7 Fascinating Differences Between Tarot Decks
Maybe no divination practice is more widely done then tarot cards. Almost every culture around the world from China to Russia to Europe to the United States has their own version of tarot.
This has led to several inconsistencies over the years between decks. Some of the differences are small, others are quite big.
Let us take a look at seven common differences between decks as they vary from culture to culture.
1) Changes in suits
For most basic tarot decks, there is a major arcana and a minor arcana. The minor arcana is made up of four different suits.
In most decks, those four suits are wands, cups, swords and coins. But in some decks, the suits vary.
Wands have been replaced with shorter, thicker batons, and in some decks, coins have been replaced altogether with pentacles.
With different suits come different interpretations. Most readers use multiple decks depending on their mood that day and will interpret pentacles differently then they would coins, even though the suits are replaced for each other.
It is unknown if the overall impact of having pentacles over coins or batons over wands chances the spirit of the deck, but some readers are very loyal to one or the other.
2) Personalization
One of the bigger changes to come to tarot in recent years, thanks to mass production of decks by hundreds of companies around the world.
Today, readers can buy decks with themes suited to almost any like and dislike out there.
Baseball fan?
There is a deck themed to that. Fan of rock music or goldfish? There is