The Road to Work

Do you ever get into a kerfuffle trying to figure out which deck you want to use? I'm embarrassed to say that I do. There is often little niggles which have turned me off of some decks over time and others just require too much bother. I do like my new Fallen Angels deck, but it doesn't appear so easy to connect to as I thought. Now, as you know, I am a big fan of going out there and cracking open your own path, but there are days when you simply want a deck you can understand straight out of the box. One that comes with no rules, no little white book, no 400 page guide book or a bloody new system to get your head around. Today is one of those days. since I feel overwhelmed again. This is when you might go and find something completely different to use as an oracle.

Even though I have already drawn today, I thought I would try something with these cards as I discovered them at the bottom of my drawer when I went to fetch my Illustrative Lenormand. I bought two decks of cards about two or three years ago, both called The Endless Landscape. The 24 cards can be laid beside one another in any order to create a perfectly harmonious landscape each time. On the back of the box it says 'There are exactly 1, 686, 553, 615, 927, 922, 534, 187, 720 combinations, including the permutations that only use 23 cards, 22 cards and so on'. The Endless Landscape (or Myriorama, as it was known) was a popular curiosity during the last century. I have the set shown here, which is closely based on one published in Leipzig in the 1830s, and a beach-themed one by Emma Bray. I bought them with the idea of using them for self-readings, even though that was not what they were used for initially; maybe as a three card scene for each day or question.

There are no rules with these cards, so you can pretty much do what the hell you like. From the first readings I initially threw with this one, I saw the first card as a messenger. This might be because he reminds me of The Rider in some Lenormand decks. He brings some kind of correspondence. The second card shows a ruin. For me, this suggests something which is old. Therefore, the messenger may be bringing news from the past or someone who is old or mature. The people in the last section of the picture are working. So altogether, I see some kind of news regarding work, relating to the past or someone from that time. If you look at the complete picture as just one rather than three, you might see the rider travelling towards me (if I am on the left of the reading), and delivering news from those people working in the fields. I have an idea who this might concern but will wait and see if it makes any sense. It actually reminds me to write an email this evening.

My mum has just got back from the hospital, which means that Dad has waited for ten hours for his operation. I don't think he was in the best of moods, since he was hungry and thirsty. Apparently, he has still got a few more hours to wait in his bed.

Illustrations from The Endless Landscape cards