pythagorean tarot

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 01 Jul 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

truthsayer	01 Jul 2002
since you guys have done such a great job in the past changing my mind about decks, i need your help again. everything i read about the pythagorean tarot(PT) made me really want it. i liked the scans of the cards. but when i got it...YUCK!!!!! i don't understand what i saw in it. i had the alchemical also ordered but when i saw PT i cancelled the order. i'm not sure what it is i don't like. the images are inoffensive. i think it's the simple pen ink and colored drawings. i tend to be drawn to more intense decks most often. i got the templar the same day and was just blown away by it's intensity!! i also got tarot of the sphynx and mage the ascension decks. i knew i'd like sphynx b/c it's the mirror reversal of my beloved neferteri. the mage reminds me of my vertigo deck which is a fav. i love these decks but they seem in a different place than PT. i react to them emotionally. i feel nothing when i see PT. i thought if i could understand where the PT is coming from it would help me. some of the things that drew me was the use of greek/roman mythology and symbolosim. what i've skimmed thru the book is interesting. so what do you do when you have a deck that you find intellectually interesting but don't like the cards? i feel the same about the sacred circle. i don't like the cards but i like the book so i keep it in hope the cards will appeal to me eventually. perhaps my the emotion charged 2 planets each in pisces and scorpio that draw me to emotioanally evocative decks. i have 4 planets in aquarius and that draws me to more intellectually stimulating decks. what an inner paradox!

truthsayer	01 Jul 2002
i've been skimming the book and it's quite thorough w/ good info. maybe this one will grow on me like all the rest. :)

Kiama	02 Jul 2002
My boyf bought this one for me as a Valentine's Day gift... I had lusted after it for ages, but it wasn't cheap: £37! I can't read with it, but it is certainly one for any collector: The new ordering of the Majors is something worth studing, and the symbolism in each of the Majors is stunning! The artwork is quite pretty too: Very simple, yet detailed... The book: WOW! is all I can say... I wrote a review for this deck which is up on the Aeclectic website... The review shows what I think of the deck... Kiama

truthsayer	02 Jul 2002
thanks kiama. i read the review-that's what encouraged me to give the deck a chance. it's definitely an intellectual deck not an emotive deck like i prefer. the way the majors are reordered was one of the turn-offs but if you say it's worth studying then i know that it is! :)

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