Tarot decks come in all different sizes and shapes, and personally I think that's something to celebrate! So let's chat about our favorite minis, giants, round decks, hexagonal decks, and whatever weird and wonderful decks you love.
Hooray! We need a thread like this!
With me, circular decks are the challenging ones to shuffle. The mini-Motherpeace is kinda-okay, though awkward, and I love it for sentimental reasons - I hardly ever use it. The full-sized Cloisters takes a .ot of room on the table and because of its circularity it's hard to shuffle, but I adore it.
These are my Osho Zen minis. It's a majors-only set that came in the back of a book called Tarot and the Spirit of Zen or something like that. You had to punch them out, so they have pleasantly rough edges.
I have a mini-Tarot Nova like that! The cards are two centimetres tall (less than one inch) by one centimetre wide (less than half an inch). When the deck is lying in a neat pile, the pile is actually taller than the individual cards are! The only way to shuffle it is to put the whole deck in your cupped hands, shake it, and toss it onto a table. Then I read where they fall, reading from the centre outwards, and reading only those who land with their faces up. I read as many cards as I need, and forget the rest. A Celtic Cross can be laid out comfortably on a serving-spoon. Putting the deck back together takes a long, long time because the cards are so small and fiddly. I now wish I'd bought two of them, so I could wide-wrap them and wear them as earrings!
So what are some of your favorites?
I didn't mind the Tiny Tarot, a copy of the RW deck specifically made to be hung from a keychain, It was in a translucent plastic box, and I consciously chose the cards that showed on each side. The plastic wore out, though, and it no longer hangs from my keyring <sob>.
On the other end of the spectrum is the Cary-Yale Visconti, measuring ... <gets out deck and ruler> 19cm by 10cm. I have the most gorgeous deep-indigo velvet bag I keep it in - I have *no* memory where or when I got the bag. At that size, it is bigger than many paperback books, and although it's printed on the same cardstock that the same publisher uses for other decks, because it's longer it feels more flimsy and bendy (just as when my hair is supershort it feels spiky but when I grow it out, it's soft). This has got to be one of my most personally valued decks.
