Mystical Remix

[mystical-remix]

Here’s last week’s playlist based on the daily shuffle tracks generated alongside my card pulls.  I’m sure you are wondering why the name “Mystical Remix,” - that’s because I always wanted to take an interdisciplinary approach to my practice. 

But what does this mean?  Each day, I pull one tarot, one oracle, and shuffle my stations on Pandora to randomly generate a song. So, it’s essentially a three card spread, except that the third “card” is a track. With over 100+ stations, crossing multiple genres (although it’s odd that lately, it hasn’t accurately depicted such a diverse musical palette lately), it just seems natural to listen to the “ghost in the machine” to seek additional context. 

I will say that since I embedded this into my daily practice, it’s absolutely enriched my readings!

[mystical-remix]

July 19-25: Cusp of Oscillation

The Mary-El Tarot by Marie White + Memento Mori Oracle by Claire Goodchild

This week is the Cusp of Oscillation where Water and Fire come together. It’s a week characterized by mood swings, the merging of masculine and feminine, and is overall just a wee bit volatile. 

So, I figured now would be a great time to pull out the Mary-El. 

The Mary-El is definitely not a deck for the faint of heart. It’s quite confrontational, and with a subtitle of “Landscapes of the Abyss,” you kind of know what you are getting yourself into. This is the deck that you pull out when you want to tackle shadows, when you are looking to crawl through the catacombs of your consciousness, and when you are looking to unearth truths that you may be in denial of. It’s definitely not the deck to pull out for trivial queries, that’s for sure. Given the energy of the week, and the times we are in, this just seemed like it was a good match!

Now, I didn’t really like the Mary-El at first. I was both attracted AND repulsed by the rather blunt, harsh, crude imagery. And for every time that I’d reel away from it, I would still watch hours of walk-throughs on YouTube thinking that I needed this deck. The thing is, I really didn’t like the somewhat newly released (and widely available) 2nd Edition. For whatever reason, I did not like the artwork without the borders and much preferred the black borders of the first edition. The artwork just seems to work better for me with the borders and I really hate the typesetting on the 2nd. I made a deal with myself - if I found a first edition on eBay, the universe is telling me that the Mary-El is truly calling me. And it did. 

I figured this week would be a perfect week to take her out, but who to pair her with? 

Memento Mori just seemed to fit both thematically and aesthetically, and it’s a deck that aside from using it with the Antique Anatomy (Claire Goodchild’s Tarot deck), I haven’t really taken it out much. 

I have to say that the pairing is a really good solid balance and although the imagery in Memento Mori can be a bit morbid, as a partner to the Mary-El, it really works.