Mi-Shell
When I was little, (in the early 60ties of LAST century! ) several of my female Manoush Gypsy relatives read Tarot for clients all used a magnificent small deck with pictures from the “times looooong ago” They also taught me, but life takes twists and turns and when I was a young adult I could not find this deck among what was published in the mid 70ties. I was given an old Marseille deck and learned to read with that, but the images did not really “click” with me. Too stiff, too woody, and not really my culture either.....
Then in 1982 US games came out with the Magda and J. Gonzales Native American Tarot and not long after I was given one by a Native friend, so as to “read the future for him” I consider this my “second deck. It also was wood cuts but sadly full of misconceptions and cultural stereotypes and although I learned the RWS system on/ with this one, I was not realllly happy.
Something was still “Off”
So when the Haindle Tarot came out, I got that and learned to deal with its slightly different structure and its key-words – until I trimmed them all off. This one, the Healing Earth Tarot with its 6 suits and several Oracles became my main public reading decks until ~ 2003.
the search for the elusive ooooold card deck my grandmother Eliza owned and the one my cousins read with led me to find Aeclectic Tarot – and a floooood of other decks among them my main reading decks of today.
The elusive deck turned out to be the Soprafino by the way and I wrote more about it on my Tarot blog....
Today I am challenging myself with decks, that I do not really “jive” with, to keep on learning, growing and stretching my boundaries as a professional reader.
I can understand what you are trying to express when you are not quite “clicking” with a deck! I think, to some extend we all have been there.
Use the Morgan Greer as a deck to learn the RWS system on.
Yes, compare these images to the softness and colour pallet of the Linestrider. Remember – the line strider walks a line – between reality and imagination, between what you see and know and what you sens in what your intuition tells you. Its images appeal to your intuitive, emotive brain, to nyances, inclinations and notions, while having to learn and absorb card meanings and the oftentimes similar images you will find on the MG and many other RWS decks will engage the analytical side of your brain.....
Good luck and have fun with it!
♥
Then in 1982 US games came out with the Magda and J. Gonzales Native American Tarot and not long after I was given one by a Native friend, so as to “read the future for him” I consider this my “second deck. It also was wood cuts but sadly full of misconceptions and cultural stereotypes and although I learned the RWS system on/ with this one, I was not realllly happy.
Something was still “Off”
So when the Haindle Tarot came out, I got that and learned to deal with its slightly different structure and its key-words – until I trimmed them all off. This one, the Healing Earth Tarot with its 6 suits and several Oracles became my main public reading decks until ~ 2003.
the search for the elusive ooooold card deck my grandmother Eliza owned and the one my cousins read with led me to find Aeclectic Tarot – and a floooood of other decks among them my main reading decks of today.
The elusive deck turned out to be the Soprafino by the way and I wrote more about it on my Tarot blog....
Today I am challenging myself with decks, that I do not really “jive” with, to keep on learning, growing and stretching my boundaries as a professional reader.
I can understand what you are trying to express when you are not quite “clicking” with a deck! I think, to some extend we all have been there.
Use the Morgan Greer as a deck to learn the RWS system on.
Yes, compare these images to the softness and colour pallet of the Linestrider. Remember – the line strider walks a line – between reality and imagination, between what you see and know and what you sens in what your intuition tells you. Its images appeal to your intuitive, emotive brain, to nyances, inclinations and notions, while having to learn and absorb card meanings and the oftentimes similar images you will find on the MG and many other RWS decks will engage the analytical side of your brain.....
Good luck and have fun with it!
♥