Rating:  Summary: Gorgeous! This is my favorite deck!! Review: I love this deck! The artwork is vibrant and beautiful!! I own about 20 decks (so far), but this one is my favorite. Spiritual themes, animals, goddesses and native are all incorporated into the cards. Very unique.
Rating:  Summary: A Truely Magical Connection. Review: The Deck is absolutely beautiful, and worth the price just for meditating on the images alone. As a readers deck however for me the connection has been absolutely magical. The Deck is in Melanie's own words inspired by the Sacred Feminine. If you like me, have found more traditional and patriarchal style decks flat and more difficult to connect too as a reader, I strongly suggest this desk. Some reviewers seem to have had an different response, but I find so much to read from the images. The accompaning book has pretty conventional descriptions of the cards, which the cards themselves often transcend. I love the deck, the cards tell their own story if you let them and I believe that is the best approach with this deck, to do a daily 3 card reading and slowly let the beautiful images and their carefully crafted symbolism sink into your awareness.Some of the Images repeat themselves, especially in the wands cards, but given the Artists obvious creativity I believe she is trying to draw the readers attention to the connections and undercurrents between various cards.
Rating:  Summary: Beautiful, But Be Warned Review: This deck is truly beautiful. The basic images on the cards can be called fairly close to traditional. Yet she also chooses to use so many images of animals, that you have to have Ted Andrews Animal Speak to really understand what she is trying to say in the cards. She makes reference to Teds book so it's the one i used. The most important difference i found in her cards is the Princess represents the Knight, and the Prince represents the Page. Be careful on that one as i made what i found later to be a common error.(shows how braiwashed we all are, lol) The sad part about this deck is that the parts of the deck that are non-traditional, truly need a decent book to go with the deck for a clearer understanding.I would give alot of money for one good book on this deck, instead of shuffling through many to find out what she is saying.
Rating:  Summary: a cool beauty Review: When I first saw a few scans of this deck I put it on my wishlist right away. Some of the majors are stunningly beautiful. When I finally got the deck in my hands i had a hard time getting to know the deck. I did not, as so many others, object to the photocollages of the minors. It was the contorted and misshaped majors i could not stand. The Lovers looks like it has been badly scanned and resized. The emperors golden details looks plump and dirty. Many of the cards could not be identified right away. Some symbols kept popping up where they were just in the way and obscuring the image. They were too full! It was by the minors I finally came to terms with this deck and most of all the swords. The courtcards are all lovely but the strength of the Gendron deck is in the numbered cards. They can give you new insights. I only give this deck three stars but it is a strong three. Perhaps if I have had a book for it I would have made it a four.
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