Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 407: Apr 21 - Apr 27

[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. Rachelcat: Messages from Her and Tarocchino al Soldato Bologna 1750 CA
3. Natural Mystic Guide: The Greenwood
4. Libra 58: Tarot of the 78 Doors
5. Christina: Deviant Moon and Making Magick Cards
6. Bodhiseed: Hezicos Tarot paired with the Way of the Horse Oracle

 

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Click here for DoW 408 (4/27 - 5/4)

Edited April 28, 2025 by fire cat pickles

[Rachelcat]

Hi, everybody!  Happy spring!  We've finally got spring weather here!

 

This week will be Messages from Her and Tarocchino al Soldato Bologna 1750 CA.

 

Messages from Her is a 44-card deck featuring remarkable women of the 20^th and 21^st centuries with a keyword for each.  Cards have gold foil touches and edges, and it comes with a hardbound book.

 

Tarocchino al Soldato is a “small tarot,” meaning it is missing 2-5 of each suit.  Soldato means soldier.  According to the booklet, that was the business sign of the card making factory, one among many in Bologna in the 1750s.  Tall thin cards.  Rustic woodcuts.  The popess, empress, emperor, and pope are replaced by four dark-skinned rulers in turbans.  I guess I’ll try to figure out which is which if they turn up in a reading!  (No titles or numbers on any cards.)  Chariot and World feature Mercury in his winged helmet and shoes.  Star looks like a Fame card, with a crowned figure crowning someone else.  Moon has astronomers, and the Sun a spinster.  Fool is a traveling one man band.

 

Two interviews!

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  Marilyn Monroe, Charisma

The deck is attractive  and easy to like.

 

What is your strength?  Patsy Mink, Independence

A Japanese-American congressional representative in the 60s and 70s who supported many civil rights issues.

The deck has chosen some more controversial figures to feature, and that’s a good thing.

 

Your weakness?  Malala, Courage

Maybe it could have featured more women who faced more terrible challenges?

 

What can you teach me?  Me!

I love that it includes this card.

I can learn more about me while learning about other strong women.

 

How can I learn it?  Georgia O’Keeffe, Slow Down

A quote says she based her art on taking the time to REALLY see something before creating its image.

By taking time to think about my readings, not just breeze through them.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Frida Kahlo, Turn Inward

Two artists.  The quote is “I am my own muse.”

So the outcome will be that the deck will help me learn more about myself.  Sounds good to me!

 

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  9 Coins

I will enjoy owning the deck.

 

What is your strength?  6 Coins

It IS something worth having.  It’s a gift to the world from the publisher!  Thanks, Lo Scarabeo, for your Anima Antiqua series!

 

Your weakness?  9 Batons

I’ll have to go through some work to defend using a deck without all the cards.

 

What can you teach me?  King of Cups

I can like what I like.  I’m in charge of my own feelings.

 

How can I learn it?  Judgment

By taking the higher road.  I can rise above pettiness and emotional nonsense.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Fool

Oh, the places we’ll go!  It will be a crazy but fun trip!

 

[Natural Mystic Guide]

I am continuing to enjoy playing with my Greenwood Tarot.  I just love this deck.  I am so grateful that I could find a copy to buy.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Rachelcat and @Natural Mystic Guide 🙂 

[Libra 58]

I´m new to this but I will try to have a go at it. Sorry about my poor English.

I will work with my " Tarot of the 78 doors".

 

I don't even know why I chose this deck as my 2025 deck. The pictures make no sense to me most of the time.

I really need to think more than ones about what it means and sometimes I just go with what I feel about the picture.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome to the group @Libra 58!

 

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.

 

[Libra 58]

Thank you, for letting me in! @fire cat pickles

 

So I just chat away in this tread then?!😉

 

My card for this Easter Monday is 8 of Chalices, a man is walking out of a gate with his walking stick in his right hand. He´s facing large mountains in the distance.

He/me knows that I have a challenging thing in front of me, and I think I just have faced that by becoming a member in this thread.

[fire cat pickles]

1 hour ago, Libra 58 said:

So I just chat away in this tread then?!😉

 

Yes!

[Christina]

I'm in this week with the Deviant Moon and Making Magick cards

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Christina 🙂 

[Bodhiseed]

17 hours ago, Libra 58 said:

He/me knows that I have a challenging thing in front of me, and I think I just have faced that by becoming a member in this thread.

And we are so glad you are here! ❤️

[Bodhiseed]

Thank you Fire cat! I'm in this week with the Hezicos Tarot paired with the Way of the Horse Oracle.

 

 

When we don’t know how we’re doing we can’t improve. 
―Jim Clemmer

 

There is the joke of the woman pulled over for speeding. When asked by the officer where she was going in such a hurry, she replies, "I don't know, but I'm making good time!" No matter how fast we're implementing ideas and steps, if we don't pause to assess what our results are so far, we won't know if we're making progress or impeding it. Reviews allow us to continue on, adjust or change course to be effective. Dharma's Reflection represents using relationships as a mirror that reflects behavioral patterns and emotional responses back to us. Our connections can trigger fears, point out rigid beliefs, or ignite unhealthy habits. When we are aware, we have the option to improve, no matter what it is we're building or developing.

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed!

[Libra 58]

My Tuesday card was: X The Wheel from 78 doors tarot.

 

I don't like the wheel cards, ok there are some that i like, those wheels that lay still or stand still!😉

Those who are moving is hard for me to get a connection with, are they moving forward or backward? Or does it just look like it's moving?

What I see in the cards is how I read them.

 

This card shows that this wheel is a table, with four people sitting around with their hands on the top of the table, they are doing a seans.

Everything looks calm so I think that they are just sitting and waiting for a respond from the spirit.

 

I was out yesterday and did some job with the bank and a lot of bank papers, so now I'm just waiting for the result of all the work. 

That will take some weeks before i know the result.

[Libra 58]

My Sunday card is 4 of Swords. In the normal RW there is a soldier resting on his tomb or is he already dead?

 

On this card it's an old man walking and it lokes like he is blind, he has a brown stick and sunglasses on. ( Here in Sweden people have a white stick if they have eye problems.)

He walks indoors and it lokes that it's a slow process. 

 

I would say that the card shows me that I should take it easy today, but I didn't. I went out for a walk and also shopped a lot of food.

But know I will rest!😁

[fire cat pickles]