Deck of The Week : Sign-up Thread: Week 95 : May 4- May 10

[VGimlet]

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. Saturn Celeste - Stretch Tarot

2. VGimlet - Wheel of Fortune Tarot

3. CharlotteK - Triumph of Life Tarot

4. AJ-ish/Sharyn - Food Fortunes Tarot

5. Queen of Nothing - Le Tarot des Femmes Erotiques

6. Madame Squee - Daveluy Lenormand

7. Bodhiseed - Tarot Lukumi and the Diloggun Cards

 

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Edited May 8, 2019 by VGimlet
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[VGimlet]

I'm in this week with the Wheel of Fortune Tarot. 

The Visconti Madrone was amazingly beautiful, but the cards were GIANT sized.  

Ooh, the new forum is so bright and shiny!!!    I'm a little irritated that I didn't get my notification from kickstarter the campaign was getting close to the end, but oh well.   It looks great though!

[CharlotteK]

I'll take part this week please with the Triumph of Life Tarot VGimlet 🙂

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

my stomach hurts because I can't figure out how to make it all work my way 😉

Took me 15 minutes to find this thread. so I'll do the Food Fortunes Tarot just to confuse me more. 

thanks VG

 

[Queen of Nothing]

I'm back from vacation and this update was so nice to come home to! 

 

I'm in with the Le Tarot des Femmes Erotiques this week.  Thanks VG!

[Madame Squee]

Please sign me up with the Daveluy Lenormand deck.

 

This week, I'm focusing on getting through The Complete Lenormand Oracle Handbook (Caitlin Matthews) and completing all of the practices. 🏋️‍♀️

 

Thank you, VG

[VGimlet]

Nice to see you back Queen of Nothing and CharlotteK.     New things always have a learning curve.   ↪️  We'll figure it out.

[Bodhiseed]

Internet outage in my area for four days now. Hope to join y'all soon!

[Bodhiseed]

Internet is back up - yeah! I'm in this week with the Tarot Lukumi and the Diloggun Cards.

 

This week I'll be using the Tarot Lukumi, a deck created by Caelum Rainieri, Ivory Andersen and Raphael Montoliu. It is published by Dal Negro. The oracle deck I'll be using this week is the Diloggun Cards, a digital set created through the use of art by Mase Lobe. Each card is associated with an Ifa ethic as well as a proverb, with information from a book by Ifa Karade called The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts. Today's draws are the Wheel of Fortune and Oyeku (two mouths):

 

          This card shows the Tablet of Ifa, a divination tool of Orunmila (the spirit of wisdom)that uses nuts. The horse tail whip (iruke) was used to chase away bad energies while the deer antler was associated with Ochosi, the Orisha of justice. It is thought that through sacrifice, bad energies could be changed into good energies. This Wheel of Fortune feels a bit like walking onto the stage of This is Your Life, but with an intervention twist. Life is not all about the luck of the draw; a lot has to do with my attitudes and actions as I navigate the world.

          Oyeku (a throw with two cowrie shells up) is associated with the following ethic and proverb:

Ifa: The prevalence of temper outbursts and cursing are the causes of difficulty in one’s life.

Proverb: Ashes fly back in the face of he who throws them.

Blame, self-justification and rationalization are easily employed when life isn't progressing as I'd like. But the bottom line is that the thoughts I focus on, how I communicate, and my behavior has a lot to do with how the scales are weighted. 

Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.

~Mark Williams and Danny Penman

[VGimlet]

Glad to see you Bodhiseed - I was wondering where you were.   Internet outage - oh the horror (and I really mean that, I live online, LOL)

 

Haven't had much time with the cards, so I know what deck I'll be using next week too.    Busy getting ready for the new puppy.   🙂 

[Bodhiseed]

27 minutes ago, VGimlet said:

Glad to see you Bodhiseed - I was wondering where you were.   Internet outage - oh the horror (and I really mean that, I live online, LOL)

 

Haven't had much time with the cards, so I know what deck I'll be using next week too.    Busy getting ready for the new puppy.   🙂 

Thank you, VG. We might need a photo of that new puppy... 😄

[Saturn Celeste]

I'm sorry I missed this entire week.  I've never been very good at doing this.  I'll try again in a few weeks when things aren't so hectic around here.