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Summary: A gate to other worlds... a true Terot deck.
Review: I own 2 Terot decks since I'm not a professional, but this deck connects to me and knew me so well in even my first reading. You don't even need to be a dragon lover to enjoy this deck. I especially love the book-- it has a picture of each card by it's description, a paragraph about the beautiful artwork, and the meaning of the card. As a beginner, this deck is really helpful in understanding the cards. In the back (this is what I love) there are chants and candle spells. There are also ways to call upon your own dragon. It is one of the greatest decks with so much imagination behind it. I doubt I'll be getting many more decks because this deck has such a connection with me... I just couldn't let any other decks take some of it's glory away.
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Summary: wonderful tarot deck!
Review: I own several tarot decks but this one is by far my favorite. I am a dragon lover anyway and the artwork of this deck is simply breathtaking. The companion book is wonderful because it explains the image on each card in detail. The best tarot deck I have come across so far.
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Summary: A Bunch Of Junk
Review: I really hate this deck, it's an insult to dragons everwere. For One she knows nothing about dragons and seems to have this fantasy notion that dragons are like herself; feminists and believe all men should dress in little skirts. I'm frankly sick of D.J. Conway and her attempts to understand things she knows absolutely nothing about!Perhaps if she bothered to make these cards more like the classical dragon deck I would be more impressed.
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Summary: Beautiful Art..
Review: I went back and forth with this deck. Some days I wanted to keep it.. others I felt like selling it. Dragons aren't really my thing.. yet the art on this deck is just beautiful... Definitely a fantasy deck... and I think the cards would be highly readable as well.. The book is "okay".. definitely good to go over to understand the whole dragon thing in more detail.. but i really wouldn't spend too much time on the card descriptions.. too limiting!!.. not enough detail!! I would reccommend this deck to the collector based on the art.. or to the dragon lover!
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Summary: What about reversed cards?
Review: I'd like some feedback from some folks that have actually done readings with this deck. I bought this deck over the weeknd, and the more I look at the cards, the more I like them. But the authors state that they are only to be read in their upright positions. I've been studying Tarot off and on for about a year, and while I admit that reversed cards can be difficult to deal with, totalling excluding them seems a bit unnatural to me. I find it awkward to shuffle the deck in such a way that all the cards come up Upright. It lacks something. Has anyone read with this deck, but ignored the "do not reverse" admonition? One word about the accompanying book: I like it well enough, though after using a book like Anthony Louis's "Tarot Plain and Simple," the card meanings seem a bit simplistic at times, and, in my opinion, there is something of an overemphasis on Wiccan philosophy. Just stick to the basics without the mumbo-jumbo.
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Summary: Voice of an outsider here
Review: I'll admit up front that I am not what you would call a devotee of the tarot. I had always known what they were and the general nature of how they are used, but it wasn't until I read the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea that I picked up any real interest in the habit. Even now, I only have a casual stake in the cards--it isn't something that I do every day, nor do I think I can find the meaning of my life in a deck of cards. I do this for fun, and I think that gives me a little bit different perspective than some people might have. The first thing that you'll notice when you open the box is that the cards are beautiful. My complaints about the book which will follow notwithstanding, this set is worth the price for the cards alone. The only objection I could hope to muster is the fact that my particular pack was apparently mishandled by the US Post Office during shipping and the cards arrived warped--it's been quite an expirament trying to get them straight. The book, however, is another matter entirely. I'm not sure who D.J. Conway is, exactly, but I'm sure she's not for me. This book commits the twin sins of speaking to too narrow an audience and apparently being written entirely for commercial gain. The section containing interpretations of the cards really is laughable. It reads as though they took a set of the production notes Conway made before the project and decided to add them to the accompanying book to make it a little bit beefier. The guys in the marketing and editing departments of Llewellyn should be ashamed of themselves for that--they've done exceptional work in the past (most notably the Robin Wood deck), and they really dropped the ball in that area of this product. Of course, that's not the only problem with the book--far from it. The new age movement may be very nice for everybody who's involved in it, but this woman makes the entire thing sound slightly absurd. The writing is almost like something I would expect to hear in an old Cycle of the Werewolf movie--a mix of gypsy mystique and a little bit of Celtic history which ends up sounding more absurd than authoritative. Further, the majority of the book outside of the section detailing what the cards are supposed to symbolize has a lot less to do with the actual practice of tarot than you might expect. Chapters on candle magic and constructive meditation don't really cut it for me--if I'm buying a book relating to the tarot, I'd like to deal with the tarot. Now, I should note that this next problem does not show up in the cards at all, but I also couldn't help feeling a little excluded by Conway's tone in the writing. I understand that a substantial cross section of the tarot reading population are women, and further that they may be of Wiccan or Goddess oriented backgrounds, but some of the writing in her book goes so far as to leave men feeling slightly excluded from the practice. Every time she related men and women in the same context as positive and negative energy, the position of the negative and the male descriptor always synched up. It may all be in my head, but I was a little annoyed. One thing about the cards that I don't particularly like is the approach that some things that Conway did in the design seem to indicate. For one thing, I'm strongly against the association of wands with air and swords with fire. I can see how it would make sense on a superficial level to some people, but I'd like to think that I at least understand the basis of the elemental associations of the tarot deck and the appropriateness of the fire/swords association is nothing more than superficial. Fire is an energy that can be directed both to help man and to hurt him, much like our own creative energies, while air is something which is necessary to our survival, but which is all but impossible to control, which fits well with the negative associations tied to swords. Why anybody would want to switch the two is beyond me. Beyond that, Conway also states that the cards here should only be read in their upright positions. That strikes me as a little odd--generally people who only want to read the cards upright are either seeking to simplify their spreads or to make them a little bit more optimistic, since there are generally more positive spins you can put on upright cards than you can on reversed ones. Overall, it all combines to give me the feeling that, while Conway may have a very superficial understanding of what she was trying to do, that the deeper design just wasn't there when this deck was put together. Fortunately, that's not represented in the cards themselves. Considering all the objections that I have to the deck's designer and author, I think that four stars should indicate just how enthusiastically I recommend the deck itself. While I personally prefer to use a more traditional set for my spreads, these cards could easily be used for yourself or for clients, and they do speak well to me, and, I think, to most people. While I wouldn't say that this particular deck will have as broad an appeal as, say, the basic Marseille or Rider-Waite, or even the Robin Wood deck, so long as you aren't opposed to fantastic art and imagery in your cards, this is an excellent pickup for the collector or the regular practicioner.
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Summary: The Celtic Dragon Tarot
Review: I've never seen a deck as responsive as this one. From the first reading I've been amazed by the almost pinpoint accuracy of these cards. The people for whom I've read have also been amazed. Their beauty is an added bonus.
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Summary: Very Nice! A pleasure to look at and read.
Review: Like another reviewer here (I think) I fell in love with these cards upon first sight, without even seeing them in person or touching them, something I rarely do with Tarot cards. Usually I handle them and view in person first -but- this time I did not and did not need to. They are beautiful and I was not dissapointed when I opened the box. I am not even really drawn to dragons or anything (although I do love fantasy and sci-fi stuff)but for some reason these just seemed right and I needed a different type of theme deck to break up the monotony of my current decks. The pictures are sort of muted and fuzzy, almost like looking into a dream; they are not as minutely detailed as some other Tarot decks but the meanings and everything still shines through and they are very warm feeling, the dragons are on every card and help convey the meaning and atmosphere of each. There are no borders on the cards, so it just flows over the card to the edges which I like. Overall a very good deck, better than the other dragon deck out there and I like it better than the other "Celtic" decks I've seen, this one is more user-friendly and easier to understand for those of us not familiar with Celtic lore or Celtic decks.
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Summary: Pretty but Impractical
Review: One thing is for sure - these ladies love their dragons! The cards are decorated with this in mind, and their love for these wonderful magical beings overwhelms the actual meaning of the cards themselves - which makes me hesitate in putting them to any practical use. At times the art work is beautiful, true, but more often then not it is cartoonish. Also the artist has strong views of a pro-femine nature to the point that the illistrations of men are of a poorer quality then those of women - or the male figures are shown in an unflattering manner. This subtle but certainly sexist view also shows itself in the written book that comes with the cards. The book is written in a narrow minded and sudo-spiritual manner which is muddled and unclear. Also it gives instructions that appear incorrect, based on my experience with the tarot. (I.E. Do not read the cards in the reverse position, and the extra additional cards to be added to the celtic cross reading for clerifiaction, as well as some strange description of certain cards themselves.) If you like picture of dragons - get this set. If you don't - DO NOT get this set.
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Summary: I love this deck
Review: This deck is a must.I just got this deck like a month ago and its just great.You MUST buy it.The celtic dragon tarot deck was my first deck and its great for bigginers it talks to me and all ready im doing readings for my friends and they say that its very accurate. You must buy it it is great
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