Has anyone read with the Tarot of Mystical Moments?

[FLizarraga]

I found this deck here in the deck library and fell in love, so straight into my Amazon cart it went.

 

However, I can't find any posts here about it, and very few reviews in general. The one by Benebell Wen waxes rhapsodic about the art but very delicately insinuates that it is not a deck to read with.

 

I find interesting the way some of the cards play with the RWS imagery --for example, the Ten of Pentacles makes the old man the center of attention, while the happy family is far, faraway in the background, and the Four of Wands makes me think of the Tower right before lightning strikes, or after things are put back together, if you prefer. Other cards, like the Alice-esque Hanging Man, are more obscure to me.

 

So I'm of two minds about it. Many of the images speak strongly to me, but others are hard to fathom, and I just don't want yet another beautiful art deck that's not a reader. I already have too many of those.

 

To repeat my question, has anyone here read with it? If so, how readable do you find it?

 

 

Edited December 2, 2023 by FLizarraga

[gregory]

Good question; I haven't, but I shall use it this month, now that you mention it.

[FLizarraga]

One can always count on you, gregs!

[gregory]

Well I always suffer choosing the deck for ISG - thanks for saving me the effort.

[Drake_Winterfell]

That deck does look like a good one. I'll look forward to reading @gregory's ISG reading with it. Are there any decks you don't have? You could use a random number generator to choose your decks for ISG. 🙂

[FLizarraga]

I just watched (I'm supposed to be working, since I'm on deadline, but here we are) a review in the My Tarot blog, which I didn't know about, and it clarified some things for me. It seems more readable to me now than before.

 

For those who would like to watch it, it is here: https://mytarot.org/2021/11/09/mystical-moments-tarot-deck-by-catrin-welz-stein/

Edited December 2, 2023 by FLizarraga

[FLizarraga]

15 minutes ago, Drake_Winterfell said:

That deck does look like a good one. I'll look forward to reading @gregory's ISG reading with it. Are there any decks you don't have? You could use a random number generator to choose your decks for ISG. 🙂

 

There are NO decks that gregory does not have.

 

Except perhaps not yet released decks --and, even in that case, you never know.

[gregory]

34 minutes ago, Drake_Winterfell said:

That deck does look like a good one. I'll look forward to reading @gregory's ISG reading with it. Are there any decks you don't have? You could use a random number generator to choose your decks for ISG. 🙂

 

18 minutes ago, FLizarraga said:

There are NO decks that gregory does not have.

 

Except perhaps not yet released decks --and, even in that case, you never know.

 

Once upon a time that was almost true. (There remains the small issue of the wooden Kashmiri....)  In these days of POD and kickstarter - not anymore.

[FindYourSovereignty]

2 hours ago, FLizarraga said:

To repeat my question, has anyone here read with it? If so, how readable do you find it?

 

This is an introductory review: Yes, I dedicated six months to reading with this deck and it is a very good reader for me. The different visual of the RWS meanings enhanced the reading. I am one that uses the art in the image to support or guide the direction of the card's message and I found this quite easy to do - a rewarding deck to work with. The guidebook gives a nice description of the card image, upright and reversed meanings. I find the cards truly beautiful, insightful and a joy to handle. They are a bit oversized and slightly glossy. 

 

 

Edited December 2, 2023 by FindYourSovereignty
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[FLizarraga]

4 hours ago, FindYourSovereignty said:

 

This is an introductory review: Yes, I dedicated six months to reading with this deck and it is a very good reader for me. The different visual of the RWS meanings enhanced the reading. I am one that uses the art in the image to support or guide the direction of the card's message and I found this quite easy to do - a rewarding deck to work with. The guidebook gives a nice description of the card image, upright and reversed meanings. I find the cards truly beautiful, insightful and a joy to handle. They are a bit oversized and slightly glossy. 

 

 

 

Thank you for the insights! I love the text for the Hanged Man --it does put everything in perspective.

 

This is obviously a deck to study and spend some time with.

 

 

[Nemia]

I used it for some of my ancestral readings and simply read the images. It worked very well for me. It's a very quiet, somehow dignified deck,I walk through it on the tips of my toes. 

 

 

That's my immediate family tree, father's and mother's side. It helped me very much to get an inner picture. Very insightful deck for me, very inspiring. 

 

I don't know how it works as a forward-looking deck, trying to see the way into the future. I haven't tried that yet. As a deck to explore the past, memories and inner beliefs, it works very well for me. 

 

[FLizarraga]

5 hours ago, Nemia said:

I used it for some of my ancestral readings and simply read the images. It worked very well for me. It's a very quiet, somehow dignified deck,I walk through it on the tips of my toes. 

 

 

That's my immediate family tree, father's and mother's side. It helped me very much to get an inner picture. Very insightful deck for me, very inspiring. 

 

I don't know how it works as a forward-looking deck, trying to see the way into the future. I haven't tried that yet. As a deck to explore the past, memories and inner beliefs, it works very well for me. 

 

 

Thank you for those insights, Nemia. They make this deck even more intriguing.

 

It has been a LONG time since I have felt such a strong pull towards any deck. The images call to me, and when I look at them for a while I feel sort of engulfed by them, so what you say about having to tiptoe your way through a reading with it makes perfect sense to me.

 

 

Edited December 4, 2023 by FLizarraga

[Chariot]

I can't say how many times I've toyed with getting this deck!  So many of the images do seem to 'take' me places, and they do seem to warrant immersion.  I just haven't bought it yet.  But if I do buy another deck soon, this will be it.

My one concern, is the strange male/female vibe I get from this deck.  On one hand, the deck seems very female-oriented, even to the extent of having a female Emperor as well as a male Emperor card, and two KIng cards for each suit as well—one male and one female card. Okay, interesting idea. But why?  And why not a male and female card for the other three court cards as well?  If this deck is intended for women to use, why the occasional token male?  And if it's a 'for everybody' deck, why are the figures mostly female?  

I haven't done a count, but the deck seems to depict mostly females.   Not sure what that's all about.  Does anybody know the thinking behind this issue, as related to these cards?  It's almost like the RWS system turned on its head ...and neither system portrays the 50-50-ish split that is the real world.  Not sure what this is trying to say, because it seems a deliberate choice on the part of the artist ...otherwise why the double King and Emperor cards?  I would find it difficult to assume gender-neutrality with this deck ...as in 'this card can represent a male or a female and any other gender.'  

I don't have access to the accompanying book, which might serve to explain the choices the artist made.  I'd be interested in hearing about them.

(Just for reference, I did a count via a flip-through.  The Emperor card and the four King cards all include a second 'female' card in the deck.  One card I'm not sure about ...the 8 of Swords.  It's not clear whether the image is of a man or a woman.  Of all the other cards, only four depict male figures - 7 of Wands, 3 of Swords, Page of Swords and 10 of Pentacles.  And why THESE cards in particular?)

 

Edited December 5, 2023 by Chariot