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The Radiant Rider Waite deck comes with a reference book with color images of the deck as well as the deck itself. It's great for beginners! Also, the Liz Dean: The Ultimate Guide to Tarot has full color pages. The deck used in this book is also the Radiant Rider Waite but it is the book only if you don't want to buy another tarot deck. Welcome to the forum!

Tarot works in interesting ways. This morning I was doing research on a new project, broadly to do with literary depictions of inundation and rising sea levels. I was shuffling my deck and drew the World and then the Page of Pentacles. This page is a researcher. The texts for World in this deck comes with all sorts of water and ocean imagery: life as an ocean of contrasts, seeing the seven seas in a glass of water etc. and the focal point of the image is a body of water. So the deck was clearly picking up on my morning activity. But what I find particularly fascinating is that the text in the book also uses water and ocean metaphors. As a literary scholar, this really tickles me!

@Ferrea sorry you are affected as well, we are not quite sure why the forum decided to change people's level 🤦‍♂️. Also it's a random minority. Don't worry, she has subscription records @Little Fang will sort it later today

I'm affected, too. Though, I had to renew my subscription anyway for which I wanted to use the subscriber give away. But now I can't find the messages I exchanged with @Little Fang regarding the three-month subscription. I'm pretty sure I didn't delete them.

And it's back! Thank you, @DanielJUK and @Little Fang ! ❤️

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I am unsure what would have caused these issues; hopefully, you were the only two affected. If anybody else notices an issue, please reply in here!

The little specialist tarot areas are easy to miss. I had to refresh my mind where it was when posting that

@Nemia also had the same thing but a different basic level of membership We are looking into it and will get you back as subscribers as soon as we have worked it out. Apologies

It really should not have done that @Nemia . Hang on, we will get it sorted very soon. It's something with the forum, don't worry.

Even though I still have about 9 months of it, my subscription is nowhere to be seen, I can't view the Subscriber sections, and my profile says "TT&M Family" where it used to say "Supporter". Could the mods or @Little Fang please look into this? Thank you!

Hi, all of a sudden I'm like a new member and can't see my content. I'm confused. Did I do anything wrong? I must have more than five posts around here!

Thank you, I combed the forum top to bottom to get acquainted with it and yet this completely escaped my notice

Yay! I was actually wondering if that would be possible with this new version. Thanks for letting me know!

@geoxena I bring good news, we have managed to get the Go To Top arrow back on this forum version 🔝

The whole gang is here! Yay 😀 Welcome back @Mi-Shell braving the "All Our Relations" Deck again...

Good morning Everyone! Well, you will probably shake your head in disbelief, but I will give the "All our Relations" deck another try this week. Here are my daily draws from yesterday, when the forum was closed and from this morning: I love the woodcut images and the sturdiness of the cards :) The narratives on the back however are quite another matter. We do live with Bears, we have a den on our land and see them regularly. However, they do not spread carcasses!! Never have I seen an Animal, that does that. There is also no Marine derived nitrogen to be had around here. Maybe in some Salmon Rivers in British Columbia - but the rest of the Bear World?? No. And today, this morning, I had to laugh out loud when reading that we have nothing better to say about Elephants than thanking for their pooooooop!??

Welcome back @Bodhiseed 😀

Sorry I'm late! I couldn't get on the forum yesterday. I'm in this week with the Anna K. Tarot and Meditation Cards. The shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting. – Eckhart Tolle This plump, bodacious version of the Empress reminds me of the prehistoric Venus statues. Anthropologists suggest these well-rounded forms were symbols of prosperity and fertility: in harsh, freezing climates, being overnourished was a crucial asset. In today's world, however, most of us do not live on the cup's lip of survival or oblivion. The Empress reminds us that we have enough, though the ads in media or comparing ourselves to others may influence us otherwise. Dissolve Into Now offers a verse by Thich Nhat Hanh: When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves. There are no worries about the future. No dwelling on past mistakes. Using our senses, what can we appreciate right here where we are in this moment? As Kristin Armstrong stated, "When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in."

Thanks for noticing that @Saturn Celeste Hopefully it's better now with the top menu on all pages, so you can always access the forums again 😀

@Lakewater That would be a great topic to post in the RWS section here and ask about books with colour images.

The "edit" button doesn't work, so there will be loads of extra posts....

Welcome back @BrightEye! I do like the deck, very nostalgic feeling to it.

Thank you @fire cat pickles and hello again everyone. This week, I’ll be working with the Lars-Kristian Holmsen Tarot. It’s a book-and-deck set that my stepfather gifted me many years ago. Recently, I’ve felt very drawn to it. It reminds me of children’s book illustrations, and I’ve been thinking a lot about my own childhood and revisiting places from the past. The card I was particularly drawn to recently is the Chariot, here called ‘The Hero’. Funnily, where I grew up is hot air balloon country, especially in summer, and my stepfather loves hot air balloons. In any case, this is me, on my journey through life at the moment. — I have yet to read the book that comes with it in detail, but what I’ve read so far looks rather good.

That's very helpful. I think I've been confused because so much of the lore around The High Priestess is about 'intuition' ...and the reversed card is supposed to indicate faulty intuition, or even too much reliance on intuition. So what I'm feeling is actually incorrect? Umm. That's very hard to pinpoint. Your interpretation of the upright card, to calm myself and use all the knowledge I've accumulated over the years to affect my attitude makes a lot more sense. And then of course, the reversed would mean NOT taking the time to calm myself and reflect on what I actually know. In other words, The High Priestess is not so much the correctness or incorrectness of what my intuition tells me, but it's about how I access that intuition. I will work harder on this card, when it comes up in readings. Thanks!

Hi there, @witchcraft Welcome to the forum. Yeah, it can be quite daunting, I imagine, if you're just starting out. Yikes. I've been on this forum for quite a while now, and still find some of it overwhelming. I guess the trick is to zero in on parts of the forum that are helpful to a person who is not only new to the forum, but new to Tarot as well. Because you use a pip deck, you will find that you WILL need to refer to your booklet that came with the deck. Pip cards, while decorative, are not easy for a beginner to interpret without reference material. (No pictures to give you an idea of what the card might mean.) So, by all means, use your booklet until you become familiar with your deck. Either that, or maybe invest in a deck that illustrates all the card meanings? It's a matter of opinion, but my opinion is that it's easier to get started on learning card meanings when a card's meaning is directly illustrated on the card itself. If you like Anime, you can search for decks that employ Anime, but illustrate all the cards. I'm sure they exist. One example is The Mystical Manga Tarot, which has a few flip-through videos on YouTube, showing you what each card looks like. I have found one particular part of the forum to be very helpful. If you go to the section marked Community at the top of any page, click on that and choose Forums, scroll down to Tarot Talk and Technique, then choose Individual Card Meanings, you will find lots of discussion and information about particular cards. These entries are not in any particular order, so you might have to search a bit for a particular card, but I really enjoy this section of the forum as it's thoughtful, usable, and easy to access. All the best! :)