My bestie and fellow Tarot aficionado Val and I chose complimentary decks for the first Spooky season month and we swapped our decks with each other for the latter half of this September! But, these are decks the other has never used! So this later part of September is totally dedicated to learning fun new decks we already know are great readers. We each chose a dark themed deck, a light themed deck, an otherworldly deck, a wild fae deck, and a super cute deck! Here are the decks my friend chose and I am now using:

Val chose The Unfolding Path Tarot (indie Kickstarter edition!) for her light tarot, an excellent choice seeing as it is so inclusive and kind! There is now a mass market printing of this deck available. For her wild fae she chose the Tarot at the End of the Rainbow, an absolute hilarious and quirky deck of leprechauns, fairies, mermaids and all sorts of mischievous woodland fae and critters! I love this deck and I’m happy I get a chance to use it. Her cute deck had to be The Kawaii Tarot, a deck I’ve watch in action being equal parts adorable and hard core merciless reader! So, I approach the cutsie backs with caution. The otherworldly deck she swapped with me is her second edition Dream Visions deck, a absolutely stunning deck I’ve used a handful of times and watched be used many many more. And for her dark deck, it is none other that the multi artist Kickstarter deck, the Corrupted Tarot. This deck for sure is a hard hitter and rather devilish to boot!

Clockwise: Corrupted Tarot, Dream Visions Tarot, The Unfolding Path Tarot, Tarot at the End of the Rainbow, center Kawaii Tarot

So, I am mirroring the draw I did with my chosen decks for the beginning of this month with Val’s decks now for the later half! The too cute Kawaii Tarot gave me the Four of Swords. Our mama sloth has her work cut out for her! She needed a break, to rest and enjoy the flowers and take a step back from the little sloths’ shenanigans! Yes, indeed I had a quantifiable very-much going on this early September that suddenly came to a halt. Many things I’ve been toiling at have reached their conclusion and now I can sit back and enjoy the fruits of my labors (or really, take a effing nap!).

Uh, I think the Tarot gods are trying to tell me something! Both the Tarot at the End of the Rainbow and The Unfolding Path produced III The Empress. We see the wheat is ready to harvest with both these beautiful Empresses; one is certainly the lady boss and the other is the creative mother. One is vulnerable and one is protected, they are very different Empresses! Now is a good time to change gears and think about what is ready for my hands to make into something real and bring into the world. With the change of seasons comes a change of pace and a change of mindset. Build off of what you’ve already sown into the world.

From the Corrupted Tarot I pulled the very creepy High Priestess. Being the deck is about the negative meanings of cards, this one speaks to others trying to influence you through gossip, claiming to be gurus and truth know-ers when in reality they are just shutting down your intuition. Maybe what feels like insecurity is just others tamping down your inner voice. Don’t stifle your inner-voice and gut feelings–they are there for a reason!

And Dream Visions gave me the beautiful Death! For me this is really a “rebirth” card. The snake reminds me of Aesculapius’s healing staff (especially with the lovely rose), and the skull is half buried–what has ended has ended, and now its time to move on from the rest and find healing.

This is really a lovely reading! The later half of this month I’ll find some peace and a well of creative source! I’ll be challenged with others trying to sway my vision, but I will once and for all put those negative untruths to rest!

Have you ever swapped a tarot deck with a friend? What did you learn?