Deck of The Week : Sign-up Thread: Week 114 : September 14 - September 20

[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.  VGimlet - Yggdrasil Norse Divination Cards

2. Bodhiseed - Tarot de St. Croix paired with the Archetype Cards

3. Mi-shell - Shamanic Oracle

4. Madame Squee - Antique Anatomy Tarot deck and the Oracle of Oddities. 

5. Katie - CB and Dark Mansion Tarot

 

 

 

 

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Edited September 19, 2019 by VGimlet

[VGimlet]

One more week with the  Yggdrasil Norse Divination Cards for me.   I didn't use them enough last week, but I'm committed that this week will be better for all the things.

 

My goals are by Friday next week my house will be clean, the dogs will be clean with trimmed nails, I will be caught up on all my other things, and I will have done daily draws and written in my journal every day.   We'll see how that goes.   

 

Today's draw -

Need 1  EIR - (healing and medicine)  That I need to also rest and not be too hard on myself about what I can and can't accomplish.   That it might be more important to rest than stress myself out over my goals. 

Need 2 - FORNJOT (Temperence)   Kind of echoing the above.   Work on getting things done, but also take time to rest as well, and don't over do anything, rest or work, or indulge in too much food, or other things.  

Action - NJORD - (Economy)   Don't spend all my energy in one place, do some here, and some there.  

 

So, basically this draw is telling me, don't worry so much about getting everything done this weekend, (which was my plan) it's okay to draw it out a bit and work on it a piece at a time, that the last couple weeks have been hard, and I need to also make sure I get the down time I need as well to refuel.  

 

Ugh I hate it when the cards are all reasonable about stuff like that, LOL.   

[Bodhiseed]

That sounds like a very wise deck of cards, VGimlet! 😁 Progress not perfection, as they say. 💙

 

I'm in this week with the Tarot de St. Croix paired with the Archetype Cards.   

[Bodhiseed]

This week I'll be using the Tarot de St. Croix, created and self-published by Lisa de St. Croix. Along with it, I'll be drawing from the Archetype Cards, created by Caroline Myss and published by Hay House. Today's cards are Death and God:

 

I can recall that even as a small child I had allergic reactions to certain forms of reality.

"Distilled Spirits," AA Grapevine, December 1997

 

          Humans are biologically wired to look for stability and security in order to survive. We don't particularly like change (unless it's pleasant) and we fear anything that upends our life. Like the quote above, we seem to have an allergy to the impermanent nature of reality. When there are endings, we struggle to accept and adapt. Yet the dancing skeleton seems to have realized that there is the potential for good even in the midst of having what we were attached to ripped from our grasp. The God archetype represents a power that aids us and protects us when we feel powerless. In a physical world constantly in flux, is there any surprise that so many gods have been created by mankind? It is normal to want to feel grounded when we feel lost and in limbo. Perhaps for some, God might simply mean being willing to look beyond our ego's preferences, seeing for the first time the wonders and benevolence in our world that we've overlooked.

 

God is not findable for me. Not like car keys. Maybe God is that which can’t be found. That’s okay, because God is in the looking. —Susan Moon

[Mi-Shell]

I am delighted that for this week a friend borrowed me her Shamanic Oracle 🙂

I will have lots of fun looking through the deck - tomorrow 

and then getting to now them closer, doing daily draws and reading the booklet, that comes with it.

[Madame Squee]

I am so late! Things started getting rough last week and probably won't be much better this week, except I feel stronger for it. Anyway, I'm back this week with the newly-released Antique Anatomy Tarot deck and the Oracle of Oddities. 

 

Thank you for the thread VG. 💐

[Katie]

I am reading the thread but have had much going on IRL. My dad is ill. I didn't dare to draw tarot cards (afraid getti g death card) so waited...until I felt more calmed day before yesterday..drew 3 cards (CBD TDM) before-now-future and got W6-Death-W8. Gaah!! He is better now but fragile. Turned to Dark mansion this morning getting W10 which is very telling. So will be using those 2 decks but might not report on it as much as I did recently.

Katie

[Bodhiseed]

(((Katie))), thoughts of comfort and ease for your dad, and thoughts of strength for you. 💚

[Katie]

Thanks @Bodhiseed

[Mi-Shell]

@Katie Love and hugs to you ♥️

and Healing Blessings to your dad!

[Mi-Shell]

This morning I had time to sit outside in the morning sun with the shamanic Oracle. 

I sorted all the cards into

things shamans do,

things shamans use,

places of Power

the directions

the elements

all our relations

I have to now put it away - onto the family Altar.

.... and wait, until eventually get my own! ♥

[VGimlet]

Hugs to you and your family Katie.   

 

[Bodhiseed]

@Mi-Shell, how does the Shamanic Medicine Oracle compare to the Mystical Shaman Oracle you used several weeks ago?

@VGimlet, those are lovely pen and ink drawings on the Yggdrasil Norse Divination Cards.

 

 

[Mi-Shell]

48 minutes ago, Bodhiseed said:

@Mi-Shell, how does the Shamanic Medicine Oracle compare to the Mystical Shaman Oracle you used several weeks ago?

 

 

 

Hi @Bodhiseed!♥

As of now, I do not own these decks. I however have decided, that the Shamanic Medicine Oracle will go on my Winter Solstice wish list. (that will give Peter something to loooook for and me something to look forward to.) 

That is also the reason, why I put the one from my friend away for right now. I want then - later explore MY cards ♥

I will write about that here - eventually. 

This deck has one card that shows a Siberian Shaman in regalia! That alone is reason enough for me .....

I also like the large size and the sturdiness of the cards - they will be NOT easy to shuffle - if they shuffle at all.....

I also like that the images fill the whole card = no borders. And as I said in the above post, I like the way the deck is structured. I can imagine to use these as Altar images that I will put up before doing specific work with specific shamanic tools for example......

We will see...

As you may remember, I wrote on the Mystical Shaman Oracle on my blog: I deemed it to have mainly eurocentric images

https://voicewithinthecards.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/eurocentric-shaman-images/

 

And then with that deck, all the problems with/ about/ around Alberto Viloldo are lurking in the text and are oozing out of the images - it feels  - unauthentic........

That is - to me of course. 

Someone, who does just dabble in shamanism a little or is captivated by the fluffy all good vibe of 2019 internet "shamans" and practitioners, will very well see this quite different.

 

Edited September 19, 2019 by Mi-Shell
I always forget the second ) at the end of the sentence.....

[Bodhiseed]

Yes, I do remember you being of the mind that the Mystical seemed to be more geared toward entertainment than an authentic representation. It sounds like this one might be your cup of tea! 

[Katie]

Thankyou so much @VGimlet and @Mi-Shell. I drew Justice yesterday, though a lot about karma.

Katie

[VGimlet]

I did like the Yggdrasil - the art was wonderful, although I only know a little about Norse Mythology.    (I guess I should look into it farther, as I have a couple of root tendrils in the Nordic part of the world...)