Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread: Week 270, Sept. 10 - Sept. 16

[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!

 

Participants may either choose to share their readings here in this discussion thread or opt to have their own journal in the Journals Forum and link them here. The second option requires that you contact a moderator to set up your personal Readings Journal.

     

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. fire cat pickles: Sakki-Sakki Tarot
2. Bodhiseed: Brady Tarot paired with the Wisdom of the Forest
3. Wyrdkiss: Darkness of Light Tarot this week, juxtaposed with the 

   Deck of the Bastard

4. Agnes: Dreamkeepers

5. Mi-Shell: Heart Path oracle

6. DesertRat: Manga Tarot

7. Rachelcat: Magical Menagerie 

 

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Click here for DoW 271 (9/17 - 9/23)

Edited December 17, 2022 by fire cat pickles

[fire cat pickles]

I didn't do anything with my deck this week 😞 I will be redoing the Sakki-Sakki... Hopefully it will get some attention.

[Bodhiseed]

Beginning Sunday, I'm in with the Brady Tarot paired with the Wisdom of the Forest.

Love that Sakki-Sakki Fire Cat - hope you get some time to use it this week.❤️

[Wyrdkiss]

Greetings everyone. I am going to work with the Darkness of Light Tarot this week, juxtaposed with the 

Deck of the Bastard.

 

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back, @Bodhiseed and @Wyrdkiss!

[Agnes]

I’m in with the Dreamkeepers, please. 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Agnes 🙂 

[Rachelcat]

I'll be in starting tomorrow.  Still figuring out what deck.  Today I'm catching up on my Transparent Universal from last week.  I'll link them here instead of in last week's thread just to keep current!

 

Edited September 10, 2022 by Rachelcat

[Mi-Shell]

Hi folks!♥

A couple of weeks ago I got the Heart Path oracle as a gift.

Sadly so far I did not get the time to look at it.

That however I hope to change this week. 

 

 

[DesertRat]

Good day! Lots of exciting decks this week. I was having a difficult time deciding what to do this week. I settled on continuing with the Manga Tarot for the first half of the week, then switching to the Celtic Tarot for the last half. 

 

 

 

 

 

[fire cat pickles]

@Mi-Shell and @DesertRat, welcome back!

[Bodhiseed]

This week I'll be using the Brady Tarot, created and self-published by Emi Brady with a companion booklet by Rachel Pollack. Along with it, I'll be drawing from the Wisdom of the Forest, a deck created and self-published by Jessica Purser. Today's draws are the Magician and Grow:

  
 

 

The Magician utilizes a combination of intellect, intention and the resources at hand to manifest what he desires. Our first attempt at something might fail dramatically, yet a second attempt might move us closer to our goal. The Grow card suggests that we learn from each experience, whether good or bad, rather than rigidly repeat our mistakes. (Crows never forget places, faces, or what happened with either.) Perhaps we don't have all the knowledge we need or we're not using our resources correctly. But if our mind and plan are flexible, we have a better chance of figuring things out. As Krishnan Venkatesh wrote, "Mistakes and failures make up the rich seedbed of self-reflection and improvement."

[DesertRat]

On 9/9/2022 at 3:19 AM, fire cat pickles said:

I didn't do anything with my deck this week 😞 I will be redoing the Sakki-Sakki... Hopefully it will get some attention.

 

@fire cat pickles Hi! I am wondering if you are enjoying the Sakki-Sakki? It's a deck I really wanted to love for its unique quirkiness, but I just haven't been able to. It's been sitting in my re-home pile for a while. 

[Rachelcat]

Here's my last reading with the Transparent Universal:

 

[Rachelcat]

This week I’ll be using the Magical Menagerie, an out-of-print Llewellyn oracle.  Yes, another animal oracle, but with a twist:  it’s also based on the four elements. 

 

 

Cards with one element are the traditional creatures for elements:  salamander, undine (water spirit as naked woman), sylph (a natural butterfly), gnome. 

 

For combination cards, order matters, in other words, “Air and Water” is different than “Water and Air.” 

 

Cards with two elements are legendary/mythological creatures, including mermaids and dragons. 

 

Cards with four elements are natural animals, and seem to adhere to the “Celtic” animal lists I’ve seen around, for example, in the Druid Animal Oracle. 

 

There are also a “Fetch” card (chaos?) and a “Quintessence” card, I assume higher than all the other cards, since it’s quint/5, while the others are 4. 

 

There’s a typo on the raven card, which I (finally) figured out should have earth and air reversed.

 

At one time, I devised a whole astrological-based calendar with this deck, but I think I’m going to let that go and read with keywords, book, etc.

 

I like a system, and a challenge!, and the faux woodblock style artwork, so this has stayed in my collection as other oracles have come and gone.  Let’s see if I can actually work with it!  On to the interview!

 

 

Hmm, these lists of elements are harder to deal with than I thought.  In that most cards have all four.  Gonna have to work on that . . .

 

Most important characteristic:  Cat, earth air fire water

As a cat is a violent killer, a fierce protector, a cuddly fluffball, and an endearing clown, the deck brings together the many aspects of animals real and mythical, which makes it a good deck, bringing those many aspects into a reading.  Earth first works because cats are also dedicated sensualists!  This is a white cat (or is it grey?) with blue eyes, which might make it deaf.  So maybe the deck doesn’t listen to the question but goes off on its own way?

 

Strength:  Firebird, air and fire

The deck is strongest in its intellectual and action aspects.  The firebird ballet really emphasizes the quick, sharp actions of birds.  They have much quicker systems than mammals, making them seem alien, at least to me.  The strength of the deck could be to make the familiar unfamiliar, bringing forth old truths in a new, more understandable way.

 

Weakness:  Hare, fire water earth air

Maybe it has too much focus on the physical production values?  It’s been left behind in the quest for proliferating more and more decks every year!

 

What I can learn from deck:  Eagle, air fire water earth

Another air and fire, but this time a real bird.  It can teach me some far sight and a little predatory behavior:  how to dive in to what I want!

 

How can I learn it?  Bear, earth fire air water

I’ve kind of lost sight of what bear means.  To the book!  Oh, yeah, strength and protection, like a mother bear protects her young.  Also I think strong but steady:  slow to anger, but when you do, look out!  So I can learn from the deck by working with it consistently and using my previous knowledge to make sense of it.  And continue to favor it even if no one even knows anything about it, like a momma bear.

 

Outcome of our work together:  Pegasus, air and earth

We turn from air and fire to air and earth.  Pegasus emphasizes the freedom of movement meaning of horse, since it can move even through the air!  The outcome will be that I’ll feel a sense of freedom and ease in my readings that will spill over into readings with other decks.  Sounds good to me!

 

Wow, seems like the deck also gives me lots to say!  I think I’ll enjoy that this week!

 

(Now on to today’s reading, finally!)

[DesertRat]

17 minutes ago, Rachelcat said:

 

I like a system, and a challenge!

 

I'll say!! I was impressed with your handling of the Transparent Tarot - now another challenging deck. The artwork is quite lovely. I wish you much success and look forward to more photos. 😃

[Rachelcat]

2 minutes ago, DesertRat said:

 

I'll say!! I was impressed with your handling of the Transparent Tarot - now another challenging deck. The artwork is quite lovely. I wish you much success and look forward to more photos. 😃

 

Thanks for the good wishes!  I might need them with this deck!  Here's today's reading with it.  I think I'm getting there.  And I'm finally caught up on my days!

 

[Wyrdkiss]

I drew my first two cards, one from each deck.

Then I paired them with  corresponding matching card from the other pack.

 

I love the differences here, as well as the similarities.

The reason I am doing this exercise is because I am torn -- which of these two decks do I use with querents at

a fair I am reading at in November.

 

The Keyworded one helps when I'm fatigued, as I have a word to bounce off of after reading for three or four hours .

 

 

[fire cat pickles]

@Rachelcat glad to see you back!

[Mi-Shell]

So far I am not impressed with the Heart Path Oracle. 😞

Good stuff first:

- The cards are large and the card stock is sturdy.

- The images are clear with a beautiful color pallet.

- The images have Animal and Plant as well as Human Beings.

- The written promptings below the images so far jive quite well with what I am working on these days. (image 1 )

Now the things, that perplex me:

- The images are ?? strange!!??

- Am I to assume that they are snapshots of dreamscapes and maybe shamanic journeys?

For example:

This morning I encountered a Snow Leopard! snow leopard is the principal Guardian of my Father's Siberian Tribe and therefore much revered and special to me as well.

But then I saw this Animal coming down a pile of popcorn - and I just lost it and put the cards away.

I was upset.

 

 

 

 

Yea yeah... I should be used to this kind of stuff from Oracle decks......

but this one realllly got to me.

[Agnes]

@Mi-Shell popcorn?! And then the book describes the image very clearly, but the "message" section doesn't make any mention of the popcorn & talks as if the snow leopard is on rocks. Very peculiar.

[Agnes]

I've been enjoying exploring the Dreamkeeper's Tarot.

 

Here are my first impressions.

 

 

And here's my first reading.  Interestingly, I asked for "a situation, a thing to do in that situation, and a thing to avoid doing" and didn't really specify "a situation that applies to me right now."  I don't feel like the situation applies to me, but it is one that I encounter pretty regularly.

 

 

[Rachelcat]

Good to see so much reading going on!  Here's mine for today!

 

[DesertRat]

3 hours ago, Mi-Shell said:

So far I am not impressed with the Heart Path Oracle. 😞

Good stuff first:

- The cards are large and the card stock is sturdy.

- The images are clear with a beautiful color pallet.

- The images have Animal and Plant as well as Human Beings.

- The written promptings below the images so far jive quite well with what I am working on these days. (image 1 )

Now the things, that perplex me:

- The images are ?? strange!!??

- Am I to assume that they are snapshots of dreamscapes and maybe shamanic journeys?

For example:

This morning I encountered a Snow Leopard! snow leopard is the principal Guardian of my Father's Siberian Tribe and therefore much revered and special to me as well.

But then I saw this Animal coming down a pile of popcorn - and I just lost it and put the cards away.

I was upset.

 

Yea yeah... I should be used to this kind of stuff from Oracle decks......

but this one realllly got to me.

 

Is this one of those decks that gathers together existing pieces of art and forces them into an oracle? Sometimes that process works well, and sometimes not. It's disheartening when it doesn't. 

 

 

These cards were all reversed, but my camera didn't save the aspect correctly and I'm too lazy to try to fix it at this point. Ha. I have been trying to integrate reversed meanings into my readings, but I often stumble. I've seen all sorts of recommendations on reading reversals, some contradictory, that I'm still trying to sift through it all to what makes most sense in my mind. I am currently having issues with the Moon reversed, especially with this particular image. Dancing with a polar bear seems like a lovely, magical experience. What happens when it all starts to turn? Feels like nothing good. 

 

[Rachelcat]

4 minutes ago, DesertRat said:

 

Is this one of those decks that gathers together existing pieces of art and forces them into an oracle? Sometimes that process works well, and sometimes not. It's disheartening when it doesn't. 

 

 

These cards were all reversed, but my camera didn't save the aspect correctly and I'm too lazy to try to fix it at this point. Ha. I have been trying to integrate reversed meanings into my readings, but I often stumble. I've seen all sorts of recommendations on reading reversals, some contradictory, that I'm still trying to sift through it all to what makes most sense in my mind. I am currently having issues with the Moon reversed, especially with this particular image. Dancing with a polar bear seems like a lovely, magical experience. What happens when it all starts to turn? Feels like nothing good. 

 

 

Ah, that moon is a favorite card in this deck.  I was puzzled by it for a while, and then - boom, it came to me - it's a dream!  But I think you're right, if the dream turns negative, it could be really bad!