Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 406: Apr 14 - Apr 20

[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: Liber T Tarot of Stars Eternal and Oracle of the Radiant Sun
2. Bodhiseed: RainShadow Tarot paired with the Liminal Spirits Oracle
3. Natural Mystic Guide: The Greenwood 
4. Saturn Celeste: Tarot of Mystical Moments
5. Christina: Sun and Moon Tarot and Herbal Astrology Pocket Oracle
6. Rachelcat: Rabbit Tarot and Nakisha’s Oracle

 

Click here for DoW 405 (4/7 - 4/13)

Click here for DoW 407 (4/21- 4/27)

Edited April 21, 2025 by fire cat pickles

[fire cat pickles]

This could be used for an interesting spread (6 cards), just uploading here. All credit is added to the picture file:

 

[Bodhiseed]

I'm in with the RainShadow Tarot paired with the Liminal Spirits Oracle this week. Fire cat, that spread goes right along with the reading I did this morning!

 

  

Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

The flower arrangement on this Ace of Swords is a reminder that words can be encouraging, supportive and beneficial just as they can be provoking, cruel and poisonous. This Ace advocates for clarity, for seeing beyond our preferences and prejudices, our plans and plots. Hare is a symbol of fertility; it gives us notice that the bend of our thoughts and words will continue to curve in a certain direction unless we change them. We can choose to build a beautiful life or wind up sitting alone in a pile of rubble.

[Natural Mystic Guide]

I continue with:  The Greenwood Tarot by Mark Ryan & Chesca Potter.

[Saturn Celeste]

I'm staying with the Tarot of Mystical Moments.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed, @Natural Mystic Guide, and @Saturn Celeste!

[Christina]

I'm in with the Sun and Moon Tarot and Herbal Astrology pocket oracle 🙂

[Rachelcat]

@Christina, ooo, I need to check out Herbal Astrology!  Hello, crew!  Happy to be back!

 

This week will be the first and most recent decks by Nakisha: The Rabbit Tarot and Nakisha’s Oracle.

 

I’ve had the Rabbit for years but never really read with it.  It has the best Strength card in the world!  (I think I had the first version with the thick black borders and traded it in for this the poker-sized second edition.)  The suits are sticks for wands, tulips for cups, carrots for swords, and daisies for coins.  The knights ride goats!  Cuteness overload!

 

Nakisha’s Oracle is another landscapes-based oracle, with cards for “Lake,” “Desert,” etc. plus non-natural items like “Play,” and “Deception.”  It’s 52 cards plus a card with keywords. 

 

(I’m not sure if I’ll decide between Bloodlands Oracle and Nakisha’s Oracle or if I’ll keep them both.  I guess we’ll see after this week.)

 

Two interviews.

 

 

Three tens!  And an ace.

 

What is your most important characteristic?  I Tulips

The deck is all about emotions, positive and negative.  It brings out the feelings in any reading.

 

What is your strength?  X Carrots

But it’s actually strong for intellectual readings.  It can point out overwhelming thoughts or propaganda and misinformation.

 

Your weakness?  X Daisies

The deck isn’t as good at readings about prosperity.  It portrays financial issues as enjoyment issues.

 

What can you teach me?  V Tulips

The deck can teach me about how to deal with disappointment and sadness.

 

How can I learn it?  X Sticks

By understanding when the sadness is a function of being overwhelmed and burned out.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  III Daisies

It will be a celebration of the art:  the manifestation of the ideals of tarot and the joy of these sweet rabbits!

 

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  Library

The deck both informative and entertaining.  If I take my time with it.

 

What is your strength?  Cave

The deck’s natural items are more powerful than its human-made items.

 

Your weakness?  Home

It’s more about exploring than staying comfortable.

 

What can you teach me?  Swamp

How to find the good in something that doesn’t look (or smell) very good.

 

How can I learn it?  Forest

Again by concentrating on the natural rather than the human-made.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Truth

Wow!  The deck is making a claim here!  We’ll see how it turns out.

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Christina and @Rachelcat 😀

[Christina]

I drew the Fool and Mugwort, which stands for psychic healing....together they are telling me to step out of my comfort zone and risk myself in order to heal myself.

[Natural Mystic Guide]

Cards of the Day:

 

[fire cat pickles]