Fascinating thread. How did I miss this one?
Of course I love the Thoth. It is quite a recent thing though as during my first stint with tarot years ago I quite simply overlooked this deck; too busy with the flavour of the month 80s decks like The Prediction. I saw the deck but it just looked too weird and futuristic to me.
But after having lived a little, and - admittedly - early difficulties getting to grips with it, struggling with certain concepts and having to study it like I was at school, it suddenly opened its doors to me.
I find the artwork quite dizzying and intoxicating. I don't actually find Frieda Harris a great artist, technically speaking
but it doesn't matter as she conveys the intensity which is behind the deck. And that is what matters for me.
But I love it. It has been said again and again and it is so, so true; the Thoth will meet you at whatever level you are at. Learn a bit more and it will provide a bit more.
It is the only deck I never get tired of. I go off and play with other decks, enjoy other decks but the inner, intense
me reaches a point when only the Thoth will do.
But for a newcomer it must be hard to make inroads into a deck which comes with so much
baggage!