A Deck Being Snarky?

((I hope this thread is in the right spot...I have awful luck with these things. o wo))

Anyway, I just started using my deck (I'm using the Fantastical Creatures Tarot) again after a pretty long hiatus, and it seems like it's almost punishing me for being away. It's being awfully snarky, it seems like, and doing things like flipping meanings in spreads. (Like I was doing a little three card spread for a friend with the first card representing the context of a situation and the second representing something to focus on, but it seemed like my deck flipped those two in the spread.) ((Though I'm honestly not surprised; I love love love Fantastical Creatures, but it's always been kind of feisty for me.))

Has anyone else had this happen after a break from tarot? How did you overcome it? Does anyone have decks that are like this all the time?

For me it doesn't happen when I take a hiatus. In my case it's always happened whenever I do too many readings on the same subject, even if it's different questions. It's as if spirit is saying "Oh yeah? Well I'll show you..."

But to answer your question, yes I have experienced deck feistiness many times.

emilygrace said:

For me it doesn't happen when I take a hiatus. In my case it's always happened whenever I do too many readings on the same subject, even if it's different questions. It's as if spirit is saying "Oh yeah? Well I'll show you..."

But to answer your question, yes I have experienced deck feistiness many times.

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This happens to me too lol.

The cards I pull feel as if they're saying "Stop asking" or "We're not telling you." I have had this for things that I actually know the answer to. Or in other cases I will try to draw a card on some subject or question that I personally believe is I should not ask, and sadly tried anyway. I have drawn the Devil in more than 1 of those circumstance and it was like a "Ok, you're right..I shouldn't have asked."

There have been particular decks that demonstrate this kind of "attitude" or manner-of-reading to some degree (The Construction Paper Tarot comes to mind immediately), but also I feel that when I play around with tarot cards too much they tend to read for me this way as well. Almost a rude, detached message that comes across.

I think of these as mind games that I play with myself, looking at these images and feeling this way, but that doesn't make it happening any less a reality

emilygrace said:

For me it doesn't happen when I take a hiatus. In my case it's always happened whenever I do too many readings on the same subject, even if it's different questions. It's as if spirit is saying "Oh yeah? Well I'll show you..."

But to answer your question, yes I have experienced deck feistiness many times.

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Oh man, I'm glad these readings aren't for me. o wo I'd probably be getting lot of "if you want us to be nice you should have asked months ago." :'P

feynrir said:

There have been particular decks that demonstrate this kind of "attitude" or manner-of-reading to some degree (The Construction Paper Tarot comes to mind immediately), but also I feel that when I play around with tarot cards too much they tend to read for me this way as well. Almost a rude, detached message that comes across.

I think of these as mind games that I play with myself, looking at these images and feeling this way, but that doesn't make it happening any less a reality

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Yeah, I'm hoping to get another deck soon as kind of a baseline for Fantastical Creatures and it's general attitude. Hopefully not all the decks I get are quite as snarky (or I might be in some trouble). :'P

Thoth can be snarky, blunt and rude. Thoth is that friend who tells you that those jeans make you look bigger, and not in a flattering way. Where would you go without their brutally honest feedback though, am I right?

Girl Archer said:

Thoth can be snarky, blunt and rude. Thoth is that friend who tells you that those jeans make you look bigger, and not in a flattering way. Where would you go without their brutally honest feedback though, am I right?

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@Girl Archer - One of my friends is actually just starting to use Thoth (though she's had the deck for a while). I'll have to warn her that it can be kind of feisty. xD

HallowedNight said:

Anyway, I just started using my deck (I'm using the Fantastical Creatures Tarot) again after a pretty long hiatus, and it seems like it's almost punishing me for being away.

Has anyone else had this happen after a break from tarot?

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<smile>

I had something entirely different happen. A Tarot-unfriendly relationship happened, and after a while I wrapped them all up and hid them.

A few years later when I was free, I dig them all out, unwrapped them, and shuffled them all. I was looking for signs of sadness, but all I got was gratitude: they were all just delighted to be out in the sun again, getting shuffled.

Girl Archer said:

Thoth can be snarky, blunt and rude. Thoth is that friend who tells you that those jeans make you look bigger, and not in a flattering way. Where would you go without their brutally honest feedback though, am I right? &#55357;&#56867;

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Yep. I recently kept getting the 9 of Wands strength, for my own card, I am Saggitarius too. So I was not expecting to get this response to my question of how are things going with my tarot development- Fool, Hanged man (reversed) followed by Ruin ten of swords! Thoth slapped.

nisaba said:

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I had something entirely different happen. A Tarot-unfriendly relationship happened, and after a while I wrapped them all up and hid them.

A few years later when I was free, I dig them all out, unwrapped them, and shuffled them all. I was looking for signs of sadness, but all I got was gratitude: they were all just delighted to be out in the sun again, getting shuffled.

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That happened with me and the Steampunk Tarot, as well as Tarot of Sherlock Holmes. At first the deck was as cryptic as the man himself and I felt like a lost case. Months later, it was as if the deck couldn't stop it's chatty self. A lot like me