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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 Click here for DOTW 480 (9/14 - 9/24)

For anyone wondering----when I said I raised grandkids and "drank like a fool" I didn't mean at the same time. None of my grandkids or great-grandkids ever knew me when I smoked and drank.

I'm still in the park in the mountains but there are a few regular very old mobile homes mixed in. The one I have now probably got dragged in with a wagon train to Oregon but I love it anyway. It started out as around 50 or 60 feet by 14 feet before the porches and things were added on. And this spot is much quieter plus there's only forest in front so that it doesn't look or sound like there are people so close around us. It sort of seems like being the only one in the woods in looking out the front. There are three lilac trees and patches of both wild strawberries and domesticated ones and a nice yard with grass and azaleas and rhododendrons. I'm using a borrowed Chromebook so I don't know how to post pictures yet but if I learn I'll post a picture.d

DFWT is still my main tarot deck, and I'm still excited. For someone like me, it's the best available deck for divination purposes! (Oswald Wirth's original 1889 trumps, not any of the derivatives, for meditation)

Ahh OK, thanks, I thought it was me again lol, I can stop looking for it now.

We had a major forum software update recently and some features have been annoyingly changed or removed. This was one of the things that doesn't work anymore on the new version and I miss it too! We are trying to find a new solution to display this again, so hopefully we can solve it in time but there isn't a list of members right now.

I see a pic 🤔

I haven't been here in a while and wanted to check to see if anyone else i knew from before had joined but I can't find the member list. I've had problems finding it from before but did eventually find it. This time I've come off the app, gone onto the desktop, tried 3 different browsers and still can't find it.

The image is not showing up for me. I'm seeing only a broken link.

It sounds promising so far! I'll return when I can think of something you haven't covered. I currently have Fool's Dog apps for some decks I personally own, so those are what I'm used to. Thank you for not using AI. :)

There was a great plea by Mary Greer on her Facebook recently that we should start a new myth to buy our first deck for ourselves. As an act of self-empowerment. I think that is great idea and how I got my first deck originally.

It's so good that you are settled now, Grizabella!

One of the tarot myths I remember is that you are supposed to be gifted your first deck - if I had waited for someone to buy me a deck, I would still be waiting. Also decks should be wrapped in black silk, supposedly to stop outside influences.

I like the Centennial PCS, the deck looks vintage and the colours are just right, and it comes in different sizes. I never liked the standard, too much yellow and the so called Original with its limited colours, green water, heavy black outlines - it took me a few years to appreciate that one. One of my other favourites is the Radiant Wise Spirit Tarot, i only have this deck in the mini version in the sturdy box, I love the colours of this one and also the size. When the RWS went into the public domain in 2022(?), for the first couple of years everything was quiet but then different versions of the RWS began appearing, all different colourings, different backs and also very cheap. I caved and bought a few just to see what they were like. I was pleasantly surprised, I now own a vintage looking one, a purple backed one and a black backed one. The colours are good and the card stock handles nicely - they don't feel or look like cheap decks and they also come with mini companion books, not LWB's . Unfortunately, I can't get my hands on the majority of my decks because they are in storage.

Make it so that you can turn Reversed cards off, some people don't use them - I don't so I wouldn't use a tarot app where you had no choice. Also maybe think about using coloured cards, black and white is boring, make a journal feature that will save the readings, also a choice of spreads. I do have tarot apps on my phone, usually featuring my favourite decks and their companion books, Fool's Dog do a good selection of tarot apps, and Labyrinthos, maybe have a look at those for ideas.

I doubt if it's anywhere near half, actually. But have you no friends with a windows one ?

I don’t have any problem with anything you said Gregory. You have been helpful. I’m not sure i would classify it as dismissive if i dont have a windows computer. I went to the page, watched the video i.e made every effort to follow up on the info your provided. I don't see how me not going out and dropping a few hundred dollars on a windows pc is being dismissive. That’s actually crazy to suggest. There are plenty of people who don't have a windows machine atm. Probably half the population actually.

I haven’t been doing a lot of readings this week, but paying more attention to my dreams. I noticed a couple of things when I did draw cards: they feature symbols that also appear in my dreams. Yesterday I drew the 9 of Cups for my daily reading and was, for the first time, drawn to the peacock feather in the guy’s hat. The peacock has been an important image in my dreams diary for more than 10 years.

Suggesting that you look at one excellent programme that means I, for one, will need no other, just to get an idea of what features make it so good, and your saying well you can't look at it because you don't have windows is somewhat dismissive. OK you can't assess any windows app. I'm guessing you are looking to mobile users. Fair enough - but there are a lot of tarot users who don't like mobile apps. It isn't a criticism to say find a way to look at what's out there, so that you aren't just reinventing the wheel..

I don't use oracle decks very often. When I do, I usually just pull one oracle card at the end of a tarot reading to add a different perspective. I really like the Vintage Wisdom Oracle deck. The story goes that the creator stumbled upon a collection of antique postcards in France, and used them as the basis for the deck. I think she did wonderfully well. I actually lost my deck somehow during a move. At some point a few years later, I realized I wanted it again, so I ordered another. Thankfully it is still in print. I uploaded an image of a few cards to our Deck Library, here:

In addition to loving self-collected oracle decks, I like these... My favorite at the moment is the Citadel, since I'm drawn in by the idea of this imaginary city and its rpg-inspired inhabitants. The lwb gives a moment in the life of each. (EDIT: and in has keywords! I forgot I blocked them out for this reading) This Japanese PCS-inspired oracle had keywords I didn't love, but now that it's trimmed I like it Does I Ching count for this when using cards instead of coins or beads? If so, I've loved this deck for years. It conveys the meaning while leaving a lot of space for interpretation. And I just received the Blooming Lovelies by accident (I bought her tarot, but they accidentally shipped this and told me to keep it. Great for a pick-me-up, though I do prefer her take on the tarot more than the oracle that doesn't have that context. She's very positive without ignoring that sometimes a situation just sucks. 🤷🏻‍♀️

My all-time favourite that I have used for years is Medicine Cards, by Sams & Carson. I have the pocket version (OOP) which has short poems written on each card about the quality of the animal. ...I have 3 new decks this year - and I love them all: 1) Oracle de Marseille by Lucie and Raphael 2) Shorelines Oracle (can't remember author...) - great one for grief readings. 3) The Crystal Oracle by Rijswijk and Freeman.

wow well so much for asking about features. I only get criticism that has nothing to do with it. No i dont need a windows machine to start making the app. Guess what i also don't have a linux machine. The truth is that you actually dont need every machine to start building an app. That thinking is from like 20 years ago. It’s already started. You can see a pic. Now if anyone wants to actually answer my questiom that would be great. (Thanks to gregory who so far is the only one who provided anything helpful. Thanks for telling me about Orphalese.)

I am well aware that you were talking about Orphalese. When I wrote, "you'll need to test it on a range of devices and operating systems," I was responding to this: In order to develop and test your app, wouldn't you need the equipment to do so? And now you've stated this: I wouldn't even consider starting work on creating an app if I wasn't prepared to test it on various operating systems during the process. How do you plan to do that? I would think that is an important step, if you want it to be useable by the most people possible. Otherwise, aren't you putting the cart before the horse?

That sounds fascinating @Raggydoll . I've never thought of speaking to my ancestors when I am in my sanctuary. But that's probably because I don't have much of a relationship with them. I do speak to my guides though.... and thinking about this now - two of those guides are actually what one would call "ancestors of time" (alla Nancy Hendricks) - because they are actually people from somewhere else on the planet from another time... not related to me by blood. (Generally when people say "ancestors" I immediately think of ancestors of blood, which is what you are talking about here). @Misterei I honour my recent dead - people I have known who have passed on.. One thing I do is set up an ancestral altar (a pop-up altar as it's only up at this time), and put on it a representation of all these aforementioned people (this can be a piece of jewellery that they once owned, a crystal that reminds me of them, a business card of theirs that I still have - etc) and I decorate the alter around the objects. I'll usually then contemplate (meditate on) these items and the people they represent and remember them. I may pray or chant. I may light a candle. I may decide to design and perform a whole ritual with a section speaking directly to them. Depends on what I fancy. As for the full moon. Today - I did an online Tarot reading swap with a stranger, who was referred to me by my brother (for our matching interests in Tarot). We've been chatting on WhatApp for a little while and our first swap was awesome! We've decided to continue with a monthly full moon swap (in or near the full moon). Ideally - I'd love to be celebrating an Esbat (ritual full moon gathering in Wicca) with a group of like-minded people out in the open under Diana - but as yet, I have not found one that I really gel with (well - not entirely true, but the one I loved moved out of London, where I live). Plus the second problem is, if the full moon is on a weekday - I generally can't attend as it's too late for me. Need to be sparkly eyed the next day for work. For my own personal practice - I encompass the full moon, the day before and day after - all as one. This gives me more leeway (diary wise) with doing a solitary full moon ritual if I so wish. In the Wiccan calendar the September Esbat follows on from the 2nd Harvest/Feast of Mabon/Autumn Equinox and is the Wine Moon (there may be other names but this is the one I use). It's Wine harvest time. Here are the grapes in my front yard 🙃. Wine ofcourse - is a traditionally known libation 🍷 If one is celebrating a Wine Esbat - one might consider designing a ritual which invokes (calls upon for support) or evokes (brings to mind) a Wine deity. Though I haven't given it much thought today - except of course for the most obvious deity - Bacchus. It's always interesting to google and read up on these things with each season, and sometimes this might be all that I do on such an occasion.