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I personally am on the fence. I am super into Kabala as well as zodiac or astrology in tarot. I kind of want to back it but it seems like you may need to be advanced. Hm. Not sure. It’s definitely interesting. I am doing more research to see if it’s something I want or not. Looks like it has potential.

I got this about two years ago. The quality of the cards was very poor and the rules unclear. It was very expensive and I was disappointed.

You had me laughing at points of this, namely because I was so confused 😕. Not your fault, my comprehension. I went to look on the kickstarter page from your link, so it worked right? I watched another attempt to play with the 2 player mode. 😵‍💫. I feel slow. Hey ho.

This was really interesting. I was wondering how tarot and a board game would come together.

love your videos. keep them coming! ❤🧡💛

I love Dantes Inferno and I adore the guidebook

this is so fun for me, because I am the exact opposite! I really dislike keywords on decks for an equally petty reason: I don't like the deck telling me how I'm supposed to feel about the cards! Totally valid to want to have more information on the cards, and I see exactly why it would be helpful. for me I just feel like the deck is telling me I am supposed to view things in a certain way, and i'm enough of a contrarian that it drives me bonkers.

Love the Nocturna oracle! And I second everything you said about it. Put useful, intelligent keywords on oracle decks, people! Do I have The Wisdom of The Trees oracle? See, I don't even know, because lack of keywords = lack of use!

This is definitely a challenge! and as always your analysis is both spot on and funny 🤣 I have a few of these: Animal Spirit & Nocturna. Animal Spirit I'm good with - I have strong animal associations, and I leave the random fantastical cards like 'black egg' out, using only the animals. Nocturna I have definitely a harder time because of the plant/animal combination (and plant decks generally I have a harder time) - yet that one is too gorgeous for me to ever re-home (I love Anima Mundi Tarot too).

Yes! One of my favorite plant-based decks is Dirt Gems (mass edition), and I wish it had keywords on the cards bc every single time I need to use the guidebook.

I agree that Oracle decks need keywords. When they dont have keywords I often create a keyword list for the deck and keep the list with the cards. It works very well for me and I don't need to flip through the guidebook anymore

I love this SO MUCH - I think I’m actually gonna have to to a vr to this video because I buckled down and fixed my Seed and Sickle Oracle deck last month and use it so much now

I ended up writing the keywords right onto the Wisdom of Trees Oracle for exactly this reason lol -- I also did that for the Chakra Wisdom Healing Oracle and Druid Plant/Animal Oracles and it helps them work so much better for me!

I'm here for the complaints. I envision myself sitting at the Oracle customer service department. Cody comes in, and I wave all the other associates away. I love this lady, I got this. A bunch of these decks are kinda publisher cash grabs, in my opinion. Whatever the first one is... I think Kim Krans probably had a much bigger deck in mind for Animal Spirit, and had to cut it down. Your hawk association. 😮 Fuck fire ants. I use all her decks... but that one the least. I did put all the writing on the borders of Archetypes and Alchemy... making the decks super easy to read with. Hmmmm. I want the little decks now. 🐒 I don't really do "fairy" stuff, because to me they're a little scary, I will leave it there. I just got Zammer. I think it's my favorite PV deck... but a keyword wouldn't hurt my feelings. I may write on that one. Dying to fucking have the Mildred Pocket Oracle in the new blood red. That's going to happen. Liminal 11, just stop. Fuck the boxes. I had one deck, the vintage cartoon one, it was cool, but not a keeper. I think I know who you mean with Loputyn. Me too. I saw the weakness of the deck tho. I can sit back and let pretty things belong to other people and not me. I like wolves, but that art was forced into Oracle meanings. I have always wanted Nocturna. I don't love the tarot, buuuuut. Also, Starfish?!? Same. I got nothing. An ocean full of manta reys. I will send your suggestions to management, have a nice day. 😂

I think you said on another video that you didn't want to do this, but have you tried using reversals with the seed and sickle oracle? I had the same issues you have with it but I tried using the dawn meanings for upright and the dusk meanings for reversed and since I did that it's been a great reader for me.

I lost the PDF link for zammer twins and I messaged them and I’m getting ignored :(

You just prevented me from putting 3 decks on my wishlist! Funnily, I just yesterday considered to put them on, decided to sleep 1 night and check again, and here you are, showing those exact same 2 decks, and turns out I not only agree with your points, I found at least 1 other reason in each of these decks for not wanting them...

Tarantulas MIGRATE?!?!? 😱 Laughed so hard through this! 😂 I also don’t write on my cards - my own handwriting just distracts me. For stupid guidebooks, you could just add a contents page? But yeh, by now the publishers (mass market decks) should be getting this right - there are enough TH-camrs complaining about keywords. And please don’t add three unrelated keywords! One keyword or two (one positive, one in shadow) is enough!!

Truth! Some of these oracles are so beautiful... but no keywords are a hard no for me. 😮❤ Great topic!

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You talking about the Animal Spirit had me dying hahaha.

Tarot has traditions. Oracle decks stand or fall on their newly-created "systems" I think the authors expect us to read the LWB cover to cover, then *memorize* it. Um, no. Not for all the oracles out there. Its a crowded market. So help us out and put some keywords on and when we pick your oracle out of a bunch we have, it's self-explaining. It's not gonna be our only oracle that we take to the grave. Get over it. Also, Codi: the dawn and dusk books! Dawn tries to be helpful, but dusk is like "You Suck! Weeds! Weeeds!" Lol good vid.

I've thought about writing keywords on decks before, but I felt like I needed to practice better handwriting first, and find the perfect type of ink that won't smear or flake off, and then I realize if I'm going to be this fussy about it I'm better off not doing it at all. It would probably go as well as the one time I tried to trim a deck (ruined it) and the time I tried to faux-age one (super ruined it). Anyway I wanted to say I feel the same about the Faeries book, and also those "Singer" cards are basically pointless. At least the Frouds seemed to listen to criticism about the font, as the second Faeries deck had a much more legible one.

I just kill plants, and my mother’s family are all master gardeners. I have zero associations. But I like how they look?

The Loputyn oracle 😂💀 I remember when you bought it. 😂😆🤣

Commenting as I watch 🙃 I did buy the full size of The Animal Spirit oracle and I wrote the keywords around the boarders 😅 it sucked so bad. 10/10 wouldn’t recommend. You have to have a steady hand and small handwriting. I’ll message you .

I got rid of The Wisdom of The Trees oracle for all the reasons you mentioned 😅 .

Have you thought of writing your own keywords on the cards? Dani mystic showed her Kim Krans Archetypes deck, and she wrote keywords around the borders. She went through the guidebook and pulled keywords that resonated with her and wrote them around the borders. I'm going to be doing that with some of my decks to see if it helps.

So funny, I am, in the main, opposite. Keywords can lock in my focus in an oracle deck which can feel limiting. But other times like you, I'm like, wtf? Your experience of the Kim Krans deck, cracked me up. Those cards are like flash cards, here is a spider, here is a horse. However it is the longest oracle deck I've owned, since 2019 and I love the Animal Spirit oracle, its a forced proximity situation. I have written all over the deck and written observations in the standard sized guidebook. I have given the animals archetype or job titles, such as tarantula is also the cartographer - a map maker, covers terrain through intimate knowledge of the subject. Then I will add that info with with element, fire and then finally what the creator gives the arachid, if I agree with it. But there are better animal decks out there, ones that are helpful in their keywords and not assuming you are stupid. I just can't be bothered to buy another animal deck.

Loved this video! Though your taste in decks is somewhat different from mine, your ways of approaching decks resonates with me. Thanks for the insights. And the laughs.

Your comments around 1:22 re dopamine hits and having "satisfaction from a job well done" from watching other creatives modeling their process on social media replacing us doing our own process is so on target!! I definitely struggle with that. I appreciate you calling it out.

Love the aesthetic for August

Yes, I need a video about bitching about decks with pdf guidebook 😂

I would take your mixed up Messenger and Seeker oracles off your hands! I'm near Monument.❤

The Priestess of Light has the feminine that you are needing to balance with the masculine vibes from Dante’s Inferno.

Deinfluencing factor: All white people and the lack of diversity in the deck. Its really saying something when there is no brown people in fae spaces or browm vampires.

It's no where near fall here either. Very much only starting to fully give us summer, which has really shown this year in some of our decreased insect numbers too. I love the heat so I'm relieved it came, but you have my sympathies if you don't enjoy, as it's legit never fun being an uncomfortable temperature. Blegh. I shouldn't be, but I'm so jealous of anyone who has the Madam Lydia. LOL. It's never on order when I have the funds. I did wait once for ages and gave up, but I think she does still batch print. Still, so love to see it. I get why you love it. I own no curated art decks in this style but have many on the list lol. I don't want them all, it's just waiting to see if anything comes up locally. The Jeffrey comment always gets me hahaha. I wonder if what confuses people about which sister is that Llewellyn mentions RWS on the back of the box (I think it is). Not helpful, as the creator is clear that it isn't that. I'm curious, are you sharing what you purge or just bidding farewell? lol I'll stop now as this is becoming an essay. This was a really interesting August collection. I'm here for the vibes.

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Message Patrick and he will send free of charge the Zammer guidebook.

Have you thought about printing that pdf guidebook? I did that for the little tiny oracle deck Valenza sells, and it's worked nicely for me. That Cantagee looks difficult to shuffle. I hear you about the seasons. It doesn't even cool off until late October here. 😊

I bought the Zammer Twins Oracle 3rd edition this past month and it has a physical guidebook now! AND rounded corners!

I look forward to a video ranting about oracle cards without keywords and oracle cards with useless keywords! I added the Naked Truth Tarot to my wishlist I’m on a self imposed deck buying ban so it’s not like I’ll be buying it soon though (if it’s readily available) but it looks decent. The Witch Sisters deck gives off Celtic Fae vibes (I live in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 where the faeries are not like tinkerbell) and also the Morrigan vibes…also on my list. My friend has Earth, Moon and Shadow oracle and it looks really nice. I can relate to the times when you’re just not in the zone for shadow work. There have been a few times like that lately so I’ve been leaving that kinda work for another time. Even though it’s the 4th of August I haven’t quite figured out what I’m using this month yet though probably Fyodor Pavlov will be one deck 🙂

I love the Zammer Twins Oracle but I havent used it in over 8 months do to the PDF Guidebook. However, I'm just going to find a way to get it frpinted out in a book format just for myself. The art for the Witch Sisters Tarot doesn't scream Witch to me. I do like some of the cards but I would possibly turn it into an oracle deck. You not being into Love and Light is one of the reasons why I love your channel.

I am completely obsessed with the Deviant Moon Tarot...it's one of my favs❤

Once again, your channel never fails to make me laugh. You both lighten my heart. Thanks for sharing your conversation.

I appreciate both of your points of view, i relate so much and its nice to know I am not alone in many of the thoughts and experiences I have in my practice. I love the idea of journaling as well. I want to do it consistently SO BAD but, for example, so far this year I have bought 3 planners and 4 journals - thinking if I have a different style I will stick with it. None of them have more than 8 entries 🤣 Thanks again for sharing, I enjoy these videos with both of you. You have a beautiful friendship.

The honesty was refreshing, not to mention hilarious! <3 I loved this video. I'm subscribing

make more rambling videos! love listening to you.

Seed and sickle deck is beautiful. You are the boss of your decks, so put key words on the deck. Get some nice gel pens and put the words on. The art makes a connection with you, that’s why you like it. So enjoy the deck in a way that works for you.