DaisyDragonfly
I just think I have massive commitment issues. I look at my Victorian Romantic and Bohemian Gothic decks, and I know I want to do something intensive and studious with them... but I don't think I quite know what that will look like yet. Since deciding to IDS with them, I haven't even touched them!
It's me. For sure. Possibly. Except, there is one deck I've been faithful to ever since I got them. A deck I thought I'd put to one side and use only occasionally. A deck that offers up such riches every time I use it: I'm still surprised, still doubting that such a seemingly simple deck can give so much.
My little Tarot of Trees. It's weird, really: I used it last week, with other people, and one of the other readers looked at the cards and said 'It's so simple, its almost abstract.' And I was surprised, because that hasn't been my experience. Abstract? Simple? Not at all. I pull the Page of Pentacles and I'm on a darkened hillside in the snow, seeing that small, single tree standing alone and clutching its single pentacle, feeling the chill wind and the scent from the distant farmhouses and the heaviness of solitude on a cold winter night, but protecting its treasure nonetheless...
I'm no scholar, though. I look at what everybody else is doing in this thread, and I'm intimidated. I don't want to spend a long time studying - not yet, anyway. At some point in my future lies the Templar, the Victoria Regina. They'll entail the reactivation of my academic self. But first and foremost I'm a storyteller, and I've been waiting for a deck that allows me to be that.
What's this long post doing? Asking if I can change my front page entry to Tarot of Trees. But also begging forgiveness: if and when I post about my little deck, it'll be as the minstrel, not as the academic. It makes this a far more subjective study; one, possibly, that won't be much use to anybody else. I'm not even sure what form it'll take: it's less a study and more an Intensive Deck Musings
We'll see. I'm already doing it, though, so I'm not excited about starting. Just exciting about carrying on. Oh, and ready to see if my commitment issues will step in and interfere with this...
It's me. For sure. Possibly. Except, there is one deck I've been faithful to ever since I got them. A deck I thought I'd put to one side and use only occasionally. A deck that offers up such riches every time I use it: I'm still surprised, still doubting that such a seemingly simple deck can give so much.
My little Tarot of Trees. It's weird, really: I used it last week, with other people, and one of the other readers looked at the cards and said 'It's so simple, its almost abstract.' And I was surprised, because that hasn't been my experience. Abstract? Simple? Not at all. I pull the Page of Pentacles and I'm on a darkened hillside in the snow, seeing that small, single tree standing alone and clutching its single pentacle, feeling the chill wind and the scent from the distant farmhouses and the heaviness of solitude on a cold winter night, but protecting its treasure nonetheless...
I'm no scholar, though. I look at what everybody else is doing in this thread, and I'm intimidated. I don't want to spend a long time studying - not yet, anyway. At some point in my future lies the Templar, the Victoria Regina. They'll entail the reactivation of my academic self. But first and foremost I'm a storyteller, and I've been waiting for a deck that allows me to be that.
What's this long post doing? Asking if I can change my front page entry to Tarot of Trees. But also begging forgiveness: if and when I post about my little deck, it'll be as the minstrel, not as the academic. It makes this a far more subjective study; one, possibly, that won't be much use to anybody else. I'm not even sure what form it'll take: it's less a study and more an Intensive Deck Musings
We'll see. I'm already doing it, though, so I'm not excited about starting. Just exciting about carrying on. Oh, and ready to see if my commitment issues will step in and interfere with this...