august decks

margarete petersen and the othrysian tarot i brought these out a week early so this is actually a two-weeks-in report. margarete petersen... it's like a cross between the ritual tarot and the thoth? it has the elemental energy of the ritual tarot with the magical feeling of the thoth. it's like thoth but pure subconscious. the art is sparse enough for one card to not really be enough per spread position, but also so abstract that i can't visually read the conversation of neighboring cards in an open reading. so it's a little vague and frustrating to work with, but undeniably deep. i find i need to sort of feel into each card separately and then try to discern the meaning from the conversation of the "energies" between the cards?? it's also a little distracting how different the majors are from the minors (i prefer the minors). i've had this one for years and it's one of those that i can't really give up on. you can tell the artist put decades of work into it, but during my ownership i…