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Ah yes, a reprise for the Great Shuffling Debate.
As we all know from many other shuffling threads, I'm an overhand (or lace) shuffler, not a riffler.
And I frequently say that in the decades I've read publicly, only three or four people (certainly under five) have tried to riffle my decks.
I had a worker come in this morning, to do a little job here. No cash changed hands - I did a reading instead, choosing to use something conservative for her: the Golden Universal deck. Nice, familiar, non-scary RW imagery, and plenty of nice shiny bling all over every single card. What was it Alta once said? "The Ten of Swords, ooo, pretty!"?
Anyway.
She was nearly the fourth or fifth person to riffle: she divided the pack into two, and as my heart started to sink, she looked at me and asked if it was okay. I said no actually, wear-and-tear on the cards. She shuffled normally.
It is such a rarity that anyone tries to riffle, that I thought I'd report it.
And if clients that want to riffle are a once-in-a-decade phenomenon, clients that ask permission are an even greater rarity - she was the very first in my entire Tarot-reading life, which stretches back to the 1970s.
As we all know from many other shuffling threads, I'm an overhand (or lace) shuffler, not a riffler.
And I frequently say that in the decades I've read publicly, only three or four people (certainly under five) have tried to riffle my decks.
I had a worker come in this morning, to do a little job here. No cash changed hands - I did a reading instead, choosing to use something conservative for her: the Golden Universal deck. Nice, familiar, non-scary RW imagery, and plenty of nice shiny bling all over every single card. What was it Alta once said? "The Ten of Swords, ooo, pretty!"?
Anyway.
She was nearly the fourth or fifth person to riffle: she divided the pack into two, and as my heart started to sink, she looked at me and asked if it was okay. I said no actually, wear-and-tear on the cards. She shuffled normally.
It is such a rarity that anyone tries to riffle, that I thought I'd report it.
And if clients that want to riffle are a once-in-a-decade phenomenon, clients that ask permission are an even greater rarity - she was the very first in my entire Tarot-reading life, which stretches back to the 1970s.