new to here, "old" to tarot!

[GreyBug]

Hello, everyone, I'm GreyBug, 40-ish, living in Belgium with my husband.

I spent some time back on Aeclectic but left around 2009-ish. I've been dabbling in tarot and other divination methods since around 1998 but it didn't really start clicking until around 2007 - I listened to Dan Pelletier do an example reading with The Gothic Tarot of Vampires on Lisa ReFalo's Tarot Connection and I finally understood how to break the cards out of their dry LWB meanings. So yay for Aeclectic (and for here!) for hosting such great people, conversations, and resources.

Other than tarot I'm mostly into art - drawing, mixed media, collage, some digital stuff. Recently I've started marrying the two and made a couple of tarot decks (just as individual art objects for my own use).

Looking forward to learning from and sharing with everyone.

[DanielJUK]

Welcome to the community @GreyBug  I am glad you have found us over here 🙂 

[joy]

Hello @GreyBug welcome to the TT&M Family

[JoyousGirl]

Welcome Greybug . See you around the boards.

[GreyBug]

Thanks for the welcome everyone  I'm slowly getting my bearings.

[Scandinavianhermit]

Welcome, @GreyBug! Do you speak French or Flemish? French-speakers have an entire world of classic books about tarot available.

[GreyBug]

4 minutes ago, Scandinavianhermit said:

Do you speak French or Flemish? French-speakers have an entire world of classic books about tarot available.

Oh hey. I only live here, but I do speak a tiny bit of French and have picked up a tarot book on a whim once in a thrift store. It's very interesting (what I've pieced together so far). Obviously majors-only, but I like how flexible that makes each card. Every one has to pull double-triple-quadruple duty and changes even more depending on context than a full 78 cards scenic deck. And it's interesting trying to pick out the little local flavors/glimpses of the tradition here. This is a book about relationship readings but it asserts it's common for the Bateleur to be read as a youth (due to his long blond hair), and had a little summary of the Oedipus myth in his section. I completely forgot about the book until your message, so thanks for the inspiration to spend some more time with it

[Scandinavianhermit]

Thanks for your kind answer, @GreyBug. I'm not good at French myself, so I'm grateful every time someone translates tarot books in French to English, German or Swedish.