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: Tarot de la Rea

2. Bodhiseed: Slavic Legends Tarot paired with the Urban Crow Oracle

3. Rachelcat: Aleister Crowley Thoth Small Tarot Deck, US Games

4. Mi-Shell: Alchemist's Garden Tarot

 

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Edited August 3Aug 3 by fire cat pickles

Thank you Fire cat! I'm in this week with the Slavic Legends Tarot paired with the Urban Crow Oracle.

Slavic Legends Tarot, Eight of Cups; Urban Crow Oracle, Sacred Space

De fumo in flammam ("out of the smoke into the flame").

—Tertullian

This fellow has his knapsack packed and doesn't even bother to glance at the cups dangling below him. He traverses a waterfall, suggesting he is leaving behind a tumultuous relationship. Why do we leave partners, friends or groups? Ultimately the misery of holding on outweighs the benefits of staying. Yet there is caution needed - we may jump from one extreme into its opposite, thinking it to be better. For instance, we might leave someone who is cold, uncommunicative and distant only to find ourselves with someone who is clingy and shares every thought nonstop. Sacred Space suggests we find some time to incubate our own values and objectives before we make a leap. By spending time alone, we can center ourselves, remembering what is important, and ground ourselves, allowing our emotions to calm.

Hi! Happy Monday! It’s time to finish up my Golden Dawn category with three weeks of Thothy decks.  This week will be the Aleister Crowley Thoth Small Tarot Deck, US Games (which is really the medium size) purple box along with my large green box trimmed, which turn out to be about the same size.  The medium has the two extra Magus cards, which I won’t use. I attach my Thoth attributions table just because.

 

 

 

Two interviews!

 

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  King of Wands

I’m purposely misnaming to emphasize the names and titles aren’t on the trimmed cards.

This deck goes boldly forward in its own way, while still using an existing system, like even the most radical king is king because of tradition.  (A usurper or dictator is different.)

 

What is your strength?  2 Disks, Jupiter in Capricorn

Again, it’s a good balance of innovation and tradition.  It expands (Jupiter) on other people’s hard work (Capricorn). 

 

Your weakness?  6 Disks, Moon in Taurus, and all the planets, assuming the yellow circle is the sun

I don’t have to have all the versions of the Thoth deck.  That would be an illusion (moon) of greed (Taurus).

 

What can I learn from you?  Ace of Swords, Thelema

I’ve already learned a lot from this deck!  Especially to have my own ideas and own will about tarot!

 

How can I learn it?  9 Disks, Venus in Virgo

More disks.  I have learned to follow my own ideas by owning lots of decks and learning from them all.  Venus in Virgo is kind of the opposite of Moon in Taurus, in that my pleasure in owning decks and organizing them has been a good way for me to learn.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  9 Wands, Sun in Sagittarius

Another 9.  I will be able to defend trimming this deck and using a trimmed deck!

 

Fun!

What is your most important characteristic?  2 Cups, Love, Venus in Cancer

Well, that sounds good!  The deck is for lovers of the Thoth and esoteric things.

 

What is your strength?  The Tower, Mars

It’s just very, very strong.  It’s not afraid to tell the negative with the positive.

 

Your weakness?  Ace of Wands

Similar!  All that fire can be too much.

 

What can I learn from you?  Prince of Wands

Three courts together.  And more fire.

I can learn to be active and move forward.

 

How can I learn it?  Knight of Cups

I can learn about being active by being in charge of my own emotions.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  Knight of Swords

I will be in charge of my ideas and understanding.

 

Ok, we’ll see!

 

Thoth Astrological Attributions with titles and decan planets.pdf

Welcome back @Bodhiseed and @Rachelcat 😀

This week I am working with my beloved Alchemist's Garden Tarot.

It depicts all plants used in shamanic practice. Many are halucinogenic healing herbs and fungi, dangerous for people, that do not know them and their properties well.

With many of these I have a personal working relationship and quite a few I have used in powerful healing with patients.

Welcome back @Mi-Shell!