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Before she, Esme, lifts the ivory linen that protects the remainder of the morning’s bread from the inquisitive, errant bluebottle fly, before she takes another sip of the water-wine mix that has settled and reached a cool room temperature in the chalice, the ewer now drained and removed by her sole servant, she reaches for the wooden box wherein the cards rest, awaiting activation by her thoughtful consciousness.
Intention precedes intuition to get a true reading.
Cat awakens as she shuffles and drops five cards—five likely options—on the table, face down; he arches and digs his claws into the chair cushion, pulling back into a stretch and then rising into a swell that flows over her shoulder and on to the table beside his mistress, where he settles to a demure and elegant squat.
She strokes his fur from between his pert ears to the tip of his bushy black tail to complete the circuit, and he rises, reaches with his massive paw to push one card away from the grouping of five.
Sweeping the remaining four to the side, Esme flips the chosen card.
She smiles at the Ten of Wands, at its correspondence to The High Priestess visitations she’s drawn for the last month; she will continue to wait and watch, to gather intelligence as she recovers her health.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2026)
Valley 
Is “Cat” a mere cat or host for a familiar? Inquiring minds, lol.
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Heh heh heh….mraow!
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enjoying the pace and the cat character how he influences the flow of the 6S story… i’m in it definitely to the end, if there ever be one… my big black green eyed cat would sit at the other end of the couch and sometimes when sitting there sewing i would look up and he would be looking at me… i loved those moments reading each other’s mind…
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😻 Thank you, Ms Pie!
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Visual much in your writing?
lol*
*the fricken thing played an exclusive engagement in my Occipital Lobe Theatre
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You’re welcome…I think! 😂😂
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Sometimes the cat knows better than we do.
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Teamwork is both essential and familiar, yah?
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That’s how I imagined myself when older. With a cat (what a magnificent creature on the photo) and a deck of cards.
Loved this six!
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“Intention precedes intuition” sounds like good advice when one needs what one is intuiting to be relevant enough to act on it.
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I do a daily reading from the Yggdrasil deck every morning- more as a grounding maneuver – but I do know if I drop a card or one behaves out of the ordinary- as was facilitated in this case by her cat- I will pay special attention to that card. Nicely done.
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Well done clever cat! He is brilliant, and the lovely lady too.
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Animals, especially pets, seem to be good at picking cards. Interesting.
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Intuition, and a task finishing. Or journey.
Oooooh. Fun!
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