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Group: alt.magick · Group Profile
Author: Alexandra CeelieAlexandra Ceelie Date: Sep 8, 2008 05:52
mark wrote:
> Dragging this to something actually relevant....
>
> I'm really not into the Tarot, though I do know something, having read what
> many folks I respect consider the last word on Tarot, the Case book from,
> what, 1911?
>
> Anyway, there are a number of decks I think work, other than
> the "traditional" ones (and yes, we know the artist of some). Let's see,
> there's the one my old friend Mary Hanson-Roberts did (and I know she
> worked on those for *years* - as in, she'd been working on them for eight
> years in the mid-seventies, and they weren't published until '85. I,
> personally, rather like the *unbowdlerized* Yaeger deck; the friend that
> showed me hers has the only one I've ever seen (bowdlerized, as in it looks
> like someone's 11-yr-old used a crayon to draw boxer shorts on the
> figures).
>
> Others' preferences?
>
> mark "also has the Fannish Tarot"
>
My favorite deck is the Aquarian Tarot... the watercolor and soft
pictures suit the Moonchild in me.
For online readings, I prefer to use the Mage Tarot, though. They just
seem to be more accurate going through the bitstream. I'm thinking it's
a Technocracy thing ;)
=^..^=
Xandra
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