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The Mystic Palette by Ciro Marchetti

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Of all Ciro's decks, this one is my absolute favorite.  Normally I don't care for oversized decks that my smaller arthritic hands can't comfortably riffle but this one, althoughst  oversized, isn't impossible to riffle so I'm telling myself that, with a lot of use, it will be just fine. If I never succeed in comfortably riffle-ing it, I'll just do something else, but this is MY deck, I love everything about it.  

 

The art work is just exquisite on every card as well as in the book.  The only criticism I might have is that I've had trouble making out which are the Majors but I'm figuring it out slowly but surely.  The cards are borderless and each card is just full of symbolism. 

 

In the back of the book, a spread called The Mystic Palette Spread.  There are two examples of readings done with that spread. 

 

I don't know if I'd suggest this deck for an absolute beginner to learn Tarot with. In my own experience, I tried with several themed decks and finally had to start with RWS, which I had always thought was very ugly and tried to avoid. However, once I gave up and just learned with RWS, then I finally managed to "get it" and now I can read with just about any deck.  I do heartily recommend this deck to anyone who has a pretty solid basis in Tarot and/or who intends to make it a permanent part of their life, or who just loves beautiful art.  

 

 

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Tanga

Tanga

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Well!

This might actually be the 1st Marchetti deck I'm considering buying...

Not for general reading. More for personal one card draws, or just because I really like some of the imagery.

There's something about his decks I generally don't like...

 

*Not for an absolute beginner.

(I didn't like the RWS either and eventually settled on a version of it which had a fat kaleidoscopic border called The Diamond Tarot. Once I'd been to a lecture on the life & times of Pamela Coleman Smith, I began to appreciate it more. But it still not my go-to). 

JoyousGirl

JoyousGirl

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I think a lot of us had an issue with RWS to begin with. I also didn't think much of its aesthetic at first, but I finally came around and realised its value and why it was always suggested as a starting deck.

 

As for your Mystic Palette by Ciro, I often like his art (but I only have his Gilded Lenormand) and doing a search to see some card images, I found a comparison with the 2 formats of the deck. I wonder which one you have? And what is your favourite card in particular? I saw the Fool and quite liked it, but some of them evoked a bit of "what card is that?" And perhaps that was his intention. To really get you to look at the card and familiarise yourself with it.

 

 

Tanga

Tanga

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And yup - got it, took one carful flip through - and I'm just about to send it back for a refund.

Like every other one of his decks - I don't like it after all.

I liked him though - when he presented at The London Tarot Conference one year.

He told us all about how he'd printed a huge batch of his 1st deck (whichever one that was) and there were some errors in it.

... He landfilled (threw out) the whole lot. And - now regrets he did that, because they'd probably sell as a sought-after 1st edition now,

mistakes and all.

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