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EVERYDAY WITCH TAROT
by Jewel

The Everyday Witch by Deborah Blake was published by Llewellyn in 2017 as a deck and book set.  My first impressions on seeing images online were that it was just another teen witch deck.  I was wrong.  Yes, it will appeal to that audience, but there is much more to it than that, and it has something to offer more mature readers as well.

The art is by Elisabeth Alba, and done in vivid watercolor.  The art is very inviting and captivating.  The facial expressions and body language of the characters tell a thousand words all on their own.  Though clearly inspired by the Rider-Waite-Smith the art work is original, and in many cases a very fresh take on the meanings of the cards, especially in the Major Arcana.  One example of this is the Hierophant card, that instead of having a Priestly type figure has a Yoga instructor teaching her students.   Or how about a motorcycle as...

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the common at least far as i know advice today is for a person to start with 3 card spreads before moving on to 5, 7 cards etc.. as the more skill you are the more you can add cards almost like you are leveling up in a video game..
for many the celtic cross may seem old school, an perhaps out of its place old throwback to a time where there wasn't much knowledge made about spreads so you had to do with what you got in the books or little white book . 
most of your information back in the day before internet and tarot ideas became wide spread ,, the lwb had to have a spread you could use !  so that is how imo,, the celtic cross became the go to spread..
over time you see more and more spreads though in books,,like I remember looking at all  the spreads in the arturian book and being amazed.. then eventually you power tarot spreads.

if one does a search like i did on tarot spreads you actually see good one listing,, the one i am talking about power tarot cam...

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