Salt and pepper, etc.
Once I started a thread about "ordering" a deck. You know, putting the deck back in numerical order and suit groupings like it was when you first took it out of the wrapping it came in. So, folks responded by saying, "I usually order from Amazon . . ."
I've never ordered a Tarot deck, so the first deck I ever had still has the first shuffle, and everything that followed, in it somewhere.
I still love a Tarot deck that is well broken in by use and experience and memories. I just read through this thread, and I also love the stories people told about their seasoned decks and all the places they'd been.
I've read about spreads people use with brand new decks, asking "What do you have to tell me ?" or somesuch. I'm afraid the answer would be cold and stiff and plastic and impersonal.
But not about wet rings beer mugs leave on tavern tables, and cold mountain air at dawn, and ocean foam marks on remote beaches, and the joy of watching pretty women walk by a sidewalk table outside a coffee shop, and how really good a warm bottle of water can taste on a hot desert day, and the bitter sweet memories of unrequited loves, and all that kind of stuff.
I'm still "seasoning" the same World Spirit deck I was using when this thread was started. It's getting there.
Talisman