the lioness oracle study

20/06/24

listening to: white fire - angel olsen

this isn't something i do with every single one of my decks. and even when i do study them the process often looks different. but this is what my study of the lioness oracle looks like:

i do the cards in order, except alternate the majors and minors to not get completely overwhelmed. a few majors - a few minors. starting with the fool and the wands, respectively. in between bouts of book and deck study i dip in and out of what i knew as the Tarotbound guide - a pdf from dawn michelle's website, which seems to now be a self-published book on amazon:

connecting with the tarot

(i don't know in what ways it's been revised and expanded, the original file was 88 pages of prompts, so this one is significantly longer. maybe i'll buy it one day, i do keep using the old one... although her husband is a cop so i'm not thrilled to be throwing money their way. anyway!)

for each card i:

• make notes from the little white book, whatever stands out as different
• read up the card entry in crowley's book of thoth, and if i can't make heads or tails of it, i'll just look up some quick and dirty astrology for the card's planet and sign. take notes.
• quick personal notes on what else i know the card to mean
• quick notes on the imagery, what angle it's taking
• a one card pull from the rest of the deck, describing "an aspect of this card i haven't considered yet"

then for the majors i do the additional steps of:

• analyzing the main symbols of the image
• searching for other cards in the deck that share the symbols, compare and contrast how they work in each image
• do a one card reading based off one of the book prompts (usually it's a question reflecting the major's themes, like "how can you nurture your true nature" for the empress)

with the different amount of material, i devote a page to each minor and a spread to each major. it's a handful! so yeah, sometimes there's a... two year break. but it's definitely a bonding experience i enjoy, when i don't let myself get overwhelmed.

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