Aly Fell

Excellent, excellent deck and book.

My mother has a ton of tarot cards, but I was never really interested in them. The ones she has are a teeny tiny bit new agey for my tastes. Perfect for her, don't get me wrong, but I was never attracted to them. Then I was in one of those new agey shops (buying a gift for her, ha) then I saw this. Steampunk tarot!

I wanted it immediately. I thought I could use them as bookmarks (tarot cards are the perfect size for bookmarks. seriously. try it). I mean, show more the illustrations are so beautiful, why not? Then I read the book/guide and using tarot cards made so much more sense to me. Inspiration for creative storytelling! I can totally get into that and understand how that's useful. The explanations for the cards in the guide really appealed to me as well. They were more like mini-stories inspired by card, using the symbolism in the illustrations as a guide. Much more resonant to my intuitive, comfortable-with-ambiguity mind than other guides which focus heavily on symbolism and history and this means that ect ect.

I still use them as bookmarks, to memorize the gist of the card by applying the meaning to the book. Working well so far. show less

Another deck from the wife's growing collection - the steampunk theme is very well done in the art, although the book does not really do much with it in the card interpretations or readings. The book does, however, give a better and more complete history of tarot than most of the others, and is very well written. But again, the attraction is the art - and as I generally love all things steampunk, well, it's a favorite.

A very pretty tarot deck with a well-written accompanying book that provides a variety of cues for taking inspiration from the cards (the core meaning, an inspirational quote, and an extended discussion), as well as a variety of spreads to use in readings. The deck is inspired by the classic Waite-Smith deck, but has its own idiosyncratic symbols and much better gender balance.

Excellent book for an excellent deck. The images are lovely interpretations of the rws, the card descriptions are interesting and caring. Good set of spreads too. Definitely recommended!