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Jos's avatar

The 9 and 10 of swords were always emotional when drawn or dealt. I still like the "Rider Waite" deck, but am also partial to a low-res pixel deck by Indigo Kelleigh.

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TonyD's avatar

Rider Waite is always a great one to go back to. Some cards do always hit harder. The 3 and 10 of swords were haunting me for a while. Sometimes they still do!

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Stephen Wendell's avatar

Congratulations on completing the Tarot project, Tony!

Do you have them collected together all in one place?

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TonyD's avatar

Thank you! I do not yet, but I'd like to at least make an Instagram collection so they're a bit easier to browse.

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Stephen Wendell's avatar

That would do it!

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Ellen Ross, LMHC's avatar

I'm partial to the Queen of Pentacles myself

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TonyD's avatar

Maturity and good fortune to you!

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John Evans's avatar

There are some big holes in your "argument". I can guarantee you these ad-bloated tarot webpages have existed for DECADES. As in, MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS. They exist because people want to exploit the web to extract money from searchers. It's just that nowadays the creators make images with software, rather than putting their Rider-Waite in a scanner.

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TonyD's avatar

I'm not sure what you mean by argument. It makes me sad to see machine generation start taking over an area where before there was lots of creativity. It's like seeing a nice hardwood floor get covered by a cheap carpet. Perhaps you mean to say that I shouldn't feel sad about this because it's a pattern that has been repeated again and again. I was around when ad-bloated web pages started to gum up the Internet. That sucked, and I'm still made about it. I don't have to make an argument to be able to feel this way. It's just a fact. And I don't have to pretend it's OK just because I can't change it.

Also, please don't shout.

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