Oracle and tarot cards
So I decided that the cards need their own thread and space, I'm not gonna post everyday but I'll at my own time.
As some of you know I call myself a witch because I'm one, a witch is many thing and not all the stories are correct about them, there are many forms and ways to be a witch in most story tells the dark side of the witch is told while little is told about the good witches tho they are existing.
One tool of many that a witch use is the Oracle and the tarot cards which help guiding and seeing thing that usually are hidden from the eye of oneself or that helping precising what one already know, or just bring blessing to the one who open them there is ofc the use of seeing the future but I tend not to use that option cos the future in my point of view is changing all the time and it better to be in the here and now.
The first card I'll like to post here in this thread is from The oracle of shadow and light: I am Kali
Kali is the Hindu goddess of birth, death and rebirth, she has come to our life to help us go though change we resisting and the felling was too much to bear that we need her fire dance to purify and change everything we thought we can't or won't change. It is time to join her dance and not stay still or behind and hide, it time to let go of the old and to be reborn to a new and wonderful incarnation within an incarnation, a new life in this lifetime.
As some of you know I call myself a witch because I'm one, a witch is many thing and not all the stories are correct about them, there are many forms and ways to be a witch in most story tells the dark side of the witch is told while little is told about the good witches tho they are existing.
One tool of many that a witch use is the Oracle and the tarot cards which help guiding and seeing thing that usually are hidden from the eye of oneself or that helping precising what one already know, or just bring blessing to the one who open them there is ofc the use of seeing the future but I tend not to use that option cos the future in my point of view is changing all the time and it better to be in the here and now.
The first card I'll like to post here in this thread is from The oracle of shadow and light: I am Kali
Kali is the Hindu goddess of birth, death and rebirth, she has come to our life to help us go though change we resisting and the felling was too much to bear that we need her fire dance to purify and change everything we thought we can't or won't change. It is time to join her dance and not stay still or behind and hide, it time to let go of the old and to be reborn to a new and wonderful incarnation within an incarnation, a new life in this lifetime.
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As for tarot well it also true that there a lot of kind out there as well as oracle cards which are a bit different then tarot cards. Till today I still didn't post any tarot card on the forum yet all the cards I post are oracle cards but in time I'll post tarot as well.
I absolutely love the cards there, they're stylish and beautiful. The tarot cards of characters are especially good.
This is Leliana, for example:
A sort explanation on Tarot and Oracle cards:
Tarot has a specific structure of 78 cards, with the 22 Major Arcana (The Fool through the World), and the 56 Minor Arcana cards, split into 4 suits (traditionally Pentacles [Coins], Swords, Wands, and Cups). Each of the 4 suits have cards 1 (Ace) through 10, and then their respective court cards, consisting of Pages (or Princesses), Knights (or Knaves), Queens, and Kings. Each suit has a meaning, as does each card positioned within the suit and of course each of the major arcana also have their own meanings.
While Oracle cards can include as many or as few cards as the artist/author intends, and has its own structure. While there is structure to an Oracle deck, it is a decidedly more forgiving one than tarot. The cards can come with or without a reference book and they may be designed around a particular theme (like romance or healing) or call on particular deities (like angels or ascended masters).
The DAI cards not fit to neither of this options they are just cards.
The card tell us that it time to decide whatever we are going to take the time to discover what something is really all about, or simple judge it base on how it appears to be at first glance.
It time to be courageous to look beyond what lie on the surface and see thing in another way, to open ours eyes to new options that we didn't wanna see before, we need to look beyond the old and the known.
Looking beyond will lead us to new wonders that we never thought were possible, it will open new possibilities that can lead to new thing, new ways, new people that will show us the world in new light.
Card for the weekend - The oracle of shadow and light: Sewer mermaid
This lovely mermaid swim into our life to show us how to believe in ourselves and let go of our doubts of oneself that we are not good enough, pretty enough, smart enough, or capable of doing thing we want. It is time to accept ourselves and believe that we are attractive, beautiful, perfect, whole and complete, that we deserves love, respect and affection from ourselves and others. Once we let go of the "bad" thought about ourselves and start thinking good thing the would around us will change, once we love and respect ourselves as we deserves we will also be able to love and respect other more freely and that will be return to us from others as well.
Kuan yin oracle: Reveal the peacock beauty
The peacock beauty remind us of the creative abilities withing us to create beauty in our life. It is time to honor that creative ability and let it come out to the world, let the urge to express ourselves in a uniquely creative way that represent our heart feeling that flow through us and let our soul shine and be in harmony within and out to the world in a most freely way.
All we need is to have faith and follow our intuition to take the step that we feel heart inspired to take and to have patience and trust in ourselves and in the universe.
@Amber_Scott what deck do you have ? sometimes they get out of print unfortunately but then some must die for new one to show up, anyway back to the point, as for buying your own deck well I go with this "if I would have wait for someone to buy me cards I wouldn't have even one deck" so I buy my own once and if you want a new one I say go get it because I don't think one should just wait for someone else to buy him or give him something especially cards.
The card of the day and I think it really fit and answer about new deck or not ; )
The Halloween oracle: dawn
Dawn is the time for magical beings to return to their true form like werewolves, and vampires could only be active whilst the ray of the sun did not pierce the sky, and many others night creatures.
Change is unstoppable and even the most difficult times will pass even if they seem like they won't, the darkness of the night will end and the dawn will come and bring us hope and the reminder of a new beginning of the thing that would come with the new day, so look up to the sky for the first light of dawn and know that there is always hope.
Rune reading ahh don't have those yet but I do have my own stones that I do reading from, good luck on this and if you do start come and share with us if you will
As for new deck I'm with @Ravenslight if you really love this deck get a backup one as well, and if you really like get a new tarot deck that you never used before, it good to have another set, I have one tarot deck just for myself that I do my own reading and I got few others for doing reading to other people that I fit the deck that I feel most right for that person reading.
@TarotMaster sound nice, here is some dark decks you can look on that is popular:
Steampunk Tarot, Tarot Illuminati, Legacy of the Divine Tarot, Tarot of the Hidden Realm,
Gilded Tarot and there is a lot lots more, let me know what you like
I'm not into buying my own cards, though I totally get why others do. I think they'll come into my life when I need them.
"Oh NO! It's too soon, I can't.... awwww. Look at those eyes! Ok little death, let's go."
@Amber_Scott I'm glad to hear you are getting back your Ace of Cups it a hard one to lose, as for sleeping with the cards if you already doing it sleep with the whole deck wrapped inside silk or velvet cloth that will keep them safe.
@TarotMaster There are cards of people photos although I don't remember the names but from the cards I suggest I really recommend the Illuminati Tarot I think you will enjoy them a lot.
A card for the day from The Halloween oracle: Zombie
Zombies enlivened and controlled by another for their purpose, by capturing a living soul to animate the body but only for a temporary time, do we want to be trapped inside a body that doesn't do our bidding ? it a time to look on how we live our life, it time to choose to what we give control over us and what we choose not to give control, choosing to live our life, our choices and what we like not because someone told us to do or because we feel we have to for another sake, but because we choose to do so, how much in our life is a choice and how much it because we feel we must do so? look on your life and the choices and see if that what you want, if you are happy as you are, in what you do, and if not maybe it time to change it and do what you like to do with your life, even in the small thing one always have to choose, not choosing is a choice as well.
Card for the day from Wisdom of the hidden realms oracle: The chess queen
The chess queen come to remind you to ask yourself if you are going in the right direction in your life, if your strategy in life is the right one or it lead you to places that are block to you and you are getting bad feeling and your energy is low from where you arrive to, is your goals and desires are one with what really meant for you, are you happy in what you do or you do it for the sake of doing and must because it life, if so it a time to change the strategy for one that will help you fell good with yourself.
Our world and cosmos are governed by the same universal energy that is the essence of all creation and life. Your life like all life is forever changing and evolving that the way of nature, in order to move forward you need to trust yourself that you have the power to create your own destiny, by following your heart and knowing that what feel right is right for you. Trust yourself and the energy of life that will lead you to where you need to be even if the change is scary and seem so big if it feel right for you all will become well.
This spirit come to tell you that people, objects, emotions and experiences come into your life in order to learn from them, but not all are meant to stay, and it time to let them go. Release the past and the old with love and gratitude, preventing you from fully experiencing the present and moving forward in your life. Once you have released the baggage that hold you in the past your life will open to new opportunities and abundance on all levels.
If someone wanna see more cards from a deck I post let me know please