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i'm curious about the tarot of oz...the more i look at it, the more i love it but i want to know more of it! have somebody here it and what do you think about it? if you don't remember the whole story anymore is it then difficult to relate?
here are some pictures:
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/oz/
http://www.learntarot.com/ozdesc.htm
http://www.tarotpassages.com/oz-mm.htm
http://www.tarotwisdomreadings.com/TarotDecks/TarotOz.html
http://www.davidsexton.com/OzImages/oz.htm
thanks in advance,
sara.
I love this deck. It is great for certain kinds of readings. Not work readings, but more "wondering" kinds of readings. It is the kind of deck that is the way the Inner Child should be but isn't. It makes you smile because it draws sly parallels between the world of being adult and the world of being a child. It is clever and amusing and works very well.
HudsonGray
15-10-2002, 22:25
Re-reading the books will be easier as they've been reprinted. It's more than just the Wizard of Oz movie, there were at least 6 books he wrote about Oz from what I remember.
Check around online, do a search under Frank Baum's name or the Oz series, you should be able to locate at least the titles. The cards used characters from the books, not the movie.
Originally posted by HudsonGray
Re-reading the books will be easier as they've been reprinted. It's more than just the Wizard of Oz movie, there were at least 6 books he wrote about Oz from what I remember.
He wrote a total of 14 from 1900 to 1920. There then followed 26 others written by second parties (the first 18 or 19 of these are by Ruth Plumly Thompson). The last one, the 40th. was written in 1963. L. Frank Baum had originally intended to end with the 6th one, "The Emerald City of Oz," but if I remember correctly from the foreword he wrote for the 7th one, he continued writing them because he got so many letters from little kids clamoring for more. (I suppose he could have just made that up, but I prefer to believe otherwise...) Anyway, the 14 that he wrote are readily available. My favorite is the 7th one, The Patchwork Girl of Oz. In the Oz Tarot, Scraps the Patchwork Girl is the Star.
I really like the style and colors of this deck but it is very static, with almost no kineticism. Also -- and I hate to say this, because I don't like really "cluttered" decks -- it seems too sparse. I feel like it needs more props, believe it or not. But the images are beautiful to look at, and I think it's really nice of David Sexton to put such big images on his site.
EDIT: Here is a link to the cheap paperbacks of the Oz series:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=oz+series+baum+ballantine&userid=53N3VCDOWV
They have the original illustrations in them, and they are $6 apiece. You will have to sift through them to find the original #1 (Wizard of Oz) through #14 (Glinda of Oz). The books are also avalable in a beautiful hardcover series; Barnesandnoble.com sells those at 30% off ($18 or so), but I have seen a couple of them as bargain books at my Borders, for $5 or $6, so you may want to keep an eye out for those if you have a B&N or a Borders near you.
marmalade
19-10-2002, 16:29
really?? have the oz book been reprinted?? how exciting!
i have this deck too, and i was so hoping it would be *perfect* for me as i'm a HUGE oz fan (i 'was' dorothy until i was about 6!). but since i've only ever seen the movie (about a million times) and read one of the books, i found i didn't connect as much to the cards as i had hoped, since the imagry was drawn from all of the books, and i'm just not familiar with them all. but if they're all available (is there a whole box set of them all?) then i'd love to read the whole set.
even still, i do like this deck, but i agree that it's whimsical and probably not best suited for more serious readings.
Solandia
27-10-2002, 06:27
A review of the Tarot of Oz is also now up on Aeclectic Tarot...
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/oz/review.html
~ Solandia
Originally posted by marmalade
but if they're all available (is there a whole box set of them all?) then i'd love to read the whole set.
I know that those mass-markets I mentioned used to be in 2 sets of 7, but I hunted around and it doesn't look like they're still in print that way...
Kyrielle
01-11-2002, 15:13
There have been more Oz books written since Thompson wrote hers. I think the most recent I've seen is 1993 or 1996. I have heard that people who really love the Oz books can apply for permission to use the setting and characters for a new book, if they want. There's the challenge of coming up to snuff with the original style and tone, though, as well as the challenge of pleasing lots of persnickety Oz fans.
-- Kyrielle
Having recently become interested in this deck, I was looking at the following as study addendums. Hahahaha. I've never read any of the books.
1) 15 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's Original Oz Series. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road to Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, The Patchwork Girl Of Oz, Little Wizard Stories of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Scarecrow Of Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Lost Princess Of Oz, The Tin Woodman Of Oz, The Magic of Oz, and Glinda Of Oz. (Paperback)
Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax. (July 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0954840135
I understand that the print is very small in this due to the number of books it contains. There is a hardcover edition but it's too $$$$.
And thanks to AJ for pointing this one out to me:
2) Annotated Wizard Of Oz (Hardcover)
Hardcover: 396 pages
Publisher: WW Norton; Centennial edition (Mar 28 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393049922
Contains a facsimile of the original book and illustrations as well as more information on the Oz mythology etc.
Briar Rose
12-05-2007, 13:27
I love the Wizard of Oz. I hope you find a copy of the Tarot of Oz.
If you love it that much check out web sites by the name of;
the dark side of Oz
and you'll see how the Pink Floyd music CD, "The Dark Side of the Moon"
can be played along with the movie, "Wizard of Oz." I have done this on several occasions and have found it profound. You play the music CD after the original MGM's third lion's roar.
I hope you find a copy of the Tarot of Oz.
I did thanks in the trading forum.
I've been weaving my way through fairy tales since last year when I bought the Fairytale Tarot, and just this year added Alice In Wonderland, The Arabian Nights, and now the Oz books, which I have never read.
Interesting stuff to wander around. What little familiarity I once had with these stories has gone, so it's like a new exploration. I'm rather keen on finding out about the other characters in the Oz books and those depicted on the cards.
Oh-oh, I have just discovered bobble head Wizard of Oz dolls made out of resin. They are about 7-8 inches tall and $16-$19 US depending on what store has them. I saw a couple at eBay too.
They look quite nice. I can't afford one but someone else might like them to go with the Oz deck.
Every deck needs a suitable book or representative. In this crowd I like the Scarecrow or the Cowardly Lion. Dorothy has a really big head. I don't know if I could take a big, bobbly Dorothy head.
The Tin Man looks like he's just seen the harvest queen in Brian Froud's fairy deck. Better not to go there.
In my continuing search for an affordable Oz collectible to go with the deck, I came across some charming photo clips or holders with resin figures and a wire spiral to hold a photo. The figures are from the MGM movie but look nice and would still go with the deck. Naturally, this would also hold a card--perhaps a daily card that you draw for the deck. They vary in size from 4 to 6-iches in height.
There are several around--I tried to buy one but they wanted $25 shipping to Canada for a 4-inch figure. So I've written the company that makes them to ask for Canadian distributors or retail stores.
Here's a sample to give you an idea. Try putting "Wizard of Oz photo clip" into a Google search and see what you come up with. I thought the ruby slippers one was kind of lame but the wicked witch and scarecrow, and Dorothy ones are good. I saw a couple on eBay too.
Just thought this was a dandy idea to display cards and $7 to $9 rather than $70 like so many Oz things are.
Briar Rose
14-05-2007, 22:07
I love the Wizard of Oz, too. Let me know when you get your deck.
I have the regular dolls; Dorothy, Glenda, and the Munchkins. I never saw the bobble heads. Thanks for sharing.
In the original book, the red shoes were silver, which had the symbolism of silver coins/wealth.
Amazon.ca has shipped my Oz books.
An update on the photo holder: Like many items in this giftware line, the Oz items are not able to be sold in Canada due to copyright restrictions. The gentleman from the giftware company suggested that all I could do is pay the $17 to $25 US shipping fee and buy from a seller in the US.
I suggested to him that what I could do is not buy the item! Hahaha, are these people nuts or something? Money doesn't grow in poppy fields ya know.
So, I'll be quite happy with my books and exploring all the Oz stories and characters.
I love the Wizard of Oz. I hope you find a copy of the Tarot of Oz.
If you love it that much check out web sites by the name of;
the dark side of Oz
and you'll see how the Pink Floyd music CD, "The Dark Side of the Moon"
can be played along with the movie, "Wizard of Oz." I have done this on several occasions and have found it profound. You play the music CD after the original MGM's third lion's roar.
Wow, I had never heard of the Dark Side of Oz and looked it up. Found that in 2000 TCM aired a version of Oz with the Dark Side of the Moon album as an alternate soundtrack. grrrrrrrrrrr...never heard anything about it. Wish I had seen it and taped it. Maybe someday they will replay it.
I received my Oz books from Amazon.ca today. The Annotated Oz is breathtaking and has old adverts and posters as well as the facsimile of the original book and illustrations.
I wasn't sure what to expect of the "15 Books in 1: The Original Oz Series" but it's a perfectly readable paperback. I'll attach a scan with my thumb in it to give you an idea of the size and type. The type looks to be 8 point to me, so slightly smaller than 10 point that is the norm for e-mail. Still quite readable with lots of white space--printed in two columns on nice white paper which always improves contrast and thus readability.
The actual book is about 7.25 x 9.75 inches and 1.25 inches thick.
ISBN 0954840135
I was expecting after the Amazon reviews to be squinting and finding the print size unbearable but that's not the case. Baum's writing style is fine too, also what I would consider readable for an adult.
Worth reading to familiarize yourself with the characters on the cards. You could always get an interlibrary loan for a copy rather than buy it.
Cool Beans, enjoy your immersion in Oz ;)
Cool Beans, enjoy your immersion in Oz ;)
It's very odd AJ, I didn't expect to like it but I felt I should know about the characters when I got the deck.
But it's charming--part of someone's life's work. I think it was the biographical and social element that nabbed me. Baum includes a little life lesson in each story too. Timeless stuff, you know?
The stories remind me of the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis--for children, but including the author's adult experience and wisdom of life.
I thought they were going to be silly, shmaltzy kiddie stories--not the case. Reverberatory rumination for adults too.