Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 368: July 22 - July 28

[fire cat pickles]

A unique version of Reading Circle 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: Infernal Tarot
2. Natural Mystic Guide: The Ark, by Bernadette King
3. Bodhiseed: Out of Hand Tarot paired with the Seashells Playing Cards
4. Rachelcat: Creature Teacher and Tea Leaf Fortune Cards
5. Mi-Shell: "Tarot " of the Orishas
6. Kmartin60: Tarot of the Unknown

 

Click here for DoW 367 (7/15 - 7/21)

Click here for DoW 369 (7/29 - 8/4)

Edited July 28, 2024 by fire cat pickles

[fire cat pickles]

I'm moving on to the "Infernal Tarot - A 200 year old secret Tarot deck"  for this week. I'll go back to the Hermetic soon, I'm sure. I thought I'd try something a little different for this week.

 

 

Edited July 22, 2024 by fire cat pickles

[Natural Mystic Guide]

I am continuing to play with The Ark, a combo Tarot and oracle deck by Bernadette King.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Natural Mystic Guide 😀

[Bodhiseed]

I'm in with the Out of Hand Tarot paired with the Seashells Playing Cards - thank you Fire cat!

 

From the Out of Hand Tarot, the Moon; from the Seashells Playing Cards, the American Stiff Pen:

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory... ―Steven Pinker

 

A hand holds a mirror that shows another hand holding the moon. What is real and what is illusion? Our minds have tripwires for anything in the present that even slightly resembles something or someone from our past. Once those wires have been triggered, our mind doesn't bother to register all the facts in front of us, it just fills in the blanks from our old memories. Strong emotions - good or bad - are often a hint that we are relying on unconscious information. The American Siff Pen anchors itself to the sandy seabed using a bundle of silky fibers called a byssus. This clam also can heal small holes or breaks in its shell. It suggests we ground ourselves while curiously examining what is factual and what is pure assumption. Then we can repair these 'holes' with the evidence we find. 

[Bodhiseed]

@Natural Mystic Guide, I've been enjoying all those lovely animal pictures on the Ark!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed!

[Natural Mystic Guide]

1 hour ago, Bodhiseed said:

From the Out of Hand Tarot, the Moon; from the Seashells Playing Cards, the American Stiff Pen

very nice juxtaposition of two cards from different decks.  I'm interested to see more of the Out of Hand Tarot.

[Bodhiseed]

4 minutes ago, Natural Mystic Guide said:

I'm interested to see more of the Out of Hand Tarot.

Jamie has a fully funded Kickstarter about to end for the pocket edition of this deck (2 x 3.5").

 

[Rachelcat]

1 hour ago, Bodhiseed said:

Jamie has a fully funded Kickstarter about to end for the pocket edition of this deck (2 x 3.5").

 

Me too!  Thanks for the info!

 

And I'm in with another animal deck!

[Rachelcat]

This week will finish off all my round decks as decks of the week with two oracles:  Creature Teacher and Tea Leaf Fortune Cards.

 

 

Creature Teacher is a 45-card animal deck with affirmations for children.  I like it because I like animal decks and I like simple affirmations.

 

Tea Leaf Fortune Cards has 183! main cards (with red backs) illustrating tea leaf reading symbols with keywords and phrases, which have some overlap with Lenormand and other sibillas’ symbols.  It also has cards for the months (with purple backs) and “astral houses” (not astrological houses, but 6 life areas, with green backs).  I created a spread for the deck using the ideas in Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves by A Highland Seer, so we’ll definitely try that out this week.

 

I’ll probably use an affirmation as a subject and then read about it with the tea leaf cards; we’ll see.  But first, interviews!

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  Target, goal-oriented person

The deck is goal-oriented.  It openly embraces fortune-telling, as opposed to more spiritual guidance or woo.

 

What is your strength?  Flag, do not be tempted to lower your standards

Same.  It tells it like it is, in a fortune-telling way. 

 

Your weakness?  Cobweb, protected from negative forces beyond your control

It might focus too much on “forces beyond your control.”  That’s the downside of fortune-telling.  But that can be obviated by focusing on advice and action.

 

What can you teach me?  Crown, honor and respect will come to you

It will teach me about honor and respect.  And how they’re earned?

 

How can I learn it?  Sun, happiness and well-being

I can learn about earning respect by concentrating on well-being for everyone.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Heart, love, deep affection, caring

Wow!  I’ll love the deck and have affection for it.  And use it more often.

 

I’m in!

 

 

Short interview for Creature Teacher:

 

 

What is your strength?  Snake, I am healthy.

The deck’s affirmations are healthful, for children and for me.

 

Your weakness?  Skunk, I have respect for others.

It’s stinky!  Just kidding!  Meta:  It doesn’t go into detail about what respect is.  Not just avoiding messing with people!

 

What can I learn from you?  Bee, I have good ideas.

Also a good animal for respect meaning avoid confrontation!  I can learn some good ideas from the deck.  And maybe learn to value my own ideas.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Unicorn, I am sacred.

The only imaginary animal in the deck, as I have already obsessively classified it in my collection list.

The deck will help me see the sacred in the mundane.  Affirmations and advice for being a decent, even good, person are spiritual as much as they are practical.  And it seems like those qualities are as rare as unicorns these days.  I’ll take it as a sign of hope.

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Rachelcat!

[Mi-Shell]

Hi Folks!♥

Life has definitely thrown me/us into a wild whirlwind and there was no time for Tarot at all. 

But now things have calmed down and I am having a brand new Deck in my hands:

The "Tarot " of the Orishas! 

This will be my deck for the week!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Mi-Shell!

[Mi-Shell]

9 hours ago, Natural Mystic Guide said:

I am continuing to play with The Ark, a combo Tarot and oracle deck by Bernadette King.

 

9 hours ago, Natural Mystic Guide said:

 

Oh whouw! THAT is a very interesting deck!

In the last 2-3 years I am very drawn to Animal decks and this is getting my attention.....

... away from my DotW!

 

 

Edited July 22, 2024 by Mi-Shell

[Mi-Shell]

8 hours ago, Bodhiseed said:

I'm in with the Out of Hand Tarot paired with the Seashells Playing Cards - thank you Fire cat!

 

 

• Seashells Playing Cards!!
•  Bodhi, where did you find these treasures?

 

[Mi-Shell]

Years and years ago I learned and then read with the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot.

I was often drumming with a Haitian dances and celebrations and also for the / Afro American congregation in their rituals and so learned tot specific drum songs and patterns of the Loa/ Lwha. The after the earthquake in 2010 there was a huuuuge influx of Haitian refugees into Canada and we had quite a number of them here in our area. I was asked to help, because I knew a bit of the culture and believe systems. So I did, what I could and also did bring the NOVT in to read with them in the evenings. Needless to say, I did learn A LOT in these days....

However, I was never so quite sure about the difference between Voodoo and the Orishas of Santaria. So now, In our monthly Tarot group we do have a priestess of Santeria and my old interest got re-awaken, especially about the sincreticism between the different spiritual pathways and christian saints, the qabalah and also indigenous influences.

Yes, and there I was in our local Tarot shop and saw the Tarot of the Orishas!

So for me personally, I will investigate, how well the Tarot can fit with the Orishas and how this new Tarot is similar or different from the NOVT 🙂 

[Bodhiseed]

1 hour ago, Mi-Shell said:

• Seashells Playing Cards!!
•  Bodhi, where did you find these treasures?

From Amazon! 😂 I researched the shells and wrote up some interesting facts so I could use them as an oracle.

Edited July 22, 2024 by Bodhiseed

[Kmartin60]

I am so late but I have been playing with the "Tarot of the Unknown" for the last couple of weeks. Time to pick out a new one to start the new month off with!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome to the group @Kmartin60 🙂 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. Pleased to have you here!

 

Next week's will be posted in the morning, so be looking for it...

[fire cat pickles]

 

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