Pam O
To be honest, I'm a bit miffed by people who say a digital deck cannot compare like it is a universal truth, because I spent my first year of tarot reading from Orphalese (and getting damn good readings, at that). I couldn't afford a physical deck because they're expensive and I was a poor college student, and I couldn't risk bringing one home anyway because my religious family would have had a fit. If it wasn't for Orphalese I would never have gotten into tarot in the first place because it was a safe, accessible route to dip my toes in.
I definitely understand why others might personally prefer physical decks, but to say someone could not learn from a digital deck leaves me feeling like, what, that year I spent on Orphalese wasn't real? Didn't count for anything? If people are signing up to AT having only used apps or digital decks thus far, then good for them. They found an affordable route to start getting into a really great practice, and I think that making tarot more accessible is wonderful.
Hey Kees! You have great points here. I'm guessing you may just have expanded the view of some of the older generation that grew up without electronic software everywhere..... Just because we love the feel, and the energy, of paper decks, that doesn't necessarily mean it is the only way!
I have pulled cards digitally for a couple of reading exchanges here. They both got good feedback from my exchange partners. (Neither knew they were digital, but I only pulled the cards, and I read the cards intuitively, not using any companion book info.)
I remember someone doing a thread of digital reading exchanges for feedback to see if digital read as well as paper? I am trying to remember who did the thread? I am guessing the thread might have been back in 2013...