tarotreader2007
I've found out through the years that there are Tarots and Oracles when it comes to cards for divining. However, I can't help but feel as if a good portion of so-called tarot cards are really just oracles. I, like many tarot lovers, often browse different sites for tarot decks, mainly the major publishers, AT's log, or tarotgarden. When browsing, I find that many decks (mostly ls decks) seem to just be 78 cool pictures that a company put names to for a deck. I think it's time to distinguish tarot.
Can we really call a deck of cards a tarot deck if it has 78 cards split into the major and minor arcana? (I'm excluding decks with just majors or minors from this). So, to get this straight, organizing the cards and the titles are all it takes to create a tarot deck????
This starts to get fuzzier due to the types of decks people like, but certain decks just don't really say the right thing on a card ("but what is the right thing?"). Well, I think since we give it the name "tarot", we should consider that the definitions the card portrays should have a definite influence as to what is on the card. For instance, seeing a bunch a people getting tossed on an old boat in the middle of the sea doesn't display the 7 of cups in tarot. ("some people might say so"). Aye.
Tarot should be not be called tarot simply because it has the 78 card requirement with similar titles. That's just part of the basics. Meanings are what the tarot is all about. If you have a deck that's 78 cards and few of the pictures actually show what the card is supposed to say, while the rest are just "ooh, isn't that a pretty picture" pictures, why call it a tarot deck. There are more defined parameters for this kind of a deck. Call the above deck an oracle. It's your own definitions and pictures but it doesn't reflect the deck.
IMO, it would be like someone taking a medium sized oracle and just calling it a Lenormand deck. What?? Why? Call it an oracle.
Does anybody know what I'm saying? This is, yes, out of frustration. Mostly because when I see pictures online that say all of this cool stuff and they show the accurate pictures, I buy it. Later finding out that this deck makes no sense.
I know I'm going to have people attacking me for saying some of this stuff, but I simply can't stand people loosely putting the word tarot on a deck of random pictures (cool as it may be) because I hold tarot high and I take it as an insult someone trying to skate these things by that "possess" the name tarot.
Thank you.
tarotreader2007
**PEACE**
Can we really call a deck of cards a tarot deck if it has 78 cards split into the major and minor arcana? (I'm excluding decks with just majors or minors from this). So, to get this straight, organizing the cards and the titles are all it takes to create a tarot deck????
This starts to get fuzzier due to the types of decks people like, but certain decks just don't really say the right thing on a card ("but what is the right thing?"). Well, I think since we give it the name "tarot", we should consider that the definitions the card portrays should have a definite influence as to what is on the card. For instance, seeing a bunch a people getting tossed on an old boat in the middle of the sea doesn't display the 7 of cups in tarot. ("some people might say so"). Aye.
Tarot should be not be called tarot simply because it has the 78 card requirement with similar titles. That's just part of the basics. Meanings are what the tarot is all about. If you have a deck that's 78 cards and few of the pictures actually show what the card is supposed to say, while the rest are just "ooh, isn't that a pretty picture" pictures, why call it a tarot deck. There are more defined parameters for this kind of a deck. Call the above deck an oracle. It's your own definitions and pictures but it doesn't reflect the deck.
IMO, it would be like someone taking a medium sized oracle and just calling it a Lenormand deck. What?? Why? Call it an oracle.
Does anybody know what I'm saying? This is, yes, out of frustration. Mostly because when I see pictures online that say all of this cool stuff and they show the accurate pictures, I buy it. Later finding out that this deck makes no sense.
I know I'm going to have people attacking me for saying some of this stuff, but I simply can't stand people loosely putting the word tarot on a deck of random pictures (cool as it may be) because I hold tarot high and I take it as an insult someone trying to skate these things by that "possess" the name tarot.
Thank you.
tarotreader2007
**PEACE**