Thank you for the video. Very informative and interesting. I am both a keeper and worker of the Pagan Otherworlds Tarot. I have many Ussi decks, Tarot and Oracle. Their art fascinates and is inspiring to me. The Pagan Otherworlds was my first USSI deck; and, it started my interest in their work. I work in shamanic and Chaos paths. The Pagan Otherworlds Tarot is great for my work. I really want a second copy. It is a desert island deck for me. It is in my top 5. The comments you made about the connection between the Pagan Otherworlds and Sigil work resonates with me and confirms my own feeling of this deck. To your book like I recommend Poetic Edda.
@@SaoirseGraves Maybe for some people this is a once in a while deck. However the way the pip cards are presented gives just enough information to connect with the RWS type ideas and not too much so that my own intuition can take over. In fact it helps me read other pip decks by working with Pagan Otherworlds tarot. I find it especially easy to pathworking and or enter these cards.
Ah! This might sound weird but I was literally thinking of your instagram account when talking about how I had only seen a smaller percentage of people who are invested in using it! (I was loving the way you approached tarot and poetry - I see your account says you're taking a break so no pressure!) 😊
Wow, Sorsha, your knowledge and eloquence is PHE-nom! Thank you so much for sharing this; I have the PO Tarot and have tried reading with it and it stumps me! But I"ll never get rid of it because it's so beautiful. I'm intrigued by the Vienna Dioscurides and will follow your link to it at once! Never heard anyone describe book contents the way you do, it gives me and exact picture of the labyrinth inside! I think I strung myself up as the Hanged One on this vid! Keep going, I enjoy learning from your wonderful discussions!
I enjoyed your thought and observations on this deck, Sorsha. I am very drawn to it and have had it on my wishlist for well over a year now but keep passing it by for other decks. Yet I long to own a copy which I’ve found rather curious and funny. Just recently I said to myself that I will take the plunge with it before summer’s end. You have definitely convinced me to to give it a go.
I'm hoping to cover this deck a bit more in the coming weeks so perhaps keep an eye out for that if you're interested. :) I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!
I'm rewatching this for the second time because I've been thinking so much about what you said about Pagan Otherworlds and people loving it and not using it, because I am the same way and I'd like to fix that. I think maybe perhaps it's because it FEELS so much like a work of art itself, a bit more ceremonial than what we used daily, that it's easy to put it aside. And people who have this deck seem to be ones who have more variety in their collection, so it's also easier to not pick this deck up for daily use. There's so much good stuff in it though, and I know I'm missing out by not using it more.
Hm. I think you have a good point here. I have often heard people describe the deck as 'cold' but, from my perspective, I suspect this is because the deck has a very open air aspect - both in imagery and in the kind of open questions it asks the viewer/reader... none of the figures in the deck gaze directly at the reader, and many of them are pointing or moving in a very Marseille style but their movement has an otherworldly quality... almost as if frozen or moving slowly and carefully through a scene. I have a lot of things to say about the Pagan Otherworlds Tarot that I will be putting together into a video at some point - the aim being to show some examples of in-roads to reading it more...and maybe also get a conversation going about it. :)
@@SaoirseGraves Yeah I love decks that feel open like this - almost like you can place yourself in the scene, and I also love pip decks, but I also weirdly think that one of the reasons I love it is also because I have sensory issues. Decks like this and The Spacious Tarot feel calming and freeing to me in a way that no other decks really do. But I can see people misconstruing that feeling as cold, especially when you add in the color scheme. People talk about The Fountain Tarot that way too but for me that deck is just very airy and calm and ...discerning. Maybe "Swordsy" is a better way to describe these decks 😅. Can't wait to see more videos from you on this subject!
Thank you for the video. Very informative and interesting. I am both a keeper and worker of the Pagan Otherworlds Tarot. I have many Ussi decks, Tarot and Oracle. Their art fascinates and is inspiring to me. The Pagan Otherworlds was my first USSI deck; and, it started my interest in their work. I work in shamanic and Chaos paths. The Pagan Otherworlds Tarot is great for my work. I really want a second copy. It is a desert island deck for me. It is in my top 5.
The comments you made about the connection between the Pagan Otherworlds and Sigil work resonates with me and confirms my own feeling of this deck. To your book like I recommend Poetic Edda.
Oooh! 'Desert Island deck' - bold choice. Cool!
@@SaoirseGraves Maybe for some people this is a once in a while deck. However the way the pip cards are presented gives just enough information to connect with the RWS type ideas and not too much so that my own intuition can take over. In fact it helps me read other pip decks by working with Pagan Otherworlds tarot.
I find it especially easy to pathworking and or enter these cards.
Thank you for this video! I’m glad to find someone talk at length about PO. I love this deck, have more than one copy, and use it daily.
Ah! This might sound weird but I was literally thinking of your instagram account when talking about how I had only seen a smaller percentage of people who are invested in using it! (I was loving the way you approached tarot and poetry - I see your account says you're taking a break so no pressure!) 😊
@@SaoirseGraves 🙌🏾 Awesome! It’s great to see you making those connections with the deck. I haven’t found any other quite like it.
Wow, Sorsha, your knowledge and eloquence is PHE-nom! Thank you so much for sharing this; I have the PO Tarot and have tried reading with it and it stumps me! But I"ll never get rid of it because it's so beautiful. I'm intrigued by the Vienna Dioscurides and will follow your link to it at once! Never heard anyone describe book contents the way you do, it gives me and exact picture of the labyrinth inside! I think I strung myself up as the Hanged One on this vid! Keep going, I enjoy learning from your wonderful discussions!
What a lovely comment! The Hanged One is a great descriptor for the experience of reading. I hadn't thought of that before but I love it!
I enjoyed your thought and observations on this deck, Sorsha. I am very drawn to it and have had it on my wishlist for well over a year now but keep passing it by for other decks. Yet I long to own a copy which I’ve found rather curious and funny. Just recently I said to myself that I will take the plunge with it before summer’s end. You have definitely convinced me to to give it a go.
I'm hoping to cover this deck a bit more in the coming weeks so perhaps keep an eye out for that if you're interested. :) I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!
I'm rewatching this for the second time because I've been thinking so much about what you said about Pagan Otherworlds and people loving it and not using it, because I am the same way and I'd like to fix that. I think maybe perhaps it's because it FEELS so much like a work of art itself, a bit more ceremonial than what we used daily, that it's easy to put it aside. And people who have this deck seem to be ones who have more variety in their collection, so it's also easier to not pick this deck up for daily use. There's so much good stuff in it though, and I know I'm missing out by not using it more.
Hm. I think you have a good point here. I have often heard people describe the deck as 'cold' but, from my perspective, I suspect this is because the deck has a very open air aspect - both in imagery and in the kind of open questions it asks the viewer/reader... none of the figures in the deck gaze directly at the reader, and many of them are pointing or moving in a very Marseille style but their movement has an otherworldly quality... almost as if frozen or moving slowly and carefully through a scene. I have a lot of things to say about the Pagan Otherworlds Tarot that I will be putting together into a video at some point - the aim being to show some examples of in-roads to reading it more...and maybe also get a conversation going about it. :)
@@SaoirseGraves Yeah I love decks that feel open like this - almost like you can place yourself in the scene, and I also love pip decks, but I also weirdly think that one of the reasons I love it is also because I have sensory issues. Decks like this and The Spacious Tarot feel calming and freeing to me in a way that no other decks really do. But I can see people misconstruing that feeling as cold, especially when you add in the color scheme. People talk about The Fountain Tarot that way too but for me that deck is just very airy and calm and ...discerning. Maybe "Swordsy" is a better way to describe these decks 😅.
Can't wait to see more videos from you on this subject!
@@thatwitchisfelt OMG yes, precisely!!!
I use PO daily, but generally I prefer minimalistic decks, so it could be a reason.
This is actually a good point...I tend to think of it as helping to reduce a sense of mental clutter - which I definitely need more of these days!