Laying your deck to rest
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 29 Dec 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| Magi |
29 Dec 2004 |
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Lets pretend that your most prized deck was damaged/worn beyond repair/useability, and you were unable to replace it, how would you lay this dear friend to rest?
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| jmd |
29 Dec 2004 |
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I would simply carefully preserve the remnants of what I still had in the best manner I could, still kept with the other important decks...
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| WolfSpirit |
29 Dec 2004 |
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I like the idea to use the remnants of a damaged deck for something creative, like making a collage or decorating a tarot box for my remaining decks.
But if the deck was really irreplaceable, maybe I would just like to keep what was left of it unspoilt.
Maybe if it had been completely destroyed (by water, for example - ouch, this hurts to think about it) I might consider burning the paper pulp that once was a deck. Let's hope something like that will never happen...
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| Majecot |
29 Dec 2004 |
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I would simply carefully preserve the remnants of what I still had in the best manner I could, still kept with the other important decks...
I have to go with jmd on this one, A college would be nice and perhaps at some much later date when I had gotten over the loss, I would make a some sort of memorbilia from it. But I think that I would continue to keep it in it's place of honor among it's peers.
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| WhiteRaven |
29 Dec 2004 |
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I would simply carefully preserve the remnants of what I still had in the best manner I could, still kept with the other important decks...
Ditto
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| NightWing |
30 Dec 2004 |
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Rather like a national flag, or a Viking friend, my preference would be for consignment to the flames. A mini-pyre, if you like. Not a garbage pile smolder, but at least clean wood in a campfire or fireplace. This way there is no mold or rot, no dust or vermin, and no ignorant mishandling. The deck neither fades nor wrinkles, but just flashes away, its energies converted finally to heat and light. It seems an appropriate end to me!
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| Magi |
31 Dec 2004 |
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Nicely said. Words like that make one to be a tarotist.
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| lunalafey |
31 Dec 2004 |
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I have a deck that I say is 'retired'.
It was my first deck ever and used it many years until I one day felt the need for a new deck and with in a week of that feeling I was strolling along in an unlikely place to find a deck for sale and there it was- my new deck. I worked with both decks for a few days, then did a spirit contact with the first deck...It was so powerful that I put the deck away. I've used it twice since then for only very particular situations. The poor deck has seen better days. Twice it has been lost for near a year and one time had it damp enough that it warped and grew faint spots. Still loved it- still worked with it for years. Replace it? I dunno. I don't think I could 'dis-honor' this particular deck in that way. It has it's replacement deck, deck #2, now that one, when it wears out...hopefully I can find another, if not it will get put to rest with the other deck.
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