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Interesting, but...........
I thought that this deck was a creative and interesting approach to the tarot, but there were some things about it that were a little disappointing. For some reason, the deck is extraordinarily difficult to shuffle. I compared the size of the deck to the standard Rider deck, and the Quantum deck is maybe 1/8 of an inch longer. The Quantum deck is also quite a bit thicker than other decks. But once I was able to wrap my fingers around the deck and do an actual shuffle, the cards seemed to interleave with each other quite nicely. Interpreting the meanings of the cards in the context of quantum physics is amazingly creative, and I liked that. The pictures of the cards are interesting, with a nicely ethereal quality to them. The pictures are quite original and interesting to look at. The instruction booklet, however, is pretty horrible. Complex explanations of the workings of quantum physics are finely intermixed with the explanations of what the cards mean, making it difficult and time-consuming to locate within the text and figure out the actual card defintions. Far too many instruction books and booklets make this same mistake. The definitions of what the cards mean in this Quantum deck, therefore, are extremely user unfriendly. This is the very thing that keeps tarot card reading from being far more popular than it already is. No one but an experienced tarot card reader is going to be able to make much sense of the card meanings published in the accompanying booklet. I am going to have to go through the entire booklet and separately record the parts of the text that relate only to the meanings of the cards. Once I have done that, I will be able to use the Quantum deck more conveniently for doing readings. Right now, trying to figure out the individual card meanings in a card layout is a laborious, frustrating experience. I will wait until I have personally rewritten the card meanings in a clear, easy-to-understand way before I do any more readings with this deck. The creators of this Quantum deck did separate the meanings of individual cards into two headings, one being the Scientific Backgroud, and the other being the Interpretation, but they continued their scientific explanations in with the Interpretations. They should have said everything they wanted to say about the scientific background under that heading alone, and then under the Interpretation heading included nothing more than what they wanted the cards to mean. As it is, in the Interpretation sections, you still have to wade through a lot of scientific information to be able to decipher the actual card meanings.Beautiful Deck worth the wait!
Quantum Tarot: A Tarot of New Physics Buy this deck...you will not be disappointed! Since the first visuals were available for this deck I have been waiting for its release and I am not disappointed. My first viewing of the deck was sitting with the evening sun coming through the window, sharing a good glass of Australian Shiraz with a friend and listening to the music of Blackmore's Night -- Castles & Dreams. Blackmore's Night -- Castles & Dreams The cards are beautiful and it will take many viewings to see and all of the images as there are the readily visible and the more subtle that come from contemplation. Thank you Kay and Chris for your work!Keyword : quantum+physic
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