Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 455: Mar. 23 - Mar. 29

[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: Conver Ancient TdM
2. Bodhiseed: Brady Tarot paired with the Citadel Deck
3. Rachelcat: Leaves of Wisdom, Soulful Reflections by Walt Whitman

 

 

Click here for DOTW 454 (3/16-3/22)

Click here for DOTW 456 (3/30 - 4/5)

Edited March 30 by fire cat pickles

[Bodhiseed]

Thanks Fire cat! I'm in with the Brady Tarot paired with the Citadel Deck.

 

  

 

Energy surges through all things, giving rise to them, sustaining them, and transforming them into something else. What remains beyond the birth and death of all things is the energy that bounds forth into new forms upon the demise of the old. ―Dale S. Wright

 

Eggs, a caterpillar, a chrysalis and a skipper butterfly represent different stages on the Web of Life. The Wheel of Fortune is about movement - physical, mental and spiritual. Where we find ourselves on it is meant to help us develop and mature using the energy of life we've been given. However, the Miser (who hoards not just material things but is unyielding in all things) demands that everything be frozen in time to his liking. Yet stagnation is not healthy for our well-being or progress. As Eric Fromm stated, "Often we, the individual or the people who make up a society, have the illusion we could stand still and not alter the given situation in the one or the other direction. This is one of the most dangerous illusions. The moment we stand still, we begin to decay."
 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed 😀

[Rachelcat]

Hi all!  This week will be Leaves of Wisdom: Soulful reflections by Walt Whitman, the last of my ill-gotten Llewellyn tarot sale decks (until I get my preorders, that is!). It’s another a-few-lines-of-poetry-on-cards deck, this one from Blue Gaia, an offshoot of Blue Angel.  It’s 55 small landscape text cards with quotes from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.  I might have to read the whole thing in order soon, but first let’s play!

 

 

What is your most important characteristic? 

Not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you,

You must travel it for yourself.

Even though it’s a “spiritual” deck of poetry, it gives practical, common-sense advice.

 

What is your strength? 

Here, take this gift,

I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general,

One who should serve the good old cause,

the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,

Some brave confronter of despots, some daring rebel;

But I see that what I was reserving

belongs to you just as much as to any.

So does this mean I’m NOT a hero?  What’s the gift?  Obviously, the strength is it asks more questions than it answers.

I’m thinking it’s saying common people CAN be heroes, and the gift is his admiration and appreciation.

 

Your weakness? 

I perceive I have not really understood anything,

not a single object, and that no man ever can …

It is a weakness to offer understanding and then disclaim any ability to do so.

 

What can you teach me? 

Clear and sweet is my soul,

and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

All things are pure to the pure.  And we’re all pure if we want to be.

 

How can I learn it? 

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

The way to be clear and sweet is to celebrate myself and others.  And realize our commonalities, not our differences.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together? 

And I will thread a thread through my poems

that time and events are compact,

And that all the things of the universe are

Perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

I will appreciate a more cosmic (universe) and simultaneously more cozy (compact) view of the world. 

 

Ok, we’ll see about all that!  I’m liking it so far, except that the lines are centered.  Most poetry lines (but I don’t know about Leaves of Grass specifically) are left-aligned.

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Rachelcat!

[fire cat pickles]