DAILY RESIDUE: A Cartomancy Journal
Impressions: The Housewives Tarot
Posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 at 12:28 am
As mentioned recently, I finally took out my Housewives Tarot and began using them a bit. I’ll admit it’s not usually the type of deck I would buy, but I kept seeing a few cards here or there that I really liked so I decided to give it a try when I spotted a very nice discount. It’s the first “quirky” deck that has caught my eye enough for me to want to buy it, and I don’t regret the purchase one bit. In fact, I think I ended up liking it a lot more than I had expected to when I bought it.
The retail price for this deck is listed at $16.95, but I think Amazon’s currently selling it for $11.53 or you can also purchase it through the deck’s official site for $14.95. And you know what? I’m really surprised that the deck isn’t more expensive, because it’s got to be the best packaged Tarot deck I’ve seen to date.
Pandora Cards
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I was digging through my box of older and less-used decks when I came across this tiny one called Pandora Cards. I can no longer remember where I got it from, but I must have bought it close to 20 years ago judging by the decks it was stored with. It was almost like seeing it for the first time! I was honestly confused when I came upon it… lol. It’s definitely a quirky one though…
It’s published by U.S. Games in 1989 and created by Richard A. Blake and Louise Janitsch Blake. The blurb on the side of the box says, The First Steps to Overcoming Problems. I tried doing a search on it but didn’t have much luck. According to Amazon, it’s out of print. I guess it didn’t do very well?
Impressions: The Anna K. Tarot
Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 09:29 pm
Yes, after all that mulling, I decided to order the Anna K. deck for myself together with my sister’s copy last weekend. One of these days, I really should make a serious effort to curb my urges to buy yet more tarot decks… but with how special I found the Anna K. to be, I’ll insist it would’ve been a mistake to not order one while the supplies last!
Got My First Lenormand Deck + Book!
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 at 09:26 pm
I had been wanting to try the Lenormand Oracle for a long time now but haven’t had the chance to get a deck for myself as it’s kind of difficult obtaining one where I live. Last week, I found that I could get the Blue Owl + Sylvie Steinbach’s book (The Secrets of the Lenormand Oracle) together for a fairly good price with shipping to my location so I jumped at the chance. I didn’t expect it to arrive this quickly though- only 6 days including the weekend! I was literally skipping when I saw the brown package sitting inside my mailbox. :D
I have a little blue pouch for it too!
Discovering the Anna K. Tarot Deck
Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 01:58 am
For years now, I had suggested to my sister every so often that she could consider picking up the Tarot. I often give her readings, and she had always shown a lot of interest in it but didn’t really have much confidence in being able to read. She’s what my family often joke as being hopelessly out of tune (both sides of my family have a history of women showing various “psychic” capabilities), even though I thought she could still give it a try if she was truly interested. So anyway, after a little reading session earlier and yet another push from me to learn the Tarot language, we decided to go on AT to browse the numerous decks… which, by the way, took hours because for every deck she liked, I went hunting around for sites that showed the cards of the whole deck.
We eventually narrowed it down to about 5 decks until I realized that all but one was either out of print or really hard to get a hold of. The remaining choice turned out to be a self-published deck called Anna K. (link leads to Aeclectic Tarot’s deck description page). Maybe it’s because I was really tired from all the deck hunting, but it didn’t particularly catch my attention. It looked interesting… but just didn’t immediately make me hone in on it. The important thing is my sister’s in love with it so then we found our way to her site where we could view all the cards… which of course spelt my doom because I only just recently told myself that I wasn’t going to buy any more tarot decks for a while (until maybe the end of the year).
Yes, I really want this deck too! I absolutely love the way she portrayed the cards- the ones that come to mind right now are 10 of Swords, 8 of Swords, and Judgment… but seriously, looking through the photos of her cards is like discovering one treasure after another. They’re so communicative and expressive- the type of deck that has a more real quality to the pictures and would be so easy to read. It’s been a long time since I had fallen this hard for a deck. You should all go take a look. In the meantime, I’ve got some serious thinking to do. If it was a mass-produced deck, I could always just wait and get it at the end of the year as I’ve promised myself… but Anna’s only got 500 decks printed and already, she’s been getting tons of orders from what I’m hearing at the AT forum. Oh, what to do!
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