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Read more about If you still think Etteilla's decks are difficult to read...

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If you still think Etteilla's decks are difficult to read...

I've been expecting a package, and drew a card to see if it would be delivered today as the company promised. Book of Thoth Etteilla gave me Nine of Wands.     Retard, of course, means "delay". And that's the latest update on my package - "delayed".   Duh

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• dancing_moon in Readings
• August 19, 20241 yr

Read more about Amor et Psyche: the Oracle that could have happened…

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Amor et Psyche: the Oracle that could have happened…

…but didn’t.   This is a bit of a rant, so please bear with me.   At first glance, there’s nothing to dislike about this Oracle, published in 2021 by Lo Scarabeo. It’s based on the illustrations that Georges Barbier did for the 1922 edition of The Songs of Bilitis, a collection of Ancient-Greek-style erotic poems written by Pierre Louÿs and first published in 1894. The poems were so well-crafted and skillfully presented by the author that, for a while, they were taken for ori

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• dancing_moon in Deck Reviews
• November 6, 20241 yr