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LOL the cards advise: you're totally f*cked. Might as well accept it. Practice Stoicism. Sorry, I couldn't resist a bit of humor. I really, really hate seeing 10 swords in the advice position. But even that's better than the outcome position.

Yes. That fits with how it's been appearing in my "ambiguous romance" reads. You WANT the person to be partial to you -- and they're not. Curious how you see it as benefic for school and career? Career-wise I usually see it if the client is a lawyer or dealing with lawyers; or if there is some INjustice at work. Like a layoff they might end up fighting to get their severance pay. Or involving union rep or HR dept for some workplace problem. I don't know that I've ever had it come up for an education spread--but I would tend to see it as some type of legal action or arbitration with the school or financial aid--not necessarily a good or bad card. Neutral.

Your ideas remind me of Ciro Marchetti Gilded Reverie lenormand. One of my favorite decks. He added: Time, Bridge, Dice, Mask, Well, Compass, Labyrinth, Magnifying Glass. I don't use the extra cards much. I find myself still struggling to memorize the original 36. I enjoy the concept tho. Your ideas sound useful. Black cat and Owl are interesting and different from the Ciro deck. Your extras would make a fun expansion pack to regular lenormand.

Here’s a Barnes and Noble link so you can see the details but you can find it at other booksellers too. Welcome to the forum. 🙂 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lenormand-thirty-six-cards-andy-boroveshengra/1119985411

Where can one find the first book?

Hey everyone! How's it going? Newbie here :) This is my first post (pls be kind >.<), and I actually found this forum through the topic 'Discussion on Missing Topics and Overburdened Cards' (https://www.thetarotforum.com/forums/topic/15650-discussion-on-missing-topics-and-overburdened-cards/) I'm trying to adapt the 36 cards — and beyond the ones that can have gender, I feel the need for some specific cards that the deck doesn't have individually, but rather attributes to different cards/combinations depending on who's doing the reading. So far, these are the additions: 37 - Hourglass Time, future, innovation, technology, awareness of time, passing of time. 38 - Mirror Self, self-knowledge, inner truth, reflection, point of view. 39 - Ladder Profession, career, work, effort, ascension, gradual progress. 40 - Potion Healing, remedy, treatment, regeneration, physical and emotional relief. 41 - Black Cat Left-hand entities (exu, pombogira, exu-mirim), occult, mystery, magic-spell-witchcraft. 42 - Owl Right-hand entities (preto-velho, erê, caboclo), wisdom, ancestral knowledge, relatives. 43 - Bridge Reconciliation (possible and certain), overcoming divisions, connection, diplomacy. 44 - Wine Glass Pleasure, sex, drugs, nightlife, indulgence, celebration, hedonism, excesses. What do you all think of these additions? I look forward to comments and suggestions! I'll be right over there reading in the "Deck Creators Lounge" A brazilian "chero", Moony_!

Hello @amirartpop welcome to the TT&M Family Your tattoo sounds very interesting. 🤗

I have a tattoo inspired by the Thoth Lust and Star card on my right arm, very special and meaningful cards for me

Justice represents being unbiased and logical to me. This card is great for career or school but in love I would want a lover interest to be bias and give me the benefit of the doubt instead of looking at things black and white/right or wrong. Justice also represents pettiness and getting even like it took you 2 hours to reply to my text so I’m gonna take 4 hours to reply to yours. So the justice card could be warning that this person is petty and will do to you what you do to them.

I tend to read a negative card in advice position as the best possible manifestation of the card in question. So in the case of, say, Seven of Sword, you may actually need to be a bit sly and careful, maybe even avoid full honesty about something. For a particularly bad card, like the 10 of Swords, I might interpret it as fully accepting that something has ended and dealing with the loss, while trusting a new day will rise… and so on. I say “best manifestation” not in a moralistic way, but in a “silver lining” sort of way. This card sucks, yeah, but if I could find something useful about it, what would it be? That tends to be my advice.

I've moved it over to the general tarot discussion area as it's an interesting discussion to have 😀

Good question, @zurgles ! As I always include an Advice card in my readings, this issue comes up a lot. I read a negative Advice card —it can be a reversed card if it was a positive card upright, or simply a negative card itself—as 'don't do that.' You may be inclined to 'do that' —but don't! It will be warning you that certain behaviours or attitudes will be a mistake. I think the trick is to remain calm, and realise this card is giving you advice as to how best to behave, or what attitude to take. It's not forecasting what will/won't happen in terms of the occurrence itself! For example, if The Tower upright appears as your Advice card—especially if the overall reading is somewhat negative— it's hard not to think 'OMG terrible things are happening! Be prepared!!!' The 'advice' from the tarot will be—instead—don't behave as if a catastrophe has occurred—because that kind of behaviour will not be helpful at this time. If the Advice card is The Tower, reversed, I'd probably read it as 'no need to worry; this is not a catastrophe.' The first is advising you about your behaviour or attitude. It's warning you against catastrophising a situation, which can only make things worse. The second is advising you not to worry, because the issue isn't as bad as you think it is. (If the situation IS a sudden catastrophe, there are other Advice cards that will appear, telling you what your best course of action or attitude should be. The Tower will may well have appeared elsewhere in the reading.) And yes, I've had both the upright and reversed Tower turn up as Advice. I followed the advice, and it worked out fine. The Advice cards in my personal readings are usually the most important cards in that reading. They give me something to do, or something not to do. That always seems to work out.

Yes, this vexes all of us, I think. Personally I find it context dependent. Frex 7 swords i read as unfinished karma [different than the standard] so I might take it as a bit of a warning that something I thought was finished ... isn't. The advice is that I might have to go back and re-do something. Devil as advice is particularly annoying. Ugh! But in one reading Devil was telling me that it WAS helpful and important to remain attached in the situation. I tend to let go of things and move on. Sometimes to my detriment. Devil advised me to dig in, hold my ground, and keep what was mine. In relationship context Devil might be a warning that old co-dependent patterns will rear their ugly head. Conversely, advising to explore sexual aspects of a relationship. If we take away the religious stuff with Devil ... we're left with a card that can reference sexuality and animal passions. We humans are very smart monkeys when you get right down to it. We have an animal nature. Tower as advice? The very opposite of Devil. LET GO. B/c anything you try to hold onto will just get ripped from your bleeding hands, anyhow. Or if it's a real estate question--you're going to need to do demolition to do the repairs. I think this touches upon the bias we want everything to be "nice" or easy. Including our advice! Life isn't like that. Sometimes we must do the difficult thing or make the hard call. Malefic advice cards often suggest that sort of scenario.

Hey @DanielJUK . I’d like to discuss it in a general way, I just wasn’t sure where to put it. Thanks.

Hey @zurgles , do you want to just discuss this topic in a general way or talk personally about the readings that came up for you? If you want it as a general discussion, I can move it to the main forum discussion area.

Hello So I’ve been wondering how to interpret negative cards in advice positions. Whether as something to lean into, as a warning, or something where you’ve gotta walk the line of the helpful aspects of the card and the harmful ones. For example, my advice card of the day today was the seven of swords. For the warning, I could see it as not to bs myself today, don’t procrastinate or run away from my problems, try to be straight with people and work together with others instead of trying to go it alone or be self interested. For the lean into it, I can see it as maybe think strategically, look out for your own interests and self / prioritize yourself and your needs, work smart and not hard, cut corners if you have to to get the job done today, etc. For walking the line, I guess it’d be a sort of combo of the above. Like work smart but don’t cut corners because it’ll come back to bite you later, work with others and be accommodating but look out for your needs as well and be wary of people tryna cheat or trample on you or of doing that to others. That sort of thing. What is your approach?

I’ll make sure to share the cards when they arrive. Yeah sorry for not sharing the kickstarter earlier, I only found out about it with like four hours to spare at work 😭 To be honest, I wasn’t 100% feeling the art and look either but we’ll see how I feel in real life. I kept trying to zoom in and get a better look but the time crunch made me make the decision.

I didn't back the campaign for the same reason.

Ooh, I wonder if the Ameglian cow will be on there "would you like to try my rump?" and which card - probably hanged man? I loved that series when I was a kid, but don't really like the look of the cards or the text. Hope you'll share some with us when it arrives.

Seems to be all gone

I backed the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy tarot a few weeks ago. I don’t think I’ve backed a tarot deck before, just a set of playing cards. It’ll be a year before it’s fulfilled though. I read the series in high school and it was really impactful, and watched the movie. I decided to order the book set to read in the meanwhile, though it’ll be a while before I get to it since I’m juggling a bunch of projects. (Here’s the link to the page if anyone wants to follow it. I had backed it with a few hours left in the campaign. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/prodigal-ent/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-tarot-cards )

You can only upload images in posts when you reach 5 posts, then you can 😃 @Sebastian do you want to change your profile pic? You can do that by going to your profile, under your name at the top of the page. On your profile, click that menu and "edit profile picture". It's fine to discuss what people want from a tarot app here, it's a fascinating discussion, but we do have a line where we don't allow self-promotion in general threads. If you want to promote your specific app and link it in future, you will have to subscribe for that and post in the promote yourself section. More details of our rules here

Weird. I saw it at first then ddindt see it 12 hours ago. And now i see it again. Thanks. I couldnt figure out how to put my picture on this site. Maybe you have to be paid member?

Thank you!! I need all the help I can get! (I hope I can get my attachments to work soon.)

For me, it helps to categorise this into different thing to happen to me.... Thoughts - we all have thoughts and worries all the time in our heads. This tends to be in my own voice and like thinking about what to put on the shopping list or maybe thinking over a tarot card in a reading and is there another angle or maybe thinking about TV I just watched. It's obviously from me. Guide Messages - I am new at this, like I said before but still really deeply exploring this area of my life. At the moment for me, they tend to come when I am calm and meditating. I don't seem to just get them like a thought in my head. I know people who are deeper connected, do get them all the time (more on this in a sec). I have been reading up on this area because of my new interest and what is key with guides is the tone. Like it should be supportive, calm, grounded and loving. They are on your side. I don't think they should tell you to do something, more like give some wise advice. Some people feel an energetic feel around this as well. Daydreams - I am such a Cups person that I daydream and dream a lot. Since going deeper with my spirituality, I am getting very vivid and intense ones. These are stories that I watch unfold and can be very complex. I think these are like a form of healing for me, they bug me a lot but when I work out their meaning that story goes away. So this is unlocking or solving something in my life. Divination Messages - I get some messages when divining and always have. Sometimes I see an image in my third eye, like in the front of my forehead, sometimes I hear whispers in my ear. I am not sure if I can put them in the guide messages category or not, they seem different. This happens during readings and randomly and aid my readings.