#LovesMeNotDecks 

I contacted Jeremy Hush a long time ago about his artwork, he says it's a mix of intentional and existing, but that even the old pieces were made with tarot in mind, and that the majority were the new pieces. So he might be eccentric, but he didn't just paste on a number. I'm always surprised, when such questions come up, that people don't go to the artist themselves and ask them. I've done that several times and they've always been happy to answer.

Ohhh! I like that Ostara deck’s take on The Devil - he’s got the people in a killing jar!

A lot of tarot publishers now go directly to kickstarter to look for reliably popular projects to reprint. I completely understand feeling iffy when the deck I backed soon after sells for 1/3 the price I paid, it has happened to me several times. In fairness, the Kickstarter version is exactly what the artist wanted, vs. the mass market where they have virtually no control over the card stock and other things. But my question is - what are they supposed to do? Not accept a contract and a chance for their deck to become popularized, thus giving them a chance to crate more decks in the future? I have a hard time holding this against creators. When we support a kickstarter campaign, we accept the risks - including never getting the finished product, or having that deck become mass market. It's just the nature of the beast. The ultimate goal of kickstarter is to support the artist, and I am thrilled for the creators I've backed who have gone on to have mass market reprints because this is what they ultimately wanted for themselves.

‘Even he is hot” 😂 I love the commentary!

Those are the decks that I absolutely love: the Cosmic Cards Deck (Holographic Edition), Making Magick mini, Forest Fae mini, Divine Doors mini, the Accurate AF Tarot, the Victorian Romantic Tarot, The Empyrean Tarot, and the Ritual Tarot. I have other decks that almost love to the same level, like Morgan's tarot ( but I modified mine), Inner Child Oracle (indie), Treads of Fate Oracle & Tarot, Tarot in Wonderland, Seasons of the Witch Oracles (Collection), and Wild Child Tarot & Oracle. I can keep going, but I have an extensive collection! And I love all my decks. 😍🥰

I have many decks and it really surprised me I have none of those. LOL!!

Surrounded by so many decks and haven't found the perfect one (your ideal match). Such as life! I highly encourage you to make your own and for your very own eyes. There is a tarotuber that makes his own out of pictures from books, magazines, etc.. and laminates them, which I found something very fun to do (if you don't have the $ to publish your own). I regard my tarot decks as pieces of music, I don't always like to listen to the same song. Just as my soul chooses the music I listen to, I also let my soul pick the deck for that specific moment/time. Love your videos and your insights. Cheers!

Llewellyn deck packaging makes me absolutely crazy. If I have to keep it in a giant box, it's just that much harder to use and I just end up never getting it out. Fine. Make a big box. Take up the space in the shop to capture eyes. But for Pete's sake give me a smaller tuck box or a drawstring bag. Anything to contain the cards so I can keep them handy and actually use them.

I feel exactly the same about the Unfolding Path but whenever I see a deck that I have backed on kickstarter become readily available or gone mass market I like to think 'You're welcome everyone' 😂

absolutely LOVE these reviews, much better than all positive and so helpful when buying it , Particularly like the review of the guidebooks as I am always looking for great one - thank you wishing you a wonderful day

Agree with everything you said about the Ostara Tarot. I wrote the card names on my copy with a sharpie.

What made me give up on the Chrysalis is it gets some UK folklore totally wrong. I forget which card as it was so long ago but it's the one with rags hanging from a tree. They represented this as celebration of getting a wish. AFAIK (I'm from UK) the clootie rags are not to celebrate getting what you want, but prayers to get something. Pagans feel free to correct me - loved the art, hated the erroneous appropriation.

Illustrator Carlota Santos aka Carlotydes is the creator of the deck. If i'm not wrong she have her own channel on youtube. Spanish pronunciation of her name is Carlotydes with an accent in the o (as in merlot) the letter y in "tydes" sounds more like the i in "Fido" and "des" as in "destiny".

17:56 wow it really did blow my mind ❤❤❤

I hear ya on the Unfolding path Tarot. I was a little sour as well cause mine got stuck in the system for a lot longer than. It should have been due to the British mail issue. I literally got it found out the next day it was going mass market for almost 60 dollars less than what I paid for. I agree the box sucks and For what I paid not very good card stock either. I did buy the mass market just to kind of rid myself of the sourness of it all. It did work I use the mass market all the time!

I have lots of tarot decks that I love everything about them … Shimmering Veil, Circle of Doors, Abyss, SKT, Quareia … those are at the very top, wouldn’t change a thing about them, easy to read and very powerful as well as deeply insightful for me … others are Hush, Madhouse … I could go on …. wouldn’t change anything, just depends upon what I’m reading for. Blessed Be!

I don't have the perfect deck either, but I usually find my way around the annoyances. The only decks I loved for the artwork but have returned anyways are the Hush tarot (no way I could figure this one out) and the Förhäxa (cards too big and cardstock too stiff). Funny enough I only started working with the Tarot de Carlotydes recently and I really connect with it. Maybe because I'm European and the characters are familiar? I even found its Perfect Pair in the Animal Apothecary Oracle, which I've had for a long time but didn't know what to do with. Thanks for sharing yours.

Loved this so much I have now subscribed!

*applause* Yes! I have had that happen a few times: backed a kickstarter and then suddenly it's a mass market everywhere. Why bother backing it for a lot more when you can get a mass market with everyone else?

I would think the unicorn being chained to the queen of swords would mean she's so brutally honest she will cut off your fantasy!

Hahahahahaha! That torn up box!!! Yesssssss! I despise tuck boxes and I have had a fit or two.

I agree with you about the Lightseers deck, its definitely a deck of beautiful people..more than anything i find the colour palette a bit weird.. but it has a fab guide book and its so easy to read. I have had the Hush tarot on my wishlist for ages.. its mesmerising but not an easy read. The Star Tarot is kind of overwhelming.. Big boxes 😖👎

great video , 💚, i feel the same about decks with no idea what suite it is, i d rather not have to read out of a book for tarot , oracle I don't mind

Thank you for your honesty about the Unfolding Path Tarot. The exact same thing happened to me. I had been eyeing it for sometime and finally made the (costly) plunge only to have it go mass market very soon thereafter. It did feel like a betrayal. Thank you for voicing that. I still think it’s a beautiful deck and I hear the mass market comes with a book rather than a sheet of paper 🤷🏼‍♀️ Also, love your videos. Thank you for making them April!

My first Indie deck (well, 2 decks that is 😉) is coming in about a month, so I can imagion how you feel. It is so not cool if it turms mass market so soon after receiving it😢 The creator says that the oracle deck I ordered will never go mass market. But some of her previous decks have gone mass market. I just hope it will at least have a second indie run, before that. If not: I just could not pass on this deck of her's as well. As that already happened with the Crow tarot and Urban Crow oracle....I could not let these decks slip through my fingers too😅 Btw: thanks for this video. Gives a good inside next to all the "wonderful and glorious" , which makes us go to FOMO mode straight away 😉😁👍🏻🙏🏻

Someone else hates the curious creatures tarot!!! I thought I was the only one

Such a fun video to watch and love your thoughts and points on some. Decks I absolutely love and wouldn’t change: Tarot of the Abyss and The Travelers Oracle by Ashley Mead (the book is phenomenal and deep on both decks). I would say my prized possession is The Boo Tarot and The Healing Waves tarot but each of those miss something minor :/ I’m curious why you are not a fan of Curious Creatures? A lot of people love it but not sure it’s for me at all. I hope Chris Ann does a deck with more diversity (age/body). I love her artwork. I’m thinking the Wyspell deck will be similar style but with the diversity when it is released from Kickstarter.

24:38 I adore this

April, I had the exact same Kickstarter experience with another oracle deck as you did with Unfolding Path, and I felt the same way. I'm done with Kickstarter.

I agree, Chris Anne's take on tatot is magnificent! The Light Seer's Tarot seems very diverse but it actually isn't that much. I put aside cards that had ppl of colour in it and on the other side white ppl. And literally 85% of ppl were white. Plus obviously the age and body diversity is missing too. The Unfolding Path tarot kinda feel similar (modern times people deck) but different and the diversity is there. The percentage mentioned above was swapped (ppl of colour vs white ppl) plus it has body, gender mutuality and age diversity too. You mentioned that there are grey haired ppl only in cards like - the Hermit (also love that it is a woman (crone) as the hermit, no? 😀) BUT that isn't completely true, this deck has an elderly man for the Page of Cups. Absolutely amazing. The mass market eddition is wonderful, in a nice box with a lovely booklet. Feel free to check out my deep dive into it 😊 P.s. The Star Tarot is one of all time favourites too yay

Tarot of the Holy Light is meant to be riffle shuffled with that beautiful linen card stock. Terra Volatile is my perfect deck. (Major typo at 4:05 😶)

The only thing I didn't like about the light seers tarot was the court cards. But then again, I don't like the court cards in any tarot deck. 😂

My tarot de Carlotydes has a lwb

The Hush Tarot would have been better as an oracle deck. In fact, I find that true for most artists work when the art was not intentionally made for the tarot deck. Personal opinion though.

This video is such a breath of fresh air! Btw, a book came up for Tarot de Carlotydes called "Mágicas / Magical" by Carlota Santos, in case you are interested 😊

Two decks I love, Tarot of the Abyss and Tarot Nuages do not have any #LovesMeNot aspect to them. At least for me lol.

Would someone please tell me what "pipish" means lol. Wonderful video ❤

Yes I hate the split decks. They never sit correctly. Its a shame. I love a good guidebook. Because I love reading how the creator see their cards. You can still read it how you like to but its just good to know what they were thinking. I love the light seers tarot and I am nearly 55 years old the ages don't seem to bother me at all. I also love the everyday witch. I like that the everyday witches has their back in only one way. Mainly because i don't read reversals but can understand if you did it could be annoying. Makes it easy for me to check their in no reserves in the deck before I start reading. I also love the huge colourful guidebooks the Lewellyn put out. Not sure how they could package it differently without making the guidebooks smaller. I would rather have them the same way they come now then to end up with a guidebook smaller etc. I always place their deck in a tarot bags and place their guidebooks on a shelf for quick reference if i ever need them. Or read the guidebook and then place it back into the box and place it on shelf. Having such a colourful and large box reminds me about the deck. Which makes me use it more often. I hate the tuck boxes. They always usually end up damaging your cards in the long run. Those decks also usually end up in a tarot bag. This video shows me how everyone has their things they like or hate about tarot or oracle decks. Which is always interesting. The fifth spirit tarot guidebook, I find is really good. I Love how the guidebook describes the court cards. I have never really bonded with the Unfolding Path Tarot which is strange as I totally love The Light Seers Tarot and people talk all the time about these decks being so a like. I also have both the indie and mass market copies of the Unfolding Path Tarot. And yes they came out on top of each other. Which was disappointing for me also. The Kickstarter copy has got a terrible box. YEEK! ......I also don't like pips decks either which you spoke about in your video. . Thank you for the video. It got me thinking.

I never understand why ppl have to find themself in the deck. Like more body size, older ppl and so on. Cant we start appreciate ART for being just ART. if chris anne where to adjust her art to make everyone else happy and make it something else it would not be her deck, or her art. At this point every deck that comes out with humans looks the same. (Mostly). Im not reading to see a portrait art piece of myself.

That indie vs mass market thing is very common. Unfolding Path, Lightseers, Ethereal Tarot... Highly unethical IMO.

Really love your take on the decks but I had to stop watching because that bell chime at every new deck was getting on my nerves.