Readers and Collectors of Tarot and Oracles

gregory

• #31

trismegistus said:

50 - I understand 50 very well. if you really want to scare and impress people you tell them your half a century old. you should see the faces on the kids when you tell them that

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HALF A CENTURY ? That's nothing. I got to tell my daughter she had hit her quarter of a century a while ago (she was not pleased - and is quite a bit older now ! and her sister is 40 !) And it won't be too long till I have been MARRIED for half a century. (well, OK - 8 years from now, but still...)

 

gregory

• #32

BTW I think I have just invented a new way to read (I was tidying up. Well I was TRYING to....)

Take 78 decks, and......................

 

Cocobird55

• #33

A reader and a collector. Lately I've been focusing on one deck at a time, for a period of months, to really get to know it well. I've done this with a few of the decks in my collection, and plan to do it with more of them.

 

greycats

• #34

If by "regularly" you mean returning the deck to use fairly often, then I'd say about 12%. I've read with every deck I own at least once. I study decks intently one at a time. I have decks that I use for specific purposes and at specific times. Other than for occasion or study, I move around a lot among my decks.

 

uwe

• #35

I would consider myself a serious reader and collector, though these days i am rather selective as to what deck i'd like to add to my collection. I am not after the very latest or the prettiest deck 'out there'. I'd like to extend my TdM collection. That would be nice.

I am a serious reader though...for clients, friends and family and of course myself.

 

Stacie Doll

• #36

I read & study with all of my decks. That is my only intent when buying them.

 

Aulruna

• #37

I've always liked to compare Tarot decks for their symbolism and therefor never had just one deck. I started studying symbolism and esoteric belief systems (for lack of a better term) a while before I started to actually read with the decks I had.
And only during the past few years, mainly due to the easy availibilty of things via the internet, I have begun to buy decks I knew right away I'd probably never read with. With 800+ decks, I can't pretend not to be a collector. But I'd rather give away my collection than stop reading Tarot, so that's where my priorities lie.

 

coredil

• #38

I am a Tarot enthusiast,
a Tarot collector
and a Tarot-reader-not-reader

BTW, I do feel that looking at a Tarot deck for what ever reason is Tarot reading.

 

Papageno

• #39

coredil said:

I am a Tarot enthusiast,
a Tarot collector
and a Tarot-reader-not-reader

BTW, I do feel that looking at a Tarot deck for what ever reason is Tarot reading.

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hmmmm, LittleBuddha said the same thing recently. like subconscious scanning

 

annik

• #40

First, I am considering myself as a collector. Being a reader comes second. I am not terribly good at reading but I am working on that as my collection seems pretty much complete right now. There isn't much new decks in the themes that are in the core of my collection.