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[domusaur]

I have a new Tarot deck! This is the Waite/Smith deck from AGM Urania editions. My dad gifted it to me yesterday and I'm so grateful.

When I first saw this deck online I thought I wouldn't connect with it, that's why I didn't get it as my first deck, but seeing it in person changed my mind completely. The illustrations are beautiful in that arcane kind of way, and the colors are vibrant but they don't hurt my eyes as I thought they would (if you suffer from photophobia like I do you know how important that is).

They came with a little instruction booklet and the guaranty card is the same size and has the same backing as the rest of the cards, so my diy senses are already asking me to do something with it hahaha

I will be interviewing the deck to see how we can work together in our readings!

[drdevoraak]

✨ TAROT 101 UPDATE ✨

Tarot 101 will start up again on December 30th~

We will finish up the Major Arcana descriptions (XI - XXI);

Then we will move on to describing the four suits that make up the minor Arcana (pentacles, cups, swords, staves);

We will continue on with the numerology of the cards (what does the Ace [1] of any suit mean, what does a 2 mean, etc.);

And then, if there’s interest, we will go through the four suits and explain every minor Arcana card in the deck! 💕 xx

Thank you to everyone for being so patient!

I’ve forgotten who wanted to be tagged when I started the class up again, so let me know if you want a tag on Monday 💕✨

[tarot 101: beginning]

[blackphoenixalchemylab]

Attention April Fools:

No, we're not pulling your leg -- but THE FOOL'S DOG might be! That's right, In honor of the most playful of holidays (which has already pulled the epic prank of landing on Easter this year), we offer the following set of perfume oils inspired by that glad-hearted trickster tarot icon: The Fool.

Since we've been having website issues this week, we're releasing this set simultaneously on Etsy. Links here:

THE FOOL’S JOURNEY on BPAL

THE FOOL’S JOURNEY on Etsy

++ THE FOOL’S JOURNEY: ASPECTS OF THE FOOL

The Excuse, the Madman, the Wild Card, the Highest Trump That Prospers from All Previous Tricks. He is the Everyman, but also the Outsider and the narrator in the moment that he enters the tale. The Fool is the root from which all the other trumps spring, but is also the card without value. He carries no number because he stands outside, above, and below the social order; he exists beyond the other cards, unencumbered. He is free to move both onstage and backstage; he can break the fourth wall and address the audience. He is improvisation, the unwritten script. Folly and sagacity, hesitation and leaps of faith. Absolute freedom, absolute nothingness; anarchy, indifference, prodigality, balance, and imbalance.

Everything matters, nothing matters. We all walk off the cliff eventually.

EYES SKYWARD, EYES SHUT Divine ecstasy and divine madness. Ambivalence and absolute faith.

Frankincense and lemon peel drifting on a cloud of lemongrass, white coconut, sandalwood, and vanilla absolute.

THE FOOL’S DOG Sometimes playfully walking with the Fool, sometimes tugging on his stockings, sometimes attacking in a pack, sometimes tearing the ass out of his pants, sometimes chomping him right on the nuts: feral and tame, guardian and hunter, loyalty and opposition. Sometimes guiding the Fool off the cliff and other times warning him of dangers ahead.

A warm canine musk, trampled grass, a gleam of ivory-white fang, cardamom pod, and crushed yew.

THE FOOL’S ROSE Purity of ideal, unsullied innocence, liberation from base desires and worldly trappings.

White rose, frankincense, verbena, and angelica root.

THE FOOL’S TRANQUILITY At peace with recklessness and abandon, the serenity of accepting the embrace of disorder and obliquity: pink pepper and honey.

THE BINDLE A jester’s balloon, a vagabond’s pack. The riddle and the punch line. The Consequence, the Mystery, the Untapped Collective Knowledge of All Mankind.

Jasmine petals tumbled with a panoply of spices, suffused with incense smoke.

THE PRECIPICE The Leap of Faith or the Apex of Irresponsibility. One foot remains precariously touching the earth, the other hovers towards enlightenment or oblivion.

Green tea, neroli, and osmanthus, patchouli root, Spanish moss, tobacco absolute, and vetiver.

++ THE FOOL’S JOURNEY: FACES OF THE FOOL

IL MATTO Reviled and mocked, pelted by stones and set upon by dogs, all the while singing the song of divine madness: red sandalwood, tobacco absolute, palo santo, black copal and balsam dusted by burnt sage, soot, and an echo of frankincense.

FATE’S JESTER Speaking truth to kings, beggars, and popes alike, immune to retribution and lordly wrath as he flings wise quips like cream pies and barbed arrows.

A motley tunic, festooned in bells: red currant and lemon peel over sugared patchouli and a bit of buttercream.

JONGLEUR Wherein the Magician and the Fool are one, spinning the story and juggling the knives that drive a man’s fate.

Frankincense and star anise, bergamot and clove bud, rue and green cinnamon, saffron and carnation, cedar and vanilla absolute.

THE STRANGER The unknown factor, the outsider entering your town uninvited, unannounced, and unknown: a narcotic black chypre with crushed violets, indigo lilac, patchouli, oakmoss absolute, labdanum, and clove.

NARR The affable fool who uses his own obtuseness and ignorance to his advantage: milk, honey, and wild fig with ambrette seed and almond buttercream.

THE SCAPEGOAT To save a trump card, sometimes you must make sacrifices: tolu balsam, leather, labdanum, black pepper, and benzoin.

[itrainferaligatrs]

I've been really drawn towards the Centennial Waite Smith, I like the colors a whole bunch

[drdevoraak]

Before we begin Tarot 101~

There’s a little bit of homework! 

It’s not complicated, and it’s not long, but this only works if you really do this. Everything will be explained at the end, I promise!

Before reading any description of any card, please write down how you feel about every single card (there are 78):

do you like it?

do you not like it?

are you indifferent?

Don’t spend much time looking at the card... Just go with your gut feeling!

AND DON’T CHANGE YOUR OPINION ONCE YOU’VE READ THE DESCRIPTION~!

~got your notebook? then we’re ready to begin!~

[beginning | next: the fool]

[drdevoraak]

Now, let me tell you a little secret: Tarot is not cards. 

Tarot is a book. It is the book of YOU.

With Tarot, you learn more about yourself, and learn to face the parts of yourself that you try and forget. There are 78 cards, and so, despite this being Tarot 101... It is also YOU 101, including 78 classes.

NOW~ Please take a look at the first card, the Fool. Write down if you like it or not, and then, there’s another tiny bit of homework that I need from you.

Don’t think. First thing that comes to mind.

Describe what is about to happen in this scene in the next minute.

Please only scroll down when you are done!

The Fool is a mirror.

Whatever you wrote as the description of what happened is how you see life... Your life.

Did the Fool not participate in your story? Did you think of the flower falling? - you probably don’t value yourself (you are not even in your own story!)

Did the ledge crumble under the Fool’s foot? - you might be afraid that everything is falling to pieces around you

Did the Fool fall off the ledge?

...Did they jump?

This is the card of trust, surrender, jumping.

The dog is his instinct, showing him the way. There is nothing to fear. Only when you surrender can all fear disappear.

This is a very powerful card to pull.

Now... Ready for the next secret?

The order of the cards is important because it tells a story. It is the story of one’s life~ if you follow the path laid out in these cards, you will grow. You will heal, and become a better person... But only if you follow through with every single card.

We are human, though, and we get stuck in some places. The cards will help you see where.

~You are on the ledge. You see your dog jump, and you jump with them.~

[beginning | next: major arcana i-x]

[drdevoraak]

Why use a Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) deck?

Without a doubt, my favourite deck is the RWS, especially for people who are learning. Let me explain why.

There are two full lifetimes in these cards.

...Huh? 🧐

What do I mean?

These cards were create by two people: Arthur Waite and Pamela Colman Smith (Pixie). They were highly knowledgeable in spiritual things, like:

Chakras;

ether bodies;

the Kabbalah;

Religion of all types (Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Wicca, etc.)

~and they dedicated their whole lives to making these cards. No detail is insignificant.

You don’t believe me? Go check out the letters that were sent between them: everything is in there.

They discussed the significance of colours, of numerology… There are so many secrets hidden in these cards, that even in one lifetime, I don’t think we can come to understand them all.

But we can try!

To protect the knowledge that is in these cards, Waite created a small booklet that was inserted in every pack of cards. It has a tiny bit of the information that is actually held in the cards, but he wrote it in a way that would throw people off their scent~ remember that they made these in ~1900 England lol didn’t want the Church of England after them

So as much as the booklet can help at first, for people who are completely new to tarot…

Waite specifically wrote it to be vague so that people who didn’t deserve the knowledge could receive it.

You can only get the knowledge of tarot through an initiate~

That’s where I come in!

Welcome to Tarot 101.

[beginning | next: preparation]