Tarot evoking tenderness...soft spoken?
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 25 May 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| Cerulean |
25 May 2005 |
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It may be your dark or light deck, it may be a sentimental favorite--I just want to hear for a bit perhaps cards or a deck or decks that pour a dreamy mood or tug at your hearts...include visual links if you can.
While I never really used it, the High Priestess from the Sacred Circle seemed to evoke a tender, romantic response...
http://www.learntarot.com/scdesc.htm
I don't know why, but the softness of Scapini's words in his Romeo and Juliet and the Stained Glass Tarot seems to evoke a kind tone to my readings...perhaps the Queens and their kindly Madonna aspects...I cannot seem to find any of the Queens pictured online yet.
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/vetrate/
When I find it again (don't I dislike it when I 'organize' and cannot find the certain deck), I'm going to check to see if the Crystal Tarots has the same feeling. I almost think the Tarot of 1001 Nights is giving a fluid and romantic flutter. One that I can find and have been carrying around with a 'soft tone' seems to be the Celestial by Kay Steventon...seems softer to me than the Spiral was, at least from memory...maybe the softest of the ones that I'm thinking about now.
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/celestial/
Can you tell me your deck or card picks that might evoke or seem to address you in a softly-spoken mood? Hope I'm being clear...
Cerulean
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| Fulgour |
25 May 2005 |
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I sometimes like to imagine sitting with Jean Dodal
and laughing together as we share his happy gifts.
Everything about his images is delightfully magical.
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| Rosanne |
26 May 2005 |
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I have found this light/dark deck conversations very interesting. For me your soft spoken dreamlike analogy is very good Cerulean.
My most gentle softly spoken Decks are, given that I name my decks but don't usually humanise them with personality, are
Spiral Tarot by Kay Steventon
Tarots of the Renaissance by Giorgio Trevisan
Tarot of the Cloisters by Michelle Leavit.
I always feel good with Osho Zen, but I don't really think of it as Tarot.
Its my response to the Cards- With Rohrig I am very businesslike,With the Ancient Egyptian I am all full of symbolic speak, With RWS I am confident and direct. Hehe it must be the Artwork. -Rosanne
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| Angel Star |
26 May 2005 |
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Cerulean you posted some really awsome decks. Lately I have just been in such a bla with tarot just you know not in the mood or something. Other things on my mind kind of thing. Who knows? I really appreciate your thread. All the decks you showed were awsome. Thanks for the uplift with tarot i really needed it.
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| Emeraldgirl |
26 May 2005 |
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My Gilded Deck especially the 9 of Pents. Also the entire cups suit from the Buckland Romany Tarot.
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| Fudugazi |
26 May 2005 |
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I agree with Fulgour on the 1701 Dodal. He even chides gently, like a kind and wise uncle, a little scholarly and eccentric, but whom you know has lived quite an exciting life. He now probably has a younger (but not much younger) mistress in a pretty appartment, whom he visits once a week with some new sketches. She serves him a good little Côte-du-Rhône and plays the spinnet for him - and he deals cards over her naked stomach.
(oops, that last one slipped out! I shall never see the venerable Dodal deck in the same way again ;))
I find many tender cards in the DruidCraft too. Most of the deck is - though without for one moment being cloying or sweet. All those beautiful shades of green contribute to the feeling!
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| Inana |
26 May 2005 |
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I find really tender the page of cups from the Viking's Tarot, he has that dreamy smile... It's interesting cause most of the characters on the deck have a hard and agressive look.
Can't find any image of the card on the net now. :(
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| Umbrae |
26 May 2005 |
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Kneen’s Old English
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| prudence |
26 May 2005 |
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The lovely Empress card from my Thoth deck...she is so tender and soft and pink, I love this image. And the Star, from the same deck.
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| 13thFaeChylde |
26 May 2005 |
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The Star from my Motherpeace deck always evokes feelings of warm, gentle, tender love. Its appearance always makes me go draw a bath, filled with scented things and candles.
And it is my most-drawn card from this deck and also the reason I bought this deck.
http://www.motherpeace.com/
(card is shown near bottom of page)
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| Nina* |
26 May 2005 |
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The Star from the Haindl deck.. I never use this deck for readings but I do adore this card; it's just got 'something' :)
Oh... and I've got the same feeling with the 8 of cups from my Morgan Greer... and the two of swords from my DruidCraft... and the 6 of swords from the Universal Waite... and.... erhmm... :D
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| Angel Star |
28 May 2005 |
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I love the Moon card from the Spiral tarot. Just something about it makes me want to go outside and look at the moon when it is full.
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| Moongold |
28 May 2005 |
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O Butterfly
Always in the air, like a ballerina in eternal flight on our earthly stage
you dance, absorbed and absorbing through your stained glass wings.
On our earthly stage, you dip and curve, riding breezes weaving
through your stained glass wings, flying over the speckled green.
Riding the wind as it dances through the sun and fields of daisies
over the speckled green with the honey bees, the humming heat
in the fields of daisies, swaying, enthralling Fool, hypnotically, singly
in the humming heat and rhythm of the enchanted maze of grace.
Hypnotically, singly reaching out, inviting us inward to the magic,
to the enchanted maze of grace, to our tryst with darkness
dancing in the air, like a ballerina in eternal flight, absorbed and absorbing
in never - ending light.
O Foolish Butterfly!
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| Cerulean |
28 May 2005 |
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Hypnotically, singly reaching out to us, inviting us inward to the magic,
to the enchanted maze of grace, to our tryst with darkness
dancing in the air, like a ballerina in eternal flight, absorbed and absorbing
in never - ending light.
O Foolish Butterfly!
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I posted this before, but
http://www.tarotpassages.com/mitel0.jpg
"You used to lift your arms like wings
And again give birth to the wind
Running in the weight of the motionless air.
No one ever saw at rest
Your light foot, made for dancing.
O happy grace
You could not avoid being shattered
In a blindness so obsurate,
You, simple breath and crystal,
Too human a flash for the profane
Jungle wild, dogged, buzzing
Roar of a naked sun..."
That was one of the second of the poems that I cherish from Giuseppe Ungaretti...
(Alzavi le braccia come ali
E ridavi nascita al vento
Correndo nel peso dell'aria immota
Nessuno mai vide posare
Il tuo lieve piede di danza
Grazia felice,
Non avresti potuto non spezzarti
In una cecita tanto indurita
Tu semplice soffio e cristallo,
Troppo umano lampo per l'empio,
Selvoso, accanito, ronzanae
Ruggito d'un sole ignudo.)
Introduction to Italian Poetry, edited by Luciano Rebay
Yes, Mitelli's Fool from 1664 Bolognese Tarocchino also gives a sweet lift....
Sighing Cerulean...
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| Moongold |
28 May 2005 |
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:) O Cerulean ...... I am a very baby poet. That was my Sunday morning attempt at a pantoum :)
Thank you for the Ungaretti. He clearly has more access to the poetic streams of the collective unconscious :D
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| Fudugazi |
29 May 2005 |
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Troppo umano lampo per l'empio,
Selvoso, accanito, ronzanae
Ruggito d'un sole ignudo.
Aaaaaaaah! Happiness is a few words in the wind, in Italian....
And so apt for Mitelli's Fool.
Thank you.
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