Best rated-G decks for use with seniors?

donnalee

I read with several decks for others online and for email lately, but as I start to see people for in-person readings again, it strikes me that many decks I use are simply not suitable for the very-sheltered senior citizens I deal with around here. Many are much older, very traditional, and religiously Jewish or Catholic, and I see that a lot of my decks have either lots of bare bosoms etc. (Lo Scarabeo, Pagan Tarot, Druidcraft) or are oriented as pagan (big overlap with nudity and paganism), or are simply too freaky in look and feel (Universal Fantasy, Dark Angel) for the mild tastes of someone innocent just trying it out because they like me and know me from around and want to see and hear something amusing. I could probably use the pagan cats mini and not give the name as pagan, and I have the Harmonious mini, which doesn't do so much for me, and I have the Hanson-Roberts from way back when but do not use it for reading for others.

Can anyone suggest nice rated-G/maximum a little PG decks that are not so childish or sanitised as to be twee and useless, please? I am looking for attractive artwork as opposed to childish drawings or completely computer-generated-looking. Basic RW is probably fine itself as one option, but I like to be able to offer the people a choice of decks that will suit them. Thanks for your ideas!
 

nisaba

:bugeyed: Gosh! It's senior citizens who INVENTED sex! Have you SEEN some of the literature and pornography of their generation - it puts ours in the shade!

Actually, most of mine are fairly tame - why not have a look at the collection in my profile? Tehre are codes after them indicating subcollections - one of those is erotic, if you want to know which decks to avoid first-up.
 

Chronata

Hanson Roberts would be my suggestion.

They are colorful and pretty...with no nudity. I read with them for Seniors all the time. Once in a while the Devil comes up...which is the only really scary looking card in the deck...but most of the time the religious older folks just "get" it.
 

donnalee

nisaba said:
:bugeyed: Gosh! It's senior citizens who INVENTED sex! Have you SEEN some of the literature and pornography of their generation - it puts ours in the shade!
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Not this crowd: I have worked with them for a couple of years in music and musical theatre here, and they have very rigid generational and cultural definitions of what's okay in public or with others: since I'm a generation or two behind them, the men actually don't tell bad jokes around me, and the women seem to behave well but act as if they are my parents or grandparents, even if it's not fully feasible agewise. Many have chatted with me personally about many aspects of life, but it isn't anti-smut feeling that they have so much as anti-'not-quite-nice-superstitious-stuff'-ness, so tarot itself is suspect and something that most of them will not even look at or admit to an interest in. Since I may be on the local tv station, some of them will feel compelled to give it a try to support me as someone they know and maybe as a token cool person on the local tv, but many would not have an idea what tarot is about, and might find anything even the slightest bit naked or spooky or whatehaveyou worrisome. That is why I wanted a deck or few that are so plain and artistic perhaps, so they could see it as a cultural thing and not superstitious or naughty--and forgive me, but your list of decks is vast beyond my powers of reduction!
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danieljuk

I am in no way saying that senior citizens are like children ;) but there is a long thread in the past on here, right here and has suggestions for kids. Some of them might work here too for ideas and inspiration.
 

donnalee

Chronata said:
Hanson Roberts would be my suggestion.

They are colorful and pretty...with no nudity. I read with them for Seniors all the time. Once in a while the Devil comes up...which is the only really scary looking card in the deck...but most of the time the religious older folks just "get" it.
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I have a set of my own from the 1984 printing which I do not use for reading for others, and I wondered if they still make it--somewhere here I had maybe read the paper they printed it on has gotten thin or something else has occurred that turned someone off of it. Do you know what that might be? Thanks for the suggestion--
 

Myrrha

The Faerie Tarot by Nathalie Hertz has very little nudity. I think there is one card where a person is nude but completely covered by her hair, even The Star is clothed. People have different ideas about what constitutes good art, Nathalie Hertz has a free, painterly, non-cartoonish style.

Stella's Tarot, if I remember right there isn't any nudity there but it does have a somewhat eerie look.

Botticelli tarot might have a nude or two but it's ART! This might be a good one for your audience as it will seem somewhat familiar. The devil card is a non-scary little faun.

It might be just as important to pick decks where the visual style is bold. I am getting on in years myself and really can't read any more with decks that have a lot of fine detail or where the whole image is a medium value without strong lights and darks.
 

donnalee

danieljuk said:
I am in no way saying that senior citizens are like children ;) but there is a long thread in the past on here, right here and has suggestions for kids. Some of them might work here too for ideas and inspiration.
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Then you don't know many seniors if you see no resemblance sometimes! ahahaha! Thank you for the link. I also wanted to know about decks that would be okay for the midteen crowd if they happen along at a venue I am reading at, so I'll poke in there.
 

nisaba

Chronata said:
Once in a while the Devil comes up...which is the only really scary looking card in the deck...but most of the time the religious older folks just "get" it.
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As, indeed, they "get" sexual imagery. :)
 

donnalee

Myrrha said:
The Faerie Tarot by Nathalie Hertz has very little nudity. I think there is one card where a person is nude but completely covered by her hair, even The Star is clothed. People have different ideas about what constitutes good art, Nathalie Hertz has a free, painterly, non-cartoonish style.

Stella's Tarot, if I remember right there isn't any nudity there but it does have a somewhat eerie look.

Botticelli tarot might have a nude or two but it's ART! This might be a good one for your audience as it will seem somewhat familiar. The devil card is a non-scary little faun.

It might be just as important to pick decks where the visual style is bold. I am getting on in years myself and really can't read any more with decks that have a lot of fine detail or where the whole image is a medium value without strong lights and darks.
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That's a good thought, since a lot of the folks around here do indeed have visual or hearing problems, so something easier to see makes sense. I will look at the ones suggested.
 
Another Steampunk deck... Tarot of Saqqara