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Summary: A powerful guide for ongoing spiritual work
Review: I bought this expecting it to be a helpful adjunct deck, and it has become my favorite deck for daily use. There are several strengths: it is beautiful visually; the images and their spiritual/archetypal/historical connections are thoroughly explained; and there are some very powerful spreads. No interpretation of reversed cards is provided because none is needed -- the interpretation presents an energetic and spirtitual frame of reference as a whole -- with the seeker's actions determining how that energy will be used. I'm impressed with the Major Arcana interpretations particularly, as the good card/bad card shtick is bypassed altogether. Instead the authors look at the NATURE of each card, so that the reader can work with energetic resonances instead of simplistic prophecies of joy or doom.I'm still struggling a bit with the elemental assignments (Swords to Fire and Wands to Air), but I find the interpretation of the cards themselves excellent. Swords, as a suit, is always difficult to interpret (most of the cards seem so negative that one wonders what the point of the suit is), but in this deck, the energetic and spiritual purpose of the often difficult cards is made clear as part of a complete life. While this is a fine deck for a beginner, I think those who have experience with more traditional decks will really appreciate what the authors and artist have accomplished -- a beautiful deck that encourages an expanded and responsible spiritual life.
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Summary: A DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: I bought this tarot set because every review said how fabulous it was. When I got home & opened the box I was very disappointed in the artwork. I don't see what other people see; the drawings are terrible...They look like all those awful Llewellyn book cover designs from the 1980s....Students in my highschool do better artwork than this! Not at all inspiring.
The set is easy to use, but what good is that if you don't want to look at the cards?
It would have been a nice idea if only they had gotten a better artist.....
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Summary: A bit disappointed
Review: I had received this deck quite a while ago to review. I am a diehard Capricorn and change is not something I take to lightly. I have worked with the Rider-Waite deck all my adult life and a new deck that was different did not appeal to me. So, I left this deck to someone else, as usual, and moved on. What happened was it came back to me. While visiting my house, a friend pulled out the deck and she began looking at it. She loved the imagery, really liked the changes to the deck and she was working with it before the end of the day. I then had to reconsidered the deck. My friend went out and bought herself this deck and was working with it and is very pleased with how it was handling and with the correspondences so, I took the deck out and began to really look at it. First of all, the illustrations by Lisa Hunt make this deck. They are beautiful images that speak to you. I can see the attraction here. I had to find the book and look up the correspondences because many had changed and I was at a loss. The Chariot becomes Power. The Hierophant becomes Knowledge. Justice becomes Nature. The Hanged Man becomes the Shapeshifter. Some are obvious. The Emperor is the Father. The Empress is the Mother. Some are cleaver. Death becomes Rebirth. The Wheel of Fortune becomes the Circle. The lesser cards were confusing to me at first. But each card is labeled with its correspondence written right on the card. Each of the suits is labeled to its elemental correspondence and its suit. Cups to water, pentacles to earth, swords to fire and air to wands. The number of the suit is marked on the bottom, and a *Key Word* is written on the bottom. While D. J. Conway and Sirona Knight have changed some of the meanings, they are not that far off from the original card meanings. They also appear to be a bit *softer* in expression to me, but then again, all things are left open to interpretation. While the Ace of Cups is now The Well, the meaning as interpreted by Conway and Knight can be modified, as in all cards, to what you associate with most. The suggestion of the images is probably the way most of us interpret the cards, along with intuition and gifted insight. The *Court Cards* are changed a bit too. The Page becomes the Seeker. The Knight becomes the Warrior and the Queen is God and the King is Goddess. While this is totally different from the traditional decks, it can be worked around. The associations of Gods and Goddesses to the suits of the decks may also present a problem with more traditional readers, as these things are always left open to personal interpretation. You may agree, you may disagree, but I do believe if you take what speaks to you, you may find this deck a bit easier to work with rather than relying solely on the meanings as defined by Conway and Knight. A deck of cards should speak to you personally. They should attract your attention and grasp your imagination. When you work with the deck, it should work with you. If you find you can not identify with the images, or the images are not to your liking, then maybe you should find another deck. There are so many decks now because there are so many different kinds of readers. Where once I thought having so many different kinds of decks was not necessarily useful, now I see how people relate to different images and how they speak to each of us on a different level. We are not all the same, we do not all travel the same path, and the deck we choose to work with can be a useful tool if it speaks to us directly. Days of bumbling around with decks that have so many mystical and unseen meanings are gone, and it's good to see plain English and variations on the themes.
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Summary: Lovely Deck, Interesting to Work With
Review: I had received this deck quite a while ago to review. I am a diehard Capricorn and change is not something I take to lightly. I have worked with the Rider-Waite deck all my adult life and a new deck that was different did not appeal to me. So, I left this deck to someone else, as usual, and moved on. What happened was it came back to me. While visiting my house, a friend pulled out the deck and she began looking at it. She loved the imagery, really liked the changes to the deck and she was working with it before the end of the day. I then had to reconsidered the deck. My friend went out and bought herself this deck and was working with it and is very pleased with how it was handling and with the correspondences so, I took the deck out and began to really look at it. First of all, the illustrations by Lisa Hunt make this deck. They are beautiful images that speak to you. I can see the attraction here. I had to find the book and look up the correspondences because many had changed and I was at a loss. The Chariot becomes Power. The Hierophant becomes Knowledge. Justice becomes Nature. The Hanged Man becomes the Shapeshifter. Some are obvious. The Emperor is the Father. The Empress is the Mother. Some are cleaver. Death becomes Rebirth. The Wheel of Fortune becomes the Circle. The lesser cards were confusing to me at first. But each card is labeled with its correspondence written right on the card. Each of the suits is labeled to its elemental correspondence and its suit. Cups to water, pentacles to earth, swords to fire and air to wands. The number of the suit is marked on the bottom, and a *Key Word* is written on the bottom. While D. J. Conway and Sirona Knight have changed some of the meanings, they are not that far off from the original card meanings. They also appear to be a bit *softer* in expression to me, but then again, all things are left open to interpretation. While the Ace of Cups is now The Well, the meaning as interpreted by Conway and Knight can be modified, as in all cards, to what you associate with most. The suggestion of the images is probably the way most of us interpret the cards, along with intuition and gifted insight. The *Court Cards* are changed a bit too. The Page becomes the Seeker. The Knight becomes the Warrior and the Queen is God and the King is Goddess. While this is totally different from the traditional decks, it can be worked around. The associations of Gods and Goddesses to the suits of the decks may also present a problem with more traditional readers, as these things are always left open to personal interpretation. You may agree, you may disagree, but I do believe if you take what speaks to you, you may find this deck a bit easier to work with rather than relying solely on the meanings as defined by Conway and Knight. A deck of cards should speak to you personally. They should attract your attention and grasp your imagination. When you work with the deck, it should work with you. If you find you can not identify with the images, or the images are not to your liking, then maybe you should find another deck. There are so many decks now because there are so many different kinds of readers. Where once I thought having so many different kinds of decks was not necessarily useful, now I see how people relate to different images and how they speak to each of us on a different level. We are not all the same, we do not all travel the same path, and the deck we choose to work with can be a useful tool if it speaks to us directly. Days of bumbling around with decks that have so many mystical and unseen meanings are gone, and it's good to see plain English and variations on the themes.
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Summary: This deck is right for me.
Review: I have found the ShapeShifter tarot very easy for me to use. I have had the Mythic tarot for years and have never been able to get readings with the Mythic deck like I did with the ShapeShifter deck. The very first time I used these cards I just loved them. If these cards speak to you then you should have them. They spoke to me and I have not been disappointed!
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Summary: Ugly, insipid, useless tarot
Review: I have never been so disapointed in a tarot deck in my life. Flimsy cards, insipid art, strange interpretations... I got rid of this deck as soon as I could. Save yourself the trouble - try a *real* tarot deck instead.
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Summary: Very honest and insightful
Review: I LOVE this deck. Number one, it is in a comfortable size for a woman's hands. Sometimes it's very hard to call upon the wisdom of a tarot deck, especially when you are in a fragile point in your life. Sometimes it's easier to just "not know". The Shapeshifter tarot has guided me over many hurdles with it's brutally honest, in your face, wisdom. How can the cards know just what I am avoiding facing and gently steer me toward resolution? These cards are insightful and honest and gentle all at the same time. The images are a catalyst for introspection. Very well done indeed!
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Summary: The book was a gem.
Review: I was unable to get meaning from my present deck. I got the Shapshifter deck as a gift. suddenly my ability to recieve meaning from the cards was back and improved 100%. I use this deck for mediation and to increase by abilities to effectively use other decks.
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Summary: Buy what YOU like!
Review: I would give this truly Magickal deck 10 stars!!! It's my absolutely favorite Tarot deck! I think the artwork is stunning and it has a very mystical quality to it. I just love it! Although this deck is really more for meditation and spellwork than for divination, unless the question is one of cosmic importance!!!
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Summary: If there were a rating of 10 stars...
Review: I would give this truly Magickal deck 10 stars!!! It's my absolutely favorite Tarot deck! I think the artwork is stunning and it has a very mystical quality to it. I just love it! Although this deck is really more for meditation and spellwork than for divination, unless the question is one of cosmic importance!!!
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