Deck interview interpretation help (explanation in comments)

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Deck interview interpretation help (explanation in comments)

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[Phaisandii]

Yesssss I LOVE this deck and have two copies of it!

[vaginapple]

I love this deck. My grandmothers used to read playing cards as tarot!

[ThatCanadianGal]

Hi everyone,

I recently purchased this deck, the Arcana Tarot by Dead on Paper, and it came in the mail today. I decided to do a deck interview spread, specifically this one: https://littleredtarot.com/tarot-deck-interview-spread/

Below is my interpretation but I would appreciate a second opinion! I can tell which pip cards are inverted based on the design on the back of the card, I’m sorry that it’s unclear in the photo.

Position 1: Tell me about yourself. What is your most important characteristic?
Queen of Pentacles – Reversed. I interpreted this as the deck being ready to confront hard truths, the opposite of the nurturing aspect of the Queen of Pentacles when not reversed.

Position 2: Tell me about your strengths as a deck.
Two of Wands. This deck will help me discover things about myself, look to the future and grow as a person.

Position 3: Tell me about your limits as a deck.
Page of Swords. The restlessness and curiosity signified by this card indicates to me that this deck will not be helpful if I linger on issues or questions for too long, it will always be rushing on to the next insight.

Position 4: What are you here to teach me?
Two of Cups – Reversed. This card is signifying tension and imbalance. I’m currently in a pretty transitional part of my life (recently graduated university, searching for a job to begin my career), so perhaps the deck is here to guide me through that?

Position 5: How can I best learn and collaborate with you?
Queen of Swords. I think this deck expects a significant amount of effort from me to seek out deeper insights and complexity in these readings, that not everything will be obvious from a surface interpretation.

Position 6: What is the potential outcome of our working relationship?
Two of Swords. I think this keeps coming back to a willingness to confront and make difficult decisions. I think this deck may be suited to directly asking about decisions, when struggling at a crossroads, and not so much for general readings.

I notice that I drew a lot of twos in this spread, which I think backs up the interpretation of a focus on making choices and then moving forward, not struggling with indecision. I’ll also note that when I recieved the deck it was broken up by suit, so the twos being so close together was probably not a result of not shuffling enough 🙂