The Thoth

[inomminate]

Hi
I notice that the Thoth isn't on any ones list of decks and I wondered why. You don't have to channel Crowley to use it. You don't even have to like him.
inomminate

I have read a lot of Crowley's works, I don't necessarily agree with him, but I find his stream of thought fascinating.
An insane genius? Very possibly.
Evil? By some groups definition, yes. To others, it's a grey area (think in terms of mental stability/mental health)
He was definitely born before his time and changed the spirituality/magickal landscape.

I don't use Thoth as I don't like artificial systems being squeezed into tarot, although I admire anyone who wants to go down that path of learning.

I'm a RWS person and feel I still have so much to learn within that system, Thoth may happen for me one day but I don't have any plans as yet.

[inomminate]

Hi
Thanks for your reply.I have nothing but respect for the RWS. It is one of the great decks. It is for me a complement to the Thoth. Both came out of the golden dawn but from different angles. Crowley was a magician and Waite was a mystic. I find one of them will show me what the other misses. For This reason I often use both at the same time.

As for imposing a system on tarot. I feel that when you do this then the Tarot will talk to you in terms of the system. This doesn't make the system right and its why so many conflicting decks all work. However the richer the system is then the more the Tarot can say.

Inomminate

If you like the Thoth deck, have you seen the Rosetta Tarot? It's rather nice and apparently the deck creator's guide book is supposed to be really good too.
There's a youtuber called Sacred Seed who does a full walk through and review of the deck if you're interested in finding out more about it.

[Clover]

I am very aware the Thoth is a very popular tarot deck, but I have never been pulled or drawn to buy it. I researched it, and looked at the images very carefully and I am not attracted to this deck, it looks too difficult to work with for me personally. For example, when I see a Lovers card....I want to see the Lovers card!. I want to feel the emotion and all the intensities from the illustrations. All the lines and bright fruity colors of the Thoth don't do it for me. If I do own it someday it would be to have as a collectors items but i have so much on my wish list that i am more excited to buy than this particular deck. Nevertheless, it's an intriguing deck, If anyone wants to give it to me free, Ill take it!

[HeKatesXing]

I do like Thoth Tarot Deck I love the Major Arcana Images, quite thought provoking... Another deck that seems to be modeled on Thoth is Melody's Crystal Millennium Tarot ... here is The Magus ...