Dark Victory '39
Like someone w/ poor impulse control I decided to go ahead and get this. Over the weekend i used metallic silver and gold gel pens to go over that god-awful script, and a few in red gel pen, such as the romance card which is a bright juicy red, and also some of the predominantly dark colored cards like 'desire,' and i'm pleased w/ the results.
The deck itself i'm excited by at this early date. gorgeous card stock, and it's the exact size of my antiquarian tarot, (and happens to look nice w/ half the decks in my collection) so i will use it to combine tarot and oracle. But on its own its been pretty nifty. I have no intention of reading the lwb; i'd rather not prejudice myself, and there's a lot of food for thought between the images and the keywords. It's my only oracle w/ keywords; they're not distracting or overly limited. I've enjoyed using it (ahem) several times a day w/ various posings of one card draws for one card questions. The oddities of the deck i'm quite attracted to. Such as in 'appreciation' which appears to be a woman admiring her jewelery by candlelight in front of draping velvet curtains, at first glance i thought it was a woman reaching out for a floating hand (coming through the draperies?). There's quite a few instances where i think it's one thing, and then look and see it's another. Overall, i'm totally charmed. It looks surprisingly good b.t.w w/ bogo, better than w/ the victorian romantic as i would have suspected.
The deck itself i'm excited by at this early date. gorgeous card stock, and it's the exact size of my antiquarian tarot, (and happens to look nice w/ half the decks in my collection) so i will use it to combine tarot and oracle. But on its own its been pretty nifty. I have no intention of reading the lwb; i'd rather not prejudice myself, and there's a lot of food for thought between the images and the keywords. It's my only oracle w/ keywords; they're not distracting or overly limited. I've enjoyed using it (ahem) several times a day w/ various posings of one card draws for one card questions. The oddities of the deck i'm quite attracted to. Such as in 'appreciation' which appears to be a woman admiring her jewelery by candlelight in front of draping velvet curtains, at first glance i thought it was a woman reaching out for a floating hand (coming through the draperies?). There's quite a few instances where i think it's one thing, and then look and see it's another. Overall, i'm totally charmed. It looks surprisingly good b.t.w w/ bogo, better than w/ the victorian romantic as i would have suspected.