What Book/Movie/Show Character Does Your Deck Remind You of?

[zedekiel]

(Forgive me if this doesn't belong in the Tarot in Media section (this almost feels like... Media in Tarot!))

 

I recently did an interview with my deck and started to understand a lot more about the personality I was working with! I was thinking... "Gosh, these traits remind me of someone... or some kind of... character archetype" and then I realized that I was thinking of characters like Mr Tumnus from the Narnia books and Dobby from Harry Potter. Obviously, I didn't marry these characters to the deck, but seeing a visual for the traits of earnest, wholesome, wanting to do well, believing in others, helpful, kindhearted, and a little self criticizing, that I felt from my deck's personality was very interesting! Hearing about others' relationships to their decks, there's been times where I've thought things like "This feels like the kind of reading Giles from Buffy or Professor Mcgonagall would give if they were a Tarot deck".

 

I was wondering if anyone else has thought about this, and what characters their decks have reminded them of? But also, if you've never thought it before but you had to give a deck of yours a character from a book or show or movie just for fun, what would it be? (I mean... this is all just for fun haha 😊)

[Myakka_Fire]

Hi,

I like doing deck interviews too and think seeing the deck as if it has its own emotions, tone, and attitude helps to connect with each deck differently. Then I started thinking of my Hanson-Roberts and how she's done reading for me over the last 12 years since I was gifted it. That's when I decided it came across as loving mother to me, something I've always lacked as an adult. Which led me to think about where in media sources I've seen this type of temperament and came up with Fiona from Shameless.

Similar to Fiona, she's knowledgeable and honest but does not shy away from the difficult topics.  Instead approaching the conversations gently and allowing me to do the inner work on myself in a gentler way. 

 

By the way, which deck were you characterizing?

 

[zedekiel]

@Myakka_Fire That's a really beautiful way of looking at your deck, and makes a lot of sense after all the time you've spent together. I'd be interested to look into how the decks we most use or feel incredibly connected to portray themselves personality-wise and if it relates in any way to what we're missing in life/what kind of personality would be beneficial to help us learn but may be absent. I know in general I often feel very much like a Page. Still learning, growing, being afraid without any kind of guidance or mentorship. The thing is though I've had a lack of adult guidance in my life since I was 13. I've often felt that I was on my own with no one older and wiser to turn to if I needed help. And although I've survived like this, I still often have a problem of seeing myself as that Page who needs guidance and isn't wholly capable on their own, and it's caused me to continue having stress when put into leadership positions. One thing that became apparent through the deck interview with this deck, and many times after when doing other readings for myself, was that this deck often signified me as the King of Cups. In the "how [the deck] views you" position it put me as King of Cups and I was so surprised and touched I felt my eyes water. The idea that someone or something could look to me with that level of admiration and/or capability was staggering. And when I saw how the deck viewed itself (not very pleasantly, I will say) I realized that I was dealing with a deck that was like me when I was younger, self deprecating but seeing the best in everyone. That made me think "if this deck sees me so highly, I can't let it down." I have to strive to be the best version of myself, strive to get to a point where I feel secure as a King rather than a Page, because this deck already sees me as that and is counting on me to reach that high. And that may be just the exact kind of energy/personality I need in my life right now.

 

My deck is the Transformational Tarot by Arnell Ando. It's a beautiful collage deck that I found at a festival when I got caught in the rain under a deck-seller's tent who had hundreds of decks to look through (probably the best place to spend two hours out of the rain in haha). I found this deck in a beat-up box that looked like it had seen better days. The cards were in plastic though so I knew they weren't damaged. I held onto the deck as a "maybe" as I went through the other decks. By the end I found two more decks as "maybe"s but after I finished there wasn't much that had to be done in the way of deciding. This was the deck I really really wanted, there was no doubt. The other decks just couldn't compare to the feelings I had when I held this deck.
Since this is an out of print Tarot from 2005 or 2006, and was in a box that basically crumbled by the time I took it home, I thought that it must have been traveling, unsold, for a long long time. Because of this I wonder if maybe its self deprecating personality comes less from the original intention of the deck, and more from its more-than-a-decade time on the road being passed over by hundreds, if not thousands, of hands, and not bought. This is my first Tarot deck and I love it to pieces so I'm quite happy that fate brought us together! I basically carried it around with me non stop for about a month straight when I first got it, as the feeling of love that I get when it's near is powerful. I don't carry it around as much now just because I'm back to daily life in the city and I wouldn't want to lose it, but I keep it beside my bed always.