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i didn't want to bother you but i've been searching your archive for a few posts you had of tips and things for making your own or getting a tarot deck first time and i can't find it (must be farther ago than i thought)

That post is likely from four years ago, so I wouldn’t be able to find it either. 

But if I were to write a tips on making your own tarot deck right now, it would look like this:

Decide if what you want to do is a tarot deck or an oracle deck. There is not lesser or greater of the two, but be prepared for people who have opinions about both. 

Set a schedule for yourself based on how you know you work. I did a card a day each day for six-ish months because I know I will get it done if I hyper-focus on it. If you work in spurts, plan your spurts. (Like do a suit each week and then take a week off… that kind of thing.) 

Post your WIP’s online. Posting the art while I worked on it got people really excited about it and helped me chug along because I knew that other people were looking forward to it. 

See if you can find a local printer to do a limited run. They can usually offer some better kinds of stock and finishes that online printers might not. If you ran into the same problem that I did and can’t find a local one, The Game Crafter is a decent online printer that’s come a long way since I started using them.

Don’t be discouraged if you get side-tracked. The Sweeney Tarot wasn’t the first deck I attempted. I made several attempts prior to that that completely flopped. Sometimes you just have to let the flop and then try again later. 

Decide for yourself what’s ‘good enough.’ I tried about three different compositions on the Lovers card before finding one that worked well enough. 

Please please please… make this for yourself. Make it because you see something that doesn’t exist and you think it should. One of my major hang-ups was when I was making something I’d worry if someone else would like it. At the end of the day, I should have been making this for myself. It doesn’t matter if I sell one or one-thousand. Deciding that I was going to make it for myself was the healthiest decision I could have ever made. 

SAVE. 

No really. SAVE. Save early, save often, save backups, save to a cloud. Whatever. Just save. 

Drink water. Stretch. Wear comfy shoes. 

I can’t remember what all else there might have been, but… that’s what I would tell someone now. 

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The 2nd house is the voice. Venus and her night house governs melody, song and the throat, vocal chords, where the voice originates

The 3rd house follows, it is the way in which one transmits the messages of that voice. Mercury’s day house governs communication, and the lungs, components that get the voice working and projecting 

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Normal Horoscope:

Aries: Nothing evil stalks the forest. The wild is bigger than you could ever imagine. You are nothing to it. No skinwalker or boogeyman or revenant could ever aspire to the persistence and hunger of the wild untamed.

Taurus: Sometimes the world just wont make sense, no matter how hard you try. Truth is stranger than fiction, and yours is stranger still.

Gemini: There is a deep and old power in that of the image. As long as cameras existed they have been a tool to tell what is really there.

Cancer: Walls work both ways you know. Careful about where you put them.

Leo: Today is a good day to be warm. Not too hot. Just warm. Wrap yourself up in blankets and get some tea, Warm.

Virgo: The time is now, the writing is on the wall. Your writing has won a contest and has been framed. 

Libra: Healthy respect usually means it was learned the hard way. Trust in the opinions of people with more scars and less limbs.

Scorpio: You never thought you’d get this far but here you are, lost as fuck like everyone else. Do like everyone else and pretend you planned this.

Ophiuchus: History was, is, and continues to be, handled poorly.

Sagittarius: Exploration leads to the unknown. Fear is rooted in what we do not understand. A shotgun really can kill most things. 

Capricorn: Make boring things fun by acting completely on impulse and rolling with how people react.

Aquarius: A last ditch effort is a good time to try something really crazy or really funny. If you’re going to lose, do it with style.

Pisces: Sleep is much much more important than you realize.

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The Pacific Northwest is fucking Perfect

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Flowers for you!

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wherever pluto is in the chart is where we hold the most paranoia. for example, in the sixth house we may be constantly paranoid about our health at the first sign of something wrong, in the second house we may be paranoid about our stability and security in the world, and in the tenth we may be paranoid about the reputation we have. this, in turn, causes us to obsess over things in that house. even if there is nothing to worry about, pluto will make sure that we are double and triple checking.

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Apothecary- Lee Bradford on Redbubble. 

I might have gotten a little carried away with this concept, but I had fun and that’s what matters. 

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Hey Tumblr, if you are still mad about the Library of Alexandria, Stop! You can SAVE one ancient library right now. The Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, Some nearly 2000 carbonized scrolls were discovered along with the villa in the 1700s. Over the past couple centuries the scrolls have been a major source of study and today we are finally reaching ways of reading their contents without destroying the scrolls in the process. Here’s the big news, just over a week ago a whole lost work of Seneca the elder, became unlost! Article here: http://www.romeandart.eu/en/art-news-historia-seneca.html  The villa itself is largely underground and was explored via tunneling and as such it’s full extent still hasn’t been made clear, and it has long been suspected that additional libraries could exist within the site, not to mention other as of yet undiscovered villas. However, Italy as with many European countries simply has so many archaeological sites and new things being found all the time and not enough money to go around. Additionally the Villa of the Papyri is threatened with constant flooding issues. Library aside Sites like Herculaneum and Pompeii and all Archaeological sites around the world tell us so much about ancient peoples and cultures where we don’t have their literature to call on.  So how can you save the last ancient library? Donate to various archaeological and conservation/preservation groups, or even volunteer! Here a just a couple links to get started:

World Monuments Fund: https://www.wmf.org/get-involved

Archaeological Institute of America: https://www.archaeological.org/giving

Friends of Herculaneum Society: http://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/

Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project: http://www.pompeii-sustainable-preservation-project.org/  

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Zareena | Spring/Summer 2018

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What do you guys think of eclipses? I recently got a book on them and the author is pressuring their importance, but I feel like it’s something that isn’t really discussed by a lot of astrologers. Or maybe it is and I’m just so oblivious I never knew?