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I just got this new oracle deck by Alana Fairchild titled Lightworker Oracle. It’s really beautiful. This deck will be great for light workers, healers, starseeds, etc. The guidebook includes invocations for each card, too. Here are some of my favorites so far:

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That’s such a great depiction — the fairy godmother fits her energy really well, and reversed as the Sleeping Beauty fairy is a perfect contrast. I took a moment to look up Lisa Hunt’s deck after reading your reply, and seeing the Empress card in context makes your description even better. It’s a really interesting take on her, and I’m glad you mentioned it. I’d love to hear what you think of the deck once it arrives and you’ve had a chance to work with her version of the Empress.

Up till the moment my brain had its little philosophical fart, I would always say the 10 of Swords is a 'duration' card. Upright: bad times have reached their worst and will start to improve; reversed: there is still more bad stuff to come. However, the ORIGIN of the bad stuff has now come into play. Bad times deliberately caused by other people, versus random events? I'll see how that idea works in an actual reading.

@gregory if you select the text and use the T crossed out. I think that is the remove formatting now. Hopefully it will remove font? or select the default font on the font menu @geoxena You can choose fonts now, go on the .... menu on the text box. Just please make it still readable to the members 🤣 They have really worked on the input box with new better features in this version I think. There are lots of useful new things.

We recently discussed the person cards in Celine's thread in which I also posted a link to a video by Donna Leigh. Her notion of a ”different influence independent of gender” is reverberating anew. The man alone could have reprented AI – the coffin just made it clear to me (that's why I love those descriptor cards!).

I had a thought about the 10 of Swords the other day. I see the suit of Swords as 'action,' (as well as thoughts,) so could it be that the 'ruin' exemplified by the 10 of Swords is deliberately brought about by the actions of another person or people? Not to make folks paranoid or anything, but it seems easy to compare the card to Death. But if you see Death as a natural ending of an event, situation, or person ...maybe the 10 of Swords is an end intentionally caused by the actions of another person or group. (Group might be implied by the number of swords stuck in the person's back.) In other words, the 10 of Swords may not indicate misfortune, so much as betrayal? I do buy into the notion that it indicates things have reached their lowest point, and I also believe the reversed card indicates the pain will still go on for a while and has not ended yet. It's the cause of the pain or ruin that has given me food for thought.

I'd say, in my own experience, if Death appears at the start of a reading (first card, etc) it means it's a starting point. Whatever 'was' will not return. It's also there to inform the reader that the event (whatever it was) IS actually done. The cards that follow in the reading are about what happens next. Death refers, most often, to something the seeker is aware has gone. It's just confirmation that it's gone for good. I use reversals when reading, most of the time. If Death appears reversed as one of the cards in my spread, I would probably read it as something that needs to go (or is on its way out) but is still there. Either the seeker is clinging to something they need to let go of, or something is taking an interminable amount of time to wind down. The remaining cards should give a clue as to what will happen next. In the few times that Death refers to an actual death of a living being, it usually comes as no great surprise ...unless the card is accompanied by other cards indicating shock, etc. However, it can certainly refer to an expected death, or in the case of a reversed card, can mean a death that is expected, but hasn't happened yet. As in all readings, the surrounding cards give you information that will be useful.

Wow, I've never seen that option! And believe me, I looked for it because I prefer choosing my fonts on forums, but I only seen the ability to use bold, italics, etc., but not the ability to choose fonts for my posts. I wonder if that was for paid members only?

So... this means I shall continue being a Billy no-mates!. No replies here yet. Pooh!

I love AI as well. Also would make a great zombie 😄

I love that combo for AI. What else could represent it except a 'person' card in a box... and a coffin at that since there's no life, as you said. (For me, either because I don't read with it regularly or my brain works better with tarot, I almost always struggle with which of the possible meanings to go with. Even though I only use one method that I learned years ago, and I think it's a great method, there's still the question of whether to take things in their metaphorical sense like a loss, or literal meaning, like a box. When I read with tarot, I just know (or at least feel that I know) which aspect of the card to go with in combination. With Lenormand, these sorts of brilliant pairs don't occur to me, and if I had drawn Man and Coffin myself, I probably would never have made the connection like you did.)

Just a question here. In the posting box there used to be a button for "default font". There's no way now to choose a font, and so if I write up a post in Word and copy-paste, it keeps the font I was using in Word. If I try "posting as plain text" it still keeps the Word font - I have to remember to switch to the forum font in Word before pasting. I know invision HAS the facility to switch to the forum default as it's still there on my other invision forum where this button: is for "remove format". No BIGGIE but we had something like that before the update.....

Dear card readers, I just stumbled upon an interesting potential meaning of the Man card I haven’t come across before. I wanted to do a quick open reading, no specific question in mind just: what's next for me? 19 Tower_28 Man_33 Key 14 Fox_8 Coffin_30 Lilies Bottom card: 17 Stork Cards in the lower row are the descriptors/clarifiers. The man and the coffin gave me a bit of a headache. The only way I could make sense of this was: by establishing smart boundaries I put an end to a connection with man so I can keep my peace. There is a man in my neighbourhood I find attractive and even though our interaction had been very brief so far, I had the impression that something was not quite right. There is an uneasiness and some red flags. I already tried to navigate around the places where I usually run into him (that could be indicated by the stork). So far so good. A couple of hours later I sit at my computer. My coach gave me the assignment to check for potential further educations. So I did a bit of research and also asked ChatGPT. This was actually quite a good idea because that's basically the only job AI has in my life: proofreading my applications and hinting at blind spots etc. ”It knows” for example which skills I'm lacking in regard to positions I'm applying for. Then the light bulb: Man + Coffin = the lifeless entity (in the box)! Then the cards can be read as me, smart in solitude, asking the lifeless entity (AI) about how to access new honours. Of course, Tower and Fox can speak about the institution that is cunning-up people. But I usually go with the most fluent, succinct wording that comes to me. Stork as the theme of the reading would be the levelling-up. I just wanted to share this. Just like we use the Stars to indicate the internet we'll need cards to represent other new technologies that become part of our lives. And I'm amazed how the cards themselves come up with suggestions for that!

I just saw a deck (The Fairy Tale Tarot, by Lisa Hunt) in which The Empress is depicted as the fairy godmother from the Cinderella story! How good is that? In terms of her effect on a person? And of course, reversed, she could be the Bad Fairy in Sleeping Beauty, couldn't she? Love it already, and I've just ordered the deck. 😀

I finally realised that The Fairy Tale Tarot deck by Lisa Hunt is the same one Amazon has displayed for sale. I didn't realise that the Little Red Riding Hood (Innocence/The Fool) card is NOT the picture apparently depicted on the box this time. Anyway, I've been hoping to get this deck for a long time, so I ordered it. Should be here the middle of August sometime. I just know I'll love this deck, as I am an enthusiastic student of fairy/folk tales from around the world, and have a library of books that are collected tales, etc. It will also be great to use this deck in any future ISG group readings I participate in on the forum. I suspect this deck will read extremely well using 'intuition only.' The picture I've seen of the shoemaker's elves working under a full moon at night (The Ace of Pentacles) is just a glimpse of the potential this deck has, in terms of intuitive understanding.

On a whim, picked up the Amber Moon tarot deck. Seems interesting so far, but waiting for it to grab me.

I am reviving this thread because I just found out… rather belatedly, I guess… that there is an edition, called Wild Wisdom Collection, including all three of Maia Toll’s oracles: the Illustrated Herbiary, the Illustrated Bestiary and the Illustrated Cristallary. I neved had any of her decks, but I like the art very much (at least what I have seen online), so this collection seems interesting. But I’d like some first-hand accounts to help me decide... if anyone has had an experience with the decks (any of them), I’d love to hear about it! Thank you!

I definitely haven't been keeping up with this thread, so I'll just jump in now. I'm expecting all these preorders from various Llewellyn coupons. (The site has a 35% off coupon right now until July 26 if you're interested.) Chromatika Tarot to add to my abstract art subcollection will be shipping to me soon. The Psychopomps Oracle because I need more mythological decks, expected Sep Visconti di Brambilla Tarot because I can't let an historical deck get by me, expected Oct The 72 Angels and Demons (book) hopefully to use with my Travis McHenry and other shemhamephorash decks, expected Nov Tarot Affirmations because I failed Mary Greer's affirmation teaching, expected Nov Mythology Tarot because I need even MORE mythological decks! expected Dec And, as I mentioned elsewhere, I backed The School of the Heart Oracle Deck on Kickstarter, expected Dec

Thank you so much for clarifying that, and it makes so much sense! I'll pay attention to my own readings from now, when the Jack and King of the same suit appear near each other, to see if the thoughts/intentions theory works for me. I like it, I feel like it adds another possible layer for interpretation, especially in smaller readings that have too many 'people' cards.

Welcome back @Mi-Shell!

This week I am working with my beloved Alchemist's Garden Tarot. It depicts all plants used in shamanic practice. Many are halucinogenic healing herbs and fungi, dangerous for people, that do not know them and their properties well. With many of these I have a personal working relationship and quite a few I have used in powerful healing with patients.

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