Sonnenkind Posted December 2 Posted December 2 On 11/29/2025 at 9:25 AM, Christgal1983 said: My favorite way to know my deck is to do tarot readings with it and familiarize myself with its images. When I look at the images, I try to infer what they may tell me about my life in general. As I perform more tarot readings with my deck, I know it better. This is a pretty good summary of what I do as well.
Pruvia Posted Friday at 07:27 PM Posted Friday at 07:27 PM My unusual ways of getting to know a new deck 🤭❤️: • Selecting o elaborating a playlist with it's "vibe", and listening to it while reading the cards. • Doing a moodboard that represents that deck. • Doing unusual combos with other tarots and oracles. This has lead me to incredible pairings. • Try to get to know it's personality through readings. Some decks are more direct, some are simbolic, quiet, reflexive, tender...and this kind of "attitude" makes some of them more powerful in specific topics. For example mi Thoth Tarot is crazily good for reading complex and turbulent relationships. • Try different methods of selecting the cards: jumpers, different ways of suffling, the "fan" way, reading the one at the bottom... • Using them for specific topics: ancestors, dreams, a specific deity...and see what happens. • Doing mindmaps of each card (perfect for deck studies). Add personal connotations with things from the guidebook, and your own research. I did this with an oracle, and is AMAZING. Fun, interactive and it adds a lot of depth to the deck.
Morwenna Posted Saturday at 12:59 AM Posted Saturday at 12:59 AM I used to occasionally do deck interviews, not necessarily with brand-new decks but often with ones I'd had for some time, and often found them illuminating. I like the one you posted, @Barleywine; I might have to give it a try just because. (And yes, I do feel that decks have personalities, though I don't anthropomorphize them!) But mostly, I just look at the cards over and over and get a feel for how they manage the imagery, sometimes comparing them to other decks and sometimes not, often seeing how the cards in the deck work together, especially if there's a theme. Some decks end up being simply study decks; but others graduate to being reading decks even if only rarely. It can be interesting if the deck is such that the cards tell a progressive story; in that case a reading would have "snapshots" from whatever sequences they were drawn from and the task is to see where that snapshot works in the reading without the rest of the sequence being in play. But now I'm rambling...
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