Light Grey Art Lab's Cosmos Tarot and Oracle Set

[Scarlet Woodland]

I ordered mine at the beginning of November and still haven't had a shipping notification. Have emailed them again... not a happy ferret.

ETA: Had a nice reply saying it must have been lost in the post, so they're sending me a new one.

 

[Scarlet Woodland]

Received my much awaited package this time last week and oh my goodness it was worth the wait! I absolutely adore this deck and the little oracle is delightful. I can't seem to put it down.

The card stock is wonderful, the gilding immaculate and the artwork stunning. It definitely speaks its own crazy language but I love it

 

[chorphee]

I received it today and I am so disappointed... not even about the design. I don't even want to look at it. I mean the cards... I get three different sizes of cards in the same deck. Some are 1mm smaller than the others... I hate it. I cannot work with it...I'll always see the smaller cards as the majors, etc. I sent theml an e-mail. I hope it's not "normal", that's a random error, that they will do something. And plus I had to pay for the customs...so bad day.

 

[devilkitty]

I received it today and I am so disappointed... not even about the design. I don't even want to look at it. I mean the cards... I get three different sizes of cards in the same deck. Some are 1mm smaller than the others... I hate it. I cannot work with it...I'll always see the smaller cards as the majors, etc. I sent theml an e-mail. I hope it's not "normal", that's a random error, that they will do something. And plus I had to pay for the customs...so bad day.

I had a similar problem with mine, about half the cards were wider than the others.
I emailed and Light Grey made it right. Have patience.

 

[Waldorff]

I still can't make my mind up (months later ) about this deck.

$35+$22 is a lot if I have to pay an import charge of unknown quantity on top of that, especially if it goes missing in transit since I've just read on their website they won't refund for that, plus all the size errors I've read about here.
But then again I do love the artwork, and you're getting 2 decks and the guidebook.

Maybe I'll be indecisive for just a few more months >.<

 

[GlitterNova]

I have had this deck for about a week and I love love love it! I like this deck so much that I've been carrying it with me in my purse to work. I don't use it there, but I like knowing that I have it! It feels very magical--possibly because of the constellations printed onto the cards. As for the art, there are many cards that stand out for their beauty--just SOME of my favorites are 1 of Air (Microscopium), Black Hole, Page of Water (Columba), Worm Hole, 10 of Air (Perseus), 10 of Earth (Circinus+Crux) and The Lovers (Cancer). There are a few cards that I don't LOVE, they are The Tower (Eridanus), The Star (Gemini) and, you guessed it, Temperance (Pictor). They don't bug me enough to not love this deck, though. I had no issues with the cutting or quality of the deck as well.

I think this deck works best if you think of it as a tarot-oracle hybrid. There are certainly quite a few cards that don't obviously align with their RWS/Thoth meanings. That's to be expected if you're trying to fit an existing framework (like constellations) onto the tarot structure. If this would bother you, I highly recommend that you just approach this deck as a large oracle deck. There are many things to pull meaning from on the cards--the artwork, the mythology of the constellation, the book meaning, etc, beyond the standard tarot card meanings.

There is ONE complaint I have about this deck: the book. There are quite a few typos, unfortunately. Also, there's one big error that I noticed while reading it. The description for the Queen of Fire (Cassiopeia) is the SAME as the description for The Devil (Andromeda)! It's SUPPOSED to be for The Devil, but it looks like someone just accidentally copy-and-pasted the wrong description. I've considered emailing them about this, as it bugs me quite a bit! Nobody has mentioned it before in this thread, so is it maybe just an issue with my copy?

 

[earthair]

It's printed wrongly in mine too.

I totally agree about approaching this as a large oracle-tarot hybrid. I use it for card-of-the-day meditation, and the 2 decks shuffled together make a lovely chunk of golden cards to hold. Sometimes I just sit and look through them because they're so pretty

 

[cosmicon]

just got mine yesterday and i love it! it's my favorite deck so far. i'm so happy with the art, it's really beautiful and colorful while also provoking emotion and intuitive thinking. and the guilded edges -- oh my! i actually like the oracle more than the tarot though lol. the associations for the oracle vibe better with me; however, i'm looking forward to learning more about the constellations. i used to have several mythology books but i've lost them all, along with too many memories of what's in them. these cards are a great excuse to study again.

my only complaint is that imo the cardstock is too thin...at least they are all the same size, i guess.

 

[GlitterNova]

my only complaint is that imo the cardstock is too thin...at least they are all the same size, i guess.

The cardstock IS thin and bendy. I get the feeling that they sacrificed on the cardstock to make this deck affordable while still having the gilding on the cards. I'm quite happy they did, too, because otherwise I couldn't have afforded it!

 

[HaileyD]

Shipping issue? I'm worried

I recently bought this deck and it was supposed to be shipped out Monday. Even the tracking sticker is on, but there hasn't been any movement and i'm worried. I emailed them and I received a reply today saying they'll look into it tomorrow.

Has this happened to anyone who've ordered this deck?