AJ
I did this comparison with five decks when I first started studying. 5 because I had room on the copier to do that many I had them out a few days ago looking at something.
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Second, out of the 8 decks, there is always a card I'm really drawn to that REALLY represents the ideas of the card...but it's from different decks! So basically, there isn't one PERFECT deck so far...
Wonder if anyone has made one 'super deck' from all the cards they liked the most for various decks?
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For what it's worth, the way things work for me, the same card in different decks has identical meaning to start with. For me. Eg Strength will always be inner strength for me, no matter what deck it comes with. The Heirophant, always lessons from the past...These little set meanings I have are set, for the most part and apply to most decks. (Unless I pull out a truly original deck like Osho Zen and those rules don't apply).
But generally speaking the set meanings I have are identical for all decks. That is what lets me pick up a new deck I have never used before and immediately read with it. That is how it works for me.
BUT the set meanings I have make up a very small part of the answer. Most of the answer comes to me intuitively through the card image. And yes, because each deck has very different imagery, the same cards in different decks have something very different to say.
And, for me, the majority of the answer comes from what i see in the image each time.
I've done what you mentioned in the past. It did help me at the time, but in the end for me it turned out to be that the card meanings that I had in mind for one deck was the same for all decks. Just the image gives vastly different spins on it.
That is where I am now anyway, Things keep evolving.
Babs
WOW, you have some truly beautiful decks there! I am duly impressed. And thank you for sharing all of this and your experience with us.
Babs
I did this comparison with five decks when I first started studying. 5 because I had room on the copier to do that many I had them out a few days ago looking at something.
Of my tarots, 65 live in big albums, 4 to a page, arranged in order, so I can see all the examples of a specific card by taking out the relevant pages and spreading out all 18 of them on the floor!
The cards are also arranged in a meaningful sequence: for the trumps, traditional playing cards, then occult ones. The latter are then arranged by French tradition, English tradition, period designs (e.g. Steampunk), fiction-based packs (e.g. Necronomicon), exotics (e.g. Etteilla), and ethnic packs.
It's interesting to see the imaginative choices for some designs. For the Fool, I've got a card-reader (Ancestral Path), a hitch-hiker (Vanessa), a visionary committed to an asylum (Dark Grimoire), Lan Caihe (Goddess), Enkidu (Babylonian), Balder (Norse).
I've often though of the idea of a super-pack, but the different ideas are so very different. The stone-age Magician in the Old Path would be a bit bemused by the elegant woman in Vanessa's Moon (who's just eaten the crayfish...)
I used to do this a lot, and I use my deck of 1000 spreads to get more out of it. I take a position card ("problem" or "solution" or "negative influences") and then compare, which aspect of the card's answer each deck emphasizes. Now I have too many decks and I'm too lazy - but should do this also with my newer deck.
When I'm stuck with a reading, instead of pulling a clarification card, I take a different deck and have a look at the cards there. It's funny how for exmpale the Wild Unknown and Touchstone can augment each other - one without humans, the other focusing on people.
I used to have a magnet board where I could make exhibitions of the card of the week from different decks - it's a pity i've stopped doing that!