sylvie - they/she - tarot theory nerd, obsessed with the structure of tarot and making connections between the cards.
I publish a video every Wednesday and Sunday, and bonus videos go up on a Friday when I have more to share. If you’d like to see more, I would love to have you join.
I share insights into the ways I think about tarot and use it in my daily practice. You can expect to see the ways I use tarot and oracle cards for introspection and self-development, VRs to hashtags, and walkthroughs and thoughts on decks new and old.
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I'm chuffed that my comment helped spark this and the sister video to this! Always love getting a look at decks that people find to be chatty and easy for them to read and this was no exception. I really think my Morgan Greer is my most easy to read deck ever, or probably on the same level for me at Tarot of the Magical Forest.
Geese flying in the wrong direction is a deal breaker 😂
Many Queens Tarot is going mass market?!?! I didn’t know!!! I’ve wanted that deck for ages, so exited it got picked up.
What a fun tag. I'm curious to hear how the wildwood goes over time, I remember you talking about it in the decks you don't have yet video and thinking you likely wouldn't get it. So colour me intrigued lol. That pockets guidebook is beyond tiny. I'm glad you can at least read the font still. I can imagine that's a problem for many. I'm also trying to live through your love of the witch sister currently, and have my tarot of the hidden realm out to scratch the itch haha.
Oh no, I was at here thinking the deleted world tarot doesn’t sound like my kind of artwork but decided to foolishly look it up anyway and oh my god what a deck, what an absolutely stunning deck. Also Jupiter Power is snaking its way up my priority list every time you show it, especially now I’ve seen it in person. Hehe I’m glad the Wildwood made you happy, I can’t wait to hear what you think!
I'm also waiting on the Deleted World tarot! I think it's at least a month behind schedule, but that seems like barely an issue. The box was recently shown off in an update, I'm just sooooo impatient!!!
Found your channel through this tag, it was great listening to your answers! As a Cups-y person, I have looked up to lots of Sword-y people in life 😊we need y'all to balance us out sometimes I think you summed things up in your last answer really well, too
The pocket archetypes is so cute and I think it makes the cards more usable (not the guidebook tho lol) I agree with 9 coins being solitary Death doula is very pretty
Just did my MidYear tag too! Love seeing all your picks, Sylvie! ☺ I *almost* bought the Archetypes deck today at Barnes & Noble. But... aaaahhhh. I think I'm going to hold off. Personally, I think I'd prefer the regular size instead of the mini... but every once in a while I get tempted to go with the mini. I dunno... 🤔🤔🤔 My gut says regular size though haha...
Jupiter Power. 💚🩵🩶 YUM.
I love these decks! I am having very little time for my practice lately and watching you makes me feel connected still thank you Sylvie! Ps: what's the stone/crystal at the top left? The turquoiseish one????
Those phases are no fun, but I’m glad my videos help 🥰 the stone is amazonite 🩵
I'm mad about the weather still LOL - you? Also, loving the selection. So much glorious summer, which course I expected and was fully delighted. I may not use so much myself but I love to see it. Nearly all the folks I know who trimmed their Del Fuego wished they hadn't - so perhaps you can see someone else's copy first to compare? Hope the move treated you well and you're feeling settled now =)
Yep, the weather is still awful! I'm glad you got some sun on holiday recently though ☀️ I think you're right about trimming the del Fuego! I almost universally dislike white borders, but I think these need it.
@@TarotMagpie thank you, me too. I wish we had more similar weather yearly. The heat benefits were a bodily joy. Still, I’ll take what I can get. Yea, it’s a busy deck for sure. It didn’t look bad trimmed but certainly felt more chaotic through the screen anyways 😂
Yay i love this series! Water is my fav element ... Probably my pisces moon talking. Also...toxic fellow mars in cancer over here 🙋 LOL 😂 That angler fish as the High Priestess is sooo fierce and fabulius!! Loved seeing all your deck picks for each element. So fun!
Yay a fellow Cancer Mars! It's hard work right 😅 I'm glad you enjoyed!
The 9 of cups has a memento mori still life. Kind of a gather ye rosebuds while ye may vibe.
I’ve watched a few of your videos today and I must say I love your “style”. You describe things very well and explain why you like something, or not. Plus the decks you present are not the ones you see everywhere. I’ve added so many decks to my “want to buy” list because of you. So, thank you, I think. LOL
Happy to have you here!
Hi Sylvie.. just came across your channel and have been an instant subscriber.. your nerdy tarot preferences mirror mine! lol Cud u pls do a comparison flip thru between ritual tarot and voyager tarot? Trying to decide between the two and wud be interesting to see them side by side!! Much love from India!
Happy to have you here 🥰 I like that idea, I will add it to the list!
@@TarotMagpie that’s great!! Looking forward to that one eagerly coz cudnt find one on KZread!
Ugh I LOVE these videos so much! I’ve been using my Ritual Tarot for cancer season and always reach for Outgrow Yourself for Scorpio based readings, so like the inverse of your picks but still the same wavelength. Forever a viciously powerful high priestess! Also I love the watercolour distinction, I absolutely see it and fully agree.
Outgrow Yourself definitely has Scorpio energy too! It does not feel like a more traditional cancer deck to me, but it's too accurate to my mars/moon conjunction. Which is maybe why I like the deck so much, it is forever calling me out but it's also what I would say to myself so I really can't argue
Yes to a vicious high priestess
I want to see more of them! Nothing wrong with a still and serene priestess of course, but I want to see more variety.
Love these!! I’m a fellow water sign and you put me in my feels. I can’t believe I never considered using a non watery-themed deck during a water season?? 😅 But I have so many water-themed decks that it’s hard not to feel tempted to use them during water seasons.
I totally get the temptation - I very nearly put the sea soul oracle in this video too, but stopped myself from including every single one of my obvious picks to give the video a bit more variety.
Wow the Tarot of the Dream Enchantress looks so gorgeous!? I definitely haven't seen in by anyone on KZread (though I really watch only few channels). The Empress is really weird, not that I would think she would be wrongly placed (it doesn't feel much as inside to me to be honest, more like sitting on the main staircase by the main entrance lol), but she feels kinda... random. But the deck looks great indeed. Bit more like sci-fi, alien worlds and creatures and steampunk than fantasy to me. (though it's hard to draw a clear line between sci-fi and fantasy)
It's a total hidden gem of a deck in my opinion! I totally get what you mean about the Empress, but it was just so jarring the first time I saw her! I didn't realise I was attached to the outdoors, mother-archetype until I got this deck. It's funny how it happens like that!
Terra Volatile has been a favorite of mine for so long, and I still find stuff I've never seen. Just today I saw a gallows in the background of the tower I had just never seen before.
Aaand I'm immediately going off to pull out the tower card and have a look!
@@TarotMagpie it's really small and dark and a bit hard to see! It's on the left!
Keep the white borders on the pink Fournier deck. I trimmed mine and regret it. The busy-ness of the cards just needs to the framing, IMO.
I think you're right, they need the separation!
Living vicariously through you with the Fyodor Pavlov Tarot and Tarot of the Crystal World 🤧 I don't have them but I enjoy looking at them! That Crystal World's Fool is especially glorious and free 😄
I love this idea - it's been a while since I shared my journal stack!
I enjoyed having Mystic Mondays in my collection for a few years - then, after I committed to using it for a few weeks/a month, I felt like I'd "finished" reading with it, like how someone finishes reading a book. It's simple & enjoyable to read with, but I felt like I'd outgrown it, to move on to other decks that are more detailed and study-worthy.
I don't think I've put it into those words before, but I have had the experience of being 'done' with a deck. Totally like finishing a book!
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Very smart idea for a video. Thanks for doing this!
Thank you!
I love the Witch Sisters and Herbcrafters so much but I agree that they benefit from some study. Thankfully, both guidebooks are fantastic.
The guidebooks are great - and luckily, I love to study a deck 🥰
I found watching you sew/bead while talking so soothing. Seeing those lovely skeins of pink thread reminded me that I picked up some gorgeous neon pink floss last summer. I had stashed it away like a squirrel and promptly forgotten about it. So, thank you. lol. "Tarot's external storage for your brain" I love that! Thank you for responding to my tagging you. x
Thank you for tagging me! I was thinking of you and your lovely pouches while I was making a hash of the stitches, thinking I'm glad no-one has to see the inside 😂
Ive been finding that I sit with my tarot cards alot more. I get so much more from them when I take it slow, which sound so obvious now that Im writing this 😅😅
It's one of those things! I always feel like I should be doing something but as soon as I deliberately started to slow some readings down, it felt so obvious.
Thank you for sharing! VIDEO IDEA: It would be amazing if you could do a video sharing how you go about a deck study. ✨️
I second this request. This itself was a great video and I now have new decks to look into.
Something like that is definitely on the to-film list! I was thinking of filming a big tarot journal video and flip through everything including my deck study notebooks. But I'll have a think on how to best go about it 🥰
There are a few decks you mentioned i also have and feel the same about ..golden, fifth spirit, citadel❤ morgan greer yes for sure right to the point.
Glad you agree 🥰 I would be so interested to see if anyone has the opposite experience with some of these decks - I can't imagine the Morgan Greer being slow to talk but I'm sure there's someone out there!
I would love a tarot journal guide -- yours looks absolutely gorgeous and I'm curious how you use it
I love this - it's been a while since I shared my tarot journal stack!
Oooh but it needs a tag! I love a slow reading deck. 💚
I would love to see what decks of this genre would be!
Research IS a hobby : I totally agree !!! ❤❤❤
Yes - research is a hobby! I feel seen 🤗
Yess this is a nerd-for-fun household 😘
Thank you, your video inspired me to get the Queer Tarot.
It’s a fun deck, enjoy! 🌈
Thank you so much for the video….i love the terra bolatile tarot… I have it and love it… I am finishing the last details to review it on my channel.😊
It’s such a great deck!
@@TarotMagpie agree 100% thanxxxx for sharing.
loved this video and these decks!
I love your videos!! Thank you for sharing, sometimes I do want to dive deep into a deck or spread and learn everything about it... But most of the time I am out of patience and energy so I go for the short and sweet.
Oh same, my interests stretch higher than my capacity when it comes to deck studies
I 100% agree with you that sometimes a straight RWS can be more difficult to read because I am searching for all the layers. This is the exact reason I gravitate towards TdM and pips decks when I need those straight readers with CBD TdM with its clean lines being my favorite. I can step back and separate myself from the "traditional symbols" and just look at the basics: directionality, elemental makeup, etc. Fifth Spirit is the perfect blend of something that is illustrative but not too layered that I get in my own head about it. Reading can be such an onslaught of messages sometimes that it's great to identify the ones that are to-the-point. (Though I very much enjoy the "onslaught" sort of decks.) ❤
"Rich bitch in a garden with her bird" 😂
“Straightforward” or “direct” may be the word you’re looking for instead of “simple” 🙂
"Minimalist" also applies in this case. Perhaps, "Restrained," or, "Stripped-back," as well. "Distilled" comes to mind too. I don't know which word Sylvie meant, but maybe all of them!
Ooh distilled is good!!
My grab and go is often the Happy Tarot. The meanings just jump into my head more than other RWS clones, not sure whey.
That’s such a cute little deck too!
@@TarotMagpie it really is! I don’t normally like things that are too cutesy but i do love this.
I'm kicking myself for not buying a Morgan Greer years ago! I think I was finally able to see beyond the aggressive 70s-ness of it, to its perfect RWS shorthand. It's my go-to "I need a quick answer" deck these days. I had a moment with the Colour Outside the Lines but it's cooled down, perhaps because the Morgan Greer came into my life. The Deviant Moon IS a feelings deck for me too. I hated it when it first came out but one day I saw cards from the borderless edition and I immediately Had To Have It. The images just push buttons before you've even had a chance to register which card you're looking at.
This is such a great concept! I want to go through my collection and see how many decks fall into either category. Im sure I’ve said it before but I need to get the el dios de los tres, the excitable, interruptive energy just sounds all too familiar.
It’s such a fun deck to use! Definitely thought about it for my air decks as a chatty Gemini not gonna lie 😂
There are hundreds of oracle that are neutral, not love and light, Poesis Oracle, Maiden Oracle., COSMOS, Marsielle Oracle, Citadel or there are some tarot/oracle hybrids like Archetype. Alchemy, Nameless Ones, Sacred Creators, Aura Soma Oracle, Bottanical Deck or other systems Lenormand, Kipper, Runic, Numerology, Solomonic Seals etc you may enjoy. Secondly don't keep the card you don't gel with in the deck, stick them is envelope in the bottom of the box, out of mind out of sight its you deck make it your own. Its sound like you need a oracle that is very structured based. You mention appropriation, there is difference between appropriation and appreciation, if your not even read the book interpretation, and are taking the card at face value this is personal choice, and as i said take them out of the deck if they dont gel with you. Its sound like you need a oracle that is very structured based so when you buy a deck ask yourself why it interests you and how you want to study it and its doesn't not necessarily align the author intended is for.
I like all of them but raven dream tarot and mars power tarot decks were my favourite! They are so beautiful in their own way
happy pride month love - zekes arcana is such a vibe
I'm gonna have to do a VR, this is just such a good idea! Loved this vid, Sylvie, and can't wait for the follow-up!