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Marseille, Montenegro, Playing card, Prague, San Marino, Tanja Bakic, Tarot, Tarot of Marseilles
Last couple of days i had meeting after meeting with publishers for my two new collections of poetry that are due, and as i am used to calm and rather “monastic” way of life, that kind of schedule has totally drained me. It’s a necessary thing to do, but all the legal and technical stuff is tiring, so this time instead of the usual “brain stretch”, i am offering you a peek into the (not so)secret life of a Tarot collector… Enjoy 😉
Making all kinds of sub-collections is a question of honor for every Tarot collector, here is my Baba Prague sub-collection:
Getting excited about ever new decks is the thing to do, expanding your collection in various ways as well (here are my newest additions to the playing cards collection) – the parcel is from everyone’s favorite Alida store in San Marino:
Organizing your collection and finding more and more room for numerous boxes is yet another thing to go on and on about on social networks: 
Writing Tarot-inspired fiction is uber-cool; these were taken at 3d Winter Book Fair in Montenegro, two years ago (from left to right – Dragana Boskovic, Lena Ruth Stefanovic, Tanja Bakic)
Left to right: poetess, Blake scholar and president of Montenegrin association of publishers and booksellers -Tanja Bakic, Lena Ruth Stefanovic, mediator – Dragana Boskovic
Snapping pictures of various meditation settings and altering them digitally is super chique as well:
Juxtaposing cards from various Marseilles decks is a must:
Left to right: Le Veritable Tarot de Marseille (Hadar) , Jean Noblet Tarot , Jacques Vieville Tarot
Matching cloths, candle-holders and of course – crystals are the endless source of excitement for a collector – and a curse to his credit card ( Tarot of Prague )
Coffee table occupied by decks is a norm – and so is sipping on your coffee anywhere else, but at the very table… Too many collector’s tears are cried over coffee spilled on cards for that to be even remotely possible! 😉
Lena –
What a true story this is! And many thanks for sharing the lovely pics! To be a collector is a world unto itself!
Blessings,
Bonnie
Thank you, dear Bonnie! xxxx
Wow! Impressive collection!
Thank you so much, Kerry-Lynn!
oooh I love a peek at other people’s deck collections! If you’re nuts about William Blake – have you got the William Blake Tarot by Ed Buryn? *feeding the fire of tarot deck acquisition* 😀
Ali x
Ali is it the deck where Mary Greer was involved? I want it for a friend of mine (for Tanja Bakic, she is on the pics) who is our most eminent Blake scholar! (I am crazy about Blake myself, needless to say!)
I love seeing your photos Lena, This morning I was especially oh and ah over the Marseille collection 😀
Thank you dear! I loved your “Tarot myth”, shared with fb Tarot community ❤
Thanks for sharing these photos Lena & thanks even more for the light hearted… ‘though true’… variations of trials & tribulations a collector may experienc at any given time of the day 😉
Thank you, dear friend! Lol, i guess anxiety gets easier once you have most of the decks you wanted lol! But you are right, though – it is an obsession in it’s own right – it is that by now i did manage put my greedy little claws to most of the ones i truly wanted – i wouldn’t mind Greenwood and Ironwing (not to mention Wooden Kashmiri ) of course – but i can live without them 😉 The only deck i am really looking forward to getting at this time is (again ) Baba’s Alice – can’t think of some other that i’d loose sleep over… 😉
I really do love the pictures at the Winter book fair. There is the professionalism and the sheer presence that can almost felt on the photographs. As said previously…a creeping intrigue towards Tarot here, I must say. Congratulations with the poetry…really very interesting.
Thank you, dearest pirate! 🙂
Did I mention sizzling? Must be the Montenegrin weather, mountain air or seawater..who knows, but I WAS impressed!
Thank you dear xx
Did I mention sizzling? Must be the Montenegrin weather, mountain air or seawater..who knows, but I WAS impressed!
Love this post! All so true. I fear I have done them all, so can die happy…
Dying? Before Alice is printed?! No way! 😉 I’d die myself without your being around, so chill out! 😉 xxxxxxxxx
Such colorful cards 🙂 and bestest luck for your poetry publishing!
Thank you so much, dear friend! xxxx
Great post!! 😀 Shared on my new FB page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-Frideborg-Lloyd/279842582116240 (found out you could have a page without a personal account). Please let me know what the link is for your FB Tarot community page so I can add it to my page’s favourites (I can only interact with other pages).
yay, you are back! it’s here (and i already added your page as my fav 😉 https://www.facebook.com/TarotCommunity
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You do have an impressive collection , far bigger then mine. I usually collect tarot decks based on the art work but you have opened my mind to other decks I have missed that are beautiful.
Ps: think we have the same deck collection problem. Many decks,low storage space lol
Thank you so much for commenting, dear Melissa! You know – i found a solution, except the decks that i really fall in love madly with, i give away… Thus, many of my own friends – and in some cases (where there is an age difference, so they have grown up kids) – it’s their kids who got into Tarot and start either collecting or reading, or both. (Don’t think i am cheap lolol, i also give away decks i absolutely love and later one get myself a back up ;)) In this way i feel i am making meaningful gifts – and they, being newbies, are glad someone can choose a decent deck for them, so it’s a win-win (i mean – if it’s a BDay or some other occasion – i;d anyway get something at least as expensive as a nice deck – and it’s a question whether they’d like it, like this – it’s hard to miss ;)) Btw, i apologize for the late reply – i was on the go, just arrived to Montenegro two days ago 😦
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