Deck of The Week: Sign-up Thread: Week 217 : September 4 - September 10

[VGimlet]

This thread is for those who would like to work through their collection of decks.  Each week we will be picking a deck (or decks) to work with for the week.

 

All are welcome. Please join us!      The only rules we have are the Tarot Tea & Me rules; be respectful to each other.    

 

You can drop in and out anytime,   time and real life permitting.   New to tarot?  Long time reader?   Come on in.  

 

1. Please post with your chosen deck for the week. 

 

2. Chat away about your deck, how you're finding it etc., or not - it's all up to you.  

 

Participants:

1.   VGimlet - Tarot of Oppositions

2.  Mi-Shell - mini Greenwood Tarot,  mini Songs for the Journey Home and  the druidCraft, and the Medicine Cards and others.  

3.  Amberjune - Lua Tarot and the Oracle of the Mermaids

4.  Bodhiseed - Sun and Moon Tarot paired with the Jade Oracle

5. vulprix - Otherkin Tarot

6. Nisaba - Tarocco Della  Vetrate

 

 

 

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Edited September 9, 2021 by VGimlet

[VGimlet]

Tarot of Oppositions for me again, since I didn't use it for my minimum number of readings this week (four is my minimum),   

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

For the next 6 weeks we will be on the road, travelling in our motor home to Nova Scotia and the Atlantic coast. 

On board I will have, like always, my mini Greenwood Tarot, the mini Songs for the Journey Home and to give readings to the people we meet, I will take the druidCraft, the Medicine Cards and maybe one or two other of my reading decks.

Have a wonderful fall Everyone! 💖

 

[Amberjune]

Happy fall everyone (or spring). It is my favorite season🍂

My decks for this week are the Lua Tarot and the Oracle of the Mermaids (Blue Angel).

 

 

[Bodhiseed]

Our 'autumn' usually doesn't arrive until November or December here😄, but I'm still looking forward to the temperatures slowly beginning to drop!

I'm in this week with the Sun and Moon Tarot paired with the Jade Oracle.

Hope all of the DoWers have a lovely weekend!

[vulprix]

Wow, everyone’s decks are so beautiful this coming week!!

 

I will be using the Otherkin Tarot for another week 🌻🐇🌻☀️

[VGimlet]

Safe and happy journeys Mi-Shell!     

 

Looking forward to the fall - even though here summer kind of slips into fall around the end of October - although I can feel it in the air, and the days are much shorter.  

 

Our vacation plans (end of September, first week of October) got foiled by a series of concurrent events that made it a better plan to stay home, even though I was looking forward to our road trip to Utah.   But, it was not to be.  However, we are planning on a few day trips, to the ocean, and the mountains, and the Olympic Peninsula.   Not working will also be a big plus.   🗻

[Bodhiseed]

@VGimlet, sorry about your road trip, but your day trips sound great!

[Bodhiseed]

This week I'll be using the Sun and Moon Tarot, created by Vanessa Decort and published through U.S. Games. Paired with it is the mini Jade Oracle, created by Ramona Teo (illustrator),Veronica Iglesias and Anne Key; it was published through Goddess Ink. Today's draws are the Eight of Cups and Xiuhcoatl:

 

Anyone who's ever had a garden hose with a hole in it can understand an energy leak. The slit diminishes the water pressure, causing it to just dribble out of the nozzle. In human terms, such a leak creates a weary lethargy that can easily lead to a life of stagnation. In such cases, it is imperative not to think of ourselves as a victim, which could lead to the delusion that we are powerless to act. Our leak often occurs because the choices we want aren't on the table, and we conclude we have none. But this is not true - there are other choices (just not our preferred ones). Xiuhcoatl, the Turquoise Serpent, represents a lightning bolt, something to wake us up and help us crawl out of our box of gloom. We don't have to believe our thoughts, the nasty comments of others, or the media. It's time to move away, toward ideas, actions or people who will help us find the sun again.

 

Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.

~Bill Wilson

[vulprix]

@Bodhiseed I really like how Xiuhcoatl is facing the Eight of Cups person like, “WAKE UP!!” 😁

[Bodhiseed]

2 hours ago, vulprix said:

@Bodhiseed I really like how Xiuhcoatl is facing the Eight of Cups person like, “WAKE UP!!” 😁

That would be quite an attention-getter! 😂

[Nisaba]

I'm late to the party, but for some time I've been playing with the TAROCCO DELLA VETRATE by Luigi Scapini, a glorious stained-glass-like Tarot, framed in stone arched window-type illustrations. I loved it so much that I always assumed I'd somehow get my hands on squillions of dollars from somewhere (bank robbery, perhaps?), and I'd employ a leadlighter to recreate the Majors, Courts and Aces in real stained glass! I would just ADORE a house like that!

 

I have the house now, and several rooms even have multi-panelled windows, so it's possible. But alas, the squillions and the highly skilled glass artist are not in place. 

 

I first heard about this deck in the days before widespread online buying of Tarot decks, when most of us got our decks through Tarot shops, and if we were lucky they'd scour publishers' catalogues and order in a specific deck for us if they didn't intend to stock it. I asked a couple of different shops to do that, and neither of them could find it in the catalogues they had at the time.  The owner of one of them was Swedish, though, and she told me that "next year" she was going back to Sweden for a month, and she could often find things there that she couldn't source in Australia. So I waited for a year, keeping up contact by buying small things occasionally, and when she left she promised mew she'd look for it. She came back without it. 

 

Years later when buying decks online with all the impersonal coldness that that implies, became a regular thing, I went looking for it. And found it! It was my very first online Tarot purchase, and still one of my high favourite decks. Someone mentioned it here a while ago, and I thought, why haven't I been using it? So I pulled it out, and have had so much pleasure in the saturated colours and wonderful designs!

 

And I still want a glass artist to copy them into my physical windows, too.

[Bodhiseed]

@Nisaba, that would be the perfect deck to use during the gray months of winter or anytime one needed a lift - it's lovely! Until you win the lottery or inherit billions, maybe you could get someone to make some electro-static clings for your windows?

 

[Amberjune]

@Nisaba I loved reading your "origin story' with this deck. Thank you for sharing.