When it comes to Tarot, I’m a bit like Ash from Pokemon—gotta catch them all!
Which means I need to use quite a bit of restraint whenever I walk into a crystal shop or when on a tarot forum. As my dad (who initially taught me tarot) keeps saying, I only need one deck.
But, but, but! There are so many pretty decks out there!
So I didn’t write this blog post to gush about all the amazing decks available. I just want to gush about the ones I (currently—more might be in the mail) own.
Now that we’ve established my love of tarot, let’s get into the decks that I use with regularity.
First of all, I’ll talk about the deck that I use the most, the one that I feel the most connection to and the one that I use in the majority of my Reiki healings.
This deck is called the Transparent Tarot and it was created by a Reiki master. As you can see, you lay three or four cards on top of each other and you build a comprehensive picture to answer your question. When I do the One Question Reading, I typically pull 16 cards and put them into four piles each. This helps me get an in-depth understanding of what’s going on and I can give you details that wouldn’t normally come out in a 15 minute reading.
Whenever I use this deck, it gets straight to the point and tells me exactly what I need to know. The feeling I get from this deck is that if there is anything I don’t understand, this is the deck I turn to. It’s also a very spiritual deck and connecting to it gives me a warm and joyous feeling.
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Most of the tarot readings I do is for healing work, so this next deck is really quite special for me. The Medicine Woman Tarot Deck is based on shamanism and is a very grounded in reality. Unlike most decks, where the Pentacles suit representing coins in a world full of online currency, this deck represents Pentacles as a practical journey in starting a jewellery making business.
It’s down-to-earth and lovely.
Now, I believe that if you are to do anything in life, you have to have fun with it (especially spirituality). So these next decks are my ‘fun’ ones. But don’t be turned off by this, they also produce clear and insightful readings.
The first deck is based on my favourite childhood show, Sailor Moon. Using this deck reminds me of a time in my life when I got up early each morning just to watch Sailor Moon. When I’d go to school, all excited about what had happened on that morning’s show and applied the lessons to my life. It solidified my understanding that there was more to life than what the majority told us. It gave me role models to look up to and taught me how to be a better version of myself.
All this childhood joy and learnings come into each of my readings and, like the Fool card, I do the reading with an innocence, no expectations, and am thoroughly delighted by the insightful answers I receive.
The next deck makes my geeky side fangirl. The Zombie Tarot deck is full of surviving a zombie apocalypse in a humorous way and from the perspectives of both zombies and humans, and how, ultimately, we can work together.
Every time I use this deck, I snicker at what’s going on in the cards. From the Fool walking happily into a cemetery full of zombies to the Seven of Swords, where a woman kicks her lover down the stairs into a zombie horde while she escapes, there’s just so much humour in this deck that I can’t gush enough about it.
Again, don’t be fooled by the humorous nature of this deck, it gives insightful and on-point readings every time, with just a bit of laughter to brighten the soul.
The next deck is from the same creator as the Zombie Tarot. This one is called The Housewives Tarot, and before you cringe about the anti-feminist implications of this deck, let me tell you that it takes a more facetious and honest attitude about what it was like to be a housewife in the 1950s. What with The Devil card being a chocolate cake on legs and the Nine of Swords (aka the nightmare card) being the horrible and judgmental mother-in-law, you can see the humour and love that went into creating this deck.
Although, the deck does say it’s for ‘domestic divination’, don’t be fooled, it’s a lot more accurate and insightful than you think ;)
