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MatPoint said:I got the Playing oracles set. I have just flipped some pages and I found the meanings quite complex maybe that's because I haven't read the book paying attention to details
I hadnt planned to get into cartomancy with playing cards, but picked up just the Playing Card Oracle deck in my local esoteric shop and found the LWB inadequate, but the images appealed to me.... I ordered the book off amazon and can now say that the book is essential. It has to be read cover to cover to make sense, and there is an excellent historical context of playing cards for games AND divination...
I have quite a few interesting historical playing card decks in my collection and I guess that once I become more familiar with the meanings and structure and can read them and do the geomantic calculations more effortlessly. I shall switch to a deck with artwork which I like more...
Good luck... I have actually read the Hedgwytchery stuff and felt that this too was interesting and a system which one could build on. The secret, I suppose, is to be able to grasp an entire system and understand how it works rather than random card meanings. This - for me - is just too taxing. When random meanings have to be mechanically memorised.
You probably know this already; but best to choose a single system and stick with it... and not flit around and get lost Good luck...