i want a tarot card deck

[Pamuya]

k i have it narrowed down to two, only two decks! but.....one is in chinese and the other isn't. D: and the chinese one is also 45! dollars.

archeon deck

der-jen deck

so which do you like better? :D :buki:

[Samurai Drifter]

The archeon deck has a cooler name, but der-jen has better art. Thus I voted der-jen.

Hey, alot of thought went into it.

[Pamuya]

The archeon deck has a cooler name, but der-jen has better art. Thus I voted der-jen.

Hey, alot of thought went into it.

yeah i am so hawt for those two ladies :buki:

[ccblazer44]

I voted Archeon because I really like the justice card, but I don't know if that is enough to choose the whole deck now that I think about it.

[Galkar]

Ther der-jen has WAY better art I think.

[amy]

I like der-jen better too but if it were me i'd be like "45 dollars, no way"~

[No Sad Endings]

If this is your first deck, then I HIGHLY, STRONGLY, VERY MUCH recomend you get a rider-waite based deck rather than something like that. Tarot of a Moon Garden is very beautiful, it's the one I was using before the Amano deck.

[Pamuya]

If this is your first deck, then I HIGHLY, STRONGLY, VERY MUCH recomend you get a rider-waite based deck rather than something like that. Tarot of a Moon Garden is very beautiful, it's the one I was using before the Amano deck.

whats that mean vampy

OMG YOU HAVE THE AMANO DECK?? I WANT.

[No Sad Endings]

The Rider-Waite deck is the most commonly used tarot deck. When people think of tarot they usually think of that deck, and when you see tarot cards in shows and anime and stuff they're usually Rider-Waite cards. The Rider-Waite deck is a really good one, because of the depth of the symbolism on the cards, and the fact that all of the cards, major and minor arcana, are illustrated. This makes them much easier to read than other cards, and much more intuitive than other cards.

These days there are a bazillion decks based on the Rider-Waite, so they have most of the same symbolism, and the minor arcana is fully illustrated. Take a 4 of swords that just has a picture of 4 swords on it compared to a 4 of swords with a picture of a unicorn protecting a fallen knight, barred on the other side with four swords. You can read the later much more easily.

A beginner's deck should really be based on the Rider-Waite. My first deck was the Moon Garden deck, and I highly recommend it. The Amano deck is beautiful, but so not a beginner's deck.

This is the Rider-Waite deck, on the site you're using.

And this is Moon Garden.

There are lots more. Usually on most sites the description will say whether it's based on the Rider-Waite or not.

[Wind]

I like them both alot.

Although Ancient Chinese culture / history is so awesome.

[Dramatic Conclusion]

Not that I come from a huge line of psychics (two of my aunts make money on the side doing tea leaves and tarot cards), but I was always taught, to pick the deck that you just like/feel more comfortable with. Ignore the price, this is an investment in yourself, especially if you plan to use the deck a lot.

Anyone can learn any deck. There is honestly no *true* beginner's or advanced deck, they just draw extra symbols on the cards and pretend they're extra shiny. Each card will ALWAYS have infinite symbolism. Hell, a normal playing card deck can be used for readings.

[JesusTheNinja]

I prefer the first one, personaly. Though, if you could get one illistrated by Amano, I'd buy it.

[Kreutz]

I loled. Are tarot cards a new fad or something? Next thing you know they'll be playing with ouija boards and selling their souls to demons.

[Dramatic Conclusion]

I loled. Are tarot cards a new fad or something? Next thing you know they'll be playing with ouija boards and selling their souls to demons.

Suddenly a new fad? O_o Maybe it seems that way, but every winter, they set up those tarot card/spiritual booths at the mall. I haven't heard of an actual fad sweeping over. Tarot cards take work to learn to give decent/fun readings.

Even if they are a fad, I have no complaint of the masses being introduced to the beautiful art and mythology/legends behind the cards.

[Belial]

Archeon, just because it reminds me of Mage: The Awakening.

[Gundampilotspaz]

I loled. Are tarot cards a new fad or something? Next thing you know they'll be playing with ouija boards and selling their souls to demons.

To each his own.

[Arcane]

I like the hot nekkid priestess in Archeon. And it has a cool name. It gets my vote.

[margot]

der-jen is so pretty!

[No Sad Endings]

To each his own.

I thought you liked symbolism, GPS.

Anyone can learn any deck. There is honestly no *true* beginner's or advanced deck, they just draw extra symbols on the cards and pretend they're extra shiny. Each card will ALWAYS have infinite symbolism. Hell, a normal playing card deck can be used for readings.

Well that's totally true, however, I totally get more out of tarot cards in general thanks to all the personal reactions I had to the pictures on the the minor arcana on my original deck. There's a lot more intuitive possibility on something where every card is illustrated. Plus, from a collectors pov, there are more pretty pictures to look at.

[Pamuya]

*totally confused*

the archeon deck comes with a nice book too tho vampy

[Raven]

Archeon! Those cards are really pretty @_@

*pets*

[No Sad Endings]

*totally confused*

the archeon deck comes with a nice book too tho vampy

It looks like it's probably not quite a standard deck. That in no way makes it not a worthy deck, mind, but it will make it harder for you to just go get a new deck willy nilly if you want to start collecting.

[No Sad Endings]

Shit I just wrote this long ass reply and lost it. I hate my fucking life.

I was saying that the Rider-Waite stuff isn't complicated or anything, it's just that there was this group of mystics (I think it was the Golden Dawn, but I don't pay a whole lot of attention to these things,) in the late 1800s I think it was, that made a tarot deck which people took to rather wholeheartedly, and so most popular decks today are based on the symbolism from that deck.

In some ways that's a bad thing, I guess, but in many ways it's a good thing. Makes it easy to go between decks, for one thing. And for another, the symbolism and illustrations are very detailed. This makes it easy for a person to draw intuitive conclusions from just looking at a card in one particular reading.

For instance, take King of Cups. Say my eye is drawn to the ship in the background behind the king while I'm doing a reading for someone asking about a love interest. That might make me say the person they're pining after is gone away traveling (or if it's in the future, is going to go away traveling.) You see what I mean?

[Anime Gee]

Tarot cards scare me!! :ohmy:

[Pamuya]

ive decided to get one of the traditional ones and the archeon, cause its just so pretty. that way i can practice on the eh one and then get used to the other one :D