zianara:

pleiadic-magic:

i recently got gifted a beautiful new deck, and whenever i get a new deck, the first thing i do is bond with it! one of the ways i do that is holding a little interview session with it.

you’ve probably seen hundreds of ‘deck interview’ spreads, and they’re all really helpful! however, i find them a little limiting. i tend to use a different, more conversational method of interviewing my deck. i talk to my cards, pull cards when i feel an answer is ready, and just keep going and pulling cards as i go until i’m satisfied i know the deck well enough to proceed! here are some useful questions i tend to use for this.

• who are you? (how do you see yourself?)
• how do you see me?
• what are your main goals?
• how do you view life?
• what’s your main characteristic?
• what can you teach?
• what kind of questions do you struggle with?
• how should i continue with you?
• what can you offer me?
• what will the outcome of our relationship be?
• what do you think i need to know?
• how can i achieve that?
• what do you want from me?
• do you want to be used for others?
• do you want to be used for paid readings?
• should i read reversals?

from these questions you can get a scope of how the deck answers questions, its nature, whether it’s optimistic/pessimistic/realistic, whether it sugar coats or gives it to you straight… honestly, interviewing new and even old decks is invaluable.

also, this way i manage to get a feel for how the deck likes to be handled. all my decks like to be shuffled, cut and stacked in different ways – handling them how they like for me tends to give more accurate and helpful readings!

(if you like this post and want to support me, i offer paid readings and handmade goods here at my etsy store! please check it out if you have the time. thankyou!)

Holy crap. This was an awesome thing to do with my cards. I learned a lot, but I also feel more emotionally attuned to my cards. I would highly recommend giving it a go!

witchy-queer:

These cards are pretty beaten and worn from lots of being shoved in my backpack, but to give you an idea of what they look like, here’s a picture I took when they  were first made

Pictured: The Sprout, The Arrow, The Vine, The Sun

They’re made from those little paint-chip things you get at hardware stores. I tore them off the metal clasp that keeps them together and drew something of meaning on each. The following are the cards and what they mean!

You may recreate this deck however you like! It’s completely of my own creation, and I think that it’s a great starter deck for anyone getting into oracle readings. It’s simple, small, and minimalistic.

The Sprout – New Beginnings
The Grass – Small growth in many areas / experimentation / change / “jack-of-all-trades”
The Vine – A path / a journey
The Wheat – Practical prosperity
The Animal – Instinct / natural order / truth
Mars – Everything that the *astrological* Mars stands for, especially anger and passion
Venus – Everything that the astrological Venus stands for, especially mother figures, femininity, and love
Saturn – Everything that the astrological Saturn stands for, especially knowledge, discipline, and authority
Jupiter – Everything that the astrological Jupiter stands for, especially knowledgable insight, positivity through hope or thankfulness, and justice
The Waves – Change and underlying feelings
Water or The Tear – Emotion, especially sadness
The Clouds – Indecisiveness (reversed being clarity)
The Mountains – Stability
The Crystal – The material and practical, usually positive
The Air – Change, especially lightheartedly or “going with the flow” / may stand for being unsure
The Lyre – Positivity, gaiety, and Apollon
The Sun – Positivity, prosperity, and sometimes guidance
The Moon – Mother figures, protection, and secrets
The Energy – Positivity, a high point, a focus
The Ward or Negative Energy – Negativity and all bad things
The Cake – Rewards, especially ones that are of momentary excitement instead of long-term helpfulness
The Hammer – Hard work (also Ares)
The Arrow – Love, a path/trajectory, and Aphrodite
Space/Astrology – Prediction, infinite possibility, and inspiration
Divination/Insight – Insight, advice, and magic

Feel free to reblog and recreate! If you re-make my deck, I’d love to see it! Send me pictures!

renniequeer:

There is not and has never been a single way to use tarot cards. They originated as a game, with different meanings ascribed to them by different people over time.

Play a game with them. Use them for divination. Use them for spells. Use them for art. Use them for telling a story.

Memorize the keywords if you want. Use the little booklet if you want. Divine based solely on the images and what they say to you, if that’s what works. Develop your own personal understanding of the cards based on your own lived experience and your own personal deck.

Use reversals. Don’t use reversals. Use spreads, or don’t.

There is no One True Way To Tarot. Anyone who says there is is selling something either lying, or misguided.

No two decks are a like. No two readers are alike. There are no Tarot Laws.

horaeetumbra:

If you find yourself stressed or simply desire a different form of meditation, go ahead and pick one, or, better yet, have your tarot tell you which meditation you should do!

0. Fool – meditate to some calming music, find a nice track
and let it fill your mind and body

1. Magician – recite a mantra of some sort, word or
phrase, pick something meaningful to you, not just what the internet suggests

2. High Priestess – the practice of attending: look at and assess each thought you have as you meditate

3. Empress – focus on self-love, find things you
appreciate about yourself, let love fill you and your soul

4. Emperor – count your heartbeats or your breaths 

5. Hierophant – take this time to recite a prayer to a higher being, speak a blessing of some sort, or your equivalent

6. Lovers – send love, good vibes, and blessings to
a loved one

7. Chariot – focus on each body part separately,
flexing and relaxing each part from your toes to your head

8. Strength – stand up and do the sun salutation or
a similar yoga exercise, or if you’d rather, go work out

9. Hermit – ask a deep, philosophical question and
ponder on it for awhile

10. Wheel – diaphragmatic breathing: breath deeply from the diaphragm, so your stomach moves but your chest does not

11. Justice – find five things or people you are
grateful for and meditate on them

12. Hanged Man – the practice of mindfulness: simply
let your thoughts pass by as you meditate, not focusing on anything in particular

13. Death – take a short nap! please wake up, though

14. Temperance – the practice of visualization: visualize
your dreams about the future

15. Devil – focus on each sense individually, what do you feel, hear, see, if you want you can eat a small treat and focus on what you taste

16. Tower – candle meditation: focus on a flame,
image of a flame, or some sort of object

17. Star – take a bath or shower and focus on the
water cleansing both your body and mind

18. Moon – acknowledge your worries, then give them
up or let them go to a higher being

19. Sun – sit in sunlight or other bright light and
focus on the brightness, draining all your negativity away to be replaced with positivity

20. Judgment – focus on the energy within, how it
interacts with the earth and others around you

21. World – stand up and take a walk, preferably walk outside through nature

Enjoy and may all be well with each of you ❤