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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!

No, there's just a button that says Other Media.

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 :)

Welcome! I am not that young, either....

Oh! Here you are :) I am delighted too!

Delighted to see you here, as you know. And - I MAY be the oldest here, at 81...

Awww <3 Thank you all for this warm welcome :)

Welcome back @Rachelcat 😀

Andy on Lenormands is a must read for various reasons and it seems he's gently on fire this time. I'm very much looking forward to it!

I also have two cards, The Moon and Queen of Swords. Not for what they mean but for the Moon is a "friend" in the night, I´m a night person and the Queen is one of my personal cards.

I had a look through at some of your recent photo posts and the cards are more vertical than horizontal in sizing. Standard tarot cards tend to be tall and thin, rather than wider in their shape. The forum seems to really want to turn them into a vertical column. I had a go with one post at dragging them around the post, but didn't save it at the end, just had a go at experimenting with it. You can move the photos around and drag them but the forum really doesn't seem to put them in a line. I think this is something where you have to change the sizes, like make them smaller in display size and maybe it will put them next to each other in a row. If you click on a pic in the post, you can change the size of the photo in the post (and people can click for the full size). It's an automatic displaying by the forum and I found it really tricky to make them a row. It really wants to make them longwise, there isn't an easy solution for this one I'm afraid.

I will post more if I should notice anything. Making room on my bookshelf now

@Rachelcat Do you have the bar at the bottom of posts with the "choose files" option on the left-hand side?