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Hi @Celine I am a bit late and I think everyone has offered great advice. This is just my observation. Firstly, if you have included yourself within the scope of the question, the Lady would ordinarily be read as signifying you. The Bear, however, should not automatically be assumed to represent a particular individual. Its identity depends entirely upon the context of the reading and the surrounding cards. Where it does represent a person, the Bear is characteristically someone who occupies a position of greater authority, seniority, influence or status than the querent. By contrast, the Hound generally signifies someone who is of equal standing or subordinate to the querent. Secondly, the Lord and the Lady are the two principal significators in the deck and will invariably identify the primary parties involved in the matter under consideration. In the majority of readings, one of these cards will therefore represent the querent, as they are usually the central figure in the question being asked. That said, there are exceptions. On occasion, the querent is not the principal subject of the enquiry. For example, if a client asks about her daughter's prospective marriage, the daughter may properly receive the Lady card, as she is the chief person involved in the matter. The allocation of significators should always follow the focus of the question rather than be determined by rigid formula. For this reason, it is generally advisable to decide upon the significators before the cards are dealt. Establishing who the Lord and Lady etc represent at the outset provides clarity and consistency, helping to avoid confusion later in the interpretation. Once the cards are on the table, the reader can then concentrate on analysing the relationships and developments shown within the spread, rather than debating whom the principal person cards ought to signify.

Stella’s an amazing. One of the best Lenormand and Tarot readers going. My second teacher favoured the Red and Blue Owl deck. In that pattern both the Fox and Serpent face right so when you saw Fox - Serpent the snake is biting the Fox’s heels. Fox - Serpent indicates treachery or an untrustworthy woman. The Serpent is the description. The reverse is true with Serpent - Fox because the Fox is descriptive. Andy B.

I've just purchased the pocket sized edition. I'll let you know. I originally had a beautifully photographed shamanic oracle deck (OOP) - that I never used, and eventually gave away to a friend who is half Native American. It made more sense to me for her to have it. So...this will kind of be replacing that for me.

Hello @Leila-rnsy welcome to the TT&M Family

Hello @Mysterium welcome to the TT&M Family

Welcome @Mysterium Glad you found us here 😃 We have a Thoth area, it's fairly quiet but please feel free to add to any discussions or start your own - https://www.thetarotforum.com/forums/forum/25-thoth/

Welcome @Mysterium ! Thanks for joining us, I hope to read more about your ideas on the Thoth Tarot

Thanks for sharing the thread once more, @Mi-Shell ! Do you still enjoy this deck, despite the authors being… problematic? Thanks!

Hi There!♥ Since the oooold url for the old DotW thread, where I posted about this deck seems not to work anymore, I will try to repost it here. Alberto V. is still a open and smelly can of worms; more so today than years ago...... Use the images and leave him by the wayside..... ♥

Welcome! It’s nice to meet you! 🙂

Welcome back @Bodhiseed!

I'm in this week with the World Spirit Tarot paired with the Mystic Glyphs Oracle - thank you Fire cat! Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. ― Joan Didion Looks like I better hustle my bustle today, as some potential activities or opportunities are about to land on my doorstep. As that eye on one of the wands indicates, today is not a day for lolling about but for paying attention. I'm on my first cup of coffee and have not yet washed the grumpy sleepiness out of my system. It would be easy to complain about all I have to do today without adding extra on my plate. Turkey shows up - a symbol of abundance, community, and gratitude - to remind me that such opportunities are gifts. There's no need to impute the day with assumptions of what a chore it will be when I've barely lived much of it yet. Plus, as Didion points out, things can change quickly, and this particular gift may not arrive again.

Hello, I have just joined. My interest is primarily the Thoth Tarot. I am deeply interested in the history and application of this deck. Looking forward to discussing with everyone.

Hi @Leila-rnsy , Welcome to the community I moved your into post into it's own thread because I wanted you to be welcomed in it's own place 😀 If you want me to change the title to something you wish, please let me know I think you had problems joining us and posted for help. I am sorry you had issues. We upgraded the software and hopefully it solved that problem, well glad you got here in the end

@Rachelcat I love this deck! I bought mine over 20 years ago on a dreary Sunday afternoon when I needed cheering up. The colours really spoke to me.

Hello everyone, I’m a new member of this forum. I’m very interested in Tarot and have started designing my own deck~

Anyone still using this deck nowadays? I just fond out there is a pocket edition of it, that comes in a tin, and it got my attention! I own only one deck by CBR, one of her first oracles, the Wisdom of the Hidden Realms… and I love it! It was a very unique deck when it was first released. However, I heard that her recent decks aren't as good, hence my doubts about the Mystical Shaman Oracle. I looked through the art and it seems interesting, it kind of reminds me of Susan Seddon Boulet's art, which I love. But I wonder if it the book is any good and if it reads well. Thanks!

Welcome back @Rachelcat 😀

Hi crew! Good to be back! This week will be Golden Dawn Magical Tarot by Sandra Tabatha Cicero and Chic Cicero, the last of my “Golden Dawn Tarot Not Thoth” subcollection. It follows Book T instructions for making one’s own tarot deck. I’m not sure what doc has the instructions for the images of the majors. Could you please tell me if you know? I’m afraid I’ve forgotten more tarot history than I ever knew . . . There are two Temperance cards, one with wings and a rainbow with an arrow for Sagittarius, and one alchemical with white eagle and red lion and a cauldron. I like that it’s very colorful, based on Golden Dawn color scales. And I like the naïve art because it shows devotion to the concepts more than appearances. I also like the old-fashioned (2001 copyright) Llewellyn presentation of the deck in a deck box and the same size booklet in a little shelf slipcase. The booklet has GD spreads including the full Opening of the Key. I’ll probably try to use some Golden Dawn spreads or reading methods this week, but first the interview. What is your most important characteristic? 3 Cups, Abundance, Mercury in Cancer The deck is a faithful manifestation (3) of the emotions (cups) of GD tarot. It has the necessarily abundant number of illustrations. Tarot is communication (mercury) of feelings (cancer). What is your strength? The Princess of Pentacles, Earth If she’s earth, why all the rams’ heads? Booklet just says “Her emblem is a winged ram’s head.” It’s a good physical artifact. I should keep this exact deck in my collection. Your weakness? 6 Wands, Victory, Jupiter in Leo No matter how successful it is as a Golden Dawn deck, it can’t be my favorite because I’ve moved on from GD attributions. It’s about knowing (Jupiter) enough to show off (Leo). What can you teach me? The Prince of Swords, Air His chariot is drawn by fairies. The deck can teach me all about the rationale behind the attributions. It can teach me how to learn about things I don’t agree with. How can I learn it? 8 Cups, Abandoned Success, Saturn in Pisces I should let go of my preferences (cups) and concentrate on the information (8). But there will be limitations (Saturn) to how much feeling I can avoid (Pisces). What will be the outcome of our work together? 2 Swords, Peace Restored, Moon in Libra We’ll agree to disagree on intellectual grounds. It’s all made up anyway (moon), so, with enough intellectual backing, all attributions are equal (Libra). Well, that was fun! It feels like an actual conversation with the cards.

Welcome back @Mi-Shell!

Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 471: Jul. 13 - Jul. 19 - Deck of the Week - Tarot, Tea, & Me - A Tarot Reader's Community

Lucky not Friday the 13th! I have updated next week's thread with your new deck @Mi-Shell 🙃

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 Mi-Shell: Botanica Oculta Tarot Rachelcat: Golden Dawn Magical Tarot by Sandra Tabatha Cicero and Chic Cicero Bodhiseed: World Spirit Tarot paired with the Mystic Glyphs Oracle Click here for DOTW 470 (7/6 -7/12)

Monday the 13th! (luckily NOT Friday the 13th!) This week I will spend with the Botanica Oculta Tarot.

I still use a version of 'face down, smear 'em all around' technique to get random reversals. Obviously you need a very clean, non-scratchy surface to spread the cards out. It also helps to shuffle the cards beforehand ...riffle, overhand, whatever. I do find that if I 'pick' cards to reverse, I end up overthinking it. "Oh, I need one from the other end of the pile; I need a couple from the middle," etc. That doesn't feel as random as I'd like. So I just do the face down and smear technique, while pulling cards from the bottom, putting cards to the bottom, and randomising everything till I've got it 'done.' I don't mean to suggest this is the only way to do it, but it's what I've always done. I only rarely read without reversals, so this is more or less an everyday action for me. I had to laugh, remembering this is exactly how I used to shuffle playing cards when I was young, before I mastered the 'riffle shuffle.' I'd spread the cards out across the card table (we had one!) and just smeared them to my heart's content.