tarot crossroads which deck.

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 04 Jun 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

HOLMES	04 Jun 2002
hello all my dilemna for about a year my favourite deck morgon greer been mising two cards. i kept hoping they would show up but no go that idea was. and having to go to into my tarot chest (actually it is an cooler, hey me poor :O)) so much and realizing i still had a lot of decks. i did an tarot inventory dream cards still intact. visionquest tarot my mom gift still intact dream power still intact vision tarot still instact gendragon tarot still intact inner child cards still intact ozo zen tarot still intact thoth tarot still intact even with the seal. jungain tarot still intact sweat lodge cards still intact arthurian tarot still intact ancestial path tarot still intact tarot of the southwest tribes still intact a voice from the earth the cards of winds and changes for these tarot book still intact dream power jungain sweat lodge inncerchild book visionquest ozo zen tarot eheh i found still book of the druid animal oracle angel tarot and a card that says moon garden tarot no rest of the cards, or books if it had one. of course the star spider speaks book psychic tarot book i got with the aquarian box. and the book for the sacred path cards god i love that deck but when i was traveling the deck slipped out of the box i was carrying when i was used to be a traveling tarot reader for my friends i never charged though jsut for pratice. god i even forgot i did that. it saddens me that so many of my books and decks were lost but that is not the dilemna which deck do i study now, if i am going to get into the tarot full force. 1dream power is a strange deck .. i remember i wanted it for the major arcana was nicely illustrated but the minor arcana isn't the mediation for the deck is to journey into the underwold. to contact the archtypes which freaked me out it is a shamanic tarot deck celtic style. 2. ozo zen tarot a beutiful deck with lots of lesson that i wasnt' for 3. jungian tarot deck that require a lot of mediation it was a 34 week course that i never had the energy to complete (i got sick from sleep apnea so i was too tired to even stay awake near the end before i got my sleep apnea machine) 4. visionquest tarot just never really looked at it before 5. dream cards are good and the pictures strange and graphic but without the book i can't really study them . but it still use when i have a big dream which hasnt' happend a lot. it is easy to use you pick out two pictures that were in your dream then one ego card and look at the meanings in the cards that came with the pictures deck to get the meaning it is very psylogical deck. much like the jungain tarot deck in a way. i can use ancestial tarot , southwest tarot , gendragon tarot , toth tarot, good . any advice you can give would be appreciated. :O

Faerie Lin	04 Jun 2002
Did you say your Toth was still in its seal? Maybe you should open that one up and see how you like it. Oh yeah, even though you've lost many of your decks and all, you still have WAY MORE than I do. My tarot wishlist is long, but right now I can't spend anymore money. :( Lin

HOLMES	04 Jun 2002
oops i was refering to that seal card that keeps the card protected from negative energies you know the red design with the black background

Faerie Lin	04 Jun 2002
lol Oh, okay. heheh, that was funny. Well if you're having a hard time picking one out, lay them out and close your eyes and just pick one. :D Lin

jmd	04 Jun 2002
Of the list you give, I would recommend the Thoth deck... but, as some of you may guess, I would definitely recommend getting a Marseilles as well.

Lee	04 Jun 2002
Hi, Holmes -- The Jungian Tarot is out of print and is considered valuable. I've seen it at auction on E-Bay, and it sold for over $100 U.S. One option for you might be to sell it, and then use that money to get other decks more to your liking. If you decide to keep it, take good care of it! :) -- Lee

Rhiannon	04 Jun 2002
If you still have your Morgan Greer you can always write to the publisher to see if they can send you the 2 cards you are missing. A few people here have done that and had a good response. Rhiannon :)

Scorpion	04 Jun 2002
Hi, Holmes! Ooooooh - if you've looked round these forums enough you should be prepared for a free-for-all! Everybody's going to say something different!!! And lots of us will try to persuade you to go out there and spend all that hard-come-by cash on new and different decks.......... Of the decks you've listed, I've only got the Osho Zen, Inner Child and Arthurian. Having looked at other posts you've written, I suspect that although I love the Osho Zen, while being very direct and to the point, isn't going to be complex enough for you. I find it perfect for going straight to the heart of the matter and laying out the issues clearly and concisely. I'm not a huge fan of the Inner Child's artwork and the huge size puts me off - I bought it to aid my youngest stepson in storytelling. I like the Arthurian and believe it has many layers, which is quite important to me. The Jungian sounds interesting although I haven't even seen it and from what you say it would require some work on your part. Do you still have the coursework and can you work your way through it now in your own time to take the pressure off? It sounds the most promising to me. And although I can see what Lee's saying, I'd be tempted to hang onto it if you've done some of the work already - you may regret parting with it.

Logiatrix	04 Jun 2002
i think you should go with the thoth deck. as a tarotist, you should at least study the thoth for a little while, at some point in your tarot journey. you may become a thoth fan. there are lots of books keyed to the thoth deck, which is another advantage. angeles arrien, james wanless and hajo banzhaff have all written on this deck. the osho zen deck would be great for self-readings. have you considered using more than one deck? using most of them? trying a new one every couple of weeks? my number one deck (a visconti) is one i never would have guessed to be my favorite--not by appearance or read-ability, anyway. it's mostly from repeated usage and the ensuing familliarity that it has just "grown" on me. my point being, you'll just have to work with your many choices, and your new deck will choose YOU, over time. or maybe you'll be one of those lucky people who just KNOWS. it's like love, really...

truthsayer	05 Jun 2002
i like the thoth the best of the ones you listed. of course, i'm partial to the uncomplicated beauty of the vision quest. i like it as a reading deck for those times you need a gentle deck. the ancestral path is interesting from studing tarot from a cross cultural perspective but i can't read it and traded it. the thoth is very deep and has many layers of meaning and levels of study. i think you could study it for years and still not unlock all the secrets. i have a book on the thoth by hajo banzhof and i really like his style of working w/ it.

truthsayer	05 Jun 2002
btw, if you should ever want to sell or trade your jung deck probably a few hundred ppl here would give their eye teeth for a chance to own it. :) count me in as one who covets your jung deck. ;) :D you must keep it as the jewel of your collection.

HOLMES	05 Jun 2002
well i no longer have the tarot box just the cards and the big book. i no longer have the little booklet that goes with the deck either (that in itself was like a little novel) so i am sure the value just drop :O) however i have decided on a deck to study ..THE DREAMPOWER i spent the last two days reading the book and i forgot it is designed as a mini sequel to the merlin tarot in fact stuart as she calls him designed book decks. the major arcana is divded up into three realms , the pearl, the fire and the whirlpool i believe. why did i choose this deck over the jungian, the thoth, and the ozo zen tarot. i am not ready for the toth, the jungian is in the back of my mind just waiting for me but .. not yet i got the impression. and ozo zen the book was pretty intimidating when i first got it and it stillis. actually the main reason why i got it is to explore this underworld which is actually the root of the trees of life. and she has few mediations on how to use the deck, indiviidual decks. she says explore it for three months, and with the 34 weeks of the jungian tarot my year is pretty well set. there was a time once i once had the arthurian tarot, you know the one with the mediation theme.? but i never got the hallowquest book i could of once but at the time i wanted some books on other spiritual topics and so i passed on that and guess what. the book that originally came with the deck fell apart and my cousin kids wrecked the deck. see at the time i was keepin all my decks in their own piles on a table in my room. and i thought that was a good way to study the tarot for i didnt' have a big wooden tarot and silky cloth (stereotypes :O)) so each night i would take a differnt deck and study them with a book think about how it is differnt or how the pictures are differnt from the standard rider waite. beats me how i managed to keep the jungian tarot and so much of my other decks have gone to tarot heaven .

truthsayer	05 Jun 2002
let me know what you think of the dreampower. i hear mixed reviews of it. it's out of print now and a copy would cost $75+. i like nonconventional decks but i hesistate in investing a lot of money for a deck i may not like. did you ever have the merlin deck if the dreampower is supposed to be a sequel? the merlin is now being reprinted and i'm trying to decide whether to give it a try. if you had the merlin what was your opinion? as long as the jung cards themselves are in good shape, i don't think the value would drop too much b/c they are a hot deck. maybe they'll be reprinted eventually.

HOLMES	05 Jun 2002
i never tried for the pips weren't illustrated and after i got the dreampower i was so sad when the pips werent' illustrated. they have a handy keyworld on the card but that is about it. the artwork was a bit grey for me for when i seen it but i can't give a review for the merlin tarot for that is one i never had eheh i had no idea that the dreampower was out of print makes me feel like an old man eheh

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