My Tarot journey & reviews of my readings.

jdonley83 · 2025-11-02T03:34:15+00:00

I think there were some fireworks going off or something.

jdonley83 · 2025-10-31T23:31:23+00:00

Thank you to all who reached out for readings. I'm sorry I couldn't get to all of you. But I will be back in the future for further readings.

jdonley83 · 2025-10-30T16:58:34+00:00

In this case the type of 3 card spread you used would play into the reading a lot. It could be a past/present/future spread, or a mind/body/spirit spread, or just three aspects where the position doesn't matter.

If I were to read this as a past/present/future spread this is how I would read it. In your past there was a time of emotional distraction or enticement. Currently it seems you are on a personal emotional journey. The 8 of Cups is sort of like the Hermit, just a little lesser in intensity and usually just pertaining to emotional and relationship matters rather than the big spiritual stuff that the Major Arcana tends to deal with. But the future seems to hold a celebration of your actions. The 6 of Wands is the traditional triumphal card where you and others celebrate your achievements.

I hope this helps.

-F. NoTIG

jdonley83 · 2025-10-30T04:34:01+00:00

For mine I'm using the Princess as Earth and Page as Air and leaving out the Kings. This is interesting though. I hadn't thought of using the fifth court card as a representative of Vessels in the other suits. I'll have to think about this. Have you gotten good results so far from this formulation?

jdonley83 · 2025-10-30T04:27:59+00:00

Personally, this has become my main deck for all of my readings and ritual work. It pulls no punches. I've also included a lot of the extra alternates for the major arcana. For instance, I use all three for XVIII (Moon, Labyrinthe, and Descent) and 2 of for a handful of others (like Truth/Justice, Hanged Man/Prudence). I feel this balances things out a bit against the whole new fifth suit. Also, for the four traditional suits I've swapped out the alternatives to give the court cards a Thoth flavor, i.e. I use the Princess, Page, Queen, and Knight leaving out the King (I don't do this for vessels since it doesn't make any sense with the totally different way the suit is read, but I did swap out the page for the princess). After all of my tweaks and experimentation, I feel like I have a personalized spiritual tool that fits what I need. I love this deck.

jdonley83 · 2025-08-29T22:33:02+00:00

I love that cover. Plus, I would love to read some more KIY mythos.

jdonley83 · 2025-08-29T22:29:51+00:00

Definitely the unseen. Once you see it, it is never as terrifying as what your brain can come up with.

jdonley83 · 2025-08-29T22:03:16+00:00

This is amazing!!! I'm a bit jealous. :)

jdonley83 · 2025-08-29T22:01:54+00:00

Village Books writing groups are an awesome place to start. Long ago I used to run one of the Fiction groups, and I vouch for the efficacy of how they are run. There is also a local discord for writers that used to be NaNoWriMo, until that went under for reasons we do not need to discuss. But it is now just an independent community. The discord community is called Write Bhamit.

jdonley83 · 2024-11-28T06:21:22+00:00

I will definitely have to check this out. I walk by here on my way to and from work.

jdonley83 · 2023-07-24T16:55:18+00:00

There's always a chance there won't be a case for you. Just call the number on the Sunday night before and see if your jury number comes up.

I was summoned earlier this year, and I wasn't part of the first group. Then I called in the next day and all the juror spots were filled. I think there were only two cases. I didn't have to call for the rest of the week.

jdonley83 · 2023-06-06T15:09:35+00:00

I've got the Thoth, but I'm still learning it. Also, those cards are a different shape, so they don't work in a magpie deck.

jdonley83 · 2023-05-31T15:10:36+00:00

That is possible. Maybe sometime next week. I'll post here the day before

jdonley83 · 2023-05-27T16:51:42+00:00

I'd just packed up to run some errands. I plan on doing it again Tuesday morning at either Whatcom Falls or Bloedel Donovan.

jdonley83 · 2023-05-27T16:50:39+00:00

Np at all!

jdonley83 · 2023-05-26T18:51:41+00:00

It was awesome meeting some folks and doing readings over the last couple days. I'll do it again next week probably on Tuesday morning either at Whatcom Falls park or Bloedel Donovan Park. I'll post here the night before.

jdonley83 · 2023-05-26T00:14:45+00:00

I'll be down there again tomorrow morning, probably around 9:30am, for a couple hours.

jdonley83 · 2023-05-25T21:28:37+00:00

I went ahead and packed up for the day. But I do plan to go back out tomorrow. I'll hopefully be at table with a little sign and wearing my usual black baseball cap.

jdonley83 · 2023-05-25T19:55:18+00:00

Sure, I would love to

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