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I was about to ask you about any book recommendations on it 😅❤

Very nice. Very subtle. It’s a hit 👏🏻

I don’t understand this. 🤔

Hey Robert. Quite enjoyed this series on the courts. 👑 Which RWS deck are you using in this video? I’m not big on borderless but that one is intriguing without the card titles.

Hi Robert, I'm late on commenting this video, but I found your channel because I am on that same quest : finding the "perfect" Marseille-Waite deck ! I love your reviews (real reviewers are hard to find on YT these days) and I really enjoyed this one. I know the deck because one of my friends owns it, but I agree with you : the faces look strange, the colors are too muted and depressing for my taste, I don't like the fake mediaval style either. I just want to add something about Emmanuelle Iger : this is a project she has had for years before it was produced, she's quite famous in France in the tarot community because for years, she was one of the very few authors teaching about RWS (Marseille tradition was still the dominant one, even 5 years ago) and a lot of french people learnt their RWS with her books (I'm one of them). I'm just giving you a little more context around the fact that only her name appears on the book. The french audience wants to know that it's a book written by her, and no one else. I'm sure it's not mean and that she is very aware about artists needing to be fully credited as well. I hope this makes sense. This comment is getting long but I have a question around the same topic : do you know the Deck of the Bastard (self-published by Seven Star) ? It's a mix between Etteila for the majors, RWS for the minors, and other historical sources I guess (court cards are not RWS). It sounds strange but it seems to work fine, I saw some good reviews (Benebell Wen has one on her blog). I would love to hear your point of view !

Thank you. I love the way you spread cards. I must confess i'm keeping some of your ideas for mine as well☺️

Thanks T&T, I really enjoy your monthly readings and the insights you demonstrate about spreads etc … see you in November 😘

Hi, the tour was amazing and answered a lot of questions I had in mind before my trip to London. However I would be grateful of you could please share with me the price range for the tarot decks at Watkins?

Considering a job exit plan (with a possible career change) should become more tangible in October, this seems accurate.

Love your astrology spread.

All smiles as I was watching this tour 😍 Can’t wait to get myself to London one day to explore these spots! ✨

I like seeing the decks read together, a fantastic video!

Yes this feels bang on. Love the combination of those two particular decks working together.. what a lovely cosy window seat for cogitating in! Merci buckets.

A personal reading I did for myself yesterday highlighted my resistance to *planning* specifically. Your reading seems to highlight this theme even further. Thanks, Robert 🙏🏼

Sounds like my expected October. And with it being tax season here, I should just get on with things! Thank you Robert.

As usual, shockingly accurate to what's going on in my life right now. I'm glad to be on the right track. Thanks Robert.

Votes Lib Dem. Unsubscribed

This book was great to me. Didn't like 78 degrees by Rachel Pollack. But I always recommend this book for the content to people who want go deeper. And the book is great because everybody can decide from this book the direction they want to go or they don't want to go (in research). For me it cached fire. But it is not a book to read like a novel. This is a studious books and not for everyone, especially not for beginners. :-)

If I get through this book it is thanks to you and me feeling like ive gotten my frustrations out through you😂 The book is so «lofty», I find that the little pieces of wisdom that actually brings me deeper into each card is so diluted in «stuff». It is quite an effort to filter it out😵‍💫 thank you!

While I appreciate an honest review , this just compares it to your personal preferences for RWS , not a review of the deck on it's own iconography . I usually loathe busy decks and empathize how distracting they can be . This is a more detailed Style consistent with Art Nouveau - check out Spirit Keeper's Tarot for a truly busy deck with way too much detail and poor use of colour. I think this could be a good fit for someone who loves the Kemetic references .Thanks for the walk through.

Absolute bollocks! Starmer’s rampant corruption and hypocrisy is the new style of leadership. They inherited a good financial situation from the Tories which they deny and pretend is a black hole see the independent economic forecasts on growth now.

Wow, I love it 🌒

So to sum it all up, Cat Willet is a water head.

gorgeous deck, thanks for the review 😍🙏

Thank you for such informative video 🤗👍 could you please tell me which deck is the queen of batons displayed at 1:03-1:08 from? i felt connected and want to learn more about the deck. Cheers 🙏

Oh No! I'm sorry you felt led astray by my recommendation of Tobias Churton. He is a scholar so his style may not be for everyone, but he is objective, I do still hold to my main recommendation of Lon Milo DuQuette's book Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot. His style is very entertaining and engaging and it gives an excellent introduction to Qabalah/Kabbalah and Golden Dawn ideas. The RWS deck is also based on this framework with some differences, it is just the symbols are more overt and layered in the Thoth deck. I hope you get the Beetlejuice gig, you wear this makeup well :)

I really enjoyed this - especially the live readings. I'm glad you include these so we actually get to see how the cards work in real life and how you approach your readings. I'm learning a lot. I've found your videos on books really helpful and they led me to some wonderful reads. In particular - Paul Huson's Mystical Origins of the Tarot, Ronald Decker's the Esoteric Tarot and Anthony Louis' Tarot Beyond the Basics. The only Thoth Tarot book I've actually enjoyed reading is Angeles Arrien's The Tarot Handbook which she wrote because she read Crowley's book on Thoth and "decided that its esotericism in meaning hindered , rather than enhanced" the use of Lady Harris' artwork! She interprets the cards from "a cross-cultural perspective and universal view, honouring their visual execution". I'm finding it an easy way into understanding the Thoth. It feels like a book with a lot less Swords energy!

Thank you so much for the effort you put into critiques of decks and books. Your connection of the Knight of Cups and Death was something I had not noticed before and you are right, I cannot un-see it. I have now started thinking that the Knight of Cups brings (or at least offers) the little death, perhaps as the price you must pay to cross the Rubicon on the right of the card... I you have the mind to do it, I would love it if you did a video on other correlations in the Smith Waite deck.

I’ve never once felt compelled to purchase this deck or even watch a review of it. But in your 21 questions VR I noticed your quick dismissal of this deck and had to know why! I appreciate your honesty and perspective here, as usual. And thank you for trying to set the record straight about Pamela not being a person of color, etc. Please people, do a little research and critical thinking before blindly accepting something as fact! 🤔🧐🔍 Also, I really enjoyed your insights on the courts in this one. I’ll be adding the fish birds’ significance in the page of swords into my “tarot temple”! Thanks for that! 🙏🏼

Hi Robert, I missed it this evening, had to work. A fantastic Live 👋🏻

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Love your honest opinions

I really like your grounded critique of Pavlov's deck. I remember the hype and agiotage around this deck. I bought the one from Etsy from the artist himself only at 3rd attempt a while ago, long before it was printed by US Games. Mine is printed in Taiwan and of rather good quality. I was happy to have scored it back in the day as I really like the style of his art. His artistic erotic style is rather beautiful. I was very enthusiastic about this deck. However, at the end I was rather disappointed in the sense that I couldn’t work with it at all. As an RWS fan I always need to have the classical canons respected in any Tarot deck which claims to be derived from RWS. You know which card killed the deck for me completely? The Knight of Pentacles. Pavlov got it completely wrong. How on earth do you come up with an idea of a wheel-chaired knight of Pentacles!? It is a total abomination in my view. Yes, he is not as fast as Knight of Swords or Knight of Wands, but definitely not disabled, just cautious and contemplative about his next move. But you go much deeper and more detailed at the flaws of the deck. Again, another deck which is totally beautifully made and totally a masterpiece in the artistic sense, but a total waste as a Tarot instrument.

I so agree with this review. I bought this deck for collection, but it is useless in work. In RWS deck every detail is very important, even the direction in which a king or a queen is looking^ for example. In this deck this all is messed up big time. Beautiful collages though, what a work, but what a waste in the Tarot sense!

I really enjoyed this, thank you!

Cool. You aced it. Awesome

Well done, Robert! One of your very BEST videos! Interesting AND entertaining!

I really tried to get that Iger tarot, but in the end it was not for me. I like Medieval themes (proto renaissance Giotto was a fave, but everyone was so grumpy), so I just have the Golden Tarot to scratch that itch. Back in the day I was on the Medieval-l email list (who remembers those?) and it was fun, but tarot really has the flavor if the early moderns about it.

Thanks for sharing your takes! I am just starting on Tarot so I don't whether I'll agree with you or not (apart from the last 2 that are especially terrible & the authors obviously had very heavy axes to grind!) but it's great to get perspectives from people who have been practicing for a longer time.

Hi Robert, if I could change many details about the Hanson Roberts deck it would be my favourite RWS clone. A fabulous video!

I have no clue what shadow work is, but I hear it bandied about a lot.

Amazing review, thank you!

Thank you for the very entertaining video Robert. Some of the questions were a bit silly but you answered them with your usual effortless wit & dry humour. Very nearly choked on my tea at the 'I don't think I've ever experienced being slapped by a deck' LOL. The monosex Modern Witch Tarot seems to be very popular on Amazon but I think it's terribly imbalanced and I would personally never read with a deck that excluded an entire sex. Also I like men a lot:) The first edition Ator Tarot is wonderful! Regards, Ash

I think the Rohrig Tarot is quite unique. Wish I had it. But it is very expensive to get now. Especially the version you got, I think. Because it looks like the uncensored one. I don´t mind all the boobs. I think it is kind of funny. But I like women. I think both men and women has a shallow look to them in that deck. It is part of the soul of the deck.

Honestly, I like the earlier book that gives much of the same information but is only about the Alchemical Tarot. I really only use the bigger book as a reference (mostly for Sevenfold Mystery).

The New American Tarot would be a tough pill to swallow. As a pacifist at heart, I would struggle with all the guns and violence in the images. In that sense, it is the most provocative deck for me out of your amusingly unconventional selection. Even more than the boobies and willies deck.🤣I didn't quite catch the name, but I am sure you know which one I am talking about! BTW I really like Le Tarot de Marseille Waite. I know you have your reservations regarding this deck. I believe that you called the faces of the people 'demented' in the actual deck review 🤣 And perhaps they are, but still, there is something deeply appealing about this deck to my old soul.

Maxwell Miller's Universal Tarot is a fascinating deck. It's kind of a hybrid that doesn't adhere to any format I'm acquainted with. And though it doesn't make much sense, I find that it does speak very clearly to me whenever I pick it up. It's not for everyone, but I like it quite a lot.

Robert, I have to say that I've really come to look forward to your weekly finicky and opinionated views on tarot. They both entertain and challenge me and I often find myself saying to my viewing screen well that's a heck of a viewpoint, or well, that's one man's opinion. But I have to laugh that you really make me challenge notions of jumping on bandwagons with a majority viewpoint. I love your unique approach. And in considering myself a 'card curmudgeon' when looking at decks, I believe I've found in you, a sort of sympathetic compatriot. I enjoyeed being able to spend more time with you in this longer than usual video.

Snuggling up in bed with a family bible! :-) Oh Robert! BTW, you look gorgeous today! And I realise that, as I said today, it's been 7 days since you posted this video. Alas, I am watching this video with considerable delay, as I've just started another training in Astrology. So I am late for a very important date, one might say. Turning to the video, I must admit that I am not a fan of Alchemy. I am also not interested in Kabbalah all that much and many other disciplines around Tarot. And to be absolutely honest, just handling Astrology, Numerology, and Tarot is plenty, with attempts to add Marseille and Toth later down the line. I also couldn't figure out what those elephants balancing on the cups meant! They certainly drew my attention though, to the point that I forgot the meaning of the original RWS card! :-) I don't think I would appreciate this during the actual reading with the client, when one is already somewhat stressed out.

This was a fun video ... LOL at the Rohrig