Deck Affinity Reading

Fifty tarot and oracle decks are now catalogued in this atlas, from strict Golden Dawn correspondences to freeform contemporary art. This report item asks a short set of questions about the art and symbolism a reader is drawn to, and matches those answers against the catalogue to name the decks that fit best.

The Range The Catalog Spans

At one end of the catalog sit decks built on the strict Golden Dawn era correspondence system the Tarot report item describes in full, fixed planetary, elemental and astrological attributions applied consistently across all seventy-eight cards. At the other end sit oracle decks with no shared canon at all, each an independent artist's own creation defining its own meanings, the range the Oracle Cards report item describes. Most of the fifty catalogued decks sit somewhere between those two poles, borrowing selectively from the older correspondence tradition while departing from it in their own art and symbolism.

How A Reading Is Constructed

A reader answers a short set of questions about the art and symbolism they are drawn to, and the reading matches those answers against the fifty-deck catalog's own recorded position between strict correspondence and freeform art, naming the decks that fit the reader best rather than reading any chart data.

Where To Read More

• The FoolMajor ArcanaThe Fool, from the standard tarot, an example of the strict Golden Dawn correspondence end of the catalog.
• Angel Prayers Oracle CardsAngel Prayers Oracle Cards, one of the freeform end of the catalog.
• Flower of LifeFlower of Life oracle deck, a second freeform example.