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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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Welcome back @Bodhiseed!

I'm trying to imagine being "gently on fire." LOL! 🥵🔥🚒

Welcome, youngster!

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Thank you Fire cat! I'm in with the Dark Goddess Tarot paired with the Tattwa Cards. If you ever feel like life is too much to bear, remember this: sometimes you just need to laugh. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s necessary. A joke, a smile, a little bit of mischief — it’s a form of resistance against the heaviness of life. It doesn’t erase the pain, but it lets you breathe through it. —Deanna Riddick Baubo is the Greek goddess of mirth, joy, and bawdy humor. Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, went into a deep depression when she lost her daughter. Nothing grew and nothing was harvested. Baubo went to visit her and flashed her 'assets.' Demeter was shocked and confused at first, but it broke through her darkness; she laughed and was then able to do what was needed. Air: Seed of Water is given the keyword Stagnation. It brings to mind cloud seeding when water becomes scarce. Tiny particles are released by planes into clouds. These particles help moisture condense and fall as rain or snow. Sometimes it takes the introduction of the ridiculous and unfamiliar to lure us back into the world.

We all are young, so :)