Deck of The Weeek: Sign-up Thread: Week 123 : November 16 - November 22

[VGimlet]

This thread is for those who would like to work through their collection of decks.  Each week we will be picking a new deck to work with exclusively for the week.

Anyone is welcome. Please join us!

 

1. Please post with your chosen deck for the week.

 

2. Chat away about your deck, how you're finding it etc.

 

Participants:

 

1. VGimlet - Ananda Tarot &  Twin Tarot Oracle

2. AJ-ish/Sharyn - LoS Minchiate

3. Mi-shell - Herbcrafter's Tarot

4. Bodhiseed - Hidden Realms Tarot paired with the Heart of Faerie Oracle

5. Amberjune - the Pagan Otherworlds, and the Earth Wisdom Oracle

 

 

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Edited November 17, 2019 by VGimlet

[VGimlet]

Because I have picked up my deck twice this week I'll be sticking with the ananda and the Twin Tarot.   I have to do better, or I'll be using the decks I just got into January, and that just won't do, LOL.  

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

thank you VG  LoS Minchiate for me this week

[Mi-Shell]

I would like to participate again - with my new Herbcrafter's Tarot, please 🙂

[Mi-Shell]

We have been travelling in our little Motor home, the Turtle for the last 6 weeks - 

through the glorious fall colours of eastern Canada, then through NY's Adirondacks int Pennsylvania , over to Maryland's Atlantic coast down to the OBX = outer Banks on North Carolina - and back home.On the way home we stopped in a small quite touristy town, Berkeley Springs, WV, which has a lovely metaphysical shop.

It was fun to check through their Tarot book and deck selection.I could not leave empty handed, the Herbcrafter's  wanted me to take it back to snowy Canada.

the guy at the cash register looked quite familiar - as iffff I had seen him on the many pictures of/ about tarot get togethers and symposiums??

I would have asked him, had he not been TOTALLY absorbed in feeding a baby barely propped up in a high chair in front of him - cooing and cawing and guguuuing all the while managing spoon-full after spoonful of baby food to disappear.....

[Bodhiseed]

Waves hello to everyone 👋

I'm in this week with the Hidden Realms Tarot paired with the Heart of Faerie Oracle.

[Amberjune]

thank you for the new thread, VG!

 

I am joining with an old favorite: the Pagan Otherworlds, and the Earth Wisdom Oracle.

 

@Mi-Shell thank you for sharing this wonderful story. Traveling through the eastern States must be wonderful around this time of year, with the fall leaves, etc. I went on a short hike today and was stunned by the fiery intensity of the leaves against a clear blue sky. Fall is my favorite season (though I love them all!!).

I do love the Herbcrafter's Tarot and hope you will enjoy working with it this week. 🙂

[Bodhiseed]

I'm interested in what you think about the Herbcrafter's Tarot, too, @Mi-Shell. 

@Amberjune, I really like the Art in the Majestic Earth photos you posted - thank you!

 

[Bodhiseed]

This week I'll be using the Tarot of the Hidden Realm, created by Julia Jeffrey with Barbara Moore, and published by Llewellyn. I'll also be drawing from the Heart of Faerie Oracle created by Brian and Wendy Froud and published by Abrams. Today's cards are the King of Wands and 'The Returning:'

          This King of Wands, with his windswept hair, seems to be looking over our shoulder at something happening behind us. Though he is listening, he's more interested in what is going on; he's a 'show me' kind of guy rather than a 'tell me' one. He doesn't want to just hear about something, he wants to be able to be there himself if possible. He knows that some people may underestimate a situation while others may over-dramatize it. They act as alert buttons so he knows to go and check on any potential problem and correct it before it gets too big. The Returning suggests we acknowledge that things are constantly changing. If we leave, we shouldn't expect things to be exactly the same as before when we return. When we look without the weight of the past or our assumptions about the future, we can see with clarity what is. That's the first step in making any progress. 

 

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.     

[Which might include ego's demands of what should or shouldn't be, instead of what is.]

~George Bernard Shaw

[VGimlet]

Sounds like a great trip Mi-shell, welcome back!    

[Mi-Shell]

7 hours ago, Bodhiseed said:

I'm interested in what you think about the Herbcrafter's Tarot, too, @Mi-Shell. 

Well, as you recall from my little story, I bought this deck in the whim of the moment - never before having looked at it or seeing pictures of the artwork.

Soooo, when I opened it and looked at the cards for the first time I was VERY disappointed - the images are beautiful, but blurry! 

The ooooolder I get the more I like to intensely pear at an image to discern all the small stuff that is shown to me - and might trigger an association here or and intuition there. But  one can not do this with this deck. The closer you look, the blurrier little details, like leaf structure or little stuff on the table get.

That is however not a print problem, but the art/ the kind of artwork the deck is produced in.

But, as I said, I bought a "cat in a bag" not realizing its fur is checkered and scruffy.

However, I do like the deck structure and how the cards are set up/ arranged, I like the hints towards Mexican curanderismo, because I myself worked with several powerful Mexican indigenous and mestizo curanderas while living in Mexico in the early 1980ties. I also like the choice of plants.

I do very muck like the booklet that comes with it. I wish it had an extra page for each card, where I can ad all the tidbits of healing properties and specific character each of the plants have. To write that into the margins of the text will quickly make a disorganized mess, so currently i am debating iffff I will write these things into an extra little booklet that just fits into the box...????

extras about various other bits and bobs appearing on the images could go in there too....????

That would be a winter project.....

And I have to get used to the kind of artwork the deck is produced in. 

 

7 hours ago, Bodhiseed said:

 

 

 

[Bodhiseed]

I need to check and see if mine are blurry...

ETA: Okay, I see what you mean, Mi-shell. It's like some put a sheet of clear Contact paper over each card.

I really love the plants she chose for the cards though.

Edited November 17, 2019 by Bodhiseed

[Mi-Shell]

2 hours ago, Bodhiseed said:

I need to check and see if mine are blurry...

ETA: Okay, I see what you mean, Mi-shell. It's like some put a sheet of clear Contact paper over each card.

I really love the plants she chose for the cards though.

Yes! Say, can you read well with it in-spite of that?

I think it could be a very good deck ....... Iffffff I get used to blurry artwork.....

[Bodhiseed]

I've been able to read with and enjoy it, especially since the book describes the cards. It is weird that they would make them that way on purpose though!

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

michelle, I enjoyed your trip notes too! We are just home from a 7000+ mile journey too, loved every minute of it. 

 

For making notes, you might try this? they are 3-M post it type, but note sheet size and very thin so wouldn't make the book so thick as your added sheets to it. They come back out so won't damage the book pages. 

https://www.amazon.com/Post-Marseille-Collection-Sheets-660-5PK-AST/dp/B0006HVJ3O

[Mi-Shell]

Oh, Thank you, @AJ-ish/Sharyn

 

I am still torn as to what to do -

- I have a little book, that would fit into the box and it happens to have 78 pages - that fact may be telling me something.....

[Mi-Shell]

I did write to the deck creators about the fussy images and this is the answer I got - and - sadly expected:

 

 

Hello Mi-Shell!

 

Thank you for your inquiry. I am glad you are enjoying the deck. The grainy and soft look of the art has to do with the medium. Joanna creates line drawings and then uses Prismacolor colored pencils to paint them. It is the nature of colored pencil art to have a soft grainy look. The artwork was then scanned in to a high quality photo printer and digitized for publication. The publisher, US Games, took over at that point and worked with the digital files to print them as close to the original as possible and still remain economical. Joanna used the same technique in the Gaian Tarot. 

I hope this answers your question. 

Have a great day!

Latisha

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sooo for me now it is the question:

Love it or toss it

 

aaaaaand since I paid $ 26 US for it - and I so far never tossed a deck......

I will opt for 

Use it !

[Bodhiseed]

@Mi-Shell, I would have to disagree with them about the Prismacolor pencils being responsible for the fuzziness. I made the drawings for the Elements of Recovery cards with those pencils, and mine didn't turn out that fuzzy. But like you, I will still enjoy using them. 

Edited November 19, 2019 by Bodhiseed