Nicoletta Ceccoli

OMG I love this deck. Anyone else want to study it with me?

I'm not sure if this is correct, but I figured I'd go ahead and put this here! So here is the Ceccoli Fool. The book speaks of dancing to the beat of your own drum, which I can see in the art. And she does have wheels, but there's no sense of impending leap of faith in this one that I can see. She is looking toward the future, however, and we can't see what she is seeing out of the frame, so there is a sense of mystery there I suppose. A friend of mine calls this deck "the doll collector's tarot". I also recently got the Beautiful Creatures which also looks doll like, so I'm also adding a pic of those two together and with the Joie de Vivre, which has a whimsical f…

Here's the Magician! The book says "All the power you need is within you. Seize your own magic and use your will to make changes in your world." Hmm. The girl on this has leopard feet and a tail, indicating she may be more powerful than she looks. She's also seeing through the mask with one eye, so maybe she's seeing from two perspectives? She's also got a bird in a cage - did she catch it or conjure it? She seems confident and knowledgeable to me. On another note, this is the mini version of The Ceccoli, and I'm kind of disappointed in the quality. It looks like Vistaprint business cards - lower line screen and cut crooked. I should have gone ahead and gotten the …

I just started working through Mary K. Greer's Tarot for Yourself book and discovered my Personality and Soul cards. Does everyone already know how to do this? I thought it might be fun to start looking at the deck with something simple like this. I have to say, after I did the calculations, I pulled my "Personality" and "Soul" cards from ALL of my decks and just by LOOKING at the artwork (not thinking about Tarot history and whatnot), I honestly feel like the Ceccoli Tarot illustrations nailed my Personality & Soul, more so than any other deck, including the traditional Rider-Waite. Would love to know what others find. According to Greer's book, calculations…