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Cat Tarot --yes, there is one-- featuring cats doing cat things, and I love it. I got mine at Barnes and Noble; but Amazon sells it too . You might do some math and see if getting it in person is cheaper than shipping (I suspect it is if you have a coupon or a discount card). Check out these bad cats: They are true to the original card meanings--the pip cards take a little squinting because the suit markers are small spot icons in the corner, but once you figure them out, they are fine--if you look at the cover of the box you can see the icon for the cups, below that the coins/pentacles, on the right the triangle for a stubby sword/claw, and below that the wand with a disk in the center for the numbers..maybe a cat toy? Closer view of The Hermit, who I think has a cousin on the sides of the box: Check out The Devil: And Death, the vacuum cleaner: The only card that is off, is amusing--"Justice" is a cat "biting the hand that feeds it"--but tha...

First I have to say that I don't like the name. It's not intended as a diss to other decks, it's supposed to mean that you use this deck for the "highest good for all", but I can't help but think that Marketing should have tweaked it a bit before it went out. Maybe the "Pretty Good" tarot or even the "Lovely Tarot", because it is! My other bug with this deck is while the writer, Collette Baron-Reid, has her name in BIG FONT, you really have to hunt to find the artist who made these gorgeous images. Oh, here it is on the box in tiny font : It's Jena DellaGrottaglia, and her website is here . The Good Tarot is a Waite/Coleman-Smith deck, but the suits have been changed to Earth (Pentacles), Fire (Wands), Air (Swords), and Water (Cups). This works perfectly well for reading, the tricky part is that some of the cards imagery has been switched up a bit. Here's Major Arcana Fourteen and Fifteen: These are the original card imag...

78 Tarot is a group art collaboration with 81 artists (there are extra cards :D) and in the last few years they have done several theme decks. They do them via Kickstarter, and I came late to the party-- so I have been trying to pick up the previous decks as I can. Some of the decks had a lot more Kickstarter money, so there were extra features like a fancy book, or an included mat, gilded edges, or a nice bag that went with it. The Astro deck seemed to have been one of the less popular ones; the one I have looks like it was a slightly ragged, imperfectly cut one (the card edges are really poorly cut) but the color printing and the weight of the cards is great. And it's so much fun--it's full of humor and hot neon colors, and the traditional Waite/Smith theme of each card is kept intact. The Page of Pentacles up there is studying it's Pentacle with delight, which is what the Page of Pentacles does--it's the "good student" card. And all four of the Pages ar...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/719175589/ashley-cook-tarot-deck This is a really great indy tarot deck; it's made and distributed by a Scottish printmaker, Ashley Cook; and like The Enchanted Tarot it's a collage-style deck, with the imagery being a combination of Dover Archives-style clip art and some computer-generated patterns. And it's just awesome. The colors are vivid and true, the card stock is the perfect combination of weight and flexibility and slickness--and it's just fun to look at. Here are some of the cards: It's easy to tell what suit you are dealing with in the pip cards--the swords, wands, cups and Freaky Masonic Pentacles are all consistent across the deck, and the card numbers are shown at the top. The only thing that is missing with this deck is the Little White Book--you need to go find your own card resource, whether online or from a bookstore. In a way this is nice--you can just assign your own interpretation to the wealth of...

This is a very beautiful deck--my own photos of it are washed out a little because the cards are quite glossy and hard to re-photograph. It looks like it should be a Waite/Smith deck, but the interpretations are a little different, so you will need the book and to use the deck for a while to really be quick with knowing "what a card means" when it turns up. The booklet has one illustration but several languages, as it's a Lo Scarabeo production. The box is quite nice, the cards and booklet fit well, and the lid slides off nicely without dropping off when you don't want it to. The cards are an easy size to hold and shuffle but big enough to see the art. All the cards are labelled clearly. While sort of gothy, there is no gore or nudity to alarm timid clients. As you can see, the backs are reversible. Here are some more of the card images:  It's a perfectly good deck, but I just couldn't really get excited about it--to me the images, while g...

Next to the Robin Wood Deck, this is my favorite Tarot Deck. This is the bigger First Edition deck that came out in the early 90's and it's a big deck--large enough I keep it in it's own box instead of a bag, and I don't shuffle it, I make piles, very carefully, and then turn over one or two cards to admire. This is the size of the deck: Here it is with the smaller, borderless second edition and a sample regular poker card for size: The larger deck has a very simple, reversible back of white with a small center design. The smaller cards have linked initials on the back that are reversible unless you squint at the copyright notice on the bottom :D Supposedly there is a third edition but I haven't seen it yet, so I have no idea about size or borders on that one. No, wait, I just found it at Amazon and it's nice--it has color-coded borders for the suits, a bag and the book for a reasonable price. Lordy, the old editions are expensive now! And OMG it...

This is a really cute take on the standard Rider/Waite/Coleman-Smith deck; the whole deck has been redrawn to show "one minute before" and it's all well done, both in concept and art. There are a few cards where the new art has kind of undermined the original meaning, and the Before Tarot would be a puzzle for someone who isn't familiar with the  RWS deck--it's a 100% inside joke. There is a book to help the befuddled, though: With a pun in the title. :D The box is a standard Llewellyn-style magnetic flip box, with the cards in a pit in the center: (Llewellyn is apparently the US distributor of Lo Scarabeo products, so some of the packaging is similar). And the card backs are reversible, which I think is important. Here's a sample. It makes me laugh, but it trivializes the meaning of the card a bit. But I think this is charming, and fits well with the Hermit as a seeker of truth--you could read this as a bit of divine inspiration/ h...