It is a TarotTube tag started by @Kelly Bear however I’ll be taking part through weblog put up. =) I used to be tagged by the lovely and precocious @JessReadsCards. The immediate is to share 5 tarot decks, 4 tarot books, 3 tarot spreads, 2 tarot reader habits or tarot studying paraphernalia, and 1 piece of recommendation (or alternatively, 1 tarot card you’d prefer to embody).
Ack. You’ll be able to see my Invisalign attachments within the above picture. And naturally now that I known as it out, it went from 50% probability you’d see it to 100% probability you’ll see it. Additionally, shameless off-topic plug for my new e-book, I Ching, The Oracle. The primary few months after an writer has launched a e-book, you’re simply gonna need to brace your self for lots of promo. =D
5 Tarot Decks
I’m going to share the 5 tarot decks at present on my studying desk, which suggests they’re among the many more moderen additions to my assortment.
Earth Magick Tarot
Click on on the deck identify title for my assessment of the Earth Magick Tarot: Airtight Prophecies by Daniel Martin Diaz. Evidently, the artwork type is correct up my alley alongside the Airtight Tarot, Nigel Jackson’s Secrets and techniques of the Rose Tarot, and Dame Fortune’s Wheel Tarot by Paul Huson.
The Rosebud Tarot
A buddy of mine just lately described The Rosebud Tarot by Diana Rose Harper and illustrated by Amanda Lee Stilwell as “a Victorian-esque Voyager Tarot” and I like that! I like the picture collage type by Stilwell and the way the playing cards seem like Polaroids. The renaming of a number of the Majors and the court docket playing cards works for me.
The Little Sister Tarot
I will probably be posting a assessment of this deck quickly. The story behind the Little Sister Tarot by Ginny Thonson is heartwrenching. All the artwork is hand-painted by Thonson. I completely love her New American surrealist and muralist artwork type with sturdy Pacific Coast influences.
The Fable: Wukong Tarot
The Fable: Wukong Tarot by Thai-based creators Wasu Trakoolmakee and Tariahtah Khn is my internal youngster deck proper now. That is an internal youngster deck for me as a result of I grew up on the Journey to the West tales. A full assessment of this deck can be slated. Recognizing all of the Taoist mythological and Journey to the West easter egg references is a lot enjoyable!
Genius Garden Tarot
Like I stated, I’m at present all in regards to the hand-painted tarot decks, so after all Jessi Huntenburg’s Genius Backyard Tarot is on my studying desk. Click on on the deck title to learn my assessment. There’s an earthy naturist and pantheistic vibe I simply love. This was an awesome deck for on a regular basis readings all through the summer time.
I did need to add a bonus examine deck that’s additionally on my desk, however doesn’t fall beneath the class of tarot:
72 Angels: Talisman Coins & Cards
The “examine deck” half could be the deck of 72 angel playing cards that comes with the talisman cash.
You’ll be able to order this 72 Angels talisman coins and cards collection from Frater Setnakh here on Etsy. The 72 cash plus the 72-card angel deck collectively is $168.40 USD in the mean time (there’s a restricted 20% off sale), which — for what you’re getting is form of a steal!
The standard of those zamak cash, which you may get in both gold or silver, is high notch and gorgeous. The playing cards even include a guidebook, so that you’re getting a ton of starter pack data. I’ve additionally slated this set for a full assessment after I’ve had extra time to deep-dive into working with the talisman cash and playing cards.
4 Tarot Books
Humorous sufficient 2023 has introduced fairly a hoard of books. I hadn’t even gotten midway by my TBR (to be learn) record from 2022, and let’s not even speak in regards to the TBR from 2021, and now there’s extra. So it was arduous to select simply 4, even for a enjoyable immediate.
The Dream Gate by Janet Piedilato
This isn’t a tarot e-book per se, however there’s a notable chapter on this e-book titled “Utilizing Tarot Card Imagery to Empower Dream Interpretations.” Plus, the writer is the creator of certainly one of my favourite decks, the Mystical Dream Tarot, which I’ve reviewed before here.
It is a e-book about altered states of consciousness and thoughts adventures, from ultradian nap dreaming, automated hypnosis, and shamanic journeying to meditation, lively creativeness, trance, and a lot extra. That is additionally a e-book about seize goals and archive your thoughts adventures. And the tarot can be utilized to amplify goals, to convey dream-like views to the waking state.
Important Tarot Writings ed. by Donald Tyson
This assortment was launched again in 2020. It’s value a point out right here. This e-book is a field of varied candies, spanning 300 years, from 1781 to 1928. Right here compiled in a single e-book is the necessities in the case of essays on the tarot central to Western occultism.
Tarot, in spite of everything, grew to become the centerpiece of the Golden Daybreak system of sensible magic, and in flip, the Golden Daybreak system has indelibly formed trendy tarot.
Terra Unstable Guidebook by Credo Quia Absurdum
Oh hai!~ What’s it learn beneath these huge letters “foreword”? Can’t see it from right here, are you able to learn it aloud for me? ;-D Ha. That’s proper! Yours really!
That is the guidebook to the Terra Volatile Tarot that has now garnered a cult following. That is simply one of the vital lovely, beautiful tarot guidebooks I’ve ever seen. It’s extra of an artwork e-book than anything. Web page after web page of lovely full-color reproductions of classical artwork plus well-written reflective brief essays on the playing cards.
Right here’s a line from the epilogue: “I dream of all of the books we’ve learn preventing one another as in the event that they have been in a Trojan battle, the place concepts kill different concepts with nice violence.” Simply, wow. That’s how the e-book reads, web page after web page.
Tarot Deciphered by Chang and Meleen
I’ve talked about Tarot Deciphered earlier than, printed in 2021. It’s form of vital in your tarot library. It is a tome for these focused on understanding esoteric tarot. The textual content covers each RWS and Thoth symbolism, astrological and Qabalistic correspondences, mythology, and Western alchemy. It doesn’t matter what stage of studying or proficiency you’re at with the playing cards, it is a nice reference e-book to have available.
3 Tarot Spreads
Listed here are three tarot spreads I believe you’ll like.
The Dream Gate Studying Methodology
This studying technique is sourced from Piedilato’s The Dream Gate, one of many books I discussed for this tag.
Draw two playing cards proper earlier than bedtime. Flip over one and let that card be imprinted in your thoughts’s eye earlier than you go to sleep. Depart the second card face down.
Within the morning if you wake, report what you keep in mind of your goals. Then flip over that second card.
One Rung of Jacob’s Ladder
(Etteilla Studying Methodology)
That is an Etteilla studying technique based mostly on a extra advanced multi-card unfold known as Jacob’s Ladder. See the above unfold? That’s one “rung” of a ladder. Replicate that seven occasions for seven rungs and also you’ve bought the Jacob’s Ladder unfold.
It’s an Etteilla studying technique since you’re going to want the upright and reversed key phrases. See the above heart card at 90 levels horizontal? The “upright” key phrase is adjoining to the left-most card, in order that key phrase (right here, it’s “Success”) modifies the which means of the left-most card (the 4 of Wands).
The “reversed” key phrase adjoining to the right-most card (“Supply”) modifies the which means of the right-most card (Fortitude, or the Power card).
You do a common studying with this unfold. So, as an illustration, the 4 of Wands upright portends development in social standing, which is additional modified or amplified by the key phrase “Success.” Truly, it is a fantastically optimistic studying…. Fortitude is “one of many happiest playing cards within the deck,” predicting victory in a private battle or battle. And that which means is modified/amplified by the key phrase “Supply.”
The Inform It Like It Is Unfold
From The Sirens’ Tune
The Sirens’ Tune is a Lenormand and Kipper deck set by Carrie Paris, Toni Savory, and Tina Hardt. The “Inform It Like It Is” four-card unfold is from the Guidebook. I suppose it’s meant for the Lenormand and Kipper decks, however it works simply as effectively for tarot!
Right here’s the unfold:
Card 1 lets you articulate the state of affairs at hand. It pinpoints the problem you could deal with. Card 2 is vital, as a result of it tells you what’s NOT vital within the matter hand. It tells you what the state of affairs isn’t. Then Card 3 tells you what it is. It is a snapshot of actuality. Card 4 forecasts the end result.
2 Habits or Paraphernalia
For the “2” a part of the tag, share two habits or two miscellaneous articles adjoining to your tarot observe. I do love my tarot journal and incense they usually’re each indispensable to me, however listed here are the 2 I’m gonna go along with:
Artisanal Card-of-the-Day Stands
The woodcut card stand you see pictured above is made by Jamie Sawyer. Try and shop all her card stands here. These artisanal requirements are excellent for displaying a card-of-the-day or meditation focus card.
Selenite
You know the way there’s most likely one explicit gemstone, crystal, or mineral you gravitate towards, you’re simply inexplicably keen on? Mine is selenite. Don’t ask why. I don’t know. I simply love selenite. It’s not even about its metaphysical correspondences. Selenite might correspond with door mats for all I care, I might nonetheless like it.
I like conserving hefty items of selenite close to my decks. Again after I was doing in-person occasions, I might all the time convey a selenite palm stone with me, tucked contained in the silk pouch with my playing cards. Most of any woo I would do involving tarot will seemingly additionally contain selenite’s presence.
1 Piece of Recommendation
(or a Tarot Card You Wish to Embody)
I heard this piece {of professional} recommendation in a context exterior of the tarot group, however it’s one I believe is perhaps useful, particularly to small companies, indie creators, and entrepreneurs. Heck, it’s fairly good life recommendation.
Your online business will probably be sustainably profitable in case your first thought upon waking each morning is to evaluate how the world has modified since yesterday and the way you’ll alter to alter prosperously with it.
That mindset and each day mindfulness retains you progressive. It retains your finger on the heart beat of a society that’s inevitably altering at a sooner tempo than you possibly can comprehend. To be continually, persistently delicate to how the world round you is altering and how one can flex to alter with it – to me – is an exquisite way of life.
The tarot group is altering. The shifts are palpable. All the things from navigate the business as a deck creator, the print, manufacturing, and publication course of to being a content material creator and navigating group areas– what group areas look like retains altering. What’s trending, what’s not, the place the folks’s hearts are, the place it’s not– as quickly as you assume you’ve figured it out, it shifts once more, and once more, in a repeating cycle in order that the place we have been 60 years in the past is the place we’re once more, proper now.
“Change prosperously with it” doesn’t imply to chase the development of the day. If something, my place has all the time been that for those who’re chasing the development of the day, then you definately’re already two steps behind. If something, “change prosperously” is extra of an inner mindset than essential exterior habits. It’s about taking measures to be in concord with the brand new, modified panorama.
It’s a problem, to conform to reside by such a each day mindfulness. As a result of we’re resistant to alter. We like our personal methods. What’s new is unsure and scary. It’s a thriller. And so we’re confronted with the selection: to embrace thriller or to succumb to our worry of it.
As for which tarot card I believe that piece of recommendation embodies…
You thought I’d say the Wheel of Fortune? Hah! (Properly I imply I used to be considering it…)
Card 6 from the Etteilla Tarot. It’s not a transparent, excellent match when it comes to its card which means, however energetically and intuitively it appears to echo the spirit of that piece of recommendation. You must be a navigator, wielding that astrolabe, continually gauging and triangulating the place you might be, and what the celebs are telling you. The normal which means of the cardboard is thriller and secrets and techniques when upright, and the revealing of truths when reversed. And so after I see that illustration I drew for Card 6, it jogs my memory of that piece of recommendation.
In order that’s my 5, 4, three, two, and one. What are yours?
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