I really enjoyed this!! I don't think I suffer from FOMO, I can only think of one deck that I bought it out of FOMO and it turned out to become one of my favorites!! Having said that I had 60ish decks last time I counted... but then I'd say almost half of them were gifted to me. I also learned a lot from the decks that ended up not working out for me... and I have no problem swaping or giving them away! I see my collection as a living entity, always changing. Loved seeing your decks!!
Absolutely! I used to be even stricter with myself but now I'm okay with giving a deck a try and rehoming it if it doesnt work. I just try my best to find secondhand decks as a sustainable factor for my own personal practice. Thank you so much for watching 🥰
Enjoyed this thoughtful response to the hashtag call ~ and for many of us, you hit the bottom line spot on! Looking forward to more videos on your channel!
Thank you so much for watching! Im happy to hear it resonated with you as well 🥰 feeling alone is this community definitely feeds FOMO so speaking up about it helps squash it in my experience.
I think I collected so many decks because I think they are somehow parts or aspects of myself! I'm making myself more complete in having/ owning them! By choosing I find myself... it sounds weird, but this is how I feel. I think if you are living a satisfying life the other people confirm who you are - and if that is missing you search for objects which do that? But I had a lot of fun in the process and I think it is a hobby like hiking or doing anything else... I just want to have the space I need. If the collection gets too big it will take away physical space I need. I don't even know how many decks I have - maybe 300 ? The problem I have is the rehoming part. I life in a country where not many people collect decks ^^° but I don't want to rehome a lot of them to be honest - I love nearly all of them! I think I just need more people to share the cards with ;)
Thank you for sharing, Gabi! If your collection feels right to you, that is a personal feeling nobody can take away from you. And everyone's limits will look different! I get overwhelmed after about a dozen decks, but someone else could have 500 decks and feel fine. It's a very personal definition which makes the community so great, we can all share our own definitions of tarot and our decks and what we love about them.
This is a very interesting topic. I'm very new to tarot, so ever since Ive been watching tarot tube, people have been talking about decluttering their collections. So to me, the feeling I get sometimes is that I'm not a "serious" tarot reader because I have so many decks. The discourse now seems to be that to be a "real" reader you should only have an rws, a Thoth or a marseille (or at most one of each of the three). So when I get the inkling to buy a different deck, I feel like I'm doing tarot wrong. In terms of questions, a question I like to ask myself before buying a deck is "what type of question would I ask this deck?"... if I have others that I go to for those types of questions (readings), then I think twice about it.
This is a fascinating perspective!! You are absolutely correct in that this feeling will change depending on when you start! I think this wave of culling is all from readers who began around the pandemic, or accumulated a lot during the pandemic. It makes complete sense that now that you're starting and seeing all the full videos its giving you the opposite signals! I love the question "what would I ask this deck" to see how it varies for different decks. Thank you for sharing, Mariana!
What an honest and insightful video. As a new reader I’m surprised at how quickly I have accepted the idea of deck collection. I’ve passed through (I think) the honeymoon period of snatching up pretty decks 🙈
Yes it was something I had to find balance! I always knew "collecting" wasnt for me, so processing the feelings that i "needed more decks to be a valid reader" took time and now I'm really happy with my little library of decks :) thank you for watching, Erin!
Interesting subject. I don't do deck FOMO and buy all my decks because I like them. It's the same for my paper books, I buy them because I like the story🤎
This was great! Really enjoyed your thoughts on this and agreed with so much of it. I think what you say about the over-abundance of choices is really true. It's difficult because there are so many really cool individual creators making decks, which I think is really awesome (though in some cases the artists don't seem to bother to understand the tarot first) but then there are larger companies that just crank out decks because they know people will buy them. Not to say there aren't a lot of wonderful decks coming out of mass market, because a few of my favorites are mass markets, i'm mostly talking about the super gimmicky and pop culture decks. I'm cool with people making infinite numbers of cat decks and animal decks though, so just keep those coming.
I agree!! Theres a fine line between offering variety and cranking out decks cause you know they'll sell. Most of my decks are mass market too! But we don't need more colorations of the classic RWS! And ooooo dont get me started on those who make decks with no understanding of the tarot 😤
