You can't escape it: size really does matter

To my disgust, I still have not received the Lon Milo DuQuette book, Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, but I did receive my new copy of the standard size Thoth Tarot, in the green box. As soon as I opened the box and spilled the cards into my hands, I knew I was right to have bought the larger version. It truly does not feel like the same deck. I can't explain why, but the larger cards are more vibrant, more inviting, more attractive than the smaller deck in the purple box.

I was surprised by how much bigger the standard size deck is! The entire smaller card, including borders, fits into the image on the larger card, with room to spare. I hope you can see from the scan above how much ricer the colours are in the larger deck. I noticed far more tiny details that completely escaped me in the smaller card, such as the grain in the background of the Hermit card.

I'm pretty certain I won't be using the little Thoth Tarot after this. The bigger deck is just so much better. I am sorely tempted to crop this deck to borderless, but I am going to resist that temptation, because these borders seem important to the deck, and seem to fit it very well. However, if it turns out Thoth becomes a significant reading deck for me, I will most likely get a second standard size Thoth and trim the borders.

Okay, Bonkers. Are you going to gloat? I am becoming slowly enamoured of the attractions of this deck, though I do still find it cold and cerebral. Its edge is nearly gone, as far as my feeling it is sinister. Now I realise it is not sinister, it is detached. Detached can be good.