Whenever I do a spread, I usually copy it into the journal directly, whether from the book or from the internets. But since I’ve filled four notebooks already, it’s hard to return to a particular spread.

Yesterday I finally sat down with my notebooks and a binder, and organised all spreads from various places into one. I’ve got a few left on my HDD that I’ll copy once my laptop is fixed, and also a couple in my current journal — these I’ll handle once I move onto a different notebook.

It felt so great to finally consolidate them all. And my Tarot binder is growing! Ah, satisfaction.

This is definitely a great companion for the upcoming deck!

If only I were $35 (or $50? Can I dream?) richer, I’d be buying this right now.

Revitalising Your Tarot Practice, Part I: Decks.

This is a good article on spicing up your usual reading routine if you feel a bit stuck, bored, or in a rut.

Bored with Tarot? Well, it happens. It’s happening to me right now, albeit in a different light — I’m not bored as I am stuck. Starting a blog was actually one of the ways I had hoped to battle this.

I’m currently reading with two decks RWS and Pagan, and feel like I don’t know either one of them well enough, even though they’ve been my companions for a while now. There are also two decks that I bought a year and a half and a year ago, and I have barely moved to explore them.

One could say that it’s happening because the decks aren’t “mine” — and indeed, I can’t seem to tune into them — nor am I trying hard, really. One has imagery that’s a bit unexpected, another one seems to have meanings that aren’t too deep for me.

Not that I’m too deep a person, I’m actually pretty shallow, but when I dive into Tarot, I usually look for symbolism.

Either there isn’t any, or I’m looking in a wrong place.

I tried one of the techniques described in the article before — the comparative approach. I used it to study one of the newer decks. And perhaps this is where I made the mistake — I was looking for similarities where there aren’t any. Different decks usually want to be used for different readings, and perhaps that particular deck wasn’t meant for the reading I was doing.

It’s all so vague, isn’t it? I wish I had a more solid example.