Deck of the week group - week 41 - 11-18 May 2012

[Chiska]

Big adjustment from Tarot of the III Millennium to the Tarot of the Silicon Valley.

I appreciate that there are only 70 cards. 1-8 for each suit. I get the point, but it would have been better if they had been numbered 0-7.

There are correspondences between the SV majors and the RW majors - but in some cases, there has been considerable poetic license.

However, it makes sense to me on an interesting level. I enjoy the humour and will enjoy the deck over the week. I don't know how it will be for reading...so I should head over to the circle thread and give it a whirl!

 

[AJ]

Elemental Tarot, Caroline Smith and John Astrop, 1988

I'm thinking this is the oldest deck I've kept after my three years of spring and fall clearouts.

 

[Cat*]

choose what your heart tells you. I don't get the random generator at all

If only my heart would talk clearly...
This is actually the first time that I don't feel like working with any of the suggested decks. So far, the random number generator has brought up at least one deck (or on-deck) that seemed interesting, or a challenge, or a treat, or something.
This week, however, I don't feel up for any challenges, and I don't feel drawn to any of the suggestions for another reason.

This morning, I pulled one card from both the Celtic Shaman's Pack (Otter) and the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot (Marie Laveau/High Priestess), looked at it for a bit and then read the material from the companion book. They were interesting, but still nothing grabbed me.

Cat*, do you have a set of runes????
You could also make a simple set....
I have one or 2 toooo many and could send one?

No, I don't have any runes, yet, but I have just ordered a book to start learning about them (I don't see how I would be able to read the runes intuitively without any clues about their meanings, although it might be an interesting exercise).
If I feel that I can at all relate to the runes, I would eventually like to make my own set. But thank you very much for offering me one of yours!

I think I'll just take a break this week and see if I end up being interested in any particular deck. Otherwise, I'll just play around a bit. That seems a good choice right now.

 

[Nerys]

It's the Science Tarot for me this week. Interesting as I've never used it, and though I liked it when I flipped through, I feel like there's going to be a lot of LWB consultation this week!

 

[Cassandra022]

Had a nice time with Sheridan-Douglas, but first draw with the Pagan Cats, and my first reaction was - its nice to work with a deck that I can properly SHUFFLE again. Lol. LS cardstock is nice, though...

 

[Penthasilia]

Did my first readings with the BoGos (LMAO- sounds like an old 80's band)- anyway, I REALLY like the pewter one! Wow- they are so different. The silver is very cold and dreary- the pewter is so warm and rich. But more importantly- I can do intuitive readings with the pewter, whereas the silver is much more of a struggle.

To me, the only downside of the pewter is that the gilded edges will eventually get yucky- but, oh well, doesn't bother me a bit. I will just have to get a back-up somewhere along the line. So- the BoGo silver will most likely be on the trade block at the end of the week. No sense in having two, and (for me) the pewter wins- no contest!



Tomorrow- I will be trying out Wendell's gothic tarot.

 

[GoldenWolf]

Okay, since I left my Mary El at home, I am using the Crow's Magick tarot which reads better than I thought it would.

 

[jema]

Dame Fortune's Wheel is rather nice. Even though I tend to only pull courts this weekend.

I wish I knew more about Etteilla decks though. Any clue on what to find to read up on them?

 

[vee]

Paul Huson's book, Mystical Origins of the Tarot, has a nice Etteilla section. There is a good thread in Historical Research too, if you like combing through details.

Unfortunately there's not a lot of info about him in English. If you speak French, you could search for his texts. Papus might be a good source to look at too. It just depends how far down the rabbithole you want to go. If you just want a website, http://www.villarevak.org/ is pretty good!

I have ended up doing a deck of the week despite my plans not to. Been doing daily draws with my new Il Meneghello Massonici from Penthasilia! It has been a long time since I worked with a deck that didn't have people on the cards, but this deck works very well for me because the cards aren't' busy with symbols: just one or a few big, clear ones that I can easily look up and then ponder.

 

[AJ]

the Grand Etellia is the only deck I've sold I wish I still had. And I've sold/traded/given 100's I'm sure.

And after a week of struggling I've managed to get my printer connected to my laptop. happy camper
I drew the world card, assuring all is well and all will be well