fire cat pickles Posted July 7, 2025 Posted July 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: TBA Rachelcat: The Raziel Tarot Major Arcana: The Secret Teachings of Adam & Eve Bodhiseed: Tarot of the Crone paired with the Wondering Traveler's Oracle Click here for DoW 417 (6/30- 7/6) Click here for DoW 419 (7/14-7/20) Edited July 22, 2025 by fire cat pickles
Rachelcat Posted July 7, 2025 Posted July 7, 2025 Happy Monday, @fire cat pickles and everyone! This week for me will be The Raziel Tarot Major Arcana: The Secret Teachings of Adam & Eve, the last of my majors-only decks to be a deck of the week. (If I take a break from buying decks, I could continue to catch up with decks I already have. But you know that’s not going to happen . . .) It’s a majors deck of Jewish myths and legends (some biblical, some not) created by Rachel Pollack and Robert Place. (The beautiful art is by Robert Place, of course!) The book refers to plans for a full deck, but Ms. Pollack is now deceased, so I don’t think we can expect that. It has two additional cards, The Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. The deck name is based on a legend that the angel Raziel gave Adam and Eve a book of knowledge that would help them when they were expelled from the garden. (Not Aziraphale and not a flaming sword, Good Omens fans!) Sometimes it’s a book of alchemy about combining the three elements (fire, water, and air), and sometimes it’s an amethyst crystal that shows the future. So there’s a lot to work with! I’m in the process of reading the book again, but I think I can get started with a short interview. (And stay tuned for a bunch of three-card spreads this week!) What is your strength? The Tree of Life The deck’s strength is its connection with Kabbalah? Or it’s more connected to the esoteric than it is to biblical concepts. Your weakness? Strength, the Queen of Sheba Weakness is strength. Ok. The feminist themes don’t really work with the biblical ones? Even though she is a biblical character. What can I learn from you? The Chariot I can learn how to go forward with simplified legends, simplified to emphasize the important parts. I can learn how to move forward toward success. What will be the outcome of our work together? The Moon The deck will bring up a lot of wild intuitive ideas, but it might not shed any real light on things. Well, not too positive! We’ll see how it goes!
Bodhiseed Posted July 7, 2025 Posted July 7, 2025 4 hours ago, Rachelcat said: (If I take a break from buying decks, I could continue to catch up with decks I already have. But you know that’s not going to happen . . .) 😄 - but I get to live vicariously through all your purchases!
Bodhiseed Posted July 7, 2025 Posted July 7, 2025 Thank you Fire cat! I'm in with the Tarot of the Crone paired with the Wondering Traveler's Oracle. I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation - either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. ―Martin Luther King, Jr. Ellen designates this card Sacrifice rather than Hanged Man, emphasizing the suffering we endure as we are forced to bend to life as it is. Without thinking we're special or making it into a lifestyle, she encourages us to discover what is at the root of this pain and learn from it. Seeking a new perspective rather fighting reality is what can bring transformation. The oracle card reminds us that even though the world seems to be on a never-ending rinse and repeat cycle, time brings change and wisdom. A philosopher on PBS reminded his listeners that it was in the middle of the Black Death (the bubonic plague) that Julian of Norwich had a vision and proclaimed, "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." Such a shift is shown in the crone's smiling face in the water.
JoyousGirl Posted July 7, 2025 Posted July 7, 2025 4 hours ago, Bodhiseed said: this card Sacrifice Wow @Bodhiseed I'm really struck by the similarities in the shape of the path the tears make in the first image, and the the roots in the second. Were these random draws? I certainly agree the card is about contemplating the meaning of our suffering as we go through it. And like you, I live vicariously through this thread 😎
fire cat pickles Posted July 7, 2025 Author Posted July 7, 2025 Welcome back @Rachelcat and @Bodhiseed 😀
Bodhiseed Posted July 7, 2025 Posted July 7, 2025 1 hour ago, JoyousGirl said: I'm really struck by the similarities in the shape of the path the tears make in the first image, and the the roots in the second. Were these random draws? I certainly agree the card is about contemplating the meaning of our suffering as we go through it. I thought the same thing about the roots and the tears! (And yes, they were random draws. 😊❤️)
Rachelcat Posted July 8, 2025 Posted July 8, 2025 On 7/7/2025 at 1:48 PM, Bodhiseed said: 😄 - but I get to live vicariously through all your purchases! Happy to be of service! 😺
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