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I had answered this yesterday, but then I had a computer lockup (don't tell me that Macs do that TOO
Well, I don't have time for that today, perhaps tomorrow.
As for me, I've been posting my daily draws here: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?p=1665803&posted=1#post1665803 if anyone is interested in taking a look. My draw of the Devil card for yesterday was prescient, to say the least.
I wish my checkbook were so strong! I recently received the Meneghello Visconti-Sforza, and ordered thinbuddha's Payen restoration. That was an 'easy' $100 (gulp!) I thought that I would then sell the vintage 2000 version of teh LS Visconti that I have... but when I got it out I found that I didn't want to sell it! So much for recouping my loss LOL.Onyx said:It is okay, I can handle a little enabling. The checkbook is a great force to understand the reality of what can and cannot join my every growing collection.
I don't know if I could deal with such a wide-ranging comparison study! The only one of those decks that I haven't owned is the Lombardy - but trying to mix the Hermetic in with the older decks would be a real stretch for me, because it is so esoterically based. Before I settled on the Vieville I had given Liber T a look - but in order to use that deck (with it's straightforward Golden Dawn meanings, including Kaballah, etc) I would've had to ditch the elemental attribs that I've been working with, and there is also a big difference in the numbers (5 as negative/Geburah vs. 5 as Air/Marriage card/positive in Pythagorean number theory). That being said, YMMV, as it obviously does. We're going at this from completely different directions, it seems.Onyx said:My current ISD "Deck" includes The Crystal, The Hermitic, The Ancient Tarot of Lombardy, 1JJ Swiss, Tarot Classic, The Haindl, and The Fournier Tarot de Marseille.
I bet you're excited about your work - I know I am about mine! I wish I could post a pic of a regular TdM 3/Deniers, and the Vieville 3/Deniers. They are **completely** different cards - the Vieville is a veritable RIOT of color and energy, while the TdM... not so much. It's almost like a child's copy of that card. Very *very* different. Perhaps I need to get out that card from each of my pip decks, and see where that leads me. ... thinking...Onyx said:Each deck though without scenes depicts a sense of the card that is very unique. Journalling has helped me to come to terms with my meanings and though I continue to develop schemes of different meanings I am learning to look deeper than just the image. Sure I can handle swords as water, Juno as the High Pristess and Wands with a green background. Ultimately I have been able to look at pattern of card combinations, structure of spreads and how they work or don't.
Well, I don't have time for that today, perhaps tomorrow.
Umbrae's process, right?Onyx said:What I love is the variety to change and still keep with the same study. I am able to try out my ideas of what the cards can mean personally. It is all part also of my undertaking "The Process".
I think that is exactly right. The 2/Cups is not the same from one deck to another. Thus is the freedom from leaving all those RWS clones behind... the card opens up like a flower.Onyx said:It has been great and very enlightening. The different decks have a different feel and compel me to consider if I can cut and paste my meanings. Can I? I do it with RWS images all the time. But comparing the Hermitic with the 1JJ Swiss, not normally a deck comparison study, see that cards are different even if I try to fit similar keywords. I fear that either way I will depart this study in time with a startling understanding. It could be at a 2 of Cups in not always the same in one deck as another.
Bravo, Onyx! High fives and all that.Onyx said:I have a firm belief that the Tarot is a flexible and responsive tool that meets the reader where they are. And as true wisdom is never discovered but rather remembered I am seeing that that magic is not in the cards but in myself, but also it is in the cards. Oh, the wonder and the exquisite mystery of the Tarot!
Onyx.
As for me, I've been posting my daily draws here: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?p=1665803&posted=1#post1665803 if anyone is interested in taking a look. My draw of the Devil card for yesterday was prescient, to say the least.