Disappeared Tarot

[Sacrlet76]

HI, it has been awhile since I have been on the boards and I am so happy to be able to come by. I hope you are all doing well and the energy surrounding is positive.
So now for my question.....I have a Tarot deck that I had been learning to use and I always kept it with the book. I never let anyone else use the deck except for trusted people because I didn't want anyone elses energy on the deck. So I would practice reading ocassionally and realized that the deck wasn't really for me, I never got clear readings. So I put the cards and book away behind a bookshelf. Well I never saw the cards or book again. I went out and purchased a new deck and started using those. Then awhile later I went back to use the book that was with the cards and both were gone. I know for a fact it wasn't thrown away and noone could have taken it, I am positive on those facts. So my question is....Is it possible for a deck to disappear when it is not needed or if the spirits feel the deck is not for you and they confirm your feeling by taking the deck away? I know it may seem like a silly question but I have always wondered for years what happened to my first Tarot deck.

[MidnightSun]

MM :)

First of all no question is a silly question :) That being said, on to your question. Yes it is very possible. Crystals do that too that i've noticed. If they feel you are using them for the wrong reasons or that you don't need them anymore, they'll just up and disappear.

[Mithrea]

Anything is possible :D I was curious if you might tell us what deck it was. That might affect my answer ;)

[Flaire-FireStar]

Hmm....I'd say it's entirely possible. Like MidnightSun said - crystals do that as well.

[Sacrlet76]

Unforunately I really don't remember which deck it was. It was a simple standard deck that is used by beginners. The pictures were not fancy and looked almost cartoonish.

[Scarlett O]

This same thing happened to me several years ago.

I had decided to stop reading for a while after my son was born. I put the book and the cards away. I bought them as a set. It was The Mythic Tarot. I still have the book...but have never been able to find the cards. I had moved and know that they were in the new house. I read once for a friend in the house. I put them back away and then never saw them again. If I remember correctly I found the book in a box of old books...somewhere I would not have put it. My (ex) husband could have moved them, but why would he have put the cards in a different place than the book? I asked him about it once and of course he had no idea what I was talking about...lol

So...yes they can "just disappear." I don't know why mine decided to leave, but they did. I didn't buy a new deck until this spring. Before that I just read regular playing cards...It was something my grandmother did and I thought maybe that was why my tarot deck disappeared. I don't know...maybe they just got so happy being on vacation they decided to take a permanent one. ;)

[buttercup]

Interesting. I had a similar experience. About 11 years ago I had been studying and reading tarot quite a bit. I really felt a connection with the cards I had and felt that I was developing skill in interpreting them. I had been practicing for about a year when the feelings and visions (probably not the right word but the best I can come up with right now) became overwhelming for me when I used them. I put them away. I got scared. My parents had gone on and on about evil working through the cards....yadayadayada. When it got right down to it, I was immature. I didn't understand my own feelings on tarot and was willing to let others decide for me. I didn't want to get rid of them so I wrapped them and put them into my cedar chest. A few months later, a friend wanted to see me do a reading...kind of like a parlor trick. I went to get them and they were gone. I figured my parents had gone in, found them and thrown them out.

Fast forward nine years. I began studying different pagan religions and rekindled my earlier interest in natural, earth based spirituality. During this time someone asked me if I had ever done any divination. I thought about looking into tarot again and was going to get a new deck. I put it off though. Then, one day I was going through boxes of my daughters medical records and I saw the cloth I wrapped the cards in. When I dug it out, I found my cards. When I put them away, it was in a cedar chest, I wasn't married, I didn't have kids, and I didn't even own the storage box. I assumed the cards had ended up in one of my old boxes from when I lived at home and my husband had come across them sometime in the last few years and thrown them into the medical record storage box. Now....it makes me wonder.