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« on: Jan 19, 2010, 04:10 PM » |
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I have a tradtion that I do each new years season. I order up a blank deck and then spend the month of january making a tarot deck. Sometimes I draw them out with a black sharpie, sometimes I use an artist ink pen sometimes I use colored sharpies, sometimes I use pastels and then laquer them, sometimes I cut pictures from magazines and scan to shrink and do a collage.
As soon as they are done Natalia scoffs them up bags them and places them in a hidden place that she thinks I don't know about, roflmao. She is a deadly traditionalist and many times critisises my "free flowing bull s*it". But she keeps them all and has since we were married 10 years ago...the ones prior to that I got to keep in box. I have one deck I did many years ago on birch bark with a wood burner. Very Koldun traditional.
So I am just wondering? Have any of you ever created a deck?
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« Reply #1 on: Jan 19, 2010, 04:35 PM » |
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Not exactly. Years ago, there was this idea that a deck you make yourself is 'more powerful', lol, this bit of lore made it into a lot of the old Tarot books. A friend of mine started copying the RWS and got overwhelmed, she hired me to help. I've never made an original Tarot deck, but I was making oracle sets last year. I burned them on mesquite slices, very folk arty. Sold about half a dozen and the market was tapped, lol. I'll look for a link.
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« Reply #3 on: Jan 19, 2010, 04:50 PM » |
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TakofTiki
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« Reply #4 on: Jan 19, 2010, 05:10 PM » |
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I have never been one to believe that a deck you create yourself holds more "power" then any other deck. I do however think that creating a deck is a good thing to do. It does force you to consider other things than yourself. I have been doing this for a number of years, and it has helped me to get a deeper understanding of individual cards.
AND? It is so much fun, especially when that last one is done......lol.
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« Reply #5 on: Jan 19, 2010, 05:12 PM » |
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I've been working on it since 1998. The problem? I'm a bit of a perfectionist...
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TakofTiki
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« Reply #6 on: Jan 19, 2010, 05:31 PM » |
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I've been working on it since 1998. The problem? I'm a bit of a perfectionist...
Natalia says I am into "free flowing bulls*t". I think when I started this years ago it was like a seasonal thing? took months to do? The reason I posted this was I just completed the deck for this year. Granted I started it shortly after Thanksgiving? Or there abouts....My point is this year was faster then most. |
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« Reply #7 on: Jan 19, 2010, 05:46 PM » |
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I've been working on it since 1998. The problem? I'm a bit of a perfectionist...
PLEASE do not take offence to this but the very first thought that grabbed my mind when you wrote this post? From 1998? to 2010? Was there is a difference between "perfectionist" and anal....lol. Seroiusly, you need to finish it. A finished deck is a great feeling. Even if all you do is pack it away in a box. PLEASE do not be offended by this. |
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« Reply #8 on: Jan 19, 2010, 05:58 PM » |
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PICS, GAIZ!!1!  |
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« Reply #9 on: Jan 19, 2010, 06:58 PM » |
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I have no real artistic talent so I shudder to think about what I would create! LOL
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« Reply #10 on: Jan 19, 2010, 07:08 PM » |
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I think somebody made a stick people Tarot. And got paid. :/
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« Reply #12 on: Jan 19, 2010, 07:25 PM » |
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I suspect that one day? Natalia will find a printer and publish my decks. I think she views it as some kind of 401K plan.
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« Reply #13 on: Jan 19, 2010, 11:00 PM » |
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I'm curious Tak...
Have you ever taken the opportunity to go back through those old decks. I like to write short stories and often do this with them. Most of the time I end up thinking to myself...WTH!?! lolol. Some of the stuff I wrote as a teenager is particularly perplexing. It may end up being like poetry though. With this I tend to find similar subject matter that fits well together. Sort of like a puzzle with pieces that are found through time. Who knows, you may end up combining them in a way that will become one of the most prolific decks ever created.
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« Reply #14 on: Jan 19, 2010, 11:12 PM » |
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I'm curious Tak...
Have you ever taken the opportunity to go back through those old decks. I like to write short stories and often do this with them. Most of the time I end up thinking to myself...WTH!?! lolol. Some of the stuff I wrote as a teenager is particularly perplexing. It may end up being like poetry though. With this I tend to find similar subject matter that fits well together. Sort of like a puzzle with pieces that are found through time. Who knows, you may end up combining them in a way that will become one of the most prolific decks ever created.
shhhhhh! That is why I am stashing them away. I understand my husband's artistic voice better then he does. |
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