SunChariot
Actually, I guess you could say what influenced me to buy my first Tarot deck was AT. It's also where I was able to look through all the decks and decide which one would be my first. Love AT for the role it's played in my life all these years.If any of you are "Mad Men" fans, you've no doubt noticed The Sun card from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck appears in the end credits of the show.
I was always curious about this and then I heard an interview with the creator of the show, Matthew Weiner where he explains it.
As a writer, he said he often used Tarot to sort of see the future of his characters, to help plot their next moves.
I thought that was amazing.
And that was when I took up Tarot myself and began with The Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Initially I saw reading Tarot as a way of making life more interesting, more magical, to use it to open the doors of my imagination, to spark creative thinking.
Anyway, that was my original start, my original inspiration with tarot. Can anyone else share their "origin story" of how they got into Tarot?
The longer story is it was in a time in my life where I was very very upset. Just lost the man who I felt was the true love of my life for the second time. He is still by far the person I have loved the most in my life.
But yeah, at the time I was very very upset. I was trying to find a way to deal with it and found fascade.com where they had computer generated readings. I did not at all believe in Tarot at the time and was pretty sure there was no way it could work. But was in enough pain to pretty much try anything that might relieve it.
So I started playing around on that site with the computer generated readings and surprisingly to me the cards were being wise and telling me the truth and giving me useful answers. Each and every time. That gave me enough to lift my skepticism enough.
One day there, I saw an ad for AT, and the minute I came over here and read a bit I KNEW I HAD to learn to read. I just knew I was meant to, and it has always been a huge part of who I am ever since I started too. And obviously I have full trust in it now. No more skepticism here.
Never heard of Mad Men though. No real idea what it is though. Never owned a Rider Waite either though. My first was the Haindl Tarot, which I found out later was Thoth based, not even RWS based. Made it a bit harder to learn. But I would not change a thing in my learning or Tarot experience.
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