{"id":6211,"date":"2011-12-01T01:10:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T06:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2011-11-29T17:10:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T22:10:16","slug":"the-tarot-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2011\/12\/01\/the-tarot-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tarot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s  that time of year when we all head out to the stores in search of the  perfect holiday gift for that special someone. \u00a0If your looking for the  perfect deck of cards to give as a gift or stocking stuffer I though I&#8217;d  give you some suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite deck of course is the traditional Rider-Waite deck the art  is classic and the cards are the most recognizable cards available. \u00a0I  prefer the Rider deck because it makes the readings a bit simpler to  explain to my clients when I&#8217;m reading them.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the Deviant Moon Deck this Deck has amazing and gothic art  work the deck for me is reminiscent of Alice In Wonderland it&#8217;s a great  deck for collectors however I don&#8217;t recommend it for actual readings  since it is a little darker then most cards.<\/p>\n<p>For the Vampire lovers there are two decks that I recommend. The Vampire  Tarot with simplistic art work and my favorite \u00a0Vampyre  (Phantasmagoria) this has beautiful artwork and comes in a gift box with  an extensive book that details the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Another beautiful gift box set is the Commemorative Pamela Coleman Smith  set. The set comes with the Smith-Waite cards, a bag to put the cards  in, an pictorial key book, \u00a0book on the Artwork and Times of Pamela  Coleman Smith and additional art cards. It&#8217;s a beautiful gift set comes  in a sturdy box and as far as gift giving goes this one is my most  reccomended because of all it includes.<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few decks that make great gifts and you can find most  of them at your local bookstore. \u00a0If you have a reader, collector or  want to give yourself a gift of cards check out the ones I mentioned  above you won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year when we all head out to the stores in search of the perfect holiday gift for that special someone. \u00a0If your looking for the perfect deck of cards to give as a gift or stocking stuffer I though I&#8217;d give you some suggestions. My favorite deck of course is the traditional Rider-Waite deck the art is classic and the cards are the most recognizable cards available. \u00a0I prefer the Rider deck because it makes the readings a bit simpler to explain to my clients when I&#8217;m reading them. Then there is the Deviant Moon Deck this Deck has amazing and gothic art work the deck for me is reminiscent of Alice In Wonderland it&#8217;s a great deck for collectors however I don&#8217;t recommend it for actual readings since it is a little darker then most cards. For the Vampire lovers there are two decks that I recommend. The Vampire Tarot with simplistic art work and my favorite \u00a0Vampyre (Phantasmagoria) this has beautiful artwork and comes in a gift box with an extensive book that details the cards. Another beautiful gift box set is the Commemorative Pamela Coleman Smith set. The set comes with the Smith-Waite cards, a bag to put the cards in, an pictorial key book, \u00a0book on the Artwork and Times of Pamela Coleman Smith and additional art cards. It&#8217;s a beautiful gift set comes in a sturdy box and as far as gift giving goes this one is my most reccomended because of all it includes. There are quite a few decks that make great gifts and you can find most of them at your local bookstore. \u00a0If you have a reader, collector or want to give yourself a gift of cards check out the ones I mentioned above you won&#8217;t be disappointed. Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}