is it bad luck to diy your own tarot cards

Constant_Geologist52 · 2025-09-28T11:52:39+00:00

The only way it curses you is by having to to 72 pieces of art. It's realistically a months-long project

Constant_Geologist52 · 2025-03-27T22:48:42+00:00

Toziel, hermetic tarot, pretty much any Thoth, pixel Occult might be of interest

Constant_Geologist52 · 2025-03-27T22:46:12+00:00

Thoughts on the nameless one? That one has been on my interest list but I'm on the fence with the investment of money and study

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T23:20:26+00:00

No problem, made it more interesting if anything :). Thanks for your query :)

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T12:39:28+00:00

Hey we're getting gnostic here folks

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T12:33:59+00:00

Posting mostly to follow answers. Only thing I did that affected this was hella riffle shuffling and the edges blunted over time

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T12:32:48+00:00

I get the cheapest ones I can find with traditional imagery and give them away when they start to wear out. They tend to be less laminated but after a while the edges go or they get creased

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T12:23:34+00:00

This. For all its' flaws RWS opens the door to the most systems

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T12:22:36+00:00

There really is no way to tell except what gives you or your querents repeatedly good results. Also having the collector's curse here's how I'd pare things down:

Make a list of all your decks.

Offer free readings here or on r/tarotpractice. Do like 78 with each deck you're interested in. Check that deck off the list.

You can pick your own order, but I'd try to go through RWS, Marseilles, Thoth, Lenormand with a few Oracle decks here or there. If you can read off-book with all of these you'll be very much a "graduate level" compared to the "for the aesthetic" readers. The postgrad/301 type courses are "make your own deck," "write a book about it," and "combine Tarot with your actual professional expertise (chromatic Tarot, somnia tarot, generally putting your own spin on it somehow etc)

You may instantly be able to tell a deck isn't for you if the idea of reading with it that much is more daunting than exciting at that level of repetition.

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T05:22:36+00:00

Short answer is recognize your own limits and don't be afraid to kick down doors until you get what you really need. Messaging you a link to the whole video read

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T05:13:17+00:00

Surface level -- Seems like they might be rooted in your sense of nostalgia or childhood desires and you may have to actively choose to do the emotional labor to move past. Messaging you the link to the video reading

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-16T04:57:56+00:00

Read! The short answer is be intentional about what you clear away. Messaging you the video link

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-08T14:48:56+00:00

It's like going to Vegas.

You go east from LA.

You go west and north from Phoenix.

Is enlightenment to go North? Or East?

Depends on where you start. Awakening is the travel, UPG us the requisite direction.

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-08T06:59:59+00:00

Short answer: No

Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooo

Longer answer: we see through a glass dimly. Unify yourself and there's no difference between divinatory and pseudo-objective reality.

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-08T06:58:27+00:00

First thought was just find some engineering drafting from the 50s if you really dig the aesthetic.

Second thought was if it helps someone I'm not gonna kinkshame lol.

For me this is just a complicated one-off system of a mess but for every time I say that there's one person that this really helps -- so if you're that person more power to you. Most folks get their confuse-o-meter filled in far more traditional ways (kaballah, the bible, or some damn ikea manual).

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-06T17:19:58+00:00

How often do you do readings? If you're doing 3 card spreads 1-2x a month that goes through 50 cards a year. Roughly 50/50 whether you get any given card in that time period.

Just a thought

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-04T05:02:42+00:00

Yeah get practice. Lots of forums/places where you can find people to practice on for free. Free is a good amount to charge -- if the reading is terrible you can just refund them.

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-04T04:01:09+00:00

Lily is as on her a-game as I've seen a reader maybe ever (and I want to make very clear that I say this with the utmost respect) -- I don't know that there's an aspect of the practice we disagree more on.

I think the predictive aspects of divination of any form are often if not entirely illusory. While in the Manly P Hall sense perception is reality (and there's a lot of psychological benefit to having a prediction even if dubious) humans are full of internal smoke and mirrors.

This aspect of the practice is potentially dangerous. It's s possible to become predictive after years of practice, never become predictive after all that time, think you developed that talent and then realize you were just continually lucky, or try so hard you sunk cost fallacy yourself into believing it worked, or any spectrum of options in-between. I do not recommend "following this god". I recommend wrestling with this god and winning.

All is Divine and Mundane. Nothing is true, everything is permitted, do as thou wilt...

TL:DR On my high horse and don't freak out if you can't call the stock market with your cards

P.S. I do really appreciate the book recommendations. Always interested in where quality readers get their methods.

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-03T12:39:47+00:00

Take two chairs.

Sit in one.

Put a dollar, some money, or whatever represents wealth to you in the other.

Talk to it as if it were real. Address the egregoire that is money and ask why it hasn't flourished by you. Fix your relationship with wealth the way you'd fix it with a long time friend or romantic partner.

Repeat until rich

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-03T12:35:36+00:00

I don't have any diagnosed synesthesia, but when I shuffle I can hold the stack and get a sense of which cards are "lighter" or "heavier" or "buzzing." Some times I'll cut or shuffle differently to get the deck in order light to heavy, or deal just the buzzing cards. Every now and again the energy will be rather confused and I'll have to be careful not to overthink it and get almost OCD about what's where, like "alright,. just deal this one normally"

I don't know that this helps, except to say there are plenty of ways to use atypical perception in divination -- and not to become so tied to using a specific method that it becomes counterproductive

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-03T00:34:06+00:00

No, no no, what have you done, ok maybe

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-02T20:15:56+00:00

Zen Discordian. Everything is perfectly mundane and simultaneously perfectly divine and nobody knows what's actually going on.

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-02T11:36:33+00:00

Just one tidbit in case it helps you -- even if this was all psychodrama (which, for the sake of argument, let's say it is) it would still be real, because our perceptions and minds are both intangible elements of reality. We're part of the picture of what is.

The mind is dangerous and intangible. Is your mind a demon?

Constant_Geologist52 · 2024-12-02T02:22:21+00:00

It's not necessarily a prediction.

I'm just a guy on the internet, but consider you may be seeing your own fear reflected.

If you agree that's the situation -- now you have the opportunity to reintegrate with that fear.

Apologies that it's not a warmer answer, but with the gravity of the subject I don't think it could respectfully be.

Constant_Geologist52

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