Hi @fire cat pickles and crew! This week will be Crystal Keys Tarot, a newish offering from Red Wheel Weiser and a new acquisition for me because the payment I got for my reading gig was burning a hole in my pocket. It assigns a crystal to each tarot card. Purple gilded edges. It replaces The Crystal Tarot by Phillip Permutt, Cico Books, in my collection for the silly reason that it has the names of the crystals on the cards so I don’t have to remember them and/or look them up in the book. And the art is nicer, I think. (It’s easier to replace decks when I know I have some tarot friends to pass the replaced deck onto.) Book has about a page and a half of text, an affirmation, keywords (“In a Reading”), and a short meaning for the crystal for each card. I’ll probably look up the crystals in the book sometimes because I don’t know everything about crystals. As you probably know, I made a crystal majors oracle of tumbled stones, Arcana Stones, a while back, so I will be kibbitzing about how the choices for this deck agree or disagree with mine. Interview time! What is your most important characteristic? Seven of Cups, Abalone Shell It’s full of delights to choose from! It contains some animal products and some chemically altered stones. What is your strength? Knight of Wands, Orange Kyanite Knights are depicted as horses. Obviously, wands are all pretty orange. The deck goes forward and gets the job done. Your weakness? Three of Pentacles, Zincite Also an orange stone. Shows the gothic window with the three circles in the point and the shadows of three people. “Zincite is a crystal of prosperity and abundance” according to the book a byproduct produced in the chimney of a smelting plant in Poland. The deck is very RWS to a fault. What can you teach me? The Chariot, Carnelian (My Emperor is carnelian.) Looks like a stylized firebird, going down and to the right instead of upward. The deck can teach me to really move forward and go with what I have. How can I learn it? Five of Cups, Rhodochrosite (My Lovers is rhodochrosite.) It shows a bridge from three spilled cups to two standing cups. By accepting good and bad emotions. They appear together like layers in a stone. What will be the outcome of our work together? Judgement, Septarian Dragon egg with the dragon inside. Name of stone means cracks. Book uses “there’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in” quote. Interesting interp of Judgment. The deck will help me rethink everything and get an idea of how I can move to a higher level. Yeah, important card at the end. We’ll see.

A unique version of Reading Circle for those who would like to work through their collection of decks, participants choose decks from their collections to work with for the week. Some use one deck, others use two or more. Some combine methods: Tarot, non-tarot (e.g. oracle), playing cards, or any other divinatory method is welcome. All we ask is that you use at least one tarot or oracle deck. No collection is too large or too small. The only rules we have are the Tarot, Tea & Me Rules; Be respectful of one other. Please join us! Please post with your choice of deck(s) for the week Chat away about your deck, how you're finding it (or not), etc., it's all up to you Participants may either choose to share their readings here in this discussion thread or opt to have their own journal in the Journals Forum and link it here Yet others may even have an offline journal in paper & pencil/pen form Share as often, as much, or as little as you like. You can drop in and out at any time—reality and life permitting. New to tarot? Long time reader? Come on in! Participants fire cat pickles: Tarot de la Rea Click here for DOTW 484 (10/12 - 10/18)

No Pip decks, no Marseille decks or Thoth decks, I already have a few but can´t read with anyone of them. I want pictures!