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    1. Natural Mystic Guide

      A blog by Natural Mystic Guide in Member Blogs

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      Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.
       
      This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole
       
      This week's reading will use the Good Fortune Tarot by Barbara Moore..

       
      Here are focal points for our meditation:

       

      Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                         Five of Pentacles                                                'Healing'                Figure out vacation food.      
      Monday.          How Can I Set the Emotional Tone for my Week?          Person of Wands                                                'Storyteller'            Listen to people's stories.                              
      Tuesday:         What Do I Want to Manifest?                                            Seven of Pentacles                                             'Evaluation'            Evaluate realities according to mission.                                                                Wednesday:   What Wisdom is Coming to Me?                                      I                                    Charsheta                      'Shamaness'           KH.    
      Thursday:       What Do I Want to Develop?                                             Ace of Cups                Racham                          'Compassion'         Care.   
      Friday:             Connection with Romance, Friends & Nature?              Nine of Swords          Chalamot                         'Dream Time'         Parsha study.    
      Shabbat:         How Can I Rest?                                                                 Person of Pentacles                                           'Builder/Sensualist' Massage.

    2. Geoxena's Art Blog

      A blog by geoxena in Member Blogs

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      I don't know how often I will be updating this blog, but I'd like to use it to talk about my art projects.  My goal is to improve my skills and feel more confident about creating art.  I am still discovering my style.  Eventually, I want to create a tarot deck, but I don't want to rush into that until I am ready.

    3. Strand of Pearls

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      Works and Not's

      This could also be named "Props and Skills", or "We(e) within Universe" or... feel free to think up your own name for the game.

       

      It is a good thing to have good friends - they can bring stuff to your attention you wouldn't ever think about.

       

      One such friend told me that she felt as if some "readers" have somehow come upon my "Get The Start Right"-post and went straight into business with nothing but the method outlined there. "Nah, can't be" is what I thought, but evidence presented made it hard to maintain that stance.

       

      What in blazes is so hard to understand about the words "Start" and "Beginning"!?

      Sure, that method can carry you a long way, given the following prerequisites: You only use the cards for yourself and you only read periodically, about once in three months maximum, and even then, by your tenth year of doing so at the very latest, by way of pondering and re-examination you will have grown beyond it, no doubt.

       

      With that cleared up, "Onwards!", as some fella once put it.

       

      The main point is this: Tarot doesn't work per se.

      It is and will be the reader who makes it work.

       

      Assuming the Tarot or any form of cards/divinatory tool work by default is like getting a pup and assuming it will grow into a well-behaved dog no matter what you do.

      Which is precisely why it is a challenging profession, very much so.

       

      Here are some of the things I have noted along the way:

       

      Beginners luck is in effect: For the first few dozens of reads, things will likely be easy, especially if the one reading doesn't ponder too much about whatever method and meaning they have been presented and go by.

      That is history as soon as you start to ponder what the cards are truly about for you, for then your energetic field starts to deviate and develop - and that process is highly favoured by the universe we live in.

      Once started, there is no going back, you will have to proceed - or leave.

      "Just don't ponder" is not an option either, for after a while your reads will be off - it is how the universe extends its invitation to grow.

      In my dictionary, a reader worth their salt is one who proceeded.

       

      Next thing: You will encounter reads going beyond your imagination. This can happen at any stage, for we are human.

      Our imagination is limited and to top it off, we live inside something unimaginable.

      Unimaginably beautiful, yet also the opposite thereof.

      "To imagine" is a skill in itself, it has to be trained. "Flexed" is the fitting word here.

      It happened to me recently - got it figured out and intended to write a two-part blog-entry about it, but the first part got deleted and without it, the second doesn't quiet line up nicely.

      On that note, I can certainly see why it got deleted and do respect the decision of the moderators - it is their job to keep things moderate, after all.

      And our imagination mostly fails us when things go into the very extremes of "extreme".

      You may stumble about or over it in relationship readings (I do not recommend reading for couples with both present at the table) and readings concerning big business, especially when those intersect with religion and politics. It is plain inhumane stuff and flexing ones imagination becomes a cruel task indeed.

      Nonetheless, depending on how far you want to take your art, it may have to be done.

      Messing up the shuffle-and-draw is so basic you should be well beyond it once you call yourself a reader.

       

      Luckily, this universe is as forgiving as it is cruel, so the above mentioned effect (bungling a read for you simply could not imagine) can also appear during reads where you look far into the future - and there is stuff happening in the cards, lots of stuff. Yet, the year was/is a boring one.

      In such cases, it can be conducive to look into what has happened/is happening not in your or your clients life but in the life of humanity as a whole, you may well have tuned into something bigger than intended when doing said read.

      The second lucky aspect is that in most of these cases, the cards are still spot-on, thereby leaving a clue to where we failed in our interpretation.

       

      Three is the charm, so here's anotherone. Funnily enough it appears once you have attained a certain level of proficiency:

      Your cards switch their way of talking. Spontaneously.

       

      The easiest observable instance is when you ask a Yes/No and the cards present you with a story and vice versa, you ask for a story and the cards heavily pinpoint the positives and the negatives, turning it into a clear Yes/No read.

      For example, the question was "What will happen if I attend this'n'that summit?" and the answer is: "No, don't go, stay away from there!"

      Simple one, No? Here's seconds: "Should I pick that job?" and the answer is "No, you are fine the way it is, stick with it and success will come" presented in the following way: XIII, L'Empereur, Le Soleil.

      The opposition between the first two cards will be so glaringly obvious it'll almost hurt the eyes.

      The same sequence may appear, and the opposition isn't tangible at all. Then, it is safe to go by the standarts applying to Yes/No-questions, a plain "Yes" in this case.

       

      The reason being, as we aquaint ourselves with the energies around us, so do they aquaint themselves with us.

      The "like learning a language"-metaphor to cartomancy holds true.

      If you learn with a native speaker, they will pick up on your progress and stop to talk with you like you were a foreigner/infant and instead treat you like a native.

       

      There's more (lots), but here a conclusion fits nicely: A seasoned reader is not someone who never fails or never failed at all, that's just stupidity at work.

      It is one who failed, understood why and grew beyond it, times and time again.

      So much so that you sense when you are off during the read and are able to correct yourself on the spot.

       

      Needless to say, that doesn't come cheap.

       

      Starting to be a reader is one of the easiest things in the world -

      sticking with the art and developing it into even a slight degree of mastery is one of the hardest things you could attempt.

       

      For whatever stage you're currently at, myself included, here is the response of the universe:

       

      "You will learn so much more!"

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    1. Rachelcat
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      Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 467: Jun. 15 - Jun. 21

      Hi, everybody! Glad to be back again! This week will be Dirt Gems Plant Oracle Deck, the second of my ill-gotten gains from our tarot society giveaway. It’s an herb deck with suits: Ablaze (fire, red), Afloat (water, blue), Adrift (air, black and white), and Amidst (earth, rainbow). 65 cards. I’m going to have to use the book all the time because there are no keywords on the cards. Also, because the new moon happens to be on a Monday, I’m going to use the daily moon phase card keywords of Spirit de la Lune as themes for my daily readings for four weeks. I did this in 2023, and it’s time again because I’m still having trouble coming up with topics and spreads for daily readings. But first, an interview with Dirt Gems. What is your most important characteristic? Magnolia, Time Traveler It has SOME flowers. The deck is all about change and trying to not resist it. What is your strength? Echinacea, The Bridge of Sovereignty The in-between of change. The deck is a bridge that can help me to stop resisting change. Your weakness? Peppermint, The Irresistible The deck is not very calming or helpful for learning about actually using herbs. (Peppermint and ginger are the only herbs I use. Peppermint tea to get rid of digestive discomfort.) What can I learn from you? Damiana, Tingle Maker This is the deck’s romance and sexuality card, I think. I’m willing to learn about pleasure and dreaminess. But not more than that. How can I learn it? Rosemary, The Holder of Belonging Unconditional love, home, and protection. I can learn about pleasure by being reassured that it’s safe and comfortable. What will be the outcome of our work together? Arnica, The Sustainer of Form Healing after trauma, physical or emotional. The deck will help me heal even more from very old trauma. I like the art and the black backgrounds. I wish at least the titles were on the cards, if not keywords. I’m too old to learn a whole new system and too stubborn to look everything up in a book every time! We’ll see how we get along this week.
      - Rachelcat replied to fire cat pickles's topic in Deck of the Week
    2. Bodhiseed
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      Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 467: Jun. 15 - Jun. 21

      Thank you Fire cat! 💓 I'm in this week with the Wheel of Change Tarot paired with the Oracle of Dreamtime. Strength is not the absence of hurt. It is the refusal to let hurt set the terms of who we become. —Rabbi Yonatan Hambourger The Three of Swords indicates a painful realization and the loss of an illusion. There are some relationships that just can't be put back together as they were before when truth is revealed. But what do we do with our pain? Psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun have studied what they call post-traumatic growth - a conscious shift from being a victim to being a student of our experiences. This process does not delete our pain but helps us use it to extract life lessons and gain emotional resilience rather than remaining stuck. The Dreamtime story of Barramundi tells the story between two young lovers who long to be together, however the young woman was already promised to an older man in an arranged marriage. Rather than accept that fate, the lovers jumped into the sea and became fish. Traditional ideas and romantic dreams must often be sacrificed if we want an authentic, fulfilling life.
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      Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 466: Jun. 8 - Jun. 14

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