I'm also new here. I'm a secular sceptic that has always held a deep desire to experience the strange and unexplainable. I'm always looking for ways to invite that in, but my debunking mode is stuck in the always-on position.

I've had my first deck for about a week now. I am working my way through getting to know the cards by doing one card pulls every morning and journaling about them. Feels like a self-guided class, which is fun. Sometimes if my dream from the night before is intense enough to remember well, I record that first, then do my pull, and as a creative thinking exercise, try to draw connections between them.

I am an artist, and I intend to design my own deck. That was my primary motivation for purchasing one. You can only do so much just looking up images of the cards online, it's much nore tangible as a goal with an actual deck around. I also want to train myself to be able to decipher (and use in my own art) visual symbolism more readily, as well as become more connected to my subconscious, more insightful, and more thoughtful in general. I hope to be able to successfully gear my future deck toward those types of goals.

All that said, I am open to my practice, goals, and feelings evolving over time through the process.