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Any Knapp-Hall readers?

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Does anybody have the Knapp-Hall tarot and read with it? It's one of the decks in my relatively large collection that I continue to the drawn to but haven't yet had time to read up on. However, I feel drawn to read with it. 

Most of the time, it isn't available anywhere, or it is sold at a ridiculously high price. If there existed an available and reasonably priced edition, I would buy it. Much of the content in Oswald Wirth's Tarot of the Magicians is applicable to Knapp-Hall Tarot, too. They belong to the same family of decks. Lasenic belong to that family of decks as well.

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3 minutes ago, Scandinavianhermit said:

Most of the time, it isn't available anywhere, or it is sold at a ridiculously high price. If there existed an available and reasonably priced edition, I would buy it. Much of the content in Oswald Wirth's Tarot of the Magicians is applicable to Knapp-Hall Tarot, too. They belong to the same family of decks. Lasenic belong to that family of decks as well.

I see! I'm reading Wirth's book at the moment. 

 

I can't remember how exactly I obtained my deck. It was most likely in a trade on Aeclectic. It's a wonderful deck! But I'm struggling to read the minors.

I got mine years ago from a bookseller at a science fiction convention; they'd had a couple copies on their shelves like forever. So one day I caved and bought one. It was just old enough that the cost was pretty low. Evidently I got lucky! Now I know that the reading method is a bit different and there are some symbols on the cards that I have no idea about, and I think someone on AT might have posted something about it (I'll have to check) but no, I never did try reading with it, because I want to read up on all that stuff first and I have not been diligent about this. 

42 minutes ago, Morwenna said:

I got mine years ago from a bookseller at a science fiction convention; they'd had a couple copies on their shelves like forever. So one day I caved and bought one. It was just old enough that the cost was pretty low. Evidently I got lucky! Now I know that the reading method is a bit different and there are some symbols on the cards that I have no idea about, and I think someone on AT might have posted something about it (I'll have to check) but no, I never did try reading with it, because I want to read up on all that stuff first and I have not been diligent about this. 


Manly P. Hall wrote a bit about it, but it's useless for reading the cards.
But take heart. It's Picard based. Get this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Synthetic-Practical-Manual-Tarot-Picard/dp/1989586805
 

There's actually several variations of decks like that. The wonderful Tarot Fortune Cards (Thomson Leng):

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And El Gran Tarot Esoterico:
 

 

And a few others. I'm surprised more people aren't into it. It's a wonderful system.

You can get the Picard deck here:

https://noreahbrownfield.com/product/eudes-picard-tarot/

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I want a Thomson Leng! 

10 hours ago, Morwenna said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I want a Thomson Leng! 


The originals pop up on ebay from time to time. But if you're OK with a reproduction, there's this:

https://www.tarotcollectibles.com/shop/p/thomson-leng-tarot

 

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