Tarot as playing cards...

[MythMath]

Had some fun today playing Gin Rummy and
'Knights' In The Corners with my young son today...

He's a fan of these games, and a good player...

However, today we used 52 cards from the Thoth deck...

It was a challenge for both of us to 'translate' on the fly...

And the overall appearance of all the cards was beautifully
rich and colorful compared to normal playing cards (natch)...
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The card layouts themselves made it a little tough to
read when fanned in the hand or laid out in a spread...

But it was do-able...

BTW, in the KITC game, normally the cards are played in descending
numerical order, alternating black/red/black/red, so when using the
elemental 'suits' we quickly discovered that we would be playing
straight (wands or swords)/curvey (cups or discs)/straight/etc...

My little innocent (he's 6-1/2) decided we could
remember this rule by thinking boy/girl/boy/girl...;)

[Oblio]

That sounds very cool MythMath

I've never played tarot/card games, but I came across "The Royal Game of Life" by Gerald Suster a while back, and I've always wanted to have a go at that!

Here (http://www.esnips.com/doc/083cae15-54a5-4218-ae5f-d9143e70ae45/(ebook)-Tarot---The-Royal-Game-of-Life,-Gerald-Suster---A-Game--Study-Course---Aleister-Crowley,) is one link for the game if anyone's interested in checking it out.. It can, of course, be used as a divination/path-work tool as well.

[Ci Celli Ddu]

Ive used playing cards as Minor Arkana Tarot, but not the other way round. For me the normal playing cards are just too iconic to replace.

[MythMath]

For an update to this concept scroll
down to see the elemental deck:

http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?p=15783#post15783