Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 352: Apr. 1 - Apr. 7

[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: Primordial Tarot paired with seashells
2. Bodhiseed:  Tarot of the Masters paired with the Key to the Kingdom deck
3. Rachelcat: Bad Omens Divination Deck paired with the Fantod Pack
4. Luned: Celtic Tarot (De Burgh and Guinan)
5. Nemia: Margarete Petersen Tarot

 

Click here for DoW 351 (3/27- 3/31)

Edited April 2, 2024 by fire cat pickles

[DanielJUK]

Here is this week's Deck of the Week 🙂 

[fire cat pickles]

I'm in with the Primordial Tarot paired with my collection of seashells with week. This will be my Card-a-Day deck for the next few week. My deck interview was posted here:

 

[Bodhiseed]

Thank you Fire cat! I'm in with the Tarot of the Masters paired with the Key to the Kingdom deck.

 

This week I'll be using the Tarot of the Masters (redrawn classic paintings) created and published by James Ricklef. I'll also be using  a transformation deck called the Key to the Kingdom created by Tony Meeuwissen and published by Running Press. Today's draws are the Queen of Swords and the Four of Hearts:

  

The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

― Marianne Williamson

 

This Queen of Swords is based on the painting Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent. As Ricklef explains, sometimes there can be a "fine line between ambition and obsession, brilliance and madness." People with great intelligence generally tend to have a way with words, using them as a tool to get what they want. Lady Macbeth knew that as a woman, she could only rise in power through her husband, so she used manipulation and emasculation to motivate him to murder. Shakespeare's play ends with the Lady killing herself and Macbeth (who became something of a tyrant) beheaded. Intelligence needs ethical boundaries. The Four of Hearts is paired with this verse:

 

A man in the wilderness asked of me,

How many strawberries grow in the sea.

I answered him, as I thought good,

As many red herrings swim in the wood.

 

Motives, when under the influence of greed or anger, have a way of dismantling common sense. 

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed! I love Key to Kingdom, I miss mine. I don't remember what happened to mine...

[Rachelcat]

Hi guys!  I'm back!  Good to see you both.  Here's my offering:

 

This week will be new arrival Bad Omens Divination Deck paired with the Fantod Pack by Edward Gorey.  The common theme is humorous negative predictions (and grayscale illustrations), so I hope to have a scary fun week!

 

The Fantod Pack was originally published back in 1995.  I have the 2007 reprint by Pomegranate.  If you’re old enough, you’ll remember Gorey’s silly creepy illustrations used to be everywhere.  They’re still used in the intro to Masterpiece Mystery episodes.  The booklet interps by the mythical Madame Groeda Weyrd are random lists of terrible experiences and a month or day of the week for each card.  It actually has a spread, which I will try, but not the shuffling method, which involves “flinging the pack into the air”!  Here’s an example of the booklet interps:

THE ANCESTOR

April

hereditary weakness

thrush

loss of money

a false statement

morbid dependency

staggering sickness

champerty

megrims

paranoia

an overdoes

imprisonment

unstable furniture

 

 

Bad Omens is a thegamecrafter deck, art and text by Cori Redford, copyright 2022.  The booklet has appropriately bad interps plus a “Silver Linings” for each card.  It has ppf for a spread.  Example from booklet:

OWL

Bad Omens:  Someone is going to die.

Silvery Linings:  You get some good hugs.

(Most are longer than this one.)  We're only allowed 3 pictures per post, so you'll see the Bad Omens cards in readings!

 

Short interviews for each:

 

 

What is your strength?  The Ancestor

It’s a new twist on traditional divination.

 

Your weakness?  The Black Doll

“What you most fear is coming near.”  It might be a bit TOO heavy on the negative stuff.

 

What can you teach me?  The Ladder

It can teach me to rise above regular card reading!

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  The Feather

We will make a good showing, and I will enjoy the deck’s silly elegance.

 

 

What is your strength?  White Poppy

The deck is a distraction, and maybe a fever dream.

 

Your weakness?  Owl

It can be a bit too wise.  Or enigmatic.  Who?

 

What can you teach me?  Haunted Doll

Uh-oh.  Another doll!  Not sure which is creepier.  It can help me learn that creepy isn’t anything to be afraid of.  It’s actually good to play with.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Cactus

Our relationship will be prickly but lively.  And long-lasting.

 

All sounds promising!  We’ll see this week!

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Rachelcat 🙂 The Fantod is another one of my favorites. Did you throw the whole pack over your head in a dark room and scramble around with your eyes closed to choose the cards? lol

[Misterei]

5 hours ago, Rachelcat said:

... Bad Omens Divination Deck paired with the Fantod Pack by Edward Gorey.  The common theme is humorous negative predictions (and grayscale illustrations), so I hope to have a scary fun week!

 

hereditary weakness

thrush

loss of money

a false statement

morbid dependency

staggering sickness

...

paranoia

...

unstable furniture

I already have the above ... which is most of the things.

i like the twist on "please god don't let me get bad cards".

[Luned]

I'm in, and this week I'm working with the first of my Celtic Tarot decks - this one is from Julian De Burgh and Mary Guinan, and was my very first tarot deck back in the day. The images are based around Irish mythology and the guidebook gives a brief explanation of the story behind each card (as with a lot of decks, some match well to the usual meaning of the card and some.... do not).

Some of the pictured cards are from my spread for April. The Five of Swords was my overall card for April and you can see that the image is different from the RWS model and is rather bleak.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Luned!

[Bodhiseed]

I'm loving all these diverse decks our group is using this week! 🌟

[Nemia]

My deck for this week (which always starts for me on Sunday, so I put up the cards on Saturdays...) is the Margarete Petersen Tarot. I love this deck. I did my basic weekly reading with my planetary star, and I hope to have time for a bit more work with this wonderful deck. 

 

 

All my weekly readings are here, and I keep track of them over in my journal. 

[fire cat pickles]

@Nemia welcome back 😀

 

Not a bad idea to start on Sundays 😉

[Rachelcat]

19 hours ago, fire cat pickles said:

Welcome back @Rachelcat 🙂 The Fantod is another one of my favorites. Did you throw the whole pack over your head in a dark room and scramble around with your eyes closed to choose the cards? lol

I really want to try it, but I've chickened out so far!  I'll let you know.  Maybe we should do it together!  😸

[Rachelcat]

16 hours ago, Misterei said:

I already have the above ... which is most of the things.

i like the twist on "please god don't let me get bad cards".

Oh dear!  But like you say, at least we don't have to worry about getting bad cards if they're all bad!