WhiteRaven
Let's talk about "Shape".
So these cards are obviously Round...why?
The only other Tarot deck on the market that has the same shape at the moment is MotherPeace. Which, btw, was conceived the same time as the DOM.
The backs of the cards are a dark purple with a crescent moon.
The author states that, again, that it is a matriarchal approach or I may quote "feminist or wholistic" approach.
With that said, IMO, Ms Morgan could have at least made the circular shaped cards smaller and easier to handle. These cards are impossible to shuffle properly. They are too large. You would think she had them made for a man's hand instead of a woman's. Funny, being such a feminist deck...anywaysss...lol..They also STICK together. Which is really annoying when one is trying to fan these cards in front to be able to draw.
Putting aside what the intentions were and what the meaning is for the circular shape that the author states in her book, I personally look at them as a cycle...yes. A whole...yes. But as for the positive and negative and whatever she is trying to once again change within this deck to some how take more of the male influence out of Tarot...this blows right by me...I do like the concept of using the degree of the tilt...helping the reader see just how negative the message really is. It's kind of a gauge where with the traditional rectangular Tarot, you either have the postive or negative period. With the degree concept, not only can you use the surrounding cards and one's intuition to feel the severity, with the degree concept, you have an added bonus that perhaps a new reader would find easier...and funny enough...a male reader would as well.
Flavio started a thread about men and intuition just this week....and AGAIN this deck lends a bonus to the male reader that feels he has a hard time tapping on the "intuition" part of reading. Two aspects already within this "feminist" deck that would help the men, in subtle ways..but help them just the same.
Anybody jumping in on this?
So these cards are obviously Round...why?
The only other Tarot deck on the market that has the same shape at the moment is MotherPeace. Which, btw, was conceived the same time as the DOM.
The backs of the cards are a dark purple with a crescent moon.
The author states that, again, that it is a matriarchal approach or I may quote "feminist or wholistic" approach.
With that said, IMO, Ms Morgan could have at least made the circular shaped cards smaller and easier to handle. These cards are impossible to shuffle properly. They are too large. You would think she had them made for a man's hand instead of a woman's. Funny, being such a feminist deck...anywaysss...lol..They also STICK together. Which is really annoying when one is trying to fan these cards in front to be able to draw.
Putting aside what the intentions were and what the meaning is for the circular shape that the author states in her book, I personally look at them as a cycle...yes. A whole...yes. But as for the positive and negative and whatever she is trying to once again change within this deck to some how take more of the male influence out of Tarot...this blows right by me...I do like the concept of using the degree of the tilt...helping the reader see just how negative the message really is. It's kind of a gauge where with the traditional rectangular Tarot, you either have the postive or negative period. With the degree concept, not only can you use the surrounding cards and one's intuition to feel the severity, with the degree concept, you have an added bonus that perhaps a new reader would find easier...and funny enough...a male reader would as well.
Flavio started a thread about men and intuition just this week....and AGAIN this deck lends a bonus to the male reader that feels he has a hard time tapping on the "intuition" part of reading. Two aspects already within this "feminist" deck that would help the men, in subtle ways..but help them just the same.
Anybody jumping in on this?