Council Suit: The Seeker

I am one who questions. The yearning for my own answers is strong. I am one who delves within the many faces of the Self and seeks meaning and wisdom and balance. I am one who investigates history, or herstory, to search for connections that resonate.

As the world quiets at the time of sunsets, I set the space for introspection and reflection. I bring to you the gifts of discovery and knowledge. I bring the wisdom of enlightened understanding, not only of your Self, but of the selves of others.

I want you to always search for your own truth and meaning. I want you to discover the aspects of your self and enjoy the likeable ones, but most importantly, seek the purpose of the unlikeable ones. I want you walk through your fear of your shadows and accept them as necessary. With this discovery, you will be able to embrace the shadows of others with understanding and compassion.

Committee Suit: The Artist

I am one who is excited by color, and shadow, and reflection. I am one who yearns to express my emotions by creating. I am one who is compelled to honor beauty and pattern. I am one who sees. I am one who creates, and in that, I am the Creator.

I give to you the ability to see the world differently... to hesitate long enough to see that which most people allows to pass them by. I give to you the desire to express the world that others miss, to express your Self and your passions.

I want you to take the risk to create from your core. I want you to feel the pull from within to explore your Self through the many arts available to you. I want you to dance and move, sling paint, write prose, cook creatively, and dream new dreams. I want you to grow in your artwork. I want you to bring pleasure to others, and cause them to reflect through your creations.

Council Suit: Menopausal Woman

I am one who transforms. I am one who closes one chapter and opens another. I am one who brings the heat, who rides the waves of emotion, whose body gives into gravity to create a new landscape. I am the gatekeeper of wisdom. I have often paddled through treacherous waters, but sometimes the wisdom is in putting away the oar.

My gift to you is in the ability to plan without offspring to consume you. My gift to you is in connecting you with other women, moving you toward the wisdom of this life cycle. My gift to you is in a life lived and the gathering of information. My gift to you is freedom!

I want you to enjoy this newest chapter. I want you to tap into the wisdom of menopause and see the journey from the vantage point of having journeyed. I want you to lighted up - breathe when you feel the rise of irritability. Turn the temperature down - you can't get more nekkid than nekkid. Let go of the fear of falling over the precipice, of falling within the waterfall, and roll with this new "stage of age". Honor your own wisdom that only comes with the later stages.

Community Suit: Autumn

I am one who brings mystery and magical moments. I am one who brings laughter and joy. I am comedian. I am imp. I am drama. I am fey. I am superhero . I am innocense. I am the present.

My gift to you is in the purity of the moment. At any given time I enjoy the now. My gift to you is acceptance and love where you are and how you are. My gift is in the smiles I bring.

I want you to strike a pose for the camera, be a chameleon and change depending upon what brings you pleasure. Be a superhero, a princess or a black-belt. The importance is the journey. It is not the broken board that is fulfilling - it is in the journey towards the breaking. Enjoy the journey.

Council Suit: Death

I am the Winter, the resting place and the stillness. I am the one who interrupts and gives you pause to reflect and remember. I am the one who brings fear and mystery. I am the gate between the worlds. I am the one with whom you can count on and one whom is not often welcomed. I am the one who walks the path of transformation and change.

I bring the gift of endings and transformation; of dying to self and renewing regeneration. I bring change to the world you walk and the world within. I give the gift of closings and open new possibilities. I bring butterfly wings for the caterpillar has fulfilled its destiny. Without me, new chapters cannot be written.

I want you to embrace my presence rather an push me into the corner of your mind. I will visit you and interrupt your life, of that I am certain. I want you to make ready a place for me. I want you to lean into the pain and fear and longing I will bring with me, for I have gifts when that is done. I want you to find the gratitude after the horror. Know that with death comes life and an opportunity for treasured memories and renewed possibilities. Walk with me and know that where I tread I bring rememberances and restrospection and from that comes wisdom from lessons learned. I want you rest in the warmth and security of the cocoon and then spread your wings to fly to the next desitnation.

Council Suit: Crone Celebration

I am one who celebrates the stepping over the threshold into cronehood to welcome aging. I am one who is rising and taking flight from the drowning state you were in. I am the one who ages with silent wisdom and who has seen more than I would have wished for. I look behind me and notice a sea of history and look ahead and see the time shortening. I move beyond the past longing into celebrating each day.

My gift for you is in honoring the aging process as well as the wisewoman within you. I bring the gift of losing the need to conform in order to fit in. I give you the strength to draw on your wisdom to pull yourself out of the flood and take flight. I give you the gift of retrospection and wisdom to live in the now.

I want you to have the freedom to bounce from black and grey to color. I want you to peel away restraints as you age and paint your toes red. I want you to embrace the mourning and sadness when there is need and then celebrate life and the strength that comes from the seasoning of experience. I want you to pass on the wisdom to the maidens that come after you, to share the gift of your insight that comes from experience. I want you to revel in your sageness as crone woman

THE WATCHER - Transpersonal Card

I am one who sees all that transpires. I am one who sees you in all your moments of humanness. I witness with innocence. I witness with wisdom. I witness from a primal place. I watch with quiet stillness, never judging, never responding. I merely am a record of what is.