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Thoughts on TV/Movie based decks?
updated 1 year, 1 month ago
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Some are great and well thought out, while others feel like they’ve been thrown together by someone with very little understanding of Tarot and mainly there to sell as novelty merch.
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Totally cash grab, but then again, what isn’t?
I’m on the stance that if you like it, want it, then go ahead and get it! Life is full of crap, so take the moments with joy as often you can. If it’s now an Jurassic Park lunchbox, overpriced T-shirts because it says Gucci or an tarot deck with an popular theme. Go for it! Enjoy it, have fun with it. It’s yours, not mine. We all enjoy different things, which again makes the world more fun and diverse.
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My Golden Girls deck just speaks to me magically. Couldn’t have asked for a better deck to kick start my love for tarot.
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The Over the Garden Wall Tarot is AWESOME
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The majority of ones I’ve seen I have not resonated with. However I recently acquired a Schitt’s Creek themed deck and it’s actually amazing. The references are so well thought out and match perfectly with the cards. Honestly if I’m a bit stuck when reading my RWS I pull the same card from this deck and it helps me gain a better understanding or perspective of the card bc I know the show so well haha
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Just today I bought the Hocus Pocus deck and the Labyrinth deck for me and got the Supernatural deck for a friend. They’re fun and have a lot of nostalgia.
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I have an avatar the last airbender deck and it’s one of my favorites!
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if only we could contact those worlds through the decks right? i wish 😉
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I think they’re fun and often work pretty well, since I can connect with both the characters and the card meanings. There are some exceptions I’ve seen that are kinda phoned in and were clearly slapped together to make a quick buck, but some are really cool. I’ve heard amazing things about the Golden Girls tarot, and some bad things about a few decks I won’t mention since I’m sure there are still people who like and enjoy them. I have a few, Nightmare Before Christmas, Disney Villians, and I really hope to get the Last Unicorn one some day.
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I never realized until this moment that i want a Lisa Frank® tarot.
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Charmed
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There is supposed to be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer deck coming out this year!
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There is an office tarot deck? Where did you find that?
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I own the Nightmare Before Christmas deck but I’d never use it for an actual reading because they don’t read intuitively at all for me. But I life NBC and absolutely needed it 😍
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Lots of these tend to get thrown together. Hated the Star Trek TNG one so, so much since there was so much they could have pulled from the shows and just went with character portraits instead and then had pips with starship. Just an utterly bland Marsaielle deck. I saw a concept on Etsy based in the major arcana that was much more faithful but not a proper deck.
Making matters worse, in the current Picard TV series, they introduced something a bit more fascinating – the Romulan Pix’mit cards. They were three-sided cards filled with imagery that lent themselves to being both playing cards and being used for divination that could look mandala-like as the cards were laid out.
The Golden Girls deck is fire, though. Absolutely faithful to RWS and the show at the same time, with each leading lady getting one of the suits. I believe The Office deck shares the same artist/team, so that probably works out quite well.
I use them more for shitpost readings among friends than for serious or personal readings, though, as it gives the unfamiliar something fun and easy to latch onto.
