Cosmic Tarot - split from 'Pros and Cons' thread

[Winterchild]

Originally Posted by MoonGypsy

so THAT'S the reason i keep trading that deck...time goes by and i think i want it again. [so many of the cards are lovely]BUT the ones you mentioned, Winterchild--EWE!!!!

i have to admit i do have it again... to trade or not to trade--that is the question!

LOL!!! I dont think I have ever had a deck twice... although I want to get another Halloween Tarot as I gave mine to my daughter, and then decided I loved it for itself...!

The 10 of Swords is supposed to be a horrible cringemaking card though isnt it?

I have considered altering this deck Certain cards anyway!!

[magpie9]

Missy, just buy the damn deck, OK?You'll never really know until you get it. If you don't like the typeface on on edition, you can get the other. They're not rare.

[missy]

Originally Posted by magpie9

Missy, just buy the damn deck, OK?You'll never really know until you get it. If you don't like the typeface on on edition, you can get the other. They're not rare.

All these posts on the Cosmic Tarot and this has to be the most enabling one so far

Yes, yes, I suppose you are right.

Originally Posted by Winterchild

LOL!!! I dont think I have ever had a deck twice... although I want to get another Halloween Tarot as I gave mine to my daughter, and then decided I loved it for itself...!

The 10 of Swords is supposed to be a horrible cringemaking card though isnt it?

I have considered altering this deck Certain cards anyway!!

Winterchild, I was going to ask how you are getting along with the Cosmic Tarot's dreadful 10 of Swords! Once I SAW that ... that ... that THING ... ... I mean, what else can one call it ... is it a CARD REALLY? It's grotesque! It's horrid! I couldn't look at it for more than a few seconds ... I would almost be tempted to remove it from the deck. Don't know if I have ever felt that way about any tarot card before!

At any rate, IF I buy the thing, I'll figure it out! But it is a horrid card!

[tarot heart]

Originally Posted by magpie9

Missy, just buy the damn deck, OK?You'll never really know until you get it. If you don't like the typeface on on edition, you can get the other. They're not rare.

Now why didn't I just say that???? Magpie you are hilarious!

[Rhinemaiden]

I bought the AG Muller/USG version a couple of weeks ago, and decided I really wanted the FX Schmid version for comparison purposes (I like the funky "handwritten" look) so it's on the way.

10 of Swords... it was my very first draw. It's not sugar coated, that's for sure... but it doesn't give me nightmares, either. There are other decks -- Deviant Moon, anyone? -- that would give me nightmares and that's why I don't own them. The Cosmic is more of a jab in the ribs than a poke in the eye.

[cmarie]

I love the deck and use it quite a bit. I like the colors. It gave me a much clearer understanding of some cards, like the 7 of pentacles or the 5 of wands.

Yes that 10 of swords is a doozy - I think it conveys the feeling quite well. Wanting to look away is a natural reaction to the suffering inherent in the 10 of swords!

I love the 2 of cups in this deck - I just love it!

Next to my Thoth I use this one most often, and I use the Cosmic to read for others. I think the colors in the two decks compliment each other nicely, so occasionally I will work them together.

Just my two cents! Best wishes...

[Winterchild]

Originally Posted by Rhinemaiden

I bought the AG Muller/USG version a couple of weeks ago, and decided I really wanted the FX Schmid version for comparison purposes (I like the funky "handwritten" look) so it's on the way.

10 of Swords... it was my very first draw. It's not sugar coated, that's for sure... but it doesn't give me nightmares, either. There are other decks -- Deviant Moon, anyone? -- that would give me nightmares and that's why I don't own them. The Cosmic is more of a jab in the ribs than a poke in the eye.

Haha... The Cosmic 10 of Swords is waaaaaaaay more nightmarish than the DM imho.... I love the DM... its kinda cuddly really....

[Le Fanu]

Oh and just an update, further to a number of posts above.

After following this thread, I got my Cosmic out and gave it a bit more of my attention this week. I have to say, I am in love with this deck like I never was before. The colours, the intricate background details and the Courts (which I have found, in reading, that they work so well). The mood and the accessible symbolism, for some reason this time they have grabbed me like never before. I'm not too keeen on the 10 of Swords just because I think it sems overdone and melodramatic compared with the rest of the deck - which is so subtle. But this is such a lovely deck if you really, really allow yourself to get drawn into the symbolism.

I say this so rarely about a deck but if you lay it out and really read with it, you find it is very easy to read. Meanings come quite effortlessly. Plus that 80s vibe is so comforting.

[tarot heart]

Originally Posted by cmarie

Next to my Thoth I use this one most often, and I use the Cosmic to read for others. I think the colors in the two decks compliment each other nicely, so occasionally I will work them together.

Excellent idea cmarie, I will try this myself one day soon...

But, sorry, I just don't get an 80's vibe from this deck at all. Having been an adult very young woman in the 80's these cards do not bring back any memories of that time. I don't even think I can pinpoint a time period to this deck. It's sort of otherworldly to me.

[Le Fanu]

Originally Posted by tarot heart

But, sorry, I just don't get an 80's vibe from this deck at all.

LOL. But the boy in the 9 of Wands! The hair in the Queen of Wands! Some of the cards have a 1980s German magazine cover about them. I find the deck very 80s and I was there so it isn't just wishful thinking

Is the deck from 1986? I seem to remember that's the date...