MandMaud
Glad to see this thread, though having read it, I'll wait until this deck is reprinted with a tolerable card stock. I have enough trouble shuffling as it is (with bad hands).
The Wild Unknown is one of my ONLY TWO beloved decks. I have a few but these two are all I feel I need, for the time being, I got both this year and it has felt like coming home. I easily made a decision to buy NOTHING MORE for a good long time!
And I've never got on with an oracle, and never sought out an oracle deck but picked up a few that were bundled with tarot on eBay or very cheap in charity shops. I've browsed oracles but I do like the structure of tarot, prefer my tarot not to have extra suits and so forth. The "rules" are like the picture frame that turns a shapeless landscape into a masterpiece...
AND I've never really paired decks, but have recently thought about it and find I don't know where to start. I rarely use spreads, and my intuition doesn't tell me what to do with two decks together. But I want to use the Wild Unknown with the Tarot Illuminati because I intended them to work together (the minimalist with the hyperactive-colourful ) - and haven't got very far towards that yet.
A question about the Alchemist's Oracle's cards: I see that the card stock isn't anywhere near the TWU's, but what about size? Are they roughly the same height or width?
(Not that I'm allowed to buy any more decks of any kind for many months... at least until I sell something. )
Oh, more questions: there are some animal cards here - are they all without names (unlike 'Fun', 'Endings', 'Healing' that I can see) - meaning that the deck is composed of some cards with and some without writing? The only one I can see fully is the fox.
The Wild Unknown is one of my ONLY TWO beloved decks. I have a few but these two are all I feel I need, for the time being, I got both this year and it has felt like coming home. I easily made a decision to buy NOTHING MORE for a good long time!
And I've never got on with an oracle, and never sought out an oracle deck but picked up a few that were bundled with tarot on eBay or very cheap in charity shops. I've browsed oracles but I do like the structure of tarot, prefer my tarot not to have extra suits and so forth. The "rules" are like the picture frame that turns a shapeless landscape into a masterpiece...
AND I've never really paired decks, but have recently thought about it and find I don't know where to start. I rarely use spreads, and my intuition doesn't tell me what to do with two decks together. But I want to use the Wild Unknown with the Tarot Illuminati because I intended them to work together (the minimalist with the hyperactive-colourful ) - and haven't got very far towards that yet.
A question about the Alchemist's Oracle's cards: I see that the card stock isn't anywhere near the TWU's, but what about size? Are they roughly the same height or width?
(Not that I'm allowed to buy any more decks of any kind for many months... at least until I sell something. )
Oh, more questions: there are some animal cards here - are they all without names (unlike 'Fun', 'Endings', 'Healing' that I can see) - meaning that the deck is composed of some cards with and some without writing? The only one I can see fully is the fox.