Fairy Lights Tarot Card Pairs

[LogicalHue]

I recently acquired the Fairy Lights tarot and have done an introductory reading with it. After I drew cards and analyzed the reading I came across the following in the LWB:

 

"Fantastical paintings were made with the intention of dividing each one into two cards. Each card has its own meaning and can be read on its own in the usual way. Place the cards side by side to blend the meanings into a new story, a way to expand upon the message of the tarot."

 

I did a search on here and found people mentioning the deck, liking the deck, and saying that the pairs add value but didn't see anything about how people actually introduce them into readings. I'm just not getting it at all. Please share!

[vulprix]

1 hour ago, LogicalHue said:

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I did a search on here and found people mentioning the deck, liking the deck, and saying that the pairs add value but didn't see anything about how people actually introduce them into readings. I'm just not getting it at all. Please share!

I think it's really up to you as an individual reader how to consider a pair during reading!  I have the deck and have read with it a little, but pairs usually did not show for me.  If they did, what would it mean to you?  I think it would depend on the reading, but if you were laying out a spread it would give you some major insight as to how the disparate events/meanings fit together.

 

I did play around with the deck when I first got it, discovering for myself what the pairs actually were.  It was not so easy for all of them, for me!

 

Because "card pairings" are not a usual aspect of a deck, and the artist did not (to my knowledge) explicitly tell the reader their intention for designing the deck in such a way, it's up to the person reading I would think.  The cards are also very original and postmodern.

 

Another deck that incorporates multiple cards fitting together like a puzzle to tell a narrative is the Prisma Visions.  Perhaps seeking accounts from readers of the Fairy Lights Tarot and/or the Prisma Visions Tarot will give you insight as to individuals' approaches to this aspect of those decks.

 

I hope this helps!

[LogicalHue]

13 hours ago, vulprix said:

I think it's really up to you as an individual reader how to consider a pair during reading! 

Well sure, but I'm not so much looking for a how-to-instructional but hoping for examples from other's experiences. My initial reaction to the whole thing is that I don't like it and just want to ignore it, but I'm trying not to be too immediately dismissive. And I'm not sure I can completely ignore it.

 

13 hours ago, vulprix said:

Another deck that incorporates multiple cards fitting together like a puzzle to tell a narrative is the Prisma Visions.  Perhaps seeking accounts from readers of the Fairy Lights Tarot and/or the Prisma Visions Tarot will give you insight as to individuals' approaches to this aspect of those decks.

I have Light Visions and also the Mona Lisa. I think they're both very different from this concept.

 

In Light visions its just each entire suit was one image, this is neat but, for me, adds little to no significance to a reading. They're both on the same river bank because they're both cup cards and all the cup cards are along the same river bank. Its like when a suit has a color scheme; is it any more significant that I got two blue cards than that I got two cup cards if all the cup cards are blue? Personally, I generally don't think so.

 

In the Mona Lisa there's many cards that are a part of a set, they tell a story if you can figure out how to put them in the right order but no on ever has; but its often clear that they go together as they generally share characters. The stories are broken up and distributed across the deck. So maybe in a reading if you get two or more cards from the same set that could be significant.

 

Two cards that specifically fit side by side, one way, if you can even recognize that they pair up is so different.

 

13 hours ago, vulprix said:

I did play around with the deck when I first got it, discovering for myself what the pairs actually were.  It was not so easy for all of them, for me!

I am good at visual stuff like this and I've only paired up about a third of the deck. They are not obvious. But once I have them all paired up, I just gotta shuffle them back together, right? Will I write them all down? I don't know yet. I don't get it!

[TheFeeLion]

@LogicalHue Ive just seen this! I have the deck too and ended up doing a bit o googling. I found a pdf (I think) of all the pairs, I think I have it somewhere on my phone I you're interested. I'm pretty sure I've done a reading on here somewhere that uses those pairs. I'll have to see if I can find it... 

 

ETA Found it! 😁 It's actually the first reading I did with it. Not something I'd do all the time but it was interesting none the less

Edited February 8, 2021 by TheFeeLion

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

how cool, here is the pdf pair list

http://www.mynasmoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fairy-Lights-Card-Pairs-Index-Updated-2018-Feb.pdf

 

[LogicalHue]

@AJ-ish/Sharyn thank you for the list! I was feeling a little annoyed at being obligated to find them all.

 

@TheFeeLion thanks for sharing the reading link! I appreciate the example and gave it a read-through. But yeah, just from that reading, the idea that the World is always linked with 9 of swords, for instance, just makes me kind of itchy. I'm not sure I could find a way to work with it.

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

I waited for ages for this deck to be finished, checked her blog at least once a month to see updates 🙂 I do love her work, but in the end, maybe it was over-anticipation, but the deck entered and then left my hands for other places. 

I didn't agree with the associations, and never considered them in readings. I don't pick out cards that need to go together in other decks, so how would that happen with this one? It just doesn't. The cards that come up are the cards that come up, we can't cherry pick. So what is the point of the art-pairs? Other than marketing? 

[Hemera]

We had a Study group in Aeclectic Tarot Forum for this deck for a while when it came out. I seem to remember there was something about card pairs there as well : https://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=196500