Strange Fascinations

[jackofallgeeks]

A part of me feels like it needs to build a Dummy Account so that it can keep track of odd little fascinations like this without elicting side-ways looks from friends and family...

On a related note, does anyone out there know where I might find an aesthetically-pleasing tarot deck?

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Same vein, but more amusing than honestly interesting. Much like the first, it would be mostly useful as source-material for the modern-fantasy stories I'd like to write.

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[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

Do friends and family really check up on your reading habits that closely?

Aesthetically, I've always liked my Arthurian Tarot (done by Anna-Marie Ferguson, who did, *ahem* a bunch of art for Magic: the Gathering, back in the day). Given your like of Lovecraft, though, I should mention that H.R. Giger did a partial tarot deck...

[metis2be.livejournal.com]

Personally I think the sacred circle and spiral tarot are the prettiest cards. Too bad they're so expensive.

http://www.thepsychicstore.com/spiritual.html

[amazonmink.livejournal.com]

The Noble, Where else? ;)

Tarot decks.

[tiel.livejournal.com]

There is, for the record, a Lovecraftean tarot deck that has both major and minor arcana. The Geiger deck is major arcana only, and is usually really, really expensive, probably because it has silver gilted edges.

I work in a new age store every few weekends, so I get the benifit of seeing decks as they come in and people open them and in seeing all of the preview catalogs that we order from. If you can define aesthetically-pleasing, I can probably point you in a more clear direction.

Are you looking for traditional symbology? The Hanson-Roberts deck is very pretty with brighter colors, and follows the same general ideas outlined in Rider-Waite. The Art-Noveau deck is similarly pretty, and sticks with the traditional symbology. The Gilded Tarot is very new, and I haven't actually tried to read with it, but I know a lot of people who fell in love with it right away. If you're a fan of the older style art work, which I'm not, the the Medieval Sacpini deck is very nice. If you're looking for a different sort of twist, I'm a big fan of the Celtic Dragon tarot.