Well, this is going to be short and sweet. I pulled Wisdom again today. (I drew this card at the beginning of the week here.)
I heard a very simple message when I looked at this card today. Learn something new. So that is going to be my task for the day. I am going to learn something new. I haven't figured out what that's going to be yet. But the day is still young.
Update: Ugh. So I racked my brain trying to figure out what fabulous new thing I would learn today. I finally settled on getting out a tarot deck that has confused the heck out of me, and doing some research on it to see if I could learn to work with it.
It's the Cagliostro, a now out-of-print deck which my mom gifted me with last summer. I have yet to work with it for several reasons. The majors and minors are completely different styles from each other, and that throws me off a bit. The majors are three dimensional while the minors are two dimensional. I have another deck where the majors and minors don't match, and I haven't worked with that one either for the same reason. It feels like I'm working with two different decks. Also, this deck has non-scenic minors which I am not attracted to. But that's only the beginning.
The Cagliostro deck is multi-faceted, and none of the facets are ones I'm familiar with. It is apparently a deck based on the work of Papus, and a freakish combination of the Marseilles, Etteilla and Wirth systems of tarot, with playing card suits, astrological dates, zodiac signs, Egyptian influences, unfamiliar keywords and the occasional Hebrew symbol thrown into the mix. My lack of knowledge on all of the above doesn't bode well for working with this deck. There's just too much going on, and there's probably even some things I've left out!After attempting to do research online for awhile, hoping to gain more insight into how to work with this deck, all I ended up with was a raging headache. I think if I were stranded on a desert island, this would have to be the deck I'd take with me because it might take me forever to figure it out.
The wisdom I have gained today is that I am not ready for this deck yet, and it can be put away again for a day in the future when I'm feeling abundantly curious and/or scholarly. Or I might get a little crazy and use it for my daily draws one week ... disregard all the symbolism I'm clueless about, just use it purely intuitively and see what bizarre insights come out of my interpretations.
Decks: Oracle of the Grail Code and Cagliostro Tarot
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Yeah, that deck would be sitting on my shelves unused, too! It sounds about as complicated as the Thoth, if not more so in some ways. I'm hoping to transition myself into a few weeks spent with my non-scenic-pip decks, too, probably starting this week. (My newest deck on the way will be included in that category.) I hear so many people rave about the Thoth deck that I feel like I really want to gain some kind of mastery of it at some point. Daily draws are a great way to ease oneself in! And if the decks don't do anything for me, or I can't make any sense of them, I have my oracle deck to keep things interesting. (Perhaps I'll feel motivated to get another one or two!)
Yes, all the Thoth talk makes it sound intriguing, but I'm not terribly drawn to it at this point. Do you have a Thoth deck? Have you ever read with it?
The Cagliostro just has so many different elements going on that it makes my head spin. Too many pots on the stove at one time, so to speak. The astrological elements alone are different than the ones I've seen, the cards are matched up differently than I'm used to. This deck will require a lot of studying that I don't have the time or desire for right now.
I don't even know what marks the differences between Etteilla, Marseilles and Wirth, so that is another field of study I'd have to delve into, among several others!
But I'm not giving up on it completely. Just stashing it away for sometime in the future.
I do have the Thoth deck. I'd like to get the large one at some point, so that I can trim it and look at all the details more closely. I've tried to read with it a couple times, although not recently, and it didn't make much sense to me. I'm intrigued enough to try again at some point, though. I hope that the deck may sink in at some point, if I keep hearing about it and reading about it. I don't feel the need to push myself to learn it right now. I'm taking more of a sponge approach!
So does the Thoth have entirely different card meanings than RWS?
No, I wouldn't say the meanings are entirely different. Not any more so than comparing the meanings from any two different decks. They're just much harder (for me) to read. Even the cards with human beings in them (the courts and majors), the pictures don't look quite human. It's like trying to "read" a machine. That's the only way I can think to explain it! I'm not sure I'll ever connect with it, but I do enjoy having it for scholarly purposes, so at least I know somewhat what people are referring to when they talk about it!
Really? I thought the cards were given different meanings from the RWS, and that they were read using a different system. I'll be very interested in reading your interpretations if you ever use the Thoth for your daily draws. I see you have started with a Thoth-inspired deck this week! That deck is on my wish list. :)
Yes, I'm using a Thoth-inspired deck, and struggling! LOL. :) I may have been better off just to use the Thoth in the first place. At least I could find some help with it. With this deck, all I have is the LWB, and that doesn't help much. I think I'm too much of a book learner.
Ever read the book Psychic Tarot (Craig Junjulus)? (Probably not. You're already very intuitive. :)) I just got a copy of it and I'm hoping it will have some intriguing things to say about developing one's intuition.
No, I don't think I've heard of that book. Please let me know what you think of it, and if you recommend it. :)
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