cronegoddess54 said:
I like the suggestion you made GMB about Toth being for Autumn and Winter, that really makes sense....just needed to comment on that
Ah well, Thoth has grown old with me since I started with it back in my 20's. Now I want a deck that whisks me back to Spring. What do you think?
All kidding aside, I am looking for a deck that has a certain freshness and vibrancy to it, just for inspirational and meditative purposes, not to read with. The quality of the artwork is important and it shouldn't be too thin or "New Age-y" on the symbolism. No kitties and faeries, though. Oh, and no "vampyres" (whatever those are.)
Edit: While the forum was down I went to the Top 10 Tarot Decks pages and looked at numerous different decks. Here are my impressions of decks that might be suitable for my purpose:
Golden Tarot (the Renaissance flavor is nice, especially since I was an art student at one time long ago)
Mystic Dreamer ( very atmospheric)
Tarot of Dreams (vibrant! but any of Marchetti's decks would be good I think)
Victorian Romantic (the "period" art is delightful)
Silver Era (the mostly monochrome photos are oddly compelling and make me think of the photographs of ritual stances and positions in Crowley's magickal texts)
RWS Centennial Edition (this looks like the one to restore to my collection)
Sun & Moon (the Thoth influence is a plus; interesting that there are no faces on the human figures, and I like the sense of space around the images although they seem a little rudimentary)
On the far side of silly is Deviant Moon. Does anyone else think it looks like Heironymous Bosch-meets-Tim Burton? A likeness of the cartoon Beetlejuice as The Fool or Magus would fit right in, methinks. And Napoleon Bonesapart has a lock on Death.