HearthCricket said:
This sounds a bit New Agey, doesn't it? Like they are trying to force systems together for a "Hey, Dude, this is one cool deck!" feel. Let's hope this is rumour only and not the path they are going to take. I would love to hear Mi-Shell's opinion on it.
Hi guys!
I have not looked at this thread since late January.
I am wondering, how the people of the Wild Greenwood would look, with giant feet and too big hands????
And how the animals would look? I do not much like Worthington's Horses.(see Prince of Wands..)
I also wonder, if the new deck will loose its magical colours.....
in Worhington's art most all the cards are evenly colorful, unlike the Greenwood, where the selection of the colors set the mood of the individual card and give them their shamanistic feel examples; Moon, 5 of Arrows, 9 of Stones, 5 of Stones, 2 of Arrows and maaaany more...
I feel that cards like the 5 od cups, 4 of Stones, 9 of Arrows or 2 of Wands would loose their spell iffff they were in full poppy colors....
As to messing with whatever westerners think the "Medicine Wheel" is - That just does not belong into the concept of this deck.
The Native American "Medicine Wheel" is a construct of many similar sacred teachings of different tribes woven together by the Pan-Indian movement, (Pan Indianism)that was born out of the merging belief systems of the tribes that were squeeeezed together onto small reservations. It is intendet as a pathway that enables modern First Nations people of mixed and multi tribal ancestry to worship and make Prayer.
Sure, all original cultures had distinct symbols for the 4 directions, but does anybody REALY for SURE KNOW, what symbols the pre-Celtic clans had where and for what????
Or would such a concept be derived from New Age imagination?
There are groups in England, that follow, what they understand as a form of Celtic shamanism/ animism and some of them have developed and use a sort of medicine wheel.... They MAY even get offended if one assumes that it is Native American or Siberian inspired.
But should something like that have a place in the Greenwood Tarot?
Would it still be "our Greenwood" or just another new deck?
Where???? I missed that.......