Elfin wrote:Hi again..... Looking at your message above , posted at 11:11.... And sorry , can't ignore that. By me voicing it, that is my way of acknowledgement. ( Sorry !)..... Gosh, you have a lot of decks!... I have about a dozen. I will have to check some of them out. Do the prices vary that much ?.. I thought they were all roughly a standard price... Between £11.99 and £13.99.... UK prices. I can agree entirely that sometimes it's the artwork that draws us. I believe the artwork in itself is important in order to connect more with the cards. It would be like putting wallpaper on your walls that you don't like... !!!
Ha, I didn't see the 11:11 as for me it says 12:11. I'm an hour ahead, mainland Europe, The Netherlands, hihi.
My first posting I did spot it said 23:11. We have 24 hr time notation so to me that reads as 11:11.
I do like double digits for sure! And especially the 23:11 one seems to stick to me, lol. I've seen it every day for about 2 weeks. Then it got less but I still regularly see it!
Anywho, yes the price of a deck can vary and of late the average price is around E25, which I guesstimate is L22. Some are cheaper still but most decks aren't.
Some go over E30 even and the Moonchild Tarot was around E58-E65 depending on where you got it. So that is around L55 as well in some shops.
Then the additional shipment costs... I managed to find one shop in the Netherlands that had it so that kept the postage down. I'd found it in the UK as well, but then it would've cost me an additional L18-L20 in postage!!
It's a deck that she -the maker Danielle Noel- keeps off the regular shop sites. it's in Indie shops only, and only ever printed in small batches so it's often out of stock. Then it takes a few months before there's new stock.
I guess a nice artificial way of keeping its price high.
I REALLY wanted it but I rarely spend so much money on one deck.
The artwork sure is why I get a deck too. If it doesn't appeal, I don't want it.
The recent exception is the Archetype Cards deck. I don't like the artwork of that one much, but I did like the deck, how it functions. Very much Jungian psychology based which I like :) So that's why I bought that one.
But that really is an exception to that 'I got to like the artwork' unwritten-rule, haha.
Artwork can also trigger different parts of your inner being / intuition. Like with the Wildwood Tarot I can go really deep, much more so than with a RWS-based deck like Robin Wood. Even though I also love that deck!
The one thing I had to get used to with the Wildwood is that all the court cards are animals. I usually cannot relate so well to animals in positions of representing a person.
So having for instance the salmon for Queen of Cups... odd!!
I didn't have all that many decks a few years ago. I got into it when I started my YouTube channel. And let's face it, there's always another lovely deck out there! That's why I better not look around too much. I have a list though with decks I want. Then I can let it sink in and oftentimes I remove a deck after a while. It's my way of not buying too much too soon and end up with cards that I don't really like so much in the end. Reduce the number of 'impulse purchases'.
