Cult of Tarot Forum

Anyone here work with this deck? I'd love to have a discussion about this deck, as I think it's a really interesting one, especially with how the cards pair together. In top of that, I have some thoughts on the suits and colors and even individual cards that I almost feel are mixed up, but if no one else is using the deck or interested in talking about it, I'd rather not blather on about it lol!

Blather on! I have this deck but only used it as deck of the week - I simply don't read enough for myself, and use other decks for others. But I like both of Lucia Mattioli's decks (is that her name? I'm too lazy to google now...), I love her art, her impasto, and while the Secret Forest with its dark and mysterious depths attracted me more at first, I must say that Fairy Lights is a beautiful, magical deck. I'm not very much into fairies and many fairy decks suffer from cute overload... but these decks have an earthy quality.

I like Lo Scarabeo decks that leave the RWS formula and conventions. I'd love to take out this deck NOW and start looking at it again. And I'm very curious to hear what you discovered, dear Libra!

ETA - look at the enthusiastic review I found! I think the proper way to trim this deck would be to trim only the side borders. Then the images would flow nicely but still be framed on top and bottom. I think I'll do that sooner or later. Looooovely deck!

This deck definitely seems to leave the RWS traditions in many of the cards and that's one of the reasons I love it! Most of my fun with tarot cards comes from getting to know a new deck, and when it has deviations, that's like a special little bit of mystery within the deck.

I've seen someone trim the sides off of it, and it didn't really sit well with me. Much as I'd loooooove to have this deck be borderless so that the cards flow together, I didn't like the look of it with top/bottom borders and no edges, so I'm going to simply make do with it as it is.

One thing that really stands out every time I pull the deck out is the bright fuschia in the Cups Courts, and the absolute watery-ness of the Wands Courts. They just feel mixed up to me, like the images in the Wands could easily be read was Cups, and vice-versa! Like, when I really sit and let the characters speak to me, I can see why they are the way they are (especially that Queen of Wands, even over a sea wall, she's got that powerful witchy inner fire that I get from the Queen of Wands in other decks), but my initial impression when I'm looking at the images alone is often to mix those Courts up when I pull them!

My faaaaavorite card from this deck is the 8 of Swords! It's really just so magical to me, how it takes a card that is often about feeling stuck and disenfranchised and just ... brings so much magic in there. It almost looks like the horse has been shot with arrows, but instead of being wounded has simply expanded his life force through them, and they are now part of him, like a fin (suiting, for a horse with a sea creature tail like he already has!) I just see this card and it brings to light that even if people try to hurt me in life, what I do with that is my own choice. It's within my power to be a victim, or to rise above it all.