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Nemia replied to BradGad's topic in Individual Card MeaningsWhen someone is suffering, sometimes it helps when the cards acknowledge that. We have all gone through suffering, and the mere fact that someone says: I see your pain - that can be a point of connection. The Three of Swords is a tough card and a tough reality, and when we're in the middle of pain, that's what we have to deal with. And when this card appears, it says: you're in pain, and the tarot sees it. Yes, it's true that going through suffering can make us wiser, more empathic, and if it's the pain of ripping off old bandages over festering wounds, it's a pain that can lead to healing. But all these "benefits" are in retrospect. While the pain is there, that's what we deal with. (Btw, suffering can also weaken us, make us bitter and result in isolation - a "beneficial" outcome is by no means a given). Of course, a lot depends on the context of the reading, the question, other cards etc. I'm sure that as readers, we all try to be supportive and caring towards our querents, but imo, it's the tough cards that show a tarot reader's quality. It's not hard to tell a querent their life is all rainbows and marshmallow, but we have to be able to talk about sorrow, grief and heartbreak without sugarcoating it or juggling with semantics to make it disappear. That's why I think that some life experience is needed for tarot reading, like for other arts. I didn't know all this when I was 18 and had my first tarot reading. I think one factor contributing to this dilemma is the constant message of "you can manifest anything", and this belief I heard from many people that when something bad happens, people have somehow brought it upon themselves. But **** happens to nice people, life is unfair, and all the healthy living in the world is no guarantee that you won't get a horrible disease. It's hard to accept this basic unfairness of life, and the Three of Swords is an important card because it reminds us that none of us are immune. In a reading with a client who is suffering emotionally, I would try to end the reading with some kind of uplifting message. I wouldn't let them go home with the feeling that life is bleak and that's it. But I wouldn't do that by putting a lot of rosy make-up on the Three of Swords. I'd do it by asking further questions like: what would help? where can you find support? or something similar, appropriate to the situation. -
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Red Pencil Sketches (Tarot 33.6)
Author: Jamie Sawyer
Publisher & Year: Jamie Sawyer, 2022
Card Size: 2.75" x 4.75"
Purchase at: Out of Print (OOP)
This deck came in a boxed set with Sawyer's Path Tarot, for which it was a draft. You can learn more about it at Jamie's shop.
Related on the Deck Library - Sawyer's Path Tarot
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Maddonni Tarot
Artist - Silvia Maddonni
Publisher - Grimaud, Published in France
First Published - 1981
Ref - 394 152
Language - French, EnglishAvailability - Hard to Find, OOP
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The Deleted World Tarot
If you're nostalgic about the early internet, or were born too late but wish you'd surfed it before corporations got their claws in it, this deck might be for you. It's a bit odd, like those weird sites you'd come across that felt like hidden treasures, since often you would need to stumble upon them or hear about them from a stranger in chat. (To this day I miss a site where you'd type words to change a simple line layout of an apartment. Like an early word cloud. Just in my memory, unless you remember it too? Or the Death Clock, which was more well known, and gave me a date I'm happy to say I passed years ago. 😅)
Artist/Author - Josh Urban Davis
Self-Published (2024, crowdfunded)
Card Size - Standard
Cards - 80 (One extra card "The Thing Between Worlds" and one deck number card)
Card stock - 350gsm premium linen (Matte. A lot like the MPC linen with a great feel, good for riffle, and a that slight woven texture on the card)
LWB - lwb Atlas of Deleted Worlds, 120 pages comes with deck
Box - Lidded hard cardboard
Edition - First, numbered
Purchase here - https://joshurbandavis.com/shop.htmlDetails: Art includes collage. No AI was used. Photo shows The Fool, 7 of Pixels (Wands), Ace of Glitches (Cups), card back, and on the second row the 5 of Glitches, Queen of Illusions (Swords) 6 of Components (Pents) and LWB. With the exception of courts, cards have a different title for upright or reversed (or if like me you don't read reversals, a second title to consider within the range of meanings for a card.) 10s are numbered Ø.
The art is surreal; the color pallet is meant to remind you of back in the day, and the theme is front and center throughout. It's not a RWS clone by any means, and not a deck I'd recommend for beginners.
From the creator: "The Deleted World Tarot is a tool for healing the rift between the choices of the past and the consequential loss of alternative futures. A tool and a story told out of order and out of time, it's a hope that illuminates the worlds we lose by the choices we make every day, and a call to consider what is worth saving. What is not saved will be lost."
