Myrrha
Odd to find this thread resurrected now! This was my very first deck. I couldn't read with it whatsoever back then. A few years after, I dated a complete jerk who would have burned all my tarot cards on me. So I handed them over to my best friend. 20 odd years later and she's bringing them back to me.
Now I see the images online and get flashes off them! Can't wait to see what they are like in person after all these years!
I do have a question for you guys. I've read that they could be rws based, tdm based, or a marriage between the two. I know about the outer realms. So what do you guys think it's closest too?
Being between the two would kinda be awesome for me since I have almost no experience with rws. However with the outer realms aspect, I almost feel its unfair to consider this deck to be based off anything but her amazing visions of another dimension.
That's great that you get flashes from the images online, i hope you love the deck when it arrives. I do think the intended meanings for the Minors are RWS based but take a different slant with some cards being quite different. It shouldn't matter that you don't have experience with RWS.
I've seen reviews that said the experience of reading with this deck is like reading with the TdM or another pip deck. I don't find that to be the case although the images might be a bit less detailed than some other decks. I kind of like that you have to ponder it or try to get a flash or go by the emotions shown in the image. It doesn't spell everything out. This is one that I don't reach for so much right now. I agree with DarkVictory'39 that the look and the pallette is very lunar and mysterious.
There was an original painting by Karen Kukyendall on ebay not long ago, a warrior like the ones in the deck but with no cat. It was quirky and gorgeous but expensive of course.