Pomme said:
Here's the challenge
: please de-enable me with this 2 very popular decks, loved by almost everyone: Mythic Tarot (original version not the new one), and the Druidcraft Tarot.
I'm so tempted to add them both to my collection... I try to resist but I am a Tarot-holic ... help me !
Thanks !
I'll have a go on the Mythic.
It's too big to shuffle.
And what element do you think is represented by Pentacles? Earth. That's right. Earth. And what are Aces? They are the most essential and pure form of the element possible, right?
Wrong. The Mythic Ace Pentacles has Neptune-as-Merman, Trident and all, leaping out of a large body of water! And around the edges of the water-dominated card are growing ... grapes. Earthy? Sorta, until you reflect that grapes get made into wine, which is also symbolically Water!
It's also too big to shuffle.
Then there's the Hierophant, who is the most Hermit-like Hierophant I've ever seen, in seclusion with no devotees, even half-animal. And what's more he doesn't know his place - not content with a whole Major Arcana card, he bursts forth into the Minors, making a cameo appearance on the Two Wands.
Oh, and it's too big to shuffle, if you have stumpy little hands like mine. And by now, the early edition (mine) is getting a bit old. If you really have to buy a new deck, for goodness' sakes get one where the Hierophant knows his place and doesn't try to overrun the deck, where water is wet and fluid and earth is dry and solid, and one which isn't too big to handle.