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Laura Borealis
24-03-2012, 03:17
My husband sent me a link to a video by Peter Schilling: http://youtu.be/4mhaPdURg7Y

If you watch it, be warned, it is a cheese-fest :D Lipizzaner stallions, twins, ballet dancers, and "more hair shaking than a shampoo ad" as he put it

But there's also a tarot deck. This Peter Schilling fellow is German, so it's probably a European deck. The first shot in which you see it, there's a big Eye in black and white, surrounded by sun rays. Unfortunately this is the only place where a card is shown clearly. See the first attachment.

The Eye shows up as a symbol here and there in the video. Then, for like two or three seconds, you can see cards scattered and the Eye card is in the middle. Unfortunately, it's blurry. But a couple of the cards are fairly clear. To the right, there's one that could be The Lovers, and to the left, one that might be the Hierophant or possibly the Hermit. I've uploaded two shots of this.

I would have thought the Eye card was from a different deck entirely (or created for the video) since it looks very different from the others, but it seems to have the same border treatment. The cards seem to have titles at the bottoms -- they put me in mind of Lo Scarabeo multi-lingual titles, though unfortunately they're impossible to read.

I included the YouTube player frame so you can see at what point in the video each frame comes from.

Any ideas?

Laura Borealis
24-03-2012, 03:24
ETA: I forgot to say, the album this song was on was released in 1989 (German release in 1992) and I'm not sure when the video was made, but that's your basic time frame for the deck -- probably nothing published after 1989.

gregory
24-03-2012, 04:14
That eye does look familiar...

It is all very CHURCHY behind the images...

Laura Borealis
24-03-2012, 04:57
Now that you mention it, I get that churchy feeling too. Could it be a Renaissance Art kind of tarot?

rwcarter
24-03-2012, 05:01
Could the eye be the card back? Otherwise, I have no clue what deck that is.

Miss Divine
24-03-2012, 05:29
These are the Zigeuner Waarzegkaarten. It's a 36 card oracle.

Laura Borealis
24-03-2012, 05:45
You solved it! I was skeptical, but I found this: http://www.orakelkaarten.nl/zigeuner.html

And I just kept clicking the cards till it showed me the one attached -- The card I'd thought might be the Hierophant. It's definitely a match for the one in the "scattered cards" pics.

Thank you!

ETA: And the Eye card too --

gregory
24-03-2012, 05:48
And those lovers are JEALOUSY :)

ETA and the EYE, I just got the EYE !

Laura Borealis
24-03-2012, 05:54
Yeah! I really like that eye. I like the whole deck actually.

The Eye is Balance --
This card stands for stability. Both mentally and physically. Spiritual balance and insight. You see things clearly.

If you pull this card it means that your balance or that you in the near future that will find balance in your life. Enjoy the stable period of rest during which you sit.

Peace and stability are the things we seek in life, but we only poorly few moments actually experience. (translated by Google Chrome)

Miss Divine
24-03-2012, 05:58
I have this little deck. That's why I knew exactly which deck it was as soon as I saw the images. :)

Chronata
24-03-2012, 10:24
Those look so familiar to me...I just realized it's because I actually have this deck! :D

I used to read with it a lot, and make up my own meanings.

Cool that there is a site (and even cooler... a way to translate! )

Cerulean
24-03-2012, 12:11
I think Piatnik.

Belinda2
11-04-2012, 10:19
These are the Zigeuner Waarzegkaarten. It's a 36 card oracle.

thats right, I had to look around a bit ( I have too much decks) Gipsy Fortune telling cards

KariRoad
11-04-2012, 16:20
OCD confession: I have maybe half a dozen decks where The Eye appears, petit jeu oracles, and sometimes it's the art for the card back too. In this case, there isn't any copyright issue, and the card decks sell to those familiar. Overall, the decks tend to be hysterical reactions to the industrial age, which was by current reckoning 200 years ago. Factor in the Immigrant Experience and ~ I figure, in the right hands, these oracles were a comfort.

How many homemade decks did as well or better, we are now allowed to voice Amen!

KariRoad
11-04-2012, 16:26
That eye does look familiar...:) Thanks! That was my clue. ;)