Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 438: Nov. 24 - Nov. 30

[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 any time—reality and life permitting. New to tarot? Long time reader? Come on in!

 

Participants

1. fire cat pickles: TdM (Grimaud 1970 English ed.) 
2. Bodhiseed: Restored Order Tarot paired with the Oracle of Kabbalah
3. Rachelcat: Heckadeck Playing Cards
4. Mi-Shell: Wingspan Cards

 

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Edited December 1, 2025 by fire cat pickles

[Bodhiseed]

I'm grateful for you, Fire cat! I'm in this week with the Restored Order Tarot paired with the Oracle of Kabbalah.

 

  

(Chet artwork by Joel Moskowitz)

 

Fear is the major motivator for all of the action that takes place in the world. 
―Larry Winget

With a mind as sharp as her sword, the Queen of Swords prefers her conversations to be in person. She knows and notices 'tells,' small unconscious actions that expose a lie, omission or half-truth.  Her aim is not to shame others, but to instruct them: fear of the truth means that there is no foundation for solutions or making a better beginning. Chet resembles an archway or doorway and suggests that we have the power of choice to go beyond our normal reactions to life. Many of the barriers that hold us back are imagined; we'll never know what we can accomplish without stepping through that door. As William Shakespeare wrote, “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” 

[Rachelcat]

Hi all!  Thanks, @fire cat pickles!  Wow, @Bodhiseed, that's the Oracle of Kabbalah?!  I have a deck of the same name, but the card art is just a black Hebrew letter on white card.  Is the author Richard Seidman?  I'll have to look into this version!  In the meantime, for me this week will be Heckadeck Playing Cards, a repeat.  I have made up keywords and will be unashamedly using my cheat sheet to read this deck this week.  I need to confirm whether this deck and my keywords are actually readable.

 

It’s a French-suited deck that’s more than doubled with extras:  Extra suits of acorns (a German suit), clouds, knives, and planets; extra number cards 0 and 11; and extra courts (some I chose to use as courts) beast, talisman, hunter, traveler, and arrow.  There are an additional nine cards I’m using as majors:  four jokers and five other cards. 

 

I hijacked court keywords from an MBTI expansion project I found on Amazon.

 

Let’s get started with an interview.

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  A Knives, Reason

The most important thing about this deck is the fact that I figured out so many keywords for it.

 

What is your strength?  2 Knives, Impartiality

It’s a deck that gives it to you straight, not exaggerating the good or bad.

 

Your weakness?  5 Acorns, Breaking free

It’s actually pretty traditional and not as creative as it could be.

 

What can I learn from you?  Beast of Clubs, Jackalope, Social influencer

I can learn that all readings are interpersonal exchanges, not something imposed from the outside, neither the cards you get nor the interpretations.

 

How can I learn it?  6 Diamonds, Plenty

I can learn that by comparing reading with this deck with the readings with all my other decks.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Red Joker

It will be airy and ephemeral.  And quick and protective.

 

Fun!  We’ll see!

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed and @Rachelcat 😀

[Mi-Shell]

Well, you all know, that i am slightiy crazzzzy, right?

I will prove that this week by experimenting to read with our very large collection of

Wingspan cards!  🙂

 

 

Wingspan is a board game we love and play often, yesterday for example with a group of 8 players.

Each time I draw a new card to ad to my sanctuary i am getting "glimpses" of meanings/ what the card is telling me... 

So- now let's see  🙂

 

Edited November 24, 2025 by Mi-Shell

[Mi-Shell]

My card is the European Dunnock:

 

 

This is a robin sized, relatively sectetive forest Bird and that lives in Europe and Asiaand is found in thickets and hedges. 

It is a migratory species, travelling long distances every year.

Here it sits among some quite poky thorns. It however is not bothered by these thorns and rather sings its lovely little song. 

This little Bird reminds me, that when I go to our local drum circle tonight, I might get a bit og a "thorny" welcome from some participants. 

I have been away, travelling for several months while many others here are struggeling.....

So I will not chirp too much of past travel adventures.......  

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Mi-Shell!

 

Wingspan cards sound very cool!

[Bodhiseed]

21 hours ago, Rachelcat said:

Wow, @Bodhiseed, that's the Oracle of Kabbalah?!  I have a deck of the same name, but the card art is just a black Hebrew letter on white card.  Is the author Richard Seidman? 

Yes, that's the book and deck I'm using, but because the cards are so plain, I look for artwork elsewhere (note the "Chet artwork by Joel Moskowitz" below the cards). 😊 

Edited November 25, 2025 by Bodhiseed

[Bodhiseed]

18 hours ago, Mi-Shell said:

Well, you all know, that i am slightiy crazzzzy, right?

I will prove that this week by experimenting to read with our very large collection of

Wingspan cards! 

I think birds have a lot to teach us! 😊

[Mi-Shell]

Wingspan card Puffin

 

is my card of the day!

Puffin indeed is a “Wish upon a Star card for me!

It was one of the Birds we (bird Nerds per excellence!!) really wanted to get to see.

Even on our travel diary we affixed a Puffin picture!

And we got our wish:

We were on the Ferry Komatik to Nain, a remote northern Labrador fishing village.

There was a bad storm and the boat rolled and pitched as it fought against the high seas.

In this dangerous and inclement weather a Puffin must have gotten attracted to the ship's lights and ended up on the upper deck.

We only found it, when we reached the harbour late after midnight.

Here is me, wet and bedraggled, gently picking up the exhausted Bird, to lift it clear of the high railing and let it take off from my hands.

Sure, I got bitten in the finger, but I did not mind. 🙂

 

So to the card:

Of cause it reminds me of this first sighting and all the adventures we had this fall. The Puffin confidently looks to the right = future knowing full well, what bonus cards the future has in store for us.

A lucky card to have.

In the Wingspan game the 3 fish tell the player, what expenses it takes to get to have a Puffin in one's sanctuary. In the game fish are hard to get, but well worth the effort.

The Star symbol points to this being a flexible wish card.

Puffins are endangered and only lay 1 egg a nesting season.

Both parents work tirelessly to feed and raise that chick and keep all the numerous Gulls away from the burrow.

 

[Rachelcat]

3 hours ago, Bodhiseed said:

Yes, that's the book and deck I'm using, but because the cards are so plain, I look for artwork elsewhere (note the "Chet artwork by Joel Moskowitz" below the cards). 😊 

Ohhh!  The art is beautiful!  I'll be following along because I haven't used mine yet (except as calendar altar cards long ago . . .).

[fire cat pickles]