fire cat pickles Posted yesterday at 12:00 PM Posted yesterday at 12:00 PM (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 any time—reality and life permitting. New to tarot? Long time reader? Come on in! Participants fire cat pickles: Ship of Fools (Williams) Bodhiseed: Somnia Tarot paired with Spirits of Nature Oracle Mi-Shell: Tarot of the Orishas Click here for DOTW 448 (2/2-2/8) Edited 23 hours ago by fire cat pickles
Bodhiseed Posted yesterday at 01:37 PM Posted yesterday at 01:37 PM (edited) Thanks Fire cat! I'm in with the Somnia Tarot paired with Spirits of Nature Oracle: Posted 23 hours ago Somnia Tarot, Seven of Wands; Spirits of Nature Oracle, Desert To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. —Sun Tzu It's interesting that the fellow on top of the hill has no sword or cannon, only a shield - his primary interest is defending his stance, not attacking others. The geometric compass on his shield implies wisdom, self-control, and the ability to circumscribe desires within moral boundaries. Standing up for ourselves has nothing to do with dishing dirt on others. If we take that approach, what is important gets lost in the chaos. A Desert is defined as a geographical area that gets 10 inches or less of rain (meaning even the Arctic and Antarctica qualify). Desert suggests that we are in dire need of something (water or warmth). But in the case of self-defense, it can hurt our goal if we get caught by the need to people please, to want others to like us and make us feel worthy, rather than accept our stance. Edited yesterday at 01:38 PM by Bodhiseed
fire cat pickles Posted yesterday at 04:22 PM Author Posted yesterday at 04:22 PM Welcome back @Bodhiseed 😀
Mi-Shell Posted yesterday at 05:14 PM Posted yesterday at 05:14 PM February is Black History month. This prompts me to get out my Tarot of the Orishas and investigate it.
Mi-Shell Posted yesterday at 05:24 PM Posted yesterday at 05:24 PM I got the Tarot of the Orishas 2 years ago - initialy for a friend, areverent of one of our local gospel churches. She also reads Tarot and uses it for spiritual "consultations" She is following one of the Orishas as a deciple. Well, she was NOT amused about my gift and gave me such a BIG "telling to", that I grabbed the offending Iten and crawled away,utterly ashamed of my total ignorance...... I still have no idea, why this deck is sooooo very horrrrrible... ?? Shall I even DARE to open the box -? Or will I just explode into brimstone and ash and splatter all over our new snow??
Mi-Shell Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago (edited) Well, Yesterday I did a LOT of reading. It all is VERY interesting and eye opening. A big problem is, that , like all the decks depicting speciffic cultures (NA, Buddhist, Romani and many others) the Tarot of the Orishas is full of Cultural Appropriation, misconceptions and misrepresentations. What is misrepresented is a question of whom you ask, there are as many opinions as there are practitiones of Candomble, Ifa, Santeria and other syncretic Afro American spiritual path. Quire a few practitioners for these pathways use these cards anyway, because they still are the "best fit" of all that is out there, iffff they use cards at all.... Next question then is if this deck - and many other comercial ly availlable items (statuets of yemaya for example) are a form - or fall- out of religious syncretism, of a watered down commercialised shadow of an authentic African religious path orsimple blasphemy? Then, to me personally the question arrises, ifff this is even Tarot? There are 77 cards, no courts and an unnumbered array of "Orisha" cards some of which could come close in some way to certain mayors. I will have to investigate that whole aspect closer in the coming days. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... I do not know, if it is appropriate for me to put links here to some things i read, that are relevant to this deck. For now i will just mention, that, to start my explorations, I tiped the following sentence into gooogle.... and fell into a rabbit hole: "Why do people hate the Tarot of the Orishas?" Edited 5 hours ago by Mi-Shell
Rachelcat Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago Hi all! Better late than never! I actually did this on Sunday, then got busy yesterday, so here we go! This week will be Sun Moon Rising: Conversations Inspired by the Constellations. It’s a game in which the players try to guess each other’s signs. I don’t really understand how the game works, but I’m not going to use it for that. 300 cards “I” with statements on both sides, so a lot to work with! And a bit of a shuffling challenge. Not sure how I’m going to read with it either, so bear with me! Maybe I’ll just lay down a card for sun, moon, and rising and see what I get. But let’s see how an interview will work first. What is your most important characteristic? I anticipate my partner’s needs before they’re expressed. (Cancer) Interesting. The purpose of the deck is a game in which players anticipate others’ needs. What is your strength? I can dish it, but I can’t take it. (Virgo) Not really a strength, I think. It’s good for some things but not for others. Your weakness? My flirty texts read like mini romance novels. (Libra) It’s not original. (Although I think it is!) What can I learn from you? I feel comfortable when people cry in front of me. (Aquarius) I can learn to be more comfortable and open to others’ feelings. Ok. How can I learn it? I don’t fit in, and I like it that way. (Aquarius) Two Aquarius together. I can learn to be open to others’ feelings by not trying to deal with it like others do. I’ll find my own way to understand and help. Ok. What will be the outcome of our work together? I’ve been kicked out of a venue. (Aries) The deck will be too difficult to deal with, and I’ll turn it out of my collection. I didn’t think about all the “I” statements being sensible for an interview! But it seems fun so far!
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