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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The Beholder's Eye

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-laughs-
Yes, I suppose I should be more specific, as this would be a case of beauty and the beholder's eye, mmm?

most decks I've seen look similar to the Hanson-Roberts and Art-Noveau decks you linked (though I can't see much of the second). there's nothing inherently wrong with them, but that art style just doesn't appeal to me. (Though, I do like a number of These (http://users.rcn.com/rtapley/tarot.html), which do look similar.) A number of other decks look like the Medieval one you linked, which I'm really not a fan of.

I like the look of Jenny's Spiral Deck (http://www.thepsychicstore.com/spiral.jpg), and I also like the Gilded Tarot (for what I can see of it) and Celtic Dragon (as well as the similar Dragon Deck (http://www.wizdem.co.uk/swords.php) I found a while ago), artistically speaking.

I have no intention of trying to read with the deck; I'm fascinated by the symbology and superstition behind it all, so I may very well learn what it is people believe about the cards as much as I can, but... It also seems a peculiar thing that one deck might read better (or at least differently) than another. Still, it's the symbolism that I really like, so the traditional symbology is a must, generally speaking. The deck I currently have is the Mage: The Ascension one that White Wolf put out before, which holds true-enough to the symbology. It seems significantly more true to it than the Cthulhu deck, and for similar reasons concerning symbology I would nix both Dragon decks (though your Dragons seem more traditional than those others I found).

So, yeah -- that clear things up?