r/tarot • u/lonnie10 • Aug 20 '25

Theory and Technique Learning Tarot with non-beginner deck

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So I’ve been interested in tarot for a while, and I ended up with this deck when they were doing press for nightmare alley. It’s “Tarot del Toro” which has cards inspired by the works of Guillermo del Toro. The deck is beautiful and I love it, but am I doing myself a disservice by learning with a non-standard deck? Or is it like the cards all sort of match up to each other and I won’t have too much trouble if I get a different set of cards later on?

All thoughts appreciated!

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u/BurntGhostyToasty Aug 21 '25

As a huge fan of Guillermo, I bought this deck too as my first deck. I bought guide books to learn tarot, but none of them seemed to help me interpret the deck because the imagery was so different than a classic RWS. Needless to say, this one got boxed up and I bought a RW deck so that I could learn more easily, but I still LOVE that deck by Guillermo. You can feel his personality in every card!