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What's Navigators of the Mystic sea got to do with it? I don't get it.
Check Post #28 above. Feynrir said she didn't get the Barbara Walker Tarot hype, thinks it's a watered down Navigators of the Mystic SEA.
You lucky thing.
What's Navigators of the Mystic sea got to do with it? I don't get it.
Check Post #28 above. Feynrir said she didn't get the Barbara Walker Tarot hype, thinks it's a watered down Navigators of the Mystic SEA.
Yeah. I meant - after looking at the Mystic Sea - I didn't get it. Didn't think so - and don't get the preference. I wonder, is there a link where all the Mystic Sea cards are visible...
Yes, had never really connected the two. I like them both for very different reasons.The Barbara Walker is brazenly strange. With a sort of eerie 50s vibe. I wrote a blog post on it once, you might want to read it (goldenVI).Yes - Mystic Sea - http://www.albideuter.de/html/navigator.html
Barbara Walker - http://www.albideuter.de/html/barbara_walker.html
Yes, had never really connected the two. I like them both for very different reasons.The Barbara Walker is brazenly strange. With a sort of eerie 50s vibe. I wrote a blog post on it once, you might want to read it (goldenVI).
When you think "strange tarot cards", these are the cards you think of.
I confess, I have three copies now - a nice boxed up pristine vintage Belgian one, a boxless Belgian one smelling ever so slightly of smoke which I use and one of the recent China reprints. Her contribution to tarot history is assured - she created one helluva deck. I also have her book on this deck.
I mentioned the Cat People just as an example of a deck that is perennially in print and not expensive. I find it a bit silly, personally. All that invented cosmic stuff. Why bother? There's enough fascinating true stuff in life without inventing an imaginary planet replete with details of the hierarchy. I wish they'd called it something 70s and disco - emphasised the clothes a bit more and the disco fever hair - forget cats - and I think they'd be onto something. As it is, a find it a bit silly and pointless.
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I certainly find it cooler than the Barbara Walker To me the BW looks like a watered-down Navigators of the Mystic SEA. Maybe I'll take a second look and see what the hubbub is.
I think the main problem with the Barbara Walker is the huge white borders. It looks bad and makes the art too small 8 wish they'd change that one thing.