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[Suu]

Okay Tarot ladies...

I'm going to buy a deck, most likely the Rider-Waite, because I want to do an interpretation of my own deck (It was requested of me YEARS ago and I was like...goddamn that's a lot of cards...)

Other than the Rider-Waite, what is another popular deck to base artwork on?

[Freeky]

Babylon: I drew six cards, and got the following pairs: The Sun/Nine of pentacles, Ace of Pentacles rev/Two of pentacles, Page of cups rev/Eight of Cups.

I'm thinking that your wife recently finished a project, on which she did a good job and had some glee and pride in having done so. Possibly.
Now she's getting prepared to start stuff on her next project and putting in a lot of time doing research, maybe. It could be that soon she'll be doing a lot of daydreaming, trying to figure out better ways to do her project.


[/self concious]

[BabylonHoruv]

Okay Tarot ladies...

I'm going to buy a deck, most likely the Rider-Waite, because I want to do an interpretation of my own deck (It was requested of me YEARS ago and I was like...goddamn that's a lot of cards...)

Other than the Rider-Waite, what is another popular deck to base artwork on?

I'm also a professional reader and not a lady (I'm a whore, plus I'm a male)

Aliester Crowley's book of Thoth is probably the second most widely used deck after Rider Waite.

[BabylonHoruv]

Babylon: I drew six cards, and got the following pairs: The Sun/Nine of pentacles, Ace of Pentacles rev/Two of pentacles, Page of cups rev/Eight of Cups.

I'm thinking that your wife recently finished a project, on which she did a good job and had some glee and pride in having done so. Possibly.
Now she's getting prepared to start stuff on her next project and putting in a lot of time doing research, maybe. It could be that soon she'll be doing a lot of daydreaming, trying to figure out better ways to do her project.


[/self concious]

Not quite, this is how you learn though (IE by making mistakes)

My wife is a screenwriter, she has finished the writing part but is doing the selling part now.  Things are going slowly and she is currently out in California trying to make them move along.

We definitely reached a concluding point in the project recently, as they finally signed a paper that obligates them to give her money, and she is out there trying to get ahold of that money right now. (I do notice a lot of pentacles, which relate to money, so that both makes sense with the theme of my question and augers well for things working)

Did you assign specific meanings to each position?

Also if I take that as a shortly future thing (as in she'll have concluded her project shortly and be doing planning/daydreaming for the next one soon) It is exactly what I'd been hoping for, which is very much the sort of thing that gets you repeat customers, if your predictions end up being accurate.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Thoth is pretty.

There's a Radiant Rider-Waite on Amazon for $14 right now. It's just basically got more depth and shading than the original. Most of the other decks are based on the Rider-Waite, except for the full-blown New Age hippie ones that just go off in a totally different direction.

[BabylonHoruv]

There's basically three threads in Tarot Decks

The Waite deck is the most widely used, especcially if you include the vast number of derivatives

Book of Thoth is second, and also has quite a few derivatives

Then there is the Tarot De Marseilles, which is older than those two, and less widely used.  Personally I am not crazy about it becuase while Waite and Crowley have illustrations on each card the Marseilles deck just has the number of pips on each of the minor arcana cards.  It doesn't look all that different from a poker deck.  There are derivatives from it as well though and it is the oldest of the three decks and thus the most "traditional"

Each of these three has their own way of being organized and read, this includes their derivatives, so, for instance, Mistress Freeky's Celtic Dragon deck is based on the Waite deck and can be read in roughly the same way.

Also, as Nigel said there are some random new age decks that try to be something completely new.  The only one that I have found interesting so far is the round deck (I can't remember the name right now) that includes different ways of reading the cards based on different angles than just upright and reversed, since a round card can be at any angle.

[Jenne]

I second the Thoth as popular.  Though I read someone on EB&G saying it wasn't for "playing around."  Pish posh.

Anyway, I recently passed on this deck to my cousin as it was great to learn on.  I have the Scapini tarot for myself, it was my first deck ever, and difficult to learn on but great to use for me atm, though I am seeking another that grabs me.

[BabylonHoruv]

I second the Thoth as popular.  Though I read someone on EB&G saying it wasn't for "playing around."  Pish posh.

Anyway, I recently passed on this deck to my cousin as it was great to learn on.  I have the Scapini tarot for myself, it was my first deck ever, and difficult to learn on but great to use for me atm, though I am seeking another that grabs me.

Some people don't think any tarot deck is for playing around.  Crowley himself, who designed the Thoth deck, did an awful lot of playing around with other people's sacred traditions, so it seems only appropriate to play around with his deck.  I personally prefer the Waite or Marseilles deck for playing card games with since the pips are the same from one card to another, making it easier to tell at a glance which suit a card is in.  Crowley has different shapes to the swords, wands, cups and disks from one card to another.

[Jenne]

I second the Thoth as popular.  Though I read someone on EB&G saying it wasn't for "playing around."  Pish posh.

Anyway, I recently passed on this deck to my cousin as it was great to learn on.  I have the Scapini tarot for myself, it was my first deck ever, and difficult to learn on but great to use for me atm, though I am seeking another that grabs me.

Some people don't think any tarot deck is for playing around.  Crowley himself, who designed the Thoth deck, did an awful lot of playing around with other people's sacred traditions, so it seems only appropriate to play around with his deck.  I personally prefer the Waite or Marseilles deck for playing card games with since the pips are the same from one card to another, making it easier to tell at a glance which suit a card is in.  Crowley has different shapes to the swords, wands, cups and disks from one card to another.

This all makes perfect sense!

Also, it amazes me sometimes, with the level of TFY,S and all-out cynicism we all display here how many of us actually are quite knowledgable and whatnot with tarot. *shrug*  Guess I really should cease to be amazed if I actually HAD that requisite level of TFY, S etc.

...but on the other hand, maybe it's good, too.

[Suu]

Ooh, I like the Radiant Rider-Waite. I think I'll pick that one up.

[Triple Zero]

Okay Tarot ladies...

I'm going to buy a deck, most likely the Rider-Waite, because I want to do an interpretation of my own deck (It was requested of me YEARS ago and I was like...goddamn that's a lot of cards...)

Other than the Rider-Waite, what is another popular deck to base artwork on?

For that purpose "Universal Waite" might be better than Rider-Waite.

The prints from Rider-Waite are maybe the originals, but they lack a lot of detail. Red splotches that are supposed to be specific kinds of fruit (which is explained in Mr Waite's Tarot book) and things like that: http://learntarot.com/cards.htm

Universal Waite are exactly the same cards but completely redrawn with a lot more detail and accurate shadings and such, so you can actually tell from most things what's going on.

On the other hand, if you want to make your own deck, it's maybe more useful to do it from the Waite Tarot book, than from the cards itself. I think it is called "A Pictorial Guide to Tarot" or something. That one has two or three pages explaining most of the symbolic imagery on every card, so you don't have to end up just copying the imagery, but can substitute in other things that symbolize the same concept to you personally. If you get my drift.

[Triple Zero]

I didn't know the Radiant Waite version, it seems it's kind of the same idea as Universal Waite.

Except that ..

waite for it ..

the colours are more radiant

SORRY I COULDNT RESIST

anyway, I found aeclectic.net often gives good reviews of different Tarot decks, so you can compare:

http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/universal-waite/
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/radiant-rider-waite/

and, together with the explanations on learntarot.com, the individual cards, suits, numbers and majors explanations on aeclectic.net form the largest parts of my knowledge of tarot cards interpretation. what I mean is, I can recommend both.

[Dysnomia]

Freakeh-

What do things look like with my friendships?

[NotPublished]

Okay Tarot ladies...

I'm going to buy a deck, most likely the Rider-Waite, because I want to do an interpretation of my own deck (It was requested of me YEARS ago and I was like...goddamn that's a lot of cards...)

Other than the Rider-Waite, what is another popular deck to base artwork on?

"Mystic Dreamer" by Barbara Moore, each card is just so awesome. I don't do any tarot readings, but I like looking at the pictures they give me inspiration sometimes.

http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=tarot%20%22mystic%20dreamer%22%20barbara%20moore&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi - google image search

http://www.mysticgoddess.org/images/Tarot%20Mystic%20Dreamer.jpg - small shot; im sure you can get a better idea on the search anyhow

[Freeky]

SPS: I drew the 7 of cups, six of swords, and 7 of pentacles, and the the 4 of swords, knight of wands, and 4 of wands

the first three, to me, looked like the answer to your question, and the next three seem like its more advicey, so I'll leave off on that until you say yay/nay...

Maybe you're a bit confused by something, a choice possibly you have to make. Next card, to me, gives off this "I'ma conquer!" vibe, so maybe you're confident elsewhere, or you're thinking of making a conquest out of somebody. The seven of pentacles to me is saying "Chill out," so maybe everyone around you, or you yourself, is laidback about things.