Ever regret getting rid of a deck?

[GryffinSong]

Originally Posted by Parasphere

Great thread

Right now and as we speak, I cannot STAND the Robin Wood. I really, really want to get rid of it ASAP! I don't know what's gotten into me!!! I just don't want it. Does that make sense?? Is it ok? Should I just selectively forget about it and pretend I never owned it in the first place? I'm not a collector as such so it's not like I 'have to' own at least one copy.

Waaah

Yes, it's ok. I felt that way recently about the Tarot of the Dead. I traded it away to someone who loves it, and I'm very happy that it's making someone else happy. You don't need to pretend anything. It served a purpose at one point, and no longer is needed or wanted. It's ok. I think of it as freeing up energy or feelings or space.

When I have that strong a reaction to something, I figure there's a reason. Trust your instincts. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

[minrice]

I've had that with decks before, it's like you know you SHOULD like it, you don't have a reason to not like it, and you wish you did like it...but you don't.
I have to say I am sorry from time to time that I didn't hang on to my victorian romantic. Every now and then I wish I could rest my eyes on the lush colors!

[photokat]

I had sold the 1st Edition of the Tarot of the Dead the year before last to accumulate Burning Man funds. Little did I know that I won't be able to replace the deck, and Monica doesn't have any left.

2 days ago, however, I got lucky in the trade forum, and this gem shall once again be mine : )

PS: I have to admit that auracrana's trim job of hers had me extra convinced:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...2&postcount=18

; )

[nisaba]

Originally Posted by photokat

I had sold the 1st Edition of the Tarot of the Dead the year before last to accumulate Burning Man funds. Little did I know that I won't be able to replace the deck, and Monica doesn't have any left.

<electrified> So it's OOP? Hooray! ... er ...

I just am thinking of developing a sub-collection of OOP decks. I *do* want everyone to be able to own it, but if it's OOP ...

<feels the surrounding glare from the crowd, knows she's digging herself in deeper>

[tarotcognito]

Right now I wish I hadn't sold my Dragon Tarot deck a few years ago. I just feel like working with it these days.

[Parasphere]

Originally Posted by GryffinSong

Yes, it's ok. I felt that way recently about the Tarot of the Dead. I traded it away to someone who loves it, and I'm very happy that it's making someone else happy. You don't need to pretend anything. It served a purpose at one point, and no longer is needed or wanted. It's ok. I think of it as freeing up energy or feelings or space.

When I have that strong a reaction to something, I figure there's a reason. Trust your instincts. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

aaaaaahhhh...... JUST what I needed, GS! It's time for this deck to go.

Thank you. Really.

[GryffinSong]

Originally Posted by Parasphere

aaaaaahhhh...... JUST what I needed, GS! It's time for this deck to go.

Thank you. Really.

You're very welcome.

[Mstworlds]

Nope. not yet anyway. I've only given away a stock-standard pocket Rider Waite deck, the day after I got it. I got a little nudge to buy it when I was browsing in spirituality store. I don't like the harsh, block colouring (it's like the yellow is jumping out at me) - and my feelings weren't changed when I cracked open the pack and started shuffling. I had a tarot meet up the next day - there was a woman there who had grown up in a religious family and was very nervous but keen about the tarot. She had no deck of her own, so I gave her my RW to help her follow the discussion. At the cafe we went to afterwards, I told her she could keep it, and I never saw her again. The next time I purchased a deck (the Tarot of Prague), the seller said she felt a nudge of intuition to put an extra deck in, and ended up putting in 2 decks - that's how I got my 2nd edition Bohemian Gothic and the Tarot of Oz, for free. The way I figure, the Universe always has a way of working things out.

[Cocobird55]

I have given away many decks to people who were interested in learning tarot. The only ones I regretted were the Glastonbury and the Sharman-Caselli. I have bought both of them again.

[bogiesan]

When we downsized a second time, it was my pleasure to give toa gifted reader, with whom I had taken a class or two, a box of decks, books and tarot stuff. Her students usually came into her classes without a a deck and that was just sooo wrong. She would loan my old decks out and encourage her students to exchange them weekly until they found something they liked.

IN that box were my first two decks, a Grimaud TdM and Albano-Waite, both acquired in 1970 when I was 16. I have seen the latest printing of the Albano and it does not compare in brilliance or sharpness to my original. Sigh. Those two, yes, I wish I'd kept them. The 15-20 others were lovely, surely, and I had several signed first editions; I collected yet I never really connected. But, whenever I wax nostalgic for them, I think they have likely been used by several different folks as they started their own search for tarot's significance.