Thoughtful
Well l mention the three because on the box l looked at it says comes with the three magus. Won't matter much either way as long as l have one ![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
The art is beautiful, unique, fascinating. You can approach it from many angles, it's never pedestrian or boring. There is not one weak card in the whole deck.
...One thing puzzles me, why do some decks have 3 Magus cards and what is their purpose in a reading, would you keep them all in the deck for a reading.
...NO decks put out nowadays have all three, BTW.
I'm too dumb to read with the Thoth - but it is so beautiful - I have several copies and was eyeing the newest one with a green border. :-
Aleister Crowley said:"the Tarot will lose all its vitality for one who allows himself to be side-tracked by its pedantry."
What a lovely post, Zephyros.But the Thoth can be used in any way, at any level. I myself owned it for years and years and used it only by the short explanations given by Harris in the LWB and the titles. In fact, as passionate as I am now about using it "by the book," I used to be just as passionate about using it the exactly opposite way, and I did that for a much longer time.
I know the Thoth forum can be a bit "highbrow" at times, giving the impression that the deck is solely in the realm of the elitists. Heaven knows I myself am guilty of not a little pretentiousness. But beyond all such triviality lies the deck itself which is quite above such concerns. It laughs at the petty attempts of armchair occultists such as myself that claim to use it "right," I can assure you. Even if you do everything I myself would be scandalized at, it is still several cuts above any other deck. Please, use it, have fun with it, abuse it to death. It will always surprise and challenge you.
From what I know of you, you're exactly the opposite of dumb.![]()
I know the Thoth forum can be a bit "highbrow" at times,
I frequent a Tarot group full of Thothies... I'm sure this will rub off properly eventually maybe.
('London Tarot Study Group' found on the social media site "Meetup" - in London)
*envious* I hadn't heard of Meet up before... unfortunately nothing, not a whisper of any Tarot groups at all in my area. There is generally meditation and positive thinking type things though and at the other end a traditional witchcraft group with associated coven. rural witches.....curious.
*envious* I hadn't heard of Meet up before... unfortunately nothing, not a whisper of any Tarot groups at all in my area. There is generally meditation and positive thinking type things though and at the other end a traditional witchcraft group with associated coven. rural witches.....curious.
I signed up to (and paid for) Meet-up for a while when I was trying to get a group going locally, but all I could find was meditation and yoga classes, with some wiccan groups a bit farther away. Zero action in the areas of tarot and astrology, my main interests, and nobody responded to my posts. So I dropped it.