I have been looking for a plain playing card deck to read with. I use the Playing Card Oracles deck, and as much as I love it, I wanted to challenge myself by using a deck without any illustrations whatsoever. Just the pips. The problem is that I failed to find a deck that spoke to me... until now. I'm surprised at how this old-looking reproduction is... talkative. I had lots of fun with it over the weekend.
The deck is small (8.8 cm x 6.2 cm), and has very simple images. The pip cards don't have numbers, but it doesn't make much difference in the end. The background colour of the deck is not that stark white, but a lovely beige that makes it even more old-fashioned. And the corners are not rounded, which I love. The deck has only four colours: yellow, red, dark blue and the light beige of the background. The back of the cards is light blue filled with tiny stars... no, it has absolutely nothing to do with the deck, but it does look cute and mystical!
It comes with the 52 playing cards plus 2 Jokers that don't look like they belong in this deck, because they are rather modern-looking. So I just leave them out, since I don't use them for divination anyway. The court cards are amazing... they are not the usual reversible court cards. The Kings and the Jacks have feet, and the Queens, long exquisite dresses. They all are staring somewhere with the corner of their eyes, as if searching for something... I just love this!
To get more acquainted with the cards, I made up a little game. I'd draw two cards from the top of the deck and read them as a pair... It was meant to help me read without the usual imagery of the Playing Card Oracles, and also to practise card combinations. Below are three examples:
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