firemaiden
OMG - after all that waiting for the Victorian Romantic Tarot ... (which I've been insisting is the deck to end all decks)... it's finally here!!!!
I'm so happy to finally have this lovely deck in my hands. The colours do glow! Many of the cards are really exquisite. I think my favorite cards are still the blue cards - the Star, the Moon, and the Ace of Cups. The colours also are just delicious on the green cards - the Two of Cups, the Nine of Pentacles and the Three of wands. I would like to walk into the picture, and stay a while.
I'm falling in love with the six of swords too, it has such depth. The torches burning in the boat are so real you can almost hear them crackling, I love how they subltly light up the red cloth at the back of the boat (a shelter? it almost gives the look of a theater); light against dark is echoed in the colours of dawn (or sunset?) in the dark sky and on the water. There is a feeling simultaneously of deep peace, facing the darkness, but nevertheless keeping a bright inner light burning. Wow, what a card!!
There are cards which are also exquisite for their relative lack of colour - The Ten of Swords, the Tower card, the Six of Cups, the Ten of Wands and the Hermit are more gently coloured to wonderful effect. The sea-foam woman in that Ten of Swords is bone-chilling. The snowy rooftops in the Six of Cups look dim and distant the way memory is dim and distant.
I think the nine of swords is pretty spooky too - the somnambulant woman looks as pale and brittle as a china doll.
I'm so happy to finally have this lovely deck in my hands. The colours do glow! Many of the cards are really exquisite. I think my favorite cards are still the blue cards - the Star, the Moon, and the Ace of Cups. The colours also are just delicious on the green cards - the Two of Cups, the Nine of Pentacles and the Three of wands. I would like to walk into the picture, and stay a while.
I'm falling in love with the six of swords too, it has such depth. The torches burning in the boat are so real you can almost hear them crackling, I love how they subltly light up the red cloth at the back of the boat (a shelter? it almost gives the look of a theater); light against dark is echoed in the colours of dawn (or sunset?) in the dark sky and on the water. There is a feeling simultaneously of deep peace, facing the darkness, but nevertheless keeping a bright inner light burning. Wow, what a card!!
There are cards which are also exquisite for their relative lack of colour - The Ten of Swords, the Tower card, the Six of Cups, the Ten of Wands and the Hermit are more gently coloured to wonderful effect. The sea-foam woman in that Ten of Swords is bone-chilling. The snowy rooftops in the Six of Cups look dim and distant the way memory is dim and distant.
I think the nine of swords is pretty spooky too - the somnambulant woman looks as pale and brittle as a china doll.
