Carla
I just went through all my decks. Laid them out on the floor, all with the Chariot card face up. Some of them I never use and kind of regret buying. Some of them I love. With my first decks, I would order a bag at once and chuck the packaging (particularly those that come in big kits with books). I wish all decks came with a sturdy, close-fitting box or better yet, in a tin! All decks should come in a tin with a good, tightly snapping lid. That would be ideal.
It's strange, going through decks. You feel like there ought to be more of them. I guess that's because I remember all the decks I've owned, and actually I've traded or given some of them away.
Also, I've done things to decks that I kind of wonder if I should have. Like cropping Touchstone. Writing on Druid Plant & Animal Oracle and on Haindl. At least with those, I can buy replacement decks cheap if I decide to, and use the ones written on as study decks only. I guess.
There are the favourites that I love and use all the time: Anna K, Druidcraft. Universal Waite.
The ones I look at and wonder what possessed me to buy them: Vision Quest, Tarot of a Moon Garden, Halloween Tarot, Tarot of the Old Path, Morgan's Tarot Deck. It's not that I don't like them, it's just, I don't know. I look at them and think, what the??
I used to love Roots of Asia, now I look at it and it just looks muddy to me, and the green borders are nauseating, and it STILL smells weird after two years. I have relegated it from its purpose-made bag back to its original box. Don't know what its fate is.
I think the most beautiful deck I own is Kat Black's Golden Tarot. Haindl is also beautiful, but for some reason it makes me feel sad. To me, it's a deck that is so emotionally complex, I can't describe it.
The one with the cardstock that I like least is Kat Black's Touchstone. I really hate the texture of those cards. I don't know why, I just don't like handling the deck. I like looking at it, just wish I didn't have to hold or shuffle it. They're grippy-like. But I'm odd because I actually like the super slick slidy indestructible US Games style lamination.
Then there are the ones that I get a sinking feeling about, because I know I will have to study hard to ever use them, and I feel almost sure I never will give them the study and care they deserve. The Herbal Tarot, Dame Fortune's Wheel, JC Flornoy's Jean Noblet Tarot, Shining Tribe, Haindl. Robert Place Buddha.
I used to think with tarot cards, the bigger the better. Now I find that if a deck feels big in my hand, I start trying to figure out a way to trim it. I do actually like smaller cards. They're easier to shuffle, and easier to lay out on a table.
I wonder what my collection will look like in a few years, and how my tastes and opinions will have changed. I know I don't have the space or inclination to keep every thing I ever buy or use, so a lot of what I have now may be long gone by then. I used to have: Lisa Hunt's Fairy Tale, Osho Zen, Rabbit Tarot 2nd edition, Bright Idea Deck, now they're gone. (Traded, given away or in the case of Bright Idea, chucked in the bin). I don't regret doing that, I don't miss them. In fact, I feel a strong desire to purge this collection. It'll make me feel better.
Interesting experience.
It's strange, going through decks. You feel like there ought to be more of them. I guess that's because I remember all the decks I've owned, and actually I've traded or given some of them away.
Also, I've done things to decks that I kind of wonder if I should have. Like cropping Touchstone. Writing on Druid Plant & Animal Oracle and on Haindl. At least with those, I can buy replacement decks cheap if I decide to, and use the ones written on as study decks only. I guess.
There are the favourites that I love and use all the time: Anna K, Druidcraft. Universal Waite.
The ones I look at and wonder what possessed me to buy them: Vision Quest, Tarot of a Moon Garden, Halloween Tarot, Tarot of the Old Path, Morgan's Tarot Deck. It's not that I don't like them, it's just, I don't know. I look at them and think, what the??
I used to love Roots of Asia, now I look at it and it just looks muddy to me, and the green borders are nauseating, and it STILL smells weird after two years. I have relegated it from its purpose-made bag back to its original box. Don't know what its fate is.
I think the most beautiful deck I own is Kat Black's Golden Tarot. Haindl is also beautiful, but for some reason it makes me feel sad. To me, it's a deck that is so emotionally complex, I can't describe it.
The one with the cardstock that I like least is Kat Black's Touchstone. I really hate the texture of those cards. I don't know why, I just don't like handling the deck. I like looking at it, just wish I didn't have to hold or shuffle it. They're grippy-like. But I'm odd because I actually like the super slick slidy indestructible US Games style lamination.
Then there are the ones that I get a sinking feeling about, because I know I will have to study hard to ever use them, and I feel almost sure I never will give them the study and care they deserve. The Herbal Tarot, Dame Fortune's Wheel, JC Flornoy's Jean Noblet Tarot, Shining Tribe, Haindl. Robert Place Buddha.
I used to think with tarot cards, the bigger the better. Now I find that if a deck feels big in my hand, I start trying to figure out a way to trim it. I do actually like smaller cards. They're easier to shuffle, and easier to lay out on a table.
I wonder what my collection will look like in a few years, and how my tastes and opinions will have changed. I know I don't have the space or inclination to keep every thing I ever buy or use, so a lot of what I have now may be long gone by then. I used to have: Lisa Hunt's Fairy Tale, Osho Zen, Rabbit Tarot 2nd edition, Bright Idea Deck, now they're gone. (Traded, given away or in the case of Bright Idea, chucked in the bin). I don't regret doing that, I don't miss them. In fact, I feel a strong desire to purge this collection. It'll make me feel better.
Interesting experience.
been there, done that quite a few times. The result of which has been sale threads on here!
