What is everyone's favorite tarot deck?
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I grew up with Crowley's Thoth deck, which I still love and which has informed my whole understanding of the Tarot but I no longer have a proper deck. I recently bought one called Tarot of the Dream Enchantress after seeing @tadpole put up some images here; this one has been great for me as it brings out more witchy sides of my intuition.
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Digitally I use golden thread, Thoth and a touch of Rider-Waite for tradition, and because lots of online people say things about it.
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Dear witches of cards, how about you?
@Eve When we came back to qabbalah this time, the Rider-Waite was de rigueur with the Guardians of Grace, but that was many years ago in this meatbag. Since then, we feel that decks which reference The Hanging Man, rather than The Hanged Man, generally have a more cohesive set of imagery across all the arcana.
Those that reference hanged rather than hanging tend to miss the entire point of the somersault across the abyss of the eleventh sephira and consequently the necessary link to the dark sea of awareness and the need to avoid the paths of the ten qlippoth like a plague. Unless, of course, you prefer chaos to creation.
@sophieactual I hadn't thought about the question of agency, or perhaps presence (if I'm understanding/intuiting well), with respect to this card, but the distinction is important, I agree very much. I'm now wondering which decks have the property you mention. Do you have any in particular?
My knowledge of qabalah in general is restricted to what I've been able to glean from the margins and so is very very partial and unsystematic, but what you say here makes me want to dig deeper very much.