Duplicate Cards in Reading

[Rodney]

Going back to the subject of duplicate cards, I often use two of the same deck (Transparent, Revelations and Vice Versa come immediately to mind) or use multiple decks together. Whenever I get a duplicate card, I give that card extra importance in the reading. And if I'm using a spread with positions, those positions also get extra importance in the reading.

 

As others have said, I'm a very visual reader so need actual images. But I think your workaround is ingenious given your circumstances. You need to determine for yourself now whether or not you'll allow duplicate cards to appear in your readings, and if so, what the duplicate means.

[vague-whisperings]

9 hours ago, Rodney said:

As others have said, I'm a very visual reader so need actual images.

Thanks! I actually have digital versions of my decks (Normal tarot has a pdf guidebook, Adventurers deck came with pngs of the cards for virtual dnd games, Neon Moon has a website with all the cards) so I'm not entirely without visuals 😛

9 hours ago, Rodney said:

You need to determine for yourself now whether or not you'll allow duplicate cards to appear in your readings, and if so, what the duplicate means.

So far, I'm going to allow duplicates in the Adventurer's deck only, and that's because the deck came with multiples of the same card (1-4 variances). I'm going to take a crack at incorporating the duplicate; I did roll a replacement, so I'm going to read them together as a pair and see how that goes. The part I'm wondering about currently is if the duplicate should be read with the same meaning, or if it should be read with a different aspect 🤔

[Rodney]

I would interpret the same card differently in each position in a spread. Card X as the past would be interpreted differently than it would as hopes and fears than it would be as the environment, using the Celtic Cross as an example.