Deck of The Week: Sign-up Thread: Week 255 : May 28 - June 3

[fire cat pickles]

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. firecatpickles: Minchiate Etruria (LoS)
2. Amberjune: Fyodor & Pavlov Tarot Sacred Geometry Cards
3. Rachelcat: Tarot of White Cats & Cat Comfort Cards
4. Bodhiseed: Restored Order Tarot paired with the Kabbalah Oracle
5. Page of Ghosts: The Dark Mansion Tarot
6. AnomalyTempest: Sasha Fenton Tarot
7. geoxena: Etheral Visions
8. vulprix: Lua Tarot
9. euripides: Forest of Enchantment

 

 

 

 

Edited June 2, 2022 by fire cat pickles

[Amberjune]

thank you for the new thread,  @fire cat pickles!

 

@Bodhiseed I too hope, VGimlet is off having fun, and that all is well with her.

 

My decks for the week are the Fyodor Pavlov Tarot and the Sacred Geometry Cards by Francene Hart.

 

Wishing all a wonderful week.

[Rachelcat]

Good morning crew!  I hope all our regulars are doing well!  I look forward to Minchie readings this week!  And I don't know about the Pavlov, so I'm keeping an eye out for that!

 

My decks this week are Tarot of White Cats and Cat Comfort Cards.  As you know, I’ve been using houses as randomly chosen spread cards, so I thought, why don’t I use a more oracle-y oracle as spread cards?  And cats need to go with cats, right?

 

 

Tarot of the White Cats is a Lo Scarabeo RWS clone with cartoon cats.  It’s very cute and sometimes cheeky.  It has the best 10 of Swords ever!  Let’s wait and see if it comes up this week.  It would be good if you want a deck that doesn’t have a bunch of white people.  But the kitties do live in the same pseudo-medieval world as the RWS.  And good for kids because no human nudity, and cats!  These are from the bad old days when LS decks had reversible copies of a card as the back.  But in this case it’s fine because the card is the adorable Ace of Cups.  (And ornate borders and six languages.) 

 

 

Cat Comfort Cards is a Hay House oracle with 50 cards of very vibrant art.  The cards have a punny or saying-based keyword on one side and a message from “your feline friends” on the other.  I’ve never used it for anything except looking through and smiling at the puns.  So today’s the day!

 

Short interview for the oracle and long for the tarot!

 

 

Strength:  Cool Cat.  Pride comes before a fall.  Humility is needed today.

Its strength is it gives practical advice.  Pride and humility are always around, and sometimes we need them pointed out to us.

 

Weakness:  Black Cat.  Lady Luck is with you.

Just the opposite.  You don’t want someone to base their actions on the turn of a silly card.  But I like that it makes black cats lucky!

 

What can I learn from deck?  A cat always lands on its feet.  Be ready for anything.  Everything will work out.

Encouragement.  Even though things aren’t always how we want them to be, we can make the situation come out to our advantage.

 

Outcome of our work together?  Catacomb.  Look deep inside.  Take time to meditate or journey within.

I feel like this deck isn’t going to be all that spiritual, but maybe I’m wrong!

 

 

Most important characteristic:  The Devil

It’s much more subversive than I thought.  Anthropomorphized cats (especially this Devil) are kinda creepy after all.

 

Strength:  7 Chalices

It’s one of many decks I have to choose from, but for the reasons I gave above, it’s worthy of being chosen sometimes.

 

Weakness:  The Moon

It doesn’t really handle or present the more esoteric features of tarot well.  Like the six-pointed star on the devil instead of an inverted pentagram.

 

What can I learn from deck?  Queen of Chalices

I can learn to be open and read the pictures intuitively.  It’s a fun deck and easy to read.  Have fun with it and embrace the simplicity.  Really look at it, like the queen is looking at her chalice.

 

How can I learn it?  The Fool

By being really, really open.  And approaching it like a beginner.

 

Outcome of our work together:  The Hanged Man

I will enjoy working with it, but after this week, it will go back into my storage desk to wait for my use and attention again.

 

Well, that was fun!  I look forward to putting the spread card idea into practice tomorrow.  And the new moon reading on Monday.  See you then!

[Bodhiseed]

Thank you for the new thread, @fire cat pickles! ❤️

I'm in this week with the Restored Order Tarot paired with the Kabbalah Oracle. 

Love your colorful combination this week, @Rachelcat.

[Page of Ghosts]

I'm joining with The Dark Mansion Tarot this week 🙂 It's quite underused in my collection but also fairly new (roughly a year old) so I think it's time to give it a spin! My card for today is The Star 🌟

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back@Amberjune
@Rachelcat
@Bodhiseed
@Page of Ghosts

 

😀 Looking forward to your readings this week!

[AnomalyTempest]

I'll be in this week with the Sasha Fenton Tarot which is a Marseilles style deck. I'm back home and settled in again.

[fire cat pickles]

8 minutes ago, AnomalyTempest said:

I'll be in this week with the Sasha Fenton Tarot which is a Marseilles style deck. I'm back home and settled in again.

 

Welcome back after your week off @AnomalyTempest!

[geoxena]

Hi folks,

I've never taken part in one of these.  Never did it at AT because I had only a few decks, but now I have more - and there are a few I never work with.  I'm not a collector, so I prefer to only keep decks I like reading with, so I think I might join in here to work with the decks that I generally avoid.  See if I can relate to them and work with them and, if not, sell them or give away.

 

So to start this off, I think I'll use my Etheral Visions deck.  The art is very nice but the gold foil stamping on the cards is a bit distracting, so I never gave it a chance.  I'll see how it goes.

 

 

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Edited May 28, 2022 by geoxena

[fire cat pickles]

21 minutes ago, geoxena said:

Hi folks,

I've never taken part in one of these.  Never did it at AT because I had only a few decks, but now I have more - and there are a few I never work with.  I'm not a collector, so I prefer to only keep decks I like reading with, so I think I might join in here to work with the decks that I generally avoid.  See if I can relate to them and work with them and, if not, sell them or give away.

 

So to start this off, I think I'll use my Etheral Visions deck.  The art is very nice but the gold foil stamping on the cards is a bit distracting, so I never gave it a chance.  I'll see how it goes.

 

 

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Welcome to the dark side @geoxena 😈

[fire cat pickles]

Here is my Weekly:

 

 

 

[vulprix]

Hi all! Thank you for the new thread, @fire cat pickles 😺
 

In this week with the Lua Tarot, which I love deeply. 🤍
 

I too am hoping that VGimlet is well, @Bodhiseed.

Edited May 28, 2022 by vulprix

[fire cat pickles]

@vulprix Welcome back!

[Bodhiseed]

Welcome to the DoW group, @geoxena! ❤️

[Bodhiseed]

This week I'll be using the Tarot in de Herstelde Orde (Tarot in Restored Order), created by Rob Docters van Leeuwen and Onno Docters van Leeuwen; it was published by Servire. The second deck I'll be drawing from is the Oracle of Kabbalah, a deck and book set created by Richard Seidman and published by Thomas Dunne Books. Since the Kabbalah letter cards are rather plain, I'll be using the paintings of Victor Brindatch. Today's draws are the Queen of Pentacles and Nun:

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

~Dalai Lama

 

This Queen seems to be contemplating with gratitude all that she has. She pays attention to what and who is in her life, and through that attention has come to appreciate it all. Appreciation's natural course is to want to protect and nurture what we love. It's a shame that most of us have to be separated from these things (at least temporarily) before we realize how wonderful they are. Nun ("fish") refers both to the myth of Jonah and fruitful abundance (fish as fertilizer). Like Jonah, we are often cut off from seeing beauty and goodness because of the walls created by our hatred, fear and ignorance. But Nun suggests we can tear down those walls if we are willing to sincerely question our opinions and assumptions and instead see with fresh eyes the wonders and benevolence that still exist in the world.

[Rachelcat]

@Bodhiseed, Ooo, I have the Oracle of Kabbalah!  I really like its plain letters, but the illustrated one you show is amazing!  I seem to remember the Oracle of Kabbalah book being rather Buddhist in outlook, so interesting that you used a Dalai Lama quote.  Lots to dig into.

 

In the meantime, here are the kitties for today!

 

[fire cat pickles]

And here's mine:

 

 

[Rachelcat]

Here are my Monday readings in the new moon thread:

 

[vulprix]

On 5/29/2022 at 8:32 AM, Bodhiseed said:

This week I'll be using the Tarot in de Herstelde Orde (Tarot in Restored Order), created by Rob Docters van Leeuwen and Onno Docters van Leeuwen; it was published by Servire. The second deck I'll be drawing from is the Oracle of Kabbalah, a deck and book set created by Richard Seidman and published by Thomas Dunne Books. Since the Kabbalah letter cards are rather plain, I'll be using the paintings of Victor Brindatch. Today's draws are the Queen of Pentacles and Nun:

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

~Dalai Lama

 

This Queen seems to be contemplating with gratitude all that she has. She pays attention to what and who is in her life, and through that attention has come to appreciate it all. Appreciation's natural course is to want to protect and nurture what we love. It's a shame that most of us have to be separated from these things (at least temporarily) before we realize how wonderful they are. Nun ("fish") refers both to the myth of Jonah and fruitful abundance (fish as fertilizer). Like Jonah, we are often cut off from seeing beauty and goodness because of the walls created by our hatred, fear and ignorance. But Nun suggests we can tear down those walls if we are willing to sincerely question our opinions and assumptions and instead see with fresh eyes the wonders and benevolence that still exist in the world.

I love this reading—wonderful choice to include the painting for the Hebrew letter Nun. I also really enjoy that version of the Queen of Pentacles! Thank you for sharing 🙂 

[Bodhiseed]

Thank you @vulprix! 💓 I really enjoy this pairing.

[euripides]

I'm here with my new Forest of Enchantment this week. Gosh I love this deck. It's just so gorgeous. The cardstock is a little thin, so I worry about its longevity, but the upside of this is that it's easy to handle and shuffle. To begin with did a 'getting to know you' exercise, and arrived at the Keeper of Boons (I'd done the same with King of Pents in the Druidcraft, too).  This one is a really nice way to spend some time with court cards of a new deck. I read through the book descriptions for many to help me get to know them better. There's some lovely connections with fairytales and legends through this deck, in such a way that you can draw on your own memory of them, but the reading doesn't rely on knowledge of them. 

 

[fire cat pickles]

@euripides Welcome back 😀

[euripides]

4 minutes ago, fire cat pickles said:

@euripides Welcome back 😀

 

thank you 🙂 this is fun. I'm enjoying reading together. 

[Wyrdkiss]

19 hours ago, euripides said:

I'm here with my new Forest of Enchantment this week. Gosh I love this deck. It's just so gorgeous. The cardstock is a little thin, so I worry about its longevity, but the upside of this is that it's easy to handle and shuffle. To begin with did a 'getting to know you' exercise, and arrived at the Keeper of Boons (I'd done the same with King of Pents in the Druidcraft, too).  This one is a really nice way to spend some time with court cards of a new deck. I read through the book descriptions for many to help me get to know them better. There's some lovely connections with fairytales and legends through this deck, in such a way that you can draw on your own memory of them, but the reading doesn't rely on knowledge of them. 

 

I'm so happy you are enjoying it!  Incredible companion book as well, such a refreshing take on the traditional RWS paradigm.

 

I'm back from vacation in the South Bay San Francisco. Looking forward to returning next week to this group.

Edited May 31, 2022 by Wyrdkiss

[Rachelcat]

Wow, can I take your place there??!! 😸

 

Here's my better late than never reading for today.