Winter Court Flashcards
A: Knocker
Concerning your material wealth: financial or material gain and the establishing of a firm foundation in some practical matter.
A: Knocker (reversed)
Financial loss, bad investments, money troubles, or difficulty with property. May mean a poor attitude toward money, leading either to profligacy or miserliness.
2: Trow
Someone is taking advantage of your good nature. People who make no effort on their own behalf are abusing your generosity. This may refer to friends or relatives who impose on you, borrow from you without repaying the loan, expect you to pay for everything, or take up all your precious time and attention. Inconsiderate guests may outstay their welcome and abuse your hospitality.
2: Trow (reversed)
If you do not take care of something and recognize its true value, you will lose it or it will be taken from you. An interesting offer or gift may be withdrawn if you gossip or boast about it.
3: Boggart
There will be trouble or some disturbance at home. There may be family arguments, quarrels, and disruptions, perhaps involving a troublesome child or teenager.
3: Boggart (reversed)
To succeed in gaining your ends you will need to be clever and tactful when dealing with others. Your diplomatic skills will be tested to the utmost.
4: Grim
Profound and inevitable change. This rarely means a physical death, but is more likely to mean a drastic ending of some kind, and a complete transformation of your way of life.
4: Grim (reversed)
Enforced or belated change, which you are resisting. Remember that all things must move and change or they stagnate and die.
5: Fairy Dog
Time to pay the price of past actions, for either good or bad. Justice meted out, reparation, truth revealed, and rights enforced. Could involve legal matters.
5: Black Shuck
Sudden and violent change, troubles, upheavals, conflict, the breakdown of relationships and friendships, separation, divorce, and perhaps a change of home or job. If badly aspected, could mean hitting rock bottom, disaster, catastrophe, treachery, betrayal, loss, and perhaps bondage, restriction, and imprisonment.
6: Lhiannan Shee
A fantasy relationship and the pursuit of a mirage. The abandonment of a good life for an impossible dream or an unsuitable person, restlessness, recklessness, or a clandestine love affair.
6: Lhiannan Shee (reversed)
Escape into daydreams, a fantasy life that ignores the real world, lost opportunities, and perhaps alcohol or drug dependence.
7: Fachan
There is a need to back from a situation in order to see it clearly; a warning against precipitous action. May indicate a temporary retreat from the world, planning, foresight, isolation, meditation, and illumination from within.
7: Fachan (reversed)
Business relationships, partnerships, and group enterprises are going through a testing time. You may disagree with the approach others take and stand out as a lone voice for what you believe to be right. You feel surrounded by detractors on every side. However, the Fachan advises you to listen to what others have to say, as their viewpoints may be valid.
8: Bogeyman
Unfounded fears and groundless anxiety. You have lost your sense of proportion and are worrying over nothing. You may be a little oversensitive at this time.
8: Bogeyman (reversed)
Depending on position of card, you, or someone close to you, is suffering from a highly disturbed mental state, and perhaps irrationality bordering on paranoia, or depression and despair.
9: Unseelie Court
A way of life overturned: unexpected change, anger, frustration, broken promises, hurt, spite, malice, jealousy, and perhaps new, but unsuitable, alliances.
9: Unseelie Court (reversed)
A low threshold for boredom and a desire to seek out novelty for its own sake; satiety, dissatisfaction, excess, and pleasures that last only for a moment.
L: The Blue Hag
The winding down of a situation, endings, necessary change, and the end of a cycle before a new one begins.
OR
A real person: elderly woman with intense, deep emotions beneath a calm surface. She is philosophical and appears detached, but she is utterly unforgiving of an offense against her.
L: The Blue Hag (reversed)
Past hurts are still deeply affecting you. You won’t be able to move on until they are resolved.
OR
A real person: a mature or elderly woman with a sharp tongue who criticizes your best efforts and is never satisfied.
Knv: Jack Frost
Sudden unexpected changes, minor setbacks, temporary chaos, minor illnesses, accidents, and mishaps.
OR
A real person: young, with very strong opinions, but their views shift from day to day. They are clever but inconsistent, charming but easily bored. They are good company, but don’t rely on them for anything important.
Knv: Jack Frost (reversed)
Cooling of feelings and passions, distancing from a relationship, drifting away from those close to you, and coldness towards those you previously loved.
OR
A real person: young, may be attractive, but untrustworthy. They are sly, and a clever liar.
Q: Mab
Queen Mab arrives to deliver your dreams, wishes, and longings as yet unfulfilled, but also new ideas, insights, creativity, fertility, and inspiration to help you fulfill your dreams. Dare to dream and dare to live the dream. Don’t let others deflect you from what you truly want.
OR
A real person: dreamy, artistic, feminine, and reflective. Friendly, but in a lazy sort of way. You will have to make all the effort in any relationship with her.
Q: Mab (reversed)
In a sense - barrenness, infertility, sterility, cynicism, and creative blocks. Could indicate an unwanted pregnancy.
OR
A real person: unfulfilled and bitter, determined to make others suffer for their unhappiness.
K: Gwyn Ap Nudd
Deeply buried secrets, things hidden, concealed fears, suppressed feelings, self-imposed restrictions, or bondage to the past. Something unresolved might be surfacing from your subconscious mind to affect the present.
OR
A real person: mature or elderly man of some influence who is very sober and serious, intellectual and cerebral, but impersonal and detached.
K: Gwyn Ap Nudd (reversed)
Power misused, abuse, obsession, violation, injury, insult, and the breaking of faith. May also imply the profanation of spiritual mysteries: the betrayal of the sacred for personal gain.
OR
A real person: a domineering possessive person who abuses your trust.
