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Deck Review: The Slow Tarot
The Slow Tarot by Lacey Bryant was one of the very first indie Tarot decks I ever bought, and years later it remains one of my favourites. Created over six years as a true labour of love, every card began life as an original oil painting, resulting in a deck rich with atmosphere, symbolism, nostalgia, and dreamlike surrealism. If you enjoy Tarot decks that reward lingering, noticing details, and falling down symbolic rabbit holes, the Slow Tarot might be exactly your (vintage, chintzy) cup of tea.
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Deck Review: Earthbound Tarot
Created using hand-foraged earth pigments gathered from the New Mexico landscape itself, Celine Gordon’s Earthbound Tarot feels less like a deck merely inspired by nature and more like something physically weathered out of the desert. Full of burning skies, strange celestial signs, fissures opening in the earth, and moments of profound human tenderness, it’s one of the most numinous-yet-materially-grounded Tarot decks I’ve ever encountered.
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Deck Review: Chaos Blossom Tarot
The Chaos Blossom Tarot has inspired probably the most ambivalent review I've written so far. As a deck it's occasionally brilliant, occasionally baffling, and haunted throughout by a faint sense of symbolic uncanny valley. Some cards genuinely stopped me in my tracks (that Judgement card! OMG! 😍), while others left me staring at random giant sword-hamsters asking “but… why though?” A deck full of beautiful imagery and some mythological near-misses.
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Deck Review: Ever Ahead Tarot
A Tarot deck made of road signs, coffee cups, and loose change usually would not work for me… and yet, here we are! The Ever Ahead Tarot is a little treasure of a deck, and a fab travel companion - it takes the everyday and gives it just enough emotional weight to carry the whole RWS system - often very amusingly and with a surprising amount of heart.
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Deck Review: The Endless Tarot
The Endless Tarot is less a deck you command and more a world you wander through. Drawn as a myriorama, its cards form a continuous panoramic landscape, rearranging themselves with every spread; a living, shifting story rather than a set of fixed meanings. Steeped in mythology, nostalgia, and that peculiar ache of anemoia, it positions you not at the centre of the action, but just slightly to one side of it. You are not the hero. You are the flâneur, the quiet witness, watching love, loss, celebration and fate unfold in twilight blues and starlit paths. Tarot here feels less like instruction and more like encountering a story already in…
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Deck Review: Tarot of Oxalia
The Tarot of Oxalia is a lush, self-assured, unapologetically feminine reimagining of the RWS. It balances softness with sharpness and roots its symbolism in cycles of flow: love, loss, abundance, decay. It feels both timeless and distinctly of its moment: mythic, earthy, and defiant.
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Deck Review: The Cracked Amethyst Tarot
The Cracked Amethyst Tarot feels like both a culmination and a homecoming - a decade of Jessica Bott’s artistic growth distilled into a deck that’s gentle, thoughtful, and quietly wise. Each card hums with intention: landscapes alive with light, natural textures, and a kind of calm that feels both grounded and expansive. Bott’s reimagining of her long-out-of-print Idiosyncradeck is no nostalgia project; it’s a transformation. Like the oyster-Magician at its heart, this is grit turned into grace, art honed into alchemy.
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Deck Review: The Cards Drawn Tarot
The Cards Drawn Tarot feels like the kind of deck you’d read with in a smoky medieval tavern: clever, cheeky, and just a little bit dangerous. Clint Woods’ design fuses Tarot and playing card archetypes into a winking, whip-smart system that reads like a bard spinning truths by firelight: trickster energy with real insight beneath the jester’s grin. Buddhist philosophy meets card-table mischief, and somehow it works :-).
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Deck Review: The Felt Tarot
Jamie Sawyer’s Felt Tarot is stitched with symbolism, warmth, and wit. Every card began as a hand-cut felt collage before becoming a tactile, readable deck. Comforting yet clever, it’s beginner-friendly, artist-inspired, and even tattoo-worthy - a deck full of detail you’ll never tire of exploring.
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Deck Review: A Grieving Tarot
At first glance, A Grieving Tarot looked too simple for me. But within minutes I realised this was something rare: a stark, tender deck that captures the hollow textures of loss with devastating clarity. Not a manual for healing, but a companion in the wilderness of grief.
