Rose Rivers Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:10 pm
hope it's all right to revive this seemingly old thread but I wanted to ask if anyone knows anything about the tarot deck I have.
First, it came via an ebay seller, no box, no instructions, no nothing but the information that the cards date from around the 1930s and came from Canada.
They are nothing more than a series of random black and white photographs. A quick summary:
a boy crying
a girl blowing out candles on a cake
someone being wrapped head to foot in bandages
someone hiding behind a mask
a game of football
a car going through a flood
a castle
Mahatma Gandhi
a man pouring water
that's a random selection of the cards. I 'read' them by the way they fall when dealt out, usually one card for NOW and six cards, either three for past and three for future, or all six for the future. No one has 'told' me to read them like this, it came naturally. The cards have black backs with a pentagram in white.
I have to say they are surprisingly accurate. One person asked - long distance via email - if her husband was faithful to her. The NOW card I drew was a man lying on the grass stroking a cat.
I had to be careful how I phrased my response and how I need to phrase it here but it said he was getting enough - at home...
I have had to stop doing tarot readings, though. I was getting commissions for readings through a site which advertised them for me but - here is a quick summary of some of the questions I got:
when will I win the Texas Thunderball
will I win Miss Chinese/Toronto this year
Should I go to Hong Kong and become a dancer and famous singer
can you tell me when I will meet my soul mate, what race will he be, what career will he have, where will we live -
Will my hair be damaged if I keep using straighteners.
The question which made me decide not to read for the site any more was:
can I make a living playing professional poker.
All this to me is an offence to the tarot, which is for guidance, not prophesy and an offence to any medium trying to help others on their pathway. It is too draining to try and concoct an answer that will not immediately result in an email saying 'you didn't answer the question...'
But I would like to find out more about these strange cards if I can. Someone who said he has over 200 tarot decks has never heard of them. I am wondering if they are truly unique. Any ideas, friends?