The Astrology Thread

[Stuart Dren]

Fire is the best element for sure.

And ah! I do yearly Tarot Spreads, too! My family does a circle wheel with one card for each month. It's really fun and I always look forward to it. Honestly, it doesn't fall under Astrology, because it's the tarot cards, which is a different medium. Like water colors are not the same acrylic paint, but they are both useful and interesting. Both are important and can work together to form a bigger picture of a situation. Out of curiosity, what decks do you use?

Okay that clears up the difference for me.

My answer is going to expose how little I know about Tarot. Ms. Dren has a few decks, but we always use one called The Fox Tarot (I don't think that's significant; it's just the style or whatever, I guess) which seems to have the major and minor arcana across a total of 78 cards.

What deck(s) do you use?

 

[Luxuria]

Okay that clears up the difference for me.

Yay, I am glad! Both are very useful, though. Also, I feel you can get the same message from either or prefer one over the other. I have tried runes, but they seem like rocks to me? Lines, circles, non-responsive. But I pick up a deck of cards and they talk to me. So, it's just about finding out what works best for you.

My answer is going to expose how little I know about Tarot. Ms. Dren has a few decks, but we always use one called The Fox Tarot (I don't think that's significant; it's just the style or whatever, I guess) which seems to have the major and minor arcana across a total of 78 cards.

No worries about not 'knowing' enough. We're here to chat and have fun. Is it this deck?

What deck(s) do you use?

I have too many... But my favorite is the Hanson-Roberts Deck:

You also can't beat Disney Villain Tarot:

 

[JLT]

My answer is going to expose how little I know about Tarot. Ms. Dren has a few decks, but we always use one called The Fox Tarot (I don't think that's significant; it's just the style or whatever, I guess) which seems to have the major and minor arcana across a total of 78 cards.

What deck(s) do you use?

I was quite into the Tarot back in the day, and used the Ryder/Waite deck for the most part, like just about everybody else in the sixties. I have often found the divination process to be useful in "reality checking" which consists of looking at a card's message or meaning and asking if and how it relates to real circumstances.

As for astrology, I haven't found it to be relevant to my life. I am a Pisces, and I like being in water. That's about it.

When I started to cast horoscopes, the only one that really reflected reality was my fathers. My original casting didn't make sense at all until I found out that his birthday was not December 14, but December 13, a few minutes before midnight. I re-cast it and it reflected his life and personality with uncanny accuracy.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I have a small collection of Tarot decks, mostly because I like the pictures. The one I actually use occasionally and never allow anyone else to handle is the Ryder/Waite deck.

 

[Naomasa298]

I don't allow tarot cards in the house.

Not since I correctly predicted someone's death with them, anyway.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Disallowing cards in the house probably is not going to prevent another death.

 

[Naomasa298]

Disallowing cards in the house probably is not going to prevent another death.

No, but I don't like things associated with death in my house.

Of course, I'm not superstitious, and I don't believe in this shit. Anyway, that black cat is sniffing around outside again... now where did I leave that rabbit's foot?

 

[Luxuria]

I don't allow tarot cards in the house.

Not since I correctly predicted someone's death with them, anyway.

Wait, what?


What cards did you pull and what happened?

 

[Luxuria]

When I started to cast horoscopes, the only one that really reflected reality was my fathers. My original casting didn't make sense at all until I found out that his birthday was not December 14, but December 13, a few minutes before midnight. I re-cast it and it reflected his life and personality with uncanny accuracy.

Wow. That's so cool. Even a few minutes can make a huge difference.

I have a small collection of Tarot decks, mostly because I like the pictures. The one I actually use occasionally and never allow anyone else to handle is the Ryder/Waite deck.

The pictures are the best part. I personally don't like when the art for the minor arcana becomes just symbols. I like the full image.

 

[Naomasa298]

Wait, what?


What cards did you pull and what happened?

I don't recall exactly, but there was a reversed Death card, and I coupled with the Tower and/or the 10 of swords. This was decades ago, so I don't recall exactly.. It was a spread that screamed "death", and not just because of the death card (yes, I know what that card means, but not in that position, with the cards that came with it). Of course, I put the usual spin on it, you don't want to say "Payment in advance, please".

She died of cancer about 8 months later. At the time I did the reading, no one had any idea she was ill. I don't think she did either.

 

[Luxuria]

I don't recall exactly, but there was a reversed Death card, and I coupled with the Tower and/or the 10 of swords. This was decades ago, so I don't recall exactly.. It was a spread that screamed "death", and not just because of the death card (yes, I know what that card means, but not in that position, with the cards that came with it). Of course, I put the usual spin on it, you don't want to say "Payment in advance, please".

She died of cancer about 8 months later. At the time I did the reading, no one had any idea she was ill. I don't think she did either.

Wow. That's amazing. Thank you for telling me the story. I have heard that the combo of 10 of swords, tower or death can mean actual death. Which is crazy. I have read other astrologers talk about having 10 of swords and one of the other two show up and that happening. I understand why you don't want them in your house, now.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. (Arthur C. Clarke)

Honestly, though, I've been reading about astronomy since I was very young, and quasars, pulsars and black holes are infinitely more interesting to me, never mind the planets.

The belief that a planet's behaviour ought to influence your behaviour or your life is, of course, very old. But I tend to agree with Edmund (the bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester) in Shakespeare's King Lear, when he says (in Act 1, Scene 2, 480-495):

EDMUND
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that
when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of
our own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters
the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains
on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves,
thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance;
drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced
obedience of planetary influence; and all that we
are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable
evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition on the charge of a star! My father
compounded with my mother under the Dragon’s
tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it
follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should
have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the
firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

In short, he is asking: why do people, instead of taking responsibility for their own actions, blame the stars and planets? Why does society immediately think that that he (i.e. Edmund) must be evil and base, simply because his parents made love under the wrong star? He repudiates that completely, and takes all the responsibility himself. He might be a villain, but at least he doesn't blame anyone else for it.

And speaking of astrology, I can't believe no-one posted this one yet:

 

[Homer Potvin]

A word the wise: threads about Tarot or anything in the astrology realm draw spammers and scammers like moths to a flame. Not sure why, but if you see a new member that seems off, excellent chance they're not on the up and up.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Those nut jobs are everywhere. My writing website attracts two or three opportunists a day looking to improve my website, my reader base, or the size of the male apparatus that is not stock on my particular chassis. The belly dance forum I moderated attracked some real weirdos, usually wanting my contact information so they could hire me to teach groups of rich women to dance. If I was in a mood to bother, I gave them the address and phone number of Scotland Yard and told them I only accepted pay in krugerrands.

 

[Homer Potvin]

These are Tarot specific scammers who target the aficionados. We had to close all the threads on the OG about anything related but we have a much better spam filter here.

 

[Naomasa298]

For me, it was a youthful delusion. Not something I actively care about any more. I already get enough spam for my company as it is.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Being of a scientific frame of mind, I was originally attracted by the idea that I could chart my life and understand both myself and other people with a few calculations. Ask me how that worked out.

 

[Luxuria]

These are Tarot specific scammers who target the aficionados. We had to close all the threads on the OG about anything related but we have a much better spam filter here.

Is it okay then if we keep this thread? I don't want to attract spammers.

 

[Luxuria]

Being of a scientific frame of mind, I was originally attracted by the idea that I could chart my life and understand both myself and other people with a few calculations. Ask me how that worked out.

Tell me about this, please!

 

[JLT]

One thing that various divination processes can provide is plot lines. Do a reading, and the major plot arcs are already there: well, we've got a death, and then the character comes into money, and then there's strife of some sort, and then they fall in love, and then something cataclysmic happens, and so on. All you've got to do is write a story that threads it all together in a credible way. Easy peasy!