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This video is such a delight. Thank you for this lovely conversation and information. I am in love with this art style and could listen for hours to the stories / personal meanings of the cards. Would be awesome if the two of you did a long video going over the cards. The two of you compliment one and other in such an inspiring way. I would like to buy a deck, but don't have / do Instagram.... Is there another way to purchase it? Again, thank you for this lovely video Robert and Jacopo 🙏❤

Loved this wonderful interview and the deck interview was so fun! I ordered my deck a month or so ago! looking forward to receiving it

what a beautiful path to this great tarot deck - stunning and powerful collages. 🔥❤

I like the 'deconstructed' version of the 2 of Cups couple. I also proceeded to read the poem, Tyger. At 37, I have entered the age of poetry. All in all, a very interesting interview, gentlemen. Thank you!

This was wonderful and very exciting!

The Seth material became my "holy book" about 5 or 6 years ago. I sincerely wish I would have found it when I was a young adult. The more you listen to it or read it, the more you learn.❤❤ Thank you for spreading positivity and love!! 💕

Seth just says everything correctly! I'm so happy I found your channel. You feel like my people. ❤❤

an inviting and engrossing deck, every card has so many layers of detail, full of intrigue, encoraging ideas and imaginations and justapositions. A lovely set to use, and value in it's own right as a work of art. what a great arist.

A fantastic deck, my favourite card was the Moon.

Loved the art! About the Prudence card, Paul Huson associates it with The Wheel of Fortune

What a fabulous deck and wonderful collage art. Thank you Robert and Jacobo ❤

yay!! i am so happy to see this deck and its wonderful creator getting all their flowers! 💐 the burning tiger tarot is one of my favorite decks ever. jacopo made so many good creative choices both with the actual card designs and the way the deck feels and handles. so happy to see this pop up on my feed! ❤❤️‍🔥🌹

Wonderful artist and splendid cards. It was a pleasure to follow this interview

I very much enjoyed this. I am always interested in talking about deck creation. And I loved your interview spread. I think there is much to be learned about the tarot by having that collaboration with the unknown in creating one's own deck. I have done my own Majors deck and it has made me really focus on those 22 cards and the fact that not many work with majors only and the importance of their insertion as major lessons into our lives.

Thank you sol much dear Róbert for the modt Professional review ❤

I usually don't go for collage decks but I really like this one!

reminds me of "the transformational tarot" by arnell ando. 😊 i love collage decks!

So interesting opinion. It has nurished to me. Can you give your opinion about Alejandro Jodoroswky and his view aboout marseille tarot, please? Thank you.

Amazing tarot cards - beautiful designs.

This is quite a visually stunning deck, if a bit “busy,” as you allude to, Robert. I’m rather partial to the Strength card, as its central figures are easily recognizable (and I expect, readable).

In my humble opinion, Pavlov’s The High Priestess is absolute perfection: stylistically, symbolically, and metaphorically.

“Tarot cards are about tarot cards.” Well said, Robert!👏👏👏

What a simply brilliant approach! I did daily 3-card spreads just inquiring about that day’s energy for the first 5mos I owned my first (“Tiny Tarot” RWS) deck. It gave me the confidence to buy my first full-sized deck!

Robert, your Rohring deck review was simply delightful! I was laughing like a schoolgirl! I guess the best description would be “erotic”.

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for improving my vocabulary, Robert! (Today’s word is “Nadir”.)

BRILLIANT!!! Thank you, Robert!!

Those “little white books,” in my humble opinion, are part of the reason why tarot is seen negatively. The ignorance they perpetuate is astonishing!

Bless you, Robert! As a sufferer with major depression and mild OCD, I find the tarot shuts off the “chattering monkeys” in my mind. Admittedly, at first I was scared off of tarot (RWS imagery). After some time of reflection, I purchased the RWS “tiny tarot. I thought the modest investment would give me an excuse if tarot still wasn’t for me. I used that deck (shuffling is quite the challenge) for 5mos, doing 1 or 3 card daily pulls. Last month I boldly bought a Randleigh Valentine deck, and haven’t looked back! My deck is lovely, empowering and simply a joy to learn with. I’m reading only for myself, weekly, doing more sizable spreads. The time spent learning the tarot has been wonderful! My husband fully supports me. I’ve spoken with him about my doubts/reservations, and how I’m boldly moving forward. He tells me to take what I need, and leave the rest. My tarot journey, at present, is one of learning and self-examination. Where it will lead, I have no idea! Thanks to you, Robert, I feel confident in that journey!

As a newbie, thank you for this! So much nonsense surrounding tarot, giving it a bad rap (in certain circles). “Let’s have fun with it!” Well said, Sir!!!👏👏👏

Yeah, Crowley. He gives me the icks. Lady Freida Harris doesn't get enough credit. I really think it's her deck. The Star Tarot guidebook is much better than his book.

Thanks for your great review

A tough task. I didn't read the book before immersing into the deck. And I mean immersing into the atmosphere of each card. That, to me, is what makes it unique ... immersive rather than descriptive. Only after that, did the book make sense. I think what Crowley (or rather Frieda) did well was illustrate multi-dimensions, physics and chemistry as best they could through art.

This is my deck ! I like it... glad I ignored the LWB though.

Arrgh! I have a strongly negative view of those little white books! And I so greatly appreciate decks, such as one designed by Julien Pacaud, that exclude those pesky things. Most of the time, I just end up struggling in terms of what to do with them. My instinct tells me to bin them because there is no educational purpose to them, and all they do is get in the way of putting the cards back in the box. Then I start thinking, What if I want to review decks in the future? Then I will have to keep them so others can see what was included in the box. What's worse, I will actually have to thoroughly read all that nonsense in order to offer a proper review. So I am stuck! Sorry, Robert, I got carried away here 😄Your review was superb! And I love this tinned centennial edition of RWS-without a white booklet-that is 🤣

I think these were badly interpreted but I can see how the cards could have reflected what happened

Now Robert, I do take issue with one point raised in this video. I live by the seaside - that salty sea air might rust the tin and damage those lovely cards! 😅 But seriously, always enjoy your reviews (books and decks). My memory may be wrong, but I think I remember that the LWB from the Universal Waite is equally confusing. On a different note, I recently purchased both the Aquarian and Morgan-Greer in tins - fab!

Living for that pink. 👍

I would love to see the Scarabeo decks compared to the US games RWS. Thanks again Robert!

I do think that of the mass marketed RWS decks, the Centennial in a tin, is the best (for me). The only thing about it I regret is the ubiquitous copyright detail printed on every card. After this was published they started hiding the copyrights in the back designs, but they could still be seen. None of the other publishers were so insistent on displaying their copyrights. As to the borderless edition, the extra bits really bothered me, especially, a couple of cards with overhead foliage, I think the Magician was one of them showing a 'squared off' bough of a tree hanging in mid-air, appearing more like an artificially trimmed topiary than natural foliage. Yecch! Not for me. As to the Albano Waite, of the alternate colorings, I prefer the Adam Fronteras version "The Tarot" OOP from the mid-90s. It unfortunately crops some of the images as opposing to adding bits like the borderless here, but I think I prefer that. I'm an RWS nerd too, and would love to see your RWS collection. I stopped counting at about 20 different versions I have. I've always disliked the LWS of the RWS decks in the U.S. Games boxes since the 1970s. They baffled me with clusters of non-synonymous key words. They put me off reading the cards every half a dozen attempts for a couple of decades until the 90s when I simply tossed the book aside and looked into my own ideas about the cards and sought better instructions elsewhere. The only thing I embraced from Waite's book was a line to the effect that the true meaning of the tarot is in the symbols/images(?) I ran with that and skipped the text. I've found key word glossaries are best built on the experiences shared by many others than dictated by one authority.

I would highly recommend M.M.Meleen and her work. She makes Thoth-inspired decks and the guidebooks are highly valuable. I would also highly recommend reading books that actually connects RWS with Thoth, as they should be. RWS is based on the same system, just a lot of things are either made purposely ambiguous or hidden completely in RWS. THE best book that finally made me understand this is Susan Chang 36 Secrets - it goes through Minor Arcana, covering RWS imagery but also referencing Thoth/Hermetic Tarot. Its absolutely invaluable and I promise you will never see RWS images the same again. :) In my mind I dont see these as separate systems no more which allows me to draw on the knowledge of both for all readings. I would also suggest the book called Tarot Deciphered written by no other but same M.M. Meleen and Susan Chang. The book also looks at both Thoth and RWS.

The Centennial Smith Waite is my favourite RWS, I like the easy colours and tea stained texture. I have the standard size with the border, the card stock feels like it contains more paper than most modern decks. A great video.

I have both the full-size and the tinned Waite Smith Centennial and, to be honest, I don't think I've ever opened the little white book. I was happy with the book that came in my earlier RWS deck and I just assumed it was the same.

I just had another look at this one. I'm living in Germany and getting the UK news at one remove - which may be a good thing, because it kind of cools down the hysteria. I'm getting comments here about how I "got it wrong" in this video, “interpreted” my own reading “badly”. I find it remarkable that a government gets in with a huge majority and within a month everyone seems to have changed their minds and now wants them out. And, though I am no card-carrying Labout party member, I wonder how much of that is staged by the right. The bottom left card in my reading does seem to predict something of this kind occurring. Let's hope that the positive predictions in the video have some accuracy over the long term. I also want to add that politics and tarot are strange bedfellows; they seem to operate at different speeds. Politics takes place in an atmosphere of extreme haste, while divination is more about slowing down and, perhaps, calming down. And here is something to think about: A tarot reader’s process belongs to himself alone. It is a communication between himself and his subconscious, or the collective unconscious. You can like it or dislike it, but there is no “actual” interpretation of the cards outside of the reader’s interpretation of the cards.

The German one has to be dipped that's for the phrase in call of duty comes from teabaging

bueno, tengo que practicar más mi inglés

I have this deck, I wasn’t sure if I wanted it when it first came out as a kickstarter. I’m annoyed at myself for not buying because after getting my copy last year, I do like it a lot more than I thought I would. And I get a decent read from it. I never really noticed that the links you made, the pentacles are my favourite funnily enough- but that’s because I never really paid attention to the links with rws. Now though, I totally get why I get good reads still. Thanks for pointing it out! 😂 I actually hate the card stock- I like its flexibility but it’s far too slippery for me.

Hey there Robert, I wrote the book and I'm glad that you enjoyed it! 😊 I wrote the book a long time ago and hopefully, I'm a better writer now. It's dense because I was writing for a particular genre that demanded that. I think that even academia is a bit more relaxed now. Sometimes I read it and cringe at how I wrote! There's so much controversy (and there was when I wrote it) around the naming of the deck by Waite and Colman Smith such that I changed my mind about 500 times around how to refer to it in this work. I am completely sympathetic to divination and I do laugh a lot! Best wishes for your continued exploration of tarot! 🥰

Hahaaa you got this one wrong didn’t you 🫠

TBH its of no real interest to anyone who is not deeply involved in the Crowleyan symbol systems of his Thelemic magick and Qabalah. Without that context it really isnt going to translate well to more general tarot readers.

Ha! I was foretelling the things to come! I believe in my previous comment I used 'terms' such as 'Jodorowsky', 'Thoth', and 'the bloody book'. With Jodorowsky, many, including . myself, suggested Yoav Ben Dov; here fellow readers are making references to Lon Milo Duquette's book. Thank you for giving this shoutout, Robert! I appreciate other readers comments and suggestions! Love, Sonia