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Summary: Simply the Best!
Review: I tried to think of a good intorduction for these cards but ultimately I was left with, "Simply the Best". I have been reading with these cards for quite some time and just recently switched to "Legend, The Arthurian Tarot" (found at Amazon.com). As a Wiccan Pagan, the Robin Wood deck is studded with symbolism that is easy to understand. The depictions on the cards are direct and to the point while still allowing for digressions according to placement. I recommend this deck to anyone seeking to read Tarot but ESPECIALLY to those who follow a Pagan path. These cards speak loud and clear and are also very beautiful to work with. A must try!
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Summary: sugary-sweet and nauseating
Review: I was really disappointed by this deck. I'd had such glowing reviews from other users, but when I got it I found it to be sugary-sweet and immensely irritating. The ten of cups in particularly irritated me beyond belief. I found the images cliched and sentimental. Not a good deck.
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Summary: A tool for tapping into inner wisdom...
Review: I'm a relative rookie to the world of tarot; the Robin Wood deck is my second deck. The first was a gift, a deck along with an introductory book, enough to teach me about this quite interesting world of what some view as a tool for prophecy, others simply as a delving deeper into one's own psyche. I probably fall into the latter group, based on my personal belief in our inner wisdom, and tarot as one way of tapping into a keener sense of what that voice of inner wisdom is telling us. If nothing else, it fascinates and tickles the imagination. As the first deck I received was a gift, I had no choice in the design. It was a deck incorporating "discs" instead of "pentacles" (as this one does), its design much less artistic than this one, also one using various religious as well as astrological symbols, pretty much covering all bases. The Robin Wood deck seems much less based on religious symbols, more, perhaps, on paganism, or even a kind of nature worship. I do think, however, that one gets from tarot what one brings to it, eye of the beholder, so to speak, and so if the reader comes to the cards with a faith of any sort, so be it. That is what appeals to me about tarot... it speaks in my own voice. The clean lines and clear, bright images of this deck appeal to me. Although some portray darker and more shadowy images, as life does, none appear entirely bleak. It is something of an optimist's deck, I suppose, but that is also a positive for me, where it might not be for someone else. Life is how we see it, the perspective and attitudes we bring to it, open to our own interpretation. We may well be given a dark and painful set of circumstances to deal with... but we can either allow ourselves to be beaten by them, or rise to the challenge. As a necessary accompaniment to this deck, I purchased "Tarot, Plain and Simple". It is what the title implies. I recommend purchasing both together. For me (and I can't stress how much of a personal choice this is), this was a good deck to choose, as it "spoke" to me in its uncomplicated but pleasing to the eye images where others do not. I highly recommend handling a deck first, looking through it card by card, prior to purchase. I expect, if this continues to interest me, I will eventually move on to more complex imagery, but for now, I found the Robin Wood deck good for my expanding but still novice understanding of tarot.
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Summary: excellent deck
Review: I've used this deck for my professional readings and love it more than almost all other decks I've used. It talks. The art is very vivid and even amateur readers will adapt to it very easily.
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Summary: This is a Great Deck for BEGINNERS!
Review: If you are an absolute beginner, this deck or the Ryder Waite deck is a great place start. (Although those who are advanced could still enjoy this deck.) Besides, it is really highly recommended that being INTUITIVE helps, therefore, get in touch with your higher self & then you can move on from this deck into another fancy schmancy deck. It is the IMAGES on a deck that help the reader give the reading, combined with intuition, & I feel that the images on this deck looks basic enough to give the reader a better understanding without having to constantly look at a reference book. YOU, the READER, are the ones providing the reading, not the reference book, or even the deck. The Tarot is simply a TOOL to help access that higher knowledge. The images are simple, a little less archaic looking than the Ryder Waite, & may bother some people less than the Ryder deck (for those who know the history behind Ryder & Waite.) I beg to differ with the other reviewer that the Ryder Waite deck is Christian however! Tarot has no actual religious affiliation!
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Summary: Thie tarot deck is the best!
Review: Just this last weekend I got a hold of the Robin Wood Tarot deck. I have to say for anyone interested in tarot or wanting to learn,this deck by far is the best. The colorful pictures are easy to read, and I just get a good feeling and energy from this deck. This is my second tarot deck and will be the last. My first deck was very hard to read and I was just going to give up on tarot readings. When I took a look at the Robin Wood Deck I was able to do a reading right there without looking up the meanings. I will tell you all, it is worth the money, buy them and you will not regret it!!!
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Summary: Vivid images - my favorite deck of choice!
Review: Ms. Wood brings the Tarot to brilliant life in this deck. Her people are distinct individuals, not cookie-cutter copies with only a few faces. I'm learning the cards from Robin Wood. Since I got her deck, I've barely touched any others.
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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: My first tarot deck, and boy am I impressed! I first saw Robin's illustrations in Cunningham's Earth Power and Earth, Air, Fire & Water and loved her work. I saw the tarot deck and crossed my toes, hoping all the cards would be just as good as the one on the box (it was sealed). They are so awesome, you have no idea. Somebody else's review said that the Ryder-Waite left them feeling cold. Me too. That one just didn't speak to me, and I feel that Robin's art does. I heard that the book you can buy for it, by Robin, is very helpful, that she explains why she used this color on that card or put that item in this corner of that card, etc, helping you to identify each card with its meaning. That was what kept me away from tarot for so long, that I just wasn't getting a meaning, a feeling, from the other decks I had seen. This one promises to be much more to me. I am so impressed! :}
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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: My first tarot deck, and boy am I impressed! I first saw Robin's illustrations in Cunningham's Earth Power and Earth, Air, Fire & Water and loved her work. I saw the tarot deck and crossed my toes, hoping all the cards would be just as good as the one on the box (it was sealed). They are so awesome, you have no idea. Somebody else's review said that the Ryder-Waite left them feeling cold. Me too. That one just didn't speak to me, and I feel that Robin's art does. I heard that the book you can buy for it, by Robin, is very helpful, that she explains why she used this color on that card or put that item in this corner of that card, etc, helping you to identify each card with its meaning. That was what kept me away from tarot for so long, that I just wasn't getting a meaning, a feeling, from the other decks I had seen. This one promises to be much more to me. I am so impressed! :}
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Summary: Best of all the decks I have!
Review: Out of all of the Tarot decks I've tried, this is my favorite. The art is wonderful, the symbolism easier to interpret, and the Minor Arcana's illustrations "speak out" more than any I've seen.
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