Little Baron
Hi Grip
The artist's artwork was what drew me to both the NOVT and the Enochian. I had been going through the Enochian in a store in London for a long time, on many visits. The pictures really grabbed me and I felt that it was something I could get really involved in. I can understand that feeling of not getting out of them though. They are quite hypnotic.
I kept considering buying it and in the end, I didn't, but managed to get it in a trade. The deck comes with a small volume but you glean next to nothing from that. It appears [and I stress the word 'appears' as I believe that anything is tackle-able after out delving into the New Orleans] impossible to work with, but I am sure study would help. In this one, however, I think extra reading material would be a must. I, personally, would not know where to start. There are thirty cards in the Enochian major arcana, for a start. And the minors have little to no bearing on any kind of known tarot tradition [by a long shot]. I know nothing of Enochian magic, also. One for the backburner maybe.
I love the Mystic Sea illustrations, but with little responses, my interest did fall a bit in terms of study here. But with the 78 Weeks study, my interest and enthusiasm for the Margarete Petersen has gotten stronger and stronger. I can just look at those cards for ages and ages. And I can read them. Like the NOVT, I thought it would be a completely unreadible deck, but it is offering up surprise after surprise. I have had a nice afternoon with it, actually. I laid the cards out on the living room floor and have been watching 'My So Called Life' as I played with the MP cards. As each episode played, I pulled and put together cards that I felt described the epidode. I was pulling out 'feathers' and 'flames', 'cups' and 'coins', 'fathers' and 'sons', 'mothers' and 'majors'. Many find the MP to be a deck where the images are either all the same or sludgy, but it really opens up with play. There are faces and figures within those pictures that you don't see at first. And then, they hit you - little figures in sailing boats, hidden somewhere behind stroke after stroke. Eyes amongst paint. Shadows of people. It is like scrying a ball or bowl of black ink. I am so pleased, as with the NOVT, that I took a chance on the MP. It really has been unlike any other tarot deck I own.
LB
[As for kids clothes, I am just experimenting with making at the moment. I am a menswear designer for a large highstreet store over here and design casualwear, but I have other people to make up the garments. I bought a new machine recently and wanted to get back into making clothes. Just for fun. To ease myself in, I thought I might try kidswear.]
The artist's artwork was what drew me to both the NOVT and the Enochian. I had been going through the Enochian in a store in London for a long time, on many visits. The pictures really grabbed me and I felt that it was something I could get really involved in. I can understand that feeling of not getting out of them though. They are quite hypnotic.
I kept considering buying it and in the end, I didn't, but managed to get it in a trade. The deck comes with a small volume but you glean next to nothing from that. It appears [and I stress the word 'appears' as I believe that anything is tackle-able after out delving into the New Orleans] impossible to work with, but I am sure study would help. In this one, however, I think extra reading material would be a must. I, personally, would not know where to start. There are thirty cards in the Enochian major arcana, for a start. And the minors have little to no bearing on any kind of known tarot tradition [by a long shot]. I know nothing of Enochian magic, also. One for the backburner maybe.
I love the Mystic Sea illustrations, but with little responses, my interest did fall a bit in terms of study here. But with the 78 Weeks study, my interest and enthusiasm for the Margarete Petersen has gotten stronger and stronger. I can just look at those cards for ages and ages. And I can read them. Like the NOVT, I thought it would be a completely unreadible deck, but it is offering up surprise after surprise. I have had a nice afternoon with it, actually. I laid the cards out on the living room floor and have been watching 'My So Called Life' as I played with the MP cards. As each episode played, I pulled and put together cards that I felt described the epidode. I was pulling out 'feathers' and 'flames', 'cups' and 'coins', 'fathers' and 'sons', 'mothers' and 'majors'. Many find the MP to be a deck where the images are either all the same or sludgy, but it really opens up with play. There are faces and figures within those pictures that you don't see at first. And then, they hit you - little figures in sailing boats, hidden somewhere behind stroke after stroke. Eyes amongst paint. Shadows of people. It is like scrying a ball or bowl of black ink. I am so pleased, as with the NOVT, that I took a chance on the MP. It really has been unlike any other tarot deck I own.
LB
[As for kids clothes, I am just experimenting with making at the moment. I am a menswear designer for a large highstreet store over here and design casualwear, but I have other people to make up the garments. I bought a new machine recently and wanted to get back into making clothes. Just for fun. To ease myself in, I thought I might try kidswear.]