Navigators of the Mystic SEA
Modern Golden Dawn interpretation with nautical mysticism and contemporary composition.
by Julia Turk · 1997
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The record
The "Navigators of the Mystic SEA" deck is descended from the Golden Dawn decks developed in the early part of this century - Aleister Crowley's deck and that of the New Order of the Golden Dawn are the two best-known decks of this type. This deck is very modern in feel and composition, while utilizing the card titles of NOGD; in some cases its minor arcana differ radically from Pamela Colman-Smith's designs for the Rider-Waite Tarot. The Trumps are more consistent with other decks, although NotMS' major difference is that it reverses the order of the Major Arcana cards, starting with the World and working backward to the Fool. I did not purchase the book with the deck, as I had recently devoted myself to getting "out of my head" while reading, and letting the cards speak, instead of putting someone else's words into their mouths, to coin a phrase. Therefore I can't discuss the philosophical stance the deck's designers derived their order from. In a reading, it didn't seem to matter. These cards have, in readings I've done for others and for myself, consistently discussed the deep reasonings of the soul, the actual personal impetus behind one's acts, rather than commenting on shall
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