This card is alot better than last months'!
Two
Smoking Mirror
Divination
Enter the mirror that smokes, the mirror of magicians and sorcerers. Smoking Mirror is a seer. He holds a great polished obsidian shield. His asymmetrical face is inhuman, menacing, fearsome to look upon. Here is the keeper of the clouded mirrors of divination. Divination is the reflection of things to come. Reflection is a doubling and is represented by the number two.
I am the jaguar to the left. I am Smoking Mirror and I have all futures coming to me. I will send your questions into the spirit mirror, says Smoking Mirror, the Lord of the Deepest Night. You have limited yourself and imprisoned yourself within the supernatural darkness of the mirror. Now you see clarity from the mirror that is smoked. Do you have the strength to accept what I reveal to you?
Gazing deeply into Smoking Mirror, one transcends the blind acceptance of status quo. Mirror is a face. Answers have different faces. We might have desire but this desire can be changed within the mirror and become entirely different - deeper and wiser.
Scrying bowls used for divination were found from before the existence of the mound-building empires. These bowls were made from iron ore, hematite, magnetite, iron pyrite and finally, ground and polished obsidian. Mirrors evolved from these divination bowls. Smoking Mirrors were gorgeous, convex and were at the epicenter of this long oracular tradition.
Smoking Mirror shows us a world that can be looked into, but not passed through. Mirrors were spirit gates, passageways for supernatural beings to enter and return. Mirrors were said to be eyes, faces, shields, the Moon and flowers. Mirror-Reptile-Eye has the power to curl along surfaces and penetrate shining and reflective faces. Priests and priestesses wore mirrors on their chests and on their backs. Mirrors were considered to be the most sacred of objects. Priest and priestess astronomers looked into the black obsidian mirrors. These mirrors were telescopes used to not sun spots and record the regularity of this activity. Solar flares were measured and correlated to events on earth.
The shadowy mirror holds it - the darkness hidden in darkness and our own light hidden in light. How easy is it to distort our position in the cosmos. We are always projecting ourselves from the hidden depths of who we believe ourselves to be. Inside the latent depths of Smoking Mirror is a distortion. That distortion is you. The power of Smoking Mirror is to give you back your true self by understanding your distortions. Smoking Mirror shows you that the negativity laid upon us from without can be overcome from within. This is Smoking Mirrors great teaching.
The value of Smoking Mirror has been lost to modern civilization because we do not recognize his usefulness. As children we are taught to collect a series of responses that bring desirable results. We rely on this. We dont experiment with these reactions. Smoking Mirror says, I will help you cross over to find the new approach. Come dance with me within the black mirror of understanding.
The image of the illusion is lost in the smoky mist - in the labyrinthine hypnotic darkness. One sees beyond the surface deep in the darkness where directions are non-existent. Nonetheless, one discovers direction within the paradox and the mystery. It is the mirror where one is lost in order to be found. It is the red mirror, the mirror of sudden fiery brightness. Against any apparent logic, you may discover a different, more profound logic.
Smoking Mirror Card is the oracle within the oracle. Smoking Mirror tears up any map or rulebook which makes us sure of what we do. We have just one life, and the more we live with our life and our death, the more we can understand the richness of life. Smoking Mirror tells us that we are always mirroring. Smoking Mirror asks if you are afraid to look, to admit your ignorance. Have you been pretending to have answers you dont have? IF so, your task becomes mirroring back truth.
If the lord of deepest night card has limped into your reading flashing a smoking mirror on his forehead, look deep into your question for its mystical meaning. The obsidian mirror captures signatures of unseen futures on its face. All mirrors are the Suns relations and seek to reflect justice - true justice. Inside the conjuring smoke of the mirror is your true reflection. Hidden in the smoke is a luminous being - you. Gazing in the deepest darkness, a shining path appears - a path with an unexpected answer









