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Danke!!! Very helpful!

Loved this video, love your style! I just got A Wicked Pack of Cards by Decker et all. Was hopping it would be nice and objective. Hope it’s not a hate-a-thon!

I'm sad I missed this, I got the times muddled up again. I hope you keep doing these lives, I really enjoyed the previous one. It seems that using your computer worked pretty well! That was an interesting reading about getting older, much on my mind these days, born in '53! I wish I had been on the live, I would have loved a reading. Ah well next time perhaps. ....I am happy to hear that your book is finished, I'm very much looking forward to it. Brace yourself, kickstarter is a lot of work, but a great way to get your work out. I know it can be hard to promote yourself, I hope you feel encouraged by your YT following.

I have a quartz ball, an obsidian ball, and a glass ball. I should try this.

The Hermit ... well it reminds me of figures like the Cailleach, Baba Yaga ... the old One of the Magna Mater, somtimes part of the triple Godess, related to winter (introspection and running out of time), yet in a younger gaze (the stories sometimes tell about it). The raven is a bird the Old One can shapeshift into, sometimes there are raven companions. However ... if that's the background of the figure, the author/artist needs to tell us about it. The way the description of the card is written, is just not fitting. "I felt that way" is no explanation. 12:58 ... the honest approach to Pixies identities would have been, that she acted as a "shapeshifter". Making believe people to be Japanese, Black or "gypsie". So the racial part was certainly appropriation. The queer part ... is mostly about how we conceptualise queer. Rejecting the heteronormative order alone ... might qualify (especially when we take "living queer" and queer church history into account). But that's a long and dreary discussion. Anyway: An apt editor wouldn't have let the words of Pavlov get printed that way. (Then: Appropriation, projection, and totally made-up things do have a long tradition in occultism and esoterics. I assume claiming that to be especially true for the Golden Dawn wouldn't be anything near lying.) It's tirering nontheless. 24:56 ... yeah! To me a deck needs to have a very good reason to depict the world card as a binary sexed/gendered person [1]. There are decks that are successful with depicting a male or female figure (for being coherent with the overall deck - the William Blake Decks is one example, the Shadowscapes another). However: Most decks, that do so fail that card. (I don't consider the RWS to have a particulary good world card.) ____________ [1] To me depicting a trans man or trans woman doesn't do the trick! At the end of the video: ... I'm wondering what all the quite obvious links to slavic/Russian myth and culture mean ... and why their symbology don't appear in the review. Anyway ... despite all my criticism of the review: *Many Thanks* for doing the review. Even if I don't agree on quite a few parts ... my final assessment is very similar. Just a bit about that: I don't see Judgement as another Death card. Judgement very much reminds me of Matthew 8:8. However I do view the Lovers as another Devil card. The hand fasting doesn't look like a decision, but rather as an entanglement. Also: My take on gender/sex in the deck is quite different. But I agree that the deck isn't balanced too well.

I went to my local shop for Morgan Greer tarot bc they don't have it online and neither in the store- it's simply out of stock - just my luck - but I spotted this deck and went home and watching your video.I'm going to get it tomorrow bc it reminds me of a Czech artist Saudek who did a black and white comic book and some black and white art work in same fashion for a Czech movie in the early 70's - I might be wrong.But this is kinda like what he did- good looking half naked people with flowy hair and draping 😊I remember being 10 years old girl and stealing my older brother's comic book and reading it in secret 😄 bc he had always have cool stuff.Lovely memory. thx for the flip through

Hmmm ... photographic decks are difficult - for they more often than not feel kind of forced. The pictures often show a lot of personality and don't manage to tap into archetypical energy enough. Example of a card in the Ghetto Tarot I could read: The 9 of Swords. Example of a card I couldn't: The 7 of Pentacles. Additionally: I too do take issue with stages and actors. However, that's an issue I also do have with the RWS (among many others). Generally speaking: I am very picky with photographic decks (as well als with collage and B/W decks). The (photographic) Somnia Tarot should be fine. The price tag is the only reason it's still on my to-buy-list. There's a painted version available to, but I always keep coming back to the original one.

There's another way of shuffling cards (and it's probably the most effective one). However it needs some (one time) preparation: Sleeving your deck. The suffling technique is sometimes called "mashing" and there are tutorial videos here on YT ... from the Trading Card Game scene. Searching for "TCG" or "CCG" (or "Magic" or "Pokemon" or "Yugioh") and "shuffle" should get you to some helpful videos. However, there's a downside: Depending on how loose the sleeves fit, you might lose some riffle-shuffleability. Swooshing gets even more fiddly - with increased risk of damaging your sleeves or the cards. (Generally speaking, I'd recommend sleeving only for decks printed on flimsy card stock or for deck that catch wear pretty fast. Also on decks where you want some extra protection. There's a who range of Sleeves available for almost any card size you can think of. Sleeve Kings and Mayday Games are some producers that offer quite a large selection of sizes. Yet, there are also others. I sleeved my German Version of the Murrays' The Celtic Tree Oracle (for the deck started to catch wear), Ian Miller's Grim Tarock (for some extra protection for the art deck and because the cardstock didn't seem to be too durable), the Wild Unknown Pocket Deck (for an easier shuffle - for like many pocket decks it's a chuck of a deck) and some others.)

Hmmm ... I guess ... I'll probably get the "The real Old deck" - not because I like the battered cards so much (some I consider to be quite distracting), but for the absence of garishness in the colours, the greater diversity in the cards and the nice back side. The distractive elements of the cards themselves won't probably matter - as I intend to use the deck as a RWS reference deck. And not for readings. I can see the mixing of RWS and Marseilles as a feature - for many of the decks I use are inspired by one of them or both (some even with thoth influences) - but use their own system (William Blake Tarot, Hoodoo Tarot, ...). So ... what I'm searching for ... is a RWS that manages to be a sound reference for minors depicted in that tradition - without all the whiteness of the people, with somewhat less binary gendered folks, without most of the colonial symbolism and maybe without the elemental alignments (to me any suit can be aligned with any element - the Badger's Forest does a very good job in showing that). Thanks a lot for showing the deck.

I'm worth Aunt Sybyl in this. I've this book.. seems to be high on his own gas..

I have the tin one and the big one with borders and I prefer the tin one,it kinda feels nicer in the hand.😂i have actually never read the little books that comes with it 😂😂😂

Yes I don't think it's a well suited for reading.I prefer decks that are "made" by tarot readers or "witches" if you will😊.I think most decks are cash cows.Good review

Thank you for your review!!!

😂😂😂You are so funny!!!!😂😂😂God i was on a fence for months if I should get it but now I'm definitely going to get it!!!Love M.Python and Freddie Mercury!!!😂😂😂😂....his bundle 😂😂😂😂

I really like this 📕review😀❣️ Mixed but ❤️ And the most important is that I appreciates Pamela deck so mutch more now❤️❤️❤️ (And I will probaly 💸the📕and🖼️😉❣️)

Actually, the Tarot in general was and is a very Catholic thing. The Popess card, depending on the source one reads, depicts either Pope Joan or Sister Manfreda - neither of them orthodox Catholic women by any stretch of the imagination but their stories were already old and well-known by the time Tarot was being created. The Pope was a natural figure to include in the pack although the Besançon tradition/variant replaces them both with Juno and Jupiter. And then of course the Virtues and scores of other Catholic symbols and theology are imbedded within the cards as well - the resurrection of the dead on Judgement, The Devil, the ciborium of the Ace of Cups, etc. Moving on to the Rider-Waite-Smith the trend continues with Death and The High Priestess coming immediately to mind, Death depicted as described in the Bible and The High Priestess clearly drawing inspiration from art/depictions of the Virgin Mary. The Ace of Cups screams transubstantiation showing as it does the dove of the Holy Spirit with the Eucharist and the chalice with an M for Mary/Maria on it and The Lovers needs no explanation - the tree, the snake, the angel. Examples abound and of course Waite was raised Catholic and Pamela became a devoted Catholic and remained so for the rest of her life but nearly everyone ignores or dismisses this - as an aside, Pavlov is incorrect in describing her as a “queer woman of color” - I think the Urban Tarot also stated the same but her being queer is unknowable and only speculation and her being a woman of color is a complete myth (the American Renaissance Tarot website has a superb and lengthy article, “Pamela Colman Smith: American” that thoroughly debunks this) . But to return to my point! The Catholic religion is all throughout the classical packs of cards although of course not many of the newer ones and definitely not for the Thoth (naturally). It’s really terribly interesting, at least to me. But anyway I was kept up until 3 AM last night watching your videos, your analysis of Rachel Pollack’s vastly overhyped book was brilliant - she has her fans but I too am not amongst them!

Cheers to your Aunt Sybil. I'll adopt her style of expressing disagreement. Your channel is very interesting. Kudos to you for daring to critique the books that are often recommended by default. Abut the decans: I have established a practice for the last years that has helped me get a better understanding of the minors (and I have worked with the tarot for decades). I have put up a magnetic board where I put up the cards of each decan from different decks. These cards change every ten days, together with the major and court cards associated with the decan. For me, the decans have become very meaningful. I also added a Tree of Life and mark the sefira we're currently in. So for me, the Chang book sounds very interesting and I'll take your review as a recommendation ;-)

Your reviews are the best. I agree about Robert Place. I love his art, but the deck and alchemy have morphed so much into something I'm not interested in that it loses a lot of it's charm. I am sure I've said it before, but if he would do other theming in his decks it would be fabulous. all I know about Alistair Crowley is from Current 93. I'm just not sure about it all, but perhaps some reading should ensue.

Science is developed by man and many men live by values. Culture though can influence science, men. And of course trauma influences men to be less moral as well as culture

Hello Robert. You are saying things about tarot that I have not been able to articulate- mostly that feeling that many of my reference books seem to have a lot of "fairies dancing on the head of a pin". I do love the details and symbology, so maybe I will appreciate the deep dives more as I progress, but I am more of an everyday reader I guess, and I even like to ask people who have no tarot "education" to help me understand a card, and it is usually helpful. This is a very enjoyable and helpful video, I can only guess how much time and effort it took to make! Thank you very much for sharing it here.

Thank you. Got a Difficult tarot what do I need to know card today. Good way to deal with it gently

I love this, and thanks for sharing!! I appreciate you talking about mental health, and I love the idea of making a morning deck! Off to do that right now!! Thanks again, and I love your channel and videos.

It is a forfeit deck. You can easily look that up online. You shouldn’t do reviews of forfeit decks because it sends out the wrong message. Also if you are reviewing a deck then definitely you have to consider the book. If you read more “intuitively” then there shouldn’t really be a problem picking up meaning from an image.

39:02 good to know about his tarot deck. My biggest pet peeve is badly written deck books

Hey Leute did you say 🥰 I really enjoy your approach to these videos. We seem to have similar options or vibes we expect from book... I also really enjoyed the length 😊 makes me feel like we're hanging out 😅

The Decans book interests me, actually, especially once I read the blurb on the author's webpage. But I saw that she has a year's worth of blog posts that form the basis of the book, which I can read for free rather than investing in a book that might disappoint after all. (I also checked my library options--no joy there.) Thanks for the reviews as always!

Hi Robert, a great video!

Really enjoyed this video, definitely saved me a few bucks, thanks! I find it both fascinating and frustrating when we try to shoehorn esoteric/occult historical things into the tarot.

Looking suave today :)

I discovered your channel yesterday through your review of 78 Degrees of Wisdom, and I liked it a lot. :)

Regarding the last one reviewed, I'm so glad you mentioned Paul Huson's book. From what I've come across to date, his Mystical Origins of the Tarot has been the best for explaining the weirdness of the 36 minors, pointing out GD errors w/ swapped out picatrix/decans & meanings cobbled together with Etteilla, etc... One book that weaves the yearly 10 day astrological cycles into the minor arcana that I actually enjoyed was written by Muriel Bruce Hasbrouck and simply titled, Tarot & Astrology: The Pursuit of Destiny. It was originally published in 1941 but has been kept in print & not hard to find.

can’t watch this rn but it goes straight to my “watch ASAP” because the first one saved me SO much time not forcing myself to slog through seventy eight degrees when it just wasn’t helping me read better or understand the cards. thank you for these!

Straight like that!

Thank you 🙏 for these reviews, they save us money and time . 🤗🪬

Thank you for your book reviews - I find them very helpful. Please continue.

I am currently studying the book "Tarot as a Way of Life - A Jungian Approach to the Tarot" by Karen Hamaker-Zondag. Do you know that one? Lately I've been digging into jungian dream interpretation and archetypal symbolism and the subconscious. It really helps me to enrich my tarot interpretations. Have a lovely sunday!

I would be really interested in your take on the Tarot of Mystical Moments by Catrin Welz-Stein. I'm pretty much an intuitive reader as well, and I very much "vibe" with your approach and your readings. I hope you'll consider doing a review of this deck. Thanks for all the great stuff you share with us💖!

Hey Robert, Really appreciate your videos. I'm pretty sure Anthony Louis is not a Jungian. He is a very well-known Astrologer. Glad you mentioned his book. I thought it was excellent. It's very thorough as are most of his books. Not always an easy read but this one I found very readable. It helps having some prior knowledge of Astrology. He introduces the reader to a lot of other tarot resources. The Title is apt. It will take the student "Beyond the Basics"

Well done. Thank you.

Thank you Robert, that was interesting and fun. I have been trying out that spread where you picked the card to represent the question, and the side cards, and then which house it lands in. Did you come up with that?

Ah I missed it. I've seen another live-streamer use a second mobile phone, watching their own stream, in order to have the chat displayed better. I don't know if that would be useful. Thanks Robert

Well! Your analysis has explained why I've never been completely comfortable using this deck. I was gifted the original deck with the book and, like you, enjoyed the art, colour choices etc. Nevertheless my readings with this deck never felt "right" in the same way readings with other decks felt. I should note that it appears as though the original deck's cards are bigger than these and thus the details more clearly visible. Thank you for this, I shall start a "naughty pile" of my own 😂!

Great video! Was es nicht alles gibt... Gummibärchen Tarot ... bad air/not aired , wow, that's a major double insult for a German card reader UNGELÜFTET!!!!... a room that's "not aired well" - a NO GO for the nation of "Lüft- Nerds" ! And ungelüftet when talking about secrets or so means not uncovered/ not revealed...

Love this deck!

Thank you, that was a very nice review. These gummy bears have quite expressive little faces. Lecker-lecker.

I would agree, this does the job. ☺I do like the size too. BTW I have acquired an Ator deck (on your recommendation) and that one is very good too. Thank you! May I request more of your Tarot learning book recommendations? I have realized that I am looking for Tarot card insights that are neither predictive nor too directive (e.g."this card means that you must do X"), but are more like "consider this aspect of a human experience". If that makes sense? Thank you!

😂 Best walkthrough ever of the Gummy Bear Tarot! I laughed so many times that my partner came from another room to see what I was watching. (This is the one and only video I've ever watched about this deck, but I have complete confidence in the veracity of my statement.)

8:10 Because gummy bear hands are stubby little paws. 🧸