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4.0 out of 5 stars
Magic, the vital breath of every Fey., 11 Oct 2005
Mara Aghem, an Italian painter and comic book artist, was responsible for creating the art used in the Fey tarot and her images have a fantastical, magical otherworldly quality, with even Pokemon and Japanese style animation peeping through at times.The Fey depicted here are childlike, capricious and joyous, winged fairies of varying colours, sizes and facial features. Most look quite human, but none appear evil or malicious. Pastel blues, pinks, and purples dominate the color scheme on many cards, and the colours seem to be airbrushed in soft, rich tints. The cards in the minor arcana are fully pictorial, with the focus instead on a fairy representing the card's archetypal energy, and a single elemental object, decorated and presented in a way that blends with the theme and scenery of the card. The Fey majors follow a Rider-Waite-Smith ordering and have a mix of imaginary figures. The winged sprites and the small animals in these cards are appealing--mice, fish, unicorns, teradactyls, mermaids and others interact with wide-eyes and humanlike expressions. There are some minor changes to what you may expect, for example The High Priestess becomes "The Seer" and The Hierophant is now "The Wisest", but what surpsied me most about the Majors was the imagary; for instance, the Hanged Man is a male youth under water among puzzled fish, and Death shows a Fey sat playing a variant of chess, with the card totally focused on the Fey and their opponent remaining unseen. This deck oozes charm and offers a refreshing depth and approach to tarot for the more experienced reader. This charming tarot of 'dreams, joy and magic' is a deck unlike any other.
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