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Am l the only reader on the Planet who does not have a connection with the Rider Waite tarot. This deck l know is widely used as a teaching tarot and usually the first deck someone buys. l have tried different variations of the deck and bought books to help me along. l look at the cards and pretty though they are l feel absolutely nothing coming from them. Yet l can use and read with the clones beautifully.

My recent purchase was the PCS Centennnial l have to say its a lovely deck and l had high hopes that this was the one to break through the block. Sadly its the same old story. l just cannot come to any relationship with this deck. Even reading Mark Katz and Tali Goodwin's book together with the cards just left me cold. In fact l ended up with a headache  Though l enjoyed reading about Pamela.

Is there a deck you would love to be able to read with but for some reason it alludes you.

For me it's the Gendron Tarot - I just can't seem to connect with that deck.  The symbolism doesn't really resonate with me, which makes it especially hard because I prefer to read intuitively.  And I'm not that crazy about collage decks, so I probably shouldn't have bought it in the first place.

For me it is also the RWS.  I could probably muddle through a reading with it now, but I have no connection with it and it leaves me absolutely cold.  I have tried several different versions.  I kept the Raidiant just to make sure I have a copy of the deck on hand for mentoring or teaching purposes, but frankly the art just does not speak to me.  I ended up learning tarot with the Robin Wood and the Tarot of the Old Path, both RWS based, but the actual RWS is just not for me.

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I never liked the RWS because I prefer my artwork to be more modern.

BUT - when I went to a presentation about the artists life - I began to appreciate the RWS and now, I can read with it happily (and have quite a few versions of it). But - I still wouldn't choose it otherwise.

I take it to Tarot meetings because where I am - it is the common deck that newbies start with - so I always have a copy if I'm working with a new reader.

On 3/27/2019 at 8:43 AM, Jewel said:

.  I ended up learning tarot with the Robin Wood and the Tarot of the Old Path, both RWS based, but the actual RWS is just not for me.

 

Oddly enough the Old Path is one I find opaque. Can't read with it at all. It's beautiful, but just not me.

On 3/26/2019 at 9:30 PM, Guest Night Shade said:

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My first deck was The Light Seer deck and I still love it dearly. I bought a few other deck naming the Wildwood and at first I really loved it, but now I can nbo longer resonate with it. I recently bought a few RWS decks and I am really loving them. The symbology speaks to me, and combined with 78 degrees of wisdom and the tarot series on Gaia, the RWS radiant now is my to go deck and I besides the Light Seer deck, I don't use my ither decks at all anymore. But I don't rule out I will get back to them in the future. I hear a lot of  about the RWS though in FB groups and forums that people can't relate to it.. 

People were raving about the Mythic Tarot, but my readings with it are everything else but florishing. I am uninspired everytime I take it up.

I love the artwork in the Haindl Tarot and it was quite an intuitive deck for me for a period of time until it just wasn’t anymore. Not sure what happened but it started when I was attempting to do a reading for someone else with the cards. After that, I would get out the deck and become emotionally agitated when I went through the cards. Got rid of the deck right before the Pandemic hit. 

3 minutes ago, toj said:

I love the artwork in the Haindl Tarot and it was quite an intuitive deck for me for a period of time until it just wasn’t anymore. Not sure what happened but it started when I was attempting to do a reading for someone else with the cards. After that, I would get out the deck and become emotionally agitated when I went through the cards. Got rid of the deck right before the Pandemic hit. 

You were kind of finished with in a way.

There are many decks, but I don´t blame the decks, it´s me that is such a bad tarot reader! 😉😀