I couldn't wait to watch this... Then not long after you started I fell asleep!!! Just watched what I missed. Thank you Kelly. I really enjoyed all you had to say xxx
I have Fairy Lights, Hidden Forest, Shadowscapes, Paulina and Joie De Vivre, and, just ordered Faerie Tarot. I have, for Oracles, two Brian Frouds, Anna Franklin's Faerie Ring, Gillian Kemp's Faerie Wisdom ans a Forest Fairies deck.
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The Shadowscapes was my first tarot and I've seen it recommended for beginners multiple times, but it my experience it was very confusing. The crowded imagery, amount of symbols, some cards looked quite similar to others, and just going by the book... I don't know, it got me really lost. With that being said, I lacked a structure for learning or perhaps having a mentor to guide me in my first steps would've eased the beginning of my journey with tarot. All the confusion deterred me after trying for while. It remained untouched for a couple of years. Perhaps then it just wasn't my time and that's why I struggled so much, so it wasn't the deck's fault
Heavily visual decks are for intuitive reading, using your rational mind to unlock every symbolism, the nuances and the intention of the deck’s author is a lost battle. As the matter of fact, I don’t read (I avoid it unless I can’t make up what the suits mean) the booklets decks come with, I first try to “know them” by just shuffling with it, asking simple questions that can be answered by just one card or jump into a celtic cross if you’d like off the bat and get a feel on how the deck communicates. If you prefer to use the intellect to access the message of the deck, I would recommend more traditional and simple decks, closer to RWS. Nonetheless I look forward to open Shadowscape box next season ☺️
What a wonderful fae/fairy collection! I really enjoyed seeing it and honestly, it was the fastest hour and ten minutes I've spent in a while. Like you, my go-to deck is the Hidden Realms but I mainly use it for Gaia and "earth change" readings. Different category from your work. A deck that I think you have and that my mind loosely puts into the folklore and story category (not fae) is the Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg mainly because of Shakov's fame as an illustrator of folk tales and the deck is the same type of art. Thank you for a really enjoyable video!
I have Wild Wisdom of the Faery deck and sadly it's the other version. I wanted the one you have but ended up with one with borders that are bright and I don't like them at all. I'm hoping I can eventually find one of the older version for a decent price but if not I might end up chopping the borders off!!!
I like some of these, but The Forest of Enchantment Tarot was the first fairytale/magical wood tarot that connected with me. I bought it on my birthday, and I love using it. Every card has archétypes that I’ve worked with my whole life. Speaks to my inner child.
Watching this again, from beginning to end this time during a reading, allow me to discover titles I missed in the first watch. I have Shadowscapes and although I am relatively new (to reading for others) , I disagree for it to be a beginner’s deck. Even having foundational RWS knowledge, some images are way too abstract for a intuitive-only reader. This deck comes with a book but I am practical and I need to get the meaning without too much effort. I would say Shadowscape is better for someone who at least understand the fairy and elemental world to try to find new meanings within the symbolism in addition to basic RWS knowledge. I purchased the Mythic Fairy Tarot but it doesn’t read fairy to me, reads like high elf or humans with pointy ears, I mean, not even an attempt to make them tiny. It is a sweet deck and is great for love readings because the hard cards such as the 3 of Sword look very inoffensive. However, after just few readings I determined it’s best to find a new home for this deck. I got the Fairy Lights Tarot to complement Shadowscape and Lo Scarabeo’s Fairy Tarot and I absolutely love the fae otherworldly element of it, check them out if you haven’t purchased them already. I’ll check out Rackham’s oracle, I need a good faerie oracle. Thank you for your videos ☺️ #Namastè
I used to be really thrown by 2 sided decks but since I've evolved to reading jumpers a great deal of the time, I realized just yesterday I xouod just as easily shuffle face up if I'm reading only jumpers. I also think there are times where it's perfectly fine to pick cards you are drawn to rather than doing completely random card layouts... there are so many different things you can do with tarot and ways you can read it.
Thank you for sharing, I am always on the go so I have to be selective which decks to add to my collection that can work well with the fairies energy, both as elementals and as it’s own species in a form recognizable by humans. Lo Scarabeo Fairy Tarot is one you should check out, I prefer how the suits are depicted (the art style choice) contrary to the rather cartoonish style of the major arcana. Although initially tempted to edit the major arcana out of the deck and read the suits as oracle it stroked me that it would be a kin to ripping the pages out of the novel you like because you don’t like certain chapters or passages. Instead I’ve got the Mystic Faerie Tarot which I use in tandem with the Tarot of The Old Path and I particularly love how well those 3 compliment each other. Another way I do it is to pull an oracle card (THANK YOU for introducing me to The Faerie Oracle I’m getting it) as the “Speaker” and from there I get the full message using a deck or two that FEELS RIGHT, one deck explains the situation and another that advices on how to handle it. Thank you for sharing your collection 🙏🏼 Namastè 🕊
A lot of CBR decks feel fairy tale/nursery rhyme to me... "cow jumped over the moon" kind of stuff which I think, if you connect with that, and I do, it speaks to our earliest existence in this carnation, even before what we would think of as "inner child" but back so far in our subconscious before the "rules" and prejudices and the repressions and conformities and all of that stuff is effectively imposed upon us, when we are in effect our true selves and dont yet know any other way to be. Some small children even remember past lives or being in spirit form (I think around 7 we begin to forget or start to think that we "made it up" or just imagined it.) Anyway,epic run on sentance but I quite adore that nursery tale energy (and it gets so heavily borrowed from in things like Alice In Wonderland and Peter Pan especially which is probably why they have such a special place in my heart also.) I'm not sure I quite got to the heart of exactly what I wanted to say but hopefully it makes sense.
Fantastic! Thank you for doing this, and your insights are incredibly helpful. I too think the Brian Froud deck is the ultimate...and true tricksters, I love working with them. I see many beautiful decks here, got my eye on the John Bauer, Victorian & Children of Litha. The Paulina oracle looks to be good for children/teens perhaps. Thank you!
I’m reading Michael Chabon’s, Summerland. I thought of you. The audio version is read by him. You’d love it! A beautiful story about a boy and faeries.
Haha it was me who asked about mermaids. :) *winning* I LOVE that mermaid Oracle deck. I have it. Magically water/cups goes with fall for me but in my head water is summer. I think I might start using the mermade Oracle to guide me towards what kinds of magic to work with because that's what it feels like to me. I ca. Read them in other ways but they really pull me towards "mermade magick."
Get the Mystic Faerie new edition; its borderless and the artwork looks more storybook-like. I'm so sad that I gave away my Wisdom of the Faery oracle because the brown faery star back version is OOP 😭
lol Same thought on t he Magician's stache in the Tarot of the Hidden Realm. I love this deck! I've had it for about 1.5 years and did a lot of readings with it.
What's your most whimsical decks? Would love to see your whole collection lol. Edit: speaking of mermaids decks, I think you would love the Dame Darcy Tarot, I would have bought it if it wasn't too expensive. But I understand that a lot of labour goes into making indie tarot decks, that's why I don't blame anyone for pricing their decks very high.
I just got my first fae deck, one that just got released yesterday, Oracle of the Fairies by Karen Kay. I have about 20ish tarot and oracle decks, and this is my first deck that is fae, I don't normally drift to the fairy decks, and I must say this one is beautiful, the energy is so pure and innocent and the imagery is so vibrant and stunning, have you seen it yet? :) x
Speaking of Fae and liminal spaces.... I saw a movie tonight that you might like Kelly. It was called "The Hole In the Ground" and it had a VERY Fae/liminal space feel to it that I think you'll really enjoy (as long as you enjoy creepy movies, anyway.)
Brian frouds faeries! Love them... dont know if you have them??? Its amazing how many faerie decks there are out there. Oh i love the twilight realm deck!!! Its one of my absolute favourites... i hope you get to try it out it might suprise you...or not as the case may be!
I want a fairytale tarot so so SO bad. I can't afford the whimsical or the fairytale by lisa hunt or any baba studio decks. It's so frustrating. I have the arthur rackham oracle (the one for 35) but I have no tarot deck for it. 😭😭 I'm so hoping for a break one day, either having the funds to buy one of those expensive decks or finding one cheap. Saw them pass me by so many times on the fb groups already and as much as I'm happy for other people, really, it just makes me sad everytime because I know I'll never have a deck like that 😔
... with the Card Deck of the Sidhe... and the more Elven and more conventional Tarot of the Sidhe I've found decks that work for me. The latter works wonderfully well as a Tarot ... and the guiding hand from faerie is certainly there. I'm still awaiting decks that show the various und flickering shapes and figures of the Fae. (Rackham, Bauer and Froud ... direct in that way, but are not even half way there.) It's somewhat unfortunate, that Victorian Fairy and Elves along with human notions, fantasies, pop culture and convention dominate the decks released to date so much.
Wow ... I do like faeries very much - yet I haven't found a deck that suits me. I need weird, creepy, lovely, shape-shifting, elemental, trickster, ugly, sexual, nature based, tree folk, humanoid, animal-like, strange, wild, anti-sexual, creative, flickering, watery-fluid, 10.000 genders, sacred, clumsy, gigantic, hilarious, wise, shadowy, light, knotty, mossy, haunting, magical, conscious, truthful, orange and gray morality ... faeries. Maybe I'd like to have such a faerie deck as a tool to deal with expectations, societal delusions and dysfunctions, toxic normativities and relations(hips), stereotypes, prejudices, marginalisation, traps, old wounds, creativity, the road less traveled, realising repressed potentials, change, discovering deeper primordial truths, breaking the binary, ...
Words *are* magick. Even the bible says, "in the beginning there was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the word was God" And the whole world was created FROM WORDS. "And the Lord said 'Let there be light' and there was light." (Not Christian anymore nut there are clues to truth hidden in that old tome ;) )