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Good time of day, folks! If you've been using the forum within the last day, you might have gotten stopped by a 503 error. They are intermittent, and very annoying. The cause? We have outgrown our hosting. Congrats us! However: I've been getting emails from the host urging us to switch off of shared hosting, as our site usage is also limiting other sites on our same shared server. This is a problem for everyone involved, and this means upgrading to our own server. There will be costs involved, and I'll be updating our little donation widget with the actual costs once I can determine them. Your subscriptions, donations, and even purchasing the We Are One tarot deck are very helpful. The latter has a minimum sold amount before funds are released, however, so if you've been eying it, now is a great time to grab it for the holidays! (The art is gorgeous!) Thank you all for making this forum successful enough to crash servers. ;) Extra Note Addition: I'm checking currently to make sure the traffic isn't all bots. It'd be easier to smash those rather than pay extra!

I am currently unsure why emails aren't sending and I'm checking into it. In the meantime, I manually approved the account matching your username. Apologies!

I am currently unsure why emails aren't sending and I'm checking into it. In the meantime, I manually approved the account matching your username. Apologies!

I'm unsure why the emails aren't being sent, and I'm looking into it. In the meantime, I manually approved your account for you. Sorry about that!

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I can't quite understand your post. Did you create an account already you cannot access? Or is it not letting you in? Do you have a pending account, and if so, what is the name?

Ahh, I know it. I used to have it. Still like to see photo's 😍.

...despite my resolve to sit content with the decks already in my library, i ended up going for the hushed horizons deck at the twelfth* hour: such clean, evocative RWS symbolism feels like it'll be extraordinarily breezy to work with... *the campaign ended earlier today but it's still accepting late pledges

This is really interesting. Temperance is based on the Baroque emblems of the virtue Temperentia, e.g. Cesare Ripa's Iconologia and his many followers. An allegorical female figure, tempering wine with water (and water with wine), embodies this virtue of finding the perfect balance. However, Colman Smith changed this image in significant ways and I think you are right, the apocalyptic angel must have inspired the changes to the image.

Tanga I'm not at home, so I don't have the deck to hand. But it's the Halloween Oracle by Stacey DeMarco, published by Llewellyn Worldwide. I'll try to post some photos later in the day, perhaps.

Yesterday, my tarot parcel from BookDelivery arrived, nearly exactly a month after I ordered it. That's a normal time for my little corner of the world. The new Llewellyn Tarot Calendar looks very interesting - new spreads, and I really like the format. I have been using these calendars since 2018, and I keep the old ones. There is simply so much information in there, and also new decks to discover. I have wanted the Woodland Wardens Tarot since it came out. I own the Woodland Wardens Oracle already, and also the Good Fortune Tarot (after I saw a picture in the Llewellyn calendar). I love Jessica Roux's artwork, it's precise and dreamlike at the same time. The book seems to be very good as well. The Mindscapes Tarot looks beautiful. Oil pastel is a very unusual material to use for tarot - I have lots of ink, watercolour, collage, computer generated and oil colour decks, oh, and also coloured pencils (all my Atanassov decks). The majors are impressive and it will be interesting to compare them to other landscape-oriented ;-) decks I own (Majestic Earth, Flow, Landscape Tarot), and the minors are completely original. They don't echo much of the RWS core meanings (although they do help interpreting the cards) but they show the changes of a landscape over time. I can't wait to dive into these new decks. It's always such a pleasure to open a parcel.

Not in the mail, but this past weekend was in a whacky store full of weird used stuff (example: waxed cylinders used for recordings 120 years ago). While there, I chanced upon the smallish Universal Monsters Tarot Deck. The LWB is missing, but all the cards are there, and for $5 what the hell. Being a fan of the old Universal monster movies since childhood, I'm having too much fun with these cards! Rather hilariously, the box is designed inside to depict a coffin. Even more peculiar, the suits are candles (which I presume to be wands due to shape and alignment with fire), crypts (presumably cups because they contain things), claws (swords I suppose, since used to tear bodies open), and castles (pentacles I guess). The Fool card is the newly "born" Frankenstein, which almost seems more appropriate than any other deck. The Empresss is Frankenstein's Bride which is wonderful. On the down side the backs are kind of a weird design that doesn't do much, but at least they're reversible. So much more. Will I actually use it as a genuine Tarot deck? Hmmm... At first blush I'd say no, but dang, they did such a good job with it I just might give it a fighting chance.

I have four of the Taschen books, including the one on Tarot (Library of Esoterica series). I think there are more than what I have but I wasn’t interested in them. I can’t remember where I came across them but I’ve had them for some time. I’ve been trying to clear out my wish list on Amazon. Some I just deleted because I’ve decided they aren’t all that appealing to me and I’d added a couple because of this forum. This week I received The Minchiate Tarot by Brian Williams. I really just wanted the book tbh. I wasn’t paying close enough attention to realize it was a kit. Oh well. And I should be receiving The Crow Tarot, the Mindscapes Tarot, and the Yuletide Tarot: Small Kit Edition sometime this week.

Welcome back @Rachelcat!

Hi! A day late and a dollar short again! Good to see you! This week will be Tarot Affirmations, Viki Lester, Theresa Reed. (I’m assuming Viki Lester is the artist, and Theresa Reed, The Tarot Lady, is the author.) This is a newish Lo Scarabeo deck I just got from a Llewellyn preorder. The short affirmations are on the cards, which I think is cool, and I like the simplified art and black backgrounds. It’s not Affirmations Tarot, which was a US Games deck of large landscape cards with RWS illustrations on the right and several affirmations as bullet points on the left. I forget who the author of the affirmations was. I had that one back in the day but it fell out of my collection in my RWS (and long affirmations) purge. Let’s see what I can do with this one! What is your most important characteristic? Page Wands, I achieve my dreams. (The border symbol for wands is a leaf. The others are their suit symbols, pentacle, short sword, cup.) It can help me learn all about affirmations and act on them. Perhaps to achieve my dreams? What is your strength? King Pentacles, I can create the life I want. The deck can encourage me to take charge of my life. Your weakness? IX Pentacles, I am surrounded by abundance. It’s not always action-oriented. What can you teach me? Ace Swords, There is clarity to be found. Doesn’t follow the “I” statement rule for an affirmation. Could be “I find clarity.” But maybe the passive is for aces? I can learn that the deck’s straightforward ideas are helpful? How can I learn it? II Wands, Now is the time to make a change. Also not an I statement. Maybe “I am making a change”? I can go from 2 to 1: Make a change to find clarity. What will be the outcome of our work together? Page Pentacles, I manifest success. Starting and ending with a page. Success isn’t the same as dreams. Or is it? Manifest is definitely more pentacles. I might not achieve all my dreams, but the deck will help me manifest whatever success I’m looking for. No majors. (The border symbol for majors is a 10-pointed asterisk.) So the deck won’t be earth-shattering for me. But I’ll like it anyway? We’ll see!

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Welcome back @Bodhiseed 😀

Thank you as always, dear Fire cat, for keeping us rolling each week. I'm in with the Roots of Asia Tarot paired with the Mahjongg Oracle. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. —Kriyananda The Queen of Cups is a beloved counselor, an emotional nurturer who creates the feelings of security, safety and trust. We can take our heavy burdens to her, and she will hold them for a while, then suggest how we might make them lighter. She's the person who helps keep everyone sane. The Carp is a symbol of tranquility and inner calm, signifying peace, contentment, and freedom from anxiety. When we learn how to calm ourselves, we can be a lighthouse for others, transforming a stormy situation into one that brings clarity. As Thich Nhat Hanh said, "Without doing anything, things can sometimes go more smoothly just because of our peaceful presence."

Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 488: Nov. 9 - Nov. 15 - Deck of the Week - Tarot, Tea, & Me - A Tarot Reader's Community

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 Bodhiseed: Roots of Asia Tarot paired with the Mahjongg Oracle Rachelcat: Tarot Affirmations Click here for DOTW 487 (11/2 -11/8)

I only have Kipling West's "The Halloween Tarot" and I love it! I really like how it manages to be cute, weird and playful, but still give very serious and deep readings! And I love the little black cat that "travels" through all the cards... somehow, I feel it represents us!

I only have two with Halloween themes and that´s: "The Halloween Tarot" and "Trick or Treat Tarot". The last one is new so I have only looked at the cards once.

Which one is it? (photo if you can) So I can look it up with great curiosity...

Well, I don't have any Halloween themed Tarot decks, but I do have a Halloween oracle, that I always begin using at this time of the year (i.e. Halloween). I use it only during autumn and winter.