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I have six decsk but only use a two of them in a semi-regular basis.
My first Tarot is an hybryd copy of the rider-waite. To this day its my favorite. It even has some cards obviously influenced by Frank Frazetta's paintings.
Then I have the Dali Tarot, I wouldnt recomend it since it doesnt have the name of the cards except for the major arcana and some of the correspondences (to me) seem wrong. And it usually gets the situation backwards or not at all. Also the scenes are not Dali's own drawings but collages form different artists from different eras.
The Legend deck(Arthurian tarot) its fairly ok, althougt Im not quite pleased with The wheel being a dream of Arthur instead of the round Table and other minor changes. But Perceval is the Fool and Merlin the Magician so.... Its a good deck sometimes a little bit vague but it can be used by anyone, and it makes you look cool (in some circles any way). It boasts Galahad as the knight of cups and animal as the pages of each suit, serpents, badger, rabbit and some other animal.
The Celtic Dragon Tarot. Now I have very mixed feeling with this deck. On one hand its beautifully painted and its great for begginers. It worked for me from the first time I used it without any preparation, and it was accurate too!. But (and this is the same with the Lengend deck) it has the elements reversed: Wands are air and Swords are fire. Also it has a very feministic approach and some of the major arcana have women instead of men as is the case of the magician and others, and the companion book kind of misses the mark on several meanings (and descriptions!) but I dont have my deck with me so I cant go into further detail.
Then there is the Lord of the Rings deck. Actually it couls have been better but the scenes are so small because its also a card game, so they are nothing more that a very small square of about 6 cm * 3 cm. Some correspondences are taken from the hobbit and the Silmarillion and do not always match correctly.
And last but not least is the Toth deck (by Crowley). And enough has been said about this one.
I usually use my first deck and Thot ones. They have the highest rate of accuracy, or that's what my freind tell me when I do a reading for them but when it comes to me I can only see the present (gee, thanks for telling me exactly what I know).
Oh yeah, the missing animal from the Legend deck is a salmon. |
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