Lady Tararith said:
Have any of you seen the ''Faeries'' oracle by Brian Froud and Jessica MacBeth? I'm a big fan of Brian Froud's artwork and I just had to get this pack.
I showed this pack to my sister, who is also a Tarot reader and she was quite put off by some of the images. I must admit some of the images are a little strange. I also have the ''Good Faeries/Bad Faeries'' book where the artwork came from, and some pictures are very strange and un nerving.
Any comments or opinions?
Lady Tararith xx
I absolutely totally felt the same way when I first saw the deck. I found some of the images frightening and they put me off. I had never even heard of Brian Froud at the time...although I have come to be a BIG fan since then.
I don't know how or why, but something pushed me to buy it, call it fate or divine intervention....I was just looking at the deck here on AT, feeling ambigious about it and somehow I knew inside it was something I needed to do. Something pushed me to do it.
After about a week or two of owning it, it was already my favourite deck of my 15. It still is, and I cannot imagine ever loving another deck more, or even as much
The hardcover book with it explains it all, but it's just an experience you need to live to understand. The book pretty well tells you to forget everything you know about Tarot....this is not a deck but an entrance to Faery (the land where faeries live)... There are exercises like singing with the faeries, dancing with the faeries....
I don't think it is something you can understand until you live it, but it is just the most magical deck of all time. It quickly becomes way more than a deck, but a colleciton of good friends. And it's just something you can't get until you try it, but it does make the faeries very real for you in ways you can never imagine without trying it.
The deck even has a blank card that you are meant to design yourself, to add your energy into that of the deck. I think that is a really cool idea.
Hope that helps,
Bar