Rusty Neon
Reading with Marseilles decks -- Do you interpret the colours?
Ideally, I'd like to read the colours when using Conver-patterned Tarot de Marseille decks. However, I feel frustrated with the concept of doing so. This is because there are at least four different colourings around for Conver-patterned TdM decks:
(1) Conver circa 1760 (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris) - Héron deck
(1A) variants of #(1): Jodo-Camoin deck; Hadar deck
(2) Conver circa 1760 (Italian museum specimen) - Lo Scarabeo deck
(3) Conver 1760 plates, with 1880 colours - Camoin Bicentennial
(4) Paul Marteau 1930 (Grimaud deck and Dusserre deck)
(5)? The deck used by Joseph Maxwell in the late 19th century when writing his book on the TdM. (Note: As I don't have Maxwell's book, I've only got small bits of information from people, and it seems that he used a different deck. Any help would be appreciated.)
Virtually all the TdM books which I own focus on the Marteau colours. I would feel at least a bit better about picking one single deck as my colour deck if those books focused on the colours of an early Conver deck like the Héron reproduction or like the Lo Scarabeo reproduction. Héron is probably the more universal, in that its colours are basically the same as those in the Jodo-Camoin and the Hadar decks. On the other hand, since I have the books, I'm tempted to use the Marteau colours (even though they're not the earliest Conver colours).
And to make choices more different, there are colouring differences, even among the two earliest Conver decks (Héron deck vs. LS deck).
I like to use a variety of Conver-patterned decks and wouldn't want to use different card interpretations from deck to deck, resulting from the distinctive colouring of the particular reading deck used.
I'm wondering how the rest of you who use a variety of Conver-patterned decks deal with the reading and interpretion of colours. So far, I've been tempted not to read colours at all when interpreting cards from Conver-patterned decks. However, it seems that, in so doing, I'm neglecting a big feature of each deck. After all, the colours are there, staring at me in the face.
Ideally, I'd like to read the colours when using Conver-patterned Tarot de Marseille decks. However, I feel frustrated with the concept of doing so. This is because there are at least four different colourings around for Conver-patterned TdM decks:
(1) Conver circa 1760 (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris) - Héron deck
(1A) variants of #(1): Jodo-Camoin deck; Hadar deck
(2) Conver circa 1760 (Italian museum specimen) - Lo Scarabeo deck
(3) Conver 1760 plates, with 1880 colours - Camoin Bicentennial
(4) Paul Marteau 1930 (Grimaud deck and Dusserre deck)
(5)? The deck used by Joseph Maxwell in the late 19th century when writing his book on the TdM. (Note: As I don't have Maxwell's book, I've only got small bits of information from people, and it seems that he used a different deck. Any help would be appreciated.)
Virtually all the TdM books which I own focus on the Marteau colours. I would feel at least a bit better about picking one single deck as my colour deck if those books focused on the colours of an early Conver deck like the Héron reproduction or like the Lo Scarabeo reproduction. Héron is probably the more universal, in that its colours are basically the same as those in the Jodo-Camoin and the Hadar decks. On the other hand, since I have the books, I'm tempted to use the Marteau colours (even though they're not the earliest Conver colours).
And to make choices more different, there are colouring differences, even among the two earliest Conver decks (Héron deck vs. LS deck).
I like to use a variety of Conver-patterned decks and wouldn't want to use different card interpretations from deck to deck, resulting from the distinctive colouring of the particular reading deck used.
I'm wondering how the rest of you who use a variety of Conver-patterned decks deal with the reading and interpretion of colours. So far, I've been tempted not to read colours at all when interpreting cards from Conver-patterned decks. However, it seems that, in so doing, I'm neglecting a big feature of each deck. After all, the colours are there, staring at me in the face.