#Liz Dean Tarot Deck

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It has the feeling as if a tsunami wave of discontent has come into town drowning you in utter dissatisfaction. Through no fault of your own your social calendar has dried up of events or activities that you were so willing to participate in this coming weekend. From your vantage point you assert that there must be other activities out there that you can do to fill up all the empty spaces in your daily planner. The very real possibly concerning you is that in the meantime you are going to have to settle for those annoying time wasting activities you dislike so much while waiting for something more enjoyable to come along.

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Game of Thrones Tarot

by Michael Morris, Liz Dean, and Craig Coss

[servantofthefates]

Why Every Beginner Should Read with the Rider-Waite

1) Countless resources are available to you.

From Eden Gray’s classic to Liz Dean’s and Brigit Esselmont’s recent takes, the best books on tarot teach the Rider-Waite system. You may still use these books to learn another deck, but many of the elements will not match. You may have to ignore some paragraphs that will not apply to your deck, and likewise, not all the symbolism in your deck can be explained by these books.

2) The images are transparent and easily embraced.

The card meanings in the Rider-Waite can be learned simply by looking at the pictures. The Fool card is about a new journey. So in the Rider-Waite, you have a young man who, through his clothing and stance, has obviously just begun. It only takes common sense to understand. That is how easy it is to learn. Artistically modern decks are beautiful. But sometimes, the simpler, the better.

3) And yet the amount of symbolism is unmatched.

The reason there is a lion in the Two of Cups is because giving your heart to somebody takes enormous bravery. The reason The Moon is frowning is because it feels confused and disturbed, as you most likely do too when you draw this card in the Present position. In other decks, the lion is usually forgotten, and The Moon has no discernible facial expression. When a symbol is discarded, depth and meaning are deducted.

4) It carries with it heritage and credibility.

Anyone can create their own deck these days. But it matters to me that the deck I am using to give people life-changing advice and predictions is made by someone who dedicated his life to studying the occult. To me, that gives my practice more weight and validity. And it is not just me. In my country, when you bring out a non-Rider-Waite deck during a reading, the client either complains right away or looks uncomfortable throughout the session.

So my advice would be to learn with the Rider-Waite, and treat it as a textbook, so to speak. Then once you find yourself almost fluent in the language of tarot, feel free to switch to whatever deck your heart is drawn to. But so you do not miss any symbolism on the way, begin with the classic anyway.

[breelandwalker]

What deck do you use? Do you use tarot, other decks, or both? Any recommendations for what a new witch should use? I'm asking because card based witchcraft is basically where I'm making my starting point

I don't read cards very often, but I do own several decks. The ones I use most often are the Golden Tarot (as created by Liz Dean, based on the old Visconti-Sforza deck), the Golden Art Nouveau Tarot (Massaglia, because I love art nouveau), and the Everyday Witch Tarot (Blake and Alba). For most of my readings, I use the Golden Tarot, since that's the one I've had the longest and it works really well for me. Also the deck is GORGEOUS and I love the artwork.

I also have a bunch of oracle decks, like the Halloween Oracle and the Everyday Witch Oracle (the Growth card looks like me and my boy Havoc!), but I use these less often. I tend to use tarot for specific questions and oracle cards for more general or nebulous readings.

And to be perfectly honest, if I need a really clear reading? I'm pulling out my personal runes. They've always worked for me and they're....disturbingly accurate sometimes.

As for decks I'd recommend to new witches, pick one that resonates with you. Find something that has artwork you love and a system of definitions that make sense to you. Decks that come with companion booklets are helpful too, since it helps the reader form direct connections between the images on the cards and their meanings.

The only two decks I don't recommend are the Rider-Waite deck, even though it's an oft-cited starter deck, and the Thoth deck. The Rider-Waite deck was created by members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and they were OBSESSED with Kabbalah, so the deck contains Hebrew letters and iconography that absolutely should not be used in this context. So it's a no from me for cultural appropriation. And I don't recommend the Thoth deck because that's Crowley creation and Crowley was a racist piece of shit. So I tend to recommend staying away from anything he wrote or created.

I definitely do recommend the decks I work with, at least in the sense that I've had good experiences with them even as a novice diviner and a witch who doesn't often delve into cartomancy. (Also if you want more information on the history of tarot, you might enjoy Ep. 19 of my podcast, Hex Positive, which traces the origins and development of the deck from party game to popular magical tool.)

Hope this helps! 😊

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[theninthdoor]

hii i'm starting to learn tarot, could you please recommend me a deck other than the rider waite or your favourtie ones? thanks :)

sure! 🥰 here are my suggestions:

⭒ The Golden Tarot by Liz Dean ⭒ Symbolic Tarot of Wirth ⭒ Tarot de Marseille (any version, really! I learnt to read tarot with one of these) ⭒ Le Tarot des Druids ⭒ Tarot of Oppositions (great for beginners) ⭒ Pictorial Key Tarot by Davide Corsi (the best option if you prefer realistic imagery) ⭒ Le Tarot Ferenc Pinter (absolutely gorgeous, although not the best for beginners, IMO)

[tarot-junkie]

How can I get started to learn and interpret Tarot more accurately? Thanks 😊

Hi!

Buy a deck (rider Waite smith art has the most reference info out there for you, so one of those standards is helpful). Amazon sells the standard decks and in some cases, has card with brief key word meanings on the cards

Consider buying a book that has meanings for each card (Liz Dean has a great book that goes through each card). Also available on Amazon. Or you can check local sell-back shops.

Watch videos on other people that do readings. This can help you start to learn how they interpret the cards.

Find communities (most SM either will have accounts or groups) that go over tarot. It’s so helpful to have people to bounce ideas off of.

Pull a card a day and write down your interpretation of it. What the visuals mean to you. How you feel. Etc. journaling can be a good way to explore card meanings and how they resonate with you.

AI chat bots/apps *can* help with interpretations, but I personally use it sparingly.

These are just some of the things you can try to see if it helps 😊

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New Things

Something I've felt drawn to, almost inexplicably, is tarot. No, I'm not summoning demons, I'm simply putting energy into the deck, and interpreting the card drawn into my own daily experiences. I had been doing one card a day, but I got away from it. Today, I picked it back up.

I use a couple of books to help me find the meaning: Learning the Tarot, by Joan Bunning and The Ultimate Guide to Tarot by Liz Dean

Today's card: The Seven of Pentacles

The loosely interpreted meanings of this card: a "time-out" card intended to signify the moments after a busy season where you pause to think. Possibly meaning a reward that could come your way as a result of your hard work. On the other hand, it can be a reminder to assess and reflect and/or a crossroads.

"The Seven of Pentacles is not a card of endings or final decisions. The game is not over, but only on hold for a moment. Once you've gotten your breath back and checked your strategy, be ready to jump bank in and work even harder than before" (Learning the Tarot)

Interestingly - the second book I use, The Ultimate Guide to Tarot, describes this as NOT a time to pause, but to keep focus and work toward the end goal. Essentially, take heart that soon your hard work will pay off.

Based on the imagery of the card, and the message I feel is right for me, I'm taking it as a time to pause and reflect. Things have been hectic in both work and personal life. It is so easy for me to get head-down and forget to take stock of what is happening around me (or with me/my family). I'm going to use this as my reminder to slow down today and think about where I'm at and where I want to go.

If this feels like it resonates with you, perhaps this was a way to get the same message to you - take a breath, pause and reflect.

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Divination & The Ethics of Knowing🦋

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What is Divination?

Divination is the practice of seeking knowledge or insight into a situation or on the future (source: google). Divination comes in many forms and can include many different types of tools (or no tools at all). The form of divination that you choose can be more accessible (you can find tarot desk in the most unusual places now) or it can be linked to a specific tradition. When researching what forms of divination you want to learn it is important to look into the origins and historical practices surrounding that form of divination. For example, although runes can be learned by anyone, they will have particular significance to someone who worships or works with the norse gods.

Why Learn a Form of Divination Anyway?

Divination is most commonly used to interpret and receive messages from deities or spirits. For example, you may use divination if you want to ask for a spirit's permission to do something. Divination is also commonly used to receive advice or insight into situations that are causing anxiety or stress. Whatever your reason for learning a form of divination is, it is fairly common to know at least one. The most popular in recent years has been cartomancy (specifically using either tarot or oracle cards).

Some other types include astrology, runes, bone throwing, dowsing (using a pendulum or rods), palmistry, scrying (fire, smoke, etc.), ceromancy, cloud divination and many more.

Ethical Implications When Divining for Others:

Divination, like everything, is something that should be taken with a grain of salt. Readings are not set in stone and the advice being given should be taken as nothing more than a suggestion. At the end of the day, the only thing that can make an impact in your life is you and although some readings may bring difficult news (trust me I've been there), how we react to them and what we do moving forward is more important than anything else.

When giving readings for others here are some things I like to keep in mind (this will be from a tarot reader's perspective):

How I understand a reading is only one interpretation, another reader may read the same cards completely differently

Readings should never instil fear in the recipient

My opinion and relationship with certain cards may not reflect their meaning for someone else- it is important to be neutral when reading for others and not let our own biases influence the interpretation

I never read for others without their explicit permission- this may be more of a personal preference rather than an ethical guideline but you never know what kind of wards people have in place so I just avoid doing it!

I only give readings on the topic that is requested- If someone wants a reading regarding a situation, I stay focused on their request. If the reading is about a job opportunity and the cards that are pulled are cards I associate with love, I will try to interpret them through the confines of the question rather than telling the recipient what I think about their love life.

A lot of this will likely be common sense to people and that's a good thing. Being able to give readings to other or having other request readings from you is both an honour and a good way to practice. If you decide to charge for your services then you may want to develop your own ethical guidelines. In my personal divination practice, I am in the process of developing a list of questions/topics that I refuse to divine on. The more experience you get, reading for yourself and for others, the clearer your personal ethical guidelines will become.

*All images are from Pinterest*

🖤For more information on tarot and how to read the cards check out this book: The Ultimate Guide To Tarot by Liz Dean

🖤For more information on ceromancy and scrying check out this book: The Book Of Candle Magic by Madame Pamita

🖤For more information on astrology and to get an analysis of your chart check out the website Cafe Astrology

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The choices that you make today around the possibility of gaining a successful resolution to ongoing niggling problems in your social or business life seem workable and yet on further investigation they don’t necessarily appear to be the best ones. I sense it doesn’t really matter today. Ultimately you will be accountable for whatever happens.

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Game of Thrones Tarot

by Michael Morris, Liz Dean, and Craig Coss

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How to REALLY Learn Tarot in One Day

Reading tarot like a master requires a natural talent for divination. Barring that, years of constant practice will suffice.

But anyone can learn the basics. And it should not take longer than a day to cover. Start in the morning, and by evening, you will be a tarot reader.

This post is Day 1 of the Divination class that I teach. By 8:30 PM, my teenage initiates were already correctly predicting each other’s crushes and the winners of tennis matches.

THE DAY BEFORE

Get a deck and a resource.

Acquire a Rider-Waite deck or a clone of it. You may opt for something else, but be forewarned that you could lose out on a multitude of symbolism. The Rider-Waite may not be the prettiest, but there is nothing more complete.

Find a reliable resource. The Ultimate Guide to Tarot by Liz Dean is a perfect book for beginners. So is Labyrinthos’ website, if you prefer something free of charge.

THE DAY ITSELF

9–10 AM

Pick one keyword for each card.

With a belly full of breakfast, quickly skim through your resource and pick just one keyword per card. For example, “destruction” for The Tower, “happiness” for The Sun, and “wealth” for the Ten of Pentacles. Note it all down on paper or on your phone.

10–11 AM

Associate the word with the image.

Look at your keyword side by side the card. Make an undeniable connection. 

Why is The Tower “destruction”? Because the tower on the card has been “destroyed”.

Why is The Sun “happiness”? Because the child on the card looks “happy”.

Why is the Ten of Pentacles “wealth”? Because the family on the card looks “wealthy”.

Memorization becomes much easier when based on visual correlation.

11 AM–12 PM

Quiz yourself.

Hide your notes from view. Keeping in mind the word-image associations you made, go through each card, reciting its keyword. Put in one pile all the cards you remembered the keyword for, and in another, the ones that escaped your memory.

Then look at your notes side-by-side the second pile to remind yourself of what you missed. Go through the whole pile again, repeating the process until you can recite the keywords for all 78 cards without making a mistake. One card, one word. Should be as simple as pre-school.

12–1 PM

Take a break.

Have a meal. Nap a little. Stretch a bit. Give your mind space to absorb everything you just memorized.

1–2 PM

Quiz yourself again.

You are guaranteed to forget some of your keywords. That is fine. It is why you are doing this again, to strengthen your memory. Be patient with yourself, and keep going through the whole deck until you are no longer making any mistakes.

2–3:30 PM

Pick a key phrase for each reversed card.

Quickly skim through your resource again. Now that you know the upright meanings, reversals should be fairly easy, because they can only be one of three: the opposite of the upright card; the upright card watered down; the upright card made worse.

To illustrate:

If The Devil upright is “addiction”, reversed it is “overcoming addiction” — the opposite.

If the Nine of Cups is “fulfillment”, reversed, it is “fulfillment delayed” — watered down.

If the Seven of Swords upright is “manipulation”, reversed it is “betrayal” — made worse.

Note it all down next to your upright keywords.

3:30–5 PM

Quiz yourself on both upright and reversed meanings.

Hide your notes from view. Keeping in mind the upright-reversed meaning associations you made, go through each card one by one, reciting its upright meaning followed by its reversed meaning.

Like before, put in one pile the cards you had no problem with, and in another, the cards that escaped your memory. Look at your notes for those you missed. Go through the whole pile again, repeating the process until you can recite the upright keywords and the reversed key phrases for all 78 cards, without making a mistake.

5–6 PM

Take another break.

Have another meal. Nap some more. Stretch again. Let your mind and body breathe.

6–7:15 PM

Quiz yourself again on both upright and reversed meanings.

Go through each card one by one, reciting its upright meaning followed by its reversed meaning.

Like before, put in one pile the cards you had no problem with, and in another, the cards that escaped your memory. Look at your notes side by side the cards you missed. And go through the full deck again until you are no longer missing a beat.

7:15–8 PM

Read.

For the last time today, bring out your resource, and from it, choose any spread you like. But if you really want to do it right, the Celtic Cross spread is recommended. Do not worry about being overwhelmed. You can leave the book or the website open on the page where the spread is.

Ask tarot your question. Without looking at your notes, interpret its answer to the best of your ability using the keywords and key phrases you just memorized.

Congratulations. You are now a tarot reader.

But if you wish to keep learning, then keep reading.

THE DAYS AFTER

Day 1 – Day 4

For the next four days, quiz yourself again on both upright and reversed meanings, to really cement them in your mind. Then perform the same spread you did the first time, but ask a different question each time. Interpret the cards to the best of your knowledge. This should only take an hour at the most.

Day 5

By now, everything you learned has been drilled into memory. Feel free to expand your knowledge. Read your book cover to cover. Fully explore your chosen website.

Most of the new meanings you will learn will be related to the ones you committed to heart, so do not worry about being confused. For example, if your keyword for The Empress is “abundance”, you will find that its other meanings are “harvest”, “creativity” and “fertility”. “Harvest” is financial abundance; “creativity”, an abundance of skill; “fertility”, an abundance of growth. They vary slightly, but they are all the same, essentially.

All the best in your tarot journey.

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Game of Thrones Tarot Acquired 2019 Created by Liz Dean Published by Chronical Books (Mass market) 78 card deck RWS variant 70x120mm Cardstock unknown, flexible, satin finish

[chocolates-and-daisies]

Ace of Cups

Hello!! I'm participating in @a-witch-named-crow’s tarot study challenge, and the first day is Ace of Cups, so here we go :)

Suit and Numerology

The suit of cups represents our emotions and heart, how we express emotion, and how we connect with others. Positive aspects include relationships and intuition while negative aspects include loss and emptiness. Since it's a cup, the associated element is water.

Aces represent new beginnings, potential, and opportunity.

Ace of Cups

This card represents many things, such as relationships of all kinds, emotional release, and spiritual fulfillment.

It's a time to accept your emotions, whether they are new or being repressed. Be open to them and don't lock them away. This can be through thing such as emotional release or a new relationship.

Ace of Cups is a good omen for creativity and growth in new projects. It also represents a time to explore your spirituality and is a reminder to have joy in the present moment.

Many people also associate this card with fertility and emotional changes in life, such as pregnancy and marriage.

My Interpretation

I use the Cosmic Slumber deck and what I saw varied greatly from the general meaning of Ace of Cups. I love this deck, don't get me wrong, but it had more of a negative vibe for me.

The card is set against a deep ocean. An overflowing golden goblet is being held over it by a hand with a red sleeve. There's a magenta-robed blonde in the cup who's reaching up out of the rim for someone/thing out of view.

Before I looked at what the books said, I tried to intuit it. I saw the blonde as someone who feels like she is drowning, unaware of the hand supporting her from below. She's waiting for the help of someone who's long-gone, rather than leaning on the one already there. Despite her not recognizing what help she has, she is still being supported. To me, this says to be grateful for what you have and to not look too far into the past or future.

Wildly different from the definitions above, I know. Now that I've done my research, let me try again.

The ocean could represent her emotions, same as the water in the cup. She's getting overwhelmed by her emotions because she's been repressing  them; she needs to face them. The hand supporting her could represent other people in her life that she could turn to. It's not the time to be stagnant and waiting for something that may never come.

Sources

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/1057712662456218131/

Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen

Tarot: Connect with Yourself, Develop your Intuition, Live Mindfully by Tina Gong

The Ultimate Guide to Tarot by Liz Dean

[saintchrollo]

how did you learn to read tarots?

when i was sixteen i went to a house party with my fathers ex best friend’s ex in brooklyn (we took the subway and vandalized it) the party was filled with artists, drag queens and witches (i was wearing a olive 70s jumpsuit) and i was gifted my first deck which had dragons on it. there was this weird vibe to them like someone else was moving my hands. anyways the rest is history.

ok the book i have is a complete guide to the tarot by eden gray, as well dean liz’s ultimate guide to tarot

my fav websites are biddy & labyrinthos