Darwinia and the wisdom well...

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 22 May 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

yaraluna	22 May 2004
Hello there ia m back but briefly. this is for Darwinia about the wisdom well... i contacted the creator of the book and system i guess, Ivarna. i asked her how to see the cards before purchasing them, etc, this is what she said... " My name is Ivarna kalinkova, and I was commisioned to write the book you enquired about. Thankyou for writing to me. I think you are wise to want to see the cards before you buy them, and that when you do buy them you may be rather disapointed in them. They are small, and are done on very poor quality and cheap card. It seems to me the published has done everything at least cost for maximum proffit. But that is perhaps todays capatalistic world. The designs use graphic art tecniques, I think the card" The Shadow" is on the website. A dark cloaked figure with a tangle of tree branches and roots? I did ask my web designer to put it up there as a sample, when the book came out, but he sometimes neglects to do the work on my site. The book also has been very "edited". and things which would have made this system unique and life transforming were cut out. So what you will have read on my website is not in the book. I think if you are in doubts you should not buy it. With Kind regards Ivarna" so i guess that says it all. however, i still want to see the cards and the book....uhmmm

Ravenswing	22 May 2004
I've got this one and I feel it very worthwhile, especially if you want a Jungian slant. The cards are about the size of playing cards. The stock isn't that bad, and because there's no slicky finish they shuffle easily. I got mine as soon as I saw them and the cards haven't suffered any. I got mine in a Barns and Nobles. The packaging is such that it can be opened and you can look through the book. Which naturally has illustrations of all the cards. The text isn't that bad-- but I guess I'm going to check out her website. fly well Raven

darwinia	22 May 2004
Quote: Originally posted by yaraluna so i guess that says it all. however, i still want to see the cards and the book....uhmmm You have to see yourself, which is why it's so frustrating when publishers won't put up pictures. I didn't like them, but as I said in the other thread, they reminded me of the Sacred Circle cards which I also don't like. I know that lots of people love the Sacred Circle cards, so they might like these too. I am fascinated/haunted by the author's statements about her system being "edited" to the point of losing the message.

The Darwinia and the wisdom well... thread was originally posted on 22 May 2004 in the Tarot Decks board, and is now archived in the Forum Library. Read the active threads in Tarot Decks, or read more archived threads.