fire cat pickles Posted April 7, 2025 Posted April 7, 2025 (edited) 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 fire cat pickles: Liber T Tarot of Stars Eternal Christina: Simplicity Tarot and Wisdom of the Hidden Realms Oracle Rachelcat: Tarot de Marseille, Paris 1890 CA and the Bloodlands Oracle Bodhiseed: Osho Zen Tarot paired with the A'HA Oracle Natural Mystic Guide: The Greenwood Saturn Celeste: Tarot of Mystical Moments and the Oracle of Mystical Moments Click here for DoW 404 (3/31 - 4/6) Click here for DoW 406 (4/14 - 4/20) Edited April 14, 2025 by fire cat pickles
fire cat pickles Posted April 7, 2025 Author Posted April 7, 2025 A little something new, adding a suggested weekly spread: Six cards, credit to Terry Real.
Christina Posted April 7, 2025 Posted April 7, 2025 I'm in with Simplicity Tarot and Wisdom of the Hidden Realms Oracle 🙂
Rachelcat Posted April 7, 2025 Posted April 7, 2025 Hi! @fire cat pickles Thanks for the spread! It looks like it would work well with round cards! 😺 I'll try to give it a go! In the meantime, this week will be another of my Lo Scarabeo Anima Antiqua haul, Tarot de Marseille, Paris 1890 CA., with another new acquisition, the Bloodlands Oracle. The tarot is a very refined Marseille, with “B.P. Grimaud Paris” on many of the cards. According to the booklet, it’s a Besançon because it has JUNON for priestess and JVPITER for pope. All the other cards seem to be straight Marseille to me. (The booklet also addresses the oddness of the 2 Deniers having a different date and publisher name and Le Chariot having different publisher initials.) The Bloodlands Oracle is a deck that illustrates various landscape items such as meadow and cascade with some natural actions such as lightning and eruption and human artifacts such as the old bridge. (I still haven’t figured out what blood has to do with any of it.) The beautiful black and white images are photographs digitally altered to look like charcoal drawings. There are 42 cards with red edges. Each card has an elemental attribution. Booklet has keywords and upright and reversed meanings. Two interviews! What is your most important characteristic? VIII Epée This is a very (8=Mercury), very (swords) intellectual deck. Probably too much so. What is your strength? La Maison Diev It doesn’t avoid giving bad news. And it’s quick about it. Your weakness? IIII Coupe And it’s not as good at conveying emotions. It keeps them bottled up. What can you teach me? Valet de Coupe The deck can teach me to ground my emotions. How can I learn it? VIII Baton 2 8s. Understanding has to lead to action. What will be the outcome of our work together? Valet de Baton I will learn more about taking action, instead of grounding emotions (valet de coupe). Ok?? I guess we’ll have to wait and see on this one! (All cards read without looking in the booklet.) What is your most important characteristic? Scree The deck points out things that are unstable and uncertain. What is your strength? Ancient Forest It has the strength of old trees: They’re green and newly alive in the spring but also ancient and very stable. Your weakness? Falls The deck isn’t as good describing strong, loud emotions. What can you teach me? Tomb The deck can teach me that everything ends eventually. How can I learn it? Shadow I can learn it by acknowledging things can be bad, or hidden. That’s just part of the world and life. What will be the outcome of our work together? Footpath It will help me move forward toward where I want to go. Interesting! And interesting to go back and check the booklet meanings as they compare and contrast to my ideas.
Bodhiseed Posted April 7, 2025 Posted April 7, 2025 I'm in with the Osho Zen Tarot paired with the A'HA Oracle this week. Thanks for this week's thread and for the spread you shared, Fire cat!💓 The Bloodlands Oracle looks interesting, @Rachelcat!🤩
Natural Mystic Guide Posted April 8, 2025 Posted April 8, 2025 16 hours ago, fire cat pickles said: a suggested weekly spread What a great idea! Thanks
Natural Mystic Guide Posted April 8, 2025 Posted April 8, 2025 12 hours ago, Rachelcat said: The Bloodlands Oracle Thanks for the introduction to this interesting deck @Rachelcat
Natural Mystic Guide Posted April 8, 2025 Posted April 8, 2025 I'm back and shall be hanging out again with The Greenwood Tarot by Mark Ryan & Chesca Potter. Here's 'cards for the day':
fire cat pickles Posted April 8, 2025 Author Posted April 8, 2025 Welcome back @Natural Mystic Guide!
Saturn Celeste Posted April 8, 2025 Posted April 8, 2025 I am so sorry I missed last week. I want to continue with the Tarot of Mystical Moments and the Oracle of Mystical Moments. I'll be more aware of the dates this week.
Saturn Celeste Posted April 11, 2025 Posted April 11, 2025 (edited) I've been thinking about one of my new decks, Tarot of Mystical Moments, and have finalized some thoughts. I wasn't sure how to approach this discussion. Because the cards in this deck are so foreign to me, I'll start at the beginning, and let's see how far I can get with this deck over the next month or so. The Fool is the first card on the left. It is a typical fool card with the naive adventurer heading out in an unknown direction. Instead of falling off a cliff and a dog pulling him back, this fool is waltzing along a crocodile's back. The bird can fly in any direction, but unless she changes her path, she's in for trouble. This card is too on the nose for my liking. Should she continue on the path she's on, it will end badly for her. The middle card is the Magician. I think the hat house is clever; instead of pulling a rabbit out of a hat, it is the entire magician. The mystical elements of the magician are represented by her surroundings. Wand is fire, swan is water, butterfly is air, and plants are earth. The hat is her home. One thing absent is the "as above, so below" gesture with the wand. This is an ok card to me, but it takes a little getting used to, as does this entire deck. The final card, the High Priestess, leaves me cold. The boat on the water takes me out of the mysteries of this card. Edited April 11, 2025 by Saturn Celeste
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