fire cat pickles Posted Monday at 10:47 AM Posted Monday at 10:47 AM (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: Tarot de la Rea Bodhiseed: Tarot of the Orishas paired with Diloggun Cards Rachelcat: Lessons from the Liminal Space Mi-Shell: The "All Our Relations" Gratitude Deck BrightEye: First Occult Tarot Click here for DOTW 468 (6/22-6/28) Edited yesterday at 09:02 AM by fire cat pickles
Bodhiseed Posted Monday at 01:10 PM Posted Monday at 01:10 PM Thank you Fire cat! I'm in this week with the Tarot of the Orishas paired with Diloggun Cards. I think the Tarot de la Rea is beautiful! Your perspective will either become your prison or your passport. —Steven Furtick Ochosi is the Orisha of the hunt, forests and animals, yet he is also known as a believer of impartial justice and equality. He has a little chuckle at us today, because we've constructed a prison for ourselves made of our own thoughts. Ochosi says, "You stand and look in one direction, seeking resources or a solution to your problem. Can you not look to the left, the right and behind you, realizing there are many other options?" The proverb for Edi (Seven Mouths) reads: "Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living." Curiosity is the partner of patience; curiosity heightens our patience by keeping us interested. It grants us time to unravel problems rather than create more.
Rachelcat Posted Monday at 03:37 PM Posted Monday at 03:37 PM Hi, all! The best laid plans of finishing up my Golden Dawn decks have been derailed. This week will be a new acquisition, Lessons from the Liminal Space. This is what happens when I’m not busy at work and start browsing decks! I wanted to add an oracle to my “Abstract” category, and I think this will do the trick. (The only other abstract oracle I have is The Secret World of Crystals Journey Cards, which is close-up photos of the interior of crystals, so it looks abstract, but it’s not exactly abstract art.) According to the booklet, the creator of Lessons from the Liminal Space is a magical practitioner and healer with synesthesia. As you see, the cards are abstract paintings with longish key sentences. 46 cards. Card 1 is an affirmation, but the rest are advice and/or observations. It will be interesting to see how the art reflects the words. The booklet provides spreads as rituals and lists and describes liminal deities. I’m throwing the deck into the deep end with a regular interview and then a full moon reading, but I think after that I’ll do one moon phase card plus one Lessons card to make this an easier week. What is your most important characteristic? At times, the healthiest decision is to sit, wait, and listen. Art: Green for healthy. Things haven’t come together yet. The deck is about health and messages to listen to. What is your strength? Allowing yourself to take spaces does not take space from others. Do not let anyone prevent your expansion. Art: The while tentacles are taking space without taking form the other colors. It’s very supporting of individuals over groups. Your weakness? When you stop looking, the right messages will come. Art: We’re in the dark but the light is just outside of it. This is maybe too ironic for an oracle. But I believe it’s true. What can you teach me? People weave in and out of our lives. Receive new friends with gratitude. Art: This is beautiful. Obviously woven threads. Looks like Mondrian. It can teach me how better to receive friends and let others go. How can I learn it? Home is the curation of the many feelings we wish to dwell in. Art: It looks like branches around a nest. These go together well. Friends arriving and departing and what home means. I can learn about friends by reflecting on who I want in my home. What will be the outcome of our work together? Intention is surrender. When intention is clear, so is the path. Art: Looks similar to previous card but more floral. Brighter colors for more active. I don’t find that to be true in my case. I know what I want to do, but I don’t know how to do it. (Similar to just knowing what the problem is doesn’t solve it.) Maybe the deck will help me connect my intentions with my path. Wow, the many cards worked much better than I thought it would. We’ll see if that continues this week.
Mi-Shell Posted Monday at 09:12 PM Posted Monday at 09:12 PM Hi Everyone! Oh, @Rachelcatand @Bodhiseed! 🙂 I do like the decks you chose for this week! ♥ ♥ My deck for today will be something I got as a gift on National Indigenous Day - Summer Solstice: The "All Our Relations" Gratitude Deck. I have not even unwraped it, so this is a picture from the net:
fire cat pickles Posted Tuesday at 08:23 AM Author Posted Tuesday at 08:23 AM Welcome back gang! @Bodhiseed @Rachelcat @Mi-Shell
Bodhiseed Posted Tuesday at 12:49 PM Posted Tuesday at 12:49 PM @fire cat pickles, I'm using the Tarot Lukumi this week, not the Tarot of the Orishas! 🙃
BrightEye Posted Tuesday at 02:33 PM Posted Tuesday at 02:33 PM I’ll carry on with the First Occult Tarot (Robert Place).
Mi-Shell Posted Tuesday at 04:32 PM Posted Tuesday at 04:32 PM Well well, I am not so sure, what kind of deck this is???? The author claims to be Native, but is not, what one only finds out on page 3 of gooooogle in very small print: Quote: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D. Born in Missouri in 1946, Four Arrows is Irish, Tsalagi and a "made relative" of the Oglala ... 2 of my Oglala friends had not too much good to say about him..... so I will not repeat that here.... As a companion book I am having a VERY LOOOOONG folded list of Common Indigenous worldview manifestations - - versus- - Common dominant worldview manifestations Well, to me personally - they "suck" and many are downright confrontational and have...... well see for yourself and then tell me, ifffff you see yourself reflected Are YOU lacking empathy?? Is anyone here ?? Anywhere?? Oh bummer! @Bodhiseed @fire cat pickles @Rachelcat and others!♥ Please let me know, what you think! Mi-Shell
BrightEye Posted yesterday at 08:13 AM Posted yesterday at 08:13 AM @Mi-Shell I find this very reductive, binary, and offensive with regard to both cultural contexts. Some “characteristics” are just bizarre (“words used to deceive others”). However, I can see the intent behind it. “Emphasis on dualistic thinking”: this is how “Western” thought has been structured since Plato. Derrida famously critiques this. “Detachment from the land” also correct in the context of European colonialism. So I think the leaflet critiques a certain aspect of “white” culture, i.e. its colonial politics and hierarchical thinking, while disregarding nuance within that culture (not all Westerners are detached from the land they live on; quite the opposite in a lot of cases). More worryingly, this man is instrumentalising and exploiting Indigenous cultures in his “critique” of a certain aspect of Western thinking that he universalises.
fire cat pickles Posted yesterday at 09:02 AM Author Posted yesterday at 09:02 AM Welcome back @BrightEye 🙂
Bodhiseed Posted yesterday at 01:00 PM Posted yesterday at 01:00 PM (edited) @Mi-Shell, he does use a rather wide brush to paint everyone! It is odd, as Bright Eye mentioned, that he seems to have ignored the responsibility of his appropriation. Edited yesterday at 01:03 PM by Bodhiseed
Rachelcat Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago The author could have just left out the negative "dominant world view" items and let us draw our own conclusions. I think that would have been kinder as well as more accurate. And he should talk about deception, huh? I hope you can find some peace about the cards.
Mi-Shell Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago Hi guys! ♥ Thank you for your input! I very much agree with everything you said. ( @Bodhiseed ♥ @BrightEye ♥and @Rachelcat ♥ ) I feel, that this person weaponizes these almost stereotypical "World view manifestations" and uses this for his own agenda. This deck is prized as wonderful by certain indigenous media outlets and stirs up anger and resentment among indigenous users and also settlers and visitors. It literally "stirs the pot" I do not think, that this is good for anybody. I wish this controversial "manifesto" would have been left out. I am soooo taken aback by it, that I have not even looked at the cards themselves. I will do that tomorrow and then write about it here!
BrightEye Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago @Mi-Shell I think a subversive thing to do - and maybe a way to find peace with the cards - would be to bin the LWB and radically reinterpret the images. I don’t know if they correspond at all with your worldview and sensibility, but if they do, you could “appropriate” them back/ reclaim them into your own context. I can’t tell from your scans what the text on the card backs says. Is it equally offensive? Are you able to ignore it and just work with the images?
Bodhiseed Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 4 hours ago, BrightEye said: Maybe a way to find peace with the cards - would be to bin the LWB and radically reinterpret the images. Yes! @Mi-Shell, I agree with BrightEye. I've done the same thing with several decks, especially ones that seem to have and agenda or have weird interpretations that make no sense.
Mi-Shell Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago (edited) Good Morning, friends! ♥ Yes! That of course will be my next step. You could say, that Animals, their Biological info as well as the lore and legends surrounding them -from all different cultures is one of my life interest and joys. I actually like the simple wood-cut images of the cards. 🙂 Then there is a paragraph on the back, that reads a little as if derived from the IROQUOIS “Greetings and Gratitude to the Natural World” prayer, that we speak in the Longhouse before community events and ceremonies. It is not the text exactly but derived from it about the environmental importance of the Animal. Many of them are quite similar and it is a bit weird for me, to read a “Greetings and Gratitude” about a Penguin for “dispersing sea nutrients on land and being an indicator species”.... or a Kangaroo for having gut microbes, that “eat plant biomass but doe not release methane into the air”....?? The stories on the back are – as far as I have read them are short – for space – and kind of weird. None of them I have ever read or heard – which of course does not mean anything at all. This afternoon, when I have more time I will post a few of these..... Oh, yes, that “manifesto” is going into the category of mind-garbage! Edited 1 hour ago by Mi-Shell
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