#tarot storage

[a-wick-with-no-candle]

Hey everybody! I got this sweet old chest at a yard sale for $5! I cleaned it up a bit, and I might paint it another day, but I do like the details of it. I'm storing the majority of my tarot and oracle decks in it! I put it with some crystals and my Saint Dominic cross just to charge and cleanse it out too.

[bertiegoesberserk-blog]

Upcycling for Tarot deck collectors!

Sometimes, you’ll find yourself hunting for a thing to hold a thing.

Harvested seeds from last year need a vessel the breathes but not too much. Sewing supplies need those blue butter cookie tins. Your newly made lavender mead needs some awesome bottles for short-term storage.

This is what a large part of my life is consumed by: Containers. I’m obsessed with containers. If I’m out and about, somehow I find them. Containers stalk me, and I stalk them. I always need more things to hold things. So, when I realized my tarot deck collection was becoming a little... unwieldy... it was stashed in my subconscious that I needed to deal with that.

You see, I live in a tiny space, and things tend to get tucked deep in far corners until I need them - and then I have to dig. I don’t want to dig for my decks.  You kinda want your decks at hand and available rather than a few layers deep in a closet. I also don’t want them collecting dust on my very-full shelf.  I’m a little lazy with ‘the dusting’ and I prefer to keep things neat and simple if I can.

So, I was wandering around a junk shop many months ago while keeping an eye out for ‘boxes of appropriate size.’  While drooling over an antique chest with a billion teeny-tiny drawers, I spied something a bit more relevant. old. card. index. drawers. D’yknow the kind I mean?  Think dewey decimal, flipping through those little index cards to find that book you need to get, shhh, quiet, library-kind.

A big ol’ lightbulb went off.

It’s painfully perfect. Decks w/o boxes fit with about 1/4″ to spare.  Therefore, decks with a very basic box also fit.  Use your lwb’s to separate the decks or do something more creative than that!  (I was considering wrapping them in a nice cloth, but don’t like that I might not remember which deck is which.)

Decks that are slightly-larger-than-standard-deck-size? Solved!

Most deck bags will fit, too! Start sustainability rant. Upcycling is very important to me. Recycling is fine and dandy and a darn sight better than letting all your sh*t fester away in a landfill, but if you’re looking to be truly conscious of the embodied energy and life cycles of things you use... effing upcycle!

Take a thing and give it a new life.  It’s like adoption for objects! Don’t pitch that mangy pupper into the woods cuz’ he’s not doing what you wanted him to.  Give him a bath, some training and a ‘new’ loving home. <3

End sustainability rant.

Since computers have more-or-less taken over the jobs of these beautiful pieces of history... and, let’s face it, most of us can’t keep our deck collections terribly small... I feel like it’s a solution worth sharing.

These things were naturally made to a standard size, and I’ve seen singles, sets of two (I have another steel one which stacks one drawer high and two wide),  there are even your super-library chest-of-drawers-style ones. Some of these boxes are wicked cheap (or free!)

Smoke cleanse ‘em. Douse them in salt (being mindful of the material they’re made of) and/or do what you’ve gotta do to make them a happy home for your decks. I hope you find this when you need it, and you can have a chance to let the librarian in you have their moment.

[tarot-studies-and-tea-blog]

So I did a thing. My tarot table sits in a little alcove just off of our kitchen, while my decks all lived in my library, which is literally on the other end of the apartment. I thought it would be workable, but it’s become really obnoxious to interrupt my flow to get up and go get other decks. I lose my intuitive train of thought, and it drives me crackers. 

I’ve been debating for a long time trying to get some shelves or something to keep my most commonly used tools closer to me, but there’s not much spare space to work with, and I really didn’t want to lose any of the gorgeous light that we get from that huge window. That meant that huge shelves were out. But then I started noticing that little carts were becoming a thing. I started looking at them, but they were either too big or too darn expensive. (I saw one very similar to this one that cost $60. You have got to be kidding me.)

Then I realized just how close to an Ikea we live. Didn’t I see several pins about hacking a cheap little Ikea cart? I sure did. But when I went to the Ikea website, the Raskögg cart now comes in a brick red-brown and a black color, in addition to the usual white. Perfect! So now, for only $30, I have a really good-sized cart that rolls into the little bit of space that I have, without losing the beauty of that window. (Those bins are bigger than they look, too. Nearly fourteen by eighteen inches, they fit a LOT of stuff!)

I plan to get a cute stencil and detail the outsides of the bins later on, but I have nowhere near the spoons for that right now. Instead, I’m just enjoying being able to reach over and grab the next deck that I want to try blending instead of walking across the apartment five or six times in ten minutes. It’s a little change, but I’m already so VERY happy with it!

[thealtpath]

Where Witches Keep Their Secrets

Some tools you keep on the altar, and some you keep tucked away like secrets. Every witch has a drawer full of things that don’t look magical at first glance — little bags, pouches, containers that end up holding half your craft.

If you like soft bags for tarot decks, runes, charms, or travel altars, this is where I keep them. https://thealtpath.net/product-category/bags-in-bulk-pouches-totes/

And if you want the practical kind — the quiet helpers for herbs, crystal chips, spell ingredients, or your crafting stash — here’s my shelf of resealable bags. https://thealtpath.net/product-category/resealable-bags/

[papercatlab]

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[maddpuss]

Very happy with this bag. I like that there's enough room for five cards and room in the bag for a few crystals if wanted. Which is gonna prompt me to look up inside side pockets. I would also prolly shorten the charm loop.

[spiritualwakeofficial]

Fun Bags that are a perfect fit four your tarot cards! www.etsy.com/shop/spiritualwake

[spiritualwakeofficial]

Fun Bags that are a perfect fit four your tarot cards! www.etsy.com/shop/spiritualwake