The card stock is perfectly shuffleable, and Charles Harrington’s guide is succinctly insightful.

which deck is this? thanks

and a book that will add dimensions to card meanings! 💙

This is such a great deck 🖤

One may also be interpreted in the foundational sense, as in a foundation or basement of a home. As the base, it may represent the residence or home base.

a particular goal, or a written will; but leans toward the latter, as it can also be a document, letter, contract, passport, a base of operations.

The solo nature of one suggests some time alone to reflect on your intentions before proceeding.

we can pull some similarities with more modern interpretations, as the club can be seen as energizing the figure being created, or even creating the persona. Regardless, it appears to be the beginning of a creation, and their little red-cheeked faces seem *very* determined.

Oh, true. And whiteness. But producing a deck for Waite at that time, I know she was creating the very standard Brit expectations of the early 20th C. I wonder what she would have created on her own. 🤔

Perhaps similar, since that was her world, but fun to think about.

Yes! Using tarot in ancestral lineage healing and IFS work is so transformative.

I drifted so far from RWS, always searching for better, prettier, darker; and now after decades I really appreciate all that deck has. I use it the most for reading others because it has so much to point the querent to.

1JJ Swiss from the early 70s that I found it in the basement of my childhood home. Card stock is superior - US Games doesn’t make ‘em like that anymore!

In excess, we may be placing an overimportance on it, which can be counterproductive by generating hasty, impetuous, or bold behavior. We can jump the gun and miss the opportunity.

Where there is a lack of fire, we hold back, missing the opportunity out of fear, complacency, or lack of focus. Our task here is to identify what may be holding us back.

So as the initiation of our energy & identity, the Ace of Wands implores us to take action. It’s raring to go, to grasp the force that we might actualize it in our lives. What is the inner light that drives you?

tomorrow: the spectrums of the Ace of Staves / Wands in introspective and shadow terms

PCS stays true to the Book T description: the Root of the Power of Fire; so not much to read into it. Waite lists beginning, source, birth, origin, creation, invention, principle, the starting point of enterprises and the virility behind them.

So phallic, no?