Kissa
Hi!
I came back to Tarot after a few year break. I had a traditionnal Rider-Waite then and it is said that you get deeply marked by your first deck, well as a matter of fact, obviously I am.
This time I've purchased a Morgan-Greer and an Enchanted Tarot (Zerner Farber) because I wanted something different for my new start. I am disappointed with Enchanted Tarot : somehow the colours are not so bright, the designs look small on these huge cards which are anyway far too big to shuffle properly and finally, I get absolutely NO vibrations from it (none, zero, nada). (PLEASE note that I can easily imagine that many people LOVE this deck and disagree with me).
Anyway, in the book that came with Morgan Greer deck "The Book of Tarot" (S.Gerulskis-Estes), you can read some Christian meanings in the card description whereas (from what I have read so far), I didn't notice any Chritianity in Enchanted Tarot.
So my question is : can you get a beginner deck which doesn't feature Christianity ? Are all Pagan, Wicca decks only for experienced readers ? And if you get used to Christian symbols, are you ever able to read from another deck like Pagan (ok, at that point, I must admit I was blown away by the pics of SACRED CIRCLE, yet I read in a review that it is not a BEGINNER's deck).
Finally, I must say that I am just glad I found this site and this discussion group as Tarot is absolutely not part of the finnish culture and I had to order all my decks on-line since no-one even knows here what Tarot is (Ok, I live in a small city but ...) I have ordered and received 3 decks so far: Morgan Greer, Enchanted Tarot and Inner Child (in french -since I am french). Most people here have NEVER heard of Tarot, even if there is a Kalevala Tarot existing. Kalevala is a very ancient saga, telling about the first Finns, it was written in 1840 but takes place in prehistorical times).
Well, I hope that my question has not been discussed a thousand times already!
Have a nice time,
Kissa
I came back to Tarot after a few year break. I had a traditionnal Rider-Waite then and it is said that you get deeply marked by your first deck, well as a matter of fact, obviously I am.
This time I've purchased a Morgan-Greer and an Enchanted Tarot (Zerner Farber) because I wanted something different for my new start. I am disappointed with Enchanted Tarot : somehow the colours are not so bright, the designs look small on these huge cards which are anyway far too big to shuffle properly and finally, I get absolutely NO vibrations from it (none, zero, nada). (PLEASE note that I can easily imagine that many people LOVE this deck and disagree with me).
Anyway, in the book that came with Morgan Greer deck "The Book of Tarot" (S.Gerulskis-Estes), you can read some Christian meanings in the card description whereas (from what I have read so far), I didn't notice any Chritianity in Enchanted Tarot.
So my question is : can you get a beginner deck which doesn't feature Christianity ? Are all Pagan, Wicca decks only for experienced readers ? And if you get used to Christian symbols, are you ever able to read from another deck like Pagan (ok, at that point, I must admit I was blown away by the pics of SACRED CIRCLE, yet I read in a review that it is not a BEGINNER's deck).
Finally, I must say that I am just glad I found this site and this discussion group as Tarot is absolutely not part of the finnish culture and I had to order all my decks on-line since no-one even knows here what Tarot is (Ok, I live in a small city but ...) I have ordered and received 3 decks so far: Morgan Greer, Enchanted Tarot and Inner Child (in french -since I am french). Most people here have NEVER heard of Tarot, even if there is a Kalevala Tarot existing. Kalevala is a very ancient saga, telling about the first Finns, it was written in 1840 but takes place in prehistorical times).
Well, I hope that my question has not been discussed a thousand times already!
Have a nice time,
Kissa