Ciro Marchetti's upcoming Oracle of Visions deck

[thejeopardymaze]

 Is almost finished. I plan on buying it, it looks like a lot more of an even work than the Legacy of the Divine Tarot deck, but I do kind of worry about interpreting them in the future, since I tend to like divination decks that are a bit more blunt. But since my main reason to learn cartomancy is to get my intuition to work a bit better than it does now I can only complain about so much, and it's coming with a book anyway.


Edited to add-I think the price will most likely be worth it because it isn't going to be one of those tarot kits Llewellyn keeps popping out, where the quality of the cards is sacrificed. Judging from Marchetti's descriptions it does look like a deck that will last, so I'll be saving up money for this one.

Comments

[all_adream]

I had the gilded tarot, but found the visuals very online-gaming-characters, which is not my taste. These different projects sound interesting though--I hope you enjoy this one!

[thejeopardymaze]

It'll be an interesting supplement to the Deviant Moon deck.

[arliss]

Oh, I love the Deviant Moon. Not that I've even attempted to read with it, but it's wonderfully evocative to meditate with.

I find Marchetti gets on my nerves--as the poster above says, his images are "very online gaming", and also he reuses the images, collaging them with different components to reasonably good effect, but still.

I find I prefer drawn art to collage art for tarot images in general, so once I got past the glitz and glamour first impression of Marchetti's art, it pretty much became opaque for me--but I realize this is a very personal observation and POV.

I hope you enjoy and get a lot of use and value out of your tarot.

[thejeopardymaze]

I couldn't really get in to the Legacy deck, but Marchetti's Oracle deck seems to have promise, at least for me.

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As for Deviant Moon, it's the only tarot deck I've clicked with no matter what other deck I bought, so I've decided to work with only that particular tarot deck for the next six or so months (though I do plan on getting a used copy of the Universal Waite, if only to steal some ideas for making a derivative gothic-industrial deck).