Sophie
Fatima - let me just say I disagree with you, especially when you cherry-pick my words and arguments in that fashion. Having worked with a lot of structured and unstructructed oracles, tarot and i-ching, I think I can draw a reasonable difference between them all. To compare a sophisticated system like tarot to any old "Magic Moon cards" is laughable. To compare it to i-ching (another sophisticated system) would be fairer - though the two systems are so different, it's not that fruitful.
The best people to answer you would be those who create both Tarot and Oracle decks - they go about it in different ways.
Anything can be invented, of course. But the fact remains that Tarot *already* has multiple uses, from the most mundane to the most magic, to the most esoteric and spiritual - and there isn't an oracle deck out there that has that breadth and depth. If you find one - I'll eat my words. Tarot is not superior because of people will it so - its antiquity has made it evolve into the tool it is. An oracle deck invented last week simply does not have all the accumulated sophistication and experimentation that generations of users and creators have brought to Tarot. To call that view snobbery is simply a way of not dealing with that length of use. I-ching and runes have much the same virtues, as does Ifo Divination and any number of ancient oracles. However I do notice one thing - only Tarot is both sacred and profane...
Beat that
Colby - yes, oracles and tarot are both fun . I hope you get a happy connection with all your decks, whatever they are. Over time, you will probably find that tarot repays the time and study you put into it more than oracle decks - but you will still get much pleasure and good readings out of oracles. In the right hands, anything can be turned into a tool for divination
The best people to answer you would be those who create both Tarot and Oracle decks - they go about it in different ways.
Anything can be invented, of course. But the fact remains that Tarot *already* has multiple uses, from the most mundane to the most magic, to the most esoteric and spiritual - and there isn't an oracle deck out there that has that breadth and depth. If you find one - I'll eat my words. Tarot is not superior because of people will it so - its antiquity has made it evolve into the tool it is. An oracle deck invented last week simply does not have all the accumulated sophistication and experimentation that generations of users and creators have brought to Tarot. To call that view snobbery is simply a way of not dealing with that length of use. I-ching and runes have much the same virtues, as does Ifo Divination and any number of ancient oracles. However I do notice one thing - only Tarot is both sacred and profane...
Beat that
Colby - yes, oracles and tarot are both fun . I hope you get a happy connection with all your decks, whatever they are. Over time, you will probably find that tarot repays the time and study you put into it more than oracle decks - but you will still get much pleasure and good readings out of oracles. In the right hands, anything can be turned into a tool for divination