VGimlet Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 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 - Astral Tarot in Space 2. Page of Ghosts - Paulina Tarot 3. EmpyreanKnight - Thoth Tarot 4. Lantana - Delta Enduring 5. jema - Celtic tarot 6. Bodhiseed - Mary-El Tarot & OH Cards 7. Shivani - The Journey into Egypt Tarot 8. Chiska - Rider Waite Tarot 9. AJ-ish - Ship of Fools (378)
VGimlet Posted January 20, 2018 Author Posted January 20, 2018 I'll be using the Astral Tarot in Space, one of the 78 Tarot project decks. :)
Page of Ghosts Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 Just the Paulina for me this week! Page of Ghosts - Paulina Tarot
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 It's back to basics for me this week, so: EmpyreanKnight - Thoth Tarot
Lantana Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 Sign me up with the Delta Enduring Tarot this week. I don’t have it yet, but hopefully it’ll be in my hands in the next few days. Lantana - Delta Enduring
Bodhiseed Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 Sign me up with the Delta Enduring Tarot this week. I don’t have it yet, but hopefully it’ll be in my hands in the next few days. I hope you receive it soon, Lantana. I had a fantastic week with it. :D I'm in this week with the Mary-El paired with the OH Cards. Thank you VGimlet!
Whisper Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 I would like to explore my The Journey into Egypt Tarot this week, if I may join you all.
Chiska Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 Something different - I will be using my Rider-Waite deck. It is old (1959/1960) and very, very well used. It has keywords and phrases written on each card by the original owner. I adore this deck and I wish I knew its history. Chiska - Rider Waite Tarot
Page of Ghosts Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 Something different - I will be using my Rider-Waite deck. It is old (1959/1960) and very, very well used. It has keywords and phrases written on each card by the original owner. I adore this deck and I wish I knew its history. Chiska - Rider Waite Tarot The RWS is one of my favourite decks and your edition sounds wonderful :D
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 Ship of Fools for me, starting on sunday as usual. Thanks VG
VGimlet Posted January 20, 2018 Author Posted January 20, 2018 I would like to explore my The Journey into Egypt Tarot this week, if I may join you all. Welcome to the DOTW thread Shivani!
Lantana Posted January 21, 2018 Posted January 21, 2018 Sign me up with the Delta Enduring Tarot this week. I don’t have it yet, but hopefully it’ll be in my hands in the next few days. I hope you receive it soon, Lantana. I had a fantastic week with it. :D Thankfully it has arrived today! I am already very much in love with it, though I noticed some of the darker colored cards are a bit harder to see (the Two of Moths especially). Excited to read with it though!
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 21, 2018 Posted January 21, 2018 Something different - I will be using my Rider-Waite deck. It is old (1959/1960) and very, very well used. It has keywords and phrases written on each card by the original owner. I adore this deck and I wish I knew its history. Chiska - Rider Waite Tarot I wonder how it is like to handle a vintage deck. You seem to have a good chemistry with yours, Chiska. :)
Chiska Posted January 21, 2018 Posted January 21, 2018 Something different - I will be using my Rider-Waite deck. It is old (1959/1960) and very, very well used. It has keywords and phrases written on each card by the original owner. I adore this deck and I wish I knew its history. Chiska - Rider Waite Tarot I wonder how it is like to handle a vintage deck. You seem to have a good chemistry with yours, Chiska. :) The deck was used heavily before I got it. A name is written on the inside of the each end of the two part box. Widmark and Al-Widmark on the other side. I just wonder! The handwriting is "old fashioned" such as how my grandparents wrote (I'm over 50..so do the math). However, I am thinking that it needs to be retired from regular use. The King of Cups has a pretty bad crease on one corner. The 9 of Pents was completely folded (Like it was placed in a wallet). Karen (from AT - with the bunny avatar) was kind enough to send me a replacement card with the same University Books back (pink with ankh). I will use it lightly this week and then I think I will retire it. I have an old French RWS that I can use in the future. While I have never really used a Rider-Waite deck much, they are special! My first was sent to me by a member of AT (Naomi in Australia) because she thought that I should have one! I later gifted it to somebody who had never had one. I hope it is still out there making the rounds! I am enjoying getting back into the swing of things after a couple years' hiatus! :)
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 22, 2018 Posted January 22, 2018 Welp, at least it had one last hurrah before you retired it, Chiska. Also, I guess it's true what they say - the Tarot is an ardent fire that might burn low at times, but it can never be extinguished. Glad to have you back. :)
Lantana Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 I have something to confess to my fellow DOTWers: I haven’t read reversals in quite some time! I know plenty of people choose not too and get along fine, but my reason for not doing so was because I had a bad experience with reversals starting out. So I’ve been meaning to try again now that I’m more experienced with Tarot and won’t get scared off... But I kept putting it off. :-X But! The guidebook for the Delta Enduring is really amazing, one of the few guidebooks I sat down with and read cover to cover. What really spoke to me was the way Egan wrote about the Reversed positions of the cards, giving them as much thought as they provided for the Uprights. So I’ve decided to go ahead and jump into including reversals in this deck! I’ll keep y’all informed of how it goes... :D
jema Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 I loved the Celtic tarot more the last time I used it. The minors bother me. It's not that i disapprove of pips, just that they are in no way related to the theme of the deck.Maybe next time i will just use the majors and courts.
Bodhiseed Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 I love the Mary-El, but I don't think I've ever used it for more than just personal readings. The OH Cards set is interesting; the word card can totally change the direction of the picture card. From the Mary-El Tarot, the Six of Wands; from the OH Cards, 'Hug/Fail:' White has painted the Archangel Michael for this Six of Wands, with the admonition to "slay your dragons, conquer your demons." The challenges outside of ourselves are our dragons, while our demons are our conditioned reactions (our propensities). The demons are much trickier and harder to deal with. Look at anyone's bookshelf and they're likely to have numerous self-help, philosophical or religious books to help them deal with life in a more wholesome and skillful way. White includes a quote from the Kybalion that points at why this often doesn't work: "The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals - a vain and foolish thing." But what happens when you do try and fail? The OH Cards combination implies finding someone who will encourage us to keep trying. Most people have an inner 'demon' whose name is 'Just Give Up.' If we listen to it instead of trying again, we definitely won't meet any challenge, no matter how much knowledge we have. Skill only comes through practice.
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 I only used the Thoth for a few readings this week, but while all has been excellent as per usual, there is ONE reading that almost knocked my socks off. It's so preternaturally accurate that it stunned me. With a host of cards it issued a direct challenge, looked me in the eye and declared "Now you know what I'm all about" with a devilish grin. It cemented the Thoth as my all-time favorite deck, as the blood red rose that has always been meant to be mine. Love is such a wonderful thing, isn't it? :))
Whisper Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 I only used the Thoth for a few readings this week, but while all has been excellent as per usual, there is ONE reading that almost knocked my socks off. It's so preternaturally accurate that it stunned me. With a host of cards it issued a direct challenge, looked me in the eye and declared "Now you know what I'm all about" with a devilish grin. It cemented the Thoth as my all-time favorite deck, as the blood red rose that has always been meant to be mine. Love is such a wonderful thing, isn't it? :)) Interesting about the Thoth. Some people adore it; others are really fearful of it. I'm glad that you've found your Tarot "soul mate". :)
Chiska Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 It cemented the Thoth as my all-time favorite deck, as the blood red rose that has always been meant to be mine. Love is such a wonderful thing, isn't it? :)) I remember when I first saw a Thoth deck. It was the second deck I had ever "met." My original deck was in the late '70s - A Grimaud TdM. In the early 90s, a friend brought over his Thoth deck and I was smitten and intrigued. Sadly my now-ex went off on a Crowley is the Anti-Christ Tirade. He made his displeasure known and nearly broke my arm. Whatever. I now have a small herd of Free-Ranged Thoths and will always take in any broken, damaged, or unwanted Thoth decks. Partly a continuing act of defiance and partly because they are all so fascinating. Love is a wonderful thing!! Sadly, I did not find that kind of love with the Rider Deck this week. I did find, however, respect that I had previously lacked. It is a good solid deck and the images are descriptive. I did a few readings and found it adequate, though it was like a similar language, but a very different dialect. It is as if I speak the Thoth dialect of Golden Dawn and this is the RWS dialect of the Golden Dawn. The differences are minor in some areas and significant in others. Because I am retiring the elder deck, I will share a couple of pictures of it. I have a nice French RWS deck that I can use if I am so inclined. Note the creases in the 9 of Coins. The only card like this - almost as if it had been folded and placed in a wallet. The others have key words and Tree of Life references written on them.
VGimlet Posted January 27, 2018 Author Posted January 27, 2018 I always liked the Thoth Tarot. The first one I got, a used Greenie, was really interesting, and (not to be TMI) smelled like it had been used in some, erm, magical rituals of a certain kind. :-* I don't usually read with reversals either Lantana. I quit, oh, IDK, eons ago. I will sometimes use the reversed aspect of a card if that's what my instinct says.
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 I only used the Thoth for a few readings this week, but while all has been excellent as per usual, there is ONE reading that almost knocked my socks off. It's so preternaturally accurate that it stunned me. With a host of cards it issued a direct challenge, looked me in the eye and declared "Now you know what I'm all about" with a devilish grin. It cemented the Thoth as my all-time favorite deck, as the blood red rose that has always been meant to be mine. Love is such a wonderful thing, isn't it? :)) Interesting about the Thoth. Some people adore it; others are really fearful of it. I'm glad that you've found your Tarot "soul mate". :) I'm happy about this too. :D But well - ahem - my heart is a generous thing, and it has so much love to give. To many decks that is. :P Btw - have you found your soulmate deck, Shivani?
EmpyreanKnight Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 It cemented the Thoth as my all-time favorite deck, as the blood red rose that has always been meant to be mine. Love is such a wonderful thing, isn't it? :)) I remember when I first saw a Thoth deck. It was the second deck I had ever "met." My original deck was in the late '70s - A Grimaud TdM. In the early 90s, a friend brought over his Thoth deck and I was smitten and intrigued. Sadly my now-ex went off on a Crowley is the Anti-Christ Tirade. He made his displeasure known and nearly broke my arm. Whatever. I now have a small herd of Free-Ranged Thoths and will always take in any broken, damaged, or unwanted Thoth decks. Partly a continuing act of defiance and partly because they are all so fascinating. Love is a wonderful thing!! Sadly, I did not find that kind of love with the Rider Deck this week. I did find, however, respect that I had previously lacked. It is a good solid deck and the images are descriptive. I did a few readings and found it adequate, though it was like a similar language, but a very different dialect. It is as if I speak the Thoth dialect of Golden Dawn and this is the RWS dialect of the Golden Dawn. The differences are minor in some areas and significant in others. Because I am retiring the elder deck, I will share a couple of pictures of it. I have a nice French RWS deck that I can use if I am so inclined. Note the creases in the 9 of Coins. The only card like this - almost as if it had been folded and placed in a wallet. The others have key words and Tree of Life references written on them. A herd of Thoths sounds like a great idea, Chiska! Also, you sometimes never know about these "moral" people. They profess to defend what's true and good, but to prove their zeal, I guess they have to physically hurt people huh? Yup the cards are definitely more evil. ::) And hey, I know that your Rider deck has been through a lot, and that it fully deserves its rest now. It's just a good thing that it ended up with an owner who respects it and won't just discard it or worse. At least it shall retire happy. :D
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