Introduction!
I am a student of Tarot and Lenormand—though more with tarot. My journey began in earnest in 2019, and despite a number of interruptions, continues. The main reason why I chose to learn the tarot is because I've always had a fascination with it. Every opportunity I had, I got tarot readings from readers whom I chanced upon at fan conventions and pagan parties I went to. If I had money, I paid for those readings, because they all proved to be quite accurate to my life and situations, even if the readings didn't address the question I actually asked.
Years ago, before I moved out of the home I shared with my "Christian" mother, I determined I'd someday learn to read the tarot. Already at that time, I had an understanding she would not approve of that occult practice, even though she didn't then and does not now have any conception of what tarot represents. She would object to certain of the cards without any idea what they meant, and wouldn't have any interest in learning what they tell the educated reader of them.
My personal experience with tarot cards of my own began over a decade ago. I purchased a number of decks from various locations, including a Barnes & Noble nearby where I lived. However, I made few efforts at learning to read them, though I did purchase books for such education. I wasn't ready, for a number of reasons, and even purged a number of decks I owned when I foolishly joined the Catholic Church and fell down the hole of zealotry.
But I always returned to the tarot. If not in getting readings, I'd take out the one deck I kept from that purge and go through the cards, absorbing the artwork. This deck, Gilded Tarot, was the first one I ever got—so long ago I've forgotten just where. All I remember is that I fell in love with the artwork I saw in example on the back of the Gilded Tarot box while browsing decks in a store and decided then and there to purchase the deck, even though I hadn't really planned on getting a tarot deck that day. That deck is now rather scuffed, but it's still well-loved. I don't think I'll ever fall out of love with that deck, and it still remains one of my favorites to this day.
Since that purge, I've replaced the decks I got rid of with new ones. I think I had maybe three or four decks at the time of the purge, and I have forgotten what all but one of the three I gave away were. The one I could recall, the Egyptian Tarot, I could not for the longest time find in a full-size version, but I'm happy to say the company that prints them created a new edition of them. I miss the artwork on the backs of the old deck I had, but still appreciate the artwork on the backs of the new deck.
More recently, I've backed a number of decks on Kickstarter. I have become a collector of tarot decks and intend to use all the decks for readings. With my purchase of the Gilded Tarot I became a lover of the art to be found in tarot, not just the use the cards can be put to. As of the date of this post, I have 14 or 15 decks of various sizes and styles, including decks that include oracle cards as well as the standard decks of tarot cards. I even have a version of the RWS deck that so many readers swear by, and that so many of the books on tarot reading I've found use as their exemplar cards—one that took me years to find because the artwork did not originally attract me until I saw the version of the cards my fiancee owns and hunted it down online since it wasn't available locally.
Though I am agnostic in a religious sense, I've enjoyed collecting my decks, and learning about tarot. I'm looking forward to working with my decks, and getting to know them well—until they are all scuffed and flexible from use.
Years ago, before I moved out of the home I shared with my "Christian" mother, I determined I'd someday learn to read the tarot. Already at that time, I had an understanding she would not approve of that occult practice, even though she didn't then and does not now have any conception of what tarot represents. She would object to certain of the cards without any idea what they meant, and wouldn't have any interest in learning what they tell the educated reader of them.
My personal experience with tarot cards of my own began over a decade ago. I purchased a number of decks from various locations, including a Barnes & Noble nearby where I lived. However, I made few efforts at learning to read them, though I did purchase books for such education. I wasn't ready, for a number of reasons, and even purged a number of decks I owned when I foolishly joined the Catholic Church and fell down the hole of zealotry.
But I always returned to the tarot. If not in getting readings, I'd take out the one deck I kept from that purge and go through the cards, absorbing the artwork. This deck, Gilded Tarot, was the first one I ever got—so long ago I've forgotten just where. All I remember is that I fell in love with the artwork I saw in example on the back of the Gilded Tarot box while browsing decks in a store and decided then and there to purchase the deck, even though I hadn't really planned on getting a tarot deck that day. That deck is now rather scuffed, but it's still well-loved. I don't think I'll ever fall out of love with that deck, and it still remains one of my favorites to this day.
Since that purge, I've replaced the decks I got rid of with new ones. I think I had maybe three or four decks at the time of the purge, and I have forgotten what all but one of the three I gave away were. The one I could recall, the Egyptian Tarot, I could not for the longest time find in a full-size version, but I'm happy to say the company that prints them created a new edition of them. I miss the artwork on the backs of the old deck I had, but still appreciate the artwork on the backs of the new deck.
More recently, I've backed a number of decks on Kickstarter. I have become a collector of tarot decks and intend to use all the decks for readings. With my purchase of the Gilded Tarot I became a lover of the art to be found in tarot, not just the use the cards can be put to. As of the date of this post, I have 14 or 15 decks of various sizes and styles, including decks that include oracle cards as well as the standard decks of tarot cards. I even have a version of the RWS deck that so many readers swear by, and that so many of the books on tarot reading I've found use as their exemplar cards—one that took me years to find because the artwork did not originally attract me until I saw the version of the cards my fiancee owns and hunted it down online since it wasn't available locally.
Though I am agnostic in a religious sense, I've enjoyed collecting my decks, and learning about tarot. I'm looking forward to working with my decks, and getting to know them well—until they are all scuffed and flexible from use.
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