? I don't think there is another animal that can compete with the feline domestic tyrant in tarot popularity. AT lists cat-themed decks but I'm sure there are more out there...
Which is your favorite cat deck? Do the cats appear as cats (Pagan Cats, Cat Eye)? or anthropomorph (Baroque Bohemian Cats, White Cat Tarot)? or something magical in-between (Kiss)? Or do you think cat decks are horrible?
How many cat decks do you have? And do you live with real cats?
I'm a cat person and that's why I'm curious
I have only two cat decks, Pagan Cats and Kissa.
The Pagan Cats deck is very clever but I'm not really Pagan so I connect more to the cat than to the Pagan aspect. As reading deck, it's surprisingly good, maybe because it's so close to RWS that you don't need an lwb or anything else - just read it as RWS and the associations will come. I have the mini deck, edged it in purple and keep it in a purple bag. It served me well in the Winter Solstice reading.
The Kissa deck was irresistible for me for many reasons. I spent many happy childhood vacations in Finland, my father loved Finland so much that he studied the language, and my first cat was called Kissa (cat in Finnish). A Finnish deck, with Finnish titles! Then, Nisaba wrote a wonderful review. I ordered it from a Finnish book store, it wasn't even difficult. And I LOVE the magical atmosphere of this deck. I love it much more than the hard-edged Pagan Cats art.
The Kissa tarot tells me less about cats and their behaviour - for that, I should probably buy the Cat's Eye deck which looks beautiful. But it tells me something about my inner world, my childhood world. The darkness and colour combinations and Finnish words - wow, I love this deck.
So tell me more about your cat decks and real cats.
(It's an older picture, some of the cats are no longer with us - we have right now five cats, three of them black.)
