My tarot deck was thrown away. Should I

Three cards came up, all minor arcana, two of them reversed — this is a practical, in-the-mess question, not a fate question.

Past — Five of Wands, reversed. The old deck was tossed in the middle of a fight: disagreement about how to read, whose deck it was, or whether anyone was reading it. Reversed, the friction went inward — the argument got internalised rather than settled, so it never actually resolved, it just stopped being spoken.

Present — Ace of Wands, reversed. A new spark with no ignition. Right now the impulse to go buy a deck is real and the direction isn't: there's motion without a starting point, and both options ("same deck" and "new deck") are currently held with the same energy. Reversed, the Ace says the choice isn't blocked by lack of interest — it's blocked by the absence of anything to commit to.

Future — Three of Pentacles, upright. Under that condition — meaning, if the choice stays unmade and the drift continues — what develops is a practice, not a possession: a deck that gets handled, worked with, and improved by someone else or another deck, and the "which deck" question quietly stops mattering. Not a forecast, just the tendency of the position.

Here's the hinge: if the check comes back showing the old deck was destroyed over a reading dispute that was never talked through, then getting the identical deck back re-arms the same friction, and a different deck — or the same one, unargued — is the cheaper answer. If the record shows it went out in a general clearing-out, with no dispute attached, then the Five has nothing to say about your next deck, and the real question is only whether the current Ace has a place to land.

One thing before any buying: find out what actually happened to the first deck — who threw it out, and whether the same edition is still in print. That record decides the verdict; the cards can't.

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