What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Giovanni caselli's artwork is absolutely first-rate all the way. Guidebook is well researched and presented.
If the cards are laid in order, side by side, they form five continuous friezes.
The rest of the deck is quite masculine, concerning the spiritual and worldly journeys of the young male seeker from novice to grand master. There is a fair amount of * swordfighting along the way.
Card zero is the grail seeker, card one is the gnostic christ, card two is mary magdalene, card three is queen sheba. Can be read intuitively or with standard meanings interchangeably.
Highlights
Quality
People i have shown it to seem delighted with the way the major cards join together to make one large painting
This is matthews at his best working with the matter of britain and the mythic underpinnings of the western mystery tradition
While the pip cards are fully rendered scenes i agree that the traditional symbolism is either not present or confusingly mixed
In very few cases do the numbers of pips depicted match up with the number of the card
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
each, right, stock and spiritual. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 48 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 29 2022.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Card zero is the grail seeker card one is the gnostic christ card two is mary magdalene card three is queen sheba and so on
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Incidentally the arthurian legends are only briefly touched upon since matthews and his wife caitlin have explored that theme in depth in many other works
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However the imagery does not always clearly symbolize the divinitory meanings and especially does not have the traditional riderwaite symbolism
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Thus it is not easy to use for divination
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Eventually i hope to carefully study and learn the symblolism but i have to say a lot of the cards show a person walking or in some other way going from here to there not noticing a stone or a grail
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It seems that the symbolism seems to repeat variations on this theme which i think will render it hard to read
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The meaning is not obvious from the picture and the names of the major cards have often been changed to something unrecognizable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The deck is very male oriented
Review Count History
Price History
