i don't know what got to me but i did it.
or well, i know exactly what happened. that's all Jeannette's fault as she posted a snippet of the Knight of Pentacles (?) in the Tarot Game section and i find it gorgeous.
i had read many reviews about the deck and stuff about Crowley, like the guy sacrified kittens and rape children in Italy, As a cat-owning mom, that guy didn't sound too cool to me (loved similia's comment about not wanting him around one's sister
)
but well, i gave up, i thought: i go to the local bookstore in my tiny finnish city wher i've seen the deck before and put it back with disgust on the shelf... if it's still there, i buy it, if not, i don't order it from anywhere.
darn it was still there.
i am now the confused but rather proud owner of a medium-sized (nothing else available, remember guys: Finland, not even Helsinki here...) Crowley-Harris Thoth Tarot deck by AG Müller. grey borders.
fantastic artwork, somehow weird but i wouldn't say dark.
on Tarot Passages the reviewer (maybe Diane Wilkes herself, can't remember) says "intense" rather than dark. i agree.
my current situation now is that i won't buy any book for it NOW, i will try and cope with my poor background and fertile imagination. but i will be missing a lot so i will end up buying a book, probably Duquette's.
the keywords in finnish stink btw, Lust is translated in "Intohimo" which means "passion, fire, torridity" and you can be intohimoinen for sports, hobby etc. which is passionate really. well, this is also my first finnish deck. how much is that for just one day??????
thanks for the thread!
kissa