It is day 7 of the 12 Days of Dreaming. Today arrives with steadiness.
This day is traditionally associated with Thor. Not just Thor the god of thunder, but the guardian. The one who stands watch. The one who shows up again and again, not for glory, but because protection is a form of love.
This day speaks to fidelity, though not in the narrow sense. Not obligation. Not duty performed out of fear. Fidelity as devotion. As loyalty to what we choose to stand for. To the people, places, and values we commit ourselves to when things are calm and when they are difficult.
This day of grounding asks: What do I protect? What do I tend? Where do I stay?
In Norse and Icelandic traditions, this is also a day of remembering your lineage. Not as nostalgia, but as responsibility. We inherit more than stories. We inherit patterns. Strengths. Wounds. Instincts. And this day invites us to honor what was given and to consciously tend what we carry forward.
As Yule continues, Day seven reminds us that connection requires care. It requires showing up, sometimes quietly and sometimes relentlessly, for what matters.
This day we also think ahead to July and the Queen of Disks.
If June’s Princess of Wands was ignition, spark, desire, play, and aliveness without any sort of agenda.
The Queen of Disks receives it. She is the one who knows what to do after the spark.
She asks what we will create and cultivate from what we’ve been given.
In the Tabula Mundi deck, she sits composed and sovereign. Half of her face is dark, and half is light. Her crest is a winged goat, which speaks to sure-footedness, patience, and the capacity to climb slowly toward what matters without losing balance.
She is the watery part of earth, the internal waters that allow something that is planted to actually grow. Her stillness is not inactivity. Her receptivity is not passivity.
It is gestation.
Where the Princess of Wands says yes,
the Queen of Disks says now let me care for this.
She takes desire and gives it time.
She takes will and gives it a body.
She takes fire and teaches it how to live in the world.
This is not the Queen of ambition for ambition’s sake. She builds what can last. She understands rhythms, seasons, and limits. She knows that tending something is different than wanting it. She may have poor near vision, but she is gifted at seeing the bigger picture.
At her best, she is enduring, resourced, grounded, quietly powerful.
At her worst, she can become guarded, overly cautious and rigid; mistaking control for safety.
What July seems to ask is this:
Can I nurture what has been ignited without smothering it?
Can I stay devoted to what I’ve chosen with care, not force?
The Queen of Disks doesn’t rush the harvest.
She trusts that what is tended will grow.
Affirmation:
“I ground desire into devotion. What I nurture is allowed to grow.”
Always,
Your Trusted Friend ✨
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