Making Deck Families

[@mysteriousleroy5593]

I do the same thing with my decks too 😅 there’s deck families, extended families and even estranged family members 😂

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I love working with my little deck families. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@Ppvvoo]

You’re so good at putting together aesthetically/visually beautiful families.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you so much, I enjoy it. Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@leighedwards5464]

So nice to meet someone who does deck pairings, too!

[@brydenvargas9863]

I started doing this with my shadow work oracles, as I noticed each of my shadow work decks function a bit differently in ways that compliment each other. One is great as an emotional check-in, the other addresses my faults bluntly, and the third is best at telling me how to recover and heal. Together they all compliment eachother well. For daily readings I like using a tarot for business related stuff, and two oracles as an emotional check and giving me the general broad message for the day.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

That's so cool! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@jennathewitch9061]

Thank you! I tried finding a family and chose the Tarot of the Trees for the center, Runes of the Northern Light for the spiritual above, Magic of Flowers oracle on the left and the Dragon Tarot (kind of a pip deck) on the right, and the Liminal Nature Spirits oracle underneath. I could not believe how well they worked together! The styles were different, but all the bold colors were compatible. I'm going to keep playing.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Ooh that sounds like a great family! I love that. 💚

[@angelaschredl9245]

Oh, that's a great video. I learn a lot from your videos for my tarot practice. I personally did not pair decks until now. But I will definitely give it a try. It fascinated me. the fact that you can give different aspects of your life or different people /family an extra deck can help to separate by picture or energy and create kind of a boundary from me to over people /stuff. Setting boundaries is very hard for me especially in my family. This might help me with this issue. Great, thank you.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@jeanbaptiste631]

When I started to get more tarot decks I unconsciously did this (even though I already mixed Tarot and Oracle before getting more tarot decks) so in the end, my decks get along well together, sometimes don't... Just like a family hahahaha. They all have their roles already lol.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Hehe I love that! Mine definitely feel like apart of one big family. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@scheherazade2291]

Yes! I create deck families too! A combo of tarot and Oracle for similar artwork or similar energies. I usually don’t like buying a tarot or Oracle unless it can pair with something else I already have or another deck that I want.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Combos and pairings are so much fun. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@WendysOccultCompass]

Loving your deck families!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@nataliewinters6735]

I love finding a good oracle to pair with my tarot decks. Lovely to see your pairings and how you use them, always inspiring 🙂

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@MeadowlarkMystic]

I really enjoyed the idea of deck families. And those look great together!!!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

They are fun to put together! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@AvoryFaucette]

Always love these videos! You remind me of techniques or versions of techniques I've jotted down but forgotten to try, and help me to expand my practice. As you were explaining a random idea popped into my head, which is to actually use a card pull to decide which deck to use for something. I think it would work best with a deck that has pretty varied energy, maybe an artist collab deck (which I have but don't turn to often), but like, I can see pulling a super watery / intuitive card, a confronting one, a specific art style, etc. and using that to narrow down decks to choose from. *ponders*

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

That is a fantastic idea! I'd love to know how it works out for you. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@straycat4427]

Fabulous pairings! I've been looking for an oracle for The Star Tarot and Tarot of the Sidhe. I ordered the two oracles you have featured. They look great together! Thank you!!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

How wonderful, I do hope you enjoy them as much as I do! They pair beautifully with those decks. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@reddsun6427]

I have a similiar thing, i like certain edcks together. When im looking for new edcks i ussually consider how they fit into a certain deck tree, energy etc. Thankyou for providing links to your decks😍❤️

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

It's so much fun to work with decks together. Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@polluxxia]

That's the closest I've seen to how I personally "group" my decks in my head hehe ❤ Thank you so much for sharing!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

How cool, glad I'm not the only one! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@jennyfer_rebecca]

Every time I watch you do a deck pairing I always plan on doing one too - haven’t yet, but you make it look so inviting and it seems like it would add so much to the reading. I loved the decks you chose - they are absolutely beautiful and as always the pairings were perfect. Thanks for the wonderful video to watch with my morning coffee😊

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I highly recommend giving it a try! It's lots of fun but also really creates some interesting readings. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@oysterbay9]

how did I miss this video? love it.

[@skybluepink998]

Wow - amazing video present in a very clear and concise manner - lots to think about and explore the idea of. Thanks!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@nespppp]

Love this! Thank you so much!

[@ThaniainLondonUK]

Beautiful cards! I have got 2 tarot decks, and lots of oracles which I have learned to pair watching your videos... ;-))))

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@ABirdOnTheMoon]

Ohh .. I have a deck to represent each of my sibling but I use these decks to read them .. however, seeing you use a family deck .. makes me interested in using their significant deck to represent them.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

How fun, let me know how it works out for you! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@annelyle5474]

I haven't really ventured much beyond pairing a single tarot deck with an oracle, but my collection definitely has some clear groupings that would work well with this technique. For example I have my "pagan" decks - Druid Craft, Wildwood, Witches' Wisdom, Druid Animal, Sacred Ireland Celtic Moon, etc - that I pull out for sabbat readings, so it would be great to combine three of more of these to extend my practice.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Those would make a great deck family! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@cherrycato1940]

Thanks again I’m trying to do this deck family pairing 😀. My word you have a lot of decks 🌟💕🍒

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

That I do! I enjoy having a larger collection to dip in and out of different energies and "voices." I'd love to know what family you create. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@sarahskinner4283]

Dawn can you please do a video on all the decks you have combined into one deck

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

That would be a fun video, I'll make a note of it! :)

[@lauriemadsen9051]

Another fun video idea! I think in order for me to have many "large deck families" I would need to have a very large deck collection (which, I may have in a few years, given the rate at which I've been collecting, haha). The reason being that it bugs me too much if the decks don't visually work together. So, when I get a new deck in, I try to see what else I have that it pairs with visually and make note of that. And from there/with that as a prerequisite, I can see what really works together energetically (which may only be one other deck, if that). And I'm also, at least for the time being, trying to only buy decks that I love the artwork on and that can stand alone (i.e. I'm trying not to buy decks I don't love but buying them anyway because I love how they pair with a deck I do love, if that makes any sense). I do think this is potentially a fun practice to develop as my collection grows though, and I always enjoy seeing your pairings, thank you!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I try only to keep decks in my collection that I enjoy working with, it's just a bonus when they pair well with my other decks. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@loum111]

What is the best way to trim a deck? I tried one deck and they are all slightly different sizes.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I have a video showing my process which helps get them all close to the same size. If you check my mod tutorials playlist you'll find some videos in there. Hope that helps!

[@bjrg832]

I dont really do that, though I do have two specific decks that I feel pulled to use for my sisters that I feel holds their energy. So if I read for them, and they are not around to choose a deck, I’ll always use the field tarot for one of them and the Starseeker for the other, as those deck to me a very simular yet also very different - my sisters are twins.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Sister decks are cool too! I feel that my Danielle Noel decks are like too. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@Tarotmidwife]

I have just started doing a version of this kind of thing and I am very interested in your thinking and approach. 🙏🙏

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

That's awesome, I'd love to hear about your verison too! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@Tarotmidwife]

@@DawnMichelleTarot ❤️ I just did a complete spread, first with one ‘spirit’ deck mentor and then repeated the spread with a second. Laid out together they gave fascinating insights into how I’m perceived. I used Tarot of the Sweet Twilight and the White Numen.

[@carriespider8438]

Smart!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@clareozcbear2640]

Can you advise or recommend one of your videos that helps to identify that energy and voice for each deck that you are talking about? I am finding that part of the concept a bit tricky as i havent explored that concept of using a deck to represent a particular thing such as you described, the family, internal energies, external energies etc. I tend to use the question and journalling to do that so its a very intriguing concept to me to match that sort of intention to the actual deck and use multiple decks that way. Does that make sense?

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I don't think I have any videos that talk about that specifically because for me the voice, relationship and purpose tends to evolve over time. It just kinda comes out of working with the decks and finding that certain decks read well for certain things. I do have videos talking about working with some of my specific decks (there's a playlist for those) where I might touch upon it here and there. I'll give it some thought and see if can figure out a way to articulate it in a video. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@clareozcbear2640]

@@DawnMichelleTaroti would love that, thank you. You really open my mind on how deep you can dive with tarot practice, i would also be interested in if you have done videos on the questions and placements as you have described briefly in this video. I will have to listen again and take notes but the heart of the matter, the subconscious part of self and the outer part of self intrigues me i would love to explore that more. Once again thank you for sharing your tarot practice with us.

[@loum111]

I wonder why you chose 5 cards when you used the 3 family decks at approx. 3:37?

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

It's just the layout for this type of reading I prefer. :)

[@TheMagickHourZ]

Same

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️