The Tarot

woops

is not like other people
It seems a safe bet that everyone here will have messed around with a tarot deck to some degree or other. @suspended and @luka both revere the deck designed by the Great Beast 666. @suspended to the extent of drawing a card every day. @DannyL is also an adept. Before we performed a santeria ritual together he read my cards although I don't remember what deck he used.

A while back I bought Jodorowsky's book on the subject - he claims to have seen a great many decks - maybe even a hundred different varieties. He settled on a slightly modified version of the Marseille deck, which is the one my Dad had around the house when I was a teenager. I got as far into the book as Part Three, where he starts discussing more involved 3-card layouts, which is when I figured I'd need my own deck to work along. When I went in an esoteric shop today in Holloway though the woman hadn't even heard of the Marseille deck never mind selling it.

I like using a deck called the iotacism tarot, designed by a friend of mine who is a bit of a polymath, where the suits are replaced by Cubes, Gyres, Spires and Arbres (trees); the court cards are replaced by Author, Audience, Entrepreneur and Operator and the arcana are almost completely redone but this deck is likely to inspire a fit of snobbery amongst serious practitioners.
 

luka

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what convinced me that there was something strange going on is when i done a massive whack on the dmt and i could feel i was in the space between two moments, in the MAGIC CREVICE between worlds and i split the pack and it said FAILURE!
I said, cards, I'm not having that i'll give you one last chance split the pack again and it said SUCCESS!
and I just felt my brains spilling out my ears
 
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linebaugh

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Id like to get a deck but I dont beleive buying the same one thats available in every bookstore in the country for 30 dollars will produce any magical effects
 

luka

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theres some superstition that your first pack should be gifted to you but obviously i just ignored that
 

luka

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ive got a new science mate (danny was exchanging emails with him yesterday) and he was going, like, explain this, i could do a reading get an answer, but if i asked the question again 5 minutes later it would be a totally different answer. i said shut up nerd.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
You can divine perfectly well with normal playing cards and you can't get more mass market than that
 

version

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I sometimes feel it's too recent an invention for me to take seriously, similar to Scientology, but then that would imply the only factor in the legitimacy of a religion or belief system is time and I don't think that's quite right, although it clearly is a factor as the further away we get from something, the more mystery there is around it, which plays into the requirement of faith.
 
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luka

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no, like the Freemasons it dates back the Mysteries of Ancient Aegypt dont listen to the debunkers they just want to spoil everyones fun
 

version

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My first real exposure to it was, predictably, the stuff in Gravity's Rainbow with him doing readings for various characters;

The King of Cups, crowning his hopes, is the fair intellectual-king.

If you’re wondering where he’s gone, look among the successful academics, the Presidential advisers, the token intellectuals who sit on boards of directors. He is almost surely there. Look high, not low.

His future card, the card of what will come, is The World.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
The Rider Waite deck is really popular and very mass market, but a huge amount of people use it with no problem
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
Woops, I probably used Lenormand with you which is a different system. I haven't used tarot for donkeys years.
 
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