fire cat pickles Posted June 23, 2022 Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) 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: firecatpickles: Le Tarot de Marseille (Fournier) Bodhiseed: Tarot of the Masters paired with the Key to the Kingdom Playing Cards Wyrdkiss: Deck of the Bastard, Tarot by Seven euripides: Touchstone Tarot, by Kat Black Amberjune: Aboramana Oracle and the Game of Thrones Tarot Rachelcat: Cosma Visions Oracle Little, by James R. Eads vulprix: Mary-El Tarot and Jean Noblet Majors Click here for DoW 258 (6/18 - 6/24) Click here for DoW 260 (7/2 - 7/8) Edited December 17, 2022 by fire cat pickles
fire cat pickles Posted June 23, 2022 Author Posted June 23, 2022 I know this is early, but I work tomorrow and it's questionable whether or not I'll have time later today to post it, even. So here it is! Post when ready 🙂
fire cat pickles Posted June 25, 2022 Author Posted June 25, 2022 This is the new DoW sign up thread.
Bodhiseed Posted June 25, 2022 Posted June 25, 2022 1 hour ago, fire cat pickles said: This is the new DoW sign up thread. Thank you for the new thread! ❤️ I'm in with the Tarot of the Masters paired with the Key to the Kingdom deck this week.
fire cat pickles Posted June 25, 2022 Author Posted June 25, 2022 22 minutes ago, Bodhiseed said: Tarot of the Masters paired with the Key to the Kingdom deck OMG is this the Key to the Kingdom paying card deck??? Please say it is! I used to have this deck and I luuurve it! I miss it so much.
Bodhiseed Posted June 25, 2022 Posted June 25, 2022 2 hours ago, fire cat pickles said: OMG is this the Key to the Kingdom paying card deck??? Please say it is! I used to have this deck and I luuurve it! I miss it so much. It is! 😊 I've had it a long time, and enjoy it every time I use it.
fire cat pickles Posted June 25, 2022 Author Posted June 25, 2022 Here is my primary reading for the week:
Wyrdkiss Posted June 25, 2022 Posted June 25, 2022 (edited) Greetings fine people. I have returned from the Midwest, and excited to get back to my cards. I did quite a few readings while gone, but with one one pack. It was agony! 🙂 Variety is the spice of life. This is a lovely example of why I absolutely adore the weather in that part of the country. It's sticky and humid, but so magical. I'm in this week with the Deck of the Bastard, 2nd Edition from Tarot by Seven, LLC. Edited June 25, 2022 by Wyrdkiss
fire cat pickles Posted June 26, 2022 Author Posted June 26, 2022 Welcome back, @Wyrdkiss! That sounds like a lovely stay you had 🙂
euripides Posted June 26, 2022 Posted June 26, 2022 I'm in with Kat Black's Touchstone Tarot this week. I'm in a very Dark Academia mood so it has just the right vibe. Collage decks can be pretty variable but I just love the Touchstone - it has a very consistent aesthetic, beautifully put together, and with a really nice choice of great art. It's a very 'people' deck - strong personalities - so I'll be interested to see how I go with reading it as day-to-day advice. I've got a lot on my plate this week with some major deadlines and a project ramping up. I'm also trying to preserve some time for study and creative work.
Bodhiseed Posted June 26, 2022 Posted June 26, 2022 (edited) This week I'll be using the Tarot of the Masters, created and self-published by James Ricklef. (I'll also be referring to Ricklef's Tarot Affirmations book.) The oracle deck I'll be using is The Key to the Kingdom, a transformational cards and booklet set created by Tony Meeuwissen and published by Running Press. Today's draws are the High Priest and the Queen of Diamonds: Ricklef's drawing is based on Raphael's painting of Pope Gregory IX, a man known for issuing decretals (papal decrees concerning canon law) and for instituting the Papal Inquisition (groups charged with suppressing heresy). He is a prime example of how tradition gets mistaken for truth and guidance becomes corrupted by power. On the heels of the devastating news about the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe vs. Wade, this card feels oppressive and tyrannical. If those 'christian' justices would read Exodus, they would see the unborn were treated as a treasured possession but not a human life. Yet the Queen of Diamonds asks that we maintain our commons sense rather than rely on opinions and assumptions. As a chess piece among other game pieces, she asks us to use our intellect to form a strategic plan rather than be jerked around by our emotions. There will always be those who try to contain and suppress others with their personal beliefs, but as William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote, "Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it." Edited June 26, 2022 by Bodhiseed
Amberjune Posted June 27, 2022 Posted June 27, 2022 thank you for the new thread, Fire Cat Pickles! @Wyrdkiss that photo is stunning! My decks for the week are the Aboramana Oracle and the Game of Thrones Tarot. Happy week to all!
fire cat pickles Posted June 27, 2022 Author Posted June 27, 2022 10 hours ago, Amberjune said: thank you for the new thread, Fire Cat Pickles! @Wyrdkiss that photo is stunning! My decks for the week are the Aboramana Oracle and the Game of Thrones Tarot. Happy week to all! Welcome back @Amberjune!
Wyrdkiss Posted June 27, 2022 Posted June 27, 2022 (edited) 13 hours ago, Wyrdkiss said: An example of my DoB w/ keywords. This deck from Tarot by Seven has a linen cardstock. It is a bit thin, but shuffles nicely. I will post a pic of the back soon (one of a number to choose from). You can get it showing titles & Keywords, just titles, or none except the images. As you can see this is the KW printing including reversals. This is named the Deck of the Bastard because it changes the traditinal RWS images to something a bit more user friendly (for some people). That is the intent. I certainly prefer it over the Rider's art, which I do not care for at all aside from its familiarity. i have used this deck reading at Halloween haunts, clubs, festivals, etc. The keywords help when fatigued -- but I must be cautious not to use them as the cornerstone of the reading. More shots to come. Tell me what you think. Edited June 27, 2022 by Wyrdkiss
Rachelcat Posted June 27, 2022 Posted June 27, 2022 Hi, I’m late this week, but better late than never! My deck this week is the Cosma Visions Oracle Little by James R. Eads. (I’m not sure exactly what to call it, but he calls his minis “little,” so I putting that at the end like I would “mini.”) I recently got the “Triple Little Visions” set, minis in a tin of his Prisma Visions Tarot, Light Visions Tarot, and Cosma Visions Oracle. In my great tarot wisdom (heavy sarcasm), I have decided that the Cosma Visions is really a tarot. It has tarot structure, 22 majors and four suits, including “people” cards. (The suits are embers, lotuses, birds, and trees.) That didn’t convince me, but then I looked at the keywords in the little folder (that acts as the lwb), and then I knew that it’s really a tarot: The meanings of most of the majors of this deck seem to track pretty closely with tarot meanings. Even though the zero card is Death (!). An interesting feature of all three decks is that the suit cards form a continuous panorama scene when lined up in a row. Here’s an example. After looking through these decks, I remembered why I didn’t grab them up in their earlier editions: They’re kind of bird-heavy (not actually bird-centric, but the Cosma Visions has a whole suit of birds, and the first 5 numbered majors are birds), and I am SO NOT a bird or bird art fan. But they are beautiful, and I got bitten by the collection bug and couldn’t resist the full collection of three decks by the same artist in tins! So here we are! Let’s get started with an interview. And I’ll try to defend my “it’s called an oracle but it’s really a tarot” thesis in my readings throughout the week. Most important characteristic: The Romantic (knight of lotuses, I think) It’s beauty is that it’s a romantic deck, very emotional and impressionist/watercolor-y. Strength: Eight of Embers It has a lot of thought (8) behind it’s energetic execution (embers). Weakness: XIII Past Lives Very meta: If Death is 0, what’s XIII? Past lives doesn’t really mean the same thing as death, I don’t think. But they are adjacent. And some people don’t believe in past lives, so a whole card named that might be a problem. Maybe a weakness is that it hews too closely to its tarot roots to be an oracle! What I can learn from the deck: Ace of Trees Enjoy a fresh new take on tarot. And let it grow on me. How I can learn it: Ten of Embers Let it overwhelm me. Outcome of our work together: Nine of Birds All the bird might prove to be a stumbling block to using the deck after all (a nightmare or phobia trigger). See you tomorrow!
Wyrdkiss Posted June 28, 2022 Posted June 28, 2022 Good evening everyone. The back of my DoB enclosed. The Center card was singed years ago by an open flame, but I needn't replace it for that. This is a custom backing and I love that we can personalize our packs a bit.
Wyrdkiss Posted June 28, 2022 Posted June 28, 2022 16 hours ago, Rachelcat said: Hi, I’m late this week, but better late than never! My deck this week is the Cosma Visions Oracle Little by James R. Eads. (I’m not sure exactly what to call it, but he calls his minis “little,” so I putting that at the end like I would “mini.”) I recently got the “Triple Little Visions” set, minis in a tin of his Prisma Visions Tarot, Light Visions Tarot, and Cosma Visions Oracle. In my great tarot wisdom (heavy sarcasm), I have decided that the Cosma Visions is really a tarot. It has tarot structure, 22 majors and four suits, including “people” cards. (The suits are embers, lotuses, birds, and trees.) That didn’t convince me, but then I looked at the keywords in the little folder (that acts as the lwb), and then I knew that it’s really a tarot: The meanings of most of the majors of this deck seem to track pretty closely with tarot meanings. Even though the zero card is Death (!). An interesting feature of all three decks is that the suit cards form a continuous panorama scene when lined up in a row. Here’s an example. After looking through these decks, I remembered why I didn’t grab them up in their earlier editions: They’re kind of bird-heavy (not actually bird-centric, but the Cosma Visions has a whole suit of birds, and the first 5 numbered majors are birds), and I am SO NOT a bird or bird art fan. But they are beautiful, and I got bitten by the collection bug and couldn’t resist the full collection of three decks by the same artist in tins! So here we are! Let’s get started with an interview. And I’ll try to defend my “it’s called an oracle but it’s really a tarot” thesis in my readings throughout the week. Most important characteristic: The Romantic (knight of lotuses, I think) It’s beauty is that it’s a romantic deck, very emotional and impressionist/watercolor-y. Strength: Eight of Embers It has a lot of thought (8) behind it’s energetic execution (embers). Weakness: XIII Past Lives Very meta: If Death is 0, what’s XIII? Past lives doesn’t really mean the same thing as death, I don’t think. But they are adjacent. And some people don’t believe in past lives, so a whole card named that might be a problem. Maybe a weakness is that it hews too closely to its tarot roots to be an oracle! What I can learn from the deck: Ace of Trees Enjoy a fresh new take on tarot. And let it grow on me. How I can learn it: Ten of Embers Let it overwhelm me. Outcome of our work together: Nine of Birds All the bird might prove to be a stumbling block to using the deck after all (a nightmare or phobia trigger). See you tomorrow! @Rachelcat that panoramic scene with the suite of Trees is really lovely. do you fine the cards individually effective?
vulprix Posted June 28, 2022 Posted June 28, 2022 The thread is so busy this week (and so am I—with school work)!! I am working with the Mary-El Tarot still, but also using a new Jean Noblet majors deck I received recently! Hope I’ll get to post something this week. Everyone’s picks are so attractive. @Bodhiseed, as someone who lives in Midwest USA, I have to say I like it here 😁
Bodhiseed Posted June 28, 2022 Posted June 28, 2022 1 hour ago, vulprix said: @Bodhiseed, as someone who lives in Midwest USA, I have to say I like it here 😁 That's a good thing, vulprix. ❤️
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