fire cat pickles Posted August 11, 2025 Posted August 11, 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: Connolly Tarot Rachelcat: The Atomic Cat Tarot Libra 58: Tarot of the 78 Doors Bodhiseed: The Sheridan -Douglas paired with the Pages of Shustah JoyousGirl: Neuzeit Tarot Click here for DoW 422 (8/4 - 8/10) Click here for DoW 424 (8/1/ - 8/24) Edited August 18, 2025 by fire cat pickles
Rachelcat Posted August 11, 2025 Posted August 11, 2025 Hi, @fire cat pickles! I'm in this week with Atomic Cat Tarot. It’s a recent Kickstarter that features cats in the style variously called atomic punk, retro-futurism, mid-century modern, and Jetsons style. What I didn’t expect that caught my eye is the prevalence of mid-century modern chairs. And martini glasses. And Italian scooters. It came with a cute yes or no coin, I’m assuming a stretch goal. It’s cute and fun, and I haven’t used a RWS-style deck in quite a while, so let’s see what we can do with it! What is your most important characteristic? Ten of Wands Maybe it goes overboard on its theme. Or it was a lot of work for a simple (but fun) result. What is your strength? Ten of Cups But maybe fun and cute are what are important! Enjoyment and love are the point. Your weakness? Three of Cups Meta: I’ve mentioned before about another deck (Tarot of Pagan Cats) that cats don’t hold things with their tails. That a weakness in any cat deck. What can you teach me? King of Wands One of the many chairs. The salamander is on the tv! The deck can teach me how to take action and be a leader. How can I learn it? Six of Wands I can learn to be a leader by excelling and being a leader. Ok. What will be the outcome of our work together? The Hierophant Tail-holding again. As I mentioned, I’ll enjoy working with a RWSish deck. Even if it’s a little off kilter, like the cat’s miter. Maybe this will be my go-to RWS deck in the future. Fun and interesting reading!
Libra 58 Posted August 11, 2025 Posted August 11, 2025 (edited) I'm in with Tarot of the 78 doors. Monday card: The Hierophant I have a lot of knowledge but the key to open the right door is to know what key and what door to open! (This card is very religious to me and I don't want to go that way). The man on the card is doing a sign with his right hand, but I don't know what it means. The thumb and index finger in the air and the other three fingers down in his hand. It looks like a Mudra sign. The two lambs, one on each side of him, I see as a new beginning. Need to learn from the beginning and start all over again with more knowledge, before I move on. Edited August 11, 2025 by Libra 58
Bodhiseed Posted August 12, 2025 Posted August 12, 2025 Thanks Fire cat! I'm in with the Sheridan -Douglas Tarot paired with the Pages of Shustah. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ― Marcus Aurelius Destiny (the Shustah card) refers to external things that we can't control. The Eight of Swords puts us smack dab in the middle of a bunch of them. It's easy to get overwhelmed in this place and fall into "woe is me" mode. In Buddhism, suffering is said to be caused by the disconnect between what we want and what reality gives us. Yet if we can find a way to calm and center ourselves, we can take another peek at reality and perhaps see that while it may be upsetting, it isn't as horrible as we imagined it to be. At this point, we can determine an appropriate response to deal with it.
Libra 58 Posted August 12, 2025 Posted August 12, 2025 Tuesday card: 5 of Swords. My economy is not bad, but I shall think about what I spend my money on and plan more ahead. Maybe donate more to those in need. I also need to think about new warm shoes and clothes for myself, autumn is not far away.
JoyousGirl Posted August 13, 2025 Posted August 13, 2025 I'll join in with my new Neuzeit and because it seems quite sociological, I'll pair it with my Wheel of Change.
fire cat pickles Posted August 13, 2025 Author Posted August 13, 2025 Welcome @JoyousGirl! 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 Posted August 13, 2025 Posted August 13, 2025 (edited) Wednesday card: Strength. A lion is guarding a door with the eternity sign on. The woman who is patting the lion is also doing the sign with her other hand as the Hierophant did on the card for Monday! Still don´t know what it means! The Strength card for me just point out that I´m stronger than I think. I will fight my illness as hard I can, the way I want and will in the future. Edited August 14, 2025 by Libra 58
Libra 58 Posted August 14, 2025 Posted August 14, 2025 Thursday card: The Fool. The young man is standing with the key to the future in his hand, it looks like he is trying to open the sky. So this is something I have to imagine in my head. A new beginning of something for the future. I have no idea what it will be.
Libra 58 Posted August 16, 2025 Posted August 16, 2025 Friday card: The Stars. Confusing card! It looks more like the Temperance card in RWS than the normal Star card. The naked woman is looking up on the stars and the two pots in here hands is full of water and she just let them pour out the water on the ground. A lot of feelings and dreams, her mind is far away. Maybe it just repeat all my dreams that feel so far away and I know it will never be the way I want it!
JoyousGirl Posted August 16, 2025 Posted August 16, 2025 (edited) I wasn’t sure If I should be asking questions or just asking for a card to learn. But I have an idea about how I want to work with these decks and so it just made sense to ask them to see how they’d respond. Question 1 for Neuzeit: What is the lesson for humanity at this time? King of Pentacles reversed Question 2 for Wheel of Change: What does each member of humanity need to do to help the Earth, essentially make the world a better place? Death Q1. It used to be the King who did all sorts of shocking things to get more power, money and wealth by questionable means. Now it’s all the people, too. We all want to be “kings” with fancy cars, clothes and other status symbols – and aren't mindful of squashing other living things in the process - they're considered beneath us. Shareholders want profits for doing nothing, which means a lack of integrity and values. Not working with and getting to know the Earth for their yields but exploiting it like colonisation, and the buying and selling of people - which still occurs because employers own us. Why can't we just volunteer now we know better? The King here wears glasses. "Spectacles" He does not see things properly in sharp focus. In reversed position, the pictures behind the king show progress means moving to the right - back to nature. Whereas upright nature or natural lifestyles was in the past and progress meant roads and polluting technologies that supposedly make our lives easier. But these days no-one stays home to look after the children they make, but pay someone else to do it. Weird. BOOK: “One man’s fortune is another man’s ruin.” Support of the older generation is in danger. Children have lost a sense of proportion in money matters. Traditional skills bring profit. Good ideas come too late. The tendency to overestimate oneself. This really confronts us with it all. Old people get thrown on the scrapheap and rot in homes all alone and while once prized for their wisdom it is now ignored. Children commit crimes to get money. Traditional skills are incredibly useful, but now machines do everything (which use electricity, which uses fossil fuels) and the knowledge is lost (what will warm and feed people in ice-ages when there's no animals other than humans left?) Good ideas come too late, well where is all the technology that the government says will solve the problems - you know, the problems technology created? Man certainly overestimates himself – he thinks he’s the smartest but he’s ****ting all over the place not looking closely at what he’s doing. It's a sick bird that fouls its own nest. We're not the smartest, we're the dumbest. And as for one man's fortune is another man's ruin - well look at all the happy villagers across the world in the Amazon, or the fishermen in Madagascar - getting murdered for their land so someone can make money; or the homeless people who can't afford a home because houses have become investments - they're not homes any more. "All is vanity" says the Bible. And ain't it right! Check out his crown... Q2. Accept we will die and decide how we want to live. Strip all the conditioning and get to the bones of who we are. What really holds us up and supports us? Stripping means seeing what we’re made of. Bones are full of phosphorus and the plants need this to grow. So we should be helping other people and things to grow. Nature uses everything, nothing becomes waste, it all biodegrades and feeds something else. We need to cut back on everything and participate meaningfully in the cycle – let go of attachment to “stuff” and “status” while we are alive. We need to think of what we are harvesting from our reaping. There’s 4 crows in this image and I saw 4 crows when I sat down at the park to pull out the cards. Crow augury suggests 4 means birth. So if I consider the first deck “Neuzeit” means new age, is this a dawning of a new age? This is the Anthropocene. Nothing will be the same and we are responsible for that. BOOK: Death implies a big change that you must give up life in the way that you know it. Nurture the quality of acceptance. Yes, we must be prepared to change - each one of us - we must give things up, lose the attachments we have to things. Accept there are thorns in life, but also the simplest things are the best and the most beautiful. Most importantly of all, accept "No" for an answer. Edited August 16, 2025 by JoyousGirl
Libra 58 Posted August 16, 2025 Posted August 16, 2025 Saturday card: The Fool, again! The Fool is showing me that I have to trust my playful side of life and move on. I will never go forward if I don´t try something new. But I´m to tired and ill for any major changings, so what can I do?
Libra 58 Posted August 17, 2025 Posted August 17, 2025 Sunday card: Temperance. What ever it´s that I´m suppose to do, I have to take the time and plan ahead, so I don´t rush through things. Better to do things in my own way than listen to other peoples plans and rush. I have to stand my own ground when people are trying to stress me up.
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