Also...I'm so stoked you got the Next World!!! One of my favs 🩵

Yay I'm so happy you picked up this tag!!! 🥹💞 I think you can definitely apply the genres to whatever medium of entertainment you'd like ... I'm just a movie person 😄 Your deck choices for each prompt are 🤌🤌 !!! Jupiter power def gives off body horror vibes. And Dios de los Tres is sooo actiony! Great picks all around ... Loved it!!!

I’m the same way - reading over watching, KZbin over other visual media Eldritch Queen of wands is rad Loved your choices

HayHouse decks do soften and loosen up over time. I have the Mystical Shaman which is about 64 cards and it has worn in beautifully.

When creating the Bee tarot they just thought - ok, no one ever likes courts anyway, let's just not bother with them ;) (kidding). But yeah, the courts are so weird here. Similar when people like you said and then suddenly those bee courts they're like - what the hell is going on. Obviously it's bee themed tarot but why it's not all courts then? (I know it sounds they would be hella same then, but at least it would feel more consistent. Also they didn't need to depict just bee on itself (like those courts are if I remember well), but doing different things but more zoomed in? (I think other cards are more like whole scenes) You know like a bee worker (don't know the english term) feeding a bee larva for Queen of pentacles? (not sure if it actually fits now, but that's what came to my mind now). I'm still kind of hesitating if buy or not though... And I totally understand what you mean with tarot of the witch's garden being beautiful pictures but not having tarot feel! I have The Golden Wheel tarot and I totally love it but I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons it speaks to me so well, it's because its Slavic nature and I'm from (and living in) Slavic country and so it often speaks to me through some very personal associations from my past. With that being said I don't mean that non-Slavic person couldn't use this tarot, it's just that for me it's not just another RWS clone :). And it IS gorgeous and beautiful :))

I know what you mean about “feminine” and “girly.” The Goddess of Love is the only love themed deck I’ve ever felt drawn to.

I never liked collage... then I found myself in head over heels inlove with the Intuitive Night Goddess... and then the Mystical Moments... and now I am a full on collage deck fiend. AND a collage artist!

I guess it depends on your definition of shaman, but I don't believe shaman is only a siberian term, or only a native american term. to my understanding, shaman is a role in hunter gatherer societies where a person enters an altered state of consciousness/alternate reality in order to gain knowledge or power to aid someone in consensus reality. ALL humanity began as hunter gatherer societies so I think it's pretty hard to make a case for cultural appropriation. some cultures have more persistence of shamans in the present day/in cultural formats other than hunter gatherer than others, certainly, but celtic folklore describes people traveling to alternate realities - the underworld, faerie, etc. - to solve consensus reality problems. I think sometimes our familiarity with the stories of our own cultures blinds us to the cross-cultural structural similarities. it can go too far into an exoticization of other cultures rather than a recognition of our common human roots. the spirit world a south american indigenous shaman enters into with jaguar spirits etc. may seem to embody "shamanism" to a european audience, but the word shaman itself is from the russian, from siberian tribespeople. if it can apply to other non-western cultures, then, given that the basic structural definition is met, why not to celtic culture as well?

I am flipping through Sistine Tarot while I watch this... I got a copy of the Voyager guidebook at a second hand bookstore last month, and I have been thinking about getting the deck... but as I watch this, I realize that I probably have way more collage decks than I thought. 😮 Danielle Noel, Kat Black, MJ Cullinane and Kim Krans. I also have some great ones that were gifted. Aqua Maree, Adept, and Jumbledance. Definitely need to play with all these toys. 🎉🎉🎉

I think Cosmic Pearl Oracle would go well with the Goddess of Love Tarot

I really enjoyed! Love your nail btw ❤️

Thank you so much Sylvie!! That was such a prompt video to my suggestion! After seeing the flip thru I agree it’s ritual tarot for me!! Thanks for helping sort my confusion! 🥰

Oh you are treating us this week with these delicious long videos! I’m such a tart for a good collage deck and you have some stunners.

oh my I loved this! had to stop to order sustain yourself! ive never seen it before and its amazing!!! thank you so much for sharing it was a delight ❤❤

Collage decks are my fave flavour - and I’m so happy I managed to snag the Sistine, I’m obsessed

I’m devastated to have missed out on the Sistine Tarot. I understand why the creator wanted it to be such a limited run but as someone who works with Catholic imagery and ancestry, I wish I’d heard about it before it disappeared 😭

I really love Gabby H’s work and pov! ✨

As a certified Lana hater I did not get the Cis Teen Tarot 😅 Stunning, but not for me. TANTRIC DAKINI, ARCHETYPES!!! YAAAAAAAAH!!

I haven't even watched the😢 vid yet but I fully expect to add to my list.

The Stretch Tarot just came out with a "collage your own Tarot deck" im so excited about it! The KS just ended but I'm sure there will be copies for sale this fall

Ooooh! Collage decks!!

I love collage art, one of my favourites is the Textured Tarot by Lisa McLoughlin. Always like to hear your thoughts, thank you 🤩

I loveeee collage art. Tarot reallt helped me realize how much i adore it! Beautiful mini collection 💓 always love hearing your thoughts and insights on the cards!

Cartomancy in folk witchcraft is a great book!❤

🐝 save the bees! 🐝 I’ve been saving this video for when I had time to luxuriate in all the bookish goodness and it did not disappoint ✨ Edit: I need to keep an eye out for the Cat People, that level of world building is my kryptonite.

I’m new to tarot and have learned that a good guidebook makes a huge difference 😅

omg i love the pocket archetypes!! The Gill Tarot was popular on YT for a bit maybe 6 years ago? But it definitely died out. It was out of print for a while. I have a video I filmed on it recently as I acquired it not too long ago as well I'd love to know what you think!

I enjoyed this very much, a refreshing look at LWB/companion books and I would say sometimes I have bought a deck purely because the companion book has come highly recommended.

As far as I know, the Tantric Dakini was the first collage deck. It was first published in 1979, and Voyager was published a decade later. If anyone knows of an older one, I’d love to know about it. I’m a collage deck enthusiast.

Do you have a video in which you detail the process you go through for a deck study?

Great Video ❤! You’re probably gonna wanna add a part two video once you hear about the Spirit Keepers Tarot!!! it is IMHP the greatest Tarot guidebook of all time! It’s close to 800 pages in color with every tarot reference you can possibly imagine. The author also wrote close to a 400 page workbook in addition to the guidebook!!! the books and the cards just blow my mind every time I use it. Benebel Wen has several versions of his deck, but the best one is the current version Revelations because she adds in the correspondences of the I Ching. Check it out as I think you’ll love it 🌈🤗🙏🏾.

Great video! I love a good guidebook! Thanks! 😊

I am studying Phantasmagoria now ☺️ and I am having a great time! I have decided to read the whole thing before using the deck (it is my first time doing this, and I think I am going to make it a habit).

Thank you , great information, always on the look for a guide book that describes what artists was thinking for deck .

I will 100% just buy a deck for the guidebook alone

I love this video! I want to shout-out the Zerner/Farber Tarot, AKA the Enchanted Tarot (same art, different cards), because that guidebook is amazing! It's a big ol Llewellyn sized book with really helpful entries that cover multiple applications or interpretations of the cards. I also really like the guidebook for the Wyspell deck called Neoteric Feminine Tarot. It's Little Full Color Book that is SUPER beginner friendly. It largely ignores the esoteric but really helps you understand how to apply the meanings to real life in exchange. Very good for learning. Ofc I'd mention the Tarot of Vampyres but you beat me to it. I want to get into the Voyager Tarot so bad but I really believe it'd just piss me off like how the Wanderer's Tarot does. Excellent video, as always! Thank you for makin it.

I like this type of content. Thanks for creating it.

The cyberpunk novel 36 Streets (TR Napper) matches Eldritch Overload 📕 😮 did you see the symbols on Herbcrafters?

Ooo so excited for this video! Nothing better than a good guidebook 😍

I have the Moon Power Tarot by sick sad girls and I was intrigued by the Jupiter Power Tarot guide book. I might just get it for the botanical component on each card. Thanks for sharing!

Arg, I just love mini decks so much. My pocket Next World gets more play than my og version. I really look forward to hearing how you get on with it. I got halfway through the A Year in the Wildwood workbook last year and tomorrow marks the day I need to pick it back up again if I want to finish it (I remember putting it aside last year and can't believe how quickly it's swung around again). I can't believe a deck that is about the ecology of the planet has AI art, which is so detrimental to the environment! And that's before you get to the samey art, lack of titles on the majors or the plain backs. It's such a shame when an eagerly anticipated deck disappoints so much. Where does one get these vouchers you speak of? Are they discount codes or are you referring to gift cards? Just looking to save some pennies 'cos I'm a bear of limited means. x

I have told myself one comes in, one goes out. I switched the Green witch for the Witch's garden, and I am happier with it, I like the art style more. But I rarely buy decks nowadays, because I don't really want to let go of the ones I have right now.

The Terra volatile is also my favorite deck! I’ve got the base deck and massive guide book and am waiting on my preorder of the expansion pack ❤ I think you would like The Pulp Tarot by Todd Alcott if you haven’t heard of that one. I feel like the art style might be up your alley!

I have used the Gill Tarot for years. I love it for its profound readings. Mine came, years ago, with a full-sized paperback book which increased its value to me.

Love Tarot of the Cat People! I got the book too. I don't normally like fantasy, but this is great.

The irony of making a “regenerative ” ecology focused tarot deck and then using AI, which is destroying resources at a terrifying rate, is gross tbh.

I've been hesitating over the Wild Wood for *years.* I think it's two things; first that it's a knock-off of the Greenwood; second, that I am not a huge fan of the art style or Mark Ryan's takes on things. I think I might be a bit of a contrarian 😅

Your intro montage editing is on point!

I love pairing the Wild Archetype with the Shadowland Tarot. They work really well together

I love tiny decks = bigger reads = quicker shuffles = more downloads