Grizabella
Right now it's the Motherpeace tarot, of all things!
I bought a little hexagon shaped wooden box at the Dollar Tree a few years ago when I first found tarot and the thought entered my head "Hmmmm, the min-Motherpeace would fit in there." It was the only hexagon shaped box they had left so I bought it and half a dozen others because they'd fit regular tarot decks. I guess the reason the thought entered my mind was because it was the only a) round deck I knew of and b) was the only round mini. I've never been a feminist, so I've never particularly liked or paid attention to the Motherpeace and if anything, I disliked it. (My reasoning was crazy, I know.)
Anyway, recently elf/Satori offered me the mini in a trade. After all, if suddenly it was offered to me and she didn't even know about the little box, then it must be meant to be. I thought that, at long last, the deck to fill that little box had arrived and that would be the end of it. Once I got it, it felt so good in my hands! But I couldn't shuffle it.
My next thought was, "Hmmmm, I think I should get the bigger deck because I can't shuffle this little one." So I found a used one on Amazon for about 9 bucks and I thought, "Wow, a deck for 9 bucks! Better grab it." And then started wondering if there would be a used book and-----damn! One for $2.50! Only a fool could pass that one up. And after all, the images on the Motherpeace aren't that standard and I always like to have the book for a deck if I have the deck----and---and even though it's been in print for many years, it's kind of fallen out of favor and might go out of print.
So I got the book, too. And theeennnnn----I started kind of peeking into the book here and there----and it's really interesting---------
Soooooo!
I bought a little hexagon shaped wooden box at the Dollar Tree a few years ago when I first found tarot and the thought entered my head "Hmmmm, the min-Motherpeace would fit in there." It was the only hexagon shaped box they had left so I bought it and half a dozen others because they'd fit regular tarot decks. I guess the reason the thought entered my mind was because it was the only a) round deck I knew of and b) was the only round mini. I've never been a feminist, so I've never particularly liked or paid attention to the Motherpeace and if anything, I disliked it. (My reasoning was crazy, I know.)
Anyway, recently elf/Satori offered me the mini in a trade. After all, if suddenly it was offered to me and she didn't even know about the little box, then it must be meant to be. I thought that, at long last, the deck to fill that little box had arrived and that would be the end of it. Once I got it, it felt so good in my hands! But I couldn't shuffle it.
My next thought was, "Hmmmm, I think I should get the bigger deck because I can't shuffle this little one." So I found a used one on Amazon for about 9 bucks and I thought, "Wow, a deck for 9 bucks! Better grab it." And then started wondering if there would be a used book and-----damn! One for $2.50! Only a fool could pass that one up. And after all, the images on the Motherpeace aren't that standard and I always like to have the book for a deck if I have the deck----and---and even though it's been in print for many years, it's kind of fallen out of favor and might go out of print.
So I got the book, too. And theeennnnn----I started kind of peeking into the book here and there----and it's really interesting---------
Soooooo!
. But the more I use it, the more I'm drawn to it...the simplicity of it is exactly what gives it merit. It's refreshing to use a simplistic deck without all of the overly-detailed imagery found in so many decks. But there's just enough detail to give my intuition a springboard.