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@WaterChildTarot

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Wow fabulous information and points on each deck. Truly wonderful collection. You obviously know a lot about tarot. Truly magnificent video & your insight into each deck. You’ve got one hell of a collection there. 😳. Happy decluttering

@WaterChildTarot

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I enjoy doing research so I guess that shows up in my videos.

Wonderful video! So informative. I really appreciate the depth and breadth of your tarot history knowledge. I have a non-vintage copy of the Sheridan Douglas Tarot that was gifted to me and I hadn’t realized Alfred Douglas had written a Tarot book. Just searched online and found a used copy for six bucks so I’ll be reading that when it arrives. I just adore the Hoi Polloi it’s such a reflection of the 70s zeitgeist. I will be keeping my copy in addition to the Moon Baby. I just love the coloration! That deck just makes me smile! But you’re right it creases very easily. My copy has several creased cards which is why I figure I might as well use it. Any thoughts on The Aquarian by David Palladini???? Another great 70s deck. Thanks again for a great video!

@WaterChildTarot

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I guess if I had a beat-up copy of Hoi Polloi I'd be more inclined to try to read with it, or at least less afraid to shuffle it. ;) The Aquarian is a classic deck, but the white faces have always made me uncomfortable and I don't particularly care for Art Deco style - I find it very cold. Everything is a matter of personal taste I guess, I just like a more saturated, funky-weird look.

23:13 the scarf hat is called a chaperón (I probably spelled that wrong) look up a video called "A funny thing about medieval hoods" and skip to about halfway through where the guy is inside and he'll explain the history of the hat! It's a cool bit of fashion history.

@WaterChildTarot

Жыл бұрын

Ah merci beaucoup!

Have only 1 of your choices. The Albano RWS has a nice coloring. Others carry personal journeys which in turn influences the reader; working with a deck then becomes more related to resonance. All is well in the latter, if the universal inner/outer principals are covered. Many times they are not. Thank you for sharing. Collecting vs. engaging is something well worth considering.

@Aceofwands688

Ай бұрын

Very good points. I've often thought this too.

"60s and 70s appliance colours poncho" made me laugh! I sure do remember those colours!

@nmelodic6391

Жыл бұрын

RE: Tarot Balbi -- the pips arrangement is after the Eudes Picard pattern, is it not?

@nmelodic6391

Жыл бұрын

Ooooo, I hope you will be doing a video about what you learn about the Sheridan-Douglas from the book!

@nmelodic6391

Жыл бұрын

I have a vintage Albano mini deck, a vintage Tarot Balbi, and I've always been tempted by the Sheridan-Douglas. Sometimes I feel like trying out the Morgan Greer too, for the 70s goodness --but, like you, I find the earth-tone/yellow colouring a challenge.

@WaterChildTarot

Жыл бұрын

I think so! I don't know if that's where the pattern originated - I feel like there are some early decks like the Anonymous Tarot of Paris and some early Italian decks that have similar arrangements in some suits. Balbi certainly made it his own with extra symbols, colors, and details. Thanks for watching :D

Your sixties and seventies appliance colored poncho is epic.

@WaterChildTarot

7 ай бұрын

Gee thanks :D

Really surprised you didn't include The Aquarian Tarot in this compilation, which to me is a quintessential '70s deck. I also would have included Karen Kuykendall’s Tarot of the Cat People, even though it didn't come out in the '70s exactly. It is nonetheless a very '70s feeling deck. My favourites from the '70s are definitely the Aquarian, the Morgan-Greer, and I also think the Tarot of the Cat People has a certain '70s charm, even though it's from 1985. Lately, I've felt very drawn to the Morgan-Greer in particular for my daily readings. The Aquarian is what I learned tarot on so many decades ago. It was the first tarot deck I had ever seen at the age of five or six, and then it came back to me fifteen years later when I really started getting into tarot. So it will always have a special place in my heart even though I don't use it hardly at all anymore. I have had several versions of the Aquarian and Morgan-Greer over the years due to regional and international moves. And the Morgan Greer version I have now has brighter, more vibrant and contrasting colours than the original publication and happens to be my favourite version.

@WaterChildTarot

10 ай бұрын

The Aquarian is certainly a classic but it has never appealed to me so I don't own a copy. I find the ghostly faces cold and unreadable, and I'm not much of a fan of Art Deco styling. I mean, I can respect it as an art form, but it doesn't push my emotional buttons.

This was a fantastic series! I love seeing your decks, but more I really appreciate your research and the depth of knowledge that you shared with us. Two decks that you might find interesting - Ukiyoe Tarot by U. S. Games - while it is a mass market deck, Stuart Kaplan writes in the LWB (not as "little" as usual) how many years he searched for an Ukiyoe artist, and it was finally with the help of the two gentlemen at Angel Playing Card Co. that he was put in touch with the artist, Koji Furuta. It was still another two years before the deck was completed. It is a pip deck and even the floral decorations on the cards have symbolic Japanese meaning. Oswald Wirth Tarot (U. S. Games) and/or Universal Wirth (Lo Scarabeo) - I have, use and love both of these decks. Wirth didn't design minor cards for his deck, so the U. S. Games deck uses the Marseille pips, while the Lo Scarabeo deck uses the Picard minors. If you haven't seen it already, Kelly Fitzgerald at The Truth in Story here on YT, has an excellent video studying the Eudes Picard minors, Wirth, Balbi, etc. All the best, Donna

@WaterChildTarot

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kindness. Yes, I did have a copy of the Yukiyoe Tarot. It was beautiful but I have a hard time reading the faces. I appreciate your history here, especially referencing the Angel Playing Card Co. I wondered what Kaplan was doing in Japan in the 1970's and 1980's. He had his hand in a lot of productions! I have also investigated Wirth. He's an odd one and I think a lot of his writing on the tarot is based on a mistaken association (swords with water and cups with air??) that he mixed up from reading earlier authors. But I still have my Tarot Balbi, with the minors based on his work. Thanks again for watching.

@donnarion1147

8 ай бұрын

@@WaterChildTarot Wirth only did the majors, so these are the Picard minors that someone (lo Scarabeo?) attached to his deck. Sometimes the TdM minors get attached. Picard switched the swords' and cups' elements, but *not* the association that we use. So Swords still = the intellect and Cups still = the emotions. Kelly Fitzgerald has some printouts on the Picard minors where he explains why the switch in elements and why.

@WaterChildTarot

8 ай бұрын

@@donnarion1147 Ah, of course. I said Wirth when I meant Picard. I'm more interested in Picard's weird minors. Wirth's majors are.... kinda ugly, to be not-very-kind. But you know, to each their own. I think it's interesting that LoScarabeo did a Wirth/Picard mashup to extend Wirth's majors into a full deck, and I have watched Kelly Fitzgerald's very detailed video on the Picard minors - it's quite good! Cheers.

15:08 I have drawn a card which was missing on a blank card that a deck came with! At first I was going to draw it doodle-style but I ended up trying to draw it accurately in the end. I'm fairly proud of the result! I wish decks still came with a blank card.

@WaterChildTarot

Жыл бұрын

I agree, blank cards can have all sorts of uses. I like having an extra card to use as a “coaster” to set the deck on then I have the cards out.

A lovely journey through an interesting part of Tarot history. Thank you!

@WaterChildTarot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great video. You have excellent taste:-) I have a vintage Morgan Greer and also a copy of the tinned reprint, bridge size. The reprint is actually a bit nicer than the original - they have turned up the brightness maybe 10 per cent and that makes a big difference. I find the original, for all its jolly images, a bit dark, especially for evening readings. As you say, it sucks your energy.

@WaterChildTarot

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comments! It’s interesting how colors shift over the years with reprinting, for better or worse.

15:01 I'd say harvest gold, lol.

@WaterChildTarot

Жыл бұрын

You’re good at marketing! 😅