Help me _____ with this notebook.
December 10, 2009 8:50 PM Subscribe
Creative (and hopefully Tarot card-related) uses for this new notebook I found? Each page basically looks like this.
What a great notebook -- and cheap, so I could get more if I find a good use for them.
I spend a large amount of time studying, designing, reading, and writing about Tarot cards. I bought this notebook because I figured I could do... something with it, but now I guess I'm not really sure what.
Non-Tarot suggestions are helpful also, I suppose. (But the rectangles are the perfect shape!)
What a great notebook -- and cheap, so I could get more if I find a good use for them.
I spend a large amount of time studying, designing, reading, and writing about Tarot cards. I bought this notebook because I figured I could do... something with it, but now I guess I'm not really sure what.
Non-Tarot suggestions are helpful also, I suppose. (But the rectangles are the perfect shape!)
Do a reading everyday and track the results and descriptions You could keep a diary of what is actually going on in your life too as they pertain to the readings.
If you track astrology transits also, you could do a comparison of different time periods and see if they correspond. It would be kind of interesting to see if the same kinds of readings come up for the same time periods between the two studies. (Like if you were going through a particular astrological transit that takes place over two or three months, it would be interesting to see if the same themes come up in your tarot readings).
posted by gt2 at 9:08 PM on December 10, 2009
If you track astrology transits also, you could do a comparison of different time periods and see if they correspond. It would be kind of interesting to see if the same kinds of readings come up for the same time periods between the two studies. (Like if you were going through a particular astrological transit that takes place over two or three months, it would be interesting to see if the same themes come up in your tarot readings).
posted by gt2 at 9:08 PM on December 10, 2009
A reading diary? If you do regular readings for yourself or someone else, you could keep a visual history of the cards from each reading. It would make a nice gift, too.
Obviously, it would make a great sketchbook/artist's diary for card/deck design ideas.
posted by faineant at 9:13 PM on December 10, 2009
Obviously, it would make a great sketchbook/artist's diary for card/deck design ideas.
posted by faineant at 9:13 PM on December 10, 2009
It is a storyboarding notebook. Moleskin makes some nice ones.
In addition to film folks, I've also known many UX design people who use them, because they're handy for quickly sketching or showing a series of changes/actions.
posted by rokusan at 9:13 PM on December 10, 2009
In addition to film folks, I've also known many UX design people who use them, because they're handy for quickly sketching or showing a series of changes/actions.
posted by rokusan at 9:13 PM on December 10, 2009
If you're into the meditation/revelation side of the Tarot, I would imagine that you already have, right in front of you, a book of Tarot cards. You just haven't illustrated them yet. It is common to take a Tarot card and meditate on its meaning, with the intention that the spiritual truths contained in its images will become clear. Do this, only now your notebook is in front of you, and you intend to *redraw* your card with the words, ideas and especially images that occur to you. These new cards reveal the same truths, but perhaps in a way that will be at once meaningful to you. Basically, you are shifting the perspective of your cards, revealing them in new lights - lights made just for your eyes.
posted by flavor at 9:16 PM on December 10, 2009
posted by flavor at 9:16 PM on December 10, 2009
Depending how many decks you have,
you could allocate each page to a card, and then take that card from different tarot decks, and sketch the elements of whichever symbols most interest/appeal to you, with comments on why. Maybe four?
From there, you can sketch a couple of personal symbols that represent that meaning, and then the last couple could be for 'your own' card representation.
You could either do that sequentially, or as a 'card of the day' practice.
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A notebook like that with a blank side and a 'rectangle' side would be useful, you could come up with spread designs, and each rectangle for 'what that would represent'.
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Given there 8 blocks, you could use each page to compare/contrast the 4 suits of the minor arcana, eg draw each of the Aces, 8s, Queens etc, then textually compare/contrast below.
Honestly though, I think a blank notebook would be just as good, because you're have flexibility, and the ability to draw in rectangles etc if you wanted. Actually, a blank notebook with a pocket in the back that you can put a couple of sheets of templates for lines, grids, etc sounds perfect!
posted by Elysum at 9:39 PM on December 10, 2009
you could allocate each page to a card, and then take that card from different tarot decks, and sketch the elements of whichever symbols most interest/appeal to you, with comments on why. Maybe four?
From there, you can sketch a couple of personal symbols that represent that meaning, and then the last couple could be for 'your own' card representation.
You could either do that sequentially, or as a 'card of the day' practice.
***
A notebook like that with a blank side and a 'rectangle' side would be useful, you could come up with spread designs, and each rectangle for 'what that would represent'.
***
Given there 8 blocks, you could use each page to compare/contrast the 4 suits of the minor arcana, eg draw each of the Aces, 8s, Queens etc, then textually compare/contrast below.
Honestly though, I think a blank notebook would be just as good, because you're have flexibility, and the ability to draw in rectangles etc if you wanted. Actually, a blank notebook with a pocket in the back that you can put a couple of sheets of templates for lines, grids, etc sounds perfect!
posted by Elysum at 9:39 PM on December 10, 2009
Come up with a daily/weekly 9 card spread.
Background being the issue, and 8 blocks being 8 cards around the issue (Past, present, what's below, what's above, outcome etc? Two cards being sides of four elements? Something?
posted by Elysum at 11:18 PM on December 11, 2009
Background being the issue, and 8 blocks being 8 cards around the issue (Past, present, what's below, what's above, outcome etc? Two cards being sides of four elements? Something?
posted by Elysum at 11:18 PM on December 11, 2009
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