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Victorian Fairy Tarot

By Jewel

The Victorian Fairy Tarot by Lunaea Weatherstone and art by Gary A. Lippincott was published by Llewellyn in 2013 as a deck and book set.  What a little gem it turned out to be.  I will be the first to say that at first glance I thought it would be a “fluff” deck with all those sweet little Victorian faeries, flowers, and pastel colors, but I was wrong.  This deck has teeth!  The Victorians took their faeries very seriously and so does this deck.

The artwork is lovely and looks like it has come straight out of a story book, and the cards read like that as well, which would also make this a great deck not only for tarot reading but for storytelling. Another fun element in this deck is the use of the Victorian flower language.  So those persons interested in this will really enjoy this aspect of the deck as well.  But the deck is very much a sound and well thought out Tarot deck. ...

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Tarot of the Sidhe

By Jewel

I was ambivalent to write a review of this deck after only spending a month working with it, but the Sidhe told me to so here I am. I can only hope to do it justice.   I was there on Aeclectic when Emily began the journey of creating and was sharing it with us, and purchased my copy as soon as it was published by Schiffer in 2011.  Despite my early love for the deck it was not until recently that I felt its call and fell under its spell.  The Tarot of the Sidhe is not only a work of art, but it takes you on a transformative journey and awakening that I have not experienced with any other Tarot deck.  What Ms. Emily Carding has created is not only a great tarot deck but a portal to the Sidhe.  In close to 30 years of working with the Tarot I have never experienced a deck that communicated with me via Clairsentience (through feelings and emotions) until this deck.

The Tarot ...

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I had found the Basic Tarot, by Gudrun Dobratz, a couple of years ago at a used-book store and was intrigued. However, I did not get around to using it till recently.

The deck was published by Swiss publisher AGMüller (blue-box Thoth Tarot among others), but now seems to be out of print. However, one can still find copies around the Internet, including Amazon, Tarot Garden, Ebay and probably others. New, unopened decks are kind of expensive (on Ebay anyway), but I saw many other listings that are still quite reasonable.

The cards are printed on a good quality stock that is very similar to the old AGM Thoth Tarot. In fact the cards are almost the same size (I think), and at 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches are fairly large. The backs are done in blues and are not reversible, showing an image of a statue of a cherub. Though this didn't stop me from using reversals in my readings - you just have to ignore the backs as your shuffling and laying out the cards.

The imag...