velvetina
Over the last few months, I've become really unsettled by the amount of 'stuff' I own, so I began to get rid of much of it. Clothes first, then all kinds of miscellanea ..today was the turn of the tarot decks!
I set aside the entire day for this. I went through every single deck in my possession - easily over a hundred - and a good 85% went immediately into a storage box.
Then came an afternoon of deliberation - I knew that I wanted to keep my 'working' decks - the Thoth, the Waite-Smith, Le Tarot Noir, a Grimaud Marseilles and the Vertigo. There was about a dozen remaining, laid on the table for a few hours whilst I considered their short-term future.
I have decided that those I stored away will be stored until the end of 2017. If I hanker after any, I'll simply make a note of it, but it won't be retrieved. if I find that I haven't missed them, I'm selling them...I simply don't need dozens upon dozens of tarot decks!
It was a surprisingly intense (it felt a little scary!) yet liberating experience. For example, realising that I can't remember the last time I used the Aquarian, yet I'd always thought it was a favourite. The Sacred Rose remains in my drawer - I rarely use it, yet it seemed full of untapped, fresh potential! I'm always looking at the Tarot of the Vampyres, but it went in the storage box because I felt that I needed a change! There didn't really seem to be any rhyme or reason to my final couple of decks - Navigators of the Mystic SEA went in and out several times, as did Liber T of the Stars Eternal. Guess which stays?
The Greenwood and the Mary-El remain, because they serve as my personal oracles. The Decadent Dream, which was a Christmas present, can stay too - I've not had a chance to look at it properly yet.
My better half will take the storage box away tomorrow and has promised not to listen to any of my whining! He won't bring it back until next January. I've made a personal vow not to buy any decks this year, unless I find a bargain in a charity shop! No eBay, no Amazon - let alone the fact that I work in a shop that specialises in tarot! (they're all new, sealed decks so I can't cheat!)
Has any one else done anything similar? How did it work out for you? From having over 100 decks to hand to less than 10. I really do feel something akin to relief! (but maybe that won't last!)
I set aside the entire day for this. I went through every single deck in my possession - easily over a hundred - and a good 85% went immediately into a storage box.
Then came an afternoon of deliberation - I knew that I wanted to keep my 'working' decks - the Thoth, the Waite-Smith, Le Tarot Noir, a Grimaud Marseilles and the Vertigo. There was about a dozen remaining, laid on the table for a few hours whilst I considered their short-term future.
I have decided that those I stored away will be stored until the end of 2017. If I hanker after any, I'll simply make a note of it, but it won't be retrieved. if I find that I haven't missed them, I'm selling them...I simply don't need dozens upon dozens of tarot decks!
It was a surprisingly intense (it felt a little scary!) yet liberating experience. For example, realising that I can't remember the last time I used the Aquarian, yet I'd always thought it was a favourite. The Sacred Rose remains in my drawer - I rarely use it, yet it seemed full of untapped, fresh potential! I'm always looking at the Tarot of the Vampyres, but it went in the storage box because I felt that I needed a change! There didn't really seem to be any rhyme or reason to my final couple of decks - Navigators of the Mystic SEA went in and out several times, as did Liber T of the Stars Eternal. Guess which stays?
The Greenwood and the Mary-El remain, because they serve as my personal oracles. The Decadent Dream, which was a Christmas present, can stay too - I've not had a chance to look at it properly yet.
My better half will take the storage box away tomorrow and has promised not to listen to any of my whining! He won't bring it back until next January. I've made a personal vow not to buy any decks this year, unless I find a bargain in a charity shop! No eBay, no Amazon - let alone the fact that I work in a shop that specialises in tarot! (they're all new, sealed decks so I can't cheat!)
Has any one else done anything similar? How did it work out for you? From having over 100 decks to hand to less than 10. I really do feel something akin to relief! (but maybe that won't last!)