spinnachie
I was just curious as to what the difference between the two is. I've never dabbled in thoth, for the fact that i was new to tarot so i didn't want to overload myself. However now after having some experience my curiousity is peaked...
The difference between the two what? The Thoth is a tarot deck. It's from the Golden Dawn school of decks instead of the Marseilles school. What system are you trying to compare the Thoth to? A Marseilles-style deck? A Rider-Waite deck? Something else? You're asking for a comparison but "tarot" is way too broad a category to compare the Thoth against.I was just curious as to what the difference between the two is. I've never dabbled in thoth, for the fact that i was new to tarot so i didn't want to overload myself. However now after having some experience my curiousity is peaked...
The difference between the two what? The Thoth is a tarot deck. It's from the Golden Dawn school of decks instead of the Marseilles school. What system are you trying to compare the Thoth to? A Marseilles-style deck? A Rider-Waite deck? Something else? You're asking for a comparison but "tarot" is way too broad a category to compare the Thoth against.
I'm new to the thoth deck so if I screw this up someone smarter will correct...
The designer and painter of the Thoth was Crowley and Harris
The designer and painter of the Rider/Waite was Waite and Coeman-Smith
All four of them belonged to a esoteric (mystery) group part of which I think was being beyond smart founded in the late 1800's and into and early 1900's
One of the rules as always with secret knowledge is some one won't be able to keep the secrets.
The Rider/Waite was published in 1909 and supposedly holds all the secrets, but they are hidden, you have to hunt for them.
Crowley's deck was done over 5 years, I think in the 40's and not published until the 1960's.
Crowley chose to show all the secrets.
So both are based on the same platform, and if you study both you will see it.
To me it is like thread and yarn or metric and standard. Same thing only different.
Sometimes it takes awhile to get past the idea of all that symbology facing us
There are wonderful books on the Thoth that will help us through it.
I only got my first Thoth about 6 weeks ago, and I'm journaling my way through it like wildfire. Not journaling just Thoth deck but 3 other decks based on the Thoth at the same time...
I am having SO much fun!
well see thats what im having trouble understanding, growing up when i heard of tarot it was always rider/waite or a rider/waite based deck that i thought of. I was aware that there were many different types of decks. Coming to this forum I am hearing of Thoth and Marseilles and I guess what I'm trying to figure out, are Thoth and Marseilles 2 other groups of decks that if you choose to use them you will almost have to relearn what you already know from rider/waite based decks? or is it just the same difference as lets say a rider/waite deck and a legacy of devine deck?
I was just curious as to what the difference between the two is. I've never dabbled in thoth, for the fact that i was new to tarot so i didn't want to overload myself. However now after having some experience my curiousity is peaked...