VGimlet Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 This thread is for those who would like to work through their collection of decks. Each week we will be picking a new deck to work with exclusively for the week. Anyone is welcome. Please join us! 1. Please post with your chosen deck for the week. 2. Chat away about your deck, how you're finding it etc. Participants: 1. VGimlet - Spiritsong Tarot 2. EmpyreanKnight - Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot + Barbara Walker Tarot + Renaissance Tarot + Tarot of Shadows (Sklyarova) 3. AJ-ish - Crystal Tarot (Trevisan) 4. Page of Ghosts - Original RWS and Tarot of the Cat People 5. CharlotteK - Tabula Mundi and Thoth 6. Bodhiseed - Hezicos Tarot & Way of the Horse Oracle 7. jema - Norse Tarot 8. Madame Squee - Pagan Otherworlds Tarot and Golden Lenormand Oracle 9. Trogon - Basic Tarot 10. RavenOfSummer - Science Tarot 11. Chiska - The Whispering Tarot (336)
VGimlet Posted January 6, 2018 Author Posted January 6, 2018 I'll be using the Spiritsong Tarot this week.
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 For me it's: EmpyreanKnight - Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot + Barbara Walker Tarot + Renaissance Tarot + Tarot of Shadows by Sklyarova. Gonna be a busy week.
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 Note to self: Explore the Osho Zen Tarot on the week after this and the Promethean Oracle two weeks hence.
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 Crystal Tarot (Trevisan) thank you VG EmpyreanKnight, do you read professionally? I'm curious how you manage four decks? Thanks
Page of Ghosts Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 I've been in the mood for some classic RWS but the Centennial is busy... I guess I'm doing the Original and admiring the Centennial after I pull the cards :o Page of Ghosts - Original RWS and Tarot of the Cat People
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 Crystal Tarot (Trevisan) thank you VG EmpyreanKnight, do you read professionally? I'm curious how you manage four decks? Thanks I don't read professionally, but I have a lot of free time this week after having my dance card full almost every night during the holiday season, so I plan to perform a bunch of readings that use huge spreads. A 13-card Past Year Spread with the Renaissance, a 12-card New Year Spread with Barbara Walker, and a 54+ card Comprehensive Months Of The Year Spread with the Centennial. I'm going to record my interpretations for all three of them in my journal here too. I know it's going to be quite an undertaking so I'm gonna bring out them big guns. 8) I have worked extensively with the Centennial and the Barbara Walker for the past year, so I pretty much know how to dance with them. Now the Renaissance - I only got the deck and its magisterial companion book last month so it's going to be a bit more slow-going. But since it has captured my heart, I know that I'd just enjoy every moment of it. :) I also plan to dedicate the Tarot of Shadows on the 12th which is fittingly a Friday, so yeah. That deck - oh I really must stop before I start dripping purple prose o'er m'amante Russe.
CharlotteK Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 I am sticking with Tabula Mundi and Thoth this week. I really enjoyed the side by side daily card comparison so will keep that going a bit longer. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
Bodhiseed Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 I am sticking with Tabula Mundi and Thoth this week. I really enjoyed the side by side daily card comparison so will keep that going a bit longer. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk I've enjoyed your side by side comparisons! :) I got so much more from the Tabula Mundi and Rosetta, I ended up giving my Thoth away.
Bodhiseed Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 This week I'll be using the Hezicos Tarot, created and self-published by Mary Griffin. Along with it I'll be using the Way of the Horse, an oracle deck and book set created by Linda Kohanov with Kim McElroy and published by New World Library. The two cards drawn for today are the King of Cups and 'Believe:' The King of Cups offers emotional support and wisdom. He suggests we look at our emotions mindfully and points out the spiral on his shell-crown. "We usually travel over and over in the same circle, feeling happy in one arc and depressed in another.Yet if we pay attention from an objective standpoint, we can travel in a spiral upward, finding insights along the way rather than staying stuck in a loop." The Believe card from the Way of the Horse refers to how we (our egos) carve an identity for ourselves like a statue. Unfortunately, as the companion book states, "What we carve in stone threatens to turn our minds to stone." I was reading Jan Karon's latest book from the Mitford series, and came across a line that hit me between the eyes: we don't have to define ourselves by our wounds. How often has the pain of the past become a permanent way to identify myself? Yet choosing not to do this doesn't mean I close the door on what was and pretend it didn't happen; instead I can look back to gain wisdom from lessons learned and open to gratitude for what was good and beautiful. If I'll travel in a spiral rather than a circle, I'll realize that I am much more than an event in the past. I am what I am only in each moment.
CharlotteK Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 I am sticking with Tabula Mundi and Thoth this week. I really enjoyed the side by side daily card comparison so will keep that going a bit longer. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk I've enjoyed your side by side comparisons! :) I got so much more from the Tabula Mundi and Rosetta, I ended up giving my Thoth away. I so wish I could afford the Rosetta Papyrus Gold :) Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
jema Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 I picked up the Norse tarot this week. Skickat från min HTC Desire 626 via Tapatalk
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 EmpyreanKnight, do you read professionally? I'm curious how you manage four decks? Thanks I don't read professionally, but I have a lot of free time this week after having my dance card full almost every night during the holiday season, so I plan to perform a bunch of readings that use huge spreads. A 13-card Past Year Spread with the Renaissance, a 12-card New Year Spread with Barbara Walker, and a 54+ card Comprehensive Months Of The Year Spread with the Centennial. I'm going to record my interpretations for all three of them in my journal here too. I know it's going to be quite an undertaking so I'm gonna bring out them big guns. 8) I have worked extensively with the Centennial and the Barbara Walker for the past year, so I pretty much know how to dance with them. Now the Renaissance - I only got the deck and its magisterial companion book last month so it's going to be a bit more slow-going. But since it has captured my heart, I know that I'd just enjoy every moment of it. :) I also plan to dedicate the Tarot of Shadows on the 12th which is fittingly a Friday, so yeah. That deck - oh I really must stop before I start dripping purple prose o'er m'amante Russe. thank you, sounds like a week of perfection!
Page of Ghosts Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 I just noticed we're on week 26 and that means we've been hanging out at this forum doing DotW for half a year ;D
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 I picked up the Norse tarot this week. Jema, On my kindle I have waiting https://www.amazon.com/The-Vikings-ebook/dp/B00CS6Z3X8/?_bbid=8692487&tag=bookbubemail3-20 Think I'll have a hankering for this deck when I'm finished :)
CharlotteK Posted January 7, 2018 Posted January 7, 2018 Very different imagery in the TM and Thoth this week to represent 'Lord of Earned Success' with keyword 'Science'. The Six of Swords is the new moon in the middle Decan of Aquarius, ruled by Mercury. TM shows a sextant, a device used in both navigation and astronomy and the six swords form part of a model of the solar system. In Thoth the points of the six swords all come together at the centre of a rosy cross. If the cross represents the human body and the rose represents the individual's unfolding consciousness, then mercury is the mind - an inherent power of consciousness. M.M. Meleen talks about this card in her blog as says of it - "In this card is all the beauty of the intellect in its highest form of consciousness." So today is about using my intelligence to go on a journey of discovery of the mind. I feel like I'm doing that every day studying this deck! I've also learned the next new moon in Aquarius is 15th Feb [emoji846] Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 8, 2018 Posted January 8, 2018 I am sticking with Tabula Mundi and Thoth this week. I really enjoyed the side by side daily card comparison so will keep that going a bit longer. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk The Thoth is in my top three. I guess if one is a Thothie, one would inevitably come to the point where one has to explore the Tabula Mundi and the Rosetta. The former, particularly, has been growing up on me.
Madame Squee Posted January 8, 2018 Posted January 8, 2018 Hey VG, please sign me up with the Pagan Otherworlds Tarot and Golden Lenormand Oracle. Thank you for the thread! :-* Lately, I'm finding it difficult to read every day and haven't even unsealed the Golden Lenormand yet. I've been crocheting and re-watching Downtown Abbey, instead.
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted January 8, 2018 Posted January 8, 2018 I call this off type of time 'refilling the well' When you want something to play with the Abbey folk will pall.
Trogon Posted January 8, 2018 Posted January 8, 2018 Since I was sick all last week, I didn't really do any Tarot related things. So, I'm in with the Basic Tarot - again ... Trogon - Basic Tarot
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 9, 2018 Posted January 9, 2018 We're so glad to have you back, Trogon. :)
CharlotteK Posted January 9, 2018 Posted January 9, 2018 Five of Wands today. Lord of Strife. This so accurately reflects how I'm feeling. I've got a real tension headache, too much to do at work and building frustration with the lack of progress I'm making on a few fronts. This card warns that pressure is mounting and I need to let off steam (without any damaging eruption in the office!). Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
Trogon Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 We're so glad to have you back, Trogon. :) Thanks EmpyreanKnight! It's good to feel like being up and about again ... mostly. The infection flared back up Monday, so Tuesday the Dentist put me on a different antibiotic and a prescription mouth rinse. Luckily, I still had pain meds left from before ... I still needed them.
RavenOfSummer Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 Well I'm VERY late this time, but I've been working with the Science Tarot this week and meant to share that with the group! RavenOfSummer - Science Tarot
Madame Squee Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 I call this off type of time 'refilling the well' When you want something to play with the Abbey folk will pall. Thank you, AJ. That helps. This has been going on for awhile. I want it to stop now. I have far too many cards to not be interested in them. :o
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