Oversized card issues...

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 09 Aug 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Sorceress_Jade	09 Aug 2002
I'm getting a blister from shuffling my large thoth deck! I never expected this, i don't get blisters from anything but burns, but my thumbs are VERY sore :( Lol, maybe i'll develope a Thoth callus, eh? anyone else have calluses from tarot? I even shuffle them sideways instead of lengthwise, it's nuts.

VGimlet	09 Aug 2002
Ouch! My first deck was oversized, and I remember getting callouses - and I remember my hands were a bit sore, too. But it will pass. :)

Umbrae	09 Aug 2002
Take your cards in groups of about 5ish at a time, and bend them back and forth. A bunch. Do it with the entire deck (5ish at a time). It helps break them in. Like shoes, break them in slowly.

Dark Inquisitor	09 Aug 2002
I just got a smaller Thoth so I could actually use them. But then I got the Lovers Tarot- a majors only 9" deck! I can shuffle them sideways and get reversals if I rotate the right side cut before shuffling. But I am seriously thinking of trying to reduce & reprint them on the computer so I can really use them. Right now, I am hoping this large printing was just a scam, and they will come out with a smaller size full deck to make even more money. I did butcher the Medieval Scapini with a paper cutter . I cut the top & bottom edge off so I could shuffle it. Then I had to round all the corners by hand. Tarotphelia

divinerguy	10 Aug 2002
Wouldn't it be properly called a Thoth calluth ?

catlin	12 Aug 2002
When I use oversized decks I shuffle them on the table so I avaoid damaging the cards too much and my hands don't get calluses.

Keslynn	12 Aug 2002
I shuffle my large decks (and even my small ones) by swirling them around on the table. It also is a fairly easy way to get reversed cards without having to think so much about flipping, etc. I feel that this sort of shuffle really gets my energy on the cards. Plus, it's fun, sort of childlike. I find it very soothing at the same time. You should give it a try if your calluses are bothering you. :TQS Kes

Liliana	12 Aug 2002
Well I use the push put method of shuffling i learned at www.learntarot.com and it doesnt bother my hands too much, dont think Ill get callouses from it either :THP

Sorceress_Jade	12 Aug 2002
I use the swirly method with my Faeries Oracle, but somehow it feels too ... silly i suppose, for Thoth tho I' did use it once. I'll probably use it again, but it really depends on where I'm at if I can do that. I don't understand the push method, tho I /did/ read it... is it one card from top, one from bottom, alternating till you have a whole new (shuffled) pile? the instructions lost me.

Minderwiz	12 Aug 2002
I can just about shuffle my Thoth deck but I find that if I ask my (usually female) querent to shuffle whilst thinking of their question they tend to spill them all over the place. Not quite sure what that symbolises! I may well have to go with one of the smaller decks when reading for other people or shuffle for them Minderwiz

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