good things and voyager tarot

22/08/24

listening to: kill of the night - gin wigmore

some good things!

• mornings are now cool enough to warrant socks! still some hot days coming up next week, maybe it's the last of it... or maybe it's like... an autumny 27, somehow cooler and easier than a summer 27?
• got filled with longing for a Tiny Sketchbook yesterday, so i just sewed one up real quick from scrap paper. no need to wade into purchase-land!
• good tea arrived yesterday. finally had good breakfast with good tea. heart is singing
• moving some medical things forward. i have all the required documents, just need to read things through and make a phone-call! that's the hard part XD
• got a caddy for all my desk stuff! since the desk is just a table with no drawers or shelves. it was going to hold all the art supplies but since i narrowed everything down to Collage it's holding notebooks, sketchbooks, tarot decks etc. if more art happens i will rearrange accordingly (for supplies to be at hand)
• spent some time swapping out tarot decks, trying to give others a chance after the hold the drowning world had on me (well, still has). this time we've got the thoth, the voyager, and the enchanted tarot. these are also giving me a late summer vibe. feeling uncomfortable without a true pip deck but i guess the thoth could count.

voyager thoughts

maybe i'll finally make some progress with the voyager tarot. i've had it for years and there's always something a little off about it that bumps it further down the queue. first it was the weird green border color, took me a while to get over it. then it was the card-stock/lamination, that thing feels like it's made of place-mats. but i sanded it down a bit, it's less sticky now. (but hey, maybe the thick lamination is paying off - it has yet to acquire the gunk spots that are a bane of newer/more cheaply made decks).

for meanings it does its own system. kind of like minors-as-majors, something i sometimes use with pip decks, but the keywords it assigns can be confusing and not match up with my numerology (they're not neutral, like 6 of cups is "sorrow", even though it's supposed to represent the emotional aspect of the lovers). some of the keywords are great - i like what they're doing with the courts, like "man of wands - actor", or "sage of cups - regenerator", so i wouldn't want to trim them off. and it wouldn't be a problem at all if i could rely on the images, which is what i prefer in a reading. i rely on them to see the flow of the message/energy/whatever you want to call it between cards. but the collaged images are so busy, there's no foreground or background or focal point. it's all equally "valuable". it definitely works if you consider each card individually, there's always a new detail to focus on or catch your attention, allowing for myriad interpretations. but they don't (visually) build the story for me, i can only try to do that with language as i go card-by-card.

i know it's a well thought out deck and perhaps the system itself is excellent/perfectly up my alley, alas i don't seem to be able to get it to click in my head with how much importance i place to the images in general and how overwhelming and distracting they are in this deck. so let's give it a proper try. if this fails, next time around i'm getting the source- and work-book.

StarTree, the Voyager workbook

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