sweet_intuition
Hi
I'm relatively new to the thot tarot deck. For about 6 years, I've been using the original rider-waite deck. I had heard a lot about the thot deck, but I always used to get repelled by the green color box. The cards were too big and had an ugly greenish cast to them which kind of gave me a bad feeling about it.
However, about a month ago, I stumbled upon the Swiss-Amg Mueller, pocket sized thot cards, which came in a purple-ish box (containing a thin book called "Tarot- A mirror of the Soul" By Gerd Zeigler. These cards were really beautiful and i felt drawn to them instantly. The images were brilliant and I felt as though these were the cards for me.
Before reading anything about them, I did a one card reading with them, asking, "are you the cards for me?", and I pulled out "4 of Disks - Power", so I just took that as a yes. Even though I love the Original Rider Waite Deck, this deck has such a powerful magical quality to it, that I just want to use it all the time.
Unfortunately, although these cards are beautiful, they really challenge me at times. At first I tried to use them as reversals, but when I would pull out a reversed card (face down), I would be tempted to turn them over because of the reversed position of the cross on the back of the cards. I then heard somewhere that Crowley made these cards with the intention so that they cannot be used in reversals (can someone tell me if that's true), and the negative and positive meanings came out depending upon if a card is dignified and ill-dignified (can someone throw some light?)
Another thing that confuses me is how to interpret them in a divinatory sense. The Gerd Zeigler book isn't very helpful, and I've started reading the Book of Thot a week back and just finished the major arcana bit. What good books can i buy to learn to use the thot deck for divinations? Also, I have plenty of books based on RWS cards and regular tarot manuals, can I use those divinatory meanings for the thot cards or do they have their own meanings.
And when it comes to timing, with my earlier RWS deck, i used the method taught by Mary Greer in her Tarot for yourself handbook:
Wands = Days
Cups = Weeks
Swords = Months
Pentacles = Years
Court cards:-
Pages = Beginnings
Knights = The Process itself
Queens = Maturity and Fruition
Kings = Completion.
Can these be used for the thot deck? If so, do princesses count as pages, and princes as knights, and Thot Knights as RWS Kings???
I know these queries are simplistic, and many of you out here have discussed them a lot of times before. However, as a newbie over here, and to the thot deck, it would really mean a lot if someone would be kind enough to help me out here. I really love the Thot Deck, I don't want to give up on it.
Thank You
I'm relatively new to the thot tarot deck. For about 6 years, I've been using the original rider-waite deck. I had heard a lot about the thot deck, but I always used to get repelled by the green color box. The cards were too big and had an ugly greenish cast to them which kind of gave me a bad feeling about it.
However, about a month ago, I stumbled upon the Swiss-Amg Mueller, pocket sized thot cards, which came in a purple-ish box (containing a thin book called "Tarot- A mirror of the Soul" By Gerd Zeigler. These cards were really beautiful and i felt drawn to them instantly. The images were brilliant and I felt as though these were the cards for me.
Before reading anything about them, I did a one card reading with them, asking, "are you the cards for me?", and I pulled out "4 of Disks - Power", so I just took that as a yes. Even though I love the Original Rider Waite Deck, this deck has such a powerful magical quality to it, that I just want to use it all the time.
Unfortunately, although these cards are beautiful, they really challenge me at times. At first I tried to use them as reversals, but when I would pull out a reversed card (face down), I would be tempted to turn them over because of the reversed position of the cross on the back of the cards. I then heard somewhere that Crowley made these cards with the intention so that they cannot be used in reversals (can someone tell me if that's true), and the negative and positive meanings came out depending upon if a card is dignified and ill-dignified (can someone throw some light?)
Another thing that confuses me is how to interpret them in a divinatory sense. The Gerd Zeigler book isn't very helpful, and I've started reading the Book of Thot a week back and just finished the major arcana bit. What good books can i buy to learn to use the thot deck for divinations? Also, I have plenty of books based on RWS cards and regular tarot manuals, can I use those divinatory meanings for the thot cards or do they have their own meanings.
And when it comes to timing, with my earlier RWS deck, i used the method taught by Mary Greer in her Tarot for yourself handbook:
Wands = Days
Cups = Weeks
Swords = Months
Pentacles = Years
Court cards:-
Pages = Beginnings
Knights = The Process itself
Queens = Maturity and Fruition
Kings = Completion.
Can these be used for the thot deck? If so, do princesses count as pages, and princes as knights, and Thot Knights as RWS Kings???
I know these queries are simplistic, and many of you out here have discussed them a lot of times before. However, as a newbie over here, and to the thot deck, it would really mean a lot if someone would be kind enough to help me out here. I really love the Thot Deck, I don't want to give up on it.
Thank You