Akatala
Since the ever popular decks of poker cards were spawned from tarot and have been used by many to do tarot spreads, I've been trying my hand lately at learning how to do that myself. Unfortunately, all of the decks I've tried to do this with have simply not cooperated with me at all.
Then, last night, on a whim, I pulled out the Inuyasha playing card deck I'd gotten for Christmas last year but barely touch cause I'm OCD and trying to keep the card backs going the same direction drives me crazy. lol
Anyway, so I used the deck to pull both a 3-card basic past-present-future spread AND my 7-card Lunar Pentacle spread of elements. It took me a while to decide whether the Jacks wanted to represent Pages or Knights, but in the end, the Jack picked the Page. (I suppose Miroku can be a little gossiper too. lol) Once I got that little bump straightened out, the cards read just fine for me. Even when talking of the future.
It irritates me that I still can't read with an ordinary deck. But reading with an Inuyasha deck is really fun. The characters themselves can influence the meanings and make the deck unique. It's just a matter of using it enough to become fluent with the cards.
Anyone else had interesting results with playing card decks?
Then, last night, on a whim, I pulled out the Inuyasha playing card deck I'd gotten for Christmas last year but barely touch cause I'm OCD and trying to keep the card backs going the same direction drives me crazy. lol
Anyway, so I used the deck to pull both a 3-card basic past-present-future spread AND my 7-card Lunar Pentacle spread of elements. It took me a while to decide whether the Jacks wanted to represent Pages or Knights, but in the end, the Jack picked the Page. (I suppose Miroku can be a little gossiper too. lol) Once I got that little bump straightened out, the cards read just fine for me. Even when talking of the future.
It irritates me that I still can't read with an ordinary deck. But reading with an Inuyasha deck is really fun. The characters themselves can influence the meanings and make the deck unique. It's just a matter of using it enough to become fluent with the cards.
Anyone else had interesting results with playing card decks?