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Shadowscapes Tarot (2010)

by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law(Favorite Author)

4.56 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0738715794 (ISBN13: 9780738715797)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Llewellyn Publications

review 1: I LOVE this deck!! The artwork is absolutely stunning and I could wax poetic about it endlessly. I picked this deck off of a small out-of-the-way shelf without really looking at it very closely, and I fell in love on the first card. Personally I really connect with it, and it works very well for me. The mix of celtic influence and fantasy is brilliant, and the Rider-Waite foundation makes it easily relatable to traditional Tarot interpretations and technique. As someone with small hands, I actually rather like the size of the cards. They are easier to handle than say, the larger oracle decks, and are easier to shuffle and manipulate. The gorgeous artwork is so superbly detailed that even if these designs were on a much larger scale, you would still see something new... more every time you look at the cards. As for the booklet, my deck came with a teeny-tiny little paper pamphlet (I guess you could call that a book??) with very basic descriptions for each card and a brief history of the deck design. I never rely on these pamphlets much anyway, and honestly with the deck based on the Rider-Waite, the brief pamphlet is sufficient. This is the best deck I have owned yet!
review 2: Love the nature imagery, but some of the incredible detail is lost because the cards are small. Not a tarot for beginners, as the book is written primarily by the artist and she waxes long on evocative flourishes with very little insight on how she means the Minor Arcana images to be interpreted. I found myself turning to other books when actually doing readings, which is disappointing because she did just fine with the Major Arcana. less

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