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This section is for short reviews of your favourite decks.
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The packaging is very attractive and feels nice. The box has an almost rubber quality to it that I can't quite wrap my head around. It feels good though. Inside there are 80 cards (including male and female significator cards) and a small LWB. The LWB doesn't provide much, if any, insight into the individual cards but does give some basic background on Rackham and offers a few suggested spreads.
The gilding is well done and super shiny. Fun, fun, fun.
Here are the card backs.
Question:What is your strength? What is your weakness? How would you like to be used?
I have my own interpretive ideas, but I'm curious to hear yours.
So here are my thoughts on the deck's introduction reading.
The first card depects Nick Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream. I believe it is just after his transformation when one of the other actors says "Bottom, thou art changed...Thou art translated." In showing Bottom as a donkey, he's being revealed as an ass, but in a fantastical, non-realistic way. Similarly, for the deck's weakness, fabulism, we see an old man telling stories to children in a kind of spooky, shadowy atmosphere.
Putting that all together, then, the deck's strength is that it can reveal the truth of the situation but not always in a clear, direct, or realistic way. It translates reality into it's own language and, per the fabulism card, makes it easy for the reader to turn it's fantastical, embellished language into ridiculous made-up nonsense.
The Temptation card is the hardest for me to wrap my head around. It's Hansel and Gretel, obviously, but what does the word "temptation" refer to is it the feeling of temptation that Hansel and Gretel feel, or does it refer the object that tempts them? The subtitle of "the beast within" suggests that it's likely to be the feeling. In that case, is it saying that this deck is best used for examining the self? A self-work/psychological deck? I've used this deck for one reading for a sitter so far and I thought it spoke well, but IT DID provide it's answers in the form of ideas for her to work through rather than a more concrete "do X to get Y" sort of way. Another idea might be that the deck itself wants to be the temptation. That it's a fun treat to get away from the more structured swords/earth quality of my normal reading.
