My new favorite Deck

I began reading tarot cards so long ago,  that really the only deck available was the Rider Waite.  And so I imprinted on it,  and learnt all my reading skills from those extraordinary, intricate images.  I still recommend it as the best deck for new readers.  Most other decks are influenced by or based on it. 

But then the internet exploded,  and all sorts of new images/visual interpretations emerged. 

Every so often I stumble across a new deck,  and each image is more perfect than the next,  and I get greedy to have it in my hands. 

So my new favorite Deck is the Grand Bear Deck by Lise Abbaddie,  a french designer.   It took me a good hour online trying to find the source of all these amazing cards,  and from what I can tell, the deck is not complete,  I can't buy it. But I want to!  I'll join their mailing list and preorder as soon as I can! 

My Current Favorite Deck

Okay I admit it - I have way too many tarot decks!  It's one of the real joys of the internet,  the huge range of cards and images that are available.

When I started reading (really,  before the internet was anything!) you could basically access what was available at your local book/ esoterica shop and that was it.  Then you could start to order things online. But now, there are thousands and thousands of Decks.  There is no way anyone could know them all. 

But I often trawl for tarot images,  that can bring a new perspective to a card.  And I've come across The Cosmic Cycles Tarot by Miriam EG (Illustrator)

The illustrations are excellent and she really brings some new ideas and depths to her tarot interpretations.

I'm trying to be strong and not buy yet another deck,  but who knows...

All pictures are from the Cosmic Cycles tarot deck