Black Cats Tarot: Inner/Outer Spread

Black Cats Tarot, Inner/Outer Spread

Top row: left to right the usual past present future but remember, it's not so linear, not black and white, not clearly divided. The past doesn't stop where the present begins and the future is movable. The inner of you. What others may not see or what you don't always show.

Bottom row: the same, focusing on the outer. What's happening around you, to you, and what others are participating in with you. Or, you with them. . .

The card stands alone. This is what you can use, where you can go, what you can activate. This is where you can be.

Far right row: top card. You inner future. Spiritual, meditative, personal, intimate, private if you like, to be shared if you choose.

Bottom card: Where your social/career/family outer life might find you.

Nothing is written in the stone wall of apathy. You can ignore it, change it, climb over it, recarve it.

Black Cats Tarot

Black Cats Tarot, Maria Kurora, Lo Scarabeo

I love the Magician card in this deck!

There are many cat themed tarot decks. I haven't felt much of a connection to any of them until I discovered the Black Cats Tarot, designed by Maria Kurora.

I bought this deck at a very lovely metaphysical shop in Newport on the Oregon Coast. Things Rich and Strange; they have another store further up the highway in Depot Bay.

The day I bought this deck I was feeling very anxious about my mother's health. I was staying with my mother, who lived in Newport at the time, and feeling a lot of stress over her situation.  I walked into Things Rich and Strange, just feeling a pull, and felt like I needed a deck. All the decks were open, and I looked through every one, but none really spoke to me. The only deck that wasn't open was The Black Cats tarot. I walked out not having bought anything -- I didn't want to buy a deck I hadn't looked at -- but something made me turn around and go back inside. I bought the deck even though I hadn't seen it, just the box of course.

I'm glad I decided to purchase the deck anyway. It's very sweet and calm, without being sappy. I like to carry this deck with me when I'm out and about. It's on the small side which I like. The corners are rounded which is very nice.  My only complaint is the way the court cards are marked -- difficult to determine Queen and King.

One of the first readings I did was concerning a family situation, including my mother's health, and I was amazed at the intensely specific cards in that reading!

Heart's Desire: Surprise Card

I used Doreen Virtue's and Radleigh Valentine's Angel Tarot for the following:

I usually do a daily one card reading that's very general; just a card for the day, "What do I need to know for today?" type of reading.

Today the distinct question came to me as I picked up the deck: "What one thing do I need to do right now to get me closer to my heart's desire?" Where'd that come from, I wondered, but I know why that specific question came to me at that moment. I've been working on this very theme in my life for a few days. 

As I was shuffling the cards, one jumped out, landing on the chair in front of me. So while I intended to choose one card, I used the card that fell out in my reading.

The card that fell: Nine of Fire. “Don’t give up. Protect that which you’ve created. Have courage and believe in yourself.” (Angel Tarot)

This suite, Fire, akin to Wands, has to do with creativity and passion, our career path in the context of the arts, the self, ideas. It's a spiritual card having to do with healing work or, say, tarot readers! Time to get up off my butt and get to work!  Believe in yourself, this card says, and know how much power is within you.

The Emperor also showed up. Emperor says "Organization and logic. Structure and discipline. Leadership."  (Angel Tarot)

What came to me was: Practical, realistic. Meditate. Use the power and discipline of Emperor to stop procrastinating and feel low self worth, and move towards revelation. 

Remember, this little reading was for myself, and the interpretations presented for what I need to know at this moment. What I take away from this is the powerful and wonderful reminder how the tarot shows us what we need at the time in  very specific ways. This message for me today was exactly what I needed to know. It's inspired me to not merely to go for it, but to do the work needed in order to get there. You can dream about your heart's desire all you want but the emotional intent needs to be there as you do the work! in order for that heart's desire to manifest.

New look at tumblr

My Tumbling Tarot blog at tumblr has a new look. Like it better but not quite happy with the color, probably will play with it some more.
http://tumblingtarot.tumblr.com

Review: Black Cats Tarot

I wrote a review of  Maria Kuara's Black Cats tarot, published by Lo Scaraeo, on Amazon awhile ago. I like the deck and don't think it's "cute" as some think, but as always, to each their own when it comes to decks. There is no right or wrong, simply what works for you. 

Misplaced Ace of Cups

I don't know what it means, but I have a vague sinking feeling it means something. I have misplaced (I refuse to say lost) a card from one of my tarot decks. I discovered the Ace of Cups is gone from my Maria Kuara Black Cats tarot deck. (Lo Scarabeo.)  For now, I'm using the promo card as a substitute, with Ace of Cups written in black Sharpie. But it's not the same.

Searcing for an image on-line to post of the Ace of Cups from this deck -- can't find one!

Looking at the meaning of the Ace of Cups: intuition, abidance, beginnings, trust and listening to your gut, your intuition, the whole of the self involved on a psychic, creative, spiritual plane.

Do I read the missing card as a reversal; it's lost, er, misplaced, is this a message to get it together, the opposite message of the affirming message of trust in one's intuition? Am I not paying enough attention? Well obviously I am not or else I wouldn't have misplaced the card!