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My first wasn't a tarot deck. It was an oracle deck by Angela Mcgerr, in 2003. I pulled them out in January of 2004, at around 6am, after a good day, some exercise, a shower and a good movie, and tried a few readings for my family and myself, using a spread in the book. The readings came true within the next week... the cards had predicted that my family would get sick, but I wouldn't and that was the case. (They all caught colds.) I also had the Faery oracle - not Froud's, but the cute little one, from the same woman who created Good Witch, Bad Witch.
I barely used them. When reading the newest Harry Potter book in July 2005, a discussion started on another forum (astrology), that also included Tarot. I'd visited this site a couple of times, but hadn't stuck around, because I thought that tarot reading would be beyond me. I was around that time that I read about the DruidCraft - I saw the images on the main website, and just felt drawn to them. It was the same with the Faeries. From that point on, I was obsessed with getting both decks, but I thought we couldn't afford to buy anything, what with money usually being so tight. Had I known that my mother would splurge on a HayHouse deep discount sale, buying me the Oracle tarot, and a small pile of books, I would have just asked her for the DruidCraft upfront. But the Oracle Tarot became special to me, as well, and produced just the right cards, a few nights before Christmas, when I was trying to relax during a stressful time (two dogs having regular seizures, amongst other things). I spent a lot of time here, between August of 2005, and some time in 2006, read the threads about the journeying tarot deck (World Spirit), threads in the Faeries forum, and the Divination forum.
When I first received my tarot cards, I felt oddly flat. They just looked like pretty pictures... I didn't have the same feeling that I'd received from looking at the site, until I started to use them the next month, in January. I started to work with the Faeries, the day after Christmas, but didn't get past the first two exercises. I loved them, though, and used them for my second birthday reading in 2006 (the first being the one I'd used the first little faery oracle for, on my 30th, in 2005). I barely touched my Universal Waite until the second half of 2008, and even though I loved my DC, I started to use the Fairytale for daily draws after my birthday in 2006... I think I would have been better off with just the one, as I've read about from others here, rather than automatically jumping into deck polyamory. Those are my favourites, though - ones I always go back to.
I barely used them. When reading the newest Harry Potter book in July 2005, a discussion started on another forum (astrology), that also included Tarot. I'd visited this site a couple of times, but hadn't stuck around, because I thought that tarot reading would be beyond me. I was around that time that I read about the DruidCraft - I saw the images on the main website, and just felt drawn to them. It was the same with the Faeries. From that point on, I was obsessed with getting both decks, but I thought we couldn't afford to buy anything, what with money usually being so tight. Had I known that my mother would splurge on a HayHouse deep discount sale, buying me the Oracle tarot, and a small pile of books, I would have just asked her for the DruidCraft upfront. But the Oracle Tarot became special to me, as well, and produced just the right cards, a few nights before Christmas, when I was trying to relax during a stressful time (two dogs having regular seizures, amongst other things). I spent a lot of time here, between August of 2005, and some time in 2006, read the threads about the journeying tarot deck (World Spirit), threads in the Faeries forum, and the Divination forum.
When I first received my tarot cards, I felt oddly flat. They just looked like pretty pictures... I didn't have the same feeling that I'd received from looking at the site, until I started to use them the next month, in January. I started to work with the Faeries, the day after Christmas, but didn't get past the first two exercises. I loved them, though, and used them for my second birthday reading in 2006 (the first being the one I'd used the first little faery oracle for, on my 30th, in 2005). I barely touched my Universal Waite until the second half of 2008, and even though I loved my DC, I started to use the Fairytale for daily draws after my birthday in 2006... I think I would have been better off with just the one, as I've read about from others here, rather than automatically jumping into deck polyamory. Those are my favourites, though - ones I always go back to.