Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 385: Nov 18 - Nov 24

[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: Tarocchi Minchiate di Bomarzo
2. Natural Mystic Guide: Witches' Wisdom Tarot
3. Rachelcat:  Pulp Fantasy Tarot Deck by Bobby’s Tarot Decks
4. Bodhiseed: The Prairie Tarot paired with Medicine Cards
5. Misterei: La Corte dei Tarocchi by Il Menghello

 

Click here for DoW 384 (11/11 - 11/17)

Click here for DoW 386 (11/25 - 12/1)

Edited December 30, 2024 by fire cat pickles

[Natural Mystic Guide]

I'm going to take this card to mean that I shall finish studying the individual cards this week for the Witches' Wisdom deck.  I may take several more weeks to play with the cards.

[Rachelcat]

Hi!  For me this week will be Pulp Fantasy Tarot Deck by Bobby’s Tarot Decks on Etsy.  It’s made of 1940s pulp fantasy and sci-fi magazine covers.  I recognize these authors:  Robert Silverberg, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack London, Edgar Rice Burroughs.  If you’re a fan, you’ll probably recognize others.  (Not every card/cover has an author or title listed.)

 

I love Bobby’s decks!  I have the WPA posters and Golden Age of Romance decks.  (I would get others, but I don’t do war media.  He has WW1, WW2, and Rosie the Riveter decks, plus art style decks, like Japanese advertisements, book illustrations, etc.) 

 

So let’s have fun with it!

 

 

I swear I shuffled.

 

What is your most important characteristic?  The Chariot

It’s an escape.

 

What is your strength?  Justice

Not sure what’s going on here!  Is the gun guy bringing bird man to justice?

The deck is a good balance of silly fun and tarot insights.

 

Your weakness?  The Devil

Princess Leia and the devil’s cauldron.

Too many bad guys and gals are depicted?

 

What can you teach me?  Page of Swords

She might be young, but she’s still smarter than those little people.

The deck can teach me about learning and understanding.

 

How can I learn it?  Queen of Swords

By riding a white tiger!  Oh, she’s the ice queen!

I can learn by caring about the things I learn about.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Three of Cups

The three are the woman in the small sub, the man diver, and the fish people?  He has come to rescue her from the fish people.  Or the other way around.

The deck will be a good way for me to manifest my feelings.

 

Looking forward to playing this week!

 

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Natural Mystic Guide and @Rachelcat 😀

[Bodhiseed]

Back from Atlanta! I'm in this week with the Prairie Tarot paired with the Medicine Cards. Thank you for the new week's thread, Fire cat! ❤️

 

  

 

When the sun shineth, make hay.
~John Heywood

Cock-a-doodle-doo! Wake up and get moving! The Ace of Wands is a sign that we've been inspired to create or motivated to act. But if we wait too long, our enthusiasm will begin to dissipate, and we'll start to second guess ourselves. If we're not sure how to begin, Salmon tells us to follow our inner nudges, just as it follows its way back to the waters of its birth. Start swimming and follow that inner knowing. 

[Bodhiseed]

@Natural Mystic Guide, the murmuration was an interesting addition to that Ten of Air. Is the deck becoming easier to read now that you've used it for a few weeks?

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed!

[Natural Mystic Guide]

18 hours ago, Bodhiseed said:

Is the deck becoming easier to read now that you've used it for a few weeks?

No, -- well yes if I read it just intuitively.  I can read a pile of chicken bones intuitively.  But the creatrixes of the WItches' Wisdom deck were interested only in using the basic structure of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.  But to arrive at the meaning (and illustration) for each card they relied on spirit journeying.  So usually there is just no correspondence in their meanings and the R-W-S meanings.  It would be easy if there were.  So I would have to memorize the new meanings for each card to read with it professionally.  I like what they have done.  I feel it is modern and relevant.  I don't think that I like it enough to throw out all of my other decks and just use this one.  It really is a revolutionary deck.  It has turned out to be one because of what has come through these two witches when they created the deck.  Aesthetically it's a beautiful deck.  So I am going to continue to use it.  It's kind of like the Shining Tribe deck by Rachel Pollack -- which I have never mastered even after over a year of serious study.  And, Pollack, of blessed memory, stayed closer to the original structure and meanings of the R-W-S.

Edited November 20, 2024 by Natural Mystic Guide
clarification

[Misterei]

@fire cat pickles Jumping in late this week with La Corte dei Tarocchi by Il Menghello.

This might be my favorite art deck. It's medieval/rennaisance, whimsical, and serious all at once.

I've never read with it. I was 100% happy just to have it as an art deck. But this week I felt called to read it. It's quite a chore to read with. The card stock is matte and the cards don't slide. The corners are sharp. It's shape is different. Never mind all that. I freaking adore this deck.

And it reads ok, too, I just discovered.

 

This is Game of the Hand using Cups as the subject suit.

Full interpretation is in my journal. Comments and viewpoints always welcome.

 

Edited November 21, 2024 by Misterei

[Ferrea]

3 hours ago, Misterei said:

...

This might be my favorite art deck. It's medieval/rennaisance, whimsical, and serious all at once.

 

 

I love this deck. It leads my top ten of the most beautiful decks I own. It's so multifaceted, rich in detail, and has so much variety, yet consistency.

Because I use this deck a lot, I have figured out how to shuffle it well. You can comfortably riffle down the long side. An "unbent riffle", if such a phrase exists. All you have to do is pull your hands upwards quickly while letting the cards slide gently over your thumbs. For an overhand shuffle along the short side, you need a "loose hand". I could shuffle for hours. I enjoy the cushion-like feel and sound of these cards.

 

Edited November 21, 2024 by Ferrea

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome @Misterei! La Corte us on if my favorites too.

[Misterei]

10 hours ago, Ferrea said:

I love this deck. It leads my top ten of the most beautiful decks I own. It's so multifaceted, rich in detail, and has so much variety, yet consistency. ...

Oooh! I hope you post some readings with it!

I'm hoping that if I use it more it will break-in a bit and be easier to shuffle and handle. Thanks for sharing that you've been shuffling and using yours.

[Misterei]

Deck Interview with La Corte.

I've found this deck interview ... interviews *my* current state as much as the deck's. Don't know if that makes sense.

In any case, La Corte reads great. One never knows with an art deck. But it speaks clearly to me.

 

 

1.     Energy: Describes the deck’s essence / overall vibe

10 Swords. It;s addressing my issues with betrayal and also the death battle with my own mind and thoughts. 10 as a completion card -- it does this from a deep/advanced way

2.     Timing: Why do I feel drawn to this deck now?

Giudizio. Revolutionary change of consciousness. Listening for my inner angel to blow the horn of intuition. The dead rise. What is immortal in me? In others?

3.     Teaching: What areas will it help me explore?

Cavallo de Spade. Testing the limits of the mind. He wears a breast plate to cover his heart and has a strange red mask on his sword arm's shoulder. Oddly apropos to my current state of mind.

4.     Challenge: How will the deck challenge me?

4 Coins. Physically it's slow. Shuffling and then re-ordering the cards is a major undertaking. Things want to stay as they are. Shaking them up battles the forces of inertia that prefer to remain with status quo.

5.     Limits: What areas are NOT this deck's expertise?

Fante de Spade. How do I defend myself? I'm just a page. The sword is bigger than I am! We humans are like children with a sword [mind] too big for us to handle.

6.     Grace: In what areas will the deck and I connect?

Stelle. This is one of my all-time favorite Star cards of any deck. Just looking at it makes me cry a bit. Saturn is in Aquarius [domicile] over my H9 and it just went direct after a long retrograde. Healing. Aquarius. Universal consciousness.

7.     Whisper: the deck’s message / guidance for this moment

2 batons. Shared vision. Shared motivation. The deck would seem to counsel focusing on shared visions rather than past betrayals. Good advice.

 Yogas: 10, page, knight of swords. 4 coins in position #4.

Numerology: 53=8=Justice. The Card #1 from yesterday's spread. Definitely a ghost in this machine.

 

Edited November 22, 2024 by Misterei

[Rachelcat]

On 11/20/2024 at 11:07 PM, Misterei said:

@fire cat pickles Jumping in late this week with La Corte dei Tarocchi by Il Menghello.

This might be my favorite art deck. It's medieval/rennaisance, whimsical, and serious all at once.

I've never read with it. I was 100% happy just to have it as an art deck. But this week I felt called to read it. It's quite a chore to read with. The card stock is matte and the cards don't slide. The corners are sharp. It's shape is different. Never mind all that. I freaking adore this deck.

And it reads ok, too, I just discovered.

 

I'm jumping in on the Corte bandwagon.  I love it!  As everyone has said, a great combination of art, mystery, and fun.  And it's one of the only non-historical pips decks that read easily for me.  Enjoy!

[Misterei]

1 hour ago, Rachelcat said:

I'm jumping in on the Corte bandwagon. 

Looking forward to see your spreads with it!

[fire cat pickles]