Witches Tarot by Ellen Cannon Reed.

[ShadowStorm]

I got it for Yule, I waited for it for 3 year!!!and I haven't started studying it yet. *jumps up and down with excitement.

Any hints, tips, ideas on the imagery? Tips, things of interest, before I delve into studying the system?


Help would be apreciated!!!!!!

Thank you in advance!!!!!

[Flar's Freyja]

I've seen that deck and it is beautiful, but I don't own one and haven't used it. A friend who uses it gave me an awesome reading not too long ago.

I think you'll get a lot more responses if we move this to the Tarot forum, so I'm going to do that, okay? Tarot is such a huge area that it has its own forum, and this one is for other forms of divination.

[Witchy Cowgirl]

I've got it but I haven't studied it much (yet!)
I know someone who knows a bit about it.
I'll send her a PM!
pssssst MITHREA!

[Mithrea]

Okay . . . you know the readings where you hear, "OH MY GOD. HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?" I only get those with this deck. In fact it happened at a party tonight.

You can't treat this deck like an ordinary Tarot deck. It may seem that the changes are small (like no Devil card, etc) but they are bigger than you think. It is a unique system and I do find that it works well in with Wiccan principles and correspondences. My problem getting to know this deck was that it took a lot of work to shake what I knew about my other decks and not to impose normal Tarot conventions onto these cards. So, my advice would be to forget everything you know about Tarot and just practice like crazy with these cards. I can almost guarantee that at some point your are just going to go "Ohhhh! I get it now."

Keep "traditional" correspondences in mind. Green-fertility, Red-love, etc. Paying attention to the colors in this deck is very important.

That being said, I really find that these cards are better to read intuitively rather than by memorizing even the meanings Reed gives you. The querent poses a question. What does the imagery on each individual card have to say about that question? Really *look* at those pictures. What does it make you think of?

Keep us posted on how it's going and feel free to pm me with any questions.

[tarotbear]

You also might want to pick up bnoth the books by Reed about how the cards fit onto the Quabalic tree of Life, which is those intrusive colored circles in the cards. They are the sephiroth, the globes on the pillars of the tree.

Realistically, you don't have to know anything about Quaballa to read tarot, but it does answer a lot of questions.

I was never thrilled by this deck; it was given to my partner, and it has the distinction of being the deck I used to do my first public reading which catapaulted me into being a 'reader'.