I've added that book to my wishlist now, haha! That's wonderful, for some reason what you said sort of reminds me of that story with Demeter and the women or spirit/creatures trying to cheer her up with lewd humor.
Oh wow, that's such a glowing and beautiful description of your experience with it. I'm so excited now, haha. And you're such a good and....elegant?? (there's another word I can't remember - maybe eloquent....hmm) writer? It makes me wish I was still the passionate bookworm and writer I used to be as a kid and teen. Goal of the year, hehe.
By the 'other side,' I did sort of mean necromantic. I suppose I was imagining it as the astral, but I'm guessing people would equate how I'm using that word with it..
In my imagination I was seeing something like human spirits, but behaving ...not as immanent or emotionally energetic as ghosts, but more ethereally and on a more distant or stellar plane or further than that possibly, like near or under heaven or maybe actually way under or maybe simply meandering the infinite void of possibility or the spiritual cosmos.... like shades or maybe echos of who they were as living beings, their personalities or astral bodies slipped off from wherever their souls have gone, still somehow making contact with us but kinda weakly or mildly or gently since they're not 'charged' the way a more 'physical' spirit might be. But maybe through the deck, in a rare sort of way for them, they're being seen, and they may be alarmed or curious or pleased or performing or just being witnessed (and maybe also witnessing) this sudden intrusion (possibly even voyeurism?) or appearance of the reader and/or querant.
But I also haven't gotten to open the actual deck yet. I feel like I was disappointed at first once I realized they weren't actually from Klimt paintings, but reproductions. Klimt's paintings are sensual and earthy, all rounded edges and crammed with life, and these pointed pencil sketches initially felt like hollow ghosts of them. But somehow after reading reviews and looking at the images I was able to appreciate them in a different way. Maybe that's where my impression of the spirit world or other side came more fully into play. Klimt's paintings are the subjects living, and Atanassov's sketches of them are like impressions or ghosts of them. It does seem like Judith I isn't in there though. I keep looking, but maybe I'm wrong? I know Judith II is.
I like that your experience of is so firmly Pentacles though, it's giving me a different impression of the deck. I was worried I wouldn't know how to use it exactly, in a practical way. Also it's just interesting to me that our experiences of it (I haven't even opened it yet, what am I talking about
) are so polar. Mine has been very air-y and liminal in comparison to your more earthy experience with it.
I am also supposed to be 'earning' it though
Technically I have the go-ahead now, but I'm thinking I want to see how much more I can save anyway....
edit: Oh wow! I really like the thread you've made. I'm going to be reading it and checking out this book. That's a really interesting exercise too, thank you for sharing!
And yes, snooping people's wishlists for decks to consider is a side perk(?) hehehe... I like that you indicated which are up for being sold too, I think I'd done that for decks I'd wanted to trade before. And I love that it's in ABC order, you're the real MVP 
