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Salon post: January 18
Good morning!
Topic of the week
What thing have you learned or done recently that's brought you joy? (Or at least a certain amount of pleasure. Doesn't have to be a peak joy experience.)
Alternately, related to what I'm up to, do you read Tarot? (Or use them in other ways?) Do you have a favourite deck? What's your approach? (Other oracle methods also welcome. We are an inclusive discussion here!)
Not interested in either of those? As always, whatever other topics people want to talk about very welcome. Start a thread, see who joins in.
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What I've been up to
Unpacking. I got all my books on bookshelves last Sunday, labelled them a couple of days ago (and now I need to go through and update my locations in LibraryThing. That's a longer project).
Tonight is for finishing tidying up the living room and cleaning before I have witchy students over tomorrow. (For a class on Tarot.)
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Comments are welcome whenever you get a chance - even if that's hours or days later. Feel free to jump into whatever sub-threads intrigue you. More discussion is the point of the salon posts!
Got a question you're trying to sort out, or a thing you'd like to discuss? Lots of thoughtful interesting people with a wide range of interests show up here! Feel free to ask about things you're thinking about or trying to solve, as well as other kinds of chat.
House rules:
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Topic of the week
What thing have you learned or done recently that's brought you joy? (Or at least a certain amount of pleasure. Doesn't have to be a peak joy experience.)
Alternately, related to what I'm up to, do you read Tarot? (Or use them in other ways?) Do you have a favourite deck? What's your approach? (Other oracle methods also welcome. We are an inclusive discussion here!)
Not interested in either of those? As always, whatever other topics people want to talk about very welcome. Start a thread, see who joins in.
A useful tool
melannen put together a bookmarklet (based on one by astrolat) that allows you to quickly share links on Dreamwidth and that will check to see if you're linking to a locked DW post. Instructions on the bookmarklet over here It'll create a new DW post, autofill the subject line, and then you can edit or add other commentary. What I've been up to
Unpacking. I got all my books on bookshelves last Sunday, labelled them a couple of days ago (and now I need to go through and update my locations in LibraryThing. That's a longer project).
Tonight is for finishing tidying up the living room and cleaning before I have witchy students over tomorrow. (For a class on Tarot.)
Useful notes
Consider tracking this post to get notifications of new comments. Select the bell icon (or the words 'track this'). More help over here, and more about notifications in general here.
Comments are welcome whenever you get a chance - even if that's hours or days later. Feel free to jump into whatever sub-threads intrigue you. More discussion is the point of the salon posts!
Got a question you're trying to sort out, or a thing you'd like to discuss? Lots of thoughtful interesting people with a wide range of interests show up here! Feel free to ask about things you're thinking about or trying to solve, as well as other kinds of chat.
House rules:
This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.
1) Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to. Keeping conversations SFW is appreciated.
2) If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
3) If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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I read pretty fundamentally intuitively. I also ran into a great post in tarot blogland that I can't currently find that broke down reading philosophies into "window" (aka the reading is about predictive external things, like a person on a card is someone you will meet or your mother-in-law or whatnot) vs. "mirror" (aka the reading is reflective and all about your internal state and the reading is kinda Jungian and archetypal. Anyway, my readings are about 98% mirror.
I discovered as soon as I looked into getting decks that I was never going to get into Tarot through Rider Waite Smith, and happened across this blog post about beginner decks that aren't RWS clones from Asali Earthwork, whom I LOVE. I came out of research from that loving the Numinous Tarot, the Next World Tarot, the Mesquite Tarot, and the Sasuraibito Tarot. I decided I really wanted the Next World, it was out of print, I ended up buying the Numinous from a tarot shop in Australia, I wanted it that badly and...it is 100% my favorite deck. It took a while for us to warm up to each other--like it just sat in its box for a few weeks after it arrived--and then all of a sudden it felt like the deck for my everyday life. It's not a deck I have to treat nicely. I keep it in a plastic sandwich bag in my backpack so I have it when I need it, and I've never felt that it thought there was anything wrong with that.
I also now own:
*the So Below deck, which is okay but I should pass on because I don't read with it now that I have the Numinous deck
*the Simple Tarot which I got before I realized that what I need is big, very detailed, complex, colorful non-RWS clone images and which I may never use
*the Next World deck, which is a little more "tough love" of a read than my Numinous deck. Also it has oversized cards which I loathe, so I only read with it when I'm in the mood.
Now I'm gonna go dive into everyone else's conversations. If anybody else has queer, diverse decks that they like, TELL ME ALL ABOUT THEM.
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Little Red Tarot is now an archived site, but if you haven't rummaged in there, I suspect you will find many things you may like or find handy.
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