VGimlet Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 This thread is for those who would like to work through their collection of decks. Each week 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 - Seattle Tarot 2. Bodhiseed - Vision Quest and Bird Cards 3. AJ-ish/Sharyn- Art of Life 4. Mi-Shell - Mystical Shaman Oracle 5. moonglow - Tarot of the Animal Lords 6. Madame Squee - Golden Thread Tarot and The Playing Card Oracles (397)
VGimlet Posted March 9, 2019 Author Posted March 9, 2019 Still with the Seattle Tarot this week - was focusing on other stuff, and missed enough days I need a little more time with it. Ah well, not a hardship.
Bodhiseed Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 Thank you for the new thead, VG. <3 I'm in this week with the Vision Quest and Bird Cards.
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 Art of Life for a lazy pick this week. thanks, VG
Mi-Shell Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 I will stay one more week with the Mystical Shaman Oracle, then I have to give it back to its owner. So far I am not overly impressed - it is more of a "sweet affirmations/ you are magical, wonderful and most special" kind of deck....
moonglow Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 I will stay one more week with the Mystical Shaman Oracle, then I have to give it back to its owner. So far I am not overly impressed - it is more of a "sweet affirmations/ you are magical, wonderful and most special" kind of deck.... Thanks for the insight Mi-Shell[/member]! I have found some of the art intriguing, but that really doesn't sound like what I'm looking for in a deck. Much appreciated! I guess I will keep with my Tarot of the Animal Lords for another week. It seems eager to continue yelling at me, if tonight's draw is anything to go by. :bwah:
Madame Squee Posted March 11, 2019 Posted March 11, 2019 Golden Thread Tarot and The Playing Card Oracles. Thank you for the thread, VG!
Mi-Shell Posted March 13, 2019 Posted March 13, 2019 About the Mystical Shaman oracle - partial copy of a blog post: Now, working with this deck that has their brand of new age shamanism at its base, I am quite dismayed, that I am stumbling again and again onto a few sad peculiarities: Reading the accompanying text with each image, I am getting the over all sense, that this deck is more of a “sweet affirmations/ you are magical, wonderful and most special” kind of a deck…. “ Users are instructed to only read the VERY positive message, when the image is upright and disregard the Medicine- teaching part. Only read that, when the card is reverse. But the teaching, lovingly sweeeeeeet cautionary paragraph would sooo much round out the picture and give a balance, a teaching so very much needed. To achieve Balance is VERY important in shamanism! The images on the cards and so the accompanying text in the book are decidedly Eurocentric! There are mostly Caucasian female faces adorned with elaborate headdresses/ garbs made up out of a profusion of feathers and animal shapes, that blend into each other. Most have a rather theatrical look. (See Heart of Sky) https://voicewithinthecards.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/dscn6655-484-x-1000.jpg When even the “Pachamama” card showed me a white lady – with a distinctive roman nose – I started loooooooking through the deck trying to find – indigenous faces, my Brothers and Sisters with black skin, an Asian face….. Nothing!? Well, there are , What I call, “the special 4” https://voicewithinthecards.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/dscn6654-710-x-1000.jpg The Seer wears lots of ?? face paint and has straight black hair – a Could he reallllly be Native American or – just look as if? The Luminous Warrior has darker skin and an Afro – maybe he has and African grandmother! The Child looks a bit like me, when I was young- Is she from Siberia? But she has VERY blue eyes…?? The person on the Journey card finally fits the bill of not being European! Yaaaaaay! Then in the text I again and again I encounter the new age shaman catch phrases “co- creating” Like in “go and co-create the world with —????” In traditional shamanic societies, or at least the way I was raised in the ways of my father’s tribal ways, The shaman serves!!! Serves the tribe at the behest of the Spirits that have chosen her/ him to work through, to us e as a tool = their tool . The shaman/ healer/ Kham/ serves the tribe under the tutelage and direction of the Spirits. He or she does so in reverence and in humility to the very best of her abilities for the benefit of the Clan. My great grandma Ulali did, so did her daughter gran Aniani, so do I today. All I co-create is the mess in my living room, (which I have to tidy up because another client is coming…) Another catch phrase is “ We are the stewards of this Earth and all its Beings” NO!!!!! We are not!!!! We are a part of creation, not more special then an Earwig larva!!!! This catch phrase reeks of the christian notion that God gave man the rule over the Earth and all the Creatures and Plants on it. Oh well, I am starting to rant now…. Sorrrry! Time to co- create the balance, that is needed in my living room.
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