Draw One
About ten years ago, I started collecting cards. Some of them are tarot decks, and some are other kinds of divination cards. When I bought my second deck, I had one tarot deck in my possession that I'd acquired in college, and had gotten pretty dog-eared and beaten up over time. I try to be careful when handling my cards, and with that old college deck I learned that some kinds of shuffling are harder on your cards than others.
Since I lean towards unusual, small-run decks, my collection isn't enormous. Occasionally I'd see a set featured on a tarot website and pounce on it - I was able to acquire a copy of the Lunatic Tarot that way, though when my deck arrived it was missing three cards. Friends who knew about it started pointing me towards things I might like, or gifting me decks. Soon I had Crow's Magick, Pathfinders, Deviant Moon, and the Saints Deck.
My tastes are a bit dark, and when I moved in with walkertxkitty we effectively doubled our card collections. We wound up not sharing decks, though, and I soon found out that we'd learned to read in entirely different ways. She had been taught very traditional methods, where I had done my own studying and come up with a somewhat haphazard but effective way of using mine.
Your mileage, though, like your cards, may vary.
Since I lean towards unusual, small-run decks, my collection isn't enormous. Occasionally I'd see a set featured on a tarot website and pounce on it - I was able to acquire a copy of the Lunatic Tarot that way, though when my deck arrived it was missing three cards. Friends who knew about it started pointing me towards things I might like, or gifting me decks. Soon I had Crow's Magick, Pathfinders, Deviant Moon, and the Saints Deck.
My tastes are a bit dark, and when I moved in with walkertxkitty we effectively doubled our card collections. We wound up not sharing decks, though, and I soon found out that we'd learned to read in entirely different ways. She had been taught very traditional methods, where I had done my own studying and come up with a somewhat haphazard but effective way of using mine.
Your mileage, though, like your cards, may vary.