Anyone use the Haindl on a regular basis? How does it read?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 09 Mar 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

IDN	09 Mar 2005
I bought the Haindl last week and absolutely love it. I love ALL the cards INCLUDING the suit of Stones!!! I think it's going to take a "long" time to get used to this deck. But I''m going to stick with it. I have ordered the "Reader's Handbook" by R Pollack, to go with the deck. So my question to all who regluarly use this deck:- How long did it take you to feel "comfortable" with it? How do you find it reads for others? How are the readings different from, say, the RWS? Any feedback / comments relating to this deck are most welcome. Many thanks, Regards, Ian

SunChariot	10 Mar 2005
IDN wrote: I bought the Haindl last week and absolutely love it. I love ALL the cards INCLUDING the suit of Stones!!! I think it's going to take a "long" time to get used to this deck. But I''m going to stick with it. I have ordered the "Reader's Handbook" by R Pollack, to go with the deck. So my question to all who regluarly use this deck:- How long did it take you to feel "comfortable" with it? How do you find it reads for others? How are the readings different from, say, the RWS? Any feedback / comments relating to this deck are most welcome. Many thanks, Regards, Ian As the Haindl was my first, I used only this deck for the first five months until my next one showed up. :-) Well, of course I was not as adept at reading when I started, as with more practice behind me. But it was definitely the deck that made me fall in love with Tarot. I don't know that I was ever uncomfortable with the deck per se, but it was my first and I initially had some things about Tarot that made me uncomfortable. I heard all the rumors about the answers coming from the devil or some malevilent force...I was initially uncomfortable with that till I learnt better. I almost quit my first reading when the death card came up...I wrote down the cards and put them away. It was a good 5 days or so till I found the courage to take out the cards and look up what they really meant. And of course it was not a real death, but the card had accurately predicted the end of a relationship with a man I loved. I am way past that stage now. I adore all my decks, and they are all pure love and light. So I would have to say I was always comfortable with the deck itself, but I was initially uncomfortable at times with Tarot and as it was my only deck... Hope you don't hate me for telling you this, but the book you ordered is good, but Rachel Pollack has a two version set taht is much better. There is one full book just on the Haindle Majors and another just on the Haindl Minors. I did what you did, I bought the one book first, then I got the expanded version later. Now I never use the first book. Not telling you to run out and buy it, but the more indepth version is much better I find. There is a lot to learn about the deck. When I started the books made so many references to things I had never heard of at the time: Gaia, chakrahs, kundalini energy. I ended up doing some research, but I loved it. I love to learn new things, especially spiritual things. I adore the I Chings, I find they are always as accurate as the card itself is. I still use the deck of course. I have always had very good readings with it. It does really open up your imagination, and to me that is what Tarot is about. I can't tell you about reading for others. I don't do it. Once I tried with a girl at work, who was a very negative person. All these negative cards kept coming up. I tried to tell her that there are no bad cards, but she wasn't buying it and was just so scared...that was it for me. Iuse Tarot just as a means for self-enlightenment and personal growth. I have never had the RW, so again I can't compare the two. I have never felt any pull to the decks with "simple" images like that. I love lots of detail, complexity and tons of visual metaphors. Like my Haindl. But I find the deeper the imagery, the more information the cards can give you, and the more complete and beautiful the asnwers are. I know there are some who will not feel that way, but that is how I see it. Actually I think the best reading I ever did was with the Haindl, about my relationship to the universe. It was a great reading for me and really taught me a lot. To me all my decks seem to have personalities. For me the Haindl is a very unselfish deck, often teaching us that we sometimes have to put our needs aside for the greater good. It is a deck that cares alot about the environment and encourages us to take steps to preserve it. It is a very spiritual deck, alot of messages about connecting to the universe. To me all that is part of the personality of that particular deck. Hope some of this helps. Bar

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