Trogon
I wish we had a new age shop here again. It has been awhile since the others have closed. I miss wondering through the incense filled store shopping for my things and looking at new Tarot decks.I like the name of your New Age Store.. Crystal Magic. I hope that you enjoyed your purchases! Was it hard to work with your new decks there? lol I have been fighting to get time to really look at and enjoy my new decks. I'm always going some where or doing something. I do get sneak peeks! lol
I love Crystal Magic! There's also one in Sedona, and it's a bigger store with even more decks and books and stones and crystals and singing bowls and tons of incense and .... Yes, it's a dangerous store and we're going to try to go down there this weekend.
I was pretty lucky. It was Sunday that I bought my new decks, I had gone in early for work (I start at 3:00 pm on Sundays) and stopped on my way in. Fortunately, it was a very slow day at work, so I had several hours to look through them.
No problem! Ask away! So far I really like the Tarot Illuminati. The card stock is quite thick and so it isn't as flexible as many other decks. Even though it's a Lo Scarabeo deck! The edges have a slightly rough feeling to them, but it's wearing down after some shufflings and handling. Also, when I was first going through the deck I found that the gilding on the edges tended to cause some of the cards to stick together. But they weren't terribly difficult to separate. So far I love the images, the colors are exquisite! They are quite detailed and feel quite alive. I'm actually going to be using this deck next week for the Deck of the Week next week and will have more impressions on it in that thread. I also posted some notes on both decks here.
Definitely will let you know. Well, I'll be posting about it when I get it anyway.
I kind of had that feeling the first time I got one of the thinner decks. But so far I haven't had any problems with any of them.
I know.. now you have the Tarot Bug..er.. Beetle too Trogon! {{HUGS}} It is hard to not click on the links or look them up. lol I just decided that I may love collaborative decks. I won't be able to say until I receive the 78 Tarot Nautical then I may end up buying more of those decks. I am eyeing the 78 Tarot Carnival deck now.
Thanks for responding love! I hope that you enjoy all of your decks, your seated Ganesh and your new tarot bag! {{HUGS}}
Hugs,
BeyondtheVeil
I'm quite interested to read your impressions of the 78 Tarot Nautical. It's an interesting looking deck, but I'd be concerned about it feeling somewhat chaotic with all the different art styles.
Thanks for the hugs & hugs back to you!
I do tend to ask a lot of questions, so if I get on your nerves let me know. lol Wow a thick LoS deck! The ones I have are all super thin. I'm sorry about the edges being rough. Mine are all smooth at least. Gilding is beautiful, but it does stick. I wonder if the decks that stick the most are not given enough time to dry? I forgot which deck that I got that had gilding and it actually messed up some cards. I think it was an oracle called Psychic Tarot Oracle. I still use the deck, but it was kind of a bummer to have some cards messed up. 
