Astrology, Spirituality & Alternative Healing

but you can *offend* a deck by misusing it (or not using it). (LOL)

I'm old and I've been doing tarot since I was 20. I started with the Thoth deck, and it's still my main deck. It seems to allow me to dig deeper inwardly than any other deck. I have the Mythic Tarot, and bought it just for the reason you said... it's based on Jung's psycho-mythology and archetypes. But the deck and I have never "clicked" for some reason. I have so many decks, they take up three shelves on a bookcase! The closest I came to using another deck often was the Spirit Animal deck and an Oracle deck of the Moon. But if I start working with any other decks, it feels like the Thoth throws up garbage at me for quite a while afterwards. Figures, it's Crowley, you know! (LOL) I think my clicking with the Thoth has more to do with Lady Frieda's intention when she was doing the artwork. You can lose yourself in it, and all the meanings and symbols you can dig out of it. Plus, in my early years, I liked to "validate" my tarot readings by using another method... either Runes or Numerology. So I was very much appreciative of all the information packed into each card in the deck. The girlfriend who works with me with the cards absolutely can't touch the Thoth tarot deck, other than to sort it when I do a reading for her. She won't read from it. She found a Cat Tarot that suits her perfectly, and the promptly bought me one, too! (I have a whole glaring of cats I share my house with).