this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
416 points (97.7% liked)

Curated Tumblr

7357 readers
2 users here now

For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

Here are some OCR tools to assist you in transcribing posts:

Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Apytele@sh.itjust.works
ethaver@kbin.earth
416
The Fool (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
56 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Source

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I feel like somebody trans and gay wouldn't be into the Rider-Waite deck, which looks great but is the mayonnaise of tarot decks.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah there's this cat deck i'm looking at right now

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Well then link it, goddam.

Personally I'm not into the million different tarot decks (myself having the Rider-Waite just for the art aspect), but someone who's themself out of the box would certainly have considered at least Crowley's deck instead.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

you into amazon links? i just don't want to come off as a corprolite shill

this one and this one have been sitting in my wishlist for a while giving my wife hints. nudges if you will.

although i just saw this one and i love it

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

but it's the canonical one

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tarot existed for ages before the Rider-Waite deck. In fact, the common playing cards descended from tarot.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ok. It's kinda why I chose "canonical" instead of "first". As in, the ones people "reading fortunes" are using.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ehhh, I think people are mostly kinda aware of the existence of the various tarot decks. I'd say rather that the Marseilles tarot is the major precursor to them all, having influenced both the playing cards and the Rider-Waite art.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

ok, now this is the discussion that's worthwhile. What word would you say the Rider-Waite deck represents? I feel that since it's the one that Aleister Crowley is involved with, it feels like the point of reference for using the tarot deck for the occult instead of historical game playing reasons, which many sources use as a point of inspiration and reference?

What word would you use for Marseilles tarot and the Rider-Waite in these contexts?