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Does anyone else here use Tarot?
If so, what deck do you use?
Do you have any favorite spreads?
<img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Jill

Hello and welcome Jill!

Yes, I certainly use Tarot. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Here's some articles and reviews I've written on Tarot (including my original spreads) if you're interested: http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/1018.asp

Also, we've had a thread here about Tarot and Its Uses that you may be interested in reading: http://www.bellaonline.com/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=175;t=000132

I really like the tried and true 3 card spread, to be honest. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> My favorite Tarot deck is The Quest Tarot by Joseph Ernest Martin. I was using Lucy Cavendish's Oracle Tarot for quite awhile, but the plastic began to peel off them. I really like the look of the Gilded Tarot, but I can't get past the fact that The Fool looks so much like George W. Bush! I asked Ciro about it, and he said it wasn't intentional in the least. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

What are your favorite decks and spreads, Jill? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I stumbled on this site while looking for good quiz to direct some friends to (we do that from time to time for fun). I haven't spent enough time poking around to find all the subjects and stuff yet, so thanks for the handy links.
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This is a GREAT place!
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I was using a plain old RWS deck for years, and then I saw a Magician card for the Tarot of a Moon Garden deck and fell in love. I ordered the whole deck the very next day, as a matterof fact. Then I recently saw The Wheel card from the Fey Tarot deck and had to have that one, too. Right now I am all into my Fey Tarot the most.
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I like a simple three card spread, also...and a lot of times I will extend it to a nine card spread, using the same format, just more cards.
Jill

I've seen Tarot of the Moon garden, lovely deck! I'm coveting two right now - the World Spirit Tarot and the Jungian Tarot.

I have several decks and my favorite right now is the Tarot de Paris. It was love at first sight for me too. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

What a lovely deck that is!
Nice to meet you.

You too! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I used the Sacred Circle Tarot Deck. My favorite spread is the Celtic Cross.

I use "Old English Tarot" by Maggie Kneen. It is absolutely gorgeous!

Lark

My preferred deck is the Robin Wood

I seem to find something new everytime i look at them <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Well, actually, I started with Tarot, and for a long time thought I'd never want to "give up" my Hanson-Roberts deck for another, lol... but have discovered that I've been smitten for all time by the Faeries' Oracle deck, and it is by far still my most favorite of all decks. I think the reason why, though, is because it is "mystical" or "mysterious" rather than "scientific", and I've started getting more tarot decks as I've found an affinity for "fantasy", or "daydream" themes, such as the Mary Hanson-Roberts deck, the Gothic Tarot deck, and the Halloween Tarot. I've just recieved my latest purchase, the Tarot of the Gnomes, and am eye-balling the Whimsical Tarot next... they all seem to have that "mystical", underlying magical mysterious quality to them, and probably I'm drawn to them because I desire my own life to be more "like that", more full of mystery and wonder and magic... and magick too.

My favorite spread currently is one I made up myself, called Influential Energies of the Moment, where I draw one card, call it the influential energy I need to be most aware of right now in my life, and then I pull the top and bottom cards, which represent what can support the main energy and block it as well, respectively.

My next favorite spread is actually a week-long project that I created myself also, called the Wisdoms of the Ether Spread, where I start on Sunday with two cards, using my Faeries Oracle as the "main" deck, and I just ask what wisdom they would like to share with me for the week. I then take a moment to intuitively chose another deck, sometimes I stay with the oracle deck and sometimes it is a tarot deck, and ask how I can compliment this wisdom for this day and draw a second card. I then proceed to draw one card a day for the rest of the week, with the same question in mind of complimenting the wisdom of Sunday. I've also drawn a rune to go with the two starting cards on Sunday before, and it was really awesome how it turned out <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> ... lots of opportunities for soul food, that was.

'llysa