RedMaple
Souljourney suggested this as a thread topic.
In the Gilded, the traditional correspondences of Wand - Fire; Cups-Water; Swords - Air; Pentacles - Earth; are honored, but he also indicates the most common alternates, which would be to switch Air and Fire. So he seems to have made this deck, trying to make it accessible to people using either of these systems.
One of my "getting to know you" rituals with decks is to order the deck by suits, put all the Majors in order, then arrange the four suits around the Majors according to their correspondences. For me, living on the East Coast of North America, this means Water to the East (Cups) also the place of morning and spring; Fire to the South (Wands) - the place of summer, bright day; Air to the West - the place of prairies, tornadoes, endless sky, the time of autumn on the wheel of the year; Earth is in the North (Pentacles) - the place of winter and darkness, of mystery and mountains.
I like doing this because it creates a sacred geography for the cards. It also helps me to remember them. I look through each suit one card at a time, and see how they are related through their element.
I sometimes do this with a deck I'm getting reacquainted with, or just to order the deck after a lot of use.
I like the strong use of color in this deck, and the jewels that tell you immediately what suit you are in.
In the Gilded, the traditional correspondences of Wand - Fire; Cups-Water; Swords - Air; Pentacles - Earth; are honored, but he also indicates the most common alternates, which would be to switch Air and Fire. So he seems to have made this deck, trying to make it accessible to people using either of these systems.
One of my "getting to know you" rituals with decks is to order the deck by suits, put all the Majors in order, then arrange the four suits around the Majors according to their correspondences. For me, living on the East Coast of North America, this means Water to the East (Cups) also the place of morning and spring; Fire to the South (Wands) - the place of summer, bright day; Air to the West - the place of prairies, tornadoes, endless sky, the time of autumn on the wheel of the year; Earth is in the North (Pentacles) - the place of winter and darkness, of mystery and mountains.
I like doing this because it creates a sacred geography for the cards. It also helps me to remember them. I look through each suit one card at a time, and see how they are related through their element.
I sometimes do this with a deck I'm getting reacquainted with, or just to order the deck after a lot of use.
I like the strong use of color in this deck, and the jewels that tell you immediately what suit you are in.