It’s Friday, and I hope you all have had a nice week. I am looking forward to this weekend as the New Moon is this Sunday, which is a great time for new beginnings.
For today’s card pull I am using the Faeries’ Oracle by Brian Froud with text by Jessica Macbeth. This is a single card pull since it is an oracle deck. If you like this deck you can get it for yourself. Just click on the picture below.
What do the Fae want me to share?
Today’s card is number 30 - The Laume
Unconditional giving. Unconditional receiving.
She is the Laume in the same way that the Macgregor is the chief of the Clan Macgregor - the Laume of all Laumes. The Laume is a charitable soul in the old sense of the word charity, which is loving and giving. She know the joy of giving without expectation of return. From practicing this ourselves, we learn that there always is a return, often from the least expected source. The universe likes to keep its accounts up to date, and the Laume’s job is to encourage us to keep the credit side of our cosmic accounts balanced by freely giving. We have been given the earth, the sun, the stars, and the moon. We have been given trees and flowers and things to eat and a multitude of prospective friends. It’s going to take a considerable amount of generosity to come into balance with all those gifts we have already received.
When we fall out of balance in what we give and what we receive, we can have constipation or diarrhea of the spirit. Spiritual constipation makes us toxic and bloated and unable to deal with more intake. Spiritual diarrhea makes us energetically depleted, limp, and needy. The spiritual forms of these particular malfunctions are entirely a result of our choices and balancing our giving and receiving. You may think you have it right, but if things are not going well for you, the Laume suggests you think again.
If you are pushing and pushing at something, it can often help greatly just to back off, relax about it, and let the energy flow. If at the same time that you back up from your efforts, you put energy into the universe elsewhere, then energy just naturally has to flow back to you in the most appropriate and generous form. The universe also has to keep its accounts balanced.
Studying the Laume’s picture, a discussion group member wrote, “The Laume is still bugging me. She looks passive, but watchful. I think she feels that this giving business needs a bit more explanation. It is about being ready to do that sometimes quite small thing just when it is needed. A pinch of fairy dust in just the right place at just the right time works wonders - but big clouds of fairy dust just makes everyone sneeze.”
This is true. Sometimes a small bit of helpfulness now prevents a big need later. And sometimes a big thing is needed right from the beginning.
Another Oracle reader noted that theLaume’s wings looked a bit tattered and wondered if this indicated that it is sometimes appropriate to give until it hurts. “Yes, it is,” the Laume says. “Not as a habit, not as a sort of martyrdom, but only on the rare occasions when it is truly needed.”
One of the Laume’s charming customs is to give through whatever pair of hands is nearest - providing they allow her to do so. Do you let the Laume give through your hands or do you put them in your pockets and hold back, holding on to what is “yours”? If so, you are missing a lot of fun, some interesting experiences - and spiritual growth.
If you are stuck or blocked in a situation and the Laume turns up in a reading, you probably need to stop focusing on what you are trying to accomplish and simply give to others - freely and generously and unconditionally.
Try a few random acts of kindness, unconditionally given of course. Go do some volunteer work somewhere. Mow your elderly neighbor’s lawn or take homemade soup or some flowers from your garden to someone you know who is ill. Give some help to a coworker just because they need it. Give to a needy stranger, whether or not you think he deserves it. Take flowers into a hospital and give them to a stranger at random. Or give them to a nurse, with compliments from the universe. Give a bit more than you think you can afford, go a little further than you think you reasonably can. Empty your wallet or purse of all your cash for a beggar on the street. Don’t worry - it will fill up again, much faster than you might expect.
This is the first time I’ve pulled this card. We all need to be more giving and open to receiving. When we can stop thinking about ourselves and open up to the universe to see what others may need it can bring about an inner calm. This isn’t to say you should and give always expecting something back for that isn’t truly giving of yourself unconditionally. That’s you saying I’ve done this now where is my reward. Just give that is the reward.
I loved the reminder that when you are feeling blocked stop thinking about yourself and do something, anything for someone else. This is something that I have been teaching my children. Around holiday season we always buy food bags at our local grocery store for families that can’t afford food. My kids love to pick out the bags. Though I feel like I can do more. I will be looking at more ways that I can give not only for the universe but so that I can be a better example for my children.
Do you feel that you need to give more? What kinds of ways do like to give? I’d love to hear about it.
I hope that this reading has been helpful to you all. Please let me know if it has impacted you in any way. I’d love to hear from you. While doing this reading I am was listening to Spotify playlist Faeries: The Seelie Court. You can find me on Spotify under amrauthor. I hope you enjoy the music.
May your stars shine brightly upon you.
