Loading ...when i told che i was ordering the tarot of the moon garden, she very politely didn’t say what i said to myself when i started flipping through it, which was “what the HELL was i THINKING?”
it’s like a fuzzy poster in deck form. dragonflies and cloudcastles everywhere. the hermit is contemplating an enormous, garish butterfly. it… i mean… ok, the sun card has a my little pony on it. no, really. NO REALLY.
worst of all, there’s not a trace of nudity anywhere in the whole deck. gah!!
but i gave it a chance, and it was actually pretty easy, if embarrassing, to read with. finally, it hit me why i like it in spite of everything. it reminds me of my friend jody from fourth grade. she was the friend i could talk to about “spooky” stuff. we played with xener cards for hours, stood in the bathroom in the dark trying to get bloody mary to come outta the mirror, tried to hypnotize everyone who’d let us, all that kind of thing. this deck looks like it was drawn by her - the profiles, the horses, the way the hair is portrayed, the banners, everything. she really could have drawn this. (mind you, SHE WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD. my point.) i was utterly in awe of both her hair and her artistic ability, and the moon garden deck IS jody.
no accounting for connection sometimes.
(*this post may or may not be substantially the same as the one i tried to post earlier this week. and you will all probably care exactly as little.)
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Hey, its a nice deck. I especially like the Hello Kitty hierophant.
(Hello Hierophant)
But srsly, its cool you can make a powerful connection to your childhood through it. It may end up being a very potent deck for you.
Now, if I can just get that damn moon shadow song out of my head.
I got my own “moon-related” tarot today. Notice that Steff got a moon garden, whereas I got a deviant moon. I absolutely love the deck though. I can’t gush over it enough. It was worth the wait, though the wait was grueling (5 days from atlanta?!).
I love the My Little Pony image. I suppose the connection thing is a good thing, but I would have a hard time keeping myself from laughing while using it! Then again, if you grew up with MLP and Hello Kitty, I guess it would seem a bit less hilarious.
Those childhood connections to the spooky are so important. My sister, my cousins, and I would use the Ouija Board (Spirituality by Parker Brothers) to connect to the ghost that lived in their house.
The same ghost that saved them from a fire one night by waking my uncle. The house burned down, he made it out alive.
No Tarot decks associated with it, however.
Forget the rest. Moongarden is for Strawberry Shortcake. I hate rainbows.
I worship the DEVIANT MOON. Love it