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Summary: The text and artwork are both magnificent and clear!
Review: I was struck by the really wonderful drawings, colors and representations that illustrate the insightful but straight-forward stories for each card. ...Thank you for the presentation!
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Summary: The text and artwork are both magnificent and clear!
Review: I was struck by the really wonderful drawings, colors and representations that illustrate the insightful but straight-forward stories for each card. ...Thank you for the presentation!
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Summary: One of my favourite decks.
Review: I'll start with a warning that, in contrast to the Osho Zen tarot deck, this deck is NOT a tarot deck in the traditional sense - it is a set of less than 78 cards, not divided into major arcana and 4 suits of minor arcana.Some versions of this deck feature an extra card with Osho's picture, which is missing from this version. Personally, I dont like this card as I feel as if it encourages a personality cult. This set includes 60 cards. The art is beutiful and simple - no heavy symbolism (= no astrology, numerology, cabbala, etc) as in decks like Crowley Thoth or Rider-Waite-Smith. The book gives for each card a short explanation and a story from which the scene on the card is taken. The stories are multi-cultural (zen stories, jewish stories, chrisitian stories, etc), feature known figures (e.g. Moses, famous zen teachers), and are very enlightening. The stories themselves are interesting and readable enough to make this deck worth it's price just for the value of the book as reading material. The deck leads to a warm and personal reading style - both the reader and the readee can relate to the stories and figures in the cards. The reading session has more in common with story telling than with horoscopes (a la 'you'll meet a tall dark stranger') which is different from, and to my taste favourable over, that encouraged by other decks. All in all I highly and warmly recommend this deck.
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Summary: The book is as cool as the cards!
Review: Maybe even cooler. :) Really, the book is what attracted me to this collection. I saw it a few weeks ago, started reading the back of the box and realized that the book was pretty much what I'd been wanting for a while: a book of parables. I'd had a fondness for mythology since middle school, but rarely indulged to this degree. The stories are from different paths (Sufism, Islam, Hinduism, Christiantity, etc.), and each corresponds to one of the 60 cards ... except when the cards double up on a story to impress an opposite meaning. This deck, as is the Osho Zen Tarot, is named for a man who loved to tell such parables to his followers, the Bagwaan Shri Ragneesh (remember that old dude who led the commune in Oregon?), but he's only really mentioned in the intro and closing of the book. Not having read many parables, I find this book utterly charming. The cards and illustrations I find a bit less so, but I think that for the first time since collecting divination decks, the artwork is less important to me for understanding the meaning behind the cards. The cards measure 5.25" x 3.25", and are bordered with a grey pattern on the picture side. The backs feature an orange circle painting that is also shown on the box. The artwork is amazingly colorful and, while I've seen decks that are visually more appealing to me I will say that the drawings are very skillfully rendered and fairly often get across the point of the story. I've been told that I have big hands for a woman, but I'd find this deck little tricky to shuffle playing-card style (which doesn't seem to suit the mood of the deck anyway). The cards are covered with a semi-glossy and not terribly slick coating. This deck is probably one of the best divinatory systems I've ever picked up. The book is gripping, so as to not force memorization of the cards as much as to make reading them intuitive. I feel as if I know -- a little bit -- the people portrayed in the stories ... and many of the meanings behind the cards are things I've consciously pondered on my own. Aside from the word "tarot," I feel that this deck is exactly what it's title claims it to be. If you learn well from stories, I highly recommend this deck.
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Summary: The book is as cool as the cards!
Review: Maybe even cooler. :) Really, the book is what attracted me to this collection. I saw it a few weeks ago, started reading the back of the box and realized that the book was pretty much what I'd been wanting for a while: a book of parables. I'd had a fondness for mythology since middle school, but rarely indulged to this degree. The stories are from different paths (Sufism, Islam, Hinduism, Christiantity, etc.), and each corresponds to one of the 60 cards ... except when the cards double up on a story to impress an opposite meaning. This deck, as is the Osho Zen Tarot, is named for a man who loved to tell such parables to his followers, the Bagwaan Shri Ragneesh (remember that old dude who led the commune in Oregon?), but he's only really mentioned in the intro and closing of the book. Not having read many parables, I find this book utterly charming. The cards and illustrations I find a bit less so, but I think that for the first time since collecting divination decks, the artwork is less important to me for understanding the meaning behind the cards. The cards measure 5.25" x 3.25", and are bordered with a grey pattern on the picture side. The backs feature an orange circle painting that is also shown on the box. The artwork is amazingly colorful and, while I've seen decks that are visually more appealing to me I will say that the drawings are very skillfully rendered and fairly often get across the point of the story. I've been told that I have big hands for a woman, but I'd find this deck little tricky to shuffle playing-card style (which doesn't seem to suit the mood of the deck anyway). The cards are covered with a semi-glossy and not terribly slick coating. This deck is probably one of the best divinatory systems I've ever picked up. The book is gripping, so as to not force memorization of the cards as much as to make reading them intuitive. I feel as if I know -- a little bit -- the people portrayed in the stories ... and many of the meanings behind the cards are things I've consciously pondered on my own. Aside from the word "tarot," I feel that this deck is exactly what it's title claims it to be. If you learn well from stories, I highly recommend this deck.
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Summary: Inspirationally Different
Review: Osho Transformation Tarot cards and book set is truly a different type of tarot deck. They are a great tool to look deeper into oneself and open up your own tools to become transformed into a better person. I especally like the four different layouts that are somewhat different then the traditional tarot decks. My favorite one to use is the one card readings with this deck, for a meditation for the day. The cards have great stories for each one and help you to see your life situations in a different light. The pictures on the cards of this deck were somewhat a dissapointment. If your looking for beautiful cards along with accurate card readings get Osho Zen Tarot. Otherwise this is still a great deck of cards with a true reading and different insight, but not the prettiest of cards to look at. Other than that I would highly reccomend this deck for anyone looking for a little enlightenment.
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Summary: Enlightened stories
Review: This ended up being my favorite Tarot deck - each tarot card comes with a teaching story - often a little story of the life of an enlightened Master, like Gautam the Buddha, Jesus..... If you pick the tarot card with sincerity and are open to the message of the stories, it can change your life....
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