Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 353: Apr. 8 - Apr. 14

[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: Ship of Fools Tarot
2. Bodhiseed: Spacious Tarot paired with the Phenomena Oracle
3. Rachelcat: Ice Cream Oracle paired with the Good Karma Tarot
4. Luned: Radiant Rider-Waite paired with the Tarot Of The Crone
5. Anesiadora: Lubanko Tarot
6. Misterei: Daniloff LeNormand

 

Click here for DoW 352 (4/1 - 4/7)

Click here for DoW 354 (4/15 - 4/21)

Edited April 15, 2024 by fire cat pickles

[Bodhiseed]

Thank you Fire cat!

 

This week I'll be using the Spacious Tarot, a self-published deck that was a collaboration between Annie Ruygt and Carrie Mallon. I'll also be using the Phenomena Oracle, a deck self-published by Jessica Bott. Today's draws are Death and the Sun:

 

 

I want you, I need you, oh God,

Don't take

These beautiful things that I've got.

–Benson Boone

 

There is nothing in the physical world that doesn't have an expiration date. Yet the booklet reminds us that Death is an unbiased, neutral force; life cannot exist without decay. As nature teaches, it is that decay which nourishes that which comes next. But first we grieve our losses. The Sun suggests clarity, warmth and energy, and in the case of an ending, acceptance. We begin to see that although the hurt still lingers, we recognize that joy, beauty, and goodness still abounds.

 

You will not ‘get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to. –Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

 

[Rachelcat]

Hi, everyone!  This week will be another new thegamecrafter deck, Ice Cream Oracle.  And, because I want a tarot to read for the eclipse, I’m going to pair it with Good Karma Tarot, a repeat.  Because its illustrations are simple but attractive and appropriate.  And it has a lot of pink!

 

 

Ice Cream Oracle is a fun oracle with simple illustrations of various flavors of ice cream with three keywords each.  Some flavors are a bit outré; some I hadn’t even heard of before!  40 cards/flavors.  It has a pdf booklet with further information and an ice cream cone-shaped spread.

 

 

Good Karma Tarot is an inexpensive mass market deck that I really enjoy.  It has simple, attractive, modern, diverse illustrations with lots of pink (but the backs are yellow) and borderless.  It would be a good kid- and general public-friendly choice.  The small book is a very nice tarot introduction.  Amazon says it’s written by Kerry Ward, who writes under the name TarotBella for Cosmopolitan.  I got rid of the box because it had two wells so you had to split the deck.  Don’t like that kind!

 

[Rachelcat]

On to the interviews!

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  Bubblegum, memories, nostalgia, childhood

The deck helps us remember all our favorite flavors from the past and the sheer fun and difficulty of choosing.

 

What is your strength?  Pumpkin Spice, harvest, prosperity, fortune

Even though it seems whimsical, it can give good information and advice about practical issues.

 

Your weakness?  Coconut, protection, purification, boundaries

This is the only card that hints at a negative, something we might need protection from.

 

What can you teach me?  Moon Mist, astral travel, visions, visitations

According to the booklet, moon mist is mix of banana, grape, and bubblegum flavors.  Definitely out of this world!  The deck can teach me to loosen up and listen for the unexpected.

 

How can I learn it?  Pina Colada, recreation, traveling, amusement

By just enjoying it and having fun.  And traveling out of my comfort zone.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Blueberry, peace, meditation, acceptance

Well these are all good outcomes.  The deck is calming and will have a positive emotional effect.

 

I love all the colors of the backgrounds.

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  Seven of Wands

I enjoy the deck because it is purposefully a competing choice for readers.

 

What is your strength?  Page of Coins

Well, that’s on the nose!  It’s a great learning deck.

 

Your weakness?  Seven of Cups

It can be a little too soft and dreamy.

 

What can you teach me?  Temperance

There is a place in my tarot collection and tarot studies for a blend of easy contemporary, esoteric, historical, and creative.

 

How can I learn it?  The Devil

Two majors!  I can learn about blending my tarot collection and studies by giving into temptation!  I don’t have to be strict with the decks I like and use.  Even now that I’m being more budget conscious.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Six of Coins

I have already shared the deck with my tarot friends as a practical and useful one.  But I don’t think I’m going to give it away!

 

Well, that was easy and fun!

 

[Bodhiseed]

@Rachelcat, that tarot deck and oracle look really good together!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed and @Rachelcat 😀

[fire cat pickles]

Ok, so I am done with the Primordial. I went to shuffle the deck today and they almost flew out of my hands (my fault mostly and I bent the ever-living **** out of one of the cards. (Gripe ahead.) The cards are incredibly thick and difficult to shuffle, and on top of that they are very slick. It doesn't help that I strained my right hand/thumb muscle using a smooth bore nozzle at 120 psi on a housefire last night! And what's more, the system is quite complex, and I'm just not *into looking up card meanings in a teeny-tiny LWB each time. To be honest I got more out of reading my seashells than the cards, although the cards did point me into the right direction while reading the shells I will say that.

 

So aaaanway, the next deck on my list is the Ship of Fools Tarot by Brian Williams. It comes with a guidebook but is Tdm-RWS based. Justice/Strength numbering is reversed, which I like, and Williams provides a large(r) print book that I don't have to strain my eyes to read. I will be sticking to this one for a while I think.

 

Since this is a new deck, I will post my first reading in my journal (link later) and then subsequent ones in the Card-A-Day Club. (You'll just have to join up over there to read along 😉 ).

 

[Luned]

I’m in, and this week I’m using two decks. I’m doing the 7-day shadow work guide from The Tarot Diagnosis website using the Radiant Rider-Waite as my main deck to pull from each day as I wanted a standard RWS image to work with, plus Tarot Of The Crone to pull the equivalent comparative cards as Crone doesn’t pull any punches and will be helpful in cutting through any messages I’m not quite getting (or shying away from) with the Radiant.

It turns out I have some stalker cards lurking in my shadow too!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Luned!

[Anesiadora]

Been working this week with the Lubanko, even if it did call me out 😂 There is just something that really draws me to its imagery

[Bodhiseed]

Welcome to the DoW group, @Anesiadora! Look forward to seeing more of the Lubanko!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome @Anesiadora 🙂 

 

 

The DoW Group is a fun and enlightening way to share how your decks can work for others, to highlight new or unique reading techniques and spreads, and perhaps to introduce new decks for other members. 

 

 

[Misterei]

@fire cat pickles So far I have only used Tarots. I *think* the rules permit a Lenorman to be a deck of the week? Is this correct?

[fire cat pickles]

2 hours ago, Misterei said:

@fire cat pickles So far I have only used Tarots. I *think* the rules permit a Lenormand to be a deck of the week? Is this correct?

Yes, the rules say at least one tarot or oracle deck, and Lenormand would qualify as an oracle I believe 😉 

[Misterei]

OK. Jumping in at the last minute, then!

Deck: Daniloff LeNormand.

I bought this deck to get reduced shipping when I ordered his Orient Tarot. And never used it.

Anyway, I've rekindled my relationship with LN and wanted to try this deck. It checks all the boxes. Pictures are clear, names written on cards, playing card correspondence [not that I use this ... but some ppl like it]. Nice backs. Samll size for doing GT. Only down side is it doesn't have a proper box. Just this weird paper origami folding thingie that looks like a box but isn't.

I've read it twice and it hits.

 

I'm trying to break away from ONLY doing 3-5 card lines ... so tried a "daily draw" spread from the YT.

1. what do I need to focus on today? = Stork
   Stork is a new beginning, movement, legs. A tall woman [me. People tease me for being tall with long legs like a stork]. Stork is a new attitude. I saw the doctor and mentioned that although I've started eating EVERYTHING and execrcising to build leg muscles ... I'm not gaining weight. Doctor said to count calories eat enough to gain. Duuuh. I did the math ... it wasn't good. I need to eat like 3x the calories I've been eating. I never counted calories. This is new. Also I search out the most fattening [healthy] foods and eat them. Also new.
2. & 3 = Sun + Clouds = after sun comes rain
   We had a couple days of warm sunny weather followed by cold and rain yesterday and today. No fun healthy sunshine activities ... I'm staying indoors and cooking soup. Planning the most fattening meals possible. Pasta yes. REAL cream in the cream sauce. Yes. You get the idea 😇

Edited April 13, 2024 by Misterei

[Misterei]

On 4/11/2024 at 3:45 AM, Anesiadora said:

Been working this week with the Lubanko,

 

On 4/11/2024 at 6:01 AM, Bodhiseed said:

... ! Look forward to seeing more of the Lubanko!

Me too!

[fire cat pickles]

@Misterei swooping in! Welcome back 😀

[Bodhiseed]

Daniloff's work is lovely, with an 'old world' flavor. 

[Misterei]

3 hours ago, fire cat pickles said:

@Misterei swooping in! Welcome back 😀

Hehe. Took me a minute. Yes. SWOOPING in🤣

[Misterei]

23 minutes ago, Bodhiseed said:

Daniloff's work is lovely, with an 'old world' flavor. 

Right? I love that! It reads really well, too, which is nice to discover in a deck I only purchased to get cheaper shipping 😉

[Anesiadora]

Touching base as it's the end of the week, but using the Lubanko this week has been an eye-opening experience 😂 It certainly reads a lot more bluntly than other decks of mine, but it's more like a stern mom. I've been noticing more symbols in the cards than I had when I first purchased the deck, so that's been good! It also gives a lot more layered readings than I originally thought it capable of. It's always nice when a deck surprises you like this!