Next year, it’s back to basics.

It’s been a very long time since any Tarot related posts have appeared here- mainly because I’ve been busy on my other pages. (See last post) This is also because nothing especially insightful or inspirational has happened to me over this past year with regards to Tarot. Those of you who have followed my posts at the end of last year will remember that I bought a rather lovely deck called the Llewellyn Tarot, and decided that my readings for this year will be based exclusively around this deck. I’m sorry to have to say that despite the beauty of the illustrations on this deck, and despite my best efforts, I’ve found it difficult at best to form any kind of connection with this deck so as to make any readings of any particular value. Not to say that some people will connect with the Llewellyn, it’s just that for whatever reason I cannot.

The cards I’ve drawn for daily readings have corresponded with the day’s events, but only in the most general way, and I haven’t forged any kind of intuitive bond with this deck as I thought I would. If anything, the kind of readings I’m getting hark back to my post in 2008, when I was speculating on how certain decks put a ‘spin’ on daily events. It seems, for me, that the Llewellyn, like the Gilded, is a deck with beautiful illustrations, but offers little to me in the way of insight and ability to form an intuitive bond with the deck.

Despite this, I’m still glad I have it, as I have many other decks in my collection that I haven’t done daily readings with, and there are a few that I haven’t read with at all; they were mainly purchased either for the historical significance of the deck, such as the Tarot de Marseilles, or because I’m a fan of the deck artist and their work, and the deck is too lavish to risk damaging by daily wear and tear. As such, during the course of this year, I’ve also been doing a few readings with my old  beloved Cosmic deck, and as I suspected, the readings were deeper and more insightful, and the bond was still there. Going back to this deck was like checking in with an old friend, and realising that nothing much has changed, and that we can pick up virtually from where we left off. (I’ve also begun doing a few Runecasts, but that’s for another post altogether!) I’ve decided that next year, I’ll be returning to my Cosmic Tarot, in order to re-establish my intuitive abilities with the cards, and it looks as if this will be ‘my’ deck, the one I will come back to time and again in the future. At least the last five years of different decks has taught me that!