Example Tools:
Useful Accessories:
Notes: As long as you do not riffle shuffle, you use a Reading Mat, and you store your cards in a non-staining/sticking Hard-sided Container; you should not require a Playing Card Press.
A Call Bell is a handy tool for alerting the start of a session, while a Sand Timer is a handy tool for preventing session overruns.
- Not cards Astrodice
Why: Set of three twelve-sided dice labled with an Astrological Sign, Planet, or House. Useful as markers, especially when doing a "pick-a-card" style reading.
Astrological Oracle Cards
Why: These cards are useful as conscripts when you need to select a personifying "significator" card, so that you don't siphon away a card from the working deck.
Cards of Time
Why: Solves the problem of event timing, by being a deck dedicated purely to answering timing questions. Primarily used as a supplement to other decks.
Not cards Dynamic Spreads Deck
Why: A practice tool that teaches how to use divination cards more effectively.
Not cards Magician's Fanning Powder
Why: Zinc Stereate acts a barrier to keep cards from sticking together. If needed, evenly and sparingly apply the powder to each card.
Wonderful Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards
Why: Kookie pronouncement cards for icebreaking. Deck gets party guests laughing, by letting them use the deck to pretend that they are sideshow mystics.
See also the decks listed in the Arcanum section
Tarot Skill Building Example Decks:
(can be used for regular readings too)
- Not cards Illustrated Tarot Spreads: 78 New Layouts For Personal Discovery
Why: A Spread tutorial exampling many types of focused Tarot Spreads.
Mellor Keyword Tarot
Why: Study Tarot of friendly, contemporary drawings with keywords. Has an enlarged Court. Deck explores reversals, and how an entrenched card system can evolve.
- Note that this is a greatly Expanded deck with additional significator and divinatory cards.
Pseudo-Tarot Psychic Tarot for the Heart
Why: Study Oracle paralleling the Tarot. Chakra inspired theming. Explores optimistic responses to happenings revealed in counterpart RWS Tarot cards.
Tarot in Wonderland
Why: Borderless full color renderings of Alice story characters in unconventional scenes. Superior Tarot practice deck for the story-telling/body-language reading method.
Notes about the Card Decks:
The selected card image has no significance other than to exhibit the decks artwork style.
Click on the Flip Through Icon [] to watch a video showing more images of the cards in the deck.
The "Why:" paragraph below the card image is a blurb describing what makes the deck worthy.
Click on the decks Title to preview the user manual that comes with the deck.
Click on the card Image to read a reviewers externally linked comments about the deck.
(reviews/videos were chosen for their illustrative value only, and should not be construed as author/store endorsements)