A deck of cards, a jug of time and thou...

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 01 Jun 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Cerulean	01 Jun 2003
semi-seriously or not, what's a perfect date with a perfect deck? Or a setting that might spark a great mood reading with one of your decks? What's your ideal tarot date? One afternoon, I was browsing through a university art museum and then a shop and pulled out 'The Eclectic Tarot' from a bookstore shelf. A glass of ice tea and a cool breeze on the patio, and I was in Tarot nirvana. One weekend-evening while my husband and his friend played a scrabble hand-held computer game at an ice-cream parlor , I pulled out my Secrets Tarot and made up stories of treasure hunters and Indian Jones style exploring. I've imagined the Victoria Regina would look plush on a burgundy velvet pillow or suitably ribald with piano music, cards spilling on a lacy table with tea and strumpets in the background. Somebody's Halloween deck at a midnight party or Kavala after a snow party... I want to take or obtain a beautiful historical Lombardy deck in a Tuscan setting someday, maybe the Romeo and Julietta at Shakesphere in the park or play with my colorful Zukunfts at a picnic/festival. I hoped this might be fun to see what others say...

Kiama	02 Jun 2003
Whenever I smell a campfire burning, or freshly cut grass, there's my cue. Whenever the nights are warm, the nightsky is clear, and there's enough light to see, there's my cue. My Robin Wood deck is pulled out, and I read! The Whimsical Tarot would be great laid out on a traditional red and white checked picnic blanket, in the midday sun, whilst drinking cheap lemonade and eating sandwiches cut into shapes with the crusts cut off. The Glastonbury Tarot, or Legend Arthurian, look great laid out on the grass on top of Glastonbury Tor in the Summer, (With something to prevent them from flying away in the breeze of course!) When my exams are over, I'll be grabbing all 120+ (Lost count again) of my decks, pulling all the Magician cards from them, and just comparing them all. Then the High Priestesses... Empresses... }) Kiama

Khatruman	02 Jun 2003
Quote: Originally posted by Mari_Hoshizaki I've imagined the Victoria Regina would look plush on a burgundy velvet pillow or suitably ribald with piano music, cards spilling on a lacy table with tea and strumpets in the background. Strumpets? hmmmm, wondering if this is a typo or meant as a pun. Sounds like they might be drinking more than tea in the brothel :D... For me, a few strumpets lurking in the background might distract me from reading my deck, though I might be tempted to pull out my Decameron and do some interesting readings for the influx of Johns...*s*.

Trogon	02 Jun 2003
A table in the local coffee house, just about any weather... quiet, loud, any music and any of my Tarot decks and I'm ready... ;) [edited to add:] Oh yeah... and a big cuppa joe in front of me... :D

Cerulean	02 Jun 2003
Hello Khatruman, Sorry sir, it should have read the soft click and sighs of "tarot strumpets" playing in the background. And if you wish, a gypsy violin from the Romany tarot, while gentlepeople who wish to can glance at the adult section of the attached tarotian bookstore.

jema	02 Jun 2003
coffee with milk and home-made apple/cinnamon cup-cakes on the porch by the bird-cherry tree in my garden a sunny morning. just me and my two cats stalking the birds. on the table beside my current book and a heap of note-books, pencils and phone and camera and cardigan I keep the Glastonbury (cause I love the colours in it) with small stones to hold down the cards in case the winds wants to play with them.

Sobeknofret	02 Jun 2003
The perfect date with the perfect deck is a sunny day on my local deli's patio, with the guy who plays blues guitar playing under the trees, a plate of their basil, tomato and fresh mozzerella salad in front of me, and the Cosmic Tarot on the table. Mari: there's a tearoom here that has individiual rooms for customers. One of them is nicknamed "the Oscar Wilde room," and it sounds like just the perfect place for the strumpets and the Victoria Regina tarot. Red velvet wallpaper, 2 chaise longues upholstered in leopard print, big plush red velvet wing chairs, glass topped pouf in the same leopard print for a table, red fringed lamps that cast a dim, mysterious red glow...I can see the deck resting voluptuously across a chaise... :) --Sobe

rota	02 Jun 2003
"...A deck of cards, a jug of time and thou... " I for one would love a jug of time. A nice big one, maybe a gallon or so. I'd set it aside in a time cabinet, so it could age.... Then, if I ever ran out of the usual sort of time, I'd suddenly remember that I had some time left over. It might still be good! I'd take it out and dust it off. I wonder how it would taste, aged like that? Hopefully I'll have some strumpets to share it with... :) (thanks, Mari!)

Tor	02 Jun 2003
My favourite tarot-time? Preparation in bed..... turn off all lights.......lay under my beloved eiderdown and breathe deeply. Call for The High Priestess. Then when I'm calm, empty and with new energy - I will go out on the balcony a summer day like this. Under a big green parasol I have a table with two chairs. I'll sit down with a jug of fresh coffee, an ashtray, sigarettes and lighter and of course my Renaissance deck by Helen Jones. I will also bring me my book, which I'm still a bit depended on. Then I'll light a cigarette while I shuffle the cards and look around in the garden. Grasp the energy from nature. I will shuffle more while I think of the person I'm doing this for.......name, place, maybe a face, other charachteristics. Then I pick the cards and turn to my book for clues of the ones I'm not so familiar with yet. And then I begin to tell a story in my head. Makes sure all the pieces are in harmony, and use my intuition, knowlegde and wisdom to create the reading. Then I take another sigarette and let the story sink in - before I turn to the computer a create the report. When it's done, it's back to bed to build up energy again. I can do this 4-5 times a day.

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