Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 337: Dec. 18 - Dec. 24

[fire cat pickles]

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, others use two or more. 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 choice of deck(s) 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

1. fire cat pickles: Ancient Tarot of Marseilles (Conver)
2. Bodhiseed: Nigel Jackson Tarot paired with the Wolf Pack
3. Rachelcat: Written in the Cards Fortune-Telling Game
4. Natural Mystic Guide: Mary-El Tarot
5. Petalene: Winter Waite Tarot
6. Akhilleus: Ancient Feminine Wisdom Oracle

 

Click here for DoW 336 (12/11 - 12/17)

Click here for DoW 338 (12/25 - 12/31)

Edited December 25, 2023 by fire cat pickles

[fire cat pickles]

Conver this week! 

 

In a lead up to the anticipated Card-a-Day 2024 beginning in three days I will attempt a daily draw 🙂

 

[Bodhiseed]

3 hours ago, fire cat pickles said:

In a lead up to the anticipated Card-a-Day 2024 beginning in three days I will attempt a daily draw 🙂

 

Thank you Fire cat! I might have to check that one out. 😊

 

 

This week I'll be using the Nigel Jackson Tarot, created by Jackson and published by Llewellyn. I'll also be using the Wolf Pack, created by Robert Petro and published by Windspirit Productions.Today's cards are the Page of Coins and Defeated:

 
 

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. 

―Michelangelo

 

The Page of Coins has a little smile on his face as he heads off to begin his new studies. He loves to learn and he's good at it, which can present a problem when he hits a wall that seems impossible to get around. Suddenly the good student finds himself saying things like, "This is stupid!" or "I can't do this!" The Wolf Pack card shows the card of feeling Defeated, when we want to just slink off and forget about it all. Yet there is another option: persistence, patience and coming at it from a different direction. I was going through some emotional turmoil around the time multiplication tables were introduced in elementary school. They just wouldn't stick in my mind, and my grades began to slide. My mother finally told me to make up a tune and sing them every night, and lo and behold, I finally memorized them. I was never a master in in mathematics, but that accomplishment gave me the confidence that I could at least gain a working knowledge of math as I continued my studies.

[Rachelcat]

Hi, crew!  Thanks again and again @fire cat pickles for leading us!  I always appreciate it!  Good luck with your cards of the day!

 

For me this week will be Written in the Cards, a fortune-telling game I picked up at Barnes & Noble.  (Decks I got for myself while gift shopping also include Seed & Sickle Oracle, an expanded playing card deck, and another Millennial Lotería version, so stay tuned for those in future weeks!)

 

Players choose card pairs (illustrated noun card + adjective card) to do readings for each other and get points for whether it’s the funniest or most mystical, and then best reading overall.  (I had a similar deck once.  It had square cards with keywords on each of the four sides and smaller ones with illustrations to put in the middle.  Can’t remember what it was called.)  This game uses paper sleeves to blend the two cards into one.  It also has a die to determine if the readings should be funny or mystical and another to choose the subject of the reading.  There are 199 cards! if I’m reading my roman numerals correctly (ok, with help from Google).

 

 

Although the game uses one pair of cards per reading, there are 8 sleeves, so I’ll probably use them for spreads up to 8 positions, a 6-card interview spread, for example!  Oh, and I’ll pick cards randomly instead of choosing them from a dealt hand to make up the best reading.

 

 

(Look at that stack of cards!)

 

What is your most important characteristic?  The Moist Parade

The deck is mostly celebratory and enjoyable, but in a muted way, like a parade in the rain.

 

What is your strength?  The Lost Box

(I feel like this could be a Good Omens reference!)

The deck contains a lot of possibility in the guise of a game.

 

Your weakness?  The Alert Idea

The opposite:  It’s a very clever idea, but not really for real fortunetelling.

 

What can you teach me?  The Open Cup

It can teach me anything as long as I stay open to it.

 

How can I learn it?  The Fragile Money

But don’t invest a lot into it?

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  The Limp Waiter

It will bring me some nourishment, but afterwards I’ll pass it by for other shiny things.

 

Interesting!  Well, I look forward to more, especially because there are so many cards!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Rachelcat

Welcome back @Bodhiseed 🙂 

[Natural Mystic Guide]

I would like to participate again.  I am still getting acquainted with the Mary-El Tarot.  Thank you.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Natural Mystic Guide!

[Petalene]

Deck this week is the Winter Waite from Tarot Collectibles and it has iridescent stars on the cards that look like snowflakes. The pictures don’t capture the stars and they look more rainbow in the pictures and more iridescent in person. No LWB, but it’s RWS reimagined for Christmas and winter, so it’s easy to read with. The bag is one I knit and then added glitter yarn snowflakes. 

 

12/18/23

 

What will keep me motivated to use my bullet journal? Winter Waite (shuffled for reversals.)

 

                                  4: Over all energy

1. Situation       2. Obstacle            3. Advice 

                                  5. Shadow card

         

1. Situation : King of cups. I think I’ve got my emotions under control and I don’t. Things are bubbling up - wanting to be organized now instead of putting in the work to get there.
2. Obstacle : Ace of Pentacles. I have this resource and I’m not using it consistently. This is a seed I need to tend and grow, not plant and forget.
3. Advice : King of wands. Find my passion for the project. Why do I want to do this?
4. Over all energy: The Magician. I’ve got the tools, I just need to practice with them, to use them.
5. Shadow : Eight of cups Rxed. I’ve always tried to take it slow and now is the time for speed and to get it done.

 

All the cards feel like they are facing the ace of pentacles. So this is the obstacle and the solution. And I’m doing some journaling to dig deeper on the why part of this. 

 

[Bodhiseed]

@Petalene, what a perfect deck for the season, and such a lovely bag to go with it!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Petalene 🙂 

 

[Bodhiseed]

@fire cat pickles, can you post a link to the Card-A-Day group?

[fire cat pickles]

We haven't gotten one yet, it is in process right now.

[fire cat pickles]

@Bodhiseed We are live!!!! You have to request to join the club please.

Edited December 19, 2023 by fire cat pickles

[Petalene]

9 hours ago, fire cat pickles said:

@BodhiseedYou have to request to join the club please.

Is there more information about what this group will involve? I’m interested, but wanted to make sure this is a good fit for me before signing up. Thanks! 

[fire cat pickles]

5 hours ago, Petalene said:

Is there more information about what this group will involve? I’m interested, but wanted to make sure this is a good fit for me before signing up. Thanks! 

Sure. The group is designed to allow members to explore their deck or decks throughout the calendar year on a daily basis in a structured way along with other members. There is absolutely no pressure to keep up with the full 366 days.  If life gets busy you may drop out and rejoin as you are able. You may join at any time, as well. Once you join, you won’t be removed from the group for lack of attendance unless you ask to be.

 

There are more information in that section of the forum that is too detailed to go into here, but that is the jist of it!

[Guest]

Imma plop my *ahem* festively-fed self this week with the Ancient Feminine Wisdom Oracle. I'll get back to carb counting this Three Kings. 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Akhilleus 🙂 

[Guest]

Thanks @fire cat pickles! I already started posting my daily draws with the Ancient Feminine on my brand spanking new card-a-day book here:

 

 

[Natural Mystic Guide]

Ok, so I am here still slogging my way through the Mary-El Tarot deck.  I study each card and read the entry about it in the accompanying book.  I have the second edition.  I am having serious doubts about whether or how I can use this deck.  Some of the images are just repugnant to me -- disturbing and unpleasant -- engorged penises, hermaphrodites, creepy crawly things snaking out of nostrils?  Ugggghhhh.  I also find repugnant the references to Christian mysticism.  My life is so complete without that.  Plus some of the writing just does not make sense to me.  Gobbly gook similar to the gobbly gook I find in a lot of Thoth stuff.  I read somewhere that this is a Marseilles deck.  This prompted me to do some reading about Marseilles which I find interested.  But the Mary-El pips are all illustrated. 

 

My next step is to do the New Deck Interview with the Mary El.  I'm really trying to give it a chance here.

[Misterei]

@Natural Mystic Guide why force it? I give a deck a few chances to give good readings ... if it fails to perform ... out it goes!

I had to do that with my Pre Raphaelite tarot ... and it was a BEAUTIFUL  deck. But it gave me nonsense readings.

LOL I gave it one last chance ... it failed one last time ... and away it went.

The image of Knight Swords you shared actually creeps me out. And your description sounds like there are much creepier cards, too!

[Natural Mystic Guide]

1 hour ago, Misterei said:

there are much creepier cards, too!

Yes, indeed... way creepier.  Yet the one reading I have done so far was a good one.  So I am going to wait and see how the New Deck Interview goes.  My husband actually really likes this deck.  He took over my Förhäxa Tarot by MJ Cullinane which I think is a very pleasing deck aesthetically.  But they all have horns, or antlers, or wings or tails ...  It's based on Scandinavian mythology.  At least it's really pretty.