Thank you for sharing these thoughts Lotte. Personally, with the cards, I can only really have a good time with them when I am alone, and really get the urge to use them. I had the feeling yesterday, so it is fresh in my mind – when I have been puzzling something for a while, my mind becomes a bit of a sea of mixed thoughts (like you say – a mix of other people’s influence, my own thoughts etc) and finally I get the urge to just get out the cards and use them. This seems able to pull apart what is my intuition and my thoughts, and my path – pull it apart from the rest.
I don’t know the Dutch word for this but in English, the rubbish floating on top of the sea is called flotsam and jetsam. Some of that rubbish (distraction) is there by accident, some is there on purpose. Either way, it makes the sea murky, dirty, so we can’t see through it. I see the cards as clearing the flotsam and jetsam away, so I can see through the sea.
Ogham – lovely, I recommend you try it!