Very interesting commentary. I decided not to buy the Chrysalis when I read somewhere that they had come up with statistic about the percentage of people who really understand life, or something like that.
Yeah, I really like the pictures, but reading the blog gave me the impression that maybe they're into a particular type of woo/self help type stuff which really is Not For Me... Can't quite put my finger on a good explanation of it, but they remind me of people like my ex's mother, which tends to be an automatic 'nope, getting out of here' for me. Perhaps a little unfairly, IDK, I didn't read a whole bunch of the posts, but... Yeah.
I don't think I know enough yet to have a good handle on readable vs unreadable decks, but my first tarot deck, the Fey Tarot, I love the art style and most of the individual cards (specifically I like that they aren't pretty, dainty, Victoriana type fairies, they kinda remind me of the various races of Elf in the Elder Scrolls universe), but I can't really see much in them beyond, like, 'oh, there's a purple fairy with some stuff'. I'm hoping once I've got a better grounding in the tarot (currently working with a couple of books and a PCS in a tin) I'll be able to come back to the Fey deck and get more out of it, but right now it's pretty much keeping its mouth tightly shut!