Your Tarot Wishes

[Therese]

I hope I chose the correct area to post this theme. 

 

What are your tarot wishes right now?

 

I'd like to purchase a mini Albano Waite someday. Gladly a new edition with nice colors and maybe in a tin. 

 

My second wish would be a new edition of the Bohemian Gothic with cold-stamping. In case I can afford it. 

 

That's all for me. I'd like to read your wishes, if you want to share. 🙂

[legendaryelement]

Hello, Therese!

 

At the moment, I am looking at Davide Corsi’s Ghost Tarot (Lo Scarabeo)

https://www.loscarabeo.com/en/products/ghost-tarot

 

Also, the Phantasma by Paulina Fae and The Goblin Market Tarot

 

https://tarotarts.com/products/phantasma-tarot

 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/692130/the-goblin-market-tarot-by-john-matthews/

 

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

I wish I knew what was going on with some of the active posters at AT, this morning Sulis comes to mind, her ultra brave decision; I can still see  her running on her new foot, how her daughter fared in school, and so on. Tomorrow someone else will come to mind, and I'll wish...

[DanielJUK]

She is doing great @AJ-ish/Sharyn💕. I talk to her almost daily on Instagram these days.

I think she is burnt out by forums for life 🙂 She posts readings and only uses her instagram account now online.

But a lot of us are still in touch with her, she hasn't vanished from the community phew. She often posts her walks in local parks 🙂

 

Let's get back to our decks we are wishing for currently though

[Niobium]

Weirdly I find myself looking back at a couple years ago, when I was watching Fyodor Pavlov post the art to his deck and thinking 'dear gods WHENNNNN' and now it's here. Ditto SKT III.

 

Right now, I suppose my Tarot wish is for Cracked Amethyst's Jessica Tarot, which is underway and looks stunning.

[katrinka]

There's one I'm thinking of, one of the old esoteric Tarots, but the name escapes me at present. It's so unattainable that I haven't even thought about it in some time. And it's never been published as a deck, but it's stunning. It's in black and white...

[Therese]

Maybe someone will remember the name of the deck @katrinka. 

 

I love to read all your wishes! Anticipation is a nice feeling. 

[katrinka]

I think gregory would know. Selena too, we talked about it once.
But I'm not tagging anybody. Its all moot.

[gregory]

I want the wooden Kashmiri.....

 

I know what you mean, katrinka; I'll look it up when we get back from France.

[Saule]

Been wanting Green Witch Tarot for years. But I already have too many decks, so it'd just lie in my drawer, collecting dust, like many others 😞 Might treat myself for Christmas though, even if it's just to look at it from time to time. The artwork is stunning and I connect with it so well. It makes me feel at peace.

[katrinka]

On 10/31/2021 at 11:42 AM, gregory said:

I want the wooden Kashmiri.....

 

I know what you mean, katrinka; I'll look it up when we get back from France.

Thank you! I had a feeling you might know. 🙂

[gregory]

9 hours ago, katrinka said:

Thank you! I had a feeling you might know. 🙂

I know we talked about it. I MAY not be able to find it ! but somewhere in the ether of the internet is our discussion ! I think it was in a thread about decks we wish someone would print.

[katrinka]

I've been deep diving old posts and so far, nothing. But there is more to go through...
In the meantime, I found another one I wish someone would print, Austin Osman Spare's:
https://www.pinterest.com/ragnarofl/aos/

 

It makes no sense that these important old decks never see print.

[Niobium]

1 hour ago, katrinka said:

I've been deep diving old posts and so far, nothing. But there is more to go through...
In the meantime, I found another one I wish someone would print, Austin Osman Spare's:
https://www.pinterest.com/ragnarofl/aos/

 

It makes no sense that these important old decks never see print.

I find that the decisions of what goes out of print vs what stays in print make no sense to me. I'm sure there's various business reasons for it, but I see so many decks that are, well, really uninspiring, and then ones like these are ignored. It's a little odd.

[katrinka]

55 minutes ago, Niobium said:

I find that the decisions of what goes out of print vs what stays in print make no sense to me. I'm sure there's various business reasons for it, but I see so many decks that are, well, really uninspiring, and then ones like these are ignored. It's a little odd.

Exactly. And I'm not trying to take away from anyone elses' enjoyment of the new decks, but most of them just leave me cold. I think these old decks that have never seen print would sell. Maybe do something like Berti does and present them in limited editions. A lot of us like historical Tarots, they'd get snapped up quick.

[gregory]

Yes, I want Osman Spare's too. I have the book, and sometimes I think.... I BELIEVE someone is working on it, though.

[katrinka]

1 hour ago, TheThumbPuppy said:

I don't know much about Osman Spare

Are there some good scans for the Osman Spare's artwork?

 

This book is probably the way to go. Drat, I should have gotten it when it was $100. It's $225 now.
https://smile.amazon.com/Lost-Envoy-Austin-Strange-Attractor/dp/1907222448/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8RIU3F1YZ3DX&dchild=1&keywords=austin+osman+spare+tarot&qid=1635881870&sprefix=austin+osman+spare+tar%2Caps%2C257&sr=8-1
 

There's scans here and there on the net, but I haven't been able to piece together the whole deck.
 

1 hour ago, TheThumbPuppy said:

What about copyright?

 

Spare died in 1956. Isn't UK copyright 70 years from the artists death? If so, we've got five years to go until it's public domain. But the images are being printed in books. Maybe it could be licensed somehow.

 

https://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/uk_law_summary

 

[gregory]

HUH ? I didn't pay ANYTHING like that for it.... not even $100....

[gregory]

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/lost-envoy/

 

 

Oh. Out of stock....

Edited November 2, 2021 by gregory

[katrinka]

I'm seeing it for $35 - $50 on some sites, but out of stock.
This is the rock bottom price I could find:
https://artbookstores.com/Lost-Envoy-The-Tarot-Deck-of-Austin-Osman-Spare

[Niobium]

13 hours ago, katrinka said:

Exactly. And I'm not trying to take away from anyone elses' enjoyment of the new decks, but most of them just leave me cold. I think these old decks that have never seen print would sell. Maybe do something like Berti does and present them in limited editions. A lot of us like historical Tarots, they'd get snapped up quick.

 

Yeah--just a small print run, they can even price them on the 'indie' side and they'd for sure make money. 

 

Even as someone who does enjoy new decks, I get irritated that publishers won't also give more classical decks like these a moment in the spotlight. If a Bosch deck with coins coming out of a dude's rear can get published, why can't this?

 

(Apologies to anyone who has and likes that deck, I just can't get past some of the choices for imagery.)

Edited November 3, 2021 by Niobium

[gregory]

There SHOULDN'T be any for a book....

[gregory]

Of course. I've had 77 years to work on it

[katrinka]

7 hours ago, TheThumbPuppy said:

 

Better than any price I found. In the end I couldn't help myself, so it's on its way. P&P wasn't too bad. What I resent are the custom's over-inflated fees.

 

In gregory we trust. 😁

I ended up ordering, too. We probably won't even be seeing that price in the future.
And in a way I broke even, because I ordered this and amazon knocked $40 off.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/163149256X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I like books about how people were inspired to write songs and create things. I think a lot of it comes from a similar place as reading cards, there are parallels to be drawn. He says you have to be in the right mood and start with a clear mind, and trust your initial feelings, because at the beginning you don't really know where you're going. That goes for cards, too. I get more out of books like this than I do most Tarot books. Most of those, the more recent ones at least, are just people pretending to know more than they really do. But I think the book about Spare will be an exception. 🙂

Edited November 3, 2021 by katrinka