Well, I'm not an occultist or a tarot reader but you know, that doesn't mean that tarot is just a pack of cards with pictures on for me. While I admit a deep love of the games for their own sake, what tarot is to me is a little deeper than that, it has played a part in friendships and in the many happy memories of them. Perhaps that sounds trivial but I can be a rather solitary sort and have tended to have few friends at any time, so these little moments, where friends simply relax and enjoy each other's company simply because they are friends, are important ones.
I am one of those people who hoardes memories and the things that they attach themselves to, I have kept almost all the packs with which I've played games with friends and can recall so many of the games played with them, be they at tiny train stations in Manchester or by an open fire in a cosy pub at Nantwich, or with Bindi's two girls after watching old Sherlock Holmes movies, or in a tiny student living room late on a Tuesday night with hot chocolate.