And yet, in the end, a card may be not good, even after this work.
I think that a deck is "good", when all the work you do on single cards goes in the same direction, along the same intepretation key. This way the study of the deck opens to a bigger whole than just the single cards.
It may be said that the originality of the single cards is just a cue to something more important, and just the first step. That - if a deck is good, and if it good for the person.
Cat* said:
Actually, I've been so all over the place in this thread, that I have lost track of all my points
Me too.
We should just leave the burden of summary to Le fanu. He is the original poster. He should do work!!! ^_^
Cat* said:
You're right. That bit with the beginner's expectations was confused. I blame it on less-than-perfectionist editing (and maybe some tiredness) on my part.
No, no... you were correct. Mine was just a whining "but"
Sapienza said:
I guess the thing is that everyone's idea of a idealized world is different.
An idealized world is not the perfect world. It is more abstract. Even more extreme. It's not that poverty does not exist, it does, and it is the dinstillation of poverty. In an "idealized" world, love is true love, knowledge does not mean 2+2, but the inner workings of the universe, etc...
Tarot should be a mirror of the real world, but not a photography of it.
You need the power to link to your experience and to that of the Querient.
But it must happen timeand time again. So a "love" card should embrace many different experiences of love.
Anyway, if you feel that some kind of idealizations are really distorstions of your experience, I understand all too well why some decks do not work with you. I'm not really sure that a certain way of portraying women is turning them into sex objects (like the Initiatory Golden Dawn) but it's just normal to see things differently.
As I said, I'm concerned about this underground currents. I think it's necessary to breath life to decks. But sometimes it is not what it should be, or ends up bringing imbalance to a deck.
I may say that - if I want to make a celtic deck to sell, I just just place a raven haired mysterious beauty as the Morrigan (and so on), and I would have my seller. On AT, I guess, we are all minority ^_^