Story of my Cary yale Visconti deck
sinxisxin said:
Have you ever had a deck for a while but had a hard time reading with it in the past and just left in your shelf to collect dust? then all of a sudden after some time the deck calls to you and you feel a strong connection, a link to it? if so, share with us your experience and the deck you felt a connection too.
Here is my story, My very first deck was the Old English Tarot, I for some reason just couldn't connect or grasp it, we didn't connect so I gave it away, then my second Deck the Arthurian Legend Tarot, Now this deck has an interesting story I still to this day can't explain it, but while I was standing at the till purchasing this deck the books on the book shelves fell off, imagine being at a library and all the book on the top shelf fell off, I still clearly remember saying to her " do your books fall off the shelf all the time? " well the lady of that store told me that I was an omen for me to have the deck so she gave me the deck. this deck and I really only connected to a point, I like and don't like it sometimes this deck is mean - tell the harsh truth, so the only time I pull this deck out of the Cedar trunk is when I want the harsh truth. My third deck The medieval Scapini, I went to a local store that I just love, I feel so at peace when I'm their, I can spend hours in the store just browsing, The Lady that owned the Store she has a very old antique hutch china cabinet that she displays her tarot deck on to sell - in the drawers she has decks that you can look at, now these decks are her personal decks, that she shares with customers before they purchase a deck, Well one of her decks was the Medieval Scapini - once my eyes laid on it that was it I had to have it, so I asked her if she could get that for me, at the time the deck wasn't in publishing, so No, I wouldn't be able to get the deck, The next deck of choice that I wanted was the Cary Yale deck, that was no problem in a week the deck arrived, this Deck was extremely power ful, the connection so strong it pulls you in, the feelings of love etc are intensified, but their was a problem, I had difficulty reading it, the pips had no illustrations, the extra court cards would through me off, however it always was right, so back in 2003, I wrapped up the deck and put it in my Cedar trunk over these past yrs I would pull out the deck beside my trunk and look at it and would have all those mushy feelings again, I would say to the deck I don't know how to read you yet, one day. Then in 2010 I was going through my Cedar Trunk I had collected the Visconti deck as well, that deck lived in the trunk too, anyways I was at a cross road, needed to make a decision as to which deck I was going to keep, My feelings were still very strong towards the Cary Yale even though I haven't got it yet (how to read) so the Visconti went into the box to be passed on. A few weeks went by, I was playing around with the Tarot of Vampyres, we weren't connecting, " That is it ", I through up my hands and said "fine, okay darn it any ways ", ran down the stair pulled out the Cary yale, so here I sit with this deck, trying to figure it out and when I read cards that I know and understand it is right on the money, shocks me sometimes. Over these year, I turned into an obbessed Tarot deck collector, buying every deck I could my hands on, I did a reading a week ago, to find out why, turns out I was looking for a deck that I already had, so every new deck, I was left unsatisfied, until the next new deck came along. The deck that I was looking for to full fill me and be satisfied - Mr Cary yale. lol all this time.
sinxisxin said:
So for to night I slept with the deck and what do you know? I had dreams. Bizarre but dreams that really explained alot to me.
For the past few weeks I've been having strange and bizarre dreams, with ravens and this deck. When I use the deck and look at the pips I see images of the My medieval Scapini deck that took 2 yrs to get when they finally did a 2nd publishing of it in 2006 -2007 I use this deck to study with only not to do actual readings from.
Note: What I find interesting, and get giggles about is that, I may also be connecting to the artist work, the style, the time of the decks creation. when you put the Cary Yale Visconti beside the Medieval Scapini, they are very simuliar and they are done by the same artist. Luigi Scapini recreated the missing cards of the Cary yale, and he created the Medieval Scapini Tarot.
