Sunday New Deck Interview
Deck’s most important characteristic: The Lovers
You either love it or hate it! It’s definitely not traditional, but it is: showing three figures on the Lovers card is very Marseille traditional, but these are not your mother’s lover between vice and virtue! With the hands reaching out below, I think this is a card of desire more than romantic love or choice.
Deck’s strength and weakness: 0 of Void and Title Card
The addition of a Void suit is a strength of the deck. While they are mostly negative, as befits their title and color, this one is beautiful and inspiring: at the beginning of the very earliest beginning, a tiny butterfly comes through, bringing everything into being and into action.
When I first got the deck, I decided to include all the cards, including a card that is the same as the backs (a white galaxy on a black background), a negative image of that, and this title card. (There’s yet another title card that I left out.) You might not be able to see it, but the title card has a faint line of color through the center of the galaxy, and you can’t see the shiny bits make a design around and over the author name and around the border of the card. I don’t know how this is a weakness of the deck, unless the sheer multiplicity of cards can be a drawback to how inventive the “regular” cards of the deck are. Or the weakness is mine in leaving a card in the deck without figuring out what it means!
What I can learn from the deck: 10 Wands
Too much power, from too much money, can make people cold and self-involved. (See how I put both wands and earth in there!)
How I can learn it: 4 Wands
Interesting that I got wands for these positions. I do want to learn more about this unique suit! I can learn by holding everything within. Let it incubate inside before I try to explain it. It looks like she’s standing at an altar, and the wands are definitely a barrier: are they keeping her in or keeping others out?
Outcome of my working with this deck: 10 Cups
It will definitely be love, not hate! I actually already love it. But I’ll also get to share my love with all of you! This reiterates the 3 people on the Lovers card rising up in love. On this card, the raised, shiny lines follow the lines of water falling from the people’s tails, so you can kind of see what they are like in that way.
I really look forward to using this deck this week. The strangeness (and sexiness in some of the cards) makes it difficult to use for readings in real life, so thank you for playing along and helping me give it the use it deserves!