TdM Reading Circle ~ February 2015

dancing_moon

Dear TdM lovers,

Welcome to the next round of our Circle. :D After the long long exchange at the turn of the year (hope you enjoyed it!), we have a really small suggested spread and a challenge (see below).

Sign-up list
seedcake
herself
3ill.yazi
rivergum
nisaba
UrbanBramble
LaLaToro
inanna_tarot

Partners list
seedcake & rivergum - Complete! :royal:
herself & inanna_tarot
3ill.yazi & UrbanBramble - Complete! :royal:
nisaba & LaLaToro

Timeline:
- Sign-up is CLOSED
- Sign-up closes and reading partners to be assigned on: 7th February
- Reading and feedback to be completed by: 28th February


Spreads:
The suggested spread for this month, for those who would like to use it, is the slightly modified Lighthouse (Imbolc) Spread.

Shuffle your deck and consider your past and future. How has it been, where do you want to go?

Then pick out 3 cards and layout the spread as below, as a lighthouse with two beams of light coming from it:

.......1
2............3

1. The Lighthouse/Beacon. Its power crowns the spread.

2. What you should steer away from. The sign that warns us of bad decisions ahead.

3. What you should steer towards. The sign we can follow in our future that will guide us to our safest dock, our home, and create destiny from our fate.


You are also free to choose your own spreads, with a minimum of three cards. I'm leaving the links to the spreads from the last exchanges in here for reference - if you want to do the same spread please see with your reading partner which one you both like: Fibonacci spread (Posts 8 and 9), Compass spread, Tirage en Croix, Dynamic Hexagramme spread, Comte de Mellet spread, Chronata's spread

CHALLENGE!

Note: Challenge is an additional task for those who'd like to try something new and experiment with alternative reading methods. It is in no way compulsory and can be done by only one of the partners in an exchange (or neither!), according to their wishes and agreement.

This month, I have a small challenge for you that concerns psychic messages. Before or after interpreting the spread, pick one of the cards that draws your attention and try to accept any messages coming from it. It could be an image, a phrase, a song, a situation flashing in your head or anything else. It may be totally irrelevant to your partner at this point, but it might bear more significance in the future, so be open to anything that comes, however bizarre it may seem to you.

Have fun experimenting! :D


Feedback:
Please make your feedback as detailed as possible so your reading partner can benefit from it. It is NOT about how you would read the cards your partner drew for you within your personal system of reading the Tarot de Marseille, but about how your partner read the cards for you within his/her system. So please let your partner know how well you could relate to the reading, if there are things you didn't understand ("How did you arrive at this interpretation?" etc), what was accurate and what wasn't.. Constructive criticism on things that didn't hit the mark are welcome, too! All in a friendly and respectful learning way of course!

Decks:
The TdM Exchange is a friendly and fun place to share and develop our reading skills with Tarot de Marseille decks, other historic decks with non-scenic pips and Tarot de Marseille inspired modern decks. If you aren't sure if you have a deck that is suited, just ask. If you decide to read with a deck that your sitter does not have, please post pictures of the cards you drew so everybody can follow.

Pips reading methods:
There are a lot of different reading methods of the Tarot de Marseille and especially the pips. These are all equally welcome and all ok. If you don't know where to start, check the forum index (especially the thread on "Reading Methods" - and don't be shy or scared by the non-scenic pips, just jump on right in!) In order to make this a fruitful learning experience for the reader, the sitter and everybody following the exchange, please take the time to explain what method you are using for the pips. Links to threads here on the forum explaining the method or single cards are most welcome.

Please share the process of your reading, not only the results. And please take the time and effort (as most people do anyway) to write more than a line on each card. Tell your partner what your interpretation is based on, what you saw, what brought you to the conclusions. The more detail, the more everybody will learn!

No-show/Problems:
If anybody has a problem completing their reading or feedback, please please please get in touch with your reading partner and myself. It's not nice to be left hanging in an exchange - and whoever is NOT completing an exchange he or she signed up for (and especially fails to communicate about it) will not be allowed to sign up again until it is completed - and in worst case even risks a three months ban from all reading exchanges.

If there should be any problems, feel free to contact me and I will try to sort it out, with the help of a moderator if necessary.

(Of course the Reading Exchange Posting Guidelines apply for this exchange as well - and there are some good tips for feedback etc in that post!)

Wishing everyone a happy exchange! :party:
 

seedcake

What can I say? I'm in :) Lovely idea for a spread, I'd love to use it. And the challenge, very in my taste ;)
 

herself

Sign me up please! :)
 

journeyinghome

I think I need to sit this month out, I'm afraid, but the spread does look interesting. Have fun folks! xxx
 

3ill.yazi

I'd like another go.
 

pacificwaters

Sorry would be traveling this month. Sitting out!
 

dancing_moon

Welcome everyone! Have a safe trip, pacificwaters! Hope to see you and journeyinghome next month! :)
 

nisaba

happy to join in!
 

dancing_moon

Welcome, Nisaba! :)