arggghhh! don’t you hate when that happens?
i just kinda like the magician too. i know what you mean. but i love that tyldwick card — the floor and the wall have me oohing. the wall looks like an american quilt pattern. the repeating triangular design, in native american art at least, is called “flying geese”. my hupa/yurok friend taught me some basic designs back in the 80s and that one was my favorite, so it was a pleasant and unexpected surprise to see it in the magician’s room.
the cups card is nice too, and the swords...! it’s so subtle i can hardly stand it, hahaa. it’s sweet. as in tough or cool, not cute or anything. and so very dusty and distressed... jeez!
congrats on your almost 30 anniversary it’ll be 30 for us too in 2019! so glad you’re happy and content, and that the nine of cups comes visiting.. or should i say the nine of perfume bottles!
you must have some exquisite eau de parfums in your collection, and all organized too, according to scent families. sigh... i remember basenotes.net back in the day. how thrilling it was. i can still smell hermès un jardin en mediterranee... one of my all time faves.
my tarotist friend has a dali universal tarot that his female friend doused in ysl’s opium. he was angry at first, because the alcohol had damaged the surface and smudged the ink. (i’d be angry because it’s not a favorite scent!) but his friend was from spain herself so i guess she felt it was fitting. but sadly, shortly after doing this (not days, but months), she died tragically — a brutal unsolved murder that occurred in 2015. my friend was devastated, and was left with only fond memories of their friendship and some of her personal belongings. and now, forever, it seems —as opium is so penetrating— a reminder of her signature scent. the dali cards are kept in their velvet box, and every time he opens it we smell cruz and think of her relaxing on some faraway spanish beach. (she swam from spain to gibraltar once, which i guess is quite a feat. she was an athlete.)
anyway, what i’m trying to say is that by spraying the perfume, she damaged some of the tarot cards so much that they now look a lot like the aging on your tyldwick deck! the random spots and spatters, i mean. i dunno, it seems kinda funny.