Card Pulls being literal happenings in your life
Recently I got the Somnia Tarot by Nicolas Bruno and after doing a short flip thru of the deck, I started doing one a day readings with it. This deck is a photography deck and while I had heard of it, I decided that I didn't want photorealism or photography in my decks and so far, that still holds true and the Somnia Tarot is the only exception. I'm not someone who thinks that a deck necessarily needs to be used for a "certain" thing unless the deck itself makes it clear that it wants to be used for a certain type of reading. The Somnia Tarot is one that people say should only be used for "shadow" or dream readings because it's a deck that was inspired by insomnia, sleep paralysis, and dreams. There's a lot of water in the deck but for me, an air sign, it reads as very air to me mixed with water. And to some, it looks creepy.
Anyway, all of my readings have been rather literal with the deck. Each morning, I ask myself: what energy do I need to be aware of today? And pull a card from the deck. My first pull was the 10 of Wands which I read as responsibility and impulses and the burdens associated with those two things. And over the next two days, I was obsessed with trying to figure out whether or not to buy the Crimson Asteria Tarot and back the Solara Occulto Meliora Tarot on Kickstarter. Like...I was agonizing over this and worried that I was being my normal, ADHD impulsive self. I hadn't even thought about tarot for months before buying the Somnia Tarot even though I was watching Tarottube.
Two days later, I did another pull and got the 4 of Swords. Which ended up manifesting as my 1hr nap turning into a 9+hr sleep. This was also the first weekend where I was not going into work and I guess my body needed the rest. Today, I pulled the Empress and felt the urge to work on my fanfic for the first time in literal months. I wrote over a 1,000 words today when before I couldn't even get myself to write one.
This is something that has never happened to me before. Normally, I pull a card and either nothing happens *or* I have to wait to see the results, even in a daily pull. I suppose this could be because I'm now ready to learn and grow with the tarot but I just felt it was interesting and wanted to share and see if anyone else had had any such experiences with a new deck.