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*Pulls Tarot card from deck for the first time in literal months* Me: Okay Deck, what the fuck is going on *pulls Tower card* Me: Yeah tell me something I don’t know buddy

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The Signs and Defiance:

Aries: Balance tension and support to launch projectiles over fortifications.

Taurus: Hold yourself. Feel the rushing fluid in your ears. The fight is far from done. The stars know you are tired but you have to fight.

Gemini: Though it may feel impossible, you make progress every single day. Ever further unto power. Ever further unto freedom.

Cancer: Hoist the black flag. Feed the hungry. Never mind who says you can or cannot.

Leo: The chains may be unbreakable. Nobody ever expects you to carry the thing you are chained to.

Virgo: Strength? Weakness? I saw a man beat a crocodile to death using nothing but his hands and practice.

Libra: Nobody can outhink you if even you dont know what youre doing.

Scorpio: To assume the world is a ration place is folly, and the quickest way to missing out on discovery. Try things for the fuck of it.

Ophiuchus: All things must be cleaned eventually. Everything deserves to breathe properly.

Sagittarius: You can generate more identity than can be stolen. Crash the identity market. Supply and demand bitch.

Capricorn: Rumors kill. Use this to your advantage.

Aquarius: You dont understand. We have reached the frontier of human medicine. Who knows what beasts lurk in this unexplored country?

Pisces: You cant bribe a wolf.

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Tarot in a Tin

I just realised I never showed you guys the little TAROT IN A TIN set that I got from Greenwomancrafts in Glastonburry!

It’s a Tarot set consisting of little charms that you can cast to read your fortune.

They also come as a bracelet people!

The charms themselves are very well chosen, it was entirely clear to me which one represents which card. You can see them all in the right order here:

I really like the whole concept and I have had fun using this little set, but I do have one or two issues with it.

The set has the 22 Major Arcana representations (and the ubiquitous Happy Squirell) - But only one of each for the Minor Suits. If you pull one of those, you roll the dice to see which number/court card you use.

Obviously this means you are statistically much more likely to pull a Major than a Minor! Also, the dice is very hard to read, you can’t make out the numbers/symbols very well at all. But of course, this could be replaced… Overall a fun set to use ~ It does not come with instructions but it’s easy enough for anyone with basic Tarot knowledge.

Sample Reading:

I asked why I was feeling a little down today and how to get over it. Pulled the 5 of Cups, The Wheel of Fortune and Justice. So in a nutshell, I have been looking at negatives rather than focussing on the positive, I need to remind myself how quickly fortunes can change and I will get what is coming to me if I’m just a little patient 🤗

#tarotmum13 #tarotinatin #tarotcharms #unconventionaltarotset

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Ace of Cups and Queen of Swords

Your soft, romantic interior tries to hide behind a stern, chilly exterior. However, an adequately perceptive observer will notice that you’re awfully fond of clouds and butterflies.

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Emoji spell for financial independence, security, and your own place! Likes/reblogs charge it ✨🙏🏽

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“… I am out with lanterns looking for myself.”

— Emily Dickinson 

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Sometimes if I happen to be at church midweek, I just feel drawn toward the empty sanctuary. I just sit in a pew near the back and soak in the emptiness and fullness of the space. It's not quite the same if there's even one other person there, but if it's completely empty, it makes me feel so at peace.

a very nebulous question:

how does loneliness factor into your religious practices, if it does at all?

its nebulous because i don’t want to limit responses. Whatever comes to mind when you read that question, i’m interested to hear what it is.

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We have a HUGE sale happening right now!

Basically, our printer completely messed up our Major’s deck printing and it’s caused Bael and I to face a loss of over $8000. So…things are super low in our bank account right now. (You can read the full story of what happened here: https://themajorbarkana.com/majors-deck-cancelled)

To recoup these huge losses, we’re doing a flash sale:

All art prints are $10, instead of $15! They’ll be shipped out within 1 week of ordering. This sale is for 2 DAYS ONLY and it’s happening right here: https://themajorbarkana.com/shop/fine-art-print

The first 5 people to get a spot for their dog in our deck will save $50! All the details for that are right here: https://themajorbarkana.com/shop/dog-in-deck They’ll be immortalized in the beautiful world of tarot, and you can even get a watercolor painting of them to hang on your wall. <3 You can also email us at themajorbarkana@gmail.com if you’d like to pay via PayPal or check on the availability of a card

We’re truly in a tight spot financially due to this printer’s errors, so if you could share this post it would mean a lot. Thank you for all your support so far!

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Aquarius sun/moon/venus/mars are clingy, needy and possessive, I would even say they tend be obsessed with the one they love but they try to be lowkey about it🤷‍♀️

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Oh my god you guys did it.

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Queen of Swords and Justice reversed

This is bullshit, and you’re not going to stand for it.

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I made another card to tempt you with.

We’re in the last 48 hours of the Kickstarter! Last few hours to reach this third stretch goal!

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If our lives were a long piece of fabric with our baptism on one end and our funeral on another, and us not knowing what the distance is between the two, well then Ash Wednesday is a time when that fabric is pinched in the middle and then held up so that our baptism in the past and our funeral in the future meet. With these ashes it is as though the water and words from our baptism plus the earth and words from our funerals have come from the future to meet us here today. And in that meeting we are reminded of the promises of God which outlast our piety, outlast our efforts in self-improvement, outlast our earthly bodies and the limits of time.

Nadia Bolz-Weber (via holabrody)

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The Empress and Page of Pentacles

You’re hoping you can find some way to turn glorious self-indulgence into a marketable skill.