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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enchanting!, 12 Aug 2007
This is an extremely beautiful deck with a very gentle energy, especially suitable for younger readers. There is a story for each of the Minor Arcana suits in the accompanying book by Barbara Moore, who also wrote the book for the Gilded Tarot. The deck also comes with an organza bag, as with other Llewellyn decks, but instead of the usual black, it is a more suitable gold colour. I cannot recommend this deck highly enough. If I could I'd give it six stars!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Faerie Deck, 1 Mar 2008
This is a lovely deck. Really, it has some beautiful faerie images, well laid out and as it is based on the Rider Waite deck, you can see the images transition into the faerie realm. The colors are soft, pastel and it is a very feminine deck, in more ways than one. While the artist specifically says that the images are not supposed to carry the imagery in any one specific gender and can be interpreted as either male or female, I got a very decisively female imagery from many of the cards.
While there are male images throughout the deck, the female images are stronger. Female warriors, female figureheads. The Sun which most associate with male energies, is very much female and strong in appearance. In the Lovers card, the woman stands above the male image. The male images almost stand as consort to the female images.
This imagery will determine who purchases this deck. I do not see many men using this deck. However, if you have some very feminine clients, this deck may be one that speaks to them. I noticed that my very feminine clients liked this deck, but most noticed the absence of very decisive male imagery.
The deck could speak to some teenage girls who are looking for their first deck and are very into faerie imagery. The images are soft, non - threatening. Even the devil card seemed almost friendly.
The imagery does relate to the Rider Waite deck, as I mentioned, and using this deck should be no problem for those familiar with this layout. There are 22 Trump cards and the suits are wands, cups, swords and pentacles. The court cards are (in order in the book) Queen, King, Knave and Knight. And going back to a teenage girl's first deck, the images will work as basics for reading the tarot.
The deck does lack in the deeper symbolism of the Tarot. While a good place to start, a more in depth deck would be recommended as the reader graduates into the deeper meanings.
This deck is lovely to look at. The faerie images are beautifully executed and it will hold great appeal to someone who associates with the beautiful faerie imagery. But as a working deck, I would pull this out only for the younger faerie loving teenager or the occasional client who does not like the "darker" imagery that is in most tarot decks. Boudica
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
4.5 star, 14 Jan 2008
The art is beautiful and detailed, really inspiring, but if I was being picky, I'll say that I don't like the drawings of the guys. The stories that go with each suit is really enchanting and helps you to remember the meanings of the cards and understand them more, but there isn't any reversed meanings if you read reversed cards as well. This deck isn't as suitable for beginners I think, but it is suitable for collectors and more advanced readers who know the basics well already.
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