I'm after a Marseilles-ish Majors Only deck and I need advice!
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 12 Dec 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| Anna |
12 Dec 2004 |
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I need as a matter of urgency a Majors only deck.
I am doing more and more majors only readings and I am frustrating with having to seperate out my Hadar Marseilles Majors from the rest of the deck every time I want to do one of these readings!!!
It needs to be cheap. - I was thinking of spending about £20
It needs to be Marseilles-ish. - It dosn't have to be a Marseilles exactly, but kind of in the vacinity of Marseilles is ok. (For example: The fool must not be numbered, Justice must be numbered 8 and Strength 11, and Le Lame sans nom - preferably sans nom!)
I would even buy a 78 card deck and just use the Majors if I found some that I really liked.
What do you suggest? :)
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| Rusty Neon |
12 Dec 2004 |
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It certainly wouldn't hurt to get a different 78-card Marseille deck. That way, you have 78 cards for study and can use the 22 majors for your major arcana readings.
In terms of decks that are available only as majors, you may wish to consider the Éditions de l'Aigle edition of the Oswald Wirth Tarot. Scans at: http://www.altreligion.about.com/library/graphics/tarot/bl_wirth.htm. Very exquisite. Wirth designed only majors (i.e., no minors), so you lose nothing. I understand that Sommervilles carries it.
As well (although I don't own them), there are the unfortunately more expensive :( (at 40+ Euros) J-C Flornoy's excellent majors-only restorations of the Dodal deck and the Noblet deck. Links to scans thereof are in my posts in the Let's Marseille images thread.
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| Diana |
12 Dec 2004 |
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CharmingPixie: I can solve your problem for you, but you'd have to wait till beginning of January. Can you wait that long? (It would be the 22 Grimaud Majors, and/or possibly another deck - I have to check with someone first.)
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| Fulgour |
12 Dec 2004 |
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Hi CharmingPixie:
click on
http://www.playingcardsales.co.uk/cards/
click on TAROT and scroll down Left Hand Side-Bar
to MARSEILLE TAROTS (or any others, really :) )
There's a mini-Grimaud for £6.00...
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Fournier's Le Tarot de Marseille is a super-bargain!
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Le Tarot Oswald Wirth is almost too beautiful
to shuffle the cards... but worth every penny.
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| Anna |
13 Dec 2004 |
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Rusty and Fulgour, thanks for recomending the Oswald Wirth, it is absolutly wonderful!!! Thanks so much for posting the link! I've never seen scans of this deck before.
I checked out a few places to buy it, and if my French holds up, I should be able to manage the ordering :):):)
I'd would love to have Flornoy restoration of the Dodal deck too.... I think I will go through my collection of decks and see what I can sell.
Rusty, I think you are quite right about getting another Tarot of Marseilles deck and seperating out the majors for reading purposes. And thanks to my dear friend Diana, my wish will be granted!! :):):)
Thanks guys!
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