Posted by: TheReviewer on: March 27, 2012
We take a sneak peek at The Minoan Tarot, the latest deck by Ellen Lorenzi-Prince, also the creatrix of the Tarot of the Crone and Pandora’s Tarot… Each card of the Minoan Tarot is based upon an original work of the painters, sculptors, jewelers and potters who lived thousands of years ago. Unlike their contemporaries in Egypt […]
Posted by: TheReviewer on: March 20, 2012
This is one Golden Oldie that you’ll return to time and time again… It’s not often one finds a collaborative deck being published. Many other collaborative Tarot decks that have been created have only manifested online, such as the various Aeclectic Community Tarots, the Eat Poo Tarot, and the two Mannini decks, although there are […]
Posted by: TheReviewer on: March 16, 2012
Many decks today are what we might call “clonesâ€, usually of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot, simply copying the images in a different art style. I find decks such as these boring, and at times I find myself wondering if the creators were just out to make a quick buck, selling the integrity and ingenuity […]
Posted by: TheReviewer on: March 13, 2012
Juno and Monica give us a sneak peek at the forthcoming Healing Tarot, a black and white Tarot due for publication in 2013. The Healing Tarot: 78 Ways to Wellness is a an entirely new Tarot deck in progress by Juno Lucina (The Kingdom Within Tarot deck and The Alchemy of Tarot book) and illustrated […]
Posted by: TheReviewer on: March 7, 2012
A sneak peek at the in-progress Tarot de St. Croix, and the artist’s journey to the creative process. My tarot journey began when I was a child. My mother visited a Portuguese tarot reader in Johannesburg who told her that within a year she would be divorced, marry a foreigner, move away from South Africa, […]
Posted by: TheReviewer on: March 1, 2012
When I started on my epic journey, the intention behind creating my own version of the almighty Tarot was to teach myself more about cross-cultural, archetypal story-building. I have been obsessed with mythology, fairy tales, movies and comic books since I was very young. I first began exploring the Tarot about fourteen years ago, and ever […]
Posted by: TheReviewer on: February 29, 2012
Although not an “oldie†by the standards of our dearly beloved Thoth, Rider Waite Smith, and Marseilles Tarots, the Shakespearian Tarot is a deck that appeared before the Tarot “revival†set in and the deck publishing industry began to truly boom. Nearly a decade old, this deck from the creator of the Servants of the […]
Posted by: TheReviewer on: February 29, 2012
Being the proud owner of a copy of the original Majors-only version of the Gaian Tarot printed in 2004, and having followed the gestation, creation and journey of the deck to its final manifestation as a 78-card deck printed by Llewellyn, I am thoroughly enthused by this deck. There’s nothing quite like watching something in […]