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Originally Posted by sravana
Huh??
I must be missing something... ??
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I thought you'd make a good yoga pose.....
Now the Cloisters - you can't POSSIBLY use it in public. How will you explain to them about round cards and reversals and which way round anything is and what on earth stained glass has to do with anything.
And you'd have to let your sitters get ever so close to see what things are - you know what it's like with stained glass, it's hard to make out the pictures at once.
And I just found a "GREAT" review:
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Most of the lines are thin, with an occasional thick one thrown in presumably to enhance the stained glass effect. The effect is more that of a shattered mirror where the pieces haven’t yet fallen out. I find the look ragged, sharp and disconcerting. Much of the symbolism of Colman-Smith’s work, especially her use of color, has been sacrificed to this effect. It is a poor trade off in my opinion.
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The backs are a horrendous hodgepodge of swirling purples, pinks and lavenders around a central multi-colored stained glass circle. <snip>There is some scanty advice on reading and the interpretations provided have to be among the worst I have ever seen in such a booklet. There is a short sentence describing the card, which basically tells you nothing, for example: The winged angel of Temperance holds a silver and gold chalice in her hands. And???? The Divinatory Meaning provided for Temperance - A waiting period. The ability to adapt. While some find this deck pretty, I think the stained glass effect could have been done much better and I don’t know why the deck is round. The artist does not enlighten us in this regard. Aside from the novelty aspects afforded by the shape and the broken, er, I mean, stained glass effect, this deck has little to offer.
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She says it better than I do. And it's all true.
