love deck?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 28 Jan 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Karmen26	28 Jan 2005
Can anyone recommend a deck for love/romance? or perhaps a web site with a few decks? I've been doing tons and tons of "romance" readings lately, using my Robin deck and am thinking of maybe just getting a specific deck for that. Thank you, Karmen

Melpomone18	28 Jan 2005
There is, of course, the fabulous Lover's Path Tarot: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/lovers-path/ I don't have it yet, but it's high on my wishlist (but for now I've put myself on a Tarot-Buying "Freeze" because my hobby's gotten quite expensive :)). I personally like using Castelli's Art Nouveau deck for questions about love and romance, it's a little different from RWS, though. There's very little change in mood or feeling from card to card, and some of the meanings that the LWB gives are very different from RWS tradition. But I've found that once you get used to it, it reads well. http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/art-nouveau/

Stregaverde	29 Jan 2005
I've been using my Old Path or Mermaids decks for these types of readings, but it would be nice to have a deck that is truly oriented to romance. Thanks for asking this question, Karmen! Sigh...yet ANOTHER deck to put on my wishlist, and I still don't have the Gilded...

April	30 Jan 2005
I like the Art Nouveu by Matt Myers. Each suit tells the story of a different couple. Peace, April

Logiatrix	30 Jan 2005
DITTO April's suggestion... The Art Noveau by Matt Myers is one of the only tarot decks I've used for exclusively romantic inquiries, because it is so "couple" oriented. The inner stories for each suit, as April mentioned, serve the romance theme well. It worked for a bit, but I ran into a snag when I did a reading for a gay friend, and saw how distinctly hetero-centric the deck looked from his perspective. Hence, for romantic issues now, I have found that the Cosmic Tribe Tarot works great, because it provides a choice of Lovers cards (male-male, female-female, and male-female), while the rest of the deck is balanced, beautiful, and evocative. Just about every person in the deck is nude, so that might be an issue, but the nudity is very tastefully presented, IMHO. This deck being so "body focused" makes sense to me for questions about love, sex, and all manner of human-to-human relationships. Other than the Cosmic Tribe and the Meyers deck, I have otherwise turned to love-themed oracle decks for such inquiries, and my querants were fine with those, but they didn't have staying power for me as a reader.

Karmen26	31 Jan 2005
Thank you all! I checked all of them out and now i want them all! :) As if i don't have enough already..ahh

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