garyFLR
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I agree with what you're saying, I have a lovely deck I like using occasionally, The Renaissance Tarot, by Jane Lyle & Helen Jones. The iconography is superb, with each card showing the 'pips' with the element they represent. However the people I read for, wouldn't have a clue as to what the cards meant, & a lot of time would be wasted in explanations. The Rider Waite deck & its derivatives have very lucid pictures that the lay man can understand, & interaction is much easier as the querent is able to identify with the cards. The Robin Wood Tarot is particularly nice, as is the deck in Beginners Guide To Tarot by Juliet Sharman-Burke & Giovanni Caselli. They also avoid 'themes' that people might have difficulty 'buying into'. Just by the by, I'm always going on about decks that I love, Here's one I truly hate. A friend of mine is always giving me Tarot decks that she finds in car boot sales, one deck she gave me was awful!! The Prediction Tarot deck by Bernard Stringer & Peter Richardson. The colour is lacklustre, it has pips, the Major Arcana & court cards are uninteresting, the booklet unhelpful. Nothing to recommend it at all! I won't tell my friend, & I hope I don't get sued .
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