Post by sbolhafner on Jul 5, 2017 3:51:56 GMT
I'm just copying what I said on another forum I joined after learning of AT's demise:
I used to be a lot more active than I am now. I am an amateur scholar and collector more than a reader, though I do occasionally do readings. It's funny - I hadn't been on the AT forum in years, but had recently started to get back into all things Tarot, and would probably have been visiting and posting pretty soon in the next few months - and one of the Tarot-related Facebook pages I like (or perhaps one of my Tarot-loving FB friends) posted the shocking news that it was shutting down.
So I'm joining several Tarot forums and sounding them out and seeing what they're like. I like the layout and the name, at least, of this one.
I've been "into" (as we baby boomers say) Tarot and Cartomancy in general for almost half a century now. When I was about 12 or 13 I was doing readings for friends and family using ordinary playing cards and attributing meanings to them I made up out of my head. When I got astonishingly close to a few right answers, I decided to buy a real Tarot deck. That would have been 1968 or '69, and my first deck was the one now known as the Albano-Waite deck, with Pamela Colman Smith's illustrations recolored by Frankie Albano and the whole reprinted apparently reprinted without regard to the copyright status (or lack thereof) of the images. That deck was eventually stolen from me, but its replacement remains one of my top three decks to use, and my sentimental favorite of all the RWS decks (altogether I own five of these, though one of them is incomplete - and I don't mean I own 5 RWS style decks, I mean I have the Albano, 2 standard RWS (one, as I said, incomplete), plus the two commemorative editions "restoring" the original).
My favorite deck to look at - and one of my favorites to use - is Ciro Marchetti's "Tarot of Dreams"
I own a little over three dozen decks altogether and about that many books about Tarot (including some that are technically not "about Tarot" like Eliphas Levi's "Transcendental Magic" and S.L. MacGregor Mathers' "The Kabbalah Unveiled"), and another three dozen or so books on other esoteric subjects (astrology, Wicca, etc). I would have many more if I had more money ...
I used to be a lot more active than I am now. I am an amateur scholar and collector more than a reader, though I do occasionally do readings. It's funny - I hadn't been on the AT forum in years, but had recently started to get back into all things Tarot, and would probably have been visiting and posting pretty soon in the next few months - and one of the Tarot-related Facebook pages I like (or perhaps one of my Tarot-loving FB friends) posted the shocking news that it was shutting down.
So I'm joining several Tarot forums and sounding them out and seeing what they're like. I like the layout and the name, at least, of this one.
I've been "into" (as we baby boomers say) Tarot and Cartomancy in general for almost half a century now. When I was about 12 or 13 I was doing readings for friends and family using ordinary playing cards and attributing meanings to them I made up out of my head. When I got astonishingly close to a few right answers, I decided to buy a real Tarot deck. That would have been 1968 or '69, and my first deck was the one now known as the Albano-Waite deck, with Pamela Colman Smith's illustrations recolored by Frankie Albano and the whole reprinted apparently reprinted without regard to the copyright status (or lack thereof) of the images. That deck was eventually stolen from me, but its replacement remains one of my top three decks to use, and my sentimental favorite of all the RWS decks (altogether I own five of these, though one of them is incomplete - and I don't mean I own 5 RWS style decks, I mean I have the Albano, 2 standard RWS (one, as I said, incomplete), plus the two commemorative editions "restoring" the original).
My favorite deck to look at - and one of my favorites to use - is Ciro Marchetti's "Tarot of Dreams"
I own a little over three dozen decks altogether and about that many books about Tarot (including some that are technically not "about Tarot" like Eliphas Levi's "Transcendental Magic" and S.L. MacGregor Mathers' "The Kabbalah Unveiled"), and another three dozen or so books on other esoteric subjects (astrology, Wicca, etc). I would have many more if I had more money ...
