Faeries Oracle

Card 49 - Mikle a Muckle

Everyday blessings. Play. Mixed blessings.

Mikle a Muckle (aka A Mixed Blessing) is a grig of good family. As you have doubtless heard, grigs are merry - so merry that they have become proverbial for it. They want you to be merry too, with a childlike open heart. Mikle informs us, "Little things come in good packages." He is a little thing, and therefore is good and well packaged in his skin. This is faery logic, and I'm not responsible for it.

Mikle can be foolish, silly, playful, and absurd. He is fond of goofing off and considers play to be an art form and himself a fine artist. He understands renewing the spirit and recreating the body and emotions. He knows that all of us have a child within who needs to play and be cherished. He also knows we need to make mistakes so we can learn from them, which is how he got the title of A Mixed Blessing.

When we stop pretending to be adults for a moment, stop trying to live up to some impossible and probably boring standard, we can regain the clear, direct vision of a child. We can, like Mikle, see things as they really are, and we can focus on the present moment, which is our only place of power. Here and now is where we can do things, change things, and enjoy real things instead of mere ideas and dreams. Mikle reminds us that the past is past, gone forever, the future is just a dream, and now is the only time we have, moment by moment.

Mikle is a great adventurer, an explorer of life. He leads us to hidden, surprising, magical places if we let him.

Starter Reading

Lighten up! What is needed here is the benefit of a childlike, trusting heart and childlike wisdom, seeing directly into the true nature of things. Don't complicate matters. What you see is what you get. Don't look for hidden and subtle meanings and motivations because they are not there in this case. Go to the heart of the matter, the simple core hidden behind complexities. Don't be so caught up in thinking about the future that you can't see what is happening now.

Welcome adventure into your life. Try something you've never done before.

And take some time to play with Mikle before you turn into a grumpy glumph or a worn-out wurg.

Reverse

This card reversed can signify behavior that is opportunistic, self­centered, inconsiderate, selfish, and childish. Immature, too. It can speak of clinging to unrealistic notions about security, clinging to the known path, rejecting adventure. "Don't," Mikle says, "let yourself do that! Please!"

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