Happy New Year!
Hope you are all having a wonderful New Year!
I tried to keep up with the readings,but gosh, my life is in such a crisis right now I couldn’t really twist them into something good, and at the same time didn’t want to bog you all down with my moody posts. So….haven’t been posting. Finally the biggest issue I had came to a head and is now over. I also quit my job. It is a total new year! Time to start everything again.
There is lots of news on the deck. At this time Schiffer is saying the deck will be released on February 28th. You can preorder it on Amazon and also on Barnes and Noble! I still haven’t gotten my information yet or even seen a final printed copy! So I am waiting nervously! Eventually I will be offering the deck too, if you want a signed copy and hopefully I can have some sort of fun promotion. They did tell me something was on the way about a week ago, and I have been staring down the creaky old mailbox out there, waiting for it to give up some treasure….but noch nichts!
Some details: It will have black borders and a simple font, nothing fancy, just letting the art stand alone. They will be 3″ X 5″ which should be big enough for border trimming if you are so inclined! The backs are the simple Ouroboros design on black. It will be a box set with book and cards… as far as I know there is not nor is there any plan for a deck and book being sold separately.
As soon as I get the information I am waiting for I will start planning some of the promotion, beginning, hopefully, with the Readers Studio 2012 in New York. Are you going???
What to do with this blog? I really can’t keep up the 3 card readings for the reasons mentioned above. I could perhaps start adding my DMs for the cards daily. I have what I’ve been calling my big LWB, its the DMs I had for each card which I printed out and stapled together. Then I’ve been making notes on it as I go along, how these different cards tend to present themselves in a reading. I was hoping to make it a downloadable when the deck comes out, a cheat sheet of sorts you can print out.
I will give that some thought and try to start something soon. Is there anything you would like to see here?
I would say the imagery is different enough from other decks to have a learning curve, yet, when you see what’s going on it should all begin to make sense, it really isn’t random at all, it is symbolism that I believe is built into us all. Not new, it is very very ancient and we are all experts on it.
Here are the cards I drew today, though I don’t think I have it in me to interpret them right now.
Justice.
7 of Disks.
Magician.
Auf Wiedersehen meine schöne Freunde!
January 14, 2012 at 1:43 am
Happy New Year! Congratulations on surviving your multiple crises and continuing to work. Right now I’m off to Amazon to preorder.
January 14, 2012 at 11:21 am
Thank you Fyreflye!!
January 14, 2012 at 1:13 pm
I am planning at being at the readers studio. It will be great to meet you.
I am so excited your deck is coming out.
January 15, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Yay Andrew! It will be so nice to finally meet you:)
February 13, 2012 at 1:11 am
I sent in my registration today and reserved the hotel so I’ll definitely be there, yay!
January 18, 2012 at 5:39 pm
Hi Marie,
I’m so glad your deck will soon see the light of day!
I hope the rest of your life improves so you can enjoy an exciting year with your newly-published cards.
February 13, 2012 at 1:14 am
Lorena, how are you? I’ve been wondering about you lately, hope all is going well:)
Oh yeah, everything is starting to work out here. Things got pretty hairy for a while, but did I really expect anything less? It was the biggest of trials but I feel like I passed, and everything that wasn’t necessary anymore passed away and now all this really great stuff is happening and I feel very lucky and like I did something really good to deserve it (and I better keep it up). So, yeah. Thank you! So nice to hear from you:)
January 23, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Jeez still one more month of waiting. /sigh/
How annoyingggggggggg..!
February 13, 2012 at 1:15 am
Not long now! I hear if you order directly from Schiffer they are shipping now. Just heard this today.
January 31, 2012 at 9:25 am
Мэри, это здорово, что колода выйдет уже так скоро. Ее также ждут и в России!
January 31, 2012 at 10:54 am
Translated by Googkle the above reads:
“Marie, it’s great that the deck will be released so soon. It is also expected in Russia!”
February 13, 2012 at 1:18 am
Thanks Fyreflye!
Marisha, thank you so much! I love the idea of the Mary-el being in Russia.
February 16, 2012 at 9:25 am
You said: ” I was hoping to make it a downloadable when the deck comes out, a cheat sheet of sorts you can print out.”
I think this is an excellent idea Marie. Paul Huson has a similar Word document for the Dame Fortune’s Wheel Tarot with extra notes that I find invaluable.
I have my Mary-El pre-ordered from amazon.ca but for some reason they show a publication date of April, rather than February–so not sure when I’ll get the deck. It’s in Russia, it’s in Canada, it’s everywhere.
February 16, 2012 at 11:23 am
The publication date listed on Amazon.com is 2/28.
February 16, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Yes I know, but Amazon.ca has different information–April. They often do this. It has to do with different British and American editions.
Amazon.uk has the April publication date too so perhaps Shiffer does put out another edition? We often get British editions of things in Canada, but I have a feeling we should be getting the US edition when everyone else does.
One day I’ll be surprised and they will ship it, that’s all I know.