Comparing cards?

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

SoulFlower	28 Feb 2005
Is their a website where you can compare cards. For example I click Fool and I can see all the fools of different tarot decks.

seneris	28 Feb 2005
Edit: Oops, this is not really what you are looking for, I just realised after posting this. Hope it can still be of some help... On this site you can read essays on cards from different decks. http://www.comparativetarot.com/essay.htm I don't know if you are aware that there is a Comperative Tarot, it's actually four decks in one: each card has the image form four different decks on it. This is the companion site, with lots of essays. In september 2001 there was a data-loss, so they are starting to rebuild all the info. But there are quite a few different decks now.

Strange2	05 Mar 2005
The Trionfi site has a feature where you can see a specific card from over 200 decks. You can only see one card/deck at a time, but can quickly select the next deck from the list. http://trionfi.com/0/i/c/ALL-78/

Rusty Neon	05 Mar 2005
SoulFlower wrote: Is their a website where you can compare cards. For example I click Fool and I can see all the fools of different tarot decks. Once, while surfing on the net, I found a page where someone had the same card from many different decks posted. They did it for one card of the major arcana; I think it was the Chariot card. I quickly checked on google just now and couldn't find any links. :(

Fullmoonsinger	05 Mar 2005
Here's the index page to a site in Israel where you can see different versions of the same major arcana card, just click on the card you want: http://www.tarot.org.il/Cards/index.html I know there is another site--I was just there yesterday. But I can't find it today.

Alta	05 Mar 2005
Rusty Neon wrote: Once, while surfing on the net, I found a page where someone had the same card from many different decks posted. They did it for one card of the major arcana; I think it was the Chariot card. I quickly checked on google just now and couldn't find any links. :( I had that Bookmarked but when I checked just now it is no longer available. It was called 49 Chariots.

HudsonGray	05 Mar 2005
The 49 Chariots site is gone? They had the High Priestess shown too, I think, and maybe the Hermit as well. But it's been over a year since I saw it last so I might be mis-remembering.

purple_scorp	07 Mar 2005
Just recently, I googled the net to see if I could find exactly what you are after. I did find that Comparative website and I found another that lets you quickly swap from one deck to the other....but there was nothing that laid all the cards out next to each other. Though, I do recall finding one a year or so ago.....but do you think I could find it now???? NO! So I thought, hmm, a software program such as Orphalese should easily be able to handle something like this - without too much additional programming. I looked up their website with the thought of emailing them to suggest this additional functionality, but I couldn't find anywhere to contact them :(. So, out of frustration, I decided to go ahead and create my own program, using the images of the decks that I personally own. So, it's not a website that I can point you to, but it's an idea on how you can electronically organise your own decks. I've scanned all of the cards in the decks I have. Then, I created a small Access database. I've added image as one of the fields and inserted a link back to the folder that stores the pics. Then I created a query and a report to look at the same card from the different decks. If you are not computer literate, it might sound a bit complex but it wasn't that hard to set up. I know I could achieve the same result by physically getting out my decks and laying out all the Fools, for example....but this is a much quicker and cleaner way of seeing those cards. Maybe one of the Orphalese programmers will read this and include it in a future version upgrade??? Does anybody know anyone at Orphalese??? purple_scorp

purple_scorp	26 Mar 2005
Hey all, Just want to update my last post. Last week I wrote to Orphalese suggesting some software enhancements (one of which was incorporating a card comparison). I received an extremely comprehensive and very prompt reply from a programmer. Guess what? Card Comparison is in the latest Orphalese software. I had an older version on my computer. I downloaded the latest version and was able to compare the same card from different decks. Very, very ........ excellent :). purple_scorp

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