Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 348: Mar. 4 - Mar. 10

[fire cat pickles]

So sorry this is late!

 

Thank you @Misterei for the reminder 🙂 It totally slipped my mind. Lots on my mind these days!

 

 

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: Lo Scarabeo Etruria (2011 ed.)
2. Luned: Alchemical Tarot
3. Mi-Shell: Guardians of Night Tarot
4. Natural Mystic Guide:  Cirque du Tarot
5. Bodhiseed: Shadowscapes Tarot paired with a set of Cedar Runes
6. Rachelcat: Science Tarot
7. Misterei: Nigel Jackson’s Rose Tarot

 

Click here for DoW 347 (2/26- 3/3)

Click here for DoW 349 (3/11 - 3/17)

Edited March 11, 2024 by fire cat pickles

[Luned]

I’m in! This week I’m working with the Alchemical Tarot by Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Robert M. Place, which I’ve had for years but haven’t used. There have been six editions, all slightly different, over the years – I have the 1^st edition and you can see all the various editions on Place’s website here: https://robertmplacetarot.com/the-four-editions-of-the-alchemical-tarot/

 

I don’t have any specific alchemical knowledge however the cards are loosely based on Waite-Smith so they should be easy enough to read. The artwork has clean lines and a simplicity about it, and each detail included on a card has been carefully thought out. The first edition has overly-wide borders, the later editions are nicer in that respect in my opinion and also have a more vintage feel to the colours. Here’s four cards from my first spread with it:

 

 

The Six of Coins broadly follows the concept of generosity and sharing of RWS, but there’s a lightness and innocence to it as children are pictured rather than adults. Five of the coins have an ancient symbol for money, and the exchanged coin has an owl for wisdom.

 

Pentacles are Coins, Wands are Staffs, Cups are Vessels. The majors and court cards have titles, the minors just have their (Roman) numbering. The backs are non-reversible. The

book (176 pages, came with 1^st edition only) goes into a reasonable level of detail on the majors, but the minors have quite short write-ups – however, in the same way that the artwork is economical and smart, so too are the write-ups.

Edited March 6, 2024 by Luned

[Mi-Shell]

Hi guys! after a long trip we are back home and I think I need to get back to the DOTW to give some structure to my card habits.

My deck right now is the Guardians of Night Tarot by MJ Cullinane.

This is the 3. deck I have from this artist - the others are the Crow Tarot and the Urban Crow Oracle. I love all of them.♥

[Natural Mystic Guide]

1 hour ago, Mi-Shell said:

the Guardians of Night Tarot by MJ Cullinane

I love this one, too.  I love the art and the correspondences.  Enjoy!

[Natural Mystic Guide]

I am continuing with the Cirque du Tarot.  It's just carving out the time now to do a 'New Deck Interview'.  I shall notify you all when I have posted this in my blog.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Luned and @Natural Mystic Guide!

 

Glad to have you back @Mi-Shell and that you're back safely from you travels 🙂 

[fire cat pickles]

My deck for this week (at least, maybe more) is going to be the LoS Minchiate Etruria.

[Bodhiseed]

Thanks Fire cat! ❤️ I'm in with the Shadowscapes Tarot paired with a set of Cedar Runes.

 

From the Shadowscapes Tarot, the King of Cups; from the Cedar Runes, Uruz:

You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.

—Timber Hawkeye

 

The King of Cups is the calm in the storm, modeling and guiding others with steady patience and composure. I can imagine the male seahorse, with his pouch full of incubating babies, telling the King of his worries for these young ones when they hatch. The King would likely tell the seahorse that risks and challenges are a part of life that help us mature and develop wisdom. But everyone needs an emotional anchor when the waves get rough, and and that tether will be different for all. The rune Uruz is based on a primordial wild ox. It suggest endurance and strength will be needed in our endeavors. In the case of an emotional anchor, it may be best not to tie ourselves to a person, but to our own spiritual practices that provide us with resilience.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed! Looks like we're seeing a good crowd this week, interesting mix of different decks, too.

[Rachelcat]

Hi all!  Happy to be here!  I need to catch up with my Tuesday and Wednesday readings!  In the meantime, here's my interview.

 

Monday

Science Tarot this week.  I might do a series of my “science club” subcollection in future weeks.  Maybe, we’ll see.  So we’ll start with the basics, science itself.

 

This deck was a group project, with three creators and different artists for each suit, self-published in 2010.

 

Wands = red, Bunsen burners = Creation

Coins = yellow, magnifying glasses = Exchange

Swords = brown, scalpels = Observation

Cups = blue, beakers = Integration

Courts = Individual scientists with keyword

Majors = Green = Science stories

 

I have a feeling I’m going to be using the booklet a lot!  And probably Wikipedia too.

 

 

Well, let’s give it a try with the interview!

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  20. Judgment, Natural Selection

The deck is the next level of tarot.  Or at least a part of the new theme tarot phenomenon.  May the fittest survive. 

The illustration is of the witnessed evolution of moths changing from white to gray to fit in better with gray polluted air.  The birds can’t see them as well, so they survive, while the white ones are eaten and die out.

 

What is your strength?  2. The High Priestess, Benzene Dream

Also a true story, the scientist dreamed of the solution to the question of the structure of benzene.  The answer was there in all of his work, it just needed to rise from his subconscious when he was sleeping.

The deck combines science and intuition.

 

Your weakness?  1. The Magician, Ribosome

“Ribosomes combine basic chemical tools to create the enzymes that act within all living cells.”  So basically the things that make life from chemicals.

As a weakness, the deck shouldn’t make scientific facts seem mysterious, even for mysterious cards!  Although I do like the rabbits!

 

What can you teach me?  3 Beakers, Symbiosis

Similar to Judgment, the deck can teach me how to combine disparate ideas into one to the benefit of understanding both.

 

How can I learn it?  10 Magnifying Glasses, Earthly Riches

I can learn how to combine ideas by considering the abundance and multiplicity of the universe.  Everything in the universe is combined into a whole.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  6 Bunsen Burners, Equilibrium

A star is balanced between gravity pulling the gasses in and pressure forcing them outward.

Another balancing and combining card.  The deck will help me understand science topics, and will benefit from my tarot understanding.

 

I like it!

 

[Misterei]

19 hours ago, fire cat pickles said:

Thank you @Misterei for the reminder 🙂 It totally slipped my mind. Lots on my mind these days!

Thanks for your super human weekly efforts @fire cat pickles!

I'm rarin to go with Rose Tarot.

[Misterei]

Deck: Nigel Jackson’s Rose Tarot

Spread: Tirage en Croix with one clarifier card.

Question: should I formally resign from --- this Spring Equinox?

 

I’ve had this deck a few years and really like it but seldom use it. It’s mostly a Pip deck but there are small illustrations on the Pips … so a bit of a hybrid. Jackson’s Trumps make various references to older Tarocchi decks and Western Occult traditions. A guidebook is part of the package and one of the few guidebooks I actually use b/c I like his historical context and commentaries on obscure occult orders.

 

Picture only. Full spread and text is here

 

[Luned]

Daily card (Lesson From the Day from earlier this week) – Ten of Vessels in the Alchemical Tarot deck

This is a card where the image doesn’t follow the RWS model at all, so you end up with a slightly different emphasis in the interpretation. Rather than the RWS happy-families rainbows-and-joy image, there is a set of ten vessels that all interconnect to create an alchemical still. The emphasis is therefore on how we all connect to create a greater whole, rather than the raw emotion of joy resulting from being part of that greater unit. It’s a more subdued and contemplative vibe.

[Luned]

Wrapping up my time with the Alchemical Tarot - I really do like the images, even though they vary more from RWS than I initially thought. It feels like you’d need to be immersed in alchemy to fully appreciate and get the most out of the deck rather than just skimming the surface, and that is not something I have the time or interest to do at this stage, so while I can read with it (and it would make a refreshing change from busier decks) I’m quite happy to move onto another deck next week.