queen of pentacles reversed hits so different in my thoth deck??

so i mainly read with rider waite but got a thoth deck a few months ago and just pulled queen of pentacles reversed with it for the first time

in my rider waite deck she's so nurturing and grounded, and reversed she just feels like... someone stretched too thin, taking care of everyone but themselves

but the thoth version of her (they call her queen of disks i think?) feels so much more intense and almost cold reversed?? like less "burnt out mom" energy and more "i've shut the tap off completely" energy

does anyone else find the same card reads totally differently depending on the deck you're using, or is it just me projecting onto the art

In all my years of reading, I've found the deck matters more than most beginners realize, dear. Waite designed his deck for accessibility - warm, domestic imagery. Crowley's Thoth deck was built on strict occult and elemental correspondences, which is why Queen of Disks reversed can feel colder to you - you're reading through Crowley's more austere lens rather than Waite's nurturing one.

Neither reading is wrong. The old ways teach us that a deck is a language, and every language shapes how a feeling is expressed.

wait this makes so much sense, i always assumed a reversed card should feel the same no matter what deck. gonna go compare mine now lol

my marseille deck queen of pentacles doesn't even reverse the same way visually so this whole conversation is wild to me. decks really do have their own personalities

glad it's not just me lol. I think I'm going to keep both decks in rotation and just let each one teach me its own dialect instead of forcing one meaning onto both. feels like a more honest way to read tbh

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queen of pentacles reversed hits so different in my thoth deck??

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