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Satori said:I agree with you that just transferring the minors to the PC's is cheating,
Seeing that Etteilla transferred the PC's french suits to the italian suits of the minors I don't see why it can't be done vice versa, for many of the given meaning it is just a return home...
Satori said:If I wanted to do that I'd pick a deck, pull the majors and use it.
Well, exactly, taking away the trumps and that is what you have, an ordinary (Italian suited) PC deck with an extra court card. If you prefer to use french suited, why not get a french suited tarot deck, then you can use the minors/french suited pips and just add the trumps if you want a full tarot deck reading.
Satori said:...why go to the trouble of learning a new system if you are just transferring in another system?
Well as has been said an ordinary french suited playcard deck is widely available, and that is what you have to read with then the easiest way to read them if you already have a range of meanings associated with pip cards is to carry on using them, why make it difficult by trying to learn a whole different set? What's wrong with easy?
An easy method is to associate the pips with the trumps. Here is a system associating each of the pips with a trump, but I am sure you can come up with your own (and probably easier too):
http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=1904755&postcount=36