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    1. Natural Mystic Guide

      A blog by Natural Mystic Guide in Member Blogs

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      Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.
       
      This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole
       
      This week's reading will use The Botattanical Deck created by Jessica Bott.

       
      Here are focal points for our meditation:

       

      Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                         V                                    Tzovah                        'Sacred Servant'   Beautify rock work in orchid garden.      
      Monday.          How Can I Set the Emotional Tone for my Week?          Eight of Pentacles                                           'Mastery'               Complete culling contact list.                              
      Tuesday:         What Do I Want to Manifest?                                            Three of Cups              Chaverah                   'Friendship'            Birthdays.                                                                Wednesday:   What Wisdom is Coming to Me?                                      Five of Wands                                                  'Activism'               Contact Konect.    
      Thursday:       What Do I Want to Develop?                                             XX                                  Gilgul Neshamot      'Rebirth/Ancestral Healing'  ancestry.com?      
      Friday:             Connection with Romance, Friends & Nature?              Eight of Wands                                                 'Activation'            Dream Re-entry.    
      Shabbat:         How Can I Rest?                                                                 Three of Wands                                                'Expansion'           Do reading assignments.

    2. ALCHEMICAL DIVINATIONS

      A blog by Alchemia_Auri_Tarot in Member Blogs

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    3. If You Ask Me----

      A blog by Grizabella in Member Blogs

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      Two Books for March

      I'm creating a category I'm just calling "Books" because I really still love old-fashioned books that a person can hold in one's hands.  I haven't bought Tarot books much in a year or more but every so often I find one or two (or more) that really interest me. I found that when I belatedly got all excited about Bennebel's Holistic Tarot, I was a real late-comer so I might find that the ones I just got , everyone else has had since last year, but I'm going to do it anyway.  If anyone wants to post on the threads in this category, I'll be happy but if I'm posting about "old news" and it doesn't spark comments or chat about the books, that's okay too.  

       

      For this month, I found two books that really intrigued me.   They're called:

       

      • The Modern Fortune Teller's Field Guide by Tom Benjamin
      • Tarot Tableau Revolution by Maria Alviz Hernando

       

      The first one is really wonderful. I feel so much better now that I've started reading it.  For a very long time---in fact, since AT shut down, I haven't felt like I was a good fit for another forum but I really miss socializing and being a reader doing my "fortune telling" the way I've always done it.. Living up here in this very small RV park, and since I have considerable  health and mobility problems that keep me home and not very active anymore, socializing online is important to me.  Even though there were the newer ideas people were insisting had to be done by their preference of what "fortune telling" should and shouldn't be on AT there were plenty of other old style practitioners mixed in so I just didn't really feel out of place and I did my "thing" and didn't really pay that much attention. (I've often thought of myself as being oblivious to the obvious.)

       

      This book is one I really recommend if you haven't read it yet and you like books.  Newer style readers of cards and other divination tools might find it interesting and us old style folks can learn and appreciate it a lot, too.  But the only little criticism I have about it is his swearing.  I don't think it's necessary but I still enjoy and look forward to reading the book.

       

      .I think Daniel may have posted something to me about the second book when I was so excited about Tarot Tableau In Benebell's book.  I'm looking forward to seeing what Maria has to offer about this method in her book. 

       

       So there are my two books for this month.  Does anyone else have them?  

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

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    1. fire cat pickles
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      Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 460: April 27 - May 3

      Welcome back @Bodhiseed @Rachelcat and @Tanga 😀
      - fire cat pickles replied to fire cat pickles's topic in Deck of the Week
    2. Tanga
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      Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 460: April 27 - May 3

      The Witches Wisdom Oracle & The Witches Wisdom Tarot ~ by Phyliss Curott. Left: Boundaries. I have been stretching myself thin over the past 2 weeks & beginning to feel like "stop the world, I want to get off". 🙂 Right: 3 of Water & The Pilgrim. What a peaceful 3 of Cups - just what I need as remedies. Time with peaceful friends (the ones happy to sit and chat aimlessly all afternoon drinking tea), and time on my own in the the wild (whether that be out in nature, or within the inner wilds of myself). Infarct I see myself in this card just this evening - as I was out in the dark at 10pm scattering some food for the foxes. One particular one whom I've named Londtail - crept quietly up behind me (about 2 metres away) and was already eating the food. She's clocked that I'm fox friendly and seems to always be waiting for me - whatever time I'm out in the evening (likely hieghtened hearing recognises the sound of my back gate & maybe my smell). I figure she has pups - which may be why she's so keen on food.
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    3. Nemia
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      How Tarot Cards Work

      I think the "anything goes" school of tarot card interpretations can be misleading. Many new decks now re-interpret re-interpretations of re-interpretations, especially of the RWS minors. Instead of looking at the underlying system that has led to Waite's and Smith's minors, they take one possible aspect. On the one hand, that's exciting and it makes tarot collectors happy because you can learn a lot from looking at the new aspects brought to light. On the other hand, it leaves you with a feeling that a Six of Cups might mean anything. Then, there is the wish to make every card uplifting and somehow positive. In some books, the authors go to ludicrous lengths to find a ray of light and each and every card. When I read the book that comes with the Star Tarot, I was baffled. All the cards had nearly the same message: you are wonderful and everything will be wonderful. (I haven't looked at it for ages but that's what my memory retains). So in the end, is there really a difference between the Nine of Swords and the Star, when the message is always very similar? Another confusion stems from the different schools of interpretation, especially for playing cards. You read three books about playing cards, based on traditions of fortune tellers from many generations, and they each come up with different meanings. Even in well-defined and comparatively clear systems like the Lenormand, you'll find different meanings for some cards. Once you start reading around, your head aches because you can't keep up with all these meanings. And then there is a general shift of emphasis in our culture from Truth to My Truth. If you feel your interpretation is right, whether you interpret facts or cards, then you are right. Again, there is a deep value in respecting different opinions and conclusions. But while doing so, you'll still have to recognise facts as facts, and for me, one of these facts is that cards have core meanings. Not keywords (they can vary) but core meanings, based on the astrological, numerological, and, in the case of the Thoth, kabbalistic hard facts. The cards reflect constellations of factors that influence our fate, and there is a difference between a card associated with the Sun in Virgo or one that is associated with Saturn in Leo. So what do I do when I read a deck that re-interprets a well-known card? Do I read the card I have before me, or do I refer to my inner library of core meanings? In practice, I personally try to do both. In order to do so, I have to work with a deck to understand where it's coming from. Again, this is easier to do with the Majors, more difficult with the Minors, and often even more difficult with the court cards. It may be difficult to understand what a specific card means, but sometimes it helps to remember what it does NOT mean.Like when you draw an object: look at the negative space around an object, and the object will appear more clearly. A good reading deck allows me to reach the core meaning of a card easily. And the tarot works because the deck puts me into contact with the accumulated wisdom, life experience and spiritual insight of generations that are present even in the most contemporary deck. And then there is the element of intuition. We tend to think that intuition is some talent that you are born with, but that's not really what intuition means. When you know what you are doing, when you have done that for many, many times, you don't have to think anymore about the How. With your first baby, you read books and ponder every decision. With your fourth baby, you simply know what she needs. Experience sets your intuition free. The more you work with the cards, the clearer their message will become for you. I have noticed that since I stopped reading professionally, I feel less intuitive. So it probably works the other way around as well.
      - Nemia replied to Saturn Celeste's topic in Tarot Talk & Technique


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