drew Mór or Sea ill-dignified. You are right, this may be a financially strained week. The good news is it is not your fault and you don't need to feel responsible for it: just ride it out. Not all karma is individual, and the kind you have to put up with as part of a group is so diffuse that you cannot possibly say "I am at fault for this". Lay low, chill, stand back, and don't worry about white knighting. It's not your battle.
For the Outcome, you drew Ngetal or Hygiene well-dignified. The more you can figure out where you end and the rest of the world begins, the saner and happier you will become. Ngetal is about taking the right amount of responsibility and the Divine is happy to guide you in this direction. There is always a balance of what you can do to ameliorate any given situation... sometimes it's nothing at all. Ngetal is your sense of how much you can help yourself and others, and you've got a good amount of perception this week.
For your spiritual path, the Ogham give you Ailm or Transcendence ill-dignified. Basically they are vehemently disagreeing with this statement: "I already accept misfortune and lost dreams is baked into the cake of my life - it's in my chart." Don't do that. The stars incline; they do not compel. I wasn't even supposed to be a spiritual person in this lifetime from what little I have grokked. There were too many materialist impedances. Somehow I got around a few of them by not marrying rich, but I also missed out on having a large suburban home and being able to retire. I will work until the day I die because I have to for survival money -- is this misfortune? It certainly looks that way in my chart. Yet I am happy to do that because that was what my father did and generosity begat gratitude.
Meatworld is a testing ground and it is a real bitch of a school. Look at your misfortunes right now and in the past. How can you Glad Game them? What were the lessons you learned from them? In my own case, I would have liked to have been a famous singer. I have the pipes and the pitch but I was stymied and frustrated every time. This led me to other things that ended up being far more worthwhile than singing on stage (my guides tell me I will probably sing on stage in my next few lifetimes) and those things were teaching and arranging music.
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Date: 2024-07-20 07:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-21 03:56 pm (UTC)They say the situation is for the best and that you made the right decision but it might not stick.
They give you three cards. For the You position, you drew Phagos or Teaching well-dignified. All things considered, separation is the wisest choice with the limits you've been given. The decision comes from your higher self, which is beyond the realm of emotion and has the bird's eye view.
For the Situation, you drew Saille or Sensitivity ill-dignified. When someone is self-absorbed, they tend to talk through you or at you. It's narcissism and narcissism is a state of insensitivity to others and extreme sensitivity to oneself. When narcissists speak, they are using you as a human mirror in hopes that you will reflect them favorably and they become furious when you show anything other than agreement. This "someone" may be you; there is not one of us, present company included, who has risen above narcissism. Narcissism is also a way of running away from working on oneself. If you are head-over-heels in love with yourself, it's hard to find the humility it takes to work on your own weaknesses. To be human is to be a narcissist, at least a little bit, so that is why we have to forgive narcissistic behavior in others... up to a point.
For the Outcome, you drew Uilleand or Generosity ill-dignified. This points to still caring for your partner and being a bit co-dependent/enabling. There are some people who will not be OK without you regardless of whether you will be fine or not on your end. We can call upon the wisdom of the Stoics here: what happens to your partner and you if you cut and clear? What happens if you go back to the previous state? If you keep your partner in your life, you will have to be extremely strict about limits and know all your lines in the sand. Like usual, I recommend journaling your discursive meditations on your lines in the sand so you can remind yourself of your own limits where your partner is concerned.
Week 30
Date: 2024-07-20 08:41 am (UTC)What do I need to know in order to make the best out of the 4th week of July?
Thanks!
-Eugene
Re: Week 30
Date: 2024-07-21 04:10 pm (UTC)It looks like a good week for you: all three cards were well-dignified. That said, please keep in mind an all-well-dig reading does not guarantee smooth sailing. It does point to the likelihood you will handle the challenges of this week very well and with maturity and grace.
For the You card, you drew Muin or Harvest. You are developing positive habits and routines and you're even likely to see some results, so take the time to have a small celebration and pat yourself on the back for your hard work. Gratitude is the key to making the most of your small wins which pile up if you appreciate them.
For the Situation, you drew Luis or Protection well-dignified. No matter what the dignity, Luis is always a danger card in my Ogham, so be on your guard and be risk adverse this week. Divine strength is becoming available to you as you listen to your higher self. The higher self is beyond the world of emotions and is able to grasp the big picture; the lower self cannot do that. The more you listen to your higher self, the more you can understand the illusion of spacetime and the exact work you need to do to re-unite with the Divine.
For the Outcome, you drew Quert or Delight. "Moderation in all things" is one of the only statements Apollo ever left us with at Delphi. The other one was "Know thyself". It's perfectly OK to kick back and enjoy the harvest. Relaxation and celebration only becomes bad when that is all you do. Rewards and treats are always sweeter when you earn them, and you can be your own parent in this sense by delaying gratification until you earn it. For instance, if you need to work on your memory (I certainly do) you can give yourself a tiny reward every time you remember something you used to forget. When I remember someone's name, I might reward myself with my favorite store-bought snack or a special trip to the library. Remembering names is difficult for me and if I can manage it, it is worth a reward. We humans are no different than dogs in that we will be able to do neat tricks if we associate them with a positive reward. Woof!
Princess Cutekitten
Date: 2024-07-20 04:28 pm (UTC)Re: Princess Cutekitten
Date: 2024-07-21 04:28 pm (UTC)You drew three cards this week.
For the You position, you drew Nuin or Communication ill-dignified. This week will feel stymied and strained where interpersonal communication is concerned -- misunderstanding, frustration, and regression will be lurking in the wings. Make sure you spell it all out in detail and call in outside eyes if need be to look over anything collaborative. Technology and transportation may also be difficult, so be prepared.
For the Situation, you drew Muin or Harvest well-dignified. The Ogham think you'll be able to appreciate where you are and how far you have come. Despite many bad harvests that have come home to roost, there are good ones as well and you will have the opportunity to put it all into a balanced perspective.
For the Outcome, you drew Saille or Sensitivity ill-dignified. You feel forced into a predicament where you have to be self-centered and there isn't time for the "refinement" of higher pursuits. This is the cross you currently must bear and Jesus warned those who do it that it isn't going to be easy. Grace under fire needs to be your motto for this week.
For the lawyer change, they advise it will be a s**tshow. They give Tinne or Defense ill-dignified, meaning that this may not be the best of changes or that you might have to do it again after this. It's also a danger card in my Ogham, so be risk adverse this week. The Ogham suggest you do whatever you can to get the skinny on the next lawyer: research, research, research! Look into every option you have and arm yourself with every bit of information the internet and/or library can provide.
Re: Princess Cutekitten
Date: 2024-07-21 04:40 pm (UTC)—Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2024-07-20 06:28 pm (UTC)I need to make a rather important choice between options A, B, C, and D. Might your Ogham have any insight into which would be the best for me?
Thank you!
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Date: 2024-07-21 04:47 pm (UTC)My Ogham give you four cards. I suggest looking them up on my other site, http://druidogham.wordpress.com for more info.
For the A choice, they give Phagos or Teaching ill-dignified. This one is unwise and perhaps not meant to be.
For the B choice, they give Ur or Intimacy ill-dignified. This one reveals too much or is trouble for close relationships.
For the C choice, they give Onn or Community well-dignified. This one is harmonious for the personal and local ecosystem.
For the D choice, they give Oir or Epiphany well-dignified. This one is strong and high-minded.
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Date: 2024-07-20 07:39 pm (UTC)1. What do the Ogham say is up for me through the end of July?
2. Will situation X resolve itself on its own?
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Date: 2024-07-21 04:55 pm (UTC)The Ogham give you three cards for the rest of July.
For the You card, they give Coll or Wisdom well-dignified. You know what to say at the right time and more importantly, when to shut up, and this will save you trouble and bring you good results in the future. The Ogham say the work you've been doing on your own mind is smiled upon by the Divine and that it is a diligent and proper trajectory towards more good results.
For the Situation, you drew Muin or Harvest well-dignified. You've worked for the current wins and the Ogham say you should take a moment to reflect on how far you've come and also to award yourself for work well done. Of course nobody should ever sprain his or her arm patting themselves on the back, but life's small achievements should be rewarded and enjoyed. You earned it.
For the Outcome, you drew Eadha or Limits ill-dignified. It's easy to not know where you end and someone else begins, to be overly needy and/or overly depended upon, or to feel unappreciated and under-recognized or that others are not doing their part. This is where the Glad Game comes in: for every one negative that you're fixating upon, oblige yourself to remember three positives in return. For instance, if you find yourself self-immolating over a dumb thing you said in the past, force yourself to recall three smart and helpful things you said that may have helped more than you know. If someone else is being a major pill, remember three times he or she was brave, kind, selfless, or generous.
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Date: 2024-07-21 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-20 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-21 05:04 pm (UTC)You drew three cards this week.
For the You position, you drew Eadha or Limits ill-dignified. This is a week where it is easy to either be pushy or allow yourself to be pushed around. There is a happy medium between the two states, of course, and this means being assertive and standing your ground without getting mad or depressed about it. It's also a week to keep aspirations in check -- don't let a desire become a fever dream and don't allow others to imprint their fever dreams upon you. That said, desire is the force that runs the world and you are very much allowed to have desires. No need to feel guilty; we all have them. It's what you choose to do about the desire that matters, not the desire itself.
For the Situation, you drew Ngetal or Hygiene well-dignified. You have a good perspective of where you end and others begin and those around you have also cultivated a similar respect of boundaries. This is a good week to focus on your health and to build on existing good habits. You will have the strength and diligence to put new, good habits into effect that will displace the old, bad ones and make them seem uninteresting in comparison.
For the Outcome, you drew Ioho or Grace ill-dignified. Sometimes when I draw this card, I call it "no rest for the wicked". Meaning, I drive myself far too hard and end up exhausted and unhealthy. Don't do this: practice moderation in all things, and that includes work. Neither too much nor too little. It can also be talking about having to let go before you are ready. Hopefully it is something innocuous like your living space needing a good de-cluttering. I know mine does...
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Date: 2024-07-20 10:02 pm (UTC)To ask: What is it that I need to know this week, according to the Ogham.
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Date: 2024-07-21 05:10 pm (UTC)The Ogham give you three cards this week.
For the You position, you drew Fearn or Bridge ill-dignified. It's all too tempting to be a bit of a bad example or to be infected by a bad example this week. Don't let others' weaknesses infiltrate your inner sanctum. Also be wary of throwing out the baby with the bathwater: don't judge the entire person based on one repugnant opinion or even several. A broken clock is right twice a day!
For the Situation, you drew Muin or Harvest ill-dignified. A boon has not yet come. Will it pan out? Maybe there is more work that has to go into it. The important thing is to contemplate if the desired end result will even be worth it at all. We do reap what we sow.
For the Outcome, you drew Coll or Wisdom well-dignified. The slow and steady tortoise approach has given you gnosis rather than superficial acquaintance for the benefit of others. It's not only the gnosis of the particular things you are expert in that you've gained; it is the actual process that has made you better and smarter. What other things in your life are worth that kind of application towards mastery? Have you meditated about them, and more importantly have you meditated about the ones that ought to be thrown out, at least for now?
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Date: 2024-07-20 10:40 pm (UTC)I would like to know how my relationship with J will develop.
Thank you,
P
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Date: 2024-07-21 05:16 pm (UTC)My Ogham give you three cards.
For the You card, they give Quert or Delight well-dignified. You are becoming a more grateful person every day, and it is this force that draws J to you. Everybody wants the grateful person. Gratitude is a kind of generosity that does not directly involve physical wealth. Of course we all want the grateful person because according to their pattern, they are going to be grateful for us, LOL. It's nice to be appreciated!
For the Situation, you drew Onn or Community ill-dignified. Interesting. It looks like there is trouble with your family and friends or J's family and friends as far as their opinion of their relationship. This is friction you will have to accept and get around in order to make the relationship work. Hater's gonna hate...
For the Outcome, you drew Nuin or Communication well-dignified. This implies luck for the both of you and a kind of "you and me against the world" closeness where you feel uniquely right for one another, flawed and imperfect as you both are.
Opportunity
Date: 2024-07-20 11:47 pm (UTC)There is an opportunity to make a financial decision that will be uncomfortable in the short term (probably) but likely beneficial in the longer term. What do the Ogham think?
IF the Ogham think this opportunity is at least neutral, there are a couple ways it could be funded, none of which is mutually exclusive-- and in fact, potentially all might be required. Would like to know if one or more sources are better than the others. The funding sources are Y, IR or IN. Advice?
Thank you so very kindly. I appreciate it!
May you receive many blessings from wherever you will have them,
MJ from MA
Re: Opportunity
Date: 2024-07-21 05:21 pm (UTC)My Ogham agree, this is a good financial decision. They give Tinne or Defense well-dignified. There is danger in it just like any financial decision, but long term, it is truly protective.
As far as funding sources, they like all three. They are all well-dignified and it is simply a matter of "flavor" as far as which one suits you best.
For Y, they give Straif or Resilience, implying this is a disciplined and measured approach.
For IR, they give Huath or Obstacles, meaning this one carries Martial force that puts up the necessary fight. This one goes well with the martial force of Tinne. They are brother cards.
For IN, they give Uilleand or Generosity, meaning this one comes as a gift that you will repay in kind. It is a circle of positivity.
Re: Opportunity
Date: 2024-07-21 08:38 pm (UTC)Holy moly! That is FREAKISHLY accurate!! You and the Ogham can be scary!
The IN funding option is literally a gift from a relative. And the Y option is a work situation which definitely requires discipline.
The opportunity itself has to do with making a social security adjustment that could be very protective later, but limiting now. [If it's not protective, we probably have far greater problems!!]
Thank you so much! This was very helpful!!!!
Take care, MJ from MA
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Re: Opportunity
Date: 2024-07-22 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-21 12:03 am (UTC)I'm the guy from the optimistic relationship readings a while back.
Aside from what I must do for work (I am a teacher, so some work reliably invades my free time on a regular basis), I am planning on dividing up my free time "hobbies" between the mystical path I have chosen, exercise/health, and a rotating cycle of miscellaneous topics I find interesting.
I am not in a relationship, so I don't have to worry about that taking up any time for now, but I do worry about that for the future...
But for the immediate future (6-9 months?) what do your Ogham think about the above?
Thanks, Kimberly!
Ennobled little day
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Date: 2024-07-21 05:29 pm (UTC)My Ogham like your mystical path a great deal. They say the time is right. They give Mór or Sea well-dignified, meaning that by choosing this path, you not only improve yourself but the collective astral plane around you. I believe the reason there was a huge cosmic shift recently was because my guides informed me that a bunch of people (and presumably their guides) improved the collective astral by taking up spiritual practices.
For the exercise health regime you've chosen, they like it too. They give you Huath or Obstacles well-dignified, which is a pretty direct way of them saying it is the sort of diligence that translates into benefits all over the place. The hard work of ripping muscle in order to build it becomes mastery on the mental plane, it's just harder to perceive the connection for our puny human brains.
For the miscellaneous hobbies/topics, they are a little less keen. They give Ailm or Trancendence ill-dignified, which indicates you need to narrow it down in order to focus on what you truly love. Be prepared to prune hobbies and topics you're lukewarm about. I always use macrame as an example: I love macrame and it definitely sparks joy to tie a bunch of knots, but I emphatically DO NOT HAVE THE TIME. Maybe in one of my far future lives I can be the knot-tier on the ship or whatever but it is not going to happen this time around.
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Date: 2024-07-21 05:58 pm (UTC)Your entire response is sensible... Makes sense.
Thank you!
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Date: 2024-07-22 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-21 12:47 am (UTC)What's up for me and my family this week?
Thanks!
-PW
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Date: 2024-07-21 05:37 pm (UTC)You and the fam drew three cards this week.
For the You position, you drew Duir or Gifts well-dignified. I love this card and for me it is the best and grandest of the Ogham deck. Symbolized by the mighty White Oak, this is a card of generosity begetting gratitude begetting more generosity in an endless cycle of sublimation. This is a good week to contemplate where your own acts of generosity have created gratitude, both on your own part and on part of others.
For the Situation, you drew Coll or Wisdom ill-dignified. Definitely think before you put your foot in it and warn any in the fam who will listen to do the same. Much trouble was saved by people who kept their traps shut at the appropriate time. Sometimes the best way to get someone to hear your message is to be a good listener first.
For the Outcome, you drew Luis or Protection well-dignified. You know what I am about to say: Luis is one of my Ogham's danger cards, so be aware of this and no running in socks or climbing sketchy ladders/chairs. Other than that, it talks about connection with the higher self. I presume you are a homemaker (regardless of work outside the home or not) and to my mind, this is sacred homemaking or the relationship we make when we develop intentional magical shapes within a living space. As much as the materialist/atheist civilization tries to insist these magical shapes aren't there, they very much are and they are the prerequisite to healthy emotional and spiritual development.
Traveling
Date: 2024-07-21 12:51 am (UTC)This week I would like to ask the Ogham what the outcome would be if we buy the van A) at all, B) soon as possible, C) later, or D) not at all.
Thank you,
-MF
Re: Traveling
Date: 2024-07-21 05:41 pm (UTC)Hmmmm.... My Ogham don't like this van.
A) At all: Straif or Resilience ill-dignified. This is risky and not sustainable. Can you go with another type of vehicle?
Re: Traveling
Date: 2024-07-21 06:16 pm (UTC)Re: Traveling
Date: 2024-07-22 03:00 pm (UTC)