What's The Postman Bringing?

[Astrid’s Tarot Realm]

1 minute ago, bookshop said:

Haha @Astrid’s Tarot Realm that is exactly the way I bought my copy of that deck, down to the audible gasping and the 10-second pause haha

😂😂😂👍🏼

[JustPeachy]

6 minutes ago, Astrid’s Tarot Realm said:

Good luck lol! I literally saw a post on here about it ... looked at it... gasped audibly... thought for about 10 minutes.... looked up the page to order it ... paused for about 10 seconds.... and bought the thing. lol. No willpower! Good for you for waiting because I know I shouldn’t have just been like oh heck, it’s fine... oh well. 

So funny! When I was single I had the exact same mindset. But now that I've been married for a decade, I find that's it's easier to pre-plan gifting things. Way back when, I would have jumped the gun too and bought this deck outright, absolutely no question! But now, I know that my beloved one needs to be fulfilled in the act of providing, so we make shared wish lists. It's easy and the guessing is eliminated. What a relief and it makes life so much easier for sure and my beloved has the satisfaction of being able to deliver my desires. How can you go wrong with that?!  

[Astrid’s Tarot Realm]

1 minute ago, JustPeachy said:

So funny! When I was single I had the exact same mindset. But now that I've been married for a decade, I find that's it's easier to pre-plan gifting things. Way back when, I would have jumped the gun too and bought this deck outright, absolutely no question! But now, I know that my beloved one needs to be fulfilled in the act of providing, so we make shared wish lists. It's easy and the guessing is eliminated. What a relief and it makes life so much easier for sure and my beloved has the satisfaction of being able to deliver my desires. How can you go wrong with that?!  

Awwww! That is so sweet!!  That’s really awesome. Made me smile big for you! That will be great when you get it 🙂 I’m a single mom with a little one in elementary school 🙂 - so not there yet! But that’s a great idea I will remember!

[Katie]

I (am by the way married) loudly declared to my family that THAT (Dark Mansion that is) DECK am I not going to buy until my birthday in November! Then during 48 hours I couldn't think of anything but the pictures in the deck. So two days later I just declared "Sorry but I can't live without it!". Husband: "Now you go and order it!!". Me: "Ok" 😁

 

Edited July 29, 2019 by Katie

[OrangeLove]

When I first looked into to the Tarot, I quickly came across Labyrinthos Academy and their Golden Thread Tarot deck.  I love how it looks- simplistic, yet stylistic, a modern design that I find really aesthetically pleasing.  Unfortunately, at nearly 50 bucks, I put off buying it for a while.

 

...So it'll be in the mail in a week or so, I think.

[katrinka]

I'm waiting on this one: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1468389582/tarot-card-deck-based-on-vintage-american-theater-posters

 

I love that style of art. Not sure how well the images will express the card meanings, and those title banners could be a bit less obtrusive. But hey, it was $28 with shipping, so I really can't go wrong.

I left the guy a comment that the Strength card reminds me of Nat Pendleton's Sandow in The Great Ziegfeld (1936).

 

And he replied that the card image is from an "1894 poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles, produced by F. Ziegfeld Jr. in one of his first productions"

So the card image actually IS Eugen Sandow. It will be fun trying to identify the people in the deck - I hope there's more Ziegfeld, quite a few of the Follies went on to become famous actresses. And Houdini was around then. And if some of these posters are from Vaudeville, I might see the Barrymores, or Tod Browning, or...???
So this is going to be a blast. It should ship in a couple of weeks. On tenterhooks until then, lol.

[bookshop]

5 hours ago, Jams said:

When I first looked into to the Tarot, I quickly came across Labyrinthos Academy and their Golden Thread Tarot deck.  I love how it looks- simplistic, yet stylistic, a modern design that I find really aesthetically pleasing.  Unfortunately, at nearly 50 bucks, I put off buying it for a while.

 

...So it'll be in the mail in a week or so, I think.

Hey, @Jams, welcome to the forum! I actually got lucky because I entered a Reddit gifts exchange a few years ago, and my awesome reddit gift santa bought me the Golden Thread deck! It was far and away the coolest fanciest deck I had at the time, and actually looking back, it may have been the subtle trigger that sent me down the path to collecting so many more tarot decks. I had always casually bought decks over the decade since i started reading tarot, but after I got that deck and saw how much fun it was to read with, and how much people liked it when I read with that deck, I feel like I started to get way more interested in finding really cool or unusual or unique decks. Who knew!

[Scarlet Woodland]

The 2nd edition Mary-El Tarot should be with me tomorrow! I was lucky enough to be on a tarot break when the initial palaver was all happening, so have only been waiting for the 2nd edition since about June. Please let the cardstock be nice, please let the cardstock be nice....

[Halcyon]

My Vitruvian SKT just arrived yesterday and aside from a few wonky printing issues (the titles on the bottom are not all positioned the same), i love it. I have done two readings which have both been spot on, and I am getting the Lulu-printed guide book in a couple of weeks. 

[Halcyon]

7 hours ago, Scarlet Woodland said:

The 2nd edition Mary-El Tarot should be with me tomorrow! I was lucky enough to be on a tarot break when the initial palaver was all happening, so have only been waiting for the 2nd edition since about June. Please let the cardstock be nice, please let the cardstock be nice....

please let us know. I've been eyeing this one.

[Scarlet Woodland]

15 hours ago, Halcyon said:

please let us know. I've been eyeing this one.

I'm a little bit confused to be honest. Having watched vids of people unboxing the recalled 2nd edition... er... what's changed? it still had that stupid cardboard insert and broken paper slip holding the cards together which in mine, left the deck half dangling from the fool card which had slipped over the top of the insert. I can't see any difference in the cards myself so um, what did they actually do? People who had the original second edition should be able to chime in soon when they get theirs.

 

That bafflement aside I'm pleased enough. The cardstock is fine and riffles well. I do find the edges quite sharp though. It feels like the cards were cut out on some kind of press from front to back and needed a bit of a sand afterwards as the back edges all protrude slightly and feel scratchy if you overhand shuffle. Hopefully a bit of wear from use will smooth that down. The black edging is lovely and very well done, only the slightest little spot of white left, which I'll touch up at some point.

 

As I think other people mentioned when they got the first run of the second edition, the colour saturation is a touch lower in the second edition than the first, but I'll happily sacrifice that to get rid of the glossy coasters the first edition was printed on. The new card designs melt into the deck seamlessly, so while I'm glad to have the 1st edition for those original cards, I have no problem at all with the changed ones.

 

Kind of a mixed first impressions but I am very pleased to have bought it. If the 1st ed. Mary-El is one of your favourites or if you were always put off by one of the cards that's now changed, then this is absolutely worth buying. Otherwise? If you have the 1st edition then jury's out. I just hope Marie is happier with this edition. She's been disappointed enough by Schiffer at this point.

Edited August 2, 2019 by Scarlet Woodland

[Quinn]

I am waiting on the borderless Deviant Moon to arrive, I'm pretty excited for it.

 

I also just got a shipping time frame for the Sola Busca from Amazon.

 

❤️

[Flaxen]

Stolen Child tarot is on its way to me. 

[Raggydoll]

1 hour ago, Flaxen said:

Stolen Child tarot is on its way to me. 

Yay! Please feel free to do a reveal/first impressions later, with lots of pictures ☺️ I have been eying that deck a couple of times so I’d be happy to see it up close! 

[Katie]

Got this beautiful deck today. So now just waiting for thos "german cards" from historicgames. Then my collection will be (more than) complete. No irony here.

[Raggydoll]

3 minutes ago, Katie said:

Got this beautiful deck today. So now just waiting for thos "german cards" from historicgames. Then my collection will be (more than) complete. No irony here.

What a lovely feeling to have a complete collection 💜

[gregory]

A bagel tin I just won from the NYB company !!!

 

Other than that just a couple of outstanding kickstarters - date to be determined.... and a biography I backed.

[Saturn Celeste]

22 minutes ago, Katie said:

Got this beautiful deck today. So now just waiting for thos "german cards" from historicgames. Then my collection will be (more than) complete. No irony here.

I have this deck and LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!  I'm also going to get the Hedgewitch Botanical Oracle too.  Soon as I get the money but I am looking forward to adding that to the Linestrider.

[Raggydoll]

I’m waiting on three preorders: spirit keepers, the lightseers tarot and the Bonestone & earthflesh tarot. But I’m prepared to wait quite a bit longer for most of them (especially Bonestone). 

[Saturn Celeste]

I did get a couple decks lately.  The Jungian Tarot and the Archeon Tarot.  I plan on trying the Archeon with my past life readings.  I think it will work well.

[Raggydoll]

1 minute ago, Saturn Celeste said:

I did get a couple decks lately.  The Jungian Tarot and the Archeon Tarot.  I plan on trying the Archeon with my past life readings.  I think it will work well.

Nice. I purchased a few decks from my wishlist on little red tarot too because I didn’t want to pay extra when brexit hits. It sucks but I will probably mostly buy decks within eu from now on. 

[Saturn Celeste]

1 minute ago, Raggydoll said:

Nice. I purchased a few decks from my wishlist on little red tarot too because I didn’t want to pay extra when brexit hits. It sucks but I will probably mostly buy decks within eu from now on. 

I hear that!  I have to stick to mass produced Amazon for awhile.  But there aren't too many more decks I want.  If only I'd stop adding to Save for Later list!

[Raggydoll]

Just now, Saturn Celeste said:

I hear that!  I have to stick to mass produced Amazon for awhile.  But there aren't too many more decks I want.  If only I'd stop adding to Save for Later list!

Well, you can always try the de-enable thread but I think you might be a lost case 😁😁😁

 

[Saturn Celeste]

5 minutes ago, Raggydoll said:

Well, you can always try the de-enable thread but I think you might be a lost case 😁😁😁

 

These are the decks on my Save for Later list.

1. Fairy Oracle by Arthur Rackham
2. The Spirit Animal Oracle: A 68-Card Deck and Guidebook by Colette Baron Reid
3. Starman Tarot Kit by Davide De Angelis
4. Dark Grimoire Tarot (English and Spanish Edition) by Lo Scarabeo
5. Minchiate Etruria (Anima Antiqua) by Lo Scarabeo
6. Universal Waite Tarot Deck by Stuart R. Kaplan
7. Deviant Moon Tarot Book by Patrick Valenza
8. Ask the Wise Fool Deck/Guidebook Set by Roger Von Oech
9. John Bauer Tarot Deck by John Bauer
10. Hedgewitch Botanical Oracle by Siolo Thompson

These are my pre-orders.

1.  In Between Tarot Kit- Rivolli, Franco
2.  Sola Busca Tarot: Museum Quality Kit- Gnaccolini, Paola
3.  The Literary Witches Oracle: A 70-Card Deck and Guidebook- Kitaiskaia, Taisia
4.  The Antique Anatomy Tarot Kit: Deck and Guidebook for the Modern Reader- Goodchild, Claire

I have a lot of tarot readings to do to get all this!!

 

[Raggydoll]

4 minutes ago, Saturn Celeste said:

These are the decks on my Save for Later list.

1. Fairy Oracle by Arthur Rackham
2. The Spirit Animal Oracle: A 68-Card Deck and Guidebook by Colette Baron Reid
3. Starman Tarot Kit by Davide De Angelis
4. Dark Grimoire Tarot (English and Spanish Edition) by Lo Scarabeo
5. Minchiate Etruria (Anima Antiqua) by Lo Scarabeo
6. Universal Waite Tarot Deck by Stuart R. Kaplan
7. Deviant Moon Tarot Book by Patrick Valenza
8. Ask the Wise Fool Deck/Guidebook Set by Roger Von Oech
9. John Bauer Tarot Deck by John Bauer
10. Hedgewitch Botanical Oracle by Siolo Thompson

These are my pre-orders.

1.  In Between Tarot Kit- Rivolli, Franco
2.  Sola Busca Tarot: Museum Quality Kit- Gnaccolini, Paola
3.  The Literary Witches Oracle: A 70-Card Deck and Guidebook- Kitaiskaia, Taisia
4.  The Antique Anatomy Tarot Kit: Deck and Guidebook for the Modern Reader- Goodchild, Claire

I have a lot of tarot readings to do to get all this!!

 

Thats a really substantial list. It almost belong in the 'all singing enabling' thread!! Well done you! Now, start working even harder so you can share your new stuff here with us 😁