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Old 14-12-2010, 01:28 AM
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thoth deck

Hello I just started seriously working with tarot. I have the thoth deck and it has 3 magician cards. Am I supposed to use all 3 in a reading. If so why do you use all 3 in this deck when other decks only have one?
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Old 14-12-2010, 02:03 AM
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Hi seeker. No, you are not supposed to use all three, just pick the one that you like best. I have a thoth deck too. I believe that they couldn't decide on which one to go with, as the woman who painted the cards for Crowley did more than one version for many of them i believe, magician included.

No, definitely do not use all three magicians in there though. I used my other two for bookmarks. May have switched one of them for another for awhile, though i can't remember, it has been years since i've looked at the deck.
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Old 14-12-2010, 09:20 PM
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Thanks deusdrum for the clarification. I used the deck with all magicians included and it did seem a bit confusing when two came up in one reading. Do you have any other insights into using this deck?
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Old 14-12-2010, 09:43 PM
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I recommend reading the Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley, as well as Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot by Lon Milo Duquette. I don't mean to scare you away, but the Thoth deck is widely consider to be the most difficult to master of them all. It's the only one I like to use though. I think it's worth the effort.
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Old 15-12-2010, 01:56 AM
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book of thoth

Thanks for the recommendation arive nan. I will definately try to find a copy. Why would this deck be more difficult to master than any other deck?
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Old 15-12-2010, 02:50 AM
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Crowley put a lot of symbolism in each card, but many of the meanings are not obvious. They relate to myths from a wide variety of religions, the practices of the OTO (a secret society), and sometimes you need to have a good understanding of the Tree of Life to really understand a card's meaning. It is possible to try to use the deck intuitively and just take impressions from the image on the cards, but this deck doesn't make that easy in my opinion.
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Old 15-12-2010, 05:56 AM
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Well I guess I chose a good deck. I am study the golden dawn system which works off the tree of life. I read israel regardies tree of life book and some of his other works. Thanks again.
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Old 17-12-2010, 01:51 AM
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Id give you some advice seeker, but i really was not too good with tarot for whatever reason, i spent awhile doing readings on myself, meditating upon the cards for a time, then kind of gave it up.

Good luck with the deck though, they are really beautiful cards, some of them.

Maybe do a search on the deck, i seem to remember there being some good resources on the internet; one site had a collection of card interpretations from people who used the Thoth deck. Another one took each of the major arcana, and compared it to a specific iching reading. Worth looking around a bit anyways.
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Old 17-12-2010, 06:37 AM
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ThAnks for the advice
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