Miss Woo
Not cryptic - I'd put Snuffin top of the list. DuQuette is VERY good - but not as digestible.
Ooh, I might get that next. Thanks!
Not cryptic - I'd put Snuffin top of the list. DuQuette is VERY good - but not as digestible.
Thanks - I thought for a minute I was alone there. I can't understand it either.Suffin and DuQuette are both good - Banzhaf is better than I thought for a long time although you have to dig a bit - Ziegler is abysmal IMO. I see no connection between the stuff he writes and the cards. He also relies heavily (some might say TOO heavily) on Angeles Arrien.
Ziegler is popular in German speaking countries, I really don't know why.
Sorry if I'm blunt.
Suffin and DuQuette are both good - Banzhaf is better than I thought for a long time although you have to dig a bit - Ziegler is abysmal IMO. I see no connection between the stuff he writes and the cards. He also relies heavily (some might say TOO heavily) on Angeles Arrien.
Ziegler is popular in German speaking countries, I really don't know why.
Sorry if I'm blunt.
I've often thought the RWS has gained its immense popularity in spite of Waite's written guidebook and its spiritual offspring.
It's not that huge - but my printed copy has big type and too much white space, so it LOOKS bigger than it needs to be. You can always read it a card at a time on line. If you "can't be bothered" to read it, I'm not sure this is the deck for you, to be perfectly honest. Sooner or later you NEED to read it.I agree with this completely.
About the Book of Thoth, I just can't be bothered. It sounds huge (and really heavy and complex). I'm so lazy that I'm over reading. I used to be the kind of person who could read Jane Eyre in one night.
It's not that huge - but my printed copy has big type and too much white space, so it LOOKS bigger than it needs to be. You can always read it a card at a time on line. If you "can't be bothered" to read it, I'm not sure this is the deck for you, to be perfectly honest. Sooner or later you NEED to read it.
When I couldn't face reading it cover to cover, I did the 78 card study with the Thoth deck, and read (and posted) one card at a time, reading all the books I had on each card. It was fairly painless - but you do need 78 weeks to do that properly.
In all the years I owned and used a Thoth deck, I never read any books about it; I just used my intuition.