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: Herbcrafter's Tarot paired with the Green Wheel Oracle

3. Rachelcat: Liber T, Tarot of the Stars Eternal

 

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Edited 10 hours ago10 hr by fire cat pickles

Thank you Fire cat!❤️ I'm in with the Herbcrafter's Tarot paired with the Green Wheel Oracle.

Herbcrafter's Tarot, Ten of Fire/Wands (Comfrey); Green Wheel Oracle, Wren

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying 'yes' too quickly and not saying 'no' soon enough. —Josh Billings

I've noticed that when you retire from the work force, people often seek you out to join groups or do volunteer work. Such endeavors can be beneficial, as they keep us active and involved with others. But at times they can become a burdensome demand. Comfrey has historically been used in salves and poultices to treat bruises and sprains. Its message is: "There can be too much of a good thing. Stop. Step away. Soothe yourself. Cut it down and it roars back to life." Like this herb, when we cut down our work and take time to rest, we can rejuvenate ourselves. Wren is a tiny bird with a big voice. It reminds us that people don't always accept what we're trying to tell them, but we need to have the confidence to stand up for what we need. Trying to please others rather than taking care of ourselves only leads to resentment, burnout and health issues. As Anna Taylor said, "You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept."

Edited August 10Aug 10 by Bodhiseed

Hi crew! Thanks, fire cat!

This week will be the last of my Thothy decks, Liber T: Tarot of the Stars Eternal. Besides being a surreal-ish version of Thoth illustrations, it also includes esoteric images assigned to the decans on the minors.  I’ll be using Scion’s Handy Guide to the Decans by Shawn Nacol, which he created and generously shared on Aeclectic back in 2005 when the deck came out, to try to figure them out.  (It’s a lot of information that I probably won’t do justice to, but I really appreciate it.)

 

Suits are scepters, cups, swords, and spheres.  Courts are knight, queen, prince, princess.

 

Interview time:

 

 

 

What is your most important characteristic?  5 Swords, Venus in Aquarius, human with the face of a dog + poor person holding a peacock + woman spinning

The deck is really its own ideas, which throw other deck ideas for a loop!

 

What is your strength?  5 Spheres, Mercury in Taurus, Osiris with the head of a bull, in the middle of its horns stands the goddess + plowing and working the earth + woman with a child

And the tattwas.  Another 5.  Not only are its ideas a challenge, its physical manifestation, the artwork, is a challenge too.

 

Your weakness?  3 Scepters, Sun in Aries,

A woman in green standing on one foot + two-headed with a lotus on its head.  Don’t see where the bird theme comes from . . .

And the scepters are lotus stems.  The deck goes forward and doesn’t wait for the user to catch up!

 

What can you teach me?  Prince of Swords, air of air, Sun in Capricorn and Venus and Mercury in Aquarius (the offset court decans with their planets.  Interesting.)

This is very much like the Thoth illustration, just in this artist’s style.  It can lead me down an intellectual rabbit hole, like it did Scion!

 

How can I learn it?  4 Spheres, Sun in Capricorn, a wise woman and a banker gathering his money + having before her book the tail of a fish

Goat head for Capricorn and the elements.  I can learn a lot of esoteric nonsense by being studious and holding on to the information in physical form (books and decks) I already have.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  3 Spheres, Mars in Capricorn, the face of a bull on the body of a man + a man throwing a javelin at a bird above two women embracing a single man

This illustration is the cover of the box.  Another Capricorn, 4 and 3 Spheres.  Two women embracing a man, like the Lovers?  I will appreciate this deck as an artifact: something that I’ve had for a long time and want to keep.  And as a work of art, odd as it is.

 

Ok, well, we’ll see about that! 

 

The starry background is always there but kind of subtle.

 

In case I’m not clear, the descriptions on the first line (with the +s) are info from Scion’s book.  The descriptions on the second line are just my observations of the illustrations.

 

Welcome back @Bodhiseed and @Rachelcat 😀

Liber T is one of my favorites!

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