Deck of the week sign up group - week 40 - 4-11 May 2012

[jema]

So fun to read all your deck of the week stories :-D

AJ about europeans and nudity/violance - so spot on!

Since joining this group on week 1 (but skipping a week here and there) I actually only sold one deck (True Love tarot) but added at least 15 to the collection

I can read with any deck! (ok perhaps not daughters of the moon) And I LOVE LoS decks :-D

I always said there is no such thing as The One but if there were it would be Gill. Well, I found a new one. So I am now a bigamist. I totally fell for Sheridan-Douglas, I never had a deck that felt so much Me!

I learnt that I don't really work well with oracles, hard as I try.

I learnt that I am not a route-meaning reader and I am not an intuitive reader - I got my feet planted firmly in both camps and the same time. I look first at image then use my Kabbalah foundation then shake well, bake 20 minutes and out comes small but yummy macarones (and blog posts)

I learnt not to judge a deck after just one day. I need to spend time with it, shuffle it, divide in heaps of fave cards, least fave cards, cards with or without owl/unicorns/males (all mythical creatures) and then just take a photos, upload it and write and not edit too much of the flow of thought.

I wrote my own tarot myth.

[AJ]

your blogged tarot myth was brilliant Jema.

I don't think culling is the point, using what we have is the point.
Culling out is a personality thing and maybe an age thing, I don't keep what I don't like in any area of 'stuff'. Others here are keepers people and that is wonderful too.

but using decks, getting value for our dollars, sharpening our skills, broadening our outlooks... it is all to the good!

Query. Anyone here have a nickle allergy that has pierced ears?

edited to add: those of you that have never participated in our own reading group...come on, take the challenge. Link in the first post here. I swore I wouldn't again when I killed the thread deader than a doorknob mid-week way back when but I got over it. I can't read for beans but I love using my decks. Come on... please? How about just a one card draw to get your feet wet?

I will do a one card draw for anyone who hasn't used the circle yet...

[Penthasilia]

Originally Posted by NikkiB

So thats where my journey has taken me in this project... how about you?

xxx

I have found that there is no pattern to my insanity- which is reassuring, as insanity should have no pattern.

I am primarily an intuitive reader. I can read any tarot deck, but some give me more info than others. For instance- I have been pulling the Judgement card as an outcome in pretty much every deck I have been using- some decks open the story out beautifully- some like to pretend they are Agatha Christie novels with a guess how ending.

There is no rhyme or reason to what decks talk to me versus those that don't. There are some decks with non-illustrated pips that work fabulously, some that don't. Same with the illustrated pip decks. It is weird. I just hope to go through all of them, and no matter what- if they don't talk to me, they are on the chopping block. There are plenty of decks that sing to me- no sense in keeping with ones that are less than enthused.

I don't have a particular number I am trying to get to, rather it is all about getting to a point where I have good familiarity with the decks that I have and can pick one at random for a reading. Wherever that takes me, it takes me. I enjoy doing the deck of the week- as it gives me enough time to determine whether the deck will be a good fit, and I can thin the herd. Plus- it leaves no sellers remorse, as no matter how gorgeous the deck is, if I don't like reading with it- then I won't miss it!

[VGimlet]

In the past 40 weeks I have gained a more clear idea of what I like in a deck. I have even, for the first time ever, crossed a deck OFF my wanted list. Plus I think I've become a little bit more selective about what I buy to start with. In the beginning, I wasn't sure WHAT I liked. When I joined this group, I'd grown a tiny bit more selective, and now I am even more selective, although I have added some decks to my wanted list even so.

Even though I am doing this exercise anyway, and have been for a very long time, it helps so much to be part of a group, and to know that I am not alone when I find certain decks more challenging to use than others.

I've also started to clarify what decks I will start with when it's time to begin downsizing my collection. (This is not on the table any time soon...)

[Penthasilia]

WOW!

That is all I can say about this deck!

WOW!

Weird how it is, while I loved the imagery of the dark grimoire- it kinda left me cold while reading it. I hate the CGI nonsense in this deck, but it sucked every bit it could out of me during the reading- and gave much in return.

This is a keeper. I liked the Tarot of the Sidhe- but not enough to really work with it, so I sold it. This will be MY fae deck- it is utterly consuming. Want a taste? Here you go- the message from the High Priestess.....

"She is a priestess of wisdom. She is the guardian of a gate she cannot enter."

Weighed down by her knowledge, heavy with the secrets of her wisdom, but never to enter the gate- she sits, guarding, testing those who would be initiates- allowing the chosen few to go where she cannot.


This is a phenomenal deck. I am glad I found it. I am glad to have one that I resonate with after that blah week with the dark grimoire. Which is weird- as I thought I would love the grimoire and hate this one. Goes to show, I never can tell until I just use them.



Ohh- and I started a thread under tarot decks for anyone interested: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=176251

[Chiska]

Sooo... the Tarot of the III Millennium is interesting...

I like the little TdM card and then the way the rest of the card supports it. It isn't very obvious in some cards, but it is there.

I am looking to see if the schematics have any connection. I don't think so. The pattern on the back of the cards is from a 1962 Italian made phonograph - so that leads me to believe that perhaps the schematics are random.

However...I am not so sure. I have some thoughts on that, but they are not quite ready to be published.

It should be an interesting week...

[Nerys]

After a few weeks away, I'm jumping back in, hopefully very casually. I don't think I can realistically make myself commit to more than one simple reading at bedtime every night (but will do more if I want to).

But this week is the Mountain Dream, which is great as it's one of my most recent buys.

[Cat*]

Just returned from a weekend away. I'm still sticking with my decision to give the Dirty Tarot another week. It really deserves being blogged about, and I also want to try it in a multi-card spread for myself.

I'll be back later to reflect on my own journey through the deck of the week project.

[Cassandra022]

Interesting to read about what everyone has been getting out of this. I of course am too recently joined to have any observations yet, though I must say, the prospect of actually working with all of my decks does seem to have put a wrech in my desire to acquire new ones, at least somewhat...

Also, I am fickle. I really like working with Klimt, but after bringing it to a tarot meetup yesterday...I'm going to spend the next week (or two) with Sheridan-Douglas :]

[jema]

Originally Posted by Cassandra022

Also, I am fickle. I really like working with Klimt, but after bringing it to a tarot meetup yesterday...I'm going to spend the next week (or two) with Sheridan-Douglas :]

o0 it is such a great little deck! So paired down to pure essentials but with a new twist.
Can't wait to get the book for it later this week.