Deck Review: Mini Tarot

• Includes 78 full-color, gilt-edged cards featuring new interpretations of Pamela C. Smith’s iconic images

• The accompanying booklet presents a more intuitive interpretation approach by offering quick access to each card’s meaning through fundamental keywords

• Features a travel case with a magnetic closure that allows for easy handling and enhanced portability of this mini deck

Accessible to beginners and initiated alike, this new mini Tarot deck inspired by the style of the well-loved Rider Waite Smith Tarot offers a new interpretation of Pamela C. Smith’s iconic images by French illustrator Nicolas Galkowski.

Complemented by a 104-page booklet, the 78-card full-color deck features a novel approach to Tarot interpretation by offering the fundamental concepts of the cards in a way that combines tradition and intuition. Each card of both the Major and Minor Arcana is featured with three or four keywords and a few sentences that highlight the main aspects and meanings of the card. These brief yet evocative definitions, alongside original card spreads, enable you to arrive at an interpretation both personal and unique by allowing the space between the words to fill with your own inner knowing and insight into the issues and questions at hand. This accessible approach to the Tarot empowers you to dive deeper into personal development and open yourself to intuitive ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, as well as providing a path for engaging with other, more complex divination tools.

The smaller-sized, gilt-edged cards make for smooth handling while the sturdy case with magnetic closure will serve as an attractive ritual item on any altar as well as making this mini deck a perfect traveling companion.

You can see the unboxing on tiktok or youtube and the complete flickthrough is on youtube. I also did two spreads, the interview spread and a five card spread designed for the deck. You can watch the video review on tiktok or youtube.

Wednesday spread; Five card spread, Mini Tarot deck

Welcome to the Wednesday spread! This spread comes from the LWB for this deck, so hopefully it will give us some good insight. I'm interpreting this blind - writing up each card before turning the next - and not thinking of any particular situation, so we'll see what comes out!

Wednesday Spread: Interview spread, Mini Tarot Deck

Happy Wednesday! Welcome to the Wednesday spread. I'm working with a new deck this week so it's the interview spread!

This is the Mini Tarot Deck from Inner Traditions, a version of the classic Rider-Waite-Smith. As always, I didn't create this spread, but if you did I'd love to hear from you!

Deck Review: The Stained Glass Tarot by James Edward

• Includes 78 full-color cards featuring colorful and detailed original adaptations of the tarot archetypes in stained-glass style

• The detailed guidebook provides thorough meanings for each card of both Major and Minor Arcana, for their upright and reversed appearances, as well as exploring each card’s esoteric symbolism

• Shares instructions on how to use the cards, explains a variety of card spreads, and offers a glimpse into tarot history and its connections to astrology, numerology, alchemy, the Western esoteric tradition, and the teachings of Carl Jung

Inspired by the intricate symbols and colors of the stained glass windows of cathedrals and other sacred places, this 78-card tarot set draws the reader into a meditative state as they contemplate the mystical symbolism and stunning artwork of the cards.

The accompanying guidebook provides thorough meanings for each card of both Major and Minor Arcana, and for their upright and reversed appearances, as well as evocative verses that invite the reader to explore each card’s esoteric symbolism.

For the 22 Major Arcana, the author explains how each card fits into the progressive soul’s journey from The Fool to The World. For the Minor Arcana, he explains the significance of each of the suits and their key attributes and influences. He describes a number of ways to interpret each card and how to decide which interpretation to favor. He also includes a variety of card spreads and offers a glimpse into tarot history and its connections to astrology, numerology, alchemy, the Western esoteric tradition, and the teachings of Carl Jung.

This illuminating tarot set provides not only a highly detailed manual but also mesmerizing images that draw the eye and calm and focus the mind for an authentic divinatory experience.

The Stained Glass Tarot is published by Inner Traditions. You can see the unboxing on TikTok or Youtube and the silent flickthrough on TikTok or Youtube. I also posted two spreads, the interview spread and a five card spread from the LWB. The deck releases on the 24th of November in the UK and is already on sale in the US.

Wednesday spread: Stained Glass Tarot, 5 card spread

Welcome to the Wednesday spread! This week we're trying a spread from the LWB for this deck, so hopefully we'll get some good results.

Wednesday Spread: Stained Glass Tarot, Interview spread

Hi all! Welcome to the Wednesday spread. As we have a new deck this week, it's the interview spread! This is the Stained Glass Tarot deck from Inner Traditions. As always, I didn't create this spread but I'd love to know if you did!

Deck review: The Jolanda Witch Tarot by Rosie Björkman and Hans Arnold

A deck and book set that blends Tarot, magic, shamanism, and indigenous storytelling

• Includes 78 full-color cards portraying both Major and Minor Arcana through colorful depictions of female archetypes, animal guides, and esoteric symbolism

• Shares unique in-depth card interpretations that draw on spiritual and magical teachings from indigenous healers, shamans, witches, magicians, and wisdom teachers from all over the world

• Includes new and unusual card spreads for readings and short practical exercises to help awaken your inner witch

THE JOLANDA WITCH TAROT is a deck and book set that blends tarot, magic, shamanism, and indigenous storytelling.

The 78-card deck portrays both Major and Minor Arcana through colorful depictions of female archetypes, animal guides, and esoteric symbolism from witchcraft, alchemy, and shamanic healing traditions.

In the comprehensive 400-page guidebook, Rosie Björkman, also known as “Jolanda the Witch,” shares unique in-depth card interpretations that draw on spiritual and magical teachings from indigenous healers, shamans, witches, magicians, and wisdom teachers from all over the world, including Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, and the Sweet Medicine healing tradition of the Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society. You’ll find direct and reversed meanings for each card, easy-to-remember keywords, short practical exercises, and symbolic and healing stories to help you understand the insight each card brings. Illustrated by internationally known artist Hans Arnold, the playful imagery allows you to instantly grasp the energetic meaning of the cards drawn and intuitively understand the issue at hand.

Offering a hands-on way to learn card divination and magic together, this set includes new and unusual card spreads for readings that will awaken your own inner wisdom.

The Jolanda Witch Tarot publishes on the 15th of August, 2024. You can see the unboxing and flickthrough videos on TikTok; I also did two practise spreads, a deck interview and a spread designed for this deck, the Bear spread.

Wednesday Spread: Jolanda Witch Tarot, the Bear Spread

Welcome to the Wednesday spread! I'm still working with the Jolanda Witch tarot, so today we're trying a spread designed for this deck, the Bear spread. This spread is designed to show us what we need to know right now. (And wow, this got personal!)

Be aware that one of these cards features non-sexual nudity.

Deck Review: Inner Child Cards by Isha Lerner and Mark Lerner and Christopher Guilfoil

A new and updated edition of the popular tarot deck that reawakens the child in all of us.

• Uses the important archetypes of childhood fairy tales to awaken emotional memory and heal the child within.

• Excellent for dream work, the recovery process, and use with children.

Inner Child Cards is a tarot system that helps us interact with the world's most potent archetypes. The authors assign an archetypal childhood story to each image in the traditional tarot deck. Cinderella aligns with the Moon card, traditionally associated with the power of dreams and visions. Sleeping Beauty parallels the Death card with its theme of personal metamorphosis. Little Red Cap stands in for the Fool (the innocent).

Before the Age of Reason higher learning was transmitted through archetypal characters in stories and fairy tales. In modern times these all-important stories have been relegated to a secondary position, with no recognition of their deeper meaning. The whimsical art and familiar characters of the Inner Child Cards will awaken dormant emotional memory that has been trapped in long-forgotten childhood stories. Tarot has always had an uncanny capacity to act as a "hall of mirrors" reflecting the true trajectory of life. By referencing fairy-tale archetypes, Inner Child Cards gives adults an especially clear reflection of the child within and imaginative access to the soul's own personal truth. And because of their playful nature, these cards are equally well suited for use with children.

This deck is published by Bear & Co.