Navigators Tarot Of The Mystic Sea

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 18 Mar 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Kaz	18 Mar 2002
Anybody has this deck? Looks interesting, curious about your comments on it..... Kaz

Kimon	18 Mar 2002
Hello, I have this deck, and like it quite a lot. To work with it, though, I think the pictures are too similar and sort of repetitive. But it is a very good and original deck worth studying. Greetings, Kimon

Jewel	18 Mar 2002
Hi Kaz! I have this deck and although I have not worked with it yet it was a "have to have" deck for me. It is very qabalistic and the author has made some changes in order for the deck to satisfy the her (I think it is a she) understanding of where the paths lie on the Tree of Life. The tie in to the Qabalah is stressed by the coloring pattern on the cards and if I am not mistaken the overall imagery as well. I find this to be a very interesting deck particularly because the artist has taken a different approach to the Qabalah. If you get this deck make sure and get the book, this is one of those that requires the book. Let me know if you want to know anything else specific about the deck and I will gladly look it up for you.

Kaz	18 Mar 2002
Jewel, what I really would like is to see all the cards before I buy it. But thats not possible I am afraid.... Have you seen the Greenwood deck? Check that one out, I just posted a link to ebay auction for you USA people. Itá beauty Kaz

Zhritza	02 Apr 2002
I have this deck and am quite fond of it; I find it fairly easy to read with and not repetitive. I tossed the booklet that came with it, because I don't mess with Golden Dawn/Kabbalah approaches to tarot for the most part. I have enough trouble relaxing and being intuitive while remembering all the basic meanings of the cards; adding more background to that just renders me incapable of reading the cards at all. Furthermore, current tarot-related interest in the Kabbalah strikes me as (to a lesser extent) misplaced in much the same way that using American Indian imagery in tarot is. I know the original tarot/tarocchi were influenced by Kabbalistic numerology, but my opinion still stands. I am Jewish, and although I know little about the Kabbalah, I do know that in its true form it is very dry, lengthy, and is primarily studied by Orthodox Jewish men, who are an un-occultish bunch in the extreme. I'm not suggesting that Jews have to deal with the countless hordes of "culture vultures" that Indians do; we're not even really discriminated against anymore for the most part in this country, whereas Indians have it worse than anyone. But Jewish mysticism, despite being called "mysticism," is not exciting or exotic. It is books, the Old Testament, rabbinical interpretation, and more books. Romanticizing it is pointless. Having said that, Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea *is* exciting. It makes liberal use of androgyny, and the people in it quite literally have no "race" or ethnicity (they are green, blue, etc.), which is unrealistic but attractive in its own way. I recommend the deck unless you are easily turned off by whimsy.

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