The Golden Light Lenormand On Kickstarter

[Venus Rising]

Found this lovely Lenormand deck on Kickstarter.  The images are beautiful. 

The Golden Light on Kickstarter

 

 

You can see all the cards on her website: 

See the cards on the Golden Light official website

 

Shipping is quite dear, but to be expected coming from Australia.  

 

Edited July 31, 2019 by Venus Rising
because I'm dumb and didn't upload the photos properly the first time LOL

[AfternoonTarot]

Those are beautiful!

[Venus Rising]

On 8/1/2019 at 6:55 AM, AfternoonTarot said:

Those are beautiful!

I think so too 😄 

 

I hope it does well.  I suspect people are feeling iffy about the shipping.  

 

 

[bastetly]

On 8/4/2019 at 10:48 AM, Venus Rising said:

 I suspect people are feeling iffy about the shipping.  

 

 

YIKES!  This could be a deal breaker for the campaign. 

So yes there are some gorgeous cards here no doubt.  BUT.....why do modern decks always screw w the Rider card?  A healthy athletic male represented by a skeleton?  And here is a quote fm the instagram page describing the Garden, in part:  The garden can signify new growth, beauty, or fragrant aromas filling your life. It typically indicates that the weeds will be pulled away and new beautiful things are coming to you ....    🙈 🧐🧐🙈  🙄🙄🙄  She says she's an artist, but is she a reader?  Sorry, but since I took the time to look at the links, I feel I have to point these out.  

 

eta:  There is a writing quill on the Letter, although there is another card for writing.  Is it the Whips?  Trying to recall....

Edited August 11, 2019 by bastetly

[katrinka]

3 hours ago, bastetly said:

So yes there are some gorgeous cards here no doubt.  BUT.....why do modern decks always screw w the Rider card?  A healthy athletic male represented by a skeleton?  And here is a quote fm the instagram page describing the Garden, in part:  The garden can signify new growth, beauty, or fragrant aromas filling your life. It typically indicates that the weeds will be pulled away and new beautiful things are coming to you ....    🙈 🧐🧐🙈  🙄🙄🙄  She says she's an artist, but is she a reader? 

 

That was rhetorical, right? LOL. 

The Rider I'm seeing at the link is a woman riding a carousel unicorn. The whole deck is very Ciro-derivative, style-wise, with the difference being that Ciro at least bothered to ask questions. He just went his own way with the Rider - this took place on facebook,  I think he was getting annoyed, lol.
The Lilies are lotuses. The Child is wearing a lot of makeup(!) The Bouquet has a card that could be confused with the Letter. The Scythe inexplicably features a windmill that could be conflated with the Tower.

Lenormand shouldn't need written titles on it. The card should be clearly, instantly identifiable.

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eta:  There is a writing quill on the Letter, although there is another card for writing.  Is it the Whips?  Trying to recall....

Yes. The Whips/Birchrods.
It might be a good deck for someone who collects and just thinks it's pretty. It's not an effective reading deck.
Beginners could get a lot of wrong ideas, for one thing.
And experienced readers could find trying to lcate cards quickly in larger spreads quite frustrating - I know I would!
 

Edited August 11, 2019 by katrinka

[Decan]

I'm not wild about numeric art, but this is here a question of taste I recognize it.

For the choices concerning the cards with this deck, well... maybe "I'm too Hierophant" concerning my approach because here indeed things look very imaginative like Fool + 7 of Cups, possibly

But to be fair I backed a deck very whimsical on Kickstarter lately (that almost everyone disliked on the forum while it was a success).

For a Lenormand, no here I can't 🥴

[bastetly]

On 8/11/2019 at 2:32 PM, katrinka said:

 

That was rhetorical, right? LOL. 

The Rider I'm seeing at the link is a woman riding a carousel unicorn. The whole deck is very Ciro-derivative, style-wise, with the difference being that Ciro at least bothered to ask questions. He just went his own way with the Rider - this took place on facebook,  I think he was getting annoyed, lol.
The Lilies are lotuses. The Child is wearing a lot of makeup(!) The Bouquet has a card that could be confused with the Letter. The Scythe inexplicably features a windmill that could be conflated with the Tower.

Lenormand shouldn't need written titles on it. The card should be clearly, instantly identifiable.

Yes. The Whips/Birchrods.
It might be a good deck for someone who collects and just thinks it's pretty. It's not an effective reading deck.
Beginners could get a lot of wrong ideas, for one thing.
And experienced readers could find trying to lcate cards quickly in larger spreads quite frustrating - I know I would!
 

OH the Rider IS a woman, not a skelington.  I hadn't enlarged the photo.  The top hat and heavy eyeliner looked skull-like lol.  Still, a woman??  It really does seem like a rip fm Ciro's deck which I do have and love it.  NOT his Rider card tho .....  This deck would drive me nuts trying not to see what's ON THE CARDS.  And again, those card titles, tho I must admit this deck kinds needs them 😄

[katrinka]

It's telling that there's a rainbow on the tree card, and vaguely psychedelic red mushrooms with spots. You normally don't see that, but Ciro did something very similar:

 

 

 

I don't think it's a copyright violation in the legal sense, but it's obvious what the artist used for a reference.

Edited August 12, 2019 by katrinka

[katrinka]

16 hours ago, Decan said:

I'm not wild about numeric art, but this is here a question of taste I recognize it.

For the choices concerning the cards with this deck, well... maybe "I'm too Hierophant" concerning my approach because here indeed things look very imaginative like Fool + 7 of Cups, possibly

Yes, it's got a heavy fantasy ambience. Glow-y stuff and little fairy lights everywhere. I prefer a more nitty-gritty style for this kind of thing.

16 hours ago, Decan said:

But to be fair I backed a deck very whimsical on Kickstarter lately (that almost everyone disliked on the forum while it was a success).

Don't feel bad. I have the Legendary. 🤣
The wonky decks will work for smaller spreads, and they won't give you wrong ideas if you've internalized the meanings and rules already.
I just tend to be very picky about decks that can only be used for small spreads.

 

[bastetly]

Is the Legendary this one?

[Barleywine]

29 minutes ago, katrinka said:

The wonky decks will work for smaller spreads, and they won't give you wrong ideas if you've internalized the meanings and rules already.
I just tend to be very picky about decks that can only be used for small spreads.

 

I wouldn't even bother with decks that have such limitations. There are too many really good all-around decks out there to waste my money on a crippled one.

[katrinka]

9 hours ago, bastetly said:

Is the Legendary this one?

No, this one:
https://fennario.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/the-legendary-lenormand/
https://sevencardspread.com/2015/09/08/sf-bats-report-the-lenormand-w-marcia-mccord/

 

The saving grace of this deck is that it doesn't take itself seriously at all. The wonkiness is intentional.
It's like a Lenormand the Three Stooges would have done. 🤣

 

[Barleywine]

1 hour ago, katrinka said:

It's like a Lenormand the Three Stooges would have done. 🤣

 

Wow! Any deck that can do that successfully gets my vote. My imagination is going into overdrive thinking which episodes would make good cards. Then I want a Monty Python deck.

[reall]

lol I like art here! thanks @katrinka & wtf Rider card for spoiling it for me!;D