Favorite Tarot Decks

Some of my favorite Tarot card decks are:

• Thoth Tarot;
• Tarot of Ceremonial Magick (by Duquette); and
• The Golden Dawn Magical Deck (by Cicero).

Thoth Tarot is the most evocative (and perhaps provocative as well!); Tarot of Ceremonial Magick is like “flash cards” for a lot of useful magickal symbols and works very well with Tree of Life studies and Goetic workings; and the Golden Dawn Magical Deck is a good modern “updating” (not strictly as updating as much as a restatement) of the now-slightly old-fashioned Rider-Waite decks and their variations. All are available on Amazon.

The Golden Dawn deck is the least spooky deck, and hence less likely to raise eyebrows if you travel with it or use it to tell friends their “fortunes,” but has a wealth of Golden Dawn symbolism embedded in it.

All three decks are good for meditation, readings, and skryings (gaze at a card; look away and "see" the card doorway sized; and imaginatively step through the portal thus created).