So I saw it on Amazon for 16 bucks, figured out that it would be about 20 bucks to get it home to me, and decided to run and pick it up at the bookstore and have it tonight right away, and quell that need to gratification, the need to have and to hold it NOWWWW!
I love it. You know I just don't love a lot of faery decks out there. I mean I try to take each deck as it comes, as an individual and say how do you do and meet and greet it for what it is. Oracle or Tarot makes no difference, but I haven't had lots of luck with other faery decks. I seem to get on with Froud's work.
The new deck is...a fresh perspective. This may sound weird, but the Faeries Oracle is a little bit country and this deck is a little bit Rock and Roll! Like the country cousin just introduced us to the city fae! Because of the addition of the court this deck feels glammed up a bit. Not to mention the colors. I love the colors and I love the sense that the human world is visible in this deck.
There is an underlying structure that tells you this is a similar landscape to the FO, but this is a different level of the society, and you feel it. Not to say all fae are equal here, you see the difference but there is a definite recognizable quality and you are oriented because of your association with FO.
A couple things stick out for me. Card 19 The Lord of the Forest. This looks like Himself grown............Old and maybe.....hard....maybe.....a little sinister. So right off the bat I start thinking, there is a like a time slip here, almost like a bit of a shift, so that what if this is a parallel world to the FO, rather than being the country and city aspects, what if it is two sides of the same coin, and does it even matter? LOL.
The three un-named cards....interesting...but....why?
8 Queen of Shadows, strange but looks like Gawtcha to me. A different aspect of Gawtcha. More confident, less afraid, more able to LOOK.
13 The Speaker of Truth. Knock me down with a feather they put Mi-Shell in the deck! I look at this card and all I can see is Mi-Shell. And I mean this in a very good way. No one speaks the truth like Mi-Shell....just wanted to clarify that.