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- From: chem8w@jane.uh.edu (Councilman, David A.)
- Subject: Re: The art of tarot
- Message-ID: <21JUL199212061488@jane.uh.edu>
- Summary: Merlin, Tavaglione, Voyager
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:06:00 GMT
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- In article <BrK8GJ.rr@acsu.buffalo.edu>, oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes...
- >In article <=6=m2rk@lynx.unm.edu>, cipher@lacerta.unm.edu (Rev. J. B. Bell) writes...
- >>In article <1992Jul14.155737.18218@terminator.cc.umich.edu> briansp@css.itd.umich.edu (Brian Spolarich) writes:
- >>
- >>I *really* liked the Major Arcana of the Merlin tarot. Unfortunately,
- >>the minor arcana are not only unillustrated, but downright ugly. A
- >>rather obvious Macintosh production, they are. Also the rather thick
- >>book one is forced to buy with it has only the sketchiest of
- >>interpretations for the minor arcana and court cards. If R. J.
- >>Stewart would clean up his scholarship and illustrate the minor cards,
- >>I'd buy that deck in a second.
- >
- >>
- >> --Rev. J. B. Bell
- >
- >I'd like to stress that this is not a good deck to start with,
- >like I recently did. Stewart invents his own symbols for
- >elements (beasts, fish, birds, & snakes) and his own numbering
- >system, which does not correspond with the paths of the Qabalah,
- >or anything else that I've come across. (Now I've written in
- >pencil on each card the path it belongs to.) Plus the book
- >sucks. As mentioned by Rev. Bell, it doesn't give the slightest
- >idea how to interpret the minor arcana and court cards, which is
- >a big problem because Stewart made up his own symbols and numbers.
- >Also, I believe he threw in some extra cards (the aces?) which he
- >claims were originally used in tarot decks back in the middle ages.
- >Still trying to figure out what to do with these.
- >
- >Its getting easier now, but not a good deck to start with. If
- >I'd known then what I was getting into, I would have started with
- >the Thoth deck, because then I could have talked to other people
- >about it.
- >
- >- Peggy -
-
- While Im not the original poster, thank you for your comments. I'd
- recently considered purchasing Merlin, and, while not
- completely new to Tarot, I still consider myself a neophyte.
-
- I currently have both Rider/Waite and Tavaglione's Stairs of Gold, and
- someday plan to get Thoth. I also have a deck I havent heard any mention
- of: Voyager. Any comments on this deck? Each card, in both Minor and
- Major Arcanum, is a collage of pictures reflecting the basic 'mood' of the
- suit and card. It seems to be, compared to Tavaglione, at least, your basic
- politically correct, environmentally-conscious, incapable-of-offending-
- any-belief-system-or-mindset deck. I enjoy it when Im in "that sort" of
- mood.
-
- It's also great at parties. =)
-