Pfoe verschil hoe leg ik dat uit...
Ik kan alleen zeggen hoe het voor mij voelt.
Het verschil tussen een orakel en tarot is dat je bij tarot meestal een vraag stelt.
Bij een orakel doe je dat niet.
Stukje uitleg van een Engelstalige dame:
An oracle deck can be any deck with any amount of cards, any pictures, and with it's own peculiar structure. Oracles can be extremely powerful and are easier to use than Tarot which normally takes quite a bit of study to understand it.
Tarot has a specific structure and was designed hundreds of years ago. The actual purpose for designing these cards is pretty murky and has got lost in the meanders of history, but some of the magic has remained (I said magic, not magick).
There are more and more Tarot decks being designed which are no longer really Tarot decks, except in name. They should be called "Oracle decks with 22 Major cards and 56 Minor cards".
Tarot has a structure to it. The Majors tell a story. The Minors are related to elements and numerology.
Many Tarot designers forget this (or couldn't care and just make a copy of another deck with different pictures on it) and so they end up so far away from Tarot that it would be laughable if it weren't tragic.
But there's big money to be made in Tarot today. It's become so fashionable, and the Tarot industry needs to churn out a lot of new decks to satisfy their customers. So anything goes.
I wish they wouldn't call them Tarot decks though. Soon no-one will know what Tarot is anymore and will believe that any deck of cards that has 22 Majors, and 56 Minors divided into four sections, is a Tarot deck. They will be mistaken.
bron: www.tarotforum.net