Hi
I was just wondering by what it means for a deck to "Read Well" or not because I've used many many decks which I like and don't like and I've always been able to read with them no matter the artwork
-uraszz
I don't think it's so much a question of the artwork. It looks like you've been lucky though that you haven't come across a deck that doesn't read well for you.
I've had it happen to me but not often. I have 117 decks and had 2 that did not read well for me which I gave away. Sometimes after years you just "get" the deck and a deck that made no sense before just suddenly starts to.
I think that all decks carry some of the personal life philosophy of the deck creator in their artwork. Or sometimes even in the keywords on the cards. I think it happens that we don't get/understand a deck (when it doesn't read well for us) its when out personal life philosophy is too vastly different from that of the deck creator.
It could come up, for example in a card with the keyword of "Destiny" when you personally don't believe that destiny exists. What are you supposed to tell the querent about destiny related to their situation when you are sure there is not such thing? As a reader you are not likely to want to give advice on something you are sure is untrue, and yet there is the card wanting you to talk about it.
Or sometimes in some decks, it can be just really hard to understand what they are trying to say at all. For some reason, with those decks the answers come up in vague obscure ways that are hard to understand.
Although on the topic of artwork, I read mainly through the card images. I make very little use of the set meanings but get most of my meaning from the card images. THAT means that decks with pips that have no imagery are not going to read well for me. Because I read through the card images, I need ALL the cards to have images to read.
Also, decks with simple card images will not have as much to say to me in a reading as more complex ones. I may then have to use 3 cards of the simpler deck to get the same amount of info I get from one card in the one of more complex imagery.
Babs