It’s Friday which means another Faery Friday. This week has been a bit hard so I’m really looking forward to seeing what Fae wants to share.
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 62 The Glanconer
Illusion. Delusion. Lust. Projection. Clear sight.
Have you ever noticed that when we really, really want someone or something, we tend to see it without clarity? The object of our lust looks flawless and glamorous, which should tell us something right away. But, usually, it doesn’t.
He says his name is Smoothe Harry, but that may be a little illusion of his own. Unlike th Pook, The Glanconer doesn’t change his shape to tempt us with our own mental confusions and paradoxes. He simply wears a mirror in which we see our desires temptingly displayed. He doesn’t try to fool us, he simply allows us to fool ourselves. Well… he may try just a little, just to make the test a little more difficult. After all, we can be more proud of passing a difficult test than an easy one, can’t we?
Smoothe Harry also appeals to our vanity - and the more we have of it, the easier his work is. A little flattery and we’ll believe whatever he wants us to swallow - especially since it is just what we want to swallow anyway. Of all the faery challengers, Smoothe Harry is the most likely to be sly. He practices a sort of emotional judo where he lets our own desires lead us into a fall. As we rush headlong toward our vision of perfection, he need only step to one side as we cast ourselves at him - and down we go. Not fun. But, maybe,, perhaps, we might just learn something from it.
It is not good to make decisions when blinded by lust. Whether it is lust for a person, a thing, or an idea, we need to pause and take our time before making actual commitments. We need to read the fine print, check out the foundations, get a mechanic to test the so-beautiful secondhand car. If we are considering buying something, we can refuse to let ourselves be rushed into it and take time to make sure it is really what we think it is. If we are considering making a commitment to other people, we need to take our time and really get to know them much better. This is another lesson in seeing the truth behind a beglamoured surface, though in this case it is we who have cast the glamour.
This is one of those cards that reminds me to stop and make sure that I’m looking at something without rose-colored glasses. We all lust after something or someone at one time or another. The point though is to see if there is more than just lust. We are selves are so good at putting a glamour on ourselves, so watch what it is that you do.
I know exactly how this can happen in my own life. I’m very good friends with Smoothe Harry. But I have learned to watch for signs for when he is about. That being said, there have been many a time that I rush headfirst into something or someone and then fall short or on my face. So I try and be very careful regarding when this type of thing pops up in my life.
Have you met Smoothe Harry? 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. And check out my website here. I am doing personal Astrology, Divination, Card and Astro Dice Readings. If you would like to have one please go to my website. Thanks so much for joining me on this Faery Friday.
May your stars shine brightly upon you.
