When it comes to the Tarot, which deck do you pick? It’s a question everyone asks themselves, and there are all sorts of rules about how to pick your deck (for example, some people say the best decks are the ones gifted to you) But sometimes, you may find the deck you have doesn’t speak to you—and it’s important to search until you find one that does. Here, writer Sasha Brown-Worsham shares her journey to find a tarot deck that worked for her life—and her surprise at the journey to find it. — Horoscope.com editors
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The first tarot deck I ever used was my mother’s Motherpeace deck in the mid 1980’s. The deck of round cards was my mother’s oracle. She pulled them out any time she was facing a problem or I was having issues at school and I came to know their beautiful, feminist (if also macabre) images like the back of my hand. The diverse, beautiful images of women from all over the world. The earth mothers and priestesses with their leopard clothing, the Earth mothers and bathing beauties, the women spread open in order to birth new life. It was the only deck my mother could work with.
But for me? It never worked. Later, when I started reading tarot myself, I learned there are hundreds of different decks of all different styles and while the Rider-Waite deck is the most famous, it’s not always the one to use.