Cult of Tarot Forum

Pen wrote: ↑22 Dec 2020, 16:59 I had to google Mr Blunden...

… yeah, me too. I wanted to use Mr. Clutterbuck but that baffled google when I checked.
By the way, those Tarot of the Origins are stunning. Hope to see a lot more of them.

Ciderwell wrote:
… yeah, me too. I wanted to use Mr. Clutterbuck but that baffled google when I checked.
By the way, those Tarot of the Origins are stunning. Hope to see a lot more of them.

I've been doing a weekly (more or less) draw, changing decks every 3 weeks, so I plan to do a couple more with the Origins. I'm really enjoying the excuse for choosing a deck from my collection and looking at the cards again without deliberately deciding to do an actual self-reading, as I usually only read at the Solstices and Equinoxes or if I have a question. I'm not a believer in frequent self-readings, although these posts are increasingly feeling like them... I'm beginning to think that the cards that come up are ones that are unconsciously influenced by current emotions.

Pen wrote: ↑23 Dec 2020, 08:51Moral: Never draw cards when you're discombobulated...

Sound advice indeed.
I've committed myself to the Yule reading group and although I'm enjoying it immensely I am a bit worried the outcome will be forced. Like continuity and resolution will become more important than the premise.
I do plan to shut down after that until maybe next spring, (I've planted some metaphorical seeds that need time to grow). I'm not a genuine Taroist, more an enthusiast.

The Steampunk Tarot I like, but there doesn't seem to be much steam, and even less punk.
I liked the review of the deck but the cards were smaller than I expected. The dials and gauges on some of the machines are too small to have accurate details - though to compensate there are some pretty neat math equations scattered throughout the deck to make it fun.

My biggest let down was an odd occurrence …
Steampunk Tarot cost only a few pounds, but the day the deck arrived my electric kettle decides to quit working. Usually I buy the Quest kettles because I like the blue LED lights. There not expensive, lasting only a year or so at the most. But when I went to the store to get a replacement they weren't in stock. So I bought a more expensive one instead. It has more colours, turning from blue to red as the water heats up, and then it bleeps quite loudly when the water boils.
To be honest I get the feeling I've been ripped-off … though not in a bad way.

Tarot of the Origins

1. 5 of Jewels/Talismans: Wait at the Portal
2. 8 of Soul: Be mindful what you summon
3. XX Prey: Judgement is crucial

NB: I first drew The Mother for the third card, but drew again as she was #1 last week...

Steampunk Tarot
Eight of Pentacles
Ten of Cups
Nine of Wands


Tuning wheels of time -
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
Nearly there you are!

Tarot of the Origins

1. XV1 The Menhir: Sentinel on high
2. V11 The Chariot: Guard these dream-lines set in stone
3. 9 of Soul: Let me be ready

Stella's Tarot


1. Ace of Wands: Gift, growth and power
2. Four of Swords: Balancing the Seven Stars
3. Emperor: Still, he watches, waits.

Yes, I know they're planets, but the syllables, the syllables...

Double bladed sword;
Two choices, Death before you
Or light fantastic!

Two women, frozen
in time with no place to go.
Above and below.

Not haiku, strictly speaking, but card-inspired poetry nonetheless.



Encounters

Bothers, changes, disputes
— The cards never lie;
The black lily of uncertainty
Has corrupted my handsome valet.

- André Salmon
From: https://traditionaltarot.wordpress.com/ ... -excerpts/

Thanks for the link - fascinating info I hadn't come across before today. It has just struck me that paring down a haiku 'reading' (for surely these are readings?) - to poetic short lines and limited syllables - has the potential to concentrate the mind on the cards drawn, avoiding the dangers of making the cards jump through hoops to answer a given question and/or 'reading' the questioner. Perhaps though, since I only read for myself, a tarot haiku can't but help reflect some aspects of my current state of mind. I do wonder how haiku might work for distance readings if there were no question to answer, or if the question were not given to a reader who had neither sight (nor sound?) of the querent.

Pen wrote: ↑17 Jan 2021, 07:34 for surely these are readings?

The author was no stranger to cartomancy, having visited a bunch of Parisian fortune-tellers and written about the experiences afterwards. Whether he based the poems themselves on some pre-existing divinatory meanings though, I cannot say for certain.

I was thinking more about what we're doing here - composing these haiku seems very like carrying out readings, unless a reading necessitates intent to read, which (speaking for myself only) is missing when I sit down to draw cards for haiku.

Stella's Tarot


1. 8 of Discs: Water curls and falls
2. 7 of Cups: Daydreams of cups and strange lives
3. 2 of Wands: Escape with the stars

In the new student
in life in self-reflection
in dreams and in rest

No matter how much
faith and hard work in our life;
the tower can fall.

Wintry January with Empress, Sun, World

Footsteps crunch through leaves,
Cold winds shake empty branches,
Empress hides below.

Sun horizon-held,
Hint of warmth within the blood,
O Empress arise!

World without corners,
Anima-Mundi not seen:
Breathless hopefulness.

Stella's Tarot


1. Knight of Wands: Leap the burning Earth
2. Death: To one who waits for ever
3.The Star: Still the cool stars shine

Regrets for spilled wine
Dolphin leaps out of the sea
Which pictures true me?

(This was a three-card reading,
But two spoke strongly enough
In combined contrast to write about.)

My grand-twins are eight years old today and this is what the Jolanda tarot gave me! Lovely after all my recent somewhat doomy haikus.

Jolanda Tarot

1. King of Swords: A sword for each twin
2.The Fool: Music for all the creatures
3. Eight of Pentacles: Eight years old today!

He waits by the shore.
Stolen dreams deep in his heart,
What more to do? Weep.

Tarot of the Secret Forest


the phasmid river,
swiftly flows through Summer months -
regenerating

Tarot of the Secret Forest


Conspiring dogwood,
Secrets of corvid pellets.
A ladder snake game.

Tarot of the Secret Forest


Palmchats and seedlings,
Dulcet choirs, elata blooms -
Bow frog crescendo.

Voyager Tarot

Nine of Crystals Two of Cups Star

Narrow of focus
Keeping silence and stillness
Lucid and empty