Luna's Card Quotes: Fenestra - Tower.

"Don't hold together what must fall apart,
for the destruction of the old,

you may begin fresh and anew."

Card of the Day. Existential mumbo jumbo. Will you take the box off your head?

Deck: Joie De Vivre by Paulina Cassidy.

Card: 4 of Cups.

Luna's Keywords: Apathy, indifference to what's around you, emptiness and a feeling of tenseness. Stuck in place. Not being able to connect to outside or even inside forces. Feeling melancholy. Disconnection. Longing.

This is a moment in your life where life seemingly passes you by and you can't help but just watch as it does. This is the feeling of being so lost, of feeling empty and disconnected from everything around you and not being connected to what's inside of you... You feel all of this and don't really care. You feel indifferent and apathetic and you're okay, you feel fine, you know there's something wrong, but at the same time, you feel like it's fine and dandy, it's not hurting anyone and it's not hurting you.
At least, that's what you think.

I imagine being in a bubble, or a box in this case, a crystal clear glass box. You're inside it and it constantly moves along with you but the thing is, you always know its there. You push against it as you stare at a friend or loved one in front of you, [they're smiling at you] you can feel the glass, you can feel the obstruction, you know you can't fully feel what's going on around you. You can't feel what's happening outside.
It's like with feelings, is what I'm trying to say, everyone is constantly moving, constantly feeling, and you're just... Here. You're just existing and the thing is, it makes you think more clearly, it makes you think more deeply, more logically.
People come to you for advice, people come to you for help, people come to you for you to listen.
Now people who knew how you really felt, wouldn't, because a person like you, someone cold, logical and unfeeling, you wouldn't understand, now would you? You'd just be frank, honest, give them the cold hard truth, because that's all you know. That's what they think though.

There's a tingle inside your chest, a twitch of a frown in your cheeks and you can't help but reach out, pressing your hands against that clear glass wall, making it hard for you to reach out and give them person a hug, to truly connect with them emotionally, but it's hard, something is blocking you and you can't move it, you don't know how. So you do the next best thing, you speak, they can hear you, right? Right.... You speak and you tell them how it is, but you try your damnedest to be gentle, you try your best to think up solutions, to think up how to fix the situation, to think up how to make them feel better, but most of all, you think up the best ways to both heal them from the inside and help them improve and better themselves, to make them feel better and learn from what hurt them.

You may feel apathy, you may feel indifference, you may even feel like you're separated from the outside world, but you're in a fine line, you feel others, you feel pain for them, you feel compassion, but you can't even let yourself feel your own feelings deeply, you keep it above ground, above the water.
Everyday stuff passes you by, everyday feelings, you just take life as it comes, day to day, hour to hour. Everyone is moving in hyper speed, while it feels like you're walking and moving in slow motion, your eyes straining to catch up as they all move so fast. You're lagging behind.

Alright! Enough existential, psychological mumbo jumbo!
Onto my final hurrah, the card itself.

I was thinking up this topic just a few hours ago when I first sat down to write, I was thinking of existential crap, apathy and indifference, but also the feeling of wanting to help others, even if you cannot help yourself. I began to look at some of the 4 of Cups images on Google, then in a sudden burst of inspiration, I remembered I had the Joie De Vivre Tarot! I was looking through it the other day and then BAM! It hit me, the best image, the best card from a deck I could pull up and use was exactly that. The Four of Cups from the Joie De Vivre Tarot.

Just look at it, [I will call the main focus of the card, the cat-like creature, Cat.] Everyone around Cat is happy, celebrating, being carefree and merry, but he is looking at his reflection, or the pond, which could signify his emotions, his pent up feelings, he wants to reconnect with those feelings, to immerse himself in it, but he's on dry land, grounded, safe, logical. Cat looks scared, uncertain, so morose and melancholy.
Inside the water, can you just imagine it? You're surrounded by friends, they're having fun, they're having a dang good fun in their party and you're just... there, staring at your reflection... Maybe if you took a dip in, splash around, have fun! The others would join in and... Can you just feel the laughter in the air, the cool water on your skin, the smiles straining your cheeks and having the light, cheerful air around you? Wouldn't it be amazing?

But you keep those thoughts away, you cover your head, your heart, your ears, muffling them out, keeping the thoughts quiet with your big box around your head. While others are having fun around you, living their life, you stick to your box, you chose to keep it out.

Will you continue to look towards a solution, but never reaching out? Will you continue to tune out your life, or will you finally take that stupid box off your head?
Will you finally feel a deeper feeling now?

With love, hope and positivity

- Luna

Dang! I had such a great time writing this, it just kept flowing out!

Cards of the Day. Internal Stalemate. Sword Suit, Where are you?!

Deck: Steampunk Tarot by Barbra Moore, Aly Fell.

Cards: Seven of Cups, Five of Wands.

Luna's Keywords: Passions at an impasse, indecisive by too much choices, too much to handle, too many choices to think of, Analysis Paralysis, internal battle caused by said Analysis Paralysis, Ideas fighting over one another thus causing a stalemate.

Hmm, my new format.

To be honest, I had these cards stored up in my drafts folder for the past few weeks, just waiting to be used. I drew these cards one day early on this month, I was really inspired and happy to see these cards pop up, however I could not find it in my heart to write anything down, as is the story of my existence. So, I ended up saving this, along with other cards I got or that I found very inspiring, inside my drafts folders for when I could find the energy, opportunity or the proper mood to write things out for them.
These two cards explain those certain, exact situations perfectly. Per-Fect-Ly. I am not kidding.

First comes the innocuous perusal of all these themes, topics, feelings and opinions you have:
"Which topic should I use today?"
"What can I talk about in my life that I can co-relate to this particular card?"
"What card can further portray what I am trying to say in my topic?"
"What theme should I use and show off today?"
"What kind of post can I do today?"
"What are my opinions and feelings concerning this topic and how can I best describe it to the best of my abilities without me wanting to pull my hair out?"
"WHY WON'T YOU WORK WITH ME, STUPID BRAIN AND BODY?!?!"

These are the questions I have to ask myself as I sit at my desk or on my bed, staring at a blank screen, either without scans of the cards or with pictures of the cards already on it, and thinking to myself, scanning and thinking deeply about the cards.
Sometimes, when the mood fits, I can write it out in a frenzy, like how I currently am doing at the moment, other times? I can't.
Like the last time I sent this particular set of cards deep within my drafts folder, I could not, for the life of me, sit down and finish writing, I couldn't even start on the first damn sentence!

I have too much to choose from but little motivation or passion or even because my body makes it hard for me to write anything, with mental blocks that I can actually, literally and can feel throbbing in a constant, dull thud on the forefront of my skull. Because of having too many options and too many questions, it makes me come to a stalemate with myself, an impasse, a dead-end.

Now for the Five of Wands, basically, it's the same thing as the Seven of Cups, but unlike the Cups Card, [which, in my opinion, is more of a passive card for me in this reading.] The Wands Card is very aggressive, very active, very energetic. Too energetic.
I have the same situation, too many ideas, too many questions, too many topics and cards to choose from to start writing, causing me take a step back and think. But instead of just simply abandoning the cards without much of a fight, knowing I can just get back to it at a later date, the energies of the Five of Wands makes it hard to let go. I go into an internal battle of "WRITE! I can't... WRITE DAMN IT! I don't wanna.... WRITE SOMETHING!" and it goes on and on and on...
Now I'm not obsessive, I really am not, but sometimes, it stays stuck in your head and sometimes I can't help but go back again and again to my site and just wanting, yearning and wishing for some energy and inspiration to write something meaningful. It's always an internal battle whenever I look at all the things I've written and going through my drafts folder. It makes my heart ache to know I could write something as I've written before but I can't because of some sort of mental block. [Where are the damn Sword cards when you need 'em?!]

I have the ideas, I have the passion for it, I even have the subject matter outlined inside my head, but sometimes, it's hard to write it down. I'm paralyzed by indecision.
I need to get my shit together, man.

Does anyone go through that as well?

With love, hope and positivity

- Luna.

Random Update: Something new?

I think it's time to revamp my blog. [in terms of my writing style, that is.] I don't know, after my on and off, no regular schedule or rhythm to my posting, I feel like it's been really tense? Maybe my writing style and how I write out my post seems kind of too "tight and traditional" and not very engaging to people. I know, I know, I've said it before that I like my writing style, I really do, but I want it to engage people, to make it fun and interesting for them to read, I want to be able to connect with others through my writing.

I'm not exactly changing my writing style... Just, fixing it up. I'm mostly abolishing my "uptight" kind of series and titles for my posts. I feel like I don't exactly give it a right title, and that I'm just mixing things up. From now on I'll try better to make the whole post title thing less confusing and more on point and relatable for the topic or post itself.
I actually had this revelation when perusing on accident when I was looking through another fellow Tarot Bloggers site, J.J Tarot*, I believe, her account and blog was on Wordpress, whilst mine is on Blogger. I really love her blog and what I've seen of it, simple, fun and one word I would describe her as: "Engaging". I even left a comment of stating that fact. When I read her posts I highly enjoyed it.

So, when I read J.J's blog, I began to have an epiphany, my writing hasn't been improving much but most of all, it's not really engaging or fun to read, but don't get me wrong, I love what I've wrote... Most of it, that is. I'm proud of what I wrote and will continue to write. I just want to be able to connect with my readers, to be able to attract them and be able to have them engaged into what I write. Less uptight and more loose, casual and fun, yes I enjoy writing, but I want to have fun and be able to show that I do have fun while doing it.

I'll be doing some changes, I hope I'll be able to do it smoothly and turn it into a better, improving change. That's all I want.

I guess this is kinda boring, haha. Anyway, I'll try to do more Card of the Day or even Draws and Spreads. I have a hard time with those, I can speak it, can talk about it in real life, but writing it down makes my head hurt. I guess this'll be a total "Wheel of Fortune" moment for me, huh? Heh.

With love, hope and positivity

- Luna.



*[Here's her site! I highly recommend giving it a look!]

2.) Luna's Card of the Day: Dreaming Way Tarot - 5 of Cups.

"I still love the people I loved,
even if I cross the street to avoid them." - Uma Thurman.


Sadly, this is the case almost everyone has, if not all of us. We experience this feeling at least once, in my opinion... And that's just sad.
I wrote in one of my other posts about it being sad, of knowing someone for so long, who've you thought you made such a deep connection, of having spent so much time and made so much memories with this person... And one day "Poof!" it's gone.
It would be different if the connection, the friendship, died a natural death. Time spent far apart, personalities changing, connection not being as strong as before, people growing up and moving away from who they were before. Things change, people change but the memories are still there.

Sometimes you just simply drift apart, you try and try to get together, you say you would, you try to plan it out, but "oh no, something happened, can I take a rain check? I promise, we'll meet up another time soon." "Something came up, I have to cancel today." "I'm so sorry, I can't make it today!"
Soon enough, calls are left unanswered, emails, IMs, PMs and texts are ignored, forgotten. Then no one makes any effort anymore, because the other one didn't, because the other one didn't. It's a cycle that didn't need to start, miscommunication starts to set in and you start drifting apart, start not knowing each other.
The person you used to talk to everyday, becomes someone you only talk to like an acquaintance. The person who you used to go to for nearly everything, who you told all the little to big things that happened in your life or anything that happened to you from day to day... You don't even think about calling them, or if you do, you just stare at the screen of your phone, your PC, and you either feel a bitterness of them not keeping contact, feel guilty for contributing to the fact you don't talk anymore or you just sigh and let the longing set in.

I chose this card because of the feeling of lost, of abandonment, of the feeling of having someone turn their backs on you... Or you to them.

I want you to look at this card, two women, one we can see clearly, facing us, the other with their backs turned to both us and the first woman. The first woman is holding 2 cups in her hands, her arms laying limply to her sides as she closes her eyes gently, the second woman has her back turned to us, we can't see her, but we can see her throwing away her 3 cups, or maybe they accidentally fell from her hands? Who knows.

From what I see from this scene above, I see a scene of two perceptions. Both sides of the story, if you will. I find it funny, of how well it co-relates to this topic. Person 1 holds onto her cups, as she closes her eyes, maybe she's trying to relive out her memories with Person 2, of all the times they shared, of the happiness and fond memories they made together, maybe on one side, she feels a tiny bit resentful, bitter, that in her mind, her friend has abandoned her, that Person 2 could have at least put a little more effort, damn it! But.... On the other hand, it looks like she is in peace, maybe she has come to terms and has accepted what has happened, she has her memories, she knows she can't dwell on those old times together, but she knows she can at least think back fondly, going back to simpler times, of being able to enjoy her time with her old friend, even just a little bit.

On the other hand, we have Person 2, they look like their carelessly throwing away Person 1's friendship, of their friendship. Years upon years of being together, of sharing laughs, of crying together, of knowing each other, from their good to their bad, to their highs and to their lows... And this Person 2 just let those times fade away, just let the Cups of their memories, drain and dissipate. "Person 2 is such a jerk! Person 2 is so selfish! They don't care at all!" You would think but then again... Maybe you were Person 2, at one point in your life.
Maybe in school, you went from the cliche geek or nerd, with the braces, skinny, awkward body, or the fat, bulky stature, and you finally filled out, you finally got thinner, you lost the braces and your interests turned to the mainstream that all the other people your age liked. People started noticing you that didn't before, you liked it, you really liked it, or maybe, you just grew up, grew away from what you and Person 1 used to do and used to like doing together, maybe you moved away, maybe you got too busy with things you liked, extracurricular activities, club responsibilities, school things and maybe even new friends. Maybe, maybe you even placed those new friends first than Person 1, she would understand, right? I've gotten so busy, it's not my fault.... I promised the others I'd go to the movies with them, to head out to that new restaurant... Oops, I forgot I promised Person 1 we'd go out on that day.... I guess I can just cancel on her,  I mean, it'd just be us, while there would be more of us with the others. She'll understand.
But the thing is... She won't after a while. People have limits.

You just got busy. That's your excuse, whether it be bad or just normal, who's to say? But the thing is... Person 2 just lost the effort. Or maybe it was Person 1 that lost it first? Or Person 2? Or maybe it was Person 1? Who knows? When communication is lost... You never know.

Are you Person 1.. Or are you Person 2?

Are you willing to let that person go... That person who held your secrets, who've seen you at your lowest, who loved you no matter what, who told you and proved to you to call them whenever and wherever, and they'd be there for you... Are you willing to let that person go?

That best friend you knew....
Would one day be a stranger.

With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna

(Sorry for such a sad post.)

Luna's Card of the Day. (A poem by Luna Oracle.) "Monsters Inside Us."

"Children fear Monsters.
Monsters with their sharp claws out to get your ankles, wanting to drag you down under the bottom of your bed, so you rush and jump onto your bed in fright.

Monsters inside your closet, watching you as you cower in fear, shivering and hiding beneath your safety blanket, you can just feel their glowing, yellow eyes piercing you,

Monsters waiting outside your house, their claws scratching against your windows, wanting to get in, you can just imagine their creepy, bloody teeth grinning down at you outside the windows."

"Adults don't fear the monsters under their bed, inside their closet, or outside their windows.
Children grew up, and their monsters have, as well.

Adults fear monsters.
Adults fear the monsters inside their mind, the ones that claw at their psyche, cackling in glee as they shred your mentality, casting doubt and insanity.

Adults fear monsters inside their hearts, their harsh whispers spreading lies and sprouting doubt from deep within, causing you deep insecurity.

Adults fear monsters inside their mirrors, their twisted grins, their pointing fingers, their hateful words, their sharp, harsh laughter resounding as their desire to bring you down becomes stronger. Their words getting louder and louder, their smiles twisting and morphing into something beyond this world as their voices start to shriek to the heavens.

"You're too fat, just like a COW!"
"You're too thin, do you even eat? Anorexic."
"You're too stupid, you fail every test! Retard!"
"You can't even lift or run properly, weakass."
"You're doomed, you'll never accomplish anything in life."
"You're too useless, you'll never become anyone important."
"You're too ugly to find anyone, you'll die ALONE."
"No one will ever love you."

Adults don't fear monsters like children do.
Adults fear something far worse...
They fear themselves.
They became the monsters they feared."

6.) Luna's Card Quotes - Fenestra: 6 of Cups.

"One day, you'll just be a memory to some people.
Do your best to be a good one."

"It's funny how day by day, nothing changes.
But when you look back,
everything is different."

3.) Luna's Reflections - LoTD: 5 of Wands.

Today I chose the 5 of Wands from the Legacy of the Divine Tarot, a little backstory to this, I would normally choose the Rider Waite depiction and art, unless I was truly moved by a card from a certain deck or I was using said deck at a particular time.* But for this third post of this series, I found that the normal Rider Waite interpretation didn't show or depict enough of the feelings I've felt recently and that I've connected and resonated with the 5 of Wands, so as I went photo hunting around Google, I looked and looked and looked, I couldn't find a perfect 5 of Wands at all, all I got was the regular Rider Waite cards, but finally, I was able to find the right card that shown the feelings I wanted to convey: The Legacy of the Divine's 5 of Wands. Such a beauty by Ciro Marchetti.

Anyway, I'm getting side tracked here, I digress.

Keywords to explain this card would be: Conflict/battle, normally internally and with yourself, but it can also pertain to competitions with others, having a habit of arguing with people or simply disagreement and your own passions within yourself not agreeing with each other.

Let me explain how I feel about this card, this card explains so deeply to how I felt this week, an irrational build up of emotions, red hot, fiery burst of anger and impatience, a feeling of wanting to argue and fight with someone to let off some steam.
You know how you have this ONE horrible, bad luck, no good, not nice and horribly unlucky, damned stupid day? Yeah, I had one this week. Just bad thing, after bad thing, it was only minor annoyances, to be honest, but I just had such a low tolerance of patience that day, I believe I could even feel (in this case; remember) my patience slowly thinning out and stretching till I was ready to about snap.

You know that feeling, your eyelid and the skin under your eye and between your cheek, it's twitching just a bit, you're clenching your jaw a tiny bit, you have to breath in deeply, counting down from 10 or counting up to 10, just so you can focus on something other than you're mounting frustration and anger. You can feel your heart beating a little louder, a little faster, you can't help but talk yourself out of your anger like "Oh, it's nothing, just be a bit more patient, no need to blow up on anyone and embarrass yourself, right? Just calm down, take a deep breath, smile, don't look like you're pissed off and wanting to chew someone's head off, come on, damn it, SMILE. Damn it, calm the fuck down! You're probably getting red in the face. Oh god, people can probably feel the tension and frustration welling up inside you!" Ugh. And the thing is, the people around you are just pissing you off more and more by the minute. From morning till the end of the day, it's the little annoyances that get to you, they pile up and up and up... And then you're this close to demanding (politely, damn you.) for whoever was in charge so you can talk to them and complain your problem, but noooooooo you have to be patient some more, because you need to be polite and responsible and you, as an naturally anxious person, don't want to remember this day as the day you blew up and embarrassed yourself in your local store and demanded to see their manager, whilst thinking you had a damn good excuse to ask for them and complain, so you wait some more, observing the situation and the people that are pissing you the hell off, you observe them and scrutinize them and dissect them, you're an anxious person, you can do this, you always do this for the most useless or mundane reasons, anyway! So you observe, on the pretense of "waiting out things to come into your favor and just be patience, please." but really, you're just finding a good reason that's solid enough so you can complain and be on the victory side of things, you'll have the damn good satisfaction of a done good job, releasing your tension and your annoyance and your frustration.
That is, if you find a good reason to complain, if you don't and you do explode on them, that's when you, in 10 years time or 30, remember that day and cringe at how embarrassing that memory was and that's when the thoughts will continue on, the horrible, anxiety-filled thoughts, and it will continue on for the next few minutes or the whole day, until you forget about it again.

Now, that I've released some of my own tension through my writing and I've explained the little backstory to this card and how I resonate with it through that story, I will now continue on how I really feel in co-relation to this card.
The internal struggle of fighting with yourself, arguing and fighting with yourself internally, see how these 5 people in the card are fighting among themselves, but the thing is, they're basically of the same being, they grow within the same "root", they grow together, they're supposed to be in harmony with each other, because if you're going to spend the rest of your life with someone(s) then you got to at least enjoy being with each other, but they're fighting, they look so angry and frustrated and they look just about fed up to start hitting each other like grown up children.

Anger is common with us all, we all get frustrated, we all get ticked off with someone or something, we all experience a blinding, red-filled, frustratingly heated rage within ourselves. Our blood is pumping, we're clenching our fists, our head is getting filled with hot seething red rage. Our first reaction is to scream at someone for the smallest mistake, we're tense, someone cuts in front of us and we have the immediate response to call them out on it. When someone is being rude, or has a rude tone to their voice, we have the immediate response to be rude right back at them, escalating the situation till you and that person are in a screaming match, or much worse, you're the only one screaming, and that's just embarrassing. Don't be that person. Don't EVER be that person, as much as you can try it. I know a few people like that and I feel embarrassed for them, because this is just a sad thing to do, if you do it just for the hell of it. Screaming your point doesn't make it right.
This is the reason why I keep a tight hold of my conflict wanting, tense filled self.
I'm not normally so, what's the word? Confrontational, yes, that's the word. I'm not normally so confrontational, I hate conflict normally and I detest arguments of any kind unless both people know it's in jest and taken not seriously or heatedly. But alas, there are days when your patience has run unbearably thin and your head and face are quick to heat up and redden. These are the days when it's the hardest to argue with yourself to not argue and confront others, just to let off some steam.

This ^ up here, is how I relate things to the 5 of Wands. There's quite a bit of cursing, my apologies, I've been getting in tune with my fiery, Wands, side recently. Need to chill out with my Cups. ;)
I wonder how you guys think of this? Hope to hear from you!


With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna.


*1 [though, more often than not, that would be more used in my "Card Quotes" series, not the "Reflections" one.]

Random Post: Procrastination sucks.

I really need to get back into the swing of things, not being able to write is killing me... But procrastination, procrastination~!
Though, I do have the ideas, so many, so many ideas, 5 of Wands, 7 of Cups, Star, Death, 3 of Pentacles, 4 of Cups. I have the outline of those ideas, my opinions on them, what I think of them and how I feel, but damn it all! I can't put words to paper and I don't always get the energy to do it, either.

This post will mark me starting to write something for right about:... NOW!

Luna's Card of the Day: Steampunk - Death.

Death is about transformation, something must end before something else must begin, kind of thing.

Normally people get scared of the Death card, logically speaking they have every right to, if that is the first time they've gotten a reading.

Death is an interesting card, it can neither be good or bad nor can it just be simply neutral. This card is just... It is what it is.

If you are in an unhealthy relationship, this card is a blessing in disguise. It means it is time to move on, but if it appears whilst you're in a good situation in life, maybe it came up for your job, sure, the pay is good, you have some benefits, but maybe it's time for a change, it has become too monotonous and  routine. You find this job as more as a chore than anything. Now, if you were religious, this would be a certain sign of "Something better has been planned for you" type of thing.

Anyway, enough of that part of my rambling, time for my opinion on the matter.

As I first stared into this card, I got a flash of a scene. I've always found this certain Death card's interpretation kind of interesting, you can see such sadness within Death's face, maybe she has regret over taking the Man's loved one? Does that mean Death has feelings? That's very much human, don't you think?

As much as Death is interlocked with mortality and humans, why would Death look so forlorn and regretful? Those were my thoughts as I first stared at this card.

The scene in the back of my eyelids flickered, bit by bit, I saw the Man giving a small smile, laying his roses upon the tombstone as he visited his lost love, paying his respects and "catching up" with her about how his life was going. Wishing she was still with him. I digress.

I began to think, what if this Death, this woman, was the same one under that tombstone? She would come to visit him, one last time, as she looked on towards him as he smiled his soft smile, that smile she always remembered that he directed towards her just as if it were yesterday... But the thing is, it was time for her to move on.

I know this is sketchy at best, shaky and unstable ground for a story, but I donno, food for thought? I don't know, this card seemed so interconnected with the traditional 8 of Cups. Turning your back to something you love, knowing you need to move on for your own good. I should do a card comparison one day of that... Hm.

Anywho! As for her holding onto the Scythe and her dark angel wings, I don't know.. I feel like the dark wings could symbolize her sadness, but the fact that her wings are outstretched, as if she were about to take flight, could mean that no matter how melancholy and remorseful she was, she still needed to move on, both spiritually (emotionally and thru her wings) and physically (grounded and firmly decided, as she sat upon her horse.) Her Scythe, as she grips onto it, if you would look closer, she is holding both hands tightly onto the shaft of the Scythe, yet she sat steadily and firmly on her companion, deadset in her resolution, even if it broke her heart as each clop of the strong horse's hooves stomped onto the ground, away from her beloved. As she held onto the blade, it is her symbol of cutting things off, of killing it and ending the situation.
I wish I could explain this more intelligently and clearly, but honestly, with how long I've been gone from my writing, I'm just happy to be writing ANYTHING. I know I should be more meticulous and be a perfectionist, but I guess I'm not completely a perfectionist. I'm happy with what I have and what I write, sure, I'll be a bit embarrassed by what I just wrote, but it's who I am and it's mine.. All mine. I still have time to live and let learned.


With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna.

4.) Luna's Quotes.

"Sometimes I feel like I'm just screaming at the wind... Hoping someone would hear me."

Random Update - Where are the Deck Reviews?!

Okay darlings, I'm a horrible person. I have not at all wrote or reviewed any of the new goodies I've bought recently. I've been on a buying spree lately. I've bought 2 Oracle decks and 2 Tarot decks in 1 month. (That's a LOT on a student's budget.) and I've pre-ordered and am having a shipment of 6 decks coming in, 7 if my Tarot of Sweet Twilight can come in, for some reason the store I order from  has a problem with ordering decks that are older than 3-4 years. Since Tarot of Sweet Twilight is 6 years (it was released in '09) I'm keeping my fingers crossed to have it in a month or 2.... 3. If not, I can only order it from Amazon and it costs extra to order it instead of ordering it from the publisher itself from the store I order decks from.
If I can't get my Sweet Twilight from my local store, I'll have to go on to order online and order it myself, not through the bookstore. 

Pro: I'll get it in a week or so, along with some other decks I can't order from my local store like; Dream Enchantress Tarot, Tarot of Mermaids, Manara Tarot (Yes, I find that an interesting deck!) Tarot of Sexual Magic (Yes, that too.) Tarot of New Visions, Dark Angel Tarot and Universal Fantasy.

Con: It will tempt me to get more than just Sweet Twilight, since the shipping is gonna be killer anyway, might as well add more decks to make the shipping worth it. Which means I need more money to shell out as well as the shipping! Ughhhh. :C
Not only that, the whole process is complicated. Don't ask.
Living in Asia is hard when all the good decks are half way across the world. Sigh.

For now, the Cons outweigh the Pros. I just need to be patient and enjoy the decks I already have (not to mention I need to do some sewing, I have nowhere to place or fit my precious little babies in!)

So anyway, as much as I would love to give reviews on my decks, it's not gonna happen any time soon. This week's been really hectic and I've had a serious mental block. For the most part, I'm just thankful I can write a bit on this blog, I love writing and it's always been so therapeutic for me to voice out my thoughts through words like this. Tarot has helped me so much to be able to express myself and I'm super happy about that.
I promise, as soon as I get a good enough quality camera, worked with my decks enough and have had the time, I'll get to those reviews! Heavens about knows one of the reasons I even started blogging was because I'd love to write up reviews  for my decks. Help out others who would want those decks and are probably on the fence about it.
That's all for today, I guess. Gonna write up my blog of the day now. Hopefully I can before this day ends, my head's all dizzy. Need more sleep, even if I've already had a full 6 hours of sleep. Meh.

With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna

Luna's Card(s) of the Day - RWS

This'll be short today but I was just messing around with my deck, shuffling and stuff and I decided I'd take a few cards out, I got 6 of Cups with the Shadow (bottom card.) being 8 of Swords. I didn't really delve deep in that set of cards so I just kept shuffling and went back to pick another card after shuffling it around in my hands.
Then I get this, Magician and 7 of Cups. I had to laugh when I got these cards and said to myself "I need to post this!"

The Magician is a man who has the resources, the skill and the experience to do the job, combine that with the 7 of Cups and it is blatantly saying, I may have all that, but I'm having too many ideas up in my head, having too many thoughts and ideas, but never really making it into a reality. It's within my reach, yet still so far.

I want a lot of things in life, especially for my writing, but I still can't get it done the way I want it. It's ironic. Heh.

That's basically it, it's not really long or delving too deep but I just had to share this and I don't feel all that well today, been so busy and doing so many things for so many people, I WANT TO SLEEP! Boohoohoo!

Anyway!

With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna. 

5.) Luna's Card Quotes - Mystical Cats: Lovers.

"I want to sleep with you.

I don't mean have sex.

I mean sleep. Together.

Under my blankets. In my bed.

With my hand on your chest

and your arms around me.

With the window cracked

so it's chilly

and we have to cuddle closer.

No talking, just sleepy,

blissfully happy silence." - Unknown.*

[To me. I know, I know, it's a common quote around the net, but when I saw this cute little scene, I couldn't help myself!]

4.) Luna's Card Quotes - Hanson Roberts: Star.

"Never stop believing in hope,
because miracles happen everyday."

I know people have a lot of problems with sayings like, either for their religious beliefs or their personal opinions. I have a sort of indifference to "Miracles" but I do believe in hope.

Someone in my life helped me gain my hope. My hope for a future for myself, hope for the dreams I have, hope for the good in people.

Even though I don't trust a lot of people, I do know and hope for people to learn and improve themselves. Sometimes, it's nice to hope, sometimes, it's bad.

But having hope is never bad, don't ever let anyone take that away from you. 

Just learn to differentiate from having hope, to just holding onto something that is hurting you. Have strength, darlings.

Positivity and hope come hand in hand. I mean, you can't exactly be negative and be hopeful, right? Haha! It's why I keep those two words in my farewells. It's my two favorite words and feelings, sometimes it's hard to have those, so I have learned to hold them close to me, to cherish them.

Never let anyone crush your hope, they don't have the control, you do. Never stop believing in hope, for sometimes, that's all you have.

2.) Luna's Reflections - RWS: 2 of Cups

In Tarot, the 2 of Cups, is a card of Connection and Union between two people.

It could be business, friendship or even romantic. This card is usually a card signifying two people in harmony together, syncing up their energies and also a deep connection... Or a beginning one.

Today I'll be talking and delving into the Connection between people. Between friends mainly. I think.... Whatever my ramblings will head to, I guess. Moving on.

I thought about this for a while, isn't it interesting to be able to have a deep, meaningful and just insightful talk with someone? Doesn't it feel refreshing?

It's been an awful while since I've had a deep, meaningful conversation with any of my friends. Since my Hermit Phase has come, it makes it harder and harder. The deepest conversations I've had, weirdly enough, has been with myself. When I try to plan on what next to add to my... Well, the best way to call it is my "Series". I think deeply of the cards, trashing ideas, storing some ideas away and I get a topic, card or theme and make sure I have 2 or 3 fall back plans that interest me in case I get no inspiration to write or feel any grounded interest on the original idea. I currently have 3 ideas to use on this particular Series. Interestingly enough.

You know what? It's the simple pleasures in life that makes life worth living half of the time. Those small, random and sometimes even insignificance memories makes it all the more memorable.
Here's what I mean; when I was younger, I remember talking nearly every night with my best friend. She and I would just talk of the most randomest stuff. I don't even have the faintest idea as to what it was. It's been so long ago, we were so young. I remember us even color coordinating our clothes for the next day so we could match or even look good. Blue for me, Yellow for her. I remember that.
Thinking about that makes me wish and yearn to re-live my childhood again, just for a bit. To remember and feel those emotions I had, it makes me chuckle at how clueless and obnoxious I was as a child. Embarrassing but still kind of funny. Heh.

Anyway, back on point!
I've been thinking lately on the subject of deep conversations. It's been so few and far in between since the last time I've had any sort of deep conversation with anyone, it's quite sad, really. You never know how refreshing and exhilarating it is. For me, it's the connection, the feelings way deep inside that connects us. In my own description of it, it feels like being on the same page, reading the same book and synchronizing so much, you're reading it word for word, sentence for sentence. You can't help but smile and just nod enthusiastically and say "Yes! Yes! That's it! That's exactly it!" and afterwards, you can't help but smile more and think of your conversation. It keeps popping up in your mind for a long time to come.

I think it's even more amazing to bond over that type of connection with a near complete stranger.
I'm young, not even a full grown adult to some people, but I'm not also a child. Funny, how that works.
My interests are few and far in between, I'm the 4 of Cups most of the time when it concerns my interest. Nothing holds my attention long. So when I met someone who shared my love and passion and interest in Tarot: That lived close to me, was almost the same age as me and  connected with me on a deeper level? I was like "YESSSSSSSS! FINALLY!" the thing is though, it was more than that, in a way. Emotionally, we were on fairly stable ground. We had a lot in common in that sense. I could interpret my friend's feelings as if they were my own, in the sense I understood my friend's plights and problems and their feelings behind their actions and as to why they felt like that. It was very eerie to be able to do, I feel.

After a short time of knowing each other, we would meet regularly and it felt like we knew each other faaaaar longer than we did. It was amazing, to have a friend like that. We had numerous deep conversations about Tarot, we did readings and we interpreted it together, when we wanted advice or another Reader's opinion, we went to each other. We studied the cards together and we learned together. Tarot was what brought us together and I guess, in a way, Tarot is what connected us to this day, not that it's a bad thing. Even without Tarot, I would still be there, I would still be their friend, no matter what. I would still care for them deeply.
So many late night chats, so many sessions where we would just squealed and gushed over Tarot... But alas, the excitement wore off, the anticipation went away and we came away with a routine.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my friend. I really do and I care for them deeply. I just knew it was too good to last for long and I accept it. Sometimes it happens and it's okay. It happens in relationships all the time, Romantic or otherwise. The thing is, to always be open to each other and make the effort to keep strong together. To make time for each other, to help each other, to be there to lean on when the other person needs it. To trust and care for each other.

Every relationship is a two-way street. Remember that.
We give because we care, we take not to simply take. We give not to simply give, but because we want to. We take because we know it's that other person's way of showing they care.

Every relationship is unique and special. A relationship, friendship, is like a garden filled with flowers and plants, you have different kinds of flowers and plants in your garden. Each representing a relationship or friendship, they all look so different, but you care for them the same, maybe some more than others, but the care is still there. Sometimes you need to water them only a few times, their care only a bare minimum, some others need more tending to and it's okay to tend to them more. Others can be just right. Sometimes it fluxes and the ones with the bare minimum need more attention, and the ones who needed so much attention before doesn't need any tending to for a while. And the others that are "just right"? They can flux between either state.
In the end, you're fine with doing all that, because you care and love each of those relationships you've tended to.
Sometimes though, you forget to tend one or two of your plants and flowers, your relationships. Sometimes it wilts away and no matter how much you tend to it now, it will still wilt and die. You will mourn, sure, but you will still move on.
Others though, there are others that are like weeds or just plain poisonous to you, sometimes you wouldn't even notice them. They can wrap around your healthy flowers and choke the life out of them and you.
Such poisonous type of people will go out of their way to suck the life out of you and you wouldn't even notice, some will be like weeds and they will go out of their way to ruin your garden. Sometimes they will succeed, but hopefully most times they will fail.
You need to learn to cut away such weeds. To be able to remove poison. And to be able to take care of your garden properly.

Each and every relationship is special, even the weeds and poisonous ones, they help you grow, to mature and to experience life better.

Relationships... Such fickle things. They can be there for a life time, but will the quality be any good? They can be temporary, but mean so much in that short time. They can be deep and meaningful or they can be carefree and easy-going. So unique and sometimes so hard to care for. Whether it's a new relationship or an old one, it's always gonna be hard. Though I have to say, there are some relationships that are just so easy to be in, to handle, it almost seems like a sin. I don't know whether there are just plain exceptions to the rule... Or it can just mean that it's only for now that there hasn't been a rough patch to cross for them. Heh.

I've written a damn long post. I hope you guys enjoy this! I've never been good at organizing my thoughts or ramblings. Haha!

This was an interesting subject to hit upon, I'll probably get back to this later to further touch upon the subject again. I've been too rambly on this.

With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna

Post Updates!

Gosh! I haven't posted anything in the past few days. So sorry! Been out of town and haven't had the proper inspiration to write anything as of late. I've had a few ideas floating around for my post "Series" and now I finally wrote one up! I'm hoping to at least post once a day, even if it's just a quote pertaining to one of the cards in the Tarot. Or even with an Oracle [will need to start working with my oracle cards to make that happen though.....]
It's so frustrating, so many ideas up in my head, yet I've neither found the inspiration to write them down, had the heart to write or even found a way out of procrastination [*cough* Laziness *cough*] to write anything down. My head has such a block to it. It's not even writers block! At least, I don't think it is... Hmm.
Tarot is just too interesting.

Anyway! That's all for this update. I don't even know if there are any people reading, but still, being able to update for anyone who reads on my blog is nice. C:

With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna.

3.) Luna's Card Quotes - RWS: 6 of Cups.

"It's ironic, isn't it? That someone who was the most important person in your life...

Who shared the highs and the lows with you.

Who shared the good and bad parts of your life with you.

Who held your hand in your roughest and saddest times.

Who smiled and gave you a great big hug during your accomplishments.

Who was there in all the important times in your life.

Who you shared your life and your love with.

Who knew that most important person in one point of your life...

Could just end up as a stranger you pass by like nothing."

2.) Luna's Card Quotes - RWS: Devil.

"Stop blaming and start being! We attract what we are. We attract who we are. If you don't like something in your life, look only at who you are. Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life. Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely. Stop being a victim! If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you. The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves."

— Bryant McGill


It's ironic, isn't it? The good must go with the bad, the negative must go with the good. It's all about appreciation, in a way, when the good and positive comes, appreciate the hell out of it! Enjoy it, feel blessed and be in bliss when those times comes.
When the bad and negative comes, be strong and keep your resolve, do not let it control you, you are the master and your feelings are yours to control! You are not bound by them. Be strong and keep faith. Believe in yourself and don't let yourself become someone you're not.
Improve and admit your mistakes and try to be better. You must accept the good with the bad, the negative and the positive. All things go hand in hand. One thing cannot live without the other, if not, how can we appreciate what we have?

Take life by the horns, don't play the blame game, don't hold on to things you shouldn't, accept things for what they are, even if you don't want to. You need to. Don't disillusion yourself.


With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna.

1.) Luna's Reflections - RWS: The Hermit

So, the other day I was with a friend, I brought a deck of cards with me, because I always, always bring at least one deck with me when I go out or meet up with a friend. Just for something to do and in case I'd like to do a random reading or if I'm bored and want to look through the cards or do random self-reflection.

Anyway! I was randomly looking through my cards, my trusty old Rider Waite Deck, and I decided to pick out a card, I wasn't really thinking of anything nor did I ask anything from the cards. I just shuffled the deck and picked a card from the very top and I got....

The Hermit.

I had to chuckle at that one. Second time I've got that this week. Heh.

I've mentioned before that I had to accept my Hermit phase of my life.

I've always been awfully shy throughout my life, I was a bit more outgoing as a child, boundless energy and mischievous nature every child goes through, you know? But as soon as I hit pre-pubescent age, and after moving so much as a child and losing friends and not being able to keep a friend for long for one reason or another. I never did develop my "social skills" properly.

So you can guess that I spend a lot of time on my own. A lot of time on my own.

There was a time that I spent a lot of my time yearning and waiting around for the few friends I had to call me up and invite me out. I did this a lot and my pride would always fall and wound itself. I was never one to go out and make the initiative to invite someone out. I always felt like I was bothering them so I would creep back into the shell I kept around myself.

Now enough anecdotes! Hehe, kinda embarrassed to share all that. Oh well. c:

Anyway, my reflections towards the Hermit card: This card has always been known as someone who willingly takes the road most people don't take, this card is always about that person who doesn't follow the crowd but instead seeks fulfillment inside himself, this card is about the person who would rather have his own company than those of others. Basically this card should be called the "Introvert" card of the Major Arcana, haha!
I don't know, I would consider myself an introvert for the sake of that I'm quiet, I DO like my own company and I'm very shy. But I've come to learn that being introverted isn't just being shy, it's about liking, being fond and content being on your own. And I see that a lot in this card. I can see myself as the Hermit... But the thing is. It's lonely. It's lonely always being by yourself and having no one to talk to and sometimes, your own mind can be your worst enemy... And by being by yourself, your mind is almost always the only thing you have for company. It's just a matter of how you spend your time alone, I guess. I think what the Hermit card is trying to say to me is exactly that: To accept myself in my entirety. To do things I like, to do things I love, to do things I am passionate about... To reconnect with myself. To love myself. To be able to be content with my own company. I am me and I deserve to love myself, as any person should.

With this blog, I've been beginning to see that and it fills me with such warmth  and satisfaction. This site is my baby and this site has helped me so much this past week. Who knew writing would be so blissful? [Rhetorical question, hehe! I've just never experienced it to this extent I suppose.]

Well, that's all for now.

I'll see you on the flip side, darlings.

With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna.

How Luna got into Tarot

I've been exposed to Tarot a LOT actually. I've seen it in passing on shows, movies and even played a VERY important role in a video game I LOVED as a teen. Yet, in all those times, I've never had the interest in pursuing it in any shape or form. Never had the compulsion to search about it and learn about it.

But one day, I was reading this random little short story on Reddit as I do regularly. The story wasn't even that good. Not compared to a handful of other stories I've read on the site, but the thing is... The protagonist mentioned knowing a medium, a psychic, that read palms and Tarot cards... And then it was like something missing was finally found.

Once I read the words "Tarot" I thought to myself.... What were those things? So I went onto trusty Google Search and read up all I could about 'em! I finally realized that I've seen these and read about them and even played a video game about them!

I fell deeper and deeper into the Rabbit Hole known as Tarot. I fell in love with the Art, the Symbolism, the History and the Lessons it has taught me.

Nearly a year later and 20-Odd decks in my possession and I still love it more than I did 8 months ago and more than I did yesterday. There's so much to learn and experience with Tarot. I can't wait! C:

[I did this in response to the Group Tarot Together and I'm loving this group! Really helps prompts me in my writings. So thank you everyone!]

Intro to an amazing group I'm in!

I'm Luna Oracle, I recently started doing a blog, a first ever for me, it's mostly Tarot related but mainly just about me and my thoughts.


Tarot has been something I've loved for nearly a year, it's something that helped me cope with some things over the past year and I have to say, Tarot makes me happy. It helps me express myself and it gets my mind going.

Right now I'm using Tarot as an exercise to help me with my writing and to get pent up energy released. In real life I'm very much the Hermit but I've always wanted to be the Empress, nurturing, loving and wanting to help others to grow. I don't always get the chance to do so however, so I'm learning now to accept and further pursue my "Hermit" phase in my life. c:
There is one thing I've always believed in: There will always be meaning behind an action. Subconscious or not.


Now why would I choose the Tower? It's such a scary card! The Tower is crumbling, everything you've worked hard for or have ever known has crumbled beneath your feet.
I've always felt like I needed to rebuild myself. Change friends, change locations, change myself. I admit, that's not a good thing to do, but sometimes it's needed. Sometimes you need to destroy, to find out what's truly inside. Sometimes you need to destroy... To start over a better beginning.
The breaking down of walls between people, of seeing each other in a new light, good or bad. Of deepening the connection because you chose to let the walls down so you can better get to know each other deeply. That's beautiful.

To be honest, I've always loved symbology, learning the meaning behind things and learning how to interpret that. It's why I loved psychology, body language and the like. I love the idea of knowing what goes behind a person's actions, feelings and thoughts, just for the sole reason of finding it fascinating, as humans, to be able to be so different, yet so the same.

Now for my favorite card: It is the Tower from the Dreaming Way Tarot.

I chose the Dreaming Way Tarot because I've always found this particular Tower card, the most impeccable, most beautiful and most well made Tower I've ever felt such a connection to.

3.) Luna's Quotes

"He was my Devil. I was his Temptress.
We swayed, twirled and danced under the Vampyres Sun.
We were Lovers in the deepest pits of Hell.
Not even Death could tear us apart."

2.) Luna's Quotes

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” ~ Laurie Helgoe

1.) Luna's Card Quotes - Wisdom of the House of Night: Honesty.

Today I used my new Wisdom of the House of Night Oracle.

I got.... The Honesty Card!

To be honest, I got nothing out of this card. I mean, the art is beautiful, the card's meaning that it's trying to portray? It slips over my head.
But the word "Honesty" it really got my head moving because the other day I stumbled upon this quote that really moved my soul.

"I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can't change." -Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness.

This quote really moved me for the fact we not only refuse to be honest about our feelings or about ourselves, we hide behind masks, we make up persona's about ourselves to other people, but also because  it's one thing to be honest, it's another thing to be honest and hurting other people.
When we're being honest, ask yourself this "Will this help someone improve? Will this help me? Is this needed to be said? Can this hurt someone? If it does, is it worth it?"
If you do end up hurting someone with your honesty, own up to it. Talk to them, communicate and speak openly about your feelings and their own. This is why we have mouths and hearts, you know! C:
Sometimes we need to be blunt and end up hurting someone, even if we don't want it to happen. So learn to be gentle and sensitive, communicate with them and help them. Listen to them.

Respect them and their feelings, be sensitive to their feelings and be sincere.


With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna

Luna's Card Quotes - Introduction.

In Luna's Card Quotes, we will see me finding quotes or me making up and writing up my own quotes or descriptions, that best fits or describes the card or situation that the card is trying to portray.

I'll be using random decks that I think would resonate well with the day and moment. Tarot or Oracle, whichever works.

That's... Basically it! So I hope you guys enjoy that. C:


With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna

Card(s) of the day - Dark Fairytale Tarot

I was planning to do just one card spread, but as I was shuffling, halfway through before I felt I was done, three cards slipped out and laid face first on my lap. I decided to read them since I felt a resonance with them.

I used the Dark Fairytale Tarot, I bought this deck around half a year ago and haven never used it since.
It is made by Lo Scarabeo.

The cards were, in order: The Hermit, The Star, The Fool.

Hermit: Today I will be spending time on my own, and I have been spending a lot of time on my lonesome. In the picture, we see a hooded figure, but in this particular card, the Hermit is turning sideways to stare right at us, or at least, past us. At first you'd think it was a woman with long white hair, but if you look deeper, this "woman" has a beard. A flowing, white beard. I was kind of surprised by this, as I said before, I never used this deck much but a few times.
As I look deeper into this card, I feel as if it is asking me to look deeper within myself, not only that, but to make a balance with my male and female side, to make a perfect balance between mind and heart, soul and body.
With the high, snowy mountain in the background, and the cold snow surrounding him and his lone wolf companion, I feel like it is asking me of be more level-headed and to be methodical in my personality, to not allow myself to panic and drown myself in my feelings.

Star: With such an otherworldly scene before us, millions and billions of stars above us, we instead focus on what's before us, a lake that is reflecting the gorgeous lights in the sky. An angel sitting by her lonesome with an elegant silver jug, not the usual two jugs, and she is pouring the water on what looks like the rock in front of her, not directly onto the lake itself.

This is an interesting intuitive take on the Star card, what is usually a card of Hope, Miracles and Wish Fulfillment, I see this card as a nurturing card, first and foremost.
I can imagine her watering a hard, cold and dry rock, the fact this angel is pouring water onto the rock signifies that something in my life needs to be rejuvenated. To be able to let that part of ourselves shine like the stars above and for what is inside to be healed and revived.

Fool: Ye old stumbling, bumbling fool. Naive, immature and not very experienced. That's what we come to know him as, but he is also so much full of potential, the potential to grow and improve and be everything and whoever he can be. The potential is always there.

Here I see her with a mask of a fool. Blank faced but with the jingling bells of a hat, customary for the fool. There is a sort of hidden wisdom behind this particular fool. Hiding behind a mask for so long, maybe I've forgotten something about myself..? Forgotten an experience and the lessons I've learned throughout my life?
With the red background, the dark, red burning sky above the fool and the roses in her hands: Passion
Have I lost my passion? Have I spent so much time being someone else... I've lost something so precious to me as that?





Final Thoughts:
The fact that all three cards jumped out are of significance, but not only that, having three Major Arcana cards pop up in a reading means that this is a "Major" part of my life that will have some sort of change or significance to me.
This will be the type of change or major occurrence that will happen in recent times as well as it being more internal, than external, with how the cards are being shown. Hermit, Star and Fool. Lone figures.

*Sighs* This bodes more questions than answers.

Anyway, thanks for reading and take care!

I'll see you on the flip side, darlings.

With love, hope and positive energies

- Luna

1.) Luna's Quotes

"If I could start all over again, I would. If only just to feel the whole process of loving you and experiencing all the things we did before, the good, the bad, the ups and the downs. I'd do anything to re-live it again. With you." - Luna Oracle.

Original Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck: Quickie Review

Hmm, this is mainly supposed to be a Tarot & Oracle related blog, I seem to have forgotten to mention that in my earlier post. Time to rectify that!

Today I'll be doing a "Quickie Tarot Review" on the Original Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck.

This here is the Deck only version.

The Deck comes with 78 fully illustrated cards, a small LWB with instructions on how to use the cards with a sentence or so of interpretations on said cards with some keywords.

The tuck box is kind of flimsy, but with handled care, can last a while. Mine jumbled around inside my bag with all my other stuff and is still in fine shape a year later! C:

And this one is the Tarot Pack version. It's much more larger than the deck only version, since it has more room for a small little book that is the same size of the cards, roughly. It has a small diagram pamphlet of the Celtic Cross spread, I believe, showing on how to do the spread.

The book is useless though, it's basically saying the same things as the LWB (Little White Book) from the Deck Only version, but in an actual small booklet, not made of pieces of paper  flimsily stuck together with staples.
But if you're into that kind of thing for collections' sake, not to mention having a fairly sturdy box to store your cards in whilst inside your bag or purse, than have at it.


The quality of the cards:
The cardstock is amazing!...
If your preference is sturdy, thick and you want the cards to last a long time? Then this deck is for you!

The cardstock is nice and thick, not at all glossy or shiny, it's easy to side shuffle, it's not too slippery and it has a nice matte finish.

This will be hard to riffle shuffle for those with small hands, seeing as the cardstock is thick and not very bendable or flexible, you'll really have to force it a bit to bend as you ready to riffle. Because of its thickness, those with small hands will have a hard time getting the whole thing, even if split, to fit into their grip when they're getting ready to riffle shuffle.

The cards are the normal size of any standard RWS type of cards.

In terms of the art, people either love or hate the Original Rider Waite Smith,
The ORWS has a fairly murky coloring, out of maybe all of the recolorization of the Rider Waite Smith, the ORWS is the most unclear, foggy and the colors are quite darker.
It is the most evident in the King of Pentacles, you can barely see his face with how... Well, the best word would be "pixelated" it is. I don't have a picture of it right now, but if you do have the deck or know someone who does, you can see for yourself. It can be quite hard to read with it for some people because of that.

This should not be confused with the Standard, yellow box Rider Waite Smith, though.
The Standard Waite is a more thinner, but papery feel to it, from what I hear, the Radiant Waite is more glossy and thinner as well, along with the Universal Waite, but the Commemorative Waite Smith has the same cardstock as the ORWS, but the Commemorative's art is more of a tea stain type of coloring with more subdued but clear pictures.


Final Notes: A nice beginner deck, sturdy cardstock and works well as a general deck.

Illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith

Cardostock: Thick, matte and not at all glossy or slippery.

Packaging: Deck only tuck box is quite flimsy while the Box Pack is quite sturdy.

Card Size: 2.75 x 3.75 in.

Cardbacks: Blue and white Tartan backings, non-reversible.*


*(The flower in the middle is 5 pointed. So if you remember which petal is pointing down correctly, you'll know if it's reversed or not. But if you simply ignore it or forget, it can easily be reversed.)

Well, that's all for today, darlings! Sorry if I'm a bit rambly, I've never been good at organizing my thoughts on paper. Haha! I know I said this would be a quickie review, and it is, however it's more of a "Technical Review" more than anything, it would be a more full blown review if I gave out anecdotes and more of my own opinions of this deck, but I didn't so much so this is a quickie-ish review.

I hope you enjoyed this and gleamed something from it.

I'll see you on the flip side, darlings.

With love, hope and positive energies.

- Luna.