Weekly Reading: Work-related Trip?

My cards for the week:

Book - Mice - Woman - Ship - Fox

Book refers to knowledge and the brain. I don't feel the Mice card is overtly negative in this instance and focusing on its positive aspects (pests steadily working away at a piece of cheese -- an image I associate with the 8 of Pentacles in the Tarot) I could be busy working on learning something. This could either refer to myself (I'm always in the process studying something new) or it could even be me as a teacher. I have been recently tasked to teach Japanese to trainees and I expect this week to be a stressful one since we have to wrap up everything before they leave for Japan next week.

On the right side, the Ship once again makes an appearance (the Lenormand sure likes telling me about how much I travel from place to place ;) ) coupled by the Fox (Job).

Ship + Fox : I might have to travel for work-related reasons this week. This is a relatively rare occurrence as I'm mostly stuck to my desk and only go out if my boss requires me to tag along. I'd keep my eyes peeled for this one.

Book + Mice : Having a bit of trouble tying these with the right-hand cards...maybe the work-related trip will be taxing/stressful on my brain/knowledge? This kind of scenario has happened many times before so it's possible. Or maybe this is to say that the trip will come as a surprise (Book) and the resulting surprise would be make me nervous (Mice). Again, with the nature of my job and personality, neither is this far-fetched.

Updates by the end of the week.

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First Reading: When will my decks arrive?

Having finished reading Sylvie Steinbach's book The Secrets of the Lenormand Oracle (which I found very fascinating and exciting), I tried my hand at using her No-Layout system. I was interested in her timing system in particular and decided to test it using a simple question:

When will the Lenormand decks I ordered from Book Depository arrive?

I ordered the Blue Owl and Dondorf decks from The Book Depository last Wednesday and I was anxious to know when (and if) they'll arrive given the usual slow and flaky postal service in my country. So far I've had a positive experience with Book Depository as the tarot deck and book I ordered from them arrived last week (after more than 3 weeks).

I wasn't sure what card to "charge" to signify my Lenormand decks and after perusing the forum which suggested the Star for "computer" I decided to charge that card. These are what I drew:

scythe - stork - STAR - letters - book - cross

Stork + Star could mean my desire for the decks to be delivered soon. However I'm not sure what to make of scythe. Scythe + Stork could mean quickness and speed. These precede the charged STAR so they relate to my current desire.

Letters + Book could mean a surprise message. Will there be something unexpected happening to my decks!? Will I receive an email from Book Depository? Letters and Book don't give me any reference for a time frame so I drew another card, Cross for clarification. However this muddled me up (and worried me) further because I am now led to think that the surprise message could be worrying.

The cards still haven't answered my question of WHEN so I drew more cards, this time modifying my question to be more specific:

Will my Lenormand Decks be delivered within a month?

Crossroads - Woman - STORK - Clouds - Anchor

This time I changed my charged card to Stork to signify the delivery, not the decks. A stork makes more sense to me in terms of delivering things (or a baby!) hehe.

This time I received definite cards to signify time frames, Clouds + Anchor. Clouds could signify either June or Gemini time (May 21 - June 21). The Anchor tells me I would have to be patient and wait for a long time but that my order should arrive eventually.

The presence of the Clouds (uncertainty) bothered me so I took out my trusty tarot cards and consulted them with a simple YES-NO question. Will it arrive in June? The answer was NO. Will it arrive in May? The answer was a positive YES.

So I deduce that my ordered decks from The Book Depository should arrive in late May. It's interesting to see how this pans out. I'll find out in a month :)

UPDATE:  On May 19, my Mom told me 2 packages had arrived the previous week. I thought 'Oh, it's my Lenny decks. So my prediction wasn't that accurate but close enough.' When I got home and saw the 2 packages, one was the Dondorf deck (which arrived May 19) and the other one was the Victorian Flower Oracle (arrived a week earlier). This despite having ordered the VFO one week after the Lenny decks. It came much earlier than expected. So now I was missing the Blue Owl deck but decided not to be too worried and trust that the deck would arrive between May 21-June 21. And guess what, the Blue Owl deck did arrive in the first week of June although I only got my hands on it yesterday (June 11). It took well over a month before it arrived, which is much longer than usual. Probably because the cards came all the way from Germany. Still, I'm glad the Lenormand prevented me from undue worry.

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