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How fun. I didn’t see the first part… gonna have to go check that one out too. 😊❤

I really related to your closing ramble about rambling. I also find myself put off by my own blabbering. But the flip side is that I love your monologuing, so keep it up!

Love this so much, Kelly! I missed the original, but am off to view that now. I love the Melanated Classic, had it but gave it to a friend who was just starting out learning tarot. (I want it back, please!!!! 🤦🏻‍♀️😂🤦🏻‍♀️) The Herbal Tarot was one of my first decks which I bought directly from Michael Tierra at an herbal conference. I couldn’t believe there was a tarot deck with herbal correspondences! I still have it all these decades later. I love how you compared the cards at the end, fun and insightful. Feeling a VR coming on! It feels like whenever I watch one of your tags I get inspired to do a VR!!!! Great video, thanks for sharing. I’m glad you continue to speak out about the importance of representation in modern tarot decks, with you on that . It really is important. ❤

I have seen the Fyodor Pavlov tarot so many times and I didn't think it was for me until now. Now it's on my list to eventually buy.

Also, This Might Hurt Tarot is the most relatable deck for public readings! But I looooooove Moon Baby

That herbal tarot is so cute, I've nearly got it in the past but I'm so picky about herbalism resources!

I bloody LOVE the herbal tarot. I got it recently and I’m enjoying it so much. The proper guidebook that you can get for it is so informative. I personally love the 70s/80s art for it and just how funny some of the plant placements are (the massive garlic in the tower always makes me laugh). It’s what I wanted The Herbcrafters Tarot to be for me in terms of the connection I feel to it.

Frosting might be a better word.😅

I don’t know anything about herbs really, but I’ve always loved the look of the Herbal Tarot. Those colors are just lovely, and I love how the large plants make the people look small :)

Hey there KB - I purchased the Melanated tarot when you first showed it because I thought it was really cool. When I received it and started to play with it I was pleasantly surprised to see that all the characters looked like a lot of the people I grew up with!! That's really really cool!! btw are you familiar with the " Movie Tarot" by Diana McMahon Collision-it uses modern movie stars in its depictions and it's fun trying to guess who the star is. It has a cool tag line on the box "BE GUIDED BY THE STARS" - fantastic for movie buffs!

Nice collection. That Prague deck, Gorge! 😂😂😂SPRITZ🎉OmGoddess thank you, made my night. Love crazy fun decks like that.

I finally finished watching this now that I was able to order the deck. I’m so excited about it. It looks incredible. 💜🌈 I’m just starting to get into the Marseille and I definitely prefer Charlie’s style and colours to the originals.

I'm playing with RWS, but finding TdM easier to learn because there are fewer resources available.

What a fabulous pub you've created, Kelly! I absolutely adore this video. Thank you so, so much. As a Marseille lover, I also agree with many of your choices. Greetings from Spain

"A wax seal always feels a bit luxe dunnit?" big agree, love any little details like that. What a treat to have a second instalment, thank you so much, I loved seeing all these gorgeous pip decks!

uhmmm I also think pink edging would be cute for the Gay Marseille, though I love blue&pink together so I may be biased 🤭 That pink Patrick Valenza is 😍 thanks for sharing, this was fun! 🙏😊

I still remember like it was yesterday when my dad took me to the cinema to see Jurassic Park 🥹 I was 6, and that is when my dinosaur obsession started 🦖 amazing video, I have just started studying Marseille and your videos are one of the reasons why 😂

Yes, a walkthrough please! Of the enormous deck😅

I'm contemplating whether I want to edge the Gay Marseille in sea foam or in lilac, so I am no help there. 😔 Strapping in to watch the whole video, may come back with more comment.

I have the same version, or at least the same book (eighth printing, 2021.) Got mine in 2022 and 20 years ago this deck would have been just my taste 😅 Still like it though it is a bit cheezy and def not diverse enough. My deck is glossy, but not superglossy, more like the classical llewellyn cardstock?🤔😊

I just got this deck too Kelly. The art, colours and less traditional look all spoke to me... But I wondered if perhaps Id have some issues reading with it. Im going to give myself some time to do a more indepth deck study to rrally try and dig in and getbto know it. Tjank you sl much for the comparison. Just what I meeded. 😊 🙌

I like most of these pairings, though the Ostara was a bit too busy imho. I didn't cut my Sweet Twilight and never will. But maybe I'll take a dark blue permanent marker and block out some of the titles. Usually I don't mind, though this has a bit many. While I do not tend to pair my decks, this one I sometimes pull 3 cards from and then 3 extra cards with playing cards: Tarot: 1 place I am - 2 challenge/obstacle/chasm/huge river/risk/danger...- 3 place I want to be playing card: 3 cards for the path to go, a bridge, stepping stones... something like that The combi of that surreal Sweet Twighlight deck and plain playing card symbols give me enough of an Alice in Wonderland vibe, that this combi successfully killed my fomo for any Alice deck.

It's interesting to hear your thoughts on the Anima Mundi deck. I came to this video after having watched your animal decks video, where you also brought it up, and people seemed to agree with you in the comments. I know other people, too, who struggle with the deck. So I feel like I'm the odd one out because I don't struggle with it 😅 I spent 3.5 years with The Wild Unknown (and The Wildwood, to a lesser degree) before I got Anima Mundi at the very start of 2020. My copy is all dinged up now. I've acquired a lot more decks in recent years, most of them heavy on the storytelling, but I find that Anima Mundi just... gets straight to the point. There's no fuss. No searching around. Sometimes it feels like a bummer because the cards will tell me what I already know, and I don't get "anything extra". But other times that's very refreshing, to just get the essence of it. And it's like the cards are saying "why the f you asking us? you already know what's up??" 😂 That can be uplifting and affirmative in and of itself. If I dig deeper and ask more questions, I'll get answers that I perhaps didn't know, and they will be short, sweet, to the point. So I think... Anima Mundi is a deck for me. We're great together. Perhaps Anima Mundi is not a deck for you. That's okay. I got Mary-el back in 2022 and I cannot with that deck. I pull cards and I sit there staring at them like a big f-ing question mark. Yet *I know* other people have amazing reading experiences with that deck without ever having to go to the guidebook for answers. It just be like that with decks sometimes.

I think you got your Wild Unknown Tarot in 2015 🙂 I *know* I got mine in 2016. It was independently published, but some cards are different from your edition. My independent edition is identical to the mass market, *except* that Justice is black and white in mine. So logic would indicate that you got yours sometime before 2016, then Kim Krans made some changes and released a new edition, which I bought in 2016, then it went mass market with the rainbow Justice card as a last change.

You’re so good at picking out colours that work together, this was so much fun!

This was fun! 😊 thanks for sharing Kelly! 🙏💖

I lobbed those borders off Sweet Twilight in an instant! 😜 I’m surprised your ✂️ hasn’t made an appearance yet 😉 Zeke’s and Titania are destined to be together! 😍

I lobbed those borders off Sweet Twilight in an instant! 😜 I’m surprised your ✂️ hasn’t made an appearance yet 😉

Hope you are well ❤

I miss your face Kelly 😊

So fun! Love seeing all your lovely pairings 💓

Love your picks. The tarot of the magical forest looks so much better trimmed. 😊

😂 you had no intention of liking the deck.

That was so much fun, Kelly! I am definitely going to do a VR and was thinking of my choices as you went through the prompts. We have a couple of overlaps. Thanks for sharing! Really enjoyed ❤❤

Fantastic. Thanks for the upload.

I've almost pulled the trigger on this deck for years, but the fact that there's no diversity really bugs me, I feel that I'd never use it over the Tarot Interdit 🤔 thanks for sharing your thoughts on it 🙏

This is great! 🍻 I will totally include your bonus prompt in my VR. Two videos? Amazing -- because nothing goes with a cocktail like another cocktail. 🍸I am going to like hearing people's drink tastes in this one - ours tastes intersect at Old Fashioned, which somehow doesn't surprise me.

Hey kelly, I really enjoyed this video. can't wait to see the Marseille version. Im tempted to do a VR 🤎

Hey, Kelly! This video was so much fun. I love your enthusiasm. I relate to what you said about the Year in the Wildwood - I think following the book too strictly actually impeded my bonding with the deck. I did finish it, but I learned through the process that I much prefer short, intense studies over extended ones.