01-19-2018, 11:35 PM
Tarot Decks.
I even collect 'back-up' decks of editions I already own.....just in case.
My oldest deck was published in 1935 and I'm generally not interested in decks from the 90's on.
People often assume that my collection allows me privileged access to their Future. Nope.
My initial intention was to use the cards as a tool to improve my memory. 78 cards, 78 different stories and vocabularies.
That somehow morphed into collecting decks from the different Mystery Schools....and then the collecting got serious.
Along the way I innocently wandered into the History of Tarot - which makes for hysterically funny reading.
One group insisting that the pictures were discovered on the walls of Initiation Chambers deep inside a Secret Egyptian Pyramid.
Another that The Gypsies introduced them as they traveled through Spain or through India or through .... *insert your favorite country here*.
Others believe that Spiritual Masters hid Cosmic Truths in the symbols on the cards, and, fearing the flock would wander off, the Catholic Church rebranded tarot as the Work of the Devil.
The 'history' is fabulously discordant and features some of the best paranoid conspiracy theories ever invented.
Back to the decks, some of them are now worth considerably more than what I paid for them only a decade ago.
Not that I'll be parting with any of them. Ever.
I only do 'readings' for people when I'm feeling particularly mischievous.
And Yes, invariably he will be tall dark and handsome and rich. And your Lotto numbers are...... hold on, the signal is breaking up....
I even collect 'back-up' decks of editions I already own.....just in case.
My oldest deck was published in 1935 and I'm generally not interested in decks from the 90's on.
People often assume that my collection allows me privileged access to their Future. Nope.
My initial intention was to use the cards as a tool to improve my memory. 78 cards, 78 different stories and vocabularies.
That somehow morphed into collecting decks from the different Mystery Schools....and then the collecting got serious.
Along the way I innocently wandered into the History of Tarot - which makes for hysterically funny reading.
One group insisting that the pictures were discovered on the walls of Initiation Chambers deep inside a Secret Egyptian Pyramid.
Another that The Gypsies introduced them as they traveled through Spain or through India or through .... *insert your favorite country here*.
Others believe that Spiritual Masters hid Cosmic Truths in the symbols on the cards, and, fearing the flock would wander off, the Catholic Church rebranded tarot as the Work of the Devil.
The 'history' is fabulously discordant and features some of the best paranoid conspiracy theories ever invented.
Back to the decks, some of them are now worth considerably more than what I paid for them only a decade ago.
Not that I'll be parting with any of them. Ever.
I only do 'readings' for people when I'm feeling particularly mischievous.
And Yes, invariably he will be tall dark and handsome and rich. And your Lotto numbers are...... hold on, the signal is breaking up....
There's a difference between having an opinion and having an informed opinion.