Anybody want a tarot deck?

[resonant]

I bought the Light Seer deck this winter, and it isn't working for me somehow. It's a perfectly good deck, but I'm not connecting with it.

It's a contemporary deck with decent racial diversity, but I'll warn you upfront that everyone in it seems very young; that might be why I can't relax into it. You can see some of the cards at the Comparative Tarot tumblr. I have deck, book, and original box.


I always worry that I'm giving unfair advantage to people in the same time zone as me, so how about an anonymous ranked-choice poll? Let's see how this works. Responses should be anonymous. I'll keep it open for 24 hours and then contact the winner.

Poll #33097 Rank my interest in the Light Seer deck

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 2

I am this interested in the deck

Mean: 1.50 Median: 1.5 Std. Dev 0.50

Sure, I'd take it if nobody else wants it 1		1 (50.0%)
2		1 (50.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Been wishing I could buy this deck in particular 10		0 (0.0%)

Comments

[mific]

It's very pretty, but maybe a bit too traditionally "alternative" for me. And the woman pregnant with Earth is mildly worrying! Also text is too casual for me - I like a bit more design and structure. I'm sure someone will want it though.

[resonant]

So far no one has responded and I'm wondering if I've somehow structured the poll so no one can?

No matter how many readings I do with that deck, I still have to push through a layer of visceral mistrust. It's a very bad mismatch between me and it.

I went looking for a new general-purpose deck, though, because it got harder and harder to ignore the fact that my good old Robin Wood deck is 100% white! I mean it's just embarrassing.

[mific]

I have a track record of getting tarot decks then going off them, like Rider-Waite (as a teen) and the Thoth tarot later. I was thinking I liked the deck from "Live and Let Die" (Tarot of the witches) and I still do, but on checking it's also very white, which I hadn't realised. I had the Badger's Forest deck but it's really just a vehicle for lovely art of woodland animals, only tenuous links to Tarot symbolism.

[princessofgeeks]

You might like Tarot of the Cat People or the Voyager tarot.

I enjoyed seeing the pix of your deck as I am always interested in what's going on with tarot but it's not one I would use personally. I would hate for it to just sit on a shelf here.

[panisdead]

I took the poll to see if it worked, which it does, although I admit I didn't understand how the ranking worked until I saw it post-answer. It shows up as two lines of text with a third horizontal line of numbers next to "sure, I'll take it" before you answer.

To confirm, I'm not interested in the deck; I was mostly coming here to agree that the people all look like twenty-year-olds and I question their wisdom.

[resonant]

That's very useful input on the poll - thanks! And I'm feeling better about my inability to connect with what's really a very widely recommended deck! At least it's not just me.

[lobelia321]

Do you have recs for decks with older figures? That are not too white and too wise old witchy?

[resonant]

I really don't! That seems like a big gap in the incredible abundance of tarot decks available.