Showing posts with label tarot cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tarot cards. Show all posts

Monday, January 5, 2015

Raider-Waite from an article by Hunter Oatman-Stanford

Image source - http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1920PamC-edited-1024x760.jpg


Below is an excerpt of a well-researched and written article about tarot cards. The author has the following to say about Raider-Waite:

Even if you aren’t familiar with tarot-card reading, you’ve likely seen one of the common decks, like the famous Rider-Waite, which has been continually printed since 1909. Named for publisher William Rider and popular mystic A.E. Waite, who commissioned Pamela Colman Smith to illustrate the deck, the Rider-Waite helped bring about the rise of 20th-century occult tarot used by mystical readers.
“The Rider-Waite deck was designed for divination and included a book written by Waite in which he explained much of the esoteric meaning behind the imagery,” says Wolf. “People say its revolutionary point of genius is that the pip cards are ‘illustrated,’ meaning that Colman Smith incorporated the number of suit signs into little scenes, and when taken together, they tell a story in pictures. This strong narrative element gives readers something to latch onto, in that it is relatively intuitive to look at a combination of cards and derive your own story from them.
“The deck really took off in popularity when Stuart Kaplan obtained the publishing rights and developed an audience for it in the early ’70s,” says Wolf. Kaplan helped renew interest in card reading with his 1977 book, Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling, and has since written several volumes on tarot.

Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the World's Most Misunderstood Cards
By Hunter Oatman-Stanford — June 18th, 2014

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tarot Card Decks Running Out Fast


The last few months I have sold several of my tarot decks that I have owned and had a hard time letting go. Well I have kept them for sometime and became part of my collections. Some were given as gifts but I have not made use of.  Well I believe it is time for them to be owned and used by other people, those who are equally interested in learning tarot, using it to read and to give as a gift.

Some of the decks sold were:


1) Robin Wood

The Robin Wood Tarot has rapidly become one of the most popular Tarot decks in the world. Its beautiful art, vibrant imagery and luminous energies, enchants everyone.
The 22 Major Arcana cards are filled with life that was previously unseen in the Tarot. It is also filled with the energy of nature, taking the images outside of rooms and into the beautiful abodes of the gods. For example, The High Priestess is an ageless woman wearing a lunar headband. Behind her are trees and a darkened sky lit only by the moon.
The shining strength of this deck lies in the fifty-six cards of the Minor Arcana. The characters on the cards almost seem to breathe. Often, the cards seem so dimensional you get the feeling you could jump into them. Watch the boy carve pentagrams on wooden disks in the eight of Pentacles. Gleefully help steal blades in the five of Swords. Join in the merry dance on the four of Wands.
The 56-page booklet explains everything to give a Tarot reading, including the upright and reversed meaning for each card and 3 different layouts. Each of the pip cards is given a word or short phrase to help you identify the meaning of the card with virtually no effort.
Pagans will love the influence of nature on this deck. Beginners will find it makes learning the Tarot fun and easy. Experienced Tarot readers will love the radiantly colorful, symbolic, and infinitely captivating deck.
2) Merlin

   The Merlin Tarot is a unique tarot concept. Based entirely upon the adventures of Merlin, drawn directly from authentic twelfth-century sources, it is a modern restatement of a set of primal, powerful magical images which predate the earliest known set of tarot cards by over 300 years.

This special pack contains The Merlin Tarot Deck superbly illustrated by Miranda Gray, together with The Merlin Tarot Handbook, R.J. Stewart's  examination of the cards, their relationship to the cosmology and psychology of the ancient Merlin texts, and their use in meditation, visualization  and divination.

(Source - http://www.rjstewart.net/merlin-tarot.htm)




3) Rider Waite (Blue Original)



Facsimile edition of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck originally printed from plates that were destroyed during the bombing of London during World War II. The deck and book set comes with the Rider-Waite Tarot deck by Pamela Colman Smith with original Tudor Rose back design, Celtic Cross divinatory chart, and The Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite.

(Source - http://www.amazon.com/Original-Rider-Waite-Tarot-Pack/dp/0880796863/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)


4) Universal Waite (Original US Games)



The iconic drawings of Pamela Colman Smith have been beautifully re-colored by artist Mary Hanson-Roberts. The original meanings and rich symbolism of the Rider-Waite artwork come though with greater clarity and fresh, new details. The enhanced imagery make the Universal Waite Tarot deck more accessible to newcomers and more appealing to seasoned tarot readers. Hanson-Roberts’ serene colors also make the Universal Waite deck as perfect for meditation as it is for divination.

(Source - http://www.usgamesinc.com/Universal-Waite-R-Tarot-Deck/)




(Note on the price difference - some of the tarot decks are now out of stocks also with the shipping charge and the tariff/custom tax the tarot cards/decks I am selling would be much more cheaper than the imported ones.Also quality wise the publishers of most of the tarots are European or US.)


I am glad that my ads at sulit is working since I have made some investment for my ads as well and now it is paying off. You can find the ads with the links below -

http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/view+classifieds/id/8508535/Tarot+Cards?fromRelatedAds=8508535&referralKeywords=tarot%20cards


So what are you waiting for if you are interested, just go to the link above and check those tarot decks that interest you.

Also if you can't find other tarots that you know and it is not on the list please refrain from asking, because I am receiving text and email messages asking for other kind of tarot decks. So if it is not on the list in my ads then I do not have the tarot that you want, just check the other sellers at sulit. Also as to pricing please note that prices ranges from 1,500 and above, no less.


Related read here:

http://juliusleenon.blogspot.com/2012/12/history-of-tarot.html

http://juliusleenon.blogspot.com/2007/02/for-sale-tarot-packs-and-deck-cards.html


Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Tarot cards for beginners and coaching on tarot reading

Below is my new ads posted at Sulit. I have been receiving several text messages, calls and emails with the ads. Indeed Sulit is such a great site to advertise! 

 
Tarot Cards
juliusleenon2011.sulit.com.ph - Tuesday, March 5, 2013

2013 © Sulit.com.ph


With those calls, text messages and emails I would like to share some of those information and answers that I have given so that I can bring future query to this site.


Question: What is the best tarot card/deck for beginners?
I have biased towards The Original Rider-Waite,  it is a card/deck that resonates to me personally. It is the card/deck that I also suggests to those who are interested to read as a hobby or earn from reading. So for beginner I suggest the original Rider-Waite as a starter.

But for some of my friends some other cards/deck resonates to them better aside from the Original Rider-Waite that they used as a beginner (well some even used the regular playing cards/baraha to learn reading). Some cards resonates to the reader's personality, skills and spirituality. So it depends on their preference and skills at interpreting the message of the cards.

For some beginners they would discover their knack at reading cards as a natural skills, although others would learn or develop it through constant practice and reading cards ( and also literal reading of books about tarot cards as well).

Just post your comments here, text, email me for your questions. I will be posting these info in my blog also so others may be able to read it. 


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Coming up soon...

Question - on a full moon what do you usually do with your tarot cards?
(A question I posted but have not yet received any reply on this - I will be posting soon).

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

FOR SALE TAROT PACKS AND DECK CARDS









Prices are negotiable and I entertain trade-in. Please check my contact details if you are interested.


TITLE OF TAROT PACKS (with Cards and Books)

The Original Rider-Waite
Egyptian Tarot
Oshozen Tarot
Lover's Tarot (Giant Size/Major Acana)
Lover's Tarot (Complete 78)
The Mythic Tarot
The Transformational Tarot (100 cards)
The Legend Arthurian Tarot
The Sacred Circle Tarot
The Celtic Dragon Tarot
The Celtic Oracle
The Celtic Tree Oracle
The Mythic Astrology
The Tarot Box
The Angel Oracle
Faerry Wicca Tarot
Tarot of the Spirit









TITLE OF TAROT DECK CARDS

The Original Rider-Waite
Gold Edge De Luxe R/W
Universal Wait
Universal Tarot
Yellow-The Rider Deck
Medium R/W Tarot
Tiny "Universal Wait"
The Thoth Tarot
The Robin Wood Tarot
Golden Dawn Magical
Egyptian Tarot
Samurai Tarot
The Gendron Tarot
Crew's Magick Tarot
Aquarian Tarot
Oshozen Tarot (Old Version)
Master Tarot
Golden Tarot
The Godless Tarot
Fairy Tarot
Celtic Tarot
The Mythic Tarot (Fotocopy/laminated)
The Spanish Tarot
The Arthurian Tarot (X-L)
The Enchanted Tarot
The True Lve Tarot
The Merlin Tarot
The Golden Dawn Tarot
The Elemental Tarot
The Tiger Kimm Tarot
The Original Rider Waite
Visconti Tarot
Playing cards from diff. Airlines