2_Journey
Deck collection culling advice needed!
So I'm in the process of going through my tarot collection to decide what to keep and what to let go to new homes. The majority of my collection I am content letting move on. Those are decks that I don't read with often, or at all. There are some decks that I read with and use (such as the Shining Tribe, Fey, Four Elements) that I know I am keeping.
But it turns out that there's a grey area!
I am finding a couple of decks that I don't want to let go even though I don't use them, for whatever reason. Strange, because I am not a sentimental person. I let my first tarot deck (the Universal Waite, which I used for months and months before buying a second deck) go to a friend with no problems, and haven't missed it. I let my second deck go to a used book store and didn't bat an eye, but that might be because I just didn't find myself getting along well with the Thoth.
But I'm finding that a couple of decks are symbolic in my life of the time that I used them intensively (like the Prague), or symbolic of an event that happenned around the time that I bought the deck (like the DruidCraft). I honestly don't know what to do with these decks. I don't read with them any more, won't read with them, and so should let them go. Will I regret it if I do? Has anyone done this, and if so, did you regret it?
For everyone else, are there decks you keep for purely sentimental reasons? How many? Which ones?
For me right now, its the Prague and the DruidCraft. And maybe the Ancestral Path, although that one is leaning towards the "let it go" category.
What about all of you?
So I'm in the process of going through my tarot collection to decide what to keep and what to let go to new homes. The majority of my collection I am content letting move on. Those are decks that I don't read with often, or at all. There are some decks that I read with and use (such as the Shining Tribe, Fey, Four Elements) that I know I am keeping.
But it turns out that there's a grey area!
I am finding a couple of decks that I don't want to let go even though I don't use them, for whatever reason. Strange, because I am not a sentimental person. I let my first tarot deck (the Universal Waite, which I used for months and months before buying a second deck) go to a friend with no problems, and haven't missed it. I let my second deck go to a used book store and didn't bat an eye, but that might be because I just didn't find myself getting along well with the Thoth.
But I'm finding that a couple of decks are symbolic in my life of the time that I used them intensively (like the Prague), or symbolic of an event that happenned around the time that I bought the deck (like the DruidCraft). I honestly don't know what to do with these decks. I don't read with them any more, won't read with them, and so should let them go. Will I regret it if I do? Has anyone done this, and if so, did you regret it?
For everyone else, are there decks you keep for purely sentimental reasons? How many? Which ones?
For me right now, its the Prague and the DruidCraft. And maybe the Ancestral Path, although that one is leaning towards the "let it go" category.
What about all of you?