Talk:Fanatics/@comment-7154429-20130402005532/@comment-7706473-20130404025236

Excellent, I'm glad we've formed a little occult club, ehehehe! I'll agree that there's something to be said for actually owning grimoires, and even just old books. If I had limitless time and money, I'd probably just haunt bookshops every other day... Which, again, probably doesn't say the best about me. Still - I've got a fair collection of translated (and, unfortunately for me, untranslated) documents sitting around on my computer. Perhaps we'll have to start up a swapmeet?

Manga Tarot. MANGA TAROT. And this is why collecting the sets is almost as fun as using them. I realize I haven't listed another set in some time - one I use when doing readings for others who are... off-put by the uniqueness of the Phantasmagoric Theater is the Medieval Scapini Tarot. The illustrations remind me a bit of the Palladini deck linked by Deallo, but have elements of Baroque that really click with me. The downside is they always tend towards depressing reads for me, bah...

But I've never felt any deck is more or less serious than any other deck. I knew someone who actually created their own deck based almost entirely on Sailor Moon. It was awesome and I was jealous - but the point is that, finding one that clicks, or a reading form that clicks is indeed something else entirely. I think the feeling that comes over people - that feeling of being moved to a good reading, or one that brings you to a higher understanding, is really hard to describe - but if I took a guess, I'd call it intrinsically linked to the feeling of a deck that speaks to you... As it were.

Coincidentally, the reason I use the five-card spread so much as I have always attributed the number 5 to good fortune. There's no real reason why, though I've manufactured a bunch of dubious numerological statements to support my belief; what is important is that it speaks to me. I've definitely been moved to improvise as the mood strikes though - again, I feel that's kind of what Tarot is. Improvisation and inspiration through a fish-eye lens.