Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 458: Apr. 13 - Apr.19

[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: François Chosson 1736 
2. Bodhiseed: Animal Totem Tarot paired with the Blum/Gern Rune Cards
3. Rachelcat: The Witch’s Familiar Runic Oracle paired with Hematite Runes

 

 

Click here for DOTW 457 (4/6 - 4/12)

Edited 11 hours ago by fire cat pickles

[Bodhiseed]

I'm in this week with the Animal Totem Tarot paired with the Blum/Gern Rune Cards. Thank you for keeping us rolling along, Fire cat! 💓

 

  

 

I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.
―John Steinbeck

How many times have we made a vow - that we would or wouldn't do a particular thing - then find ourselves blowing up that promise spectacularly? We are easily triggered to slip back into old habits. But from the Buddhist point of view, vows are not something that we do perfectly; we just keep heading toward the horizon even though we'll never reach it. As Koshin Paley Ellison put it, "A vow is about the shape we give our life. Living by vow is a place of practice." Algiz is a rune of protection. Blum writes that the spiritual warrior must not collapse into the highs or lows of emotions. If we can be mindful rather than swept away, we'll keep heading toward the horizon.

[Rachelcat]

Thank you @fire cat pickles!  @Bodhiseed, those rune cards are cool, aren't they?  Enjoy!  And I'm in with runes this week, Hay House’s The Witch’s Familiar Runic Oracle paired with hematite runes.  The deck is a small, in card size and number of cards, 24 cards for the 24 runes.  I wasn’t attracted to the art, but I wanted to check out the author’s animal attributions to the runes.  US Games’ Animal Guide Rune Cards features chimera (composite) animals, and for some reason that gave me the ick, so I sprang for this one instead. 

 

The deck has black backgrounds (and green accents with lots of crystals), so it will pair well with my hematite runes, also pretty small.  I think I’ll just draw cards and pull out the corresponding rune, but we’ll see this week if there’s a better way to pair.

 

Small deck, so small interview!

 

 

What is your strength?  Jera, honeybee

Bees harvest pollen and create honey.

The deck’s strength is it actually creates something new using something old.

 

What is your weakness?  Ehwaz, horse

The traditional attribution for the rune.  Waning crescent.

The animals and runes are unequally yoked?  Nobody else will agree or be interested in the pairings?

 

What can I learn from you?  Naudhiz, honey badger

Honey badger don’t care!  It makes the most of what it has or finds and doesn’t mind fighting for it.  Waxing crescent.

I can learn to care less about things and more about attitude.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Eihwaz, black cat

With bat ears.  On a skull (looks like a cat’s skull).  This is a death card via yew, a cemetery tree, and the material for bows.  A bow moon!

When the week is over, I’ll be done with runes for a while.  But hopefully because I’ve learned enough for now, not because I don’t like them anymore.

 

Cool!  Off to a good start!

 

[fire cat pickles]

Welcome back @Bodhiseed and @Rachelcat!