Some decks live up to our expectations better than others. I feel like I’ve had several decks fall short of my hopes recently, and have been approaching new decks with a more skeptical eye as a result. But the Shadowland Tarot happily far, far exceeded my expectations and skated right into my top 5 decks for personal use.
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Ah, the search for the perfect deck. It begins, whether we know it or not, with our very first deck. You may have been given your first deck as a gift, or gotten it before you learned what you do and don’t like in tarot imagery. Sometimes we luck out, but usually it takes some experience with tarot before we really know what we want and need in our perfect deck – our soul deck.
Thankfully, it’s much easier now to find just about any deck anywhere in the world than it was 20 + years ago when I started learning and reading tarot. Although in some ways that can be of even less help – how do you decide which deck to work with when there are literally thousands of different decks out there?
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Friends, I’d like to introduce you to the English Magic Tarot. Actually, I’m not introducing the English Magic Tarot in general – I’m introducing you to this deck specifically, the one in my pictures. Why? Because it’s not like other decks.
*plays ominous music*
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I didn’t intend to have a tarot (and oracle) deck collection. In fact, a couple of years back I parted with a few decks because they didn’t work for me, and I was trying to keep a limit on the number of decks I had hanging around. But as my search for my perfect tarot deck dragged on (it took 20 years….) I inevitably ended up with a collection of decks that are important to me for a wide variety of reasons.
I struggle with collecting – there’s a very strong part of me that just absolutely loves it. And not just collecting but organizing my collections, keeping lists and sub-lists of what’s in my collections… I’m a total geek – I blame my Virgo moon.
There’s another part of me that doesn’t want lots of ‘stuff’. Which thankfully helps keep my collecting bug in check. Really, the only two things I keep an active collection of are books and tarot/oracle decks. I do have a few accidental collections, but that’s another story which will get published over on the Inkwood Journal sometime soon.
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I ran an online, used bookstore for 13 years (out of my house) which specialized in sci-fi/fantasy/horror and Pagan interests. The bookstore has been sold, but I still come across tools and books stashed away periodically that need homes. Additionally, I try not to keep decks I don’t have a current or projected future use for, and would rather see them in use by someone else.
These items will now be available for sale on my site in the Witch’s Attic (under the ‘Shop’ menu). You can also find it directly here: https://inkwoodtarot.com/the-witchs-attic/
Bright Blessings!
Cynthia is an empath, clairsentient, and has been a student of the tarot for over 20 years. She loves healing through the combined energy work of Reiki, crystals, herbs and tarot, to help her clients take control of their lives, and empower them to do their highest-level work.
