Choosing Your Own Deck

Choosing Your Own
TAROT DECK

If you are an experienced Reader, (meaning that you already have the different interpretations of the cards memorized right-side-up and upside-down,) just about any deck will do. You are free to choose any deck whose art and subject matter pleases you the most.

However, if you are new to Tarot or still need the book occasionally, then you need to look closely at the different decks available BEFORE you make your possibly expensive, investment.

Try to avoid buying decks that you can't examine. 

Some decks that are labeled as Tarot decks don't possess a Minor Arcana, only the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana. These decks are Oracles. You would use these decks in addition to a tarot reading in progress. Your Querent pulls a card from your Oracle to add meaning and depth to the cards already laid out during their actual Tarot Reading. 

Before you buy...!

Look at the cards and see if their picture or illustration are monotonous or repeat.

Far too many Tarot decks have beautifully illustrated Major Arcana or Trumps but the Minor Arcana cards have a picture of two coins on the Two of Coins, three coins on the Three of Coins, etc. and that's all. Maybe they have a pretty background, but not a whole lot of anything else.

Unless you are very familiar with the meanings of the different cards, this repetition could cause a lot of frustration when you go to do Readings at the local coffee shoppe. If you have to pull out the book for each and every card, you will end up taking up a lot of time flipping through pages. Nor is this conducive to the questioner's confidence in their Reader.

Look at the pictures and see if you can deduce the meanings of the cards by the pictures alone. 

THIS is what you are looking for. 

If you've found a deck you can easily read, but the art or subject matter isn't quite to your liking, or the price is just a little too steep, keep looking!

Each deck has it's own flavor; whether it's Kabbalistic, Pagan, Christian, based on fantasy novels by a beloved author or based on Feminism and Folklore. There are almost unlimited types of Tarot decks out there to suit anyone's taste and level of experience.

Just keep looking! You'll thank yourself in the long run. 

Or...

You could make your own by drawing on some index cards. This is something I did, twice now.

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