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abecedarianmind wrote:
there are many strange things about tarot i hear neither practitioners or magicians discussing
One question I do have (and I think I probably know the answer), why did you chose to use the tarot you did, rather than the easier rider-Waite? The rider-Waite is undoubtedly easier to learn, given the picture references on the minor arcana, but doesn't look as nice as the Marseilles.
The only difficulty I had in learning Keith's system was one of length. Keith's course is suited more to shorter readings, but extrapolating a 30 minute reading out of ten cards (using the celtic cross spread) is hard work (for a beginner like me). I think that if I hadn't switched to using the rider-Waite cards, it would have been very difficult, and a LOT of memorisation to be able to do a longer reading.
When the package arrived and was opened there were two things that made me chuckle off the bat, first was the sticker informing me of the licence agreement of said trick, considering these aren't tricks and Keith's very generous returns policy and the second was that the rune book which covers the 25 runes was a massive A4 spiral bound booklet compared to the A5 booklet that covers the 78 arcane cards.
the Marseilles deck is based on an older design of tarot and they look more 'professional' and mysterious than the much more well known Rider Waite deck
black hart wrote:The answer is simple, the Marseilles deck is based on an older design of tarot and they look more 'professional' and mysterious than the much more well known Rider Waite deck Also I supply the Marseilles deck through Black Artefacts and use them to produce the tarot effects that we sell. This means that you can incorporate an effect into your readings without suddenly having a different set of tarot cards. The system however can be used with any design of tarot.
Indeed. A little bit of practice goes a long way. I'm actually really enjoying myself.The only difficulty I had in learning Keith's system was one of length. Keith's course is suited more to shorter readings, but extrapolating a 30 minute reading out of ten cards (using the celtic cross spread) is hard work (for a beginner like me). I think that if I hadn't switched to using the rider-Waite cards, it would have been very difficult, and a LOT of memorisation to be able to do a longer reading.
This was designed for short corporate readings where you will have a looooong queue and only about 5 minutes per sitter. As you have found though you can expand the readings and it gets much easier with practice.
abecedarianmind wrote:
the rider waite decks i use contain images directly comparable to those found in medieval alchemy texts c1500+
abecedarianmind wrote:are you sure therefore marseille is older
abecedarianmind wrote:i think rider waite is sufficient
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