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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 Magical Nature Tarot created by Jorie Morgan.

       
      Here are focal points for our meditation:

       

      Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                         Three of Cups.           Chaverah                     'Friendship'           Call Rohn.      
      Monday.          How Can I Set the Emotional Tone for my Week?          Five of Wands                                                  'Activism'               Appointment with Konect.                              
      Tuesday:         What Do I Want to Manifest?                                            Ace of Cups                 Rachem                      'Compassion'        Birthdays.                                                                Wednesday:   What Wisdom is Coming to Me?                                      Seven of Wands                                              'Namaste'               Write to Amaranth.    
      Thursday:       What Do I Want to Develop?                                             Eight of Swords                                               'Mental Liberation' Pray about doing ancestry.com.      
      Friday:             Connection with Romance, Friends & Nature?              Seven of Cups                                                 'Imagination'           Dream Re-entry.    
      Shabbat:         How Can I Rest?                                                                 Two of Pentacles Rx                                       'Initiation'                Clarify reading assignments.

    2. ALCHEMICAL DIVINATIONS

      A blog by Alchemia_Auri_Tarot in Member Blogs

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    3. If You Ask Me----

      A blog by Grizabella in Member Blogs

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      Two Books for March

      I'm creating a category I'm just calling "Books" because I really still love old-fashioned books that a person can hold in one's hands.  I haven't bought Tarot books much in a year or more but every so often I find one or two (or more) that really interest me. I found that when I belatedly got all excited about Bennebel's Holistic Tarot, I was a real late-comer so I might find that the ones I just got , everyone else has had since last year, but I'm going to do it anyway.  If anyone wants to post on the threads in this category, I'll be happy but if I'm posting about "old news" and it doesn't spark comments or chat about the books, that's okay too.  

       

      For this month, I found two books that really intrigued me.   They're called:

       

      • The Modern Fortune Teller's Field Guide by Tom Benjamin
      • Tarot Tableau Revolution by Maria Alviz Hernando

       

      The first one is really wonderful. I feel so much better now that I've started reading it.  For a very long time---in fact, since AT shut down, I haven't felt like I was a good fit for another forum but I really miss socializing and being a reader doing my "fortune telling" the way I've always done it.. Living up here in this very small RV park, and since I have considerable  health and mobility problems that keep me home and not very active anymore, socializing online is important to me.  Even though there were the newer ideas people were insisting had to be done by their preference of what "fortune telling" should and shouldn't be on AT there were plenty of other old style practitioners mixed in so I just didn't really feel out of place and I did my "thing" and didn't really pay that much attention. (I've often thought of myself as being oblivious to the obvious.)

       

      This book is one I really recommend if you haven't read it yet and you like books.  Newer style readers of cards and other divination tools might find it interesting and us old style folks can learn and appreciate it a lot, too.  But the only little criticism I have about it is his swearing.  I don't think it's necessary but I still enjoy and look forward to reading the book.

       

      .I think Daniel may have posted something to me about the second book when I was so excited about Tarot Tableau In Benebell's book.  I'm looking forward to seeing what Maria has to offer about this method in her book. 

       

       So there are my two books for this month.  Does anyone else have them?  

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

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      Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 458: Apr. 13 - Apr.19

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      Deck of the Week Sign-up Thread, Week 459: Apr. 20 - Apr. 26

      A unique version of Reading Circle for those who would like to work through their collection of decks, participants choose decks from their collections to work with for the week. Some use one deck, others use two or more. Some combine methods: Tarot, non-tarot (e.g. oracle), playing cards, or any other divinatory method is welcome. All we ask is that you use at least one tarot or oracle deck. No collection is too large or too small. The only rules we have are the Tarot, Tea & Me Rules; Be respectful of one other. Please join us! Please post with your choice of deck(s) for the week Chat away about your deck, how you're finding it (or not), etc., it's all up to you Participants may either choose to share their readings here in this discussion thread or opt to have their own journal in the Journals Forum and link it here Yet others may even have an offline journal in paper & pencil/pen form Share as often, as much, or as little as you like. You can drop in and out at any time—reality and life permitting. New to tarot? Long time reader? Come on in! Participants fire cat pickles: François Chosson 1736 Click here for DOTW 458 (4/13- 4/19)
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      The Fairy Tale Tarot

      Fairy Tale Tarot by Lisa Hunt Creator: Lisa Hunt Artist: Lisa Hunt ISBN-10 ‏: ‎ 1646712137 ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-1646712137 Book pages: 154 Card #: 78 Card size: 12x6.5 cm; 1.18 x 3.27 x 5.24 inches Card stock: smooth, matte, flexible, no gilding, no gold foil, borderless Box: sturdy two-piece box Language: English Publisher: US Games, December 2024 Purchase here: Changes in majors: some majors have been renamed, for example: 0 Innocence (Fool), II the Sorceress (High Priestess), III the Fairy Godmother (Empress), IV the Wise Old Man (Emperor), VIII Courage (Strength), V the Mentor (Hierophant), X the Wheel (Wheel of Fortune), XIII the Transformation (Death), XII Entrapment (Hanged Man), XV Temptation (Devil), XVI Deception (Tower) Suit names: Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles Court cards: Princess, Prince, Queen, King Card backs: fully reversible For many years, Lisa Hunt’s Fairy Tale Tarot was out of print, and it was only available for fantasy prices on the second-hand market. Its new release was long-awaited, and if you love Lisa Hunt’s art and especially her tarot art (as I do), and if fairy-tale themed decks speak to you (as they do to me), this is a dream fulfilment deck. Lisa Hunt’s detailed, highly skilled and strongly atmospheric watercolour art needs no introduction. She has produced a unique body of tarot decks over the years, and each of them reflects her deep understanding of the tarot archetypes by transporting them into different settings: the world of Ghosts and Spirits, or the past of the US countryside in the Pastoral Tarot. Both the tarot and fairy tales dive into the magical world of Jung’s collective unconscious, so it’s not difficult to understand why fairy tale tarot decks work so well. The booklet brings the tales and tarot archetypes together. For each card, it gives us the name of the story, the culture it came from, and some carefully chosen keywords. While the deck is multi-cultural and includes African, Scandinavian, Hindu, Serbian, Norwegian, Middle Eastern and Central Asian fairy tales, many cards are from the collection of the Brothers Grimm, i.e. German or Central European. Some of these fairy tales have been popularised by Disney movies, but many of the tales that inspired this deck are less well-known to non-Germans. Lisa Hunt goes back to the Grimm tales themselves, which is great because the pre-Disney versions are rougher, tougher and are strongly anchored in the popular culture before the Industrial Revolution. The same is true for Hans Christian Andersen’s poetic and melancholic fairy tales. As the tarot deals also with negative experiences and emotions, Hunt’s choice of original fairy tales is very apt. One of my favourite fairy tales from my childhood, the Goose Girl, appears as XI, Justice, and this resonates so strongly with me. These cards are not only beautiful, but they also have a lot of depth, and her choices reveal the core of the tarot archetype AND the fairy tale at the same time. The cards are borderless, and the card names appear in decorative banners at the bottom of the card without covering up important elements of the artwork. The Roman numerals of the Minors float in decorated round cartouches with scrollwork at the top of the cards. As always in Hunt’s arts, there are lots of details to discover. The faces are expressive, the backgrounds atmospheric, and when you know the fairy tale, you immediately recognise it. Since this deck follows the RWS system, you can simply use it as an RWS stand-in, but I recommend reading more about the fairy tales to discover how they found their way into this deck. This also means that for me, this deck is best used in smaller spreads or as single cards for meditation work or affirmation. It’s a very dense and meaningful deck. Like all fairy tale decks, it is an amazing tool for Inner Child readings and shadow work. Nowadays, we often forget that these were not children’s stories but tales that adults told each other, often while busy with manual work in the evenings or in the winter, when it was impossible to work outside. They all deal with challenges and struggles; there are often clear antagonists and real dangers, so there is nothing cute or sugar-coated about fairy tales. Just the opposite: they can be quite confronting. I love this deck and find working with it very rewarding.
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