fire cat pickles Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 (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! 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. Yet others may even have an offline journal in paper & pencil/pen form. Share as often, as much, or as little as you like. You can drop in and out at anytime—reality and life permitting. New to tarot? Long time reader? Come on in. Participants: fire cat pickles: Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot Bodhiseed: Granny Jones Tarot paired with a Button Oracle Akhilleus: Golden Tarot by Kat Black Rachelcat: Witchling Academy Tarot Click here for DoW 299 (4/1 - 4/7) Click here for DoW 301 (4/15 - 4/21) Edited April 15, 2023 by fire cat pickles
Bodhiseed Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 I'm in with the Granny Jones Tarot paired with a Button Oracle. Thank you Fire cat! 😺
Guest Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 I'd like to continue working with the Golden Tarot by Black this week.
fire cat pickles Posted April 8, 2023 Author Posted April 8, 2023 Welcome back @Bodhiseed and @Akhilleus 🙂
Rachelcat Posted April 8, 2023 Posted April 8, 2023 Hi all! This week will be my week with Witchling Academy Tarot. As I’m sure you know by now, it’s a story deck about a girl, Charlie, who attends a witch school (all girls/witches school with a brother wizard school). Much like Harry Potter, she’s a chosen one who is adept in all four types of magic and ends up defeating a villain that she is closely related to. The suits are houses and types of magic studies. All the students and adults have animal familiars. The book has a “daily incantation” (affirmation), “magical meaning” (mostly the story), a quote from a character, and “shadow magic” (reversed meaning) for each card. Aces are familiars, pages are different familiars, knights are prefects, queens are professors, and kings are goddesses. The issue I have with the story is that it’s not in chronological order! Most of the heroine versus villain story is in the majors, and then it goes back to lessons in the suits. So it’s a bit confusing and requires several readings, which I guess isn’t a bad thing . . . As you see, the art is manga-ish. Our heroine is the one with the pink hair! The presentation is nice, not a Llewellyn big box set, but a book-like box with a card well and a slot to put the back cover of the book in to hold it all together. Time for a wash, shuffle, and interview! Lots of pentacles here! Most important characteristic: Page of Pentacles The most important thing about the deck is its physical presentation. It’s cute, fun, and well done. It is also fruitful as a pile of pumpkins or a bunny! Strength: Nine of Pentacles But all the fruitfulness is more for me than for sharing. Weakness: Six of Pentacles It’s not really for reading for others. They won’t appreciate it like I do. What deck can teach me: Ace of Wands A phoenix. It can teach me how to move on and transform to something better. How can I learn it? Five of Pentacles Don’t concentrate on the money. If the change costs money, it’s ok. That’s what money is for, to make my life better than it is. Outcome of our work together: Seven of Swords The deck is sharp but sneaky. I’ll learn a lot but it will sneak into my mind easily. As I think is the intent!
Bodhiseed Posted April 9, 2023 Posted April 9, 2023 This week I'll be using the Granny Jones Australian Tarot, created by Granny Jones (Rebecca Jones) and published by Kangaroo Press. Along with it, I'll be drawing from the Button Oracle, a set I made for myself from a collection of buttons. Today's draws are the Five of Cups and Goldfish: The pain is valid. The grief is valid. The anger, fear, and emotional exhaustion are all valid. ~Oren Jay Sofer It's easy to get lost in our sorrow, to let it wrap around us like a blanket. We may alternate between despair and apathy as we try to find the path to compassion and equanimity. The big question becomes, how do we hold both our grief in our cupped hands without losing our gratitude? The Goldfish button is paired with a quote from the Tao Te Ching: "That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space." We don't need to run from our pain or attempt to smother it with toxic positivity. Instead, we allow it to be felt while also remembering to peek out from behind our blanketed heart to see that there is still beauty, warmth and wonder around us.
Rachelcat Posted April 9, 2023 Posted April 9, 2023 Ooo, I like the button so far! I look forward to seeing more! Here's my reading for today.
fire cat pickles Posted April 10, 2023 Author Posted April 10, 2023 Welcome back @Rachelcat! Happy Easter/Ostara for those who celebrate 🙂 It's been an incredibly busy week around here. I hope to have more time this week...
Rachelcat Posted April 11, 2023 Posted April 11, 2023 Yes, happy Easter a little late! I hope everyone is having a great spring so far! Here are my Monday and Tuesday!
Guest Posted April 13, 2023 Posted April 13, 2023 I aleady started posting this week's draws using the Golden Tarot in my daybook here:
Rachelcat Posted April 15, 2023 Posted April 15, 2023 Here's my last reading with Witchling Academy. I like the deck but I’m not sure how well I read with story-based decks. It seems like either the cards are too RWS to connect back to the story or I just read them numerologically, which leaves out the story completely . . . I’ll have to think about all that . . . See you in this week's thread!
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