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Let me open with saying that i don't read for others . . . I feel that questions and skew my interpretations, maybe in the idea that too often we focus on our wants and not our needs. Personally I find if I let the cards do the speaking, more often than not something that should be a concern is addressed by the cards and when I examine the results it becomes more apparent. Just me . . .

Welcome back @Rachelcat 😀

I use reversals - with the exception of - I believe 1 deck - it is set upright only. I think that we need to hear all the info, and often the reversed meanings are not as harsh as many believe. I look at the decks in a way as friends & don't we expect our good friends to be honest, the good and the bad? I often find different decks have different voices as well.

Hi Fire cat and crew! This week I’m back to mid-century esoteric, with Knapp-Hall Tarot Deck. Mine is an old U.S. Games deck copyright 1984. The original was published in 1929, titled Revised New Art Tarot. The title cards says, “Designed by J. Augustus Knapp and Manly P. Hall.” There’s another card with a short history of the deck, along with a booklet. A facsimile version is available from The Philosophical Research Society, the organization that propagates Hall’s work. The majors are featured in a color illustration in The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Hall, 1928, with the arrangement of 6 rows of 1+2+3+4+5+6=21 overlaid on a giant Fool card. The deck is about poker-sized. All the cards have simple sigils in addition to the main illustrations. Le Monde is numbered both 21 and 22. Courts are king, queen, warrior, and servant. Pip cards show pips arranged in shapes. Scepters have little playing card clubs on their tops. Cups are red and are fiery on the king, queen, and ace. Swords are light blue and look pretty airy. 2 Swords has a reversed playing card spade. Coins are yellow gold coins with a variety of engraved faces, women and men. The booklet has 5 spreads, so lots to try out this week. I haven’t read with a tarot for a while now (it looks like 6 weeks!), so on to the interview! (I'm still not able to post photos, sorry!) What is your most important characteristic? 7 Coins (Venus symbol on a cube) The deck is an enjoyable physical artifact. What is your strength? A Swords (winged Mercury-kind-of symbol plus a man in the moon background illustration) The deck is very erudite and brings new ideas to tarot study. Your weakness? 8 Cups (butterfly wings in a mandorla over a triangle and a small pentacle around one cup) It emphasizes intellect over emotions. What can you teach me? Le Feu du Ciel (Tower) (shield with illustration of hand grasping lightning bolts) The deck can teach me about catastrophes and sudden enlightenment?! How can I learn it? q Cups (rose in a mandorla) Queen index looks like a lowercase q. Queen holds out a flaming cup and has a cross-topped scepter. I can learn about sudden catastrophe by being open to emotional passion. ??? What will be the outcome of our work together? S Scepters (cube in a triangle with explosive lines around the triangle) I’m assume S means servant. Person is planting a bare branch with his scepter laying on the ground beside it. I will realize I have a lot to learn about how to actually do something with this deck. Well, that was interesting! We’ll see how it goes.

I too bought my first deck . . . twice. The first time around I was too young, college age and bought for the wrong reason - not doing readings. Since 2000, things were happening that started me using some rune stones a friend gave me, years previous approx 15 years later I bought my first deck after lurking on a number of sites . . . The rest as they say is history.

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 Rachelcat: Knapp-Hall 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: