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Deck Review: The Tempest Tarot Deck
I hesitated before buying the Tempest Tarot Deck, as it’s a little too Pippish to be ‘fully me’, but, in the end, the gorgeous and intuitive art won me over. I’m also a nautical girl through and through. It was me and Mr TarotCake’s lifelong dream to live by the sea, and two years ago we made it a reality when we moved to sunny Southsea. We now live about a 12 minute walk from the beach, and I cannot tell you the wonders it has done for my mental health! There’s something about the sea – its limitless possibility, its hidden depths and luminous horizons – that makes everything…
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Deck Review: Figuratively Speaking Mermaid Tarot
When the Figuratively Speaking Mermaid Tarot dropped on Kickstarter, backing it was a no-brainer for me, as I love artist B. Miller’s Tarot and Tarot-esque paintings on Instagram, and I also already own her first (huge, sprawling!) Tarot deck, the Figuratively Speaking Tarot (which you can buy here). The Figuratively Speaking Mermaid Tarot is an absolute beaut, featuring all of Bee’s gorgeous watercolour artwork. It’s also more thematically consistent than its predecessor (I love an epic deck, but I’ll concede thematic decks are probably easier to work with off the bat). The FS Mermaid Tarot constitutes a chonky 92-card deck (the standard 78 card Tarot deck, plus alternative cards for some of the Majors, and some additional special…
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Deck Review: The Healing Waves Tarot
The Healing Waves Tarot is currently out of print after a limited run, and I was after it for aaaaaages before I found a secondhand copy that wasn’t gougingly expensive (it was still pretty pricey though!). It’s definitely worth snapping up if you can find a reasonably priced secondhand copy. Otherwise you can join me in hoping that the creator, Nawan Junhasiri, does a second print run and/or works with a mass market publisher to release a prêt-à-tarot version [UPDATE: see postscript at end of post for more info, this sadly seems very unlikely]. Unfortunately the guide book is only available as a passcode locked pdf, and as I bought…
