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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.
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Deck Review: The Erenberg Tarot
The Erenberg Tarot is a vibrant, vintage-poster-style homage to the Rider-Waite-Smith - bold, nostalgic, and full of character. Each card feels like a zoom-lens conversation with the originals: familiar yet freshly alive. Smart, striking, and steeped in outsider-art charm, it’s a deck that turns tradition into something joyously human again.
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Deck Review: The Tempest Tarot Deck
Wind-lashed, water-streaked, and a little enchanted, The Tempest Tarot feels like stepping into deep water rather than sunlit shallows. Its palette is muted, its symbolism restrained, but its emotional range is vast. This is a deck that understands the sea as Tarot understands the psyche: a liminal space where danger and revelation coexist, and where anything is still possible.
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Deck Review: The Unveiled Tarot
This is Tarot as social commentary. The Unveiled Tarot tackles loneliness, alienation, war, capitalism, and domestic darkness with brutal honesty, reminding us that Tarot has always been a political medium. Lonergan’s imagery strips away mythic distance to show how archetypes live - and decay - in the modern world. It’s challenging, thought-provoking, and absolutely NOT neutral. And I love it!
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Deck Review: The Bon Sequitur Tarot Deck
If the Bon Sequitur Tarot were music, it’d be acid jazz: exuberant, clever, and unexpectedly profound. Beneath the colour and humour lies a deck shaped by loss, resilience, and reclaimed pleasure. It doesn’t pull its punches, but it does offer joy - the kind that knows sorrow intimately and chooses delight anyway.
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Deck Review: The Craft Felt Tarot
The Craft Felt Tarot is warm, joyful, and irresistibly tactile. Made from photographs of hand-crafted felt designs, the cards feel like a hug from a slightly psychic teddy bear. Bright, bold colours and rich textures bring familiar RWS imagery to life in a way that’s comforting rather than confronting. This is Tarot softened, without being dumbed down.
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Deck Review: The Ex-Lovers Tarot
This deck understands love as something that doesn’t simply switch off. The Ex-Lovers Tarot reframes heartbreak as part of the Fool’s journey, honouring connection, loss, and personal growth with warmth and clarity. Whimsical without being shallow, it invites compassion: for past selves, former lovers, and the imperfect ways we keep loving.
