Missing Card

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 07 Apr 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

osami2717	07 Apr 2005
The other day I decided I wanted to straighten out my cards... Well I laid them out and organized them all out majors, cups, wands, swords, pentacles... and I discovered that I'm missing the 2 of wands. I have no idea where it may have gone or when exactly I'd lost it. Looking through my notes I've noticed that I haven't had it turn up in any readings for several months. That could be because it was gone or just that it wasn't meant for that reading... I looked all over but to no avail and my question is this... Since I don't know exactly when I lost it does this invalidate any/all of the readings I've done lately? Do I HAVE to get another tarot deck or can I use a substitute card from a similarly sized deck? Will the their 'energies' clash?

WolfSpirit	07 Apr 2005
Hi osami, I don't think the energies of cards from two different decks will clash, as I think the only energy a deck has is what we put into it. The only problem for me would be that this card from another deck probably has a different back so I would also know where that card was. I don't know what deck you use - for many decks you can contact the publisher and they will send you another card if you lost one. It certainly would not hurt to try. I don't think it will completely invalidate all your readings - after all, you only lost one card and that card could only have come up in one position. The bigger picture in your readings will still be valid.

Little Baron	07 Apr 2005
I did contact a publisher before but they never sent the missing card; it turned up under the sofa a while later, lol. However, I have heard that many publishers have followed through with the request. I recently lost the Empress from my Morgan Greer. I couldn't even look at it, knowing that one was missing. I looked everywhere. Then, a week ago, I was sifting through a drawer in another room and there she was - hiding down the side. Hopefully, your card will turn up soon. Sometimes, I wonder if it happens for a reason. I really got into my Marseille around that point; something I needed to do, so maybe she slipped off for a while to allow me to do that. Hope it turns up soon. LB Just a thought: Is there an extra card in your pack - one of the ones that shows a title. Maybe you could use that for a while, until one is either replaced or the original found, just as a substitute. You would have a full deck then - remembering that that one is the card that is missing.

Clau	07 Apr 2005
Hi Osami: You might want to ask for help to find the card in the divination forum, they have helped me before and it is definitely worth the try! love, Clau

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