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It seems a safe bet that everyone here will have messed around with a tarot deck to some degree or other. @suspended and @luka both revere the deck designed by the Great Beast 666. @suspended to the extent of drawing a card every day. @DannyL is also an adept. Before we performed a santeria ritual together he read my cards although I don't remember what deck he used.
A while back I bought Jodorowsky's book on the subject - he claims to have seen a great many decks - maybe even a hundred different varieties. He settled on a slightly modified version of the Marseille deck, which is the one my Dad had around the house when I was a teenager. I got as far into the book as Part Three, where he starts discussing more involved 3-card layouts, which is when I figured I'd need my own deck to work along. When I went in an esoteric shop today in Holloway though the woman hadn't even heard of the Marseille deck never mind selling it.
I like using a deck called the iotacism tarot, designed by a friend of mine who is a bit of a polymath, where the suits are replaced by Cubes, Gyres, Spires and Arbres (trees); the court cards are replaced by Author, Audience, Entrepreneur and Operator and the arcana are almost completely redone but this deck is likely to inspire a fit of snobbery amongst serious practitioners.
A while back I bought Jodorowsky's book on the subject - he claims to have seen a great many decks - maybe even a hundred different varieties. He settled on a slightly modified version of the Marseille deck, which is the one my Dad had around the house when I was a teenager. I got as far into the book as Part Three, where he starts discussing more involved 3-card layouts, which is when I figured I'd need my own deck to work along. When I went in an esoteric shop today in Holloway though the woman hadn't even heard of the Marseille deck never mind selling it.
I like using a deck called the iotacism tarot, designed by a friend of mine who is a bit of a polymath, where the suits are replaced by Cubes, Gyres, Spires and Arbres (trees); the court cards are replaced by Author, Audience, Entrepreneur and Operator and the arcana are almost completely redone but this deck is likely to inspire a fit of snobbery amongst serious practitioners.