fire cat pickles Posted December 30, 2022 Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) A thread for those who would like to work through their collection of decks, participants choose decks from their collections to work with for the week. Some use one deck, some use two. Some combine methods: Tarot, non-tarot (e.g. oracle), playing cards, or any other divinatory method is welcome. All we ask is that you use at least one tarot or oracle deck. No collection is too large or too small. The only rules we have are the Tarot, Tea & Me Rules; be respectful of one other. Please join us! You can drop in and out at anytime—reality and life permitting. New to tarot? Long time reader? Come on in. Please post with your chosen deck for the week. Chat away about your deck, how you're finding it (or not), etc., it's all up to you. 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 it here. Participants: fire cat pickles: Tarocco neoclassico italiano LE (Solleone) paired with Sabian Symbols Scarlet Woodland: Soul Cats Tarot and the Watercolor RWS (TarotCardsDarkForest) Bodhiseed: World Spirit paired with the Mystic Glyphs Mi-Shell: The Sacred Hags Oracle Akhilleus: Kabbalistic Vision Tarot/the Heaven and Earth Tarot Wyrdkiss: Rune Dice and the Deviant Moon Tarot Rachelcat: Lenormand Solitaire along with the Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards Madame Squee: The Yarn Tarot Nemia: Light Seer's Tarot Click here for DoW 285 (12/24 - 12/30) Click here for DoW 287 (1/7 - 1/13) Edited January 6, 2023 by fire cat pickles
Scarlet Woodland Posted December 30, 2022 Posted December 30, 2022 Thanks @fire cat pickles, can't believe it's Friday again already. Rolling both my decks over this week so it's the Soul Cats Tarot and the Watercolor RWS (TarotCardsDarkForest) again for me please.
Bodhiseed Posted December 30, 2022 Posted December 30, 2022 World Spirit paired with the Mystic Glyphs for me; can't believe 2023 is almost here! Thank you FC, and thanks to all the DoWers who participate in this thread! ❤️
fire cat pickles Posted December 30, 2022 Author Posted December 30, 2022 You're welcome and welcome back @Scarlet Woodland & @Bodhiseed 🙂 I'm working with the Tarocco neoclassico italiano paired with Sabian Symbols this week. I've gotten some serious results using the Sabian Symbols! It's amazing how the cards have correlated with them each day...
Mi-Shell Posted December 30, 2022 Posted December 30, 2022 Hi folks!♥ May I join you again? It's been a while, but first I was away and then I was very busy with teaching a mandated curriculum from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to/ in Catholic church congregations..... Now I do have some time to look at a new deck again: The Sacred Hags Oracle arrived as a Winter Solstice present and i do like it very much♥ \
fire cat pickles Posted December 30, 2022 Author Posted December 30, 2022 Hi @Mi-Shell! Welcome back! 👋
Bodhiseed Posted December 30, 2022 Posted December 30, 2022 Good to see you again, @Mi-Shell! Hope you had some open ears and minds for what you shared.
Guest Posted December 30, 2022 Posted December 30, 2022 I'll be working again with the Kabbalistic Vision Tarot for the last sacred day of Yule and the Heaven and Earth Tarot for New Year's and the rest of the week.
Guest Posted December 30, 2022 Posted December 30, 2022 Btw I jotted down my last Sacred Day of Yule reading this 2022 in my journal HERE.
Wyrdkiss Posted December 31, 2022 Posted December 31, 2022 hi everyone. I'd like to dive in and explore my Rune Dice and the Deviant Moon Tarot.
Rachelcat Posted December 31, 2022 Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) Hi, crew! Great to see you all here for the first week of 2023! This week I’ll be using Lenormand Solitaire along with the Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards. The link between them is that their cards have partial images which match up when you lay them out. I haven’t used Lenormand in years, so I will unashamedly use my notes for reading. I came up with some idiosyncratic meanings for some Lenormand cards awhile back so I’m going with them! The Russian Gypsy Cards have many cards similar to Lenormand plus lots of other cards (it’s missing 5 Lenormands and adds 19 more), and I’m working on coming up with meanings for them that are a bit different than the book’s because of overlap with the Lenormands and because it’s me! (Right now I’m stuck on Apple and Cat, but I’ll figure them out soon.) The Lenormand Solitaire set includes the 18 “solitaire” cards with a card-sized guidebook and a regular Lenormand deck of 36 with the same art in an odd but usable back-to-back tuckbox. I wouldn’t have gotten it for the art alone, but it’s acceptable/nice. They have a very nice linen finish. I’ve had the Russian Gypsy for many years. I checked to see if it’s still in print, and it is. And Amazon conveniently notes that I purchased this item on July 3, 2006! A nice hardback book and 25 very pretty square cards on very flimsy cardstock in a sturdy slipcase. (The box says “illustrated in the Russian ‘Palekh’ style.”) I practiced matching with both decks before this first reading, so let’s see what we get! How will the deck and I get along? anchor, bouquet I hope for a stability in my readings, but in the long run, reading Lenormand is a gift. horse, lilies, snake, anchor, apple, moon, bridge The book says to read according to the direction of the pictures (there are four directions because the cards are square), but I’m going to ignore that for now. I know my limitations! I’m moving forward to new and exciting ways of reading, but I should beware of hidden pitfalls. Again, I’m hoping for stability, but instead will encounter (apple) confusion and fantasy. But reading in this way can be a bridge to something better. Hey, I tried! I look forward to what else these odd decks have to say this week. I think I’m going to have a subject for the readings because I’m not really ready to go full “general reading” with them yet! Edited December 31, 2022 by Rachelcat Putting photos in the right place.
fire cat pickles Posted December 31, 2022 Author Posted December 31, 2022 Welcome back @Wyrdkiss and @Rachelcat 🙂
Wyrdkiss Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) These are my Rune Dice. I have only cast with them a few times, but I'm looking forward to using them tonight. I love their appearance, and they have a nice weight to them. Are many of you doing something special this evening or tomorrow? Edited January 1, 2023 by Wyrdkiss
Madame Squee Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) Happy New Year Everyone!! Thank you for the thread @fire cat pickles Please sign me up this week with the Yarn Tarot. This deck was chosen for me by my daughter who knows me very well. I enjoy crocheting and also hoarding yarn. The card stock is really good imo: standard tarot size, thick, yet flexible enough to shuffle, with a lovely, lovely whispery matte finish. I've just laid them out, and Strength is one of my favorite cards. I love that kitty's sharp claws that resemble fingers. Also, the pattern of stitches show in the gown which is fun. Hey @Wyrdkiss I love your dice! (Throwing dice is one of my favorite things to do.) I'm just hanging out with tarot cards for the first time in a very long while. I also celebrated the end of 2022 by ordering the Moon Baby Tarot. Do you have anything special planned? Edited January 1, 2023 by Madame Squee added a few words
fire cat pickles Posted January 1, 2023 Author Posted January 1, 2023 Welcome to the group @Madame Squee! Is the Tarn Tarot a cat-themed deck or is just the Strength card with the kitty in it?
Bodhiseed Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 @Rachelcat, I love how you use linking pictures in those decks! @Madame Squee, welcome back! The artwork in your deck is lovely. Cool dice @Wyrdkiss!
Bodhiseed Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 This week I'll be using the World Spirit Tarot, published by Llewellyn and created by Jessica Godino and Lauren O'Leary. The oracle deck I'll be pairing with it is the Mystic Glyphs; it was published by Red Wheel and created by Barb Rogers. Today's draws are the Seer (Page) of Pentacles and Place of Emergence: This Seer/Page is a student of Earth and all its inhabitants. They probably call her a 'seer' because she noticed that a red sky in the morning forewarns of storms and that it's best not to plant tender herbs or vegetables until after the pecan trees bloom. Her ability isn't magic; she simply pays attention with a focus for detail that most folks don't employ. The Place of Emergence glyph symbolizes coming out of a long tunnel and arriving someplace new and full of wonders. No one gets here without first putting in the effort of learning and then putting into practice what has been studied. Today is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one! —Brad Paisley
Nemia Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 Can I still join? I'd like to use the Light Seer's Tarot. My days are very full but I hope I can take up this habit again 🙂
fire cat pickles Posted January 1, 2023 Author Posted January 1, 2023 Hi @Nemia, of course there's time to join! Welcome to the group 😀
Nemia Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) Thank you!!! I stopped doing this practice in May 2020, more than two years ago, after years of Deck of Week and Card of the Day practice. There was no specific reason why I stopped. I continued with my tarot calendar and continued to read professionally. I guess I was simply a bit tired. I had more time than I had now, that's for certain. This is my weekly star. I connected the Chaldean order of the planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon) with a seven pointed star and that's the planetary sequence of weekdays, nearly all over the world. I instinctively associate every day of the week with the planet it belongs to but I'll try to be more open and less structured. Eight of Cups. What a great interpretation. Her confident stride immediately calls to mind the last scene of "Shakespeare in Love". I have done a number of readings over the last few days and weeks - the Winter Solstice reading here on TT&M, and Biddy's Planner recommended a reading for the transition of the year which I did, too. I could probably sum them all up with the Eight of Cups. Get moving, get moving on, why did you lose your goals from sight? Just start moving already. Edited January 1, 2023 by Nemia
Bodhiseed Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 @Nemia, the Light Seer's is one of my favorite decks. That Eight of Cups seems to parallel the Place of Emergence card I pulled today.
Rachelcat Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 Hi all! Beautiful decks this week! And the rune dice are so elegant! Can't go wrong with gold on black! Here's my matching decks reading for today!
Madame Squee Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 Wow! That such a great idea @fire cat pickles!! I think pairing cats and yarn would sell a thousand decks in no time. The Yarn Tarot* is interesting and fun, but (sadly) it only gives us cats in Strength and the Queen of Wands. (The Queen's cat is behaving very well in the moment.) * Yarn Tarot for Crocheters, Knitters, Spinners, and Weavers. Copyright 2021 by Sixth&Spring Books. Editor Jacob Seifert. Illustrator Katie Ponder. Art Director Irene Ledwith. (I didn't find a credit for the author of the hardback LWB, which includes a B&W photo of each card, upright and reversed meanings, several spreads, advice on how to read, and an elemental table for the minors.)
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