Mountain Dream Tarot

Thanks for the video feed Mary. As always I enjoy and learn from your BLog. This video seemed especially wonderful as the pictures on the cards took me back to a place that many of us were in the 70’s the hair the fashions, How delightful. Now I must see the whole deck.

Lovely vid. mary thanks for posting, and when looking at youtube I also found another one by Bea nettles about the 2of swords (i saved both upon my computer and into my little tarot-database )

The Mountain Dream Tarot arrived today. It is a marvel of inspiration–deeply personal and yet still fresh with the creative energy of its creator. Bea Nettles was a remarkable photographer. As the creator of a photographic deck myself, I find her personal relationship with the Tarot an affirmation of art and experience. I’ve found in creating mine that photography–used as interpretation and not merely as staging–whether drawn from intimate family experiences or a vast body of cultural photo history, has a powerful capacity to engage with the Tarot. Imagery, of course, is fundamental to the making of Tarot cards. But it must be imagery that brings language into play, that lets us talk and write in ways that connect our daily lives with perpetual and eternal archetypes. One new charm of the Tarot, especially since its post-war Renaissance, has been an explosion of artistic and interpretive decks on every theme imaginable. Still, all follow some essential, perhaps not fully penetrable order of experience that those of us who love and abide its symbolism seem to recognize instantly. Many truths remain to be told. And photography–as Bea Nettles demonstrates–is a rich storyteller.