DAILY RESIDUE: A Cartomancy Journal
Gypsy Cards: Message + Hope + Death
Posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 at 02:05 am
Deck: Gipsy Fortune Telling Cards - Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten
Spread: General 3-Card Draw
Since I’m trying to pay attention to my various decks, I’ve taken to doing draws at different times of the day. What can I say? I’m in search of a schedule that works best for my draws! I decided to pull a daily from my Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards for tomorrow now.
The cards are Message + Hope + Death
NOTE! This entry has been updated with additional results and feedback!
Impressions: The Housewives Tarot
Posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 at 12:28 am
As mentioned recently, I finally took out my Housewives Tarot and began using them a bit. I’ll admit it’s not usually the type of deck I would buy, but I kept seeing a few cards here or there that I really liked so I decided to give it a try when I spotted a very nice discount. It’s the first “quirky” deck that has caught my eye enough for me to want to buy it, and I don’t regret the purchase one bit. In fact, I think I ended up liking it a lot more than I had expected to when I bought it.
The retail price for this deck is listed at $16.95, but I think Amazon’s currently selling it for $11.53 or you can also purchase it through the deck’s official site for $14.95. And you know what? I’m really surprised that the deck isn’t more expensive, because it’s got to be the best packaged Tarot deck I’ve seen to date.
Lenormand Reading: Speedy Results After Mountain
Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 03:18 am
Deck: Blue Owl - Lenormand
Spread: General 3-Card Draw
I was flipping through my journal when I came across this mini reading I did last Friday but didn’t get the chance to post because I got really swamped by work. It played out in a very straightforward manner, and I thought I’d add it here for musing.
The cards are 17 Storks + 21 Mountain + 1 Rider
I was weighed down by a project I was supposed to finish by this past Monday… except I wasn’t making any progress at all. I was completely stuck, and I was beginning to seriously fear that I wasn’t going to get it done in time (or at all) which would be bad because my job is depending on this series of projects right now. I decided to ask whether there would be a breakthrough and I would somehow miraculously finish it in time.
Mountain itself in the middle definitely showed the state of things very well. Storks+Mountain further reinforces the setbacks and the slow progress I was experiencing. Rider’s movement coming at the end was optimistic as Mountain+Rider also means no more delay.
I was infinitely relieved to see that, though I’ll also admit that I was a bit dubious too because I was so stuck that I couldn’t imagine how I’d get out of the mess. Come Sunday morning, the kinks smoothed out bit by bit and I was suddenly cruising on green at high speed. I managed to finish what I couldn’t do for a whole week in one night of no sleep… and got it done by the deadline on Monday after all. How’s that for no more delay? :D I love it when the cards are right (which I should have trusted by now because they’ve yet to let me down).
Gypsy Cards: Judging and Evaluating Love
Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 03:23 am
Deck: Gipsy Fortune Telling Cards - Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten
Spread: General 5-Card Draw
I mentioned before that this blog would probably eventually be expanded to include various other oracle cards I use as well, so I thought it was about time I actually post something. I’ve just been a little wrapped up in the Lenormand lately as you all can see. :p
Anyhow, today I’m sharing a reading using the Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards (Zigeuner Wahrsagekarten). Like the Lenormand, there are 36 cards total but they’re not numbered nor do they have playing card insets. This was a reading I did last week as a complement to the Lenormand “try-out” reading I tested with my Journey spread (which I’ll also be adding soon).
The cards are Death + Sadness + Loss + Some Money + Judge
The topic is a general reading regarding love (look, not about work! lol). Once you see my Lenormand and Tarot reading using the Journey spread, I’m sure you’ll understand my feeling of dry amusement when I saw these cards. Well, at the very least, the cards sure know how to drill the same message home regardless which oracle or deck.
Updating Plans… and Stuff
Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 04:28 am
I haven’t been as active on here as I was planning- I still want to post about the Housewives Tarot deck, a detailed example reading using my Journey spread with both Tarot and the Lenormand, and various other stuff. I’ll get to them soon! I’ve been swamped at work and things haven’t been looking great on that front.
Any free time I had, I was busy setting up a cartomancy forum with my fellow card lover friends, Fenn and Wood. If you love cartomancy, whether with the Lenormand, Tarot cards, or any oracle cards at all, you should give it a visit! It’s new, and we’d love to have more members. I like that we can talk about all sorts of cartomancy methods in a relaxed manner- it’s not an uptight board. ;) Plus there’s a lacking for an English forum that’s focused more on oracle decks. Give it a visit here: The Cartomancy Forum
That aside, I just wanna give a heads up about possible RSS updates going bonkers with listing any updated entries as new again. I’m going to be trying to add a “related entries” section which would require me to go through some entries to edit them. I still can’t figure out why my RSS feeds are acting weird with updated entries, but please bear with me through this implementation. I’m hoping that after adding this bit in, it’ll make browsing the entries smarter and more convenient. :)
Note: If you guys see odd “related entries” tacked to the bottom of this post or at the comment page… please just ignore it. I need to test it out so I’m using this post to do it!
Test test test: Fake edit to test RSS feed issue. Trying to fix the RSS duplicate entries problem… sorry if this ends up not working and you guys are seeing this entry as a new feed again. Somehow, I’ll get to the bottom of it!
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