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22/08/24
listening to: kill of the night - gin wigmore
maybe i'll finally make some progress with the voyager tarot. i've had it for years and there's always something a little off about it that bumps it further down the queue. first it was the weird green border color, took me a while to get over it. then it was the card-stock/lamination, that thing feels like it's made of place-mats. but i sanded it down a bit, it's less sticky now. (but hey, maybe the thick lamination is paying off - it has yet to acquire the gunk spots that are a bane of newer/more cheaply made decks).
for meanings it does its own system. kind of like minors-as-majors, something i sometimes use with pip decks, but the keywords it assigns can be confusing and not match up with my numerology (they're not neutral, like 6 of cups is "sorrow", even though it's supposed to represent the emotional aspect of the lovers). some of the keywords are great - i like what they're doing with the courts, like "man of wands - actor", or "sage of cups - regenerator", so i wouldn't want to trim them off. and it wouldn't be a problem at all if i could rely on the images, which is what i prefer in a reading. i rely on them to see the flow of the message/energy/whatever you want to call it between cards. but the collaged images are so busy, there's no foreground or background or focal point. it's all equally "valuable". it definitely works if you consider each card individually, there's always a new detail to focus on or catch your attention, allowing for myriad interpretations. but they don't (visually) build the story for me, i can only try to do that with language as i go card-by-card.
i know it's a well thought out deck and perhaps the system itself is excellent/perfectly up my alley, alas i don't seem to be able to get it to click in my head with how much importance i place to the images in general and how overwhelming and distracting they are in this deck. so let's give it a proper try. if this fails, next time around i'm getting the source- and work-book.
StarTree, the Voyager workbook
