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. BrightEye: The Old Lenormand by Alexander Glück

3. Bodhiseed: The Gill Tarot paired with The Circle

4. Rachelcat: Art Deco Fortune Telling Cards

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Edited October 19Oct 19 by fire cat pickles

I’m in this week with the Old Lenormand by Alexander Glück. This is reproduction of the apparently oldest Lenormand deck. The cards have a really nice energy. Will post a reading with scans later.

Thank you, Fire Cat! I'm in with the Gill Tarot paired with The Circle this week.

Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen. —Ralph Marston

The King of Wands is Fire of Fire, full of aggressive, dynamic energy. When he gets inspired, he uses his strong will to motivate everyone to step lively. He'd prefer to have everything done by yesterday and tolerates no slackers. On the plus side, he's like a lightning bolt - his burning enthusiasm only lasts for so long (which is a blessing to those working for him). Flow comes to remind the King and us that having things done NOW is not always possible; reality often intervenes. We can't always micromanage and force the results we want. Sometimes we must work with what we're given and allow time for things to develop on their own. As Matsuo Bashō wrote, "Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."

Welcome back @BrightEye and @Bodhiseed 😀

Here I am! Mondays are getting so busy these days! (I do my reviews and interviews on Sunday, but I don't even have time to post them on Monday!)

This week will be Art Deco Fortune Telling Cards. It’s the last of my sibillas to be used as a deck of the week! Published by Piatnik. Instead of a booklet, it has two instruction cards in German. Somewhere online I found an original publication date of 1936. A fun thing about the deck is all the languages. As listed on the box: Serbo-Kroatisch, Englisch, Deutsch, Ungarisch, and Italienisch. I didn’t know Serbo-Croatian was a language. According to Wikipedia, it is also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS). (Ungarisch is Hungarian.)

 

As I did for Arcana Folia, I did a quick analysis.  The 52 cards are:

18 people

13 emotions

16 experiences/situations

5 physical things

 

I’m not sure how reading will go with so many people cards.  I gave up on G***y Oracle Cards because I couldn’t make that work.  We’ll see this week!

 

What is your most important characteristic?  message

Well, that makes sense!  The deck’s purpose is to give messages.

 

What is your strength?  journey

It’s good at messages about the future.

 

Your weakness?  malady

It’s bad with health readings.

 

What can you teach me?  judge

It can help me understand any moral choices I need to make.

 

How can I learn it?  thief

A fun pair!  I can learn about choices but I might have to squint or make stuff up instead of following the letter of the messages given.

 

What will be the outcome of our work together?  fortune

She’s strewing roses and coins from her cornucopia.

Similar to the first card, the deck will be a true fortune-teller for me.

 

I hope so!

 

Welcome back @Rachelcat!

Two of Swords, Tarot de la rea

The plan is to do my two yoga classes (take not teach) with my out-of-town skin doctor appointment in the middle. All in all, a busy(ish). Not a crazy, run-around-town like a chicken with its head cut off day, but "full schedule" day nonetheless. That would have been a different card. This is a calmer, lower numbered card. I can also appreciate the two-ness of the card. The decisiveness, the decisions or planning for the day had already been made. Now on to implement it.

Edited October 19Oct 19 by fire cat pickles