...I do understand the fragrance of the dual path tarot in terms of East and West seems strikingly unique. I also like peaceable, stilling images at times...but I was thinking meditation could be a little more durable and real-life, reflective of my thoughts and curiousity.
But if one comes from a world of whatever dual path is being shown, this becomes more a naturalistic adjustment. It makes me sigh a little, because as someone posted of something becoming so familiar...it is an agreeable feeling, but it doesn't always open my meditative self to be as open as it should. So my deck choices for reading and opening myself to meditative wisdom may be strikingly different than my regular reading for other or experimental study decks.
I just received something that strikes me as both modern, naturalistic, agreeable to me and yet more of an unknown doorway that opens my adjustments and filters in a better way. I want my tarot pictures to not be static to my creative mind, but also spark interaction--so that my meditations are not just spiritual high spots, but really interactive with my life.
I just received the larger, more vivid Tarot of Eden and it's otherworldly, yet calm depths...and I've not been disappointed with the few Urania Verlag titles that I have translated into English. Each of my titles, whether Via, Ananda and now Tarot of Eden, seems to be focused in a different, yet deep bent. The systems and art and truely felt and thought out by the authors and artists...
---These Urania Verlag titles certainly add to the dimension of Tarot of this thread. The Via is profoundly mysterious and meditative, with art that finds the bridge between dramatic image and meditative depth.
I didn't mean to emphasize a polarity or lack of unity between decks that serve a Now, non-time focus, and those that are more a journey into and through time, with Future-envisioning. To me, Tarot is the whole World, and that includes Now-decks and Alpha-to-Omega decks. Both are needed spiritual tools. Complementary, not opposed. Not a "dual path" I hope, but two windows through which we see Reality.