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Originally Posted by mle777
BunnyHop, thank you for all of the information on the Tarot Cards
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Originally Posted by SueT
Anna, thanks so much for your detailed response. ...
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You're both very welcome. My interest in the subject came as a sort of a surprise. Some years ago I'd read Sharon Shinn's book Troubled Waters, one of her 'Elemental Blessings' series, and been intrigued by the idea of drawing (selecting) a blessing. Eventually I got around to printing out the blessing words (love, hope, patience ...) from her website, and put them on little glass stones. Put them in a jar and pick one as a meditative focus.
One thing led to another and the Ceccoli artwork caught my eye, then the tarot deck. Guess I've got a new hobby now.
I picked a new card every day for a good while last year, and studied about it and took some notes, then got distracted. Lately, I've just been picking a new card off the top of the deck so I'll eventually study all the cards in a faster time frame. (For whatever reason I kept picking lots of the same ones, fun, but I wanted to learn more about the deck as a whole. It hasn't been an every day in the morning thing because my life won't seem to let me do that, but it has been a consistent quiet moment activity that fits into my day as I can manage it. )
Any other advice, as long as I'm rambling on the subject ? Hmmm ... .
Really stop and think about whether or not a particular style of tarot appeals to you. I bought some just out of curiosity, and while I found some of them kind of intellectually interesting (the Hermetic and Voyager decks, for example), they just don't inspire my imagination to any thing at all. The International Icon Tarot is bright and colorful, the Wildwood Tarot and the Druidcraft Tarot would probably be useful for someone with a better sense of what, druidism? Natural magic? Not sure what to call it. Thoth? a completely different sort of deck. Kind of creepy, if you ask me, but it takes all kinds, right? (if we all liked the same thing ...)
Lenormand and oracle decks are completely different as well. I had no idea most of this stuff existed when I started poking around, and it was a bit of a rabbit hole, but I'm glad I did some exploring.
If you live in a part of the world where you might be able to go see some decks in person, I'd advise it. I was limited to whatever they had in stock at the big box book stores, so did most of my research online.
Sorry to ramble, have fun!
All this stuff really has helped my meditative practice, and in redirecting my overactive imagination. (Randomly choosing something specific to think about seems to be good for me.)
Oh, one more author: Mary Greer. She's big into astrology, IIRC, and honestly that doesn't much appeal to me, but I did appreciate reading about her perspectives.