Thank you, Monica. I really enjoyed this flip-through of John Bauer's tarot deck. I happened to come across the image of the Strength card. Immediately was drawn to it, and that spurred me to search for more info on the deck. And that is how I found you. 🌼 So, I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to exploring it. There is just something that draws me. * I have studied and sought wisdom from the Tarot since about 1991. Your comment that John Bauer's deck is probably not suitable for beginners is spot-on. I look forward to studying the deck up close. Also, thank you for your comments about the LWB that accompanies the deck. I agree that the Lo Scarabeo LWB's can be sparse in terms of description of the images. However, I do love their work. Thank you for the sampling of their LWB on this deck. It is clear that it provides much more information than their usual terse offering. * Again, I'm excited to have found you. I am in New Zealand, by the way. 🙂 Cheers!
Thanks Nancy, it is a wonderful deck if you are into that type of art (which I am!), and I think overall Lo Scarabeo did a great job with it. I lived in New Zealand for 20 years, so it holds a very dear place in my heart 💜 Thank you for watching.
Beautiful illustrations but they just don't work for me as a tarot. They tried to tie it to RWS but the illustrations don't really match the RWS meanings.
I do agree with you, as some of the cards are definitely "made to fit" yet do not quite capture the RWS essence. However, this does make reading with it a bit more of an intuitive process - as you have to "read the card" as it is presented, as opposed to memorised card meanings. Still, because of this, it is a deck I don't use very often, only when I really feel like something different and unique.
I love his art but this is just plain lazy. No effort what so ever was put in to adapt the art into a tarot context so what you get is an art collection with tarot annotations stamped onto it. It's the tarot equivalent of a low quality deck of playing cards you find in a turist store with local scenery pictures with the card symbols barely visible, pretty but useless.
I do not completely agree - yes there are cards that don't relate to the tradition RWS imagery or meaning. However, that alone does not make this deck a "lazy" creation in my opinion, as you can tell thought went into it stylistically. I think it was just difficult to find enough images from the artist to correlate with each of the 78 cards in Tarot, and this is probably as good as it gets in that sense. This aside, I love the images chosen, how they adapted and styled it, the cardstock and no borders too. I can confirm I have tried and tested it as a deck, and it works brilliantly - you just can't rely on memorised RWS meanings and need to allow for your intuition to come through.
Considering you read thru intuition and not a system then the whole discussion is pointless and and any arguments i would make non applicable as random postcards would do just as fine as tarot cards for reading assuming you "vibe" with the art. And considering some of the images chosen where literal Swedish christmas postcards it would seem that would indeed work. In short is they sold them as full art "oracle" cards instead of tarot it would solve everything as intuition readers get more art and system readers would not care.
What a gorgeous deck!
Thank you, Monica. I really enjoyed this flip-through of John Bauer's tarot deck. I happened to come across the image of the Strength card. Immediately was drawn to it, and that spurred me to search for more info on the deck. And that is how I found you. 🌼 So, I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to exploring it. There is just something that draws me. * I have studied and sought wisdom from the Tarot since about 1991. Your comment that John Bauer's deck is probably not suitable for beginners is spot-on. I look forward to studying the deck up close. Also, thank you for your comments about the LWB that accompanies the deck. I agree that the Lo Scarabeo LWB's can be sparse in terms of description of the images. However, I do love their work. Thank you for the sampling of their LWB on this deck. It is clear that it provides much more information than their usual terse offering. * Again, I'm excited to have found you. I am in New Zealand, by the way. 🙂 Cheers!
Thanks Nancy, it is a wonderful deck if you are into that type of art (which I am!), and I think overall Lo Scarabeo did a great job with it. I lived in New Zealand for 20 years, so it holds a very dear place in my heart 💜 Thank you for watching.
Beautiful illustrations but they just don't work for me as a tarot. They tried to tie it to RWS but the illustrations don't really match the RWS meanings.
I do agree with you, as some of the cards are definitely "made to fit" yet do not quite capture the RWS essence. However, this does make reading with it a bit more of an intuitive process - as you have to "read the card" as it is presented, as opposed to memorised card meanings. Still, because of this, it is a deck I don't use very often, only when I really feel like something different and unique.
I love his art but this is just plain lazy. No effort what so ever was put in to adapt the art into a tarot context so what you get is an art collection with tarot annotations stamped onto it. It's the tarot equivalent of a low quality deck of playing cards you find in a turist store with local scenery pictures with the card symbols barely visible, pretty but useless.
I do not completely agree - yes there are cards that don't relate to the tradition RWS imagery or meaning. However, that alone does not make this deck a "lazy" creation in my opinion, as you can tell thought went into it stylistically.
I think it was just difficult to find enough images from the artist to correlate with each of the 78 cards in Tarot, and this is probably as good as it gets in that sense. This aside, I love the images chosen, how they adapted and styled it, the cardstock and no borders too. I can confirm I have tried and tested it as a deck, and it works brilliantly - you just can't rely on memorised RWS meanings and need to allow for your intuition to come through.
Considering you read thru intuition and not a system then the whole discussion is pointless and and any arguments i would make non applicable as random postcards would do just as fine as tarot cards for reading assuming you "vibe" with the art. And considering some of the images chosen where literal Swedish christmas postcards it would seem that would indeed work.
In short is they sold them as full art "oracle" cards instead of tarot it would solve everything as intuition readers get more art and system readers would not care.