Your favorite deck - what is it and why?

My favorite deck for many years was Motherpeace, mainly because I appreciated the worldview and the counsel/advice of the cards. I used it even though I was not crazy about the artwork. Later on I moved over to the World Spirit deck because I liked the vibrant colors, and the multi-cultural aspect. I also think the LWB (Little White Book) is extremely well-written.

I love the artwork on the Druidcraft Tarot although I haven't been reading with it. Pretty much these days I read only with my own deck.

How about you? What's your favorite deck or decks, and why?

The deck I'm working with at the moment is the DaVinci Tarot (Lo Scarabeo). It follows the RWS path, but with drawings adapted from Leonardo.

That's the one with the book by Mark McElroy, not the one by Caitlin Matthews, right? I haven't had a good look at it, although I usually like Mark's work a lot. Would you tell us some more about why you like it? why it's caught your attention right now?

The deck I'm working with at the moment is the DaVinci Tarot (Lo Scarabeo). It follows the RWS path, but with drawings adapted from Leonardo.

Found its page on Aeclectic - now we can see some of the cards!

http://www.aeclectic....

Hi - I've made a commitment to study the Tarot and read about an hour daily (either to start my day or end it...) and of course my questions stem around my new career in Real Estate and Grant writing... so ...

My favorite web site right now is directed towards the Thoth deck and here's a link to it which you can use and join for free and the readings are coming up exactly or similar to the ones I've been pulling from Rider-Waite. It's great and FREE (I love the cards too)

http://www.fourthdime...

I pulled Temperance, The 10 of Swords (10 things I need to deal with and ...the third card was "The Emperor"

The first card on the www.fourthdimension.net was the Emperor Card:
The Emporer. War, conquest, victory strife, ambition.
Position:
1st: The significator. This cards represents you, the querant, either specifically or metaphorically. It can represent many aspects of your personality, including the emotional, the physical, and the spiritual

At the end, it lets you store your questions and the reading into your Thoth account (ALSO for free) ... to keep a history
Very cool and very fun

FREE is a GOOD thing! Peace and Prosper (Old Star Trek saying ... OK I was in love with Spock! I got over it... well, maybe not ... I still fall for things with pointy ears but it's usually a puppy - kitten - Wolf puppies) ... etc.

FREE is a GOOD thing!

HI Claire, very cool Thoth reading site - thanks. It doesn't work in Safari but I'll try another browser. May be a good way for me to get better acquainted with the Thoth deck.

I have a free 3 card reading on my site too that you might like to play with:

http://www.gaiantarot...

Enjoy!

The Robin Wood Tarot is my standard deck--modeled after the RWS deck but with a very clear Pagan perspective. I love Joanna's Gaian tarot; but find it hard to do readings with a Majors-only deck. I use her cards for spellwork, indepth card journeys, affirmations, etc. I have had the privilege of reading with her deck in progress and have been very pleased with the ease in which I can read the cards. I'm sure that our similar life/spiritual views and practices make using the deck much easier.

I am currently enjoying doing readings with Titania's Star Tarot. It is a very sparse deck with silhouettes on the majors and the minors are just pips. What has captured me is that while there are only pips for the minors, they are displayed differently. The card colors are not the same throughout the suit, and there are a lot of geometric shaping in the pips especially. I usually prefer decks with lots of images and people as I want to see how they interact; but I am finging that I can do the same with this deck. Just goes to show that the more exposure you have to different decks, the more you increase your knowledge and the better reader you can become. At least that is how it is working for me. Julie and I have been doing readings with it and they have been very accurate and informative. Here is the address to Titania's Star Tarot on the Aecletic Tarot Website. I don't know how to make it a link so you will have to paste in the browser in order to see it.

http://www.aeclectic....

Deb (DragonSong)

Thanks Joanna, I did it ... and Temperance, keeps coming up and the 'death' card ... but with the Thoth interpretation it makes much more sense. What I do now is the Thoth reading and look up Raider-Waite and Angeles Arrien The Tarot Handbook Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols ... and then go to your web site and look up the major cards. I get a pretty clear picture from it all (a whole picture) ... it's very cool and sets me in a positive direction. Don't do it daily anymore though, it's a lot of work but twice a week is good. Gets in the way of the Trampoline (in my back yard) and bowflex work. Haven't worked out how to read a book and jump at the same time? :) ... I'm going to be so whole-istic I'm going to have just enough knowledge to be a nuisance.

So, I guess I'm suggesting that those of us who adore your deck can do a different 'card deck' and then pull your major arcade cards for another glimpse.

NOW I have to go and look up Deb's decks and see what she's been up too. Remember to smile and don't forget to tell your face... (old wise person said that - so you know it wasn't me .... I'm a babe in the woods)

OH and the browser I use it good old Yahoo...

Thanks Joanna, I did it ... and Temperance, keeps coming up and the 'death' card ... but with the Thoth interpretation it makes much more sense. What I do now is the Thoth reading and look up Raider-Waite and Angeles Arrien The Tarot Handbook Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols ... and then go to your web site and look up the major cards. I get a pretty clear picture from it all (a whole picture) ... it's very cool and sets me in a positive direction.

Yes! You have just discovered the Comparative Method of reading Tarot cards!

You get different information by comparing the same card from many decks.

It's an excellent way to figure out which deck(s) resonate the most with you, too.