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So, most of you know I usually post in one of my journals, but it has been so long since I posted a reading I thought I would share in our thread this time! An update: I have had several health scares the last few months. All of them have turned out to be nothing! After been poked, prodded, scanned and examined I have been officially found fit as a fiddle. Additionally, I have decided to rent out my house and move in with my mother after my stepfather passed away in June. This is not for financial reasons. My best friend and his family of 4 (5 next week!) were going to get evicted and needed a place to stay and we (my mother and I) felt it best that they rent from me. Also, my mother cannot take care of this (large) house by herself after her husband is now gone. (I know, a lot to process but now you know why I have been absent for a while!) This was the cliffnotes version ;) Onto my reading. Turning over a new leaf. what can I expect this upcoming week as I regroup, recommit and refocus. I got Page of Wands (tarot de le rea) Staying grounded (note the earth symbol he provides) as I start out fresh. Pages are the sentinels of new beginnings, after all. At times I will feel overwhelmed but I just need to keep my eyes on what my goals are. I often see the Page of Wands as the perpetual student. I need to approach my next project from this viewpoint. Get out paper and pencil, write it all down, rinse and repeat, get it in my muscle memory. If I have it memorized both physically and mentally I can't go wrong. I can't guide those I am taking on a journey unless I can first take myself there. What's the saying, "you can't transmit what you yourself haven't got?" something like that. There is something of a Hermit-like quality to this Page of Wands. S/he is almost like a baby-Hermit. This reminds me to take time for myself as well.

@Raggydoll @DanielJUK @joy Thank you for the warm welcome!

You are welcome! Always happy to share interesting find!😉❤🙌🍀🎉✨

Welcome back @Bodhiseed! We missed you last week!

Hello @Svetlana welcome to the TT&M Family

Welcome, fellow newbie here. I already replied to you on another thread you created, but I like what you said here, too: Religious baggage, yep, I've got some of that as well!

Welcome, I'm also new. "Long time collector and amateur reader," yep, that would describe me also. I hope we can learn together!

I see that this thread is already several months old so I'm unsure if anyone will see my response, but maybe that's for the best since I'm also brand new to this forum. Having said that, your post resonates with me even though I've owned tarot decks for several years and recently began acquiring more. As others have said, I don't believe there's a right way or a wrong way, the most important thing is what feels best to you. Personally, I don't enjoy having to refer back to a booklet to interpret the feelings I get when looking at a particular card -- and that describes how I've been using my deck(s), primarily drawing one random card and meditating on it. Sometimes I'll also do what is NOT quite so random, I'll quickly thumb through the cards until one "hits me." It's difficult to describe that feeling, but certain images have knocked my socks off (as I like to say), and once a particular card has that effect, I'll try to examine it more closely to figure out why. And interestingly, once I come across a card like that, it never changes. In other words, if it knocks my socks off one time, it will knock my socks off every time I come across it. I haven't progressed very far with spreads. I've done three card spreads -- past, present, future -- but honestly, that hasn't resonated with me as much as with single cards. I'm also having big problems with how to ask questions, and I cringe when the uninitiated suppose I use them for "fortune telling," which I certainly do not -- though I hasten to add that this is not criticism of those who do. But yes, I would like to be better at using them to unlock my feelings about issues like aging and death, for example, but am unsure how to go about it. Since I'm responding to someone's initial query here, I think your questions and/or misgivings are not at all unusual for someone new to tarot. It can be daunting, especially in a world that seems predisposed to slap you down for practices that a lot of people see as a bit weird, at best. That is why it's good that you've found a community here where you can air it out with confidence that your questions will be seen by sympathetic people who have probably been there and done that!

Welcome to the community @Crow Glad you found us and made it in 😄

Welcome @Svetlana to the community . Glad you found us here

Welcome! It’s nice to meet you!

Hello everyone! 😊 My name is Svetlana and I'm from Russia. I don't have much experience reading cards yet, I mainly read for myself and my family. I use the Thoth Tarot, but lately I've become more interested in Tarot de Marseille and other cartomancy systems, such as Lenormand, La Vera Sibilla, Kipper and playing cards. I'm gradually studying them and looking for information that will help me better understand and work with these systems. I'm happy to meet everyone on the forum! I'd also like to thank you for your interesting and useful discussions - they're helping me learn a lot 😊

Hello @Crow welcome to the TT&M Family

Thank you!

Welcome to the forum! 😀

Hi, I'm Crow (not my real name) and it's good to be with a new community. I've sort of dabbled with tarot for a long time but have recently gotten more into it and have been collecting more decks. But I want to be a better practitioner and not just a collector of pretty cards, and even at age 70 I feel like I have a lot to learn, not only about tarot but about myself.

Thanks for the welcome! I just entered my e-mail address where it said Screen Name and that didn't work, but seemed to maybe reset something so then I re-entered my screen name and e-mail address and something finally clicked. Just trial and error more than anything, but by the end of it I was too weary to continue last night and will make a fresh start today!

I'm sorry you have been having problems joining our community. It looks like you have managed to join us, I think if your account is @Crow . Hopefully you made it here 😃 How did you manage to get in? Did you change something or did it just work for you? Please let us know, so we know as this is happening to a tiny minority of people signing up and we are trying to get to the bottom of it. We want to record all the experiences with this issue. If you would like to introduce yourself, you are welcome to start a thread in our introductions section here🙂

I love what everyone is working with this week! 🤩

Thank you Fire cat! I'm in with the Sasuraibito Tarot paired with the Soul Cards 1 & 2. Sasuraibito Tarot, King of Cups; Soul Cards, Held in the Light Let us then try what Love will do. —William Penn This King, when someone troubled shows up, will invite them out on the porch and offer tea or coffee. They'll sit in rocking chairs, and the King will allow them to pour their heart out. The emotions of others don't rattle him; he sees his purpose as a supporter and encourager rather than a fixer. Open-minded and nonjudgmental, he offers others a soft place to fall. The Soul Card made me think of the Quaker expression, "I will hold you in the Light." Philip Gulley explains: "To hold someone in the Light is to stand beside them when they are unable to stand for themselves...our willingness to work for the betterment and well-being of another." How different this is than asking if someone is right with the Lord! A calm, steady presence can help stabilize most folks much better than any reprimand.

I’m not into tattoos at all, but this little deck - I have the pocket Tattoo Tarot - really turned my head. I can’t go past a mini deck without giving it a second look. This one has a woodcut feel to it. I love the clean, crisp images and the bright colours. I haven’t read with it yet, but I had a look at the structure. It’s Marseilles-based (Justice = 8, Strength = 11, and pips without scenes) but with the odd RWS overlay. If you look at the 7 of Coins: there is an hourglass in the middle, suggesting the RWS idea of waiting for the right time. There is also a playing card feel to the whole deck, with the suit of coins featuring diamonds etc. Really love the energy of this deck. The box features the Eye of Providence, which gives it an early 20th-century feel.

Lovely! Thank you for sharing the post with all the detailed information, @reall.

Welcome back @Rachelcat! Interesting to have a different kind of oracle in the group this week 😀

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