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I've recently took delivery of The Urban Crow Oracle by MJ Cullinane. It has 54 cards, good cardstock, very easy to shuffle, a nice companion book that goes into full details of the cards and the cards themselves are well drawn and colourful and are numbered with keywords. I've had a bit of a dry spell with tarot so then this oracle caught my eye. I'm still getting to know it but some of the readings I've done for me have been real eye openers, including the new deck spread. I'm excited to get to work with this deck.

Welcome to the forum, @dollyglitter . This is a good place to bring any ideas and interest regarding tarot and other similar studies, along with spiritual interests and practices like paganism. Some tarot decks are very pagan, as you probably already know! (I lean that way myself.) The Druidcraft Tarot springs to mind immediately. And of course there are many oracle decks that also have a pagan theme to them. You have come to the right place! 😊 Are there any Spanish decks of particular interest to you? What deck/decks do you use already? Do you have favourites?

Hi @dollyglitter , welcome to our forum! Thank you for sharing your journey with us… you will find that here we can discuss both tarot AND paganism (and other aspects of spirituality), and I hope this is helpful to you!

I got the Gratitude Oracle by Angela Hartfield last spring and I am very happy I did, it really lifts up your mood and it gives the most loving answers. Also, it has such beautiful illustrations, by artist Josephine Wall.

Hello everyone! I am a woman from Spain, and I am 33, but bought my first tarot deck at 24 and have had my highs and lows in my tarot journey. Now, however, I feel encouraged to do it, and have done so for nearly a year, even though I am still learning, of course. My reading style is not predictive; I like to ask the cards for ideas, insights and advice that I haven't found myself any other way. I am somewhat spiritual, feel very drawn to paganism, and have made an altar some time, but it's not something I am very active with, even though I do take it seriously (I should be more serious though). Hope to have a great time in this website. Thanks in advance

I'm always happy when I find my path has taken me down a serendipitous trail and once again, I've found a path like that. I posted awhile back that I had found the book Benebel Wen authored in which she wrote about the Tableau method for using Tarot. I had never heard of that before. Then I also found another book by another author that told at length about using the Tarot that way. Due to life interrupting me with a broken hip, though, and a move of house during the next year. I never spent very much time with the book before it was packed away for the move. Then I got Lustrous Lenormand by Ciro Marchetti which is beautiful and I love using it. Serendipity, which is still at work, had led me to Toni Savory who wrote Ciro's guidebook to the Lustrous Lenormand. That has now led me to the book called Mastering the Tarot Tableau: Revisiting Predictive Accuracy with Tarot which is written by her as well and I'm very happily excited to start learning and practicing this method. I don't charge for readings anymore. I consider myself retired from that. I do still read for others sometimes, though, and now I happily intend to do readings in this manner to learn this kind of spread and, although I've got a better source of income to carry me through the rest of my life so I don't need to charge for readings now, I may do a party at Halloween or some other occasion here and there just because I love it after all these years.

Not exactly using it actively. But it NEVER goes into my purgatory pile of decks I might get rid of. I keep it. Will keep it unless I have to do some major downsizing in future. As others mentioned--to use this deck you kinda have to go by the Eteilla meanings. So I used an online resource [stolen thyme] to look up those meanings and got very accurate results with the deck. BUT I found I seldom used decks where I have to look-up meanings. I know regular Tarots so well I can just do my thing. So I seldom use DFW due to that look-up factor. Unless it's part of a challenge or a reading exchange on this site. I bought it fairly cheap. I don't know if I would purchase it if it were super expensive.

It's official. After getting Justice card YET AGAIN in an "ambiguous romantic connection" spread--it definitely means not interested in that way. This one the client liked a work friend. Wanted to know if it could be more. Justice card front and center. No legal issues, not lawyers. I had other cards confirm it meant the work friend wasn't interested romantically. @geoxena comment vis a vis impartial = not partial to you [I'm paraphrasing] but that described this read. On the flip side it can also show UNequal. Person A feels romantic interest but Person B does not. They are NOT equal. In any case, it's funny how a card might change and evolve in one's readings. For most of my career Justice was pretty much always a legal card. Lawsuits, divorces, layoffs, probate. Only recently has it started appearing in ambiguous romance questions.

I don't use reversals, either. I have at least one deck with the reversals built in (Revelations by Zach Wong) so of course I could flip the deck around and shuffle and pull reversals that way but otherwise, a hard no. I want all those images in their upright positions.

Like @Emily my decision to not use reversals is mostly aesthetic. When I see upside down artwork it looks messy and my Virgo Moon wants to clean up the spread by turning them upright. That being said, I like @Chariot approach to how she reads them. If I used them more I would probably take a similar approach. I occasionally use them in small, targeted spreads [comparing one option to another] and see reversed cards as weaker if the lines are otherwise similar in strength.

On Tuesday, I received The Lubanko Tarot. Another case where one card drew me in and so I had to have it. Also, another case of being enabled by the Identify This Deck thread. 🤣

I don't read with reversals, I like to see my cards upright and I think that there are enough cards to give good, well rounded readings without them.

I've always liked The Moon card, in a new deck it is always the card I try to see first.

My favorite tarot card is Justice. I like how this card represents ideas of balance and fairness. I enjoy looking at this card in different decks and seeing how artists portray it while still keeping its traditional attributes. I’m also a Libra, so that’s another reason why I like this card.

Welcome back @BrightEye 😀

Late to the table: I’m still studying the Hanson Roberts this week.

Hey everyone! I found a copy here where I live, but it's a tad pricey… I remember Dame Fortune being super popular years ago, but haven't heard much about it these days. Anyone still using or studying this deck nowadays? What have been your impressions on it, on the long run? The artwork and the idea behind it really attract me, but I'd love more first person person accounts, especially from those who keep using the deck! I have zero experience with Etteilla, but love the TdM!

The W I N D system is Benebel Wen's. Page 429 of her Holistic Tarot doorstop....

I printed my own copy of Chesca Potter's Greenwood tarot and her own words about her deck (both the contents available on Mi-Shell website, thanks to her), and I'm working on it and studying it. It's the only deck I pull a daily (or almost daily) card from. Would anyone be interested in learning together? If so, any suggestion about how to do it? :)

There - found my notes: Can't remember who this is by - Benebell Wen I think...

Yes, I moved into an actual mobile that's been built onto so I have 2 roomy covered porches, a couple of extra small rooms to use for an art room for each of us to have our own art space because we both are artists and very crafty. We each have a bedroom of our own at opposite ends of the house and she uses the back door for her "front door" and then I use the front door. Yes, I still do the beadwork and Native American type bags and things but not as much as I used to. I raised 4 kids who had a dead beat dad and that was extremely hard so I had to work and also find whatever ways I could to make ends meet. That's how I discovered I could do art work. Then, years later, I became more disabled but making a long story much shorter, I took two grandchildren to raise when the first one was less than 24 hours old, and then her little sister who was 5 weeks old two years later. Again, I needed to supplement my income to raise the girls after my husband died (different husband--good guy) passed away when the girls were 7 and 5 years old. Raising babies and small kids when I was disabled was really quite a chore. I had to find ways to make ends meet better and that's when I started doing the bead and buckskin work as well as art. I was working on that stuff and going as a vendor to powwows but kids and prices grow, of course, so pretty soon I needed to have some other thing to bring in that extra here and there, so I started reading cards, too. Along the way, I drank like a fool because I didn't know what I know now. I called myself a sissy drunk, though, because I never got a DUI or spent a night in jail or anything like everyone else seemed to. However, in time I had DTs in a nasty basement that was a place where other alcoholics relieved themselves. I finally got sober. I've been sober for 41 years now.

That is great news and yes this is allowed and in the right section. 🙂

(Cartomancers of other gender identities are also valid.)

The Magician upright ...I have the enthusiasm and skill to make things happen Chariot upright ...I control how I steer my life and how fast I travel Hanged Man upright ...I am forced to stay still, but I'm gaining a new perspective The Devil reversed ...a Devil is a mythological entity who doesn't actually exist, and I've rejected his hold on me The World upright ...It's done. Now I can relax and/or move on 8 Wands upright ...things are moving along quickly without a hitch 2 Pentacles upright ...I've got a lot on my plate, but I'm keeping it all going well 9 Pentacles upright ...I am free to enjoy my comfortable home life in peace King of Pentacles upright ...A person I can depend on to be level-headed, kind, and proactive

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