Giving a "face" to your deck?

For my night sun deck, it is definitely the justice card. The deck is balanced (albeit sassy)
For my deviant moon, it is the hermit card. It's a little more withdrawn but still very detailed in its answers

Well... this could be fun.
Interesting to see how (and if) the "face" of each deck corresponds to how I most relate to or perceive the 'personality' of the deck.


Halloween Tarot = The Fool
This is a happy-go-lucky deck for me - full of fun, tongue in cheek, and jokes.

Gendron Tarot = The Sun
This deck speaks of "beauty", fluid ease, and Goddess-liness.
(The Sun card here has a beautiful angel with the sun resembling a giant sunflower).

Dame Fortune's Wheel = Fortitude (Strength. Seen as a lady with a collapsing pillar next to her - as if she's broken it by force of will.)
This deck feels like a "healing" or "healthy deck" - the colour scheme relaxes me, noticeably
slowing down my nervous system when I look at it.

Samhain deck of the Bastard (2nd Ed.) = 4 of Wands (the two people under the 4 posts in the image, have halloween masks on. And they look like children.).
This deck is a mixture of old imagery with a twist of a modern Halloween added in - I love that little twist, plus the spooky lighting and borders. This has become the only RWS imagery (The deck is a mixture of several traditional styles of deck) that I happily use to read with.
It's that - everything thrown in together to make a seamless new whole - that echoes my eclecticism.

Parallel Worlds = Page of Wands ("Walk through the Fire!" - Buffy the Vampire slayer style).
That upbeat "it could be horrible but we will walk through the fire and triumph" feel. Lol.

Ellis Deck = The World
That dancing lady inside a lemniscate (figure of 8 symbol - like infinity).
The Ellis deck 'feels' like it encompasses race and culture better than any other deck I currently own (except for the decks I have that don't have people in them ).

Night Sun = The Hermit
The Night sun is my "going within to check out the dark places" deck.

Pagan Tarot = The Lovers
This deck so perfectly expresses the experience of the neo-pagan initiate - it's brilliant.
You won't really "get it" - perhaps - unless you are Pagan yourself, or are well read on the subject.
(The Lovers depicted here, shows the initiate with a choice of two roads - one leads to her family home, the other to the coven. Which shall she choose? I've had that choice myself - hence the deck really speaks to me.)

Cat People Tarot = Strength
This is my main ritual and magic deck.

Barbara G Walker Tarot = Princess (Page) of Wands (Atargatis).
This is my 2nd ritual deck.

Golden Tarot (K.Black) = Death
I use this deck to "speak to the spirits and ancestors".

Reviving this because I got a new deck today! Plus I also have a face for my Llewellyn Tarot now.

For the Llewellyn, I see it as the Fool at the moment, because it's a journey I haven't started at all. (I haven't even shuffled the cards yet.) Plus the artwork of the Fool is my favorite in the deck, and I mainly got the deck for the artwork anyway.

I also got the Deviant Moon Tarot today, and I definitely see it's face as the Ace of Pentacles. Dragons have always been my favorite animals; they're full of energy (literally, if you consider dragonfire energy), just like this deck was when I got it. I'm really excited to see what it has in store for me!

My Roots of Asia is most definitely the Empress, loving, nurturing and full of possibilities. l use this deck above all others as for me its like being welcomed into a world of compassionate and insightful knowledge.

Gilded Tarot High Priestess

It's very strange. I thought I commented on this before. Anyways, me and my deck hvae such a good relaqtionshiop, tat it and my intiuition are usually signified by the lovers and 2 of cups. So, whenever, I get this, or sometimes think of this or use it, I imagine a woman in the high priestesses attire. It's the gilded tarot deck.

I never thought about this before, but I see that I'm not the only one whose Morgan Greer is represented by the 3 of Cups! Those ladies are great, aren't they?

Victorian Fairy: Strength. Hands down.

Robin Wood: the 4 Pages, as a group.

Anything else, I'll have to think more about.

HallowedNight said:

I've been doing a lot of bonding with my Fantastical Creatures Tarot recently, and I've noticed that when I think of the deck, I tend to think of the image of the King of Pentacles, which (in this deck) is represented by the Lord of the Greenwood.

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It's interesting that you're talking about this deck, because I also give this deck a face, but for me it's the Empress.