Blue Dragon - water, witches and fire - My (hi)story with Tarot Readings

A good friend, aka @selfhelp4trolls , reached out to me yesterday, while I was chilling outside, awaiting a nearing thunderstorm
_{that ended up never arriving and played out, weakly, over the mountains in the distance - but that's a whole different story...}

Zack asked me if he could 'give me a dragon reading'...

Give a raptor a dragon reading????

I guessed he meant tarot and said:

sure
just don't put a curse on me

Didn't say that but the troll inside of me might have.

He then pulled a card from his dragon deck

It was the above card, donning a blue dragon and containing the word "Seiryu" and a key.

Together we deciphered it into the following message:

I hold the key for the path in front of me ( just a matter of staying on track )

Stay focused and keep your eye on the prize

You’ll overcome the distractions.

Afterward, I started looking up the word 'Seiryu', only to find out that this was the name for a mythological blue dragon.

Just now, for a change, I decided to try out open AI/ ChatGPT to teach me more about this blue dragon but I got a screen in front of me with the following message:

Sorry, you have been blocked

I guess the AI senses that I'm not a fan of AI, that I hesitate to trust it.
It's more clever than I thought, I have to give it that.

So, I searched on the old fashioned Internet, instead, and learnt - among other things - that the blue dragon represents water and Spring.

It is very much Spring here and I am always attracted to water, so this sure seems to make sense to me.

Doing a little further digging, I discovered that there's quite a lot of parallels between the blue dragon in Japanese and Chinese mythology.

Another positive aspect ( stemming from Chinese folklore ) is that it appears to represent healing, rest, prosperity, and harmony.

I also learnt that it's one of the four guardians of the sky and the protector of the east.

the guy formerly known as @whatamidoing continued his reading:

It’s a good time to try and make progress on something

Easy to get lost in your work. Not the boring kind of work. The stuff you love

man, can I relate.

It says you should spend your time near the river or in a ditch Hahahhaa
I think I’m mistranslating that

he later changed ditch to "water".

But it says if you can’t focus try to push through. It’s a good time to make progress

As long as its something you care about

In all honesty, I always feel ( and have felt ) attracted to ( natural ) water. I even drink loads of water.

I then (semi)joked about already having finished my book and the reading being late.

Here's a pic my friend shared with me, showing more cards of this deck:

I love the overall look of it. Very colorful, creative/ artistic and powerful - oozing energy.

He later added:

I’m not sure I can handle these cards. It’s all in Japanese haha making me dizzy
And now I gotta learn all these dragons

I'm sure he can. He just shouldn't try to tame them all ;<)

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In all honesty, I am working on the mixed feelings I have had around tarot, eventhough I have a deck of my own ( found in my previous house ) that I sometimes play around with, pull cards from ( for myself ); eventhough I have friends who are into it ( @theastone , among others ) or into similar practices, like rune reading ( @drrune ).

I am aware of the fact that the mixed feelings have to do with my beliefs around the many so called spiritual practitioners who are actually only in it for the money, fame, power or those few who use it in a dark way.

but hey, there's always people who abuse things that could be used in a helpful way. That what us humans are known for ;<)

I also met some women who proclaimed they were 'witches', on the Canary islands, back in 2016. One of them invited me to visit her at her house, later that night, for a card reading. I decided not to go.

I now realize that she might have had different intentions haha! I can be naive at times...

Anyhow, I think I had seen - and read - too much negative stuff about witches and so called black magic haha! Also, something felt off.

And here's another tarot anecdote, taking place in Portugal

I vividly remember an Englishman, in his 60s, who lives in the mountain town where I used to live myself, between 2018 and 2020.

One night, the guy was doing tarot readings, in the local restaurant, after basically having been too drunk to play guitar ( he was set to perform there, that night ).

During one of these readings, he set his shirt on fire ( with a table candle ). He was also oozing negative energy, his readings seemed pretty dark.

I was translating for him ( English - Portuguese ) and, after doing two readings for the owners of the restaurant, I 'thanked' him ( said NO ) when he offered to do a reading for me and returned to my home.

This has become a long post and I could make it even longer but, suffice to say, that I believe that tarot ( or any kind of readings ) can be used in a positive way, depending on the person who does the reading. It's like giving feedback to a student and focusing on the positives ( both as the person giving the feedback/ guidance and the one receiving it ).

So, blue dragon, I welcome you to guide me, the next 7 days.

Cheers for appearing into my life ;<)