COLLECTING TAROT CARDS

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Exactly when, where and how tarot cards came to be, is one of history's unsolved mysteries.

Forecasting probably started with people who lived long enough to learn that everything in life changes in cycles.

There's a time to plant and harvest. There are births and burials, seasons come and go, the wind's direction swings from north to east.

By observing the natural cycle of life, the older generations knew that all setbacks, failures or otherwise success are all temporary. "Everything changes with time." They always advised their children.

From there, it is natural to realize that life cycles could be charted, stars could be watched, calendars consulted, cards read.

The whole entire tarot deck make up one of the tools of encouragement and empowerment that have emerge throughout the centuries.

After you acquired or received your first tarot deck ( presumably Rider-Waite deck) you are now ready to learn and purchase more kinds of tarot decks. The wide variety of choices of tarot decks to choose from seem endless.

You can choose tarot decks such as Celtic, Wiccan, fairy, Arthurian legends, Thoth, Russian tarot, Zen, Gilded, Hanson-Roberts, shaman wisdom, goddess, Aquarian, dragon, Marseilles, animal themed, Angelic tarot decks, mythological even something offbeat and contemporary like baseball tarot, Silicon Valley tarot decks, Lord of the Rings inspired tarot decks.

Before purchasing tarot decks to add to your collection, check out the entire individual 78 cards if you can, and check if you have a “feel” for them. Reflect and let your energy permeate through the entire tarot deck.

Choose and buy the one that speaks to you. That you feel connected with. That’s in tune with your energy. Choose tarot cards that will also stir curiosity from your clients, so they can be readily responsive to the prediction of the card spread.

As a professional tarot reader myself, sometimes I would like to use two different tarot decks in a single reading session. This would add variety to your readings so I definitely need a collection of interesting tarot decks. That for me should be visually appealing and stimulating to the imagination.

I always keep my tarot decks wrapped in silk cloth and placed in a wooden box. That way I can keep the positive energy in and negative vibes out. Realize that each kind of tarot decks has its own feel to it.

Visit tarotgarden.com, your source of unusual and hard to find collectible tarot decks.


Go to google.com click images, and type in the name of the tarot deck you wish to see.

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Collecting Masks

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In ancient Greek times, masks were used in theatres. Because masks represent different characters. Different emotions. Masks also represent archetypes.

Masks were used mainly in religious festivals and rites of passage in different cultures. Like shaman masks were used to appease the gods and ancestors for fertility, healing, hunting for food, initiation and crossing over to the spiritual world.

As in the case of Venetian masks and Masquerade ball masks, the purposes of wearing it is to conceal one's true identity in order to have the freedom to flirt and dance with anybody, to negotiate clandestine deals.

Those masks enabled the poor to hobnob with the rich. Ironically, masks are a way into the very nature of our own being.

Mask collectors hunt and accumulate these sculptures because it would lend a three dimensional aspect in their collections. Collectors tend to focus on only one single theme such as Balinese mask s, Noh masks from Japan, opera and rituals masks from China, original movie monster masks, Venetian masks, Masquerade Ball masks, half masks, full masks, head masks, stick masks and Mexican masks that were used to cover corpses as these were put in a canoe and sent out to sea.

Masks can either be hung on the wall or let stand on a base. Undoubtedly, they are outstanding conversational pieces.

Like any other collectibles, masks that are of good quality, in excellent condition and most of all rare, would command a high price value on them. Better still, if the piece is published in books or catalogues, would be worth more.

If it came from prestigious dealers and auctioneers like Sotheby's or Christie's would certainly escalate the price all the more.

You don't have to collect every masks of every tribe in Africa (if African art is your thing). Just concentrate and focus only on one like Gelede masks from the Yoruba of Nigeria or comparable masks from Zaire. It's all up to you.

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Collecting Retro Modern Furniture

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A fashion designer once said that clothing styles orbit in two cycles, seven years and a classic twenty five year cycle. With furniture ,architecture and industrial design the periods are longer.

So while models are trotting the runway with seventies fashion, fifties and sixties interiors has recently made a comeback.

Great fifties and sixties stuff generically known as modern furniture or retro modern furniture.

Retro modern furniture designs were well made, inexpensive, distinctly bright colored with pale woods. It filled young couples' brand new houses during the Eisenhower years.

Fifty or more years later, retro modern furniture expressed the power of American verve and postwar enthusiasm and optimism. Modern furniture designs by Charles and Ray Eames, Nelson George, Noguchi Isamu, Wright Russel etc. made their mark after World War ll.

It's possible now to recapture the best of the fifties and sixties. One of the appeals of the retro modern furniture is that a lot of the wonderful pieces are still being made. Some companies licensed reissues of chairs, sofas, coffeetables etc. to the precise specs of the originals.

Although some materials are already endangered and more expensive (i.e rosewood and goosedown).

Modern furniture stores like Heywood-Wakefield ( i think it's currently under a new name) produced much of the furniture fueling the revival of fifties style. You can also buy modern furniture at auction sites such as ebay or yahoo. Old Hollywood studios still have huge stashes of fifties/sixties pieces mostly used as movie props.

Experts recommend mixing retro modern furniture pieces with new products. You don't have to blow your money on entire vintage pieces. A few really good genuine retro modern furniture can give authenticity to everything.

Buyers and collectors of retro modern furniture who want one of a kind stuff will prefer the hunt that build their collections more slowly, otherwise if you are in a hurry to find the look of the period buy modern furniture in current versions of the classics or reissues.

I remember when i was around five or six years old playing around my grandmother's house surrounded with what is now known as retro modern furniture. I still hear faint bossa nova beat in the background. It feels surreal. I couldn't believe i'll even say this: If only i had all those furniture today.

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