If you would like to learn to read tarot cards, your first challenge is to choose a deck from the 8,000 or so published brands of fortune telling cards on the market. What works for one person often doesn’t for another. Some people are comfortable reading several decks and others just identify with one deck. In my experience you will find that over time, you will grow in and out of several decks. You may also find that the deck that you prefer to use to read yourself is not the deck that you prefer to use read others.
For instance, when I first began reading I started out with a deck that was too heavy for me – The Crowley Deck. The ultimate result of that was that I ended up selling them because I was spooked out the images of the deck. I was simply too young to handle the imagery on this dark deck and was giving myself nightmares. I then switched to the Rider Waite Deck for a few years, which is the ultimate easy, all -purpose deck. I then fell in love with the Renaissance Deck which is much more elaborate in terms of it’s imagery and a bit more pointed in its meanings when it came to describing relationships. Then I entered a period when I was yearning for more simplicity, I switched to the Palladini deck, which is very pure and has a “lighter feeling.” (Kind of like the Pollyanna of Tarot Decks.) Now that I am older, I am back to the Crowley Deck and the Order of the Golden Stair decks, which are a little heavier in feel.
There are also lots of specialty or eclectic decks on the market that might appeal to you more than the Rider Waite, but learning the Rider Waite is like going to high school. Psychic Realm reader Bacchus for instance, uses the Haindl deck for his readings, which has a Nordic feel and is a permutation of the classic Rider-Waite deck, but as wonderful as it is, I don’t think it is a beginner deck.
Here are some good decks I can recommend for beginners that are based on the Rider Waite System of meanings.
The Rider Waite Deck
The Aquatic Tarot – the same as the Rider Waite but realized in watercolors
The Pamela Colman Tarot – the same imagery as the Rider Waite but done in brighter more psychedelic colors
The Golden Tarot – the same as Rider Waite but the imagery is more medieval
The Palladini Tarot – the same as Rider Waite but with very simple, cheerful drawings
The Renaissance Tarot – the same as Rider Waited but enhanced with images from the Renaissance age.
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