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I don't think I could go back to Rider Waite after using the TdM style with my Soprafino deck; it's just so much better.
The Soprafino is just so finely tuned into what's going on with me. I don't even need to ask a question and it will pin point exactly what's on my mind. I did a reading last night - first with the Rider Waite deck and then with the Soprafino - asking the same question; and the Soprafino reading was just so much better.
Sorry that I keep on saying "It's just so much better" LOL; I don't know how else to describe it. It just *is*.
The reading with the Rider Waite was so irrelevant and obscure that I put the cards away in the cupboard and said to myself "That's the last time I use the Rider Waite deck".
I think it's interesting how you can be so connected to/finely tuned into a deck and not others.
I think that one of the things that might be appealing about the Soprafino deck, and other historical decks, is the very fact that it is historical. When I hold a deck like that in my hands, I know I'm holding a piece of history. And when I use the deck for readings, it's like a voice is speaking to me from across the centuries. Even though modern decks are great, and have some spectacular art, they're still the new kid on the block. Those historical decks are older and wiser. They've been around the block many many times, enough to make a lesser deck dizzy.
I don't have the Soprafino (though I do find it a beautiful deck) but I do have other historical decks in my collection. And the feeling I get when working with them is different from working with newer decks, even when the modern decks have non-illustrated pips. There's a magic in those older decks. It's hard to describe. It's just a feeling.