VGimlet Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 This thread is for those who would like to work through their collection of decks. Each week on a Saturday we will be picking a new deck to work with exclusively for the week. Anyone is welcome. Please join us! 1. Please post with your chosen deck for the week. 2. Chat away about your deck, how you're finding it etc. Participants: 1. VGimlet - Universal Fantasy Tarot & WT Horton Tarot 2. Lantana - Thea's Tarot 3. Madame Squee - Mystical Tarot & STS Lenormand 4. DC419 - Ostara Tarot 5. jema - Sacred Bridges & Sacred World 6. Prism - Rosetta Papyrus 7. Rose Lalonde - Margarete Petersen Tarot & Asherah Tarot 8. NerdyShelties - Tabula Mundi 9. Scarlet Woodland - Rosetta Papyrus & Hanson Roberts 10. Trogon - Anna K Tarot & A'HA Oracle 11. CharlotteK - Roots of Asia 12. Bodhiseed - Prairie Tarot & Medicine Cards 13. AJ-ish - Druidcraft (trimmed) 14. GoldenWolf - Dreams of Gaia Tarot & BOTA (majors) 15. Mindful Tarot - Mystical Tarot & Gill Tarot 16. Page of Ghosts - Thoth & The Goddess Oracle 17. DaughterOfDanu - Druidcraft (trimmed) & Animal Spirit Oracle (312)
VGimlet Posted July 21, 2017 Author Posted July 21, 2017 I'm back with my last week of the Universal Fantasy, combined this week with the WT Horton tarot, a 22 card majors deck. I'm hopeful this week will wrap up my time with both that tarot and getting myself back on track with my house in general, and our project of divesting both our house and our bodies of extra we don't need. :P VGimlet - Universal Fantasy Tarot & WT Horton Tarot
Lantana Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Not quite ready to leave my Thea's Tarot this week, so I'll keep rolling with that one. Thanks VG!
Madame Squee Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Thanks for the thread, VG! I'm back with the Mystical Tarot, plus STS Lenormand.
DC419 Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 I would like to join this week! Ostara Tarot will be my deck this week.
jema Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 After looking and thinking all day and putting decks in piles and then up on shelf again I ended up just grabbing 2 decks I haven't used before. Sorcerers Tarot (LoS artist is Castelli) and then The Sacred World oracle by Kris Waldherr that looks just so summery and nice oh and just gotta say that the Ostara decks is one of few decks on my wishlist these days. I have the app for my mobile and use it all the time! Also cool that VG is using a deck by the same artist that I had last week. He is really good but not overly sugary sweet.
Bookworm Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 I'm in again, still with my Rosetta Papyrus, which is really getting under my skin.
Rose Lalonde Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Rose Lalonde - Margarete Petersen Tarot and Asherah Tarot. Thanks, VG! I'm back with my last week of the Universal Fantasy, combined this week with the WT Horton tarot, a 22 card majors deck. Lucky you. I like that WT Horton Tarot! I saw it recently when it was on someone's wish list, and though I hadn't seen his illustrations before that, they work so well for tarot.
NerdyShelties Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 I'm in with Tabula Mundi - I took a one week break and was SOOO happy to read with it again today. My Pagan Cat deck was really good, but for me I think I find the cats distracting, I'd find myself looking at them and thinking how cute, and remembering cats I have known. Just me, nothing wrong with the deck. But regardless, happy to be back with TM. :)
Scarlet Woodland Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 I'm sticking with the Rosetta Papyrus too and switching to the Hanson Roberts for my second deck. It's mini I got in a kit back along and I've been meaning to take it for a test drive for a while :)
Trogon Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 Excellent! Thanks so much VG! I'm going to be learning and using the Anna K Tarot. Really looking forward to this since I had forgotten I had it. "And now for something completely different!" Since I just got it, the A'HA Oracle! Working with an Oracle deck will definitely be something new for me! Trogon - Anna K Tarot and A'HA Oracle.
CharlotteK Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 Roots of Asia for me this week thanks VG :) Sent from my D6603 using Tapatalk
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 working with my trimmed druidcraft this week thanks VG welcome to the party dc419!
Rose Lalonde Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 Btw I started a Comparative Tarot study group here. It works well with DotW since we can talk about whatever decks we're working with at the time. Margarete Petersen -- I do well with high contrast art, so I struggle a little with this deck. It's the only one I have where I can say that, so far at least, I love the lwb more than the cards. I love its first person court monologues and its poems, but as for the actual art, I feel like you could tell me a card meant anything from spiritual awakening to heavy traffic during rush hour and I could kindasorta squint and convince myself I saw it. (But I have the second edition, which has lower contrast, so maybe that's an issue.) I want to read well with art like this and admire people who do, because I feel like it doesn't restrict the meaning to one particular facet of the card, but I'm not sure whether it's going to work for me. I'll keep drawing and working with it all week and see if there's a change. Who knows; I might come full circle and find a way in.
GoldenWolf Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 I will be working with the Dreams of Gaia Tarot this week plus the BOTA majors.
Trogon Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 I want to read well with art like this and admire people who do, because I feel like it doesn't restrict the meaning to one particular facet of the card, but I'm not sure whether it's going to work for me. I'll keep drawing and working with it all week and see if there's a change. Who knows; I might come full circle and find a way in. I have to admit that it took quite a while (relatively speaking) before I started really using the images/art-work of a Tarot deck to trigger and lead my intuition. I think that you are already doing one of the things that really helped me ... comparative study of different decks. I started for me when I purchased the Röhrig Tarot. Then, after that I had purchased Pollack's book "Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom". Working through some of that book with it's focus on the RWS, but me including the Röhrig, really let me see how the images could shape the meaning and alter the direction of my intuition. So ... after all of that ... it boils down to; "keep working at it, you'll get there!" :D
Trogon Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 Prairie Tarot / Medicine Cards Thank you VG. I'm really looking forward to your thoughts on the Medicine Cards! A friend of mine has a set and I've been thinking of getting them. I've held back for several years now simply because it is an "Oracle" deck (ie, not Tarot). But, I just received my A'HA Oracle, so I'm going to find out how well I work with one as well.
Mindful Tarot Posted July 22, 2017 Posted July 22, 2017 Haven't quite decided... not done yet with 78 Cards but moving into Mystical Tarot ... and just got the Gill in a trade. Dying to chomp into that. So... Mystical and Gill...? Madame Squee m'dear - I'll be eager to compare notes on the Mystical with you! ❤️❤️ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
Bodhiseed Posted July 23, 2017 Posted July 23, 2017 This week I'll be using the Prairie Tarot, created and self-published by Robin Ator. Paired with it will be the Medicine Cards, a deck and book set published by St. Martin's Press and created by David Carson and Jamie Sams. Today's cards are the Six of Cups and Hummingbird: Anyone who's spent time outdoors with preschool children has probably received the gift of a dandelion or other weedy flower. On the outside it might not look like much (especially if wilted and bent from being tucked into a pocket). But this humble gift of beauty is a child's way of honoring someone they care about. In the same way, the cup of flowers represents the gift of memory. We have memory cups of all kinds - some filled with briers, others with sweet-smelling blooms, and those with a cloying fragrance. They all reside in the mind, and I can choose which one to dwell on. Hummingbird represents joy; it's hard not to smile when watching these small wonders zip around the garden. Though they take nectar, they also help pollinate the plants. The companion book suggests "Drop your judgmental attitude and relax." Face-planting in bouquets that relive pain and resentment aren't beneficial to anyone. Joy is everywhere - past, present and future - but I will need to open my senses and mind to see it.
Bookworm Posted July 23, 2017 Posted July 23, 2017 This week I'll be using the Prairie Tarot, created and self-published by Robin Ator. Paired with it will be the Medicine Cards, a deck and book set published by St. Martin's Press and created by David Carson and Jamie Sams. Today's cards are the Six of Cups and Hummingbird: Anyone who's spent time outdoors with preschool children has probably received the gift of a dandelion or other weedy flower. On the outside it might not look like much (especially if wilted and bent from being tucked into a pocket). But this humble gift of beauty is a child's way of honoring someone they care about. In the same way, the cup of flowers represents the gift of memory. We have memory cups of all kinds - some filled with briers, others with sweet-smelling blooms, and those with a cloying fragrance. They all reside in the mind, and I can choose which one to dwell on. Hummingbird represents joy; it's hard not to smile when watching these small wonders zip around the garden. Though they take nectar, they also help pollinate the plants. The companion book suggests "Drop your judgmental attitude and relax." Face-planting in bouquets that relive pain and resentment aren't beneficial to anyone. Joy is everywhere - past, present and future - but I will need to open my senses and mind to see it. That's lovely, Bodhiseed. I don't know the Medicine cards, but I love the Prairie Tarot.. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Bodhiseed Posted July 23, 2017 Posted July 23, 2017 Thank you, Prism. The Prairie is an overlooked gem in my book. :)
Page of Ghosts Posted July 23, 2017 Posted July 23, 2017 New week, new thread. Thanks VG ;D I'll stay with the Thoth deck since I feel like I need some more time with it - so glad I decided to study it, it feels very special to me - and the Goddess Oracle (art by Hrana) I found at a small alternative shop in a tiny northern town. In Norwegian too! A shop in Oslo has translated it and it sure is strange to have a deck in my 1st language. I might go to Oslo next month so I have plans to visit that shop if I do. It's called Lille Arkana if any of you ever will visit Oslo. Page of Ghosts - Thoth & The Goddess Oracle
jema Posted July 23, 2017 Posted July 23, 2017 The sorcerers tarot... it is so very princessy can't there be a little less blonde locks and frilly dresses? I guess not. This one goes in to the 'To Sell or trade' basket. I'm grabbing Sacred Bridges by Rachel Paul instead. Got a luxe Sulis bag for it and my eyes and hands been drawn to it for days now
VGimlet Posted July 23, 2017 Author Posted July 23, 2017 Okay, I think I got everyone caught up! 8) A little busy this weekend. I love the Prairie Tarot - one of my favorites. Welcome DC419! Have fun in the sandbox with us! I missed the WT Horton the first time around, (it went really fast) but got a copy when Adam was selling some extra decks. It's kind of a strange combination with the Universal Fantasy.
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