hi, my name is kissa and i'm still a tarotholic
i didn't mean to give up that easily. i mean, i was wrong, i thought i was. the package first sit in the car for an hour before we got home.
then i thought i can open open it and have a glance at these cute tzech oracle cards that came with the Fairytale tarot set.
i glanced at the oracle cards, they are indeed cute.
put the bookplate in the book, so that i don't lose it straight away.
with young kids playing around in the house, it was easy to decide not to open the Fairytale set any further than a quick look at the book. anyway the cards look way too different than the universal waite i had been having a very happy and fillfulling relationship with for the last six days.
but i didn't expect rachel.
rachel got me.
the set was safe in my tarot cupboard/closet, the one i used to have so many decks in, in addition to the ones on the bookshelf. cards wrapped. sealed that is.
after a nice sofa potatoe evening involving early bedtime for kids, tv series ("without a trace"), some surfing on eBay and here, i went upstairs. i should have known myself better when i thought "i'll go upstairs with the fairytale stuff, i'll read the book a bit but won't open the cards" yeah sure...
i watched at the really nice backs. i glanced at the book, then i remembered reading Rachel Pollack's introduction on the fairytale tarot website and suddenly remembered how frustrated i got when i wanted to read the tale she wrote for one card and couldn't because it is not on the net, only in the book.
i read it. darn.
and pam! just like that, i had to unseal the cards.
and it was magic. the colours were so bright, the drawings look like a incredible blend of both very old children book illustrations with ultramodern computer features (noticed in the clothes designs, like Death for example. for one moment i tried to figure out if it is or not a Marimekko original design...)
what i am most grateful to baba studio for, is that their newest creation kicked me back to my childhood. i was an eager listener to fairytales. we had much loved illustrated books and also audiocasettes i used to play myself in our playroom, which was called "the green room" because of the green paint on the walls. and the fairytales brought me back to la chambre verte, in a flash i felt the same excitment, curiosity, concentration i felt back then. the loving presence of my mother, the intense relationship to my younger sister, the way we used to invent amazing stories and play for days about the same subject, with the same characters.
oh sorry! back to the deck now...
we all know by now Karen's and Alex's passion, professionalism, attention to the details and care for their creations. the latest one won't disappoint you, the cards feel great physically, the set is packed nicely.
the artwork is stunning really, Irena is obviously a genious and i would give almost anything to be in baba studio at times of intense creativity, to witness the birth of what is obviously the most significant team work in the tarot world nowadays. Karen and Alex have a real talent at choosing gifted partners (Anna, Irena among others) and giving them the credit they deserve.
Rachel Pollack says (much better than i of course) that this tarot deck is unique in the sense that it doesn't reproduce the usual scenes of the traditional RWS pack but takes the idea/meaning/feeling of the RWS and associates it with a similar feeling/story found in a fairytale. because there was no tv programmes for most of the history of humanity, fairytales are numerous, representative of every culture yet universal.
one of the cards that comes to my mind because it is the card i watch at first in a deck is Strength. look at the beauty caressing the beast. at first i thought were is the struggle? but if you remember the fairytale... there was so much bitterness, anger in the beast yet the innocence and purity won them, it is what strength is all about, not physical struggle.
elf told me after a reading i did for her that i am not basically a lousy reader but "we need to work on your storytelling" (what a nice way to put it
). watching at the fairytale tarot cards, it doesn't feel like such an horrible assignement.
yes please indeed, let's go to the green room and work on my storytelling.
kissa
