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Quite some time ago, I couldn't resist the Jonathan Dee deck that I found in a shop for £1.99. I remember a friend telling me at the time that that was £1.98 too much!
I ended up giving it away.
I ended up giving it away.
That's exactly why I put "depth" into quotes. I surely don't require a deck to have a ton of esoteric symbolism to like it. I know far too little about all these "additional things" to get much out of them anyway!Greg Stanton said:I think that "depth" is subjective -- something that is imposed on the cards rather than arising from the cards themselves. So even though the Housewives Tarot was made for novelty purposes, it has as much meaning and depth as you give it.
I still love the imagery and campy humor of the Housewives. I also never understood it as a novelty deck only, but always assumed that a reader must be able to use it seriously, too. But maybe I went too far in the other direction and came to expect a bit too much from it. *shrug* I don't know. I don't seem to be able to properly express what eventually annoyed me about it so much that I stopped my IDS a month early. As I said, maybe I would have gotten bored with any other deck, too.Greg Stanton said:The imagery is undeniably kitchy and lighthearted, but something about the "recent-history" quality of images that we can all relate to, the idealism of the 50s, and that the traditional meanings behind the cards were largely retained, make this deck surprisingly useful and easy to use.