Where to buy a divinatory card deck

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Despite the fact that it is much talked about, and that it is just as successful as in the past, the practice of fortune-telling using a deck of divinatory tarot cards must be kept hidden from everyone’s sight. Thus, like a banned drug or a film prohibited for under-18s, you will not find a tarot card deck in the shops we are used to frequenting in our daily lives.

I experienced this myself in the form of a test recently, by asking the newsagent/bookseller on the corner of my street whether he had a deck of tarot cards to sell me, and his answer was just as negative as it was full of astonishment.

However, he can offer me a most traditional card deck if I wish. What a thing I had dared to ask of this good shopkeeper… For you have to understand that, since fortune-telling, and therefore all its accessories such as the tarot deck, touches on thorny subjects like esotericism and a certain form of occultism, by advocating the existence of parallel worlds, certain people endowed with executive power prefer to leave it in the shadows.

For above all one must not alarm anyone with these practices, which may disturb some. That is why you still have to travel to specialised shops in esotericism to obtain a deck of divinatory tarot.

It is therefore in these specialised stores of all kinds of fortune-telling that one can dig up the long-sought rare object. And for your information, you must absolutely not believe that these shops, which are still found in all the largest cities of France, could resemble a ghost-train set or an old medieval dungeon !

No, these businesses dedicated to the worlds of fortune-telling practices are places just as welcoming as most others, even if they are imbued with a singular atmosphere that makes us feel as though we are in a wholly different era, in any case in the oldest of these shops.

On entering one of them, one is first surprised by the intoxicating scent emanating from incense smoke, which besides creating a gentle atmosphere, is also for sale.

Then, while before us stand numerous bookcases filled with books and practical guides on the world of fortune-telling, we face all sorts of card decks of divinatory tarots and Oracles, crystal balls and pendulums of all sizes.

We also find there board games related to the spirit of instinct, clairvoyance, and each person’s personal development.

But that is not all, for within these shops with their most « Feng shui » atmosphere and design, we are also faced with numerous highly spiritual objects, such as Buddhist meditation cushions, lithotherapy stones and Mala bracelets capable of taking great care of our emotions, and various jewellery and pendants with a spiritual, occult or religious connotation.

The displayed prices vary according to the objects and their dates of manufacture, but nothing seems unaffordable for the average wallet, except perhaps books now classed as collectors’ items. In any case, the advantage of buying your card deck within such places is that you will be able to feel, touch and visualise each of them, while spending a pleasant moment in a most singular world.

There are many of them, and they are generally quite serious. In any case, for all those who are not lucky enough to visit a specialised shop, or who feel no desire to do so, these websites remain the best way to obtain one of the many accessories linked to the world of fortune-telling.

As for divinatory Tarots and Oracles, all existing choices will be available, at prices that often defy all competition, and sometimes even with free delivery. Thus from the famous Tarot of Marseille and its 78 major and minor arcana, to the Belline Oracle, by way of the Rider Waite tarot, the Petit Lenormand, or Doreen Virtue’s Angel tarot, all the decks belonging to cartomancy and tarology will therefore be available, as long as they are not out of stock.

Some of these sites dedicated to the mysterious worlds of fortune-telling are moreover recommended by professional tarologists, such as Lucy Cavendish, Oswald Wirth or Toni Carmine Salerno.

Furthermore, some of these sites also offer free online fortune-telling, ideal for quickly predicting the destiny of a person concerned. 

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