What about male-centric tarot or oracle decks?

[Whisper]

Just to even this out a little, l know a lot of male tarot readers and healers who are most definitely all male, happily married, and this includes my hubby.  Though my hubby for years has always read with the Medicine Animal cards which as the title suggest has no men or women pictured. It has been a very good and accurate deck for him, it is more an Oracle, but he is now getting into tarot.

l also know some gay men who are readers, so l would say it just evens out as in all walks of life.

 

l think we have gone a little off topic here  :D

 

 

Have you thought of looking at the Thoth tarot l find that quite a masculine deck.  It can be very forthright, not a girly deck at all.  We are both female and like you l do not like overly floating, busty, nymphs in a deck.  l am using the Legacy of the Divine at the moment, it seems to be fairly balanced.

 

The Legacy of the Divine is beautiful, Thoughtful (love the name), and I agree that my Tabula Mundi definitely feels more masculine. I have always had a bit of difficulty with Thoth decks; they pose a challenge, so I will, one day, come back to them, but you are right. Even the Ancient Egyptian Tarot feels more masculine and I learnt recently that it's supposed to be Thoth.

 

I find your comment about your husband and animal decks interesting. I'd never considered them in that way before, but you're right. When I think about my Messenger Cards Oracle, it definitely has a more male energy. I think, in the end, as previously mentioned, it really depends on which cards speak to us individually.

[Whisper]

This has been a very interesting discussion. Thank you. Love to hear your ideas and insights.  ((

[Whisper]

I feel like the Gay Tarot is simultaneously a positive view of queer male identity, and a really positive view of masculinity and family relationships in general, which makes it a really nice deck to read with no matter who you are.

 

I want to say that the Hirajeta deck contains lots of male characters and is drawn in a style (vivid horror/fantasy manga style, basically) that makes it seem appealing to masculine types.

 

The Slow Holler deck also has lots of male figures.

 

The Slow Holler deck is such a beautiful tarot!!!! I am so sorry it's sold out. Yes, sometimes the artwork of a deck can make it seem more masculine. I can see how that would apply to horror or fantasy manga.

[Eric13]

I was exposed to tarot reading in 1976, worked my way through college in the late '80's doing readings, I'm very straight, if thats the issue here, and it just recently, as in a few weeks ago that there aren't many guys doing this, which explains why I have no problems with querent's, but then again I do get a "YOU DO WHAT" stunned look when I tell people I read tarot cards.

But--as far as decks go for guys, I have recently discovered the Bohemian Gothic Tarot which I consider to be pretty masculine, at least it says so to me, although the Star should be nude. I have just ordered my second deck for this because I have seriously bonded with the deck and may order a third just to use the Major Arcana's.

[Saturn Celeste]

I recently purchased the Renaissance Tarot and am in love with it!  It is featured in our gallery here.

 

 

[cotec]

About a year ago, I started looking for an Oracle Deck that was Masculine as well.  I didn't find anything, and ended up hearing the call of the muse and making my own. 

 

I was inspired to create this desk to inspire connection with the positive aspects of masculinity. Based on jungian archetypes. ❤️ Happy to share this. 

 

[Raggydoll]

9 hours ago, cotec said:

About a year ago, I started looking for an Oracle Deck that was Masculine as well.  I didn't find anything, and ended up hearing the call of the muse and making my own. 

 

I was inspired to create this desk to inspire connection with the positive aspects of masculinity. Based on jungian archetypes. ❤️ Happy to share this. 

 

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[Guest]

I have quite a number of the decks listed here.

 

Among those already discussed, I'm going to add the Promethean Oracle, the Tarot of the Divine Masculine, and the Runic Tarot too. 

[Chariot]

It's an interesting take on the tarot.  I use only the RWS-system, so I took a quick gander through the RWS deck.  

Excluding all cards that either have non-human symbols (like the aces, 3 of swords, wheel of fortune, etc) or have images of both males and females on them (the lovers, the 10 of cups, etc), the breakdown is this:

Only Males on card: 21 cards
Only Females on card: 15 cards

I think some decks have evened this out a bit more (making the Pages into Princesses, etc) but, in general, the balance is in favour of depicting males doing more than the females on the traditional decks.

I do know of several decks where women take on most or all of the roles depicted on the cards.  I assume that @Whisper was looking for a male equivalent of these?   I don't know of any myself, but I am going to check on the ones mentioned above.  I think it's important that everybody finds a few decks that 'speak' to them personally, so I'm all in favour of modifying deck images to suit. We have so much more to choose from these days, than we did back when I first got started, in the mid 1970s.  And male and female 'roles' have expanded a lot since then.  

 

[Misterei]

In some ways this very question is a sign of the times.

Historic decks like Tarocchi and TdM arguably depicted a balance of gender polarity.

In RWS we might argue that the angelic figures (frex in Temperance or Lovers) are asexual or gender neutral.

My observation most of the historic decks were pretty balanced about gender polarity.

 

For many years the majority of Tarot people were women … so we started to see decks include more feminine polarity. For example Mucha deck makes the traditionally male Magician card a female. This emerged from a time and place where women wanted more representation and respect for their spiritual power (i.e. many churches, temples, mosques only recognize male priests, imams, rabbis).

 

Now a days we have many LGBTQ people who also want decks to represent their reality and their spiritual power. So we have artists like Ciro Marchetti making 2 Cups a gay male couple. And Fyodor Pavlov decks totally plays with gender polarity.

 

As a female my reaction to “male centric” was to get triggered, TBH. There is a whole sub-culture of woman-hating trolls out there who harass and threaten rape and then say “Its all a joke hahaha”. Women have been terrorized by some of these trolls. And sometimes the trolls get real and start shooting women in nail salons or college campuses or whatnot.

 

The idea that these folks might want their own tarot decks is repulsive to me.

 

This is NO refelction on the OP. I don’t think that is where he’s coming from. Just my honest reaction as a 21st century female on the internet.

Edited December 7, 2022 by Misterei

[DanielJUK]

The OP is female 🙂

We have not seen her for a long time around the forum and she is dearly missed.

 

I think she just wanted to find some more male-centric decks when she posted the thread 😃